| 12-31-1966 | "Kiss of Death" |
Geraldine Brooks as the
Playgirl-Seductress-Assassin,
Tracy Dunhill...
She decides to kill Max by dosing up her lips with a poison to render her "Kiss of Death"
She asks for a henchman to be sent in as a guinea pig to test out the drug...
She knows the poor sap has always wanted to kiss her...
She lays it on him, smug in that he doesn't knows what's coming...
Thrilling him...
Knowing she's thrilling & killing him...
He's like: "Hey, I haven't had it this
good in awhile..."
She's like: "You stupid sap..."
She clinically watches as the poison hits...
And down he goes before her...
Confident & ready to do Max in...
For
a comedy show, this is pretty nasty stuff... In later re-reruns the
"testing" scene was usually cut out... There's no jokes, it's not funny,
it's as sadistic as a WOman can be... Geraldine Brooks did no other WOm-WAm
oriented roles, she was more a legitimate actress, so it is surprising to
see her be so incredibly effective as a Heartless FemmeAssassin... She's no
raving beauty, but she fully pulls off the Sexy Sadism so well that she is
one of the most fearsome adversaries throughout the series...
To add to the cold-blooded body count, some jerk makes the mistake of sneaking a kiss from Tracy...
And when watching for the 1st time, you don't Max is onto her, so it looks like she's kiss-killed 3 men in a row...
The kind of action that will send some
sensitive young boys a-reelin'...
("Mommy, mommy! This nasty lady is kissing
men to death!")