Shannon “The Embezzler’s Daughter” #1.2 (1961) (TV)

Well . . . that wasn’t very good,  19 July 2021

Insurance investigator Joe Shannon (George Nader) is transporting a 16 year-old girl to Los Angeles.  Shannon hopes to use the girl, Donna (Candy Moore), to help find her father.  It seems he’s responsible for stealing a large sum of cash the insurance company hopes to recover.  However, there are a couple of hoods on Shannon’s tail who would also like to get their hands on the cash.

Oh my, this is about as dull as you can find.  The 30 minute runtime felt more like 130 minutes.  It’s excruciating.  The uneventful car trip takes up at least half of the show.   Nader and Moore drone on and on about absolutely nothing.  To make matters worse, Moore is uber-annoying. The finale offers little suspense, only a merciful end.  There’s nothing here to recommend.  I sincerely doubt I’ll seek out any other episodes of Shannon.

So why would I watch a random episode of a television show I’d never heard of?  Two reasons:  First, I usually enjoy Nader.  He appeared in some quirky, but enjoyable stuff in the 60s.  Two, the screenplay was written by Gene Roddenberry.  It’s amazing that the same person responsible for Star Trek wrote this garbage.  .  

2/10