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"Burke's Law" Who Killed the Strangler? (1965)
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Larry Gordon (writer) and
Frank D. Gilroy (creator)
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6 January 1965 (Season 2, Episode 16)
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Annette Funicello as a go-go dancing murder suspect with a split personality! more (2 total)
Cast
(Episode Cast overview, first billed only) | Gene Barry | ... | Capt. Amos Burke |
| Gary Conway | ... | Det. Tim Tilson |
| Regis Toomey | ... | Det. Les Hart |
| Leon Lontoc | ... | Henry |
| Frankie Avalon | ... | Ralph Hirt |
| Jeanne Crain | ... | Lorraine Turner |
 | Annette Funicello | ... | Anna Najensky |
| Una Merkel | ... | Mrs. Thomas Barrett |
| Robert Middleton | ... | Ezekiel Kindworth aka 'Rocky Mountain' |
 | Quinn O'Hara | ... | Sally Lou |
| Margaret Muse | ... | Madame Tamrovia |
| Michael Fox | ... | Coroner George McLeod |
| Sharyn Hillyer | ... | Rosie Belle |
| Michelle Breeze | ... | Cora Lee |
| Joy Harmon | ... | Barbara Sue |
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Typically pithy and self-amused episode of the popular 1960s TV series produced by Aaron Spelling has millionaire detective Amos Burke called in when a championship wrestler is murdered in the ring during a bout. Seems a poison dart was fired from one of the $5000 seats, which gives Burke precisely five suspects. Jeanne Crain is the first to be interrogated; she loved the Strangler but hated him at the same time, and when Burke comes calling, she's right in the middle of a game of darts! Other suspects: Frankie Avalon as a sports columnist and Annette Funicello, sister of the deceased and a budding ballerina. Annette gets interrogated twice (making her the star of this show), explaining to Amos her split personality, one of which is as a hot go-go dancer in white fringe ("Go, man, go!"). Funicello later wrote that this role pretty much convinced her an actress she was not--especially in the "new" Hollywood where morals were suddenly loose--yet she's just about flawless here, cast against type and talking like a sexy toughie. The mystery angle in the script is wrapped up almost second-handedly when Burke, ever so blasé, puts the pieces together and goes to arrest his prey with help from a bluff. It doesn't leave the viewer with much to ponder, except for the fact guest star Funicello was an interesting, underrated performer.