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Slightly against normal routine, Helga Alsberg (Käthe Gold) is picked up by a friend, Mrs. Böhle (Angela Salloker) this Sunday morning, much to the surprise of her husband (Tilo von Berlepsch). Downstairs she remembers she has promised her husband to get him the newspaper, so she gives a neighbour's boy (Erich David) her apartment key and some money to do the errand for her. After church, she rings at her neighbour's to get the key, opens the door ... and finds her husband dead in the bath tub. Apparently he dropped his electric razor when shaving in the tub and electrocuted himself that way - a silly but not all that uncommon accident ... only, according to his sons (Karl Walter Diess, Peter Fricke), Mr. Alsberg has not used an electric razor ever in his life - and a medical report supports just that. So it's up to inspector Keller (Erik Ode) and his men (Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Fritz Wepper) to investigate, and Keller soon zeroes in on Mrs. Alsberg and Mrs. Böhle, as the husband of the latter has died under mysterious circumstances as well, and soon also meets another friend of them, Mrs. Kanietz (Edith Schultze-Westrum). It seems though Mrs. Alsberg enjoys her new status as a widow, and she makes big plans to renovate her apartment - until her sons pressure her to sign over her 50% share of her husband's business to them. On the following Saturday evening, Keller sends out one of his men, Grabert (Günther Schramm), to fetch Mrs. Alsberg for questioning, but Mrs. Alsberg is nowhere to be found. When Keller receives a report the next morning that Mrs. Böhle goes to church with Mrs. Kanietz, he quickly puts two and two together, races to the Kanietz apartment and finds ... Mr. Kanietz (Sigfrit Steiner) still alive, but in his wife's room Mrs. Alsberg lies in waiting to see that he has a "little accident" while Mrs. Kanietz has a perfect alibi, just like Mrs. Alsberg had back when.

Now what's really disappointing about this episode is that it gives away its solution within the first few minutes, then doesn't make the first attempt to throw the viewer off-track. There are no red herrings in this one, and even the solution then comes unnaturally easily when the women pretty much want to commit a murder following the exact same modus operandi while the former murder's still under investigation, and the inspector is apparently onto the ladies - basically it just feels unreasonable, and of course that's only augmented by the fact that neither of the characters seem to act very naturally. It sure still is nostalgic fun, just very little beyond that.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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