CBSRMT ~ The Man Is Missing 747

A lady pesters investigators to find her missing husband. One of them decide to help her on his own as he falls for her. But his wife gets interested too and manages to unearth some astonishing facts.
Air Dates: First Run - November 28, 1977
Repeat - April 30, 1978
Actors:
Bell, Ralph
Haines, Larry
Keane, Teri
Williams, Ann
Writer: Eric, Elspeth

[@BuildingCenter]

Thanks for removing the commercials.

[@UncleEarl97]

Very interesting story, great acting, nice plot twist. Be careful who you admire, life might give you a curveball you cannot avoid. Enjoyed 7/18/2022. Now excuse me, I have to go analyze someone’s hand writing!

[@susanotway7875]

Very enjoyable. Great twist at the end.

[@josefa461]

So good thanks

[@eveningstarfarm2082]

Thanks

[@julieklas184]

Perhaps the name Emily or Emma was very popular when the story was written.

[@0therun1t21]

I didn't know it was possible to determine the state of a person's health with graphology, interesting.

[@dontaylor7315]

I know next to nothing about handwriting analysis (just what comes up if you read your share of mysteries) and never even heard the term "psychographology" till today. I have a general idea that the findings of handwriting experts are subjective enough to vary from one expert to another and are of dubious value in investigations and trials. But maybe I'm wrong...Good story anyway. I'm not especially good at figuring out denouements and twists but at 31 minutes this one hit me. I paused the episode and constructed the climactic scene in my head before I heard it. Eureka! I don't typically have a moment like that. As far as I'm aware, this is the closest thing to a mystery in the police-procedural genre Elspeth Eric ever wrote. But as always she wrote it with layers and depths that aren't typical of CBSRMT and ended it with a hint that this isn't all...

[@tomcollins3972]

sounds like William Defoe ?

[@williamnorton9547]

For some time now folks have been railing against hope when it comes to missing persons. To see things their way, let's write people off five minutes after they go missing and dismantle every missing persons bureau and organization. Maybe we'll finally have a balanced budget.

[@dontaylor7315]

Nah, the money will be re-allocated to buy more war gear for police departments.

[@0therun1t21]

WHY why why is it always an "EMMA or EMILY"? Those names come up so often in these stories it's annoying. It's like it's advice from the writer's handbook on subliminal emotional manipulation through names. They both infer fragile, helpless, needy, dependent little sister victim types, especially Emma. If they didn't come up so often in these stories I wouldn't have these associations. They're both kind of ruined for me now. I've made this comment in at least 15-20 other comment sections and only a couple of people noticed and agreed. Have you noticed too? Thank you for reading this!

[@rosemariemcgowan6388]

Did she kill her hubby and wtite tge notes x

[@dontaylor7315]

SPOILER ALERT: Yes.

[@RahaFarokh]

What a creepy detective though! Take no for an answer!

[@dontaylor7315]

Typical though, for CBSRMT. Ever notice how often EG Marshall makes a subtly disparaging remark about feminism?

[@RahaFarokh]

@@dontaylor7315 he's not that subtle though :)

[@dontaylor7315]

@@RahaFarokh Touché. Sometimes he's really not. Elspeth Eric wrote the episode but I've often wondered who wrote Marshall's lines; Himon Brown maybe?