TV Sketching: The Snoop Sisters and Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate

Some more TV sketching — this time The Snoop Sisters: “The Devil Made Me Do It” (1974).

(The rule of TV sketching is that I can’t pause the show.)

This episode had even more flowing draperies than usual — especially Cyril Ritchard as The Great Morlock.

This episode even had Alice Cooper in it.

The bonus sketches below are from what we started watching first, expecting a Snoop SIsters episode. It was in fact Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate (1971), which also starred Helen Hayes and Mildred Natwick as part of a group of friends who decide to commit computer dating fraud (in 1971). I do plan to finish watching it at some point, if only for those sweeping gowns.

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TV Sketching: Murder, She Wrote and The Snoop Sisters

The rule of TV sketching is that I can’t pause the show.

I bought my father the DVD box set of Murder, She Wrote for Christmas, which means I have to visit to watch it, so sketches might be sporadic.

Murder, She Wrote, S1E7 “Lovers and Other Killers”

In this episode, I was struck by how much lilac was used.

Murder, She Wrote, S1E7 “Lovers and Other Killers”

I also really like that final sketch, above, in the blue blouse.

Back from my parents’ place, and watching The Snoop Sisters with my housemate. Pre-Jessica Fletcher crime writers solving crimes. I love Gwendolyn and Ernesta’s 1920s/1970s silhouettes.

The Snoop SIsters, “Fear is a Free-Throw”

Not nearly as much lilac, but still present. Also background nurses reacting to plot.

The Snoop SIsters, “Fear is a Free-Throw”

And dramatic falls/sprawls against potted plants.

The Snoop SIsters, “Fear is a Free-Throw”

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TV Sketching: My Life is Murder and The Snoop Sisters

I’m frantically trying to finish a large project, but dinner involves murder mysteries, so I have got in a few sketches, from My Life is Murder (S1E6, 2019) and The Snoop Sisters (E1, 1973)

The rule of TV sketching is that I can’t pause the show.

Above, Lucy Lawless & Ebony Vagulans, both wearing great clothes in rather different styles and degrees of vividness.

Below, night calls.

My Life is Murder, S1E6, “Another Bloody Podcast”

The Snoop Sisters only has a pilot and four episodes (alas!). The 1970s fashion is a delight, but Helen Hayes and Mildred Natwick (Ernesta and Gwendolyn) have marvelous silhouettes from much earlier eras of fashion.

The Snoop Sisters, E1, “Corpse and Robbers”

The Snoop Sisters, E1, “Corpse and Robbers”

And of course, there’s the Lincoln.

The Snoop Sisters, E1, “Corpse and Robbers”

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