Teleplay by JERRY LUDWIG Story by JERRY LUDWIG & SHELDON MILES WILLENS Directed by ROBERT COLLINS Created by JOSELPH WAMBAUGH CAST WILLIAM SHATNER as Keitlinger MICHAEL LEARNED as Linda DEAN STOCKWELL as Det. Glacino PETER BROWN  as Chuck LARRY STORCH  as Willy JOHN RUSSELL as Lt. Galvin ALDO RAY as Capt. Eagle ROYAL DANO as Drivas RAYMOND ST. JACQUES as Chris Massey R.G. ARMSTRONG as Elwood Fraser RYAN MacDONALD as Noonan RICHARD X. SLATTERY as the Guard NATE ESFORMES as Dep. D.A. FLORA PLUMB as Gail

Peter plays a traveling salesman

Because credits books listed both John Russell and Peter Brown in this 1974 episode of Police Story   we were making a special effort to find it.  However, when we asked Peter about it, he said he and John had never done a Police Story together.  When we finally did find it, we realized why Peter didn't know John was in the same episode.  They were filmed separately in completely unrelated small parts with no overlap.    The dual focus in the show was on William Shatner as an officer neglecting his wife (Michael Learned) who turns to the bottle and, of course, the series of murders he's investigating which involve winos.  The title "Love, Mabel" refers to the inscription on a stolen wedding ring which is the final evidence needed to convict the wino murderer.

John Russell is simply an old friend who greets the wife at the station and later has another walk-on scene with a brief interaction with Shatner.  Peter is a guy who picks up Shatner's wife in a bar and gets pissed when after buying her drinks, she changes her mind about spending the evening with him.  Maybe something was cut out from the original concept of the old family friend, but as the episode stands John's part is just a couple of meaningless walk-ons.

 

Peter's part has a bit more substance.  The wife's drinking had to come to a head which it does when she ends up in jail after making a scene in the bar.  She's arrested for public drunkenness after spending the afternoon flirting with Chuck (Peter) an attractive but not very honorable guy who insults her when she changes her mind about leaving with him.  [Peter Brown v. William Shatner - sorry we have to wonder why she changed her mind.  We suppose because looks and charm aren't everything and Peter was playing a low-life bar scavenger.]

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