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Opening theme
  
Jerry Fielding

No. of seasons
  
1

First episode date
  
19 December 1973

Network
  
NBC

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Created by
  
Alan Shayne

Country of origin
  
USA

No. of episodes
  
4 (+ 1 TV movie)

Final episode date
  
19 March 1974

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Starring
  
Helen Hayes Mildred Natwick Lou Antonio Art Carney (Pilot) Bert Convy Lawrence Pressman (Pilot) Charlie Callas

Cast
  
Helen Hayes, Mildred Natwick, Bert Convy, Lou Antonio, Art Carney

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The Snoop Sisters is an American comedy-mystery television show that aired on NBC during the 1973–1974 season.

Contents

The series aired on a monthly rotation (referred to as a "wheel") as part of the NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie, trading timeslots with Banacek, Tenafly, and Faraday and Company. Of these series, only Banacek demonstrated any longevity.

Synopsis

The show stars Hollywood film legends Helen Hayes and Mildred Natwick as two elderly sisters, Ernesta Snoop and Gwendolyn Snoop Nicholson, who routinely stumbled across mysteries which they solved. They first appeared on ABC in a TV movie titled The Snoop Sisters (later retitled The Female Instinct), which aired December 16, 1972.

The series followed the 1971 ABC television movie Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate, which also starred Hayes and Natwick working together as amateur sleuths.

Guest stars during the series' brief run included: Joan Blondell, Art Carney, Jill Clayburgh, Alice Cooper, William Devane, Tammy Grimes, George Maharis, Roddy McDowall, Geraldine Page, Walter Pidgeon, Vincent Price, Fritz Weaver and, in her final screen appearance, Paulette Goddard.

Cast

  • Helen Hayes as Ernesta Snoop
  • Mildred Natwick as Gwendolyn Snoop Nicholson
  • Lou Antonio as Barney
  • Bert Convy as Lt. Steve Ostrowski
  • Reception

    Both Natwick and Hayes were nominated for an Emmy Award for their work on the program; Natwick won. Only four 90-minute episodes of the series were ever produced.

    Although the series did not last, it made an attempt to cover timely material by featuring musician Alice Cooper, essentially as himself, but called "Prince", in an episode entitled "The Devil Made Me Do It", which aired March 5, 1974.

    DVD releases

    Visual Entertainment released The Snoop Sisters- The Complete Series on DVD in Canada on March 15, 2011; and in the US on June 7, 2011. Madman Entertainment released the complete series on DVD in Australia (Region 4) on March 16, 2011.

    References

    The Snoop Sisters Wikipedia