7/10 - not necessarily my favorite Mystery Woman, but a worthy addition to the series

Mystery book store owner Kellie Martin we find out was adopted by the folks who raised her and are now deceased. She embarks on a search for her birth mother and when she finds her she finds the police in her town are about to arrest her. It seems that she came home and found a dead body in her house and he's a guy she had some really old history with.

Kathryn Harrold plays the mom and the dead guy was also shot with a gun owned by her husband John Aprea. Martin also discovers she has a half sister played by Christine Lakin.

One of the few in this series that Martin is without the help of her confidant Clarence Williams,III. But she's in another town and Williams has been contacted by Michael Cole an old secret agent buddy. He wants Williams to help him help another one of their friends who's in a nice jackpot. Of course back in the day Williams and Cole were 2/3 of LAPD's Mod Squad.

I think the solution was rather obvious from the start so as a mystery per se this film doesn't cut it. Still it was a nice insight into Kellie Martin's background.

Contrary to another review, just because a storyline seems meaningless, doesn't mean it is.

Most good stories have at least one subplot. In this episode the subplot provided some comic relief to an otherwise very serious episode. I was in stitches!

The fact that it reunited a couple of dear old friends made it much more special - especially to us fans of The Mod Squad. Because The Mod Squad was a very serious show. To have it's two male stars (Clarence Williams III as series regular Philby, and Michael Cole as Desmond) in a more comical situation was a treat to me!

In this episode, while Samantha is off looking for her birth mother, a silly, but fun little subplot has a couple of old spies (Philby & Desmond) get together to free a Russian spy who landed in the local jail.

Philby decides to get himself arrested, so he can tell the Russian spy how he's going to be busted out.

It's the 'how' that is hysterical. The police chief, who has a semi-adversarial relationship with Samantha and Philby, is befuddled when he has to arrest Philby for breaking a window.

Desmond then, comes in 'under cover' to help break both Philby & the Russian spy out of jail. What ensues is like The Keystone Cops. It is hysterical, and so much fun!