The Snoop Sisters


The Snoop Sisters is an American comedy-mystery television show that aired on NBC during the 1973–1974 season.
The series aired on a monthly rotation 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 actresses Helen Hayes and Mildred Natwick as two elderly sisters, Ernesta Snoop and Gwendolyn Snoop Nicholson, who routinely stumbled across mysteries, which they solved. Antedating Murder She Wrote, Ernesta was a mystery novelist, while her widowed sister Gwendolyn wrote the stories from Ernesta's dictation. They first appeared on NBC in a TV movie titled The Snoop Sisters, 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, along with Myrna Loy and Sylvia Sydney.
Guest stars during the series' brief run included: Joan Blondell, Art Carney, Jill Clayburgh, Alice Cooper, William Devane, Tammy Grimes, George Maharis, Roddy McDowall, Eve McVeagh, Geraldine Page, Walter Pidgeon, Vincent Price, Fritz Weaver, and in her final screen appearance, Paulette Goddard.

Cast

Reception

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

DVD releases

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 on March 16, 2011.