Episode #0071

[CTP/FITBs]

[It's up to the first poster to come up with a set up, and then each following post will either complete it or fill in the blank(s). And, as always, whoever posts the set up is certainly allowed to post their own completion/fill in as a follow up.]

[Mysterious Benefactor]

 

Complete this phrase: "Roger became weak in the knees and close to fainting after Sheriff Patterson informed him that...!!"

 

[Uncle Roger]

He ran into a Professor Mark Veno who asked if Patterson knew his lovely older sister and his useless younger brother.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

   Another blast from the Marilyn Ross past!!

LOVE IT!! 

       

(A personal tidbit is The Mystery of Collinwood is the only one of the Ross novels that I've never been able to find a copy of it with the original cover. And the main reason I find its cover so interesting is that it's the only one that features the other side of Collinwood that was only featured on the show during the first year. And sure, I could buy the Hermes Press reprint, but it's not an original print.)

[Uncle Roger]

I started watching the series in 1968 and knew very little about what had transpired earlier. I kept expecting the professor and his daughter (Linda?) to show up at some point. I'm sure that Ross would have come up with some bizarrely explanation to explain their existence. Carolyn and David would have been too young. And Elizabeth and Roger would have been so aghast at brother Mark that they retroactively erased him from their memories.