Babe in the Woods


"Babe in the Woods" is a 1957 American television play by Sumner Locke Elliott. It was the live television debut of Jody McCrea and one of the first television appearances from James Coburn.

Plot

A naive man arrives from New York.

Cast

Reception

The Des Moines Register said it was promising "but never really delivered."
Variety wrote "The comedy elements were fairly solid, a. lot of ’ them coming through the deliberate use of repetition. Of course, once the pattern was established, there could have been a tightening up toward the end of the show, and some other tangent Introduced. But the other elements of the* layout seemed to work out nicely."
The Montreal Star felt McCrea was "engaging but hardly up to the strain of soliloquy as well."
Another review declared it "had some wonderfully light moments before breaking down in the final stretch."