"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.[1]
The Des Moines Register said it was promising "but never really delivered."[2]
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."[3]
The Montreal Star felt McCrea was "engaging but hardly up to the strain of soliloquy as well."[4]
Another review declared it "had some wonderfully light moments before breaking down in the final stretch."[5]
References
^"Jody McCrea, 22, film star's son, plays hick". The Buffalo News. 13 May 1957. p. 24.
^"TV's Betty Furness Out of Kitchen". The Des Moines Register. 14 May 1957. p. 7.