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 (referred to as a "wheel") 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 (known as "G") wrote the stories from Ernesta's dictation. (G was also a writer, but of poetry. She had one book of poetry published. Her late husband was named George, and G fancied he resembled Melvyn Douglas.) The sisters lived in a townhouse on Gramercy Park in New York City and travel in a 1920's Lincoln sedan. They were assisted in their investigations by Barney, their chauffeur and caretaker (played by Art Carney in the pilot and Lou Antonio in subsequent episodes) and somewhat reluctantly by their nephew, NYPD Lieutenant Ostrowski (played by Lawrence Pressman in  the pilot and Bert Convy in subsequent episodes). They first appeared on NBC in a TV movie titled "The Snoop Sisters" (later retitled "The Female Instinct"), 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 Sidney. Guest stars during the series' brief run included: Joan Blondell, 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. 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. Visual Entertainment released "The Snoop Sisters: The Complete Series" on DVD in Canada on March 15, 2011; and in the U.S. on June 7, 2011. Madman Entertainment released the complete series on DVD in Australia (Region 4) on March 16, 2011.