The return of Papa March (William Schallert) at the end of part one also culminated with Jo (Susan Dey) telling off pompous Aunt March (Greer Garson) who promptly told her that she would take Amy to Europe instead of her, mentioning an unseen sister. After sister Meg is married to John Brooke (Cliff Potts), Jo heads to New York to advance her writing career, staying in the boarding house of the squeaky voiced and overly chatty Joyce Bulifant where she meets professor Friedrich Bhaer, destined to be her major love interest. The war has come to an end (announced at the wedding reception at the beginning of the episode), and it's a new world for emancipated women like Jo, especially in a growing metropolis like New York City.
A gruff Logan Ramsey adds humor as the publisher Jo takes her stories too, telling him that they come from a friend but he knows automatically that she's the writer. The way he deals with her is hysterical, changing his pronouns based on her initial deception. This part switches back and forth between the March's home and New York, and while there are a few lulls in the story to show detailed charscter development in regards to the few new additions (particularly Shatner's charscter), the major developments come when you least expect it.
I particularly liked the wintery setting of one of Shatner and Dey's dates, looking like a wonderland. The story focuses on Jo more than any of the other characters although there are snippets of the issues of Meg and John's marriage dealt with as well as Marmee's bemused reaction to the interfering Aunt March. The second half of the episode deals with the tragedy that strikes the sweet Beth with sister Amy barely seen. Situations that were only mentioned briefly in other movie versions are dealt with here in detail, making this probably the most complete version of the Alcott classic.
A gruff Logan Ramsey adds humor as the publisher Jo takes her stories too, telling him that they come from a friend but he knows automatically that she's the writer. The way he deals with her is hysterical, changing his pronouns based on her initial deception. This part switches back and forth between the March's home and New York, and while there are a few lulls in the story to show detailed charscter development in regards to the few new additions (particularly Shatner's charscter), the major developments come when you least expect it.
I particularly liked the wintery setting of one of Shatner and Dey's dates, looking like a wonderland. The story focuses on Jo more than any of the other characters although there are snippets of the issues of Meg and John's marriage dealt with as well as Marmee's bemused reaction to the interfering Aunt March. The second half of the episode deals with the tragedy that strikes the sweet Beth with sister Amy barely seen. Situations that were only mentioned briefly in other movie versions are dealt with here in detail, making this probably the most complete version of the Alcott classic.
