Frankie (My Mother The Car)

Frankie is a henchwoman/gangster's moll villainess.

Appears in - My Mother The Car (USA. NBC 1965/66)

Episode - Desperate Minutes (first US broadcast April 5th 1966)

Played by - Barbara Bain (b 1931)

My Mother the Car was a sitcom starring Jerry Van Dyke and featuring the voice of Ann Sothern, about a suburbanite lawyer, Dave Crabtree, who buys a 1928 Porter car when he finds it is possessed by the spirit of his late mother.

Frankie is the moll of  jewellery store bandit Bullets Morgan (Robert Strauss). Bullets, on the lam from the robbery, holes up at the Crabtree house and keeps the family hostage, intending staying till the heat is off. He is soon joined by his moll/accomplice, Frankie. But the pair are defeated when they attempt to make their escape in the Porter, which spins round and round wildly just after it leaves the garage, tossing them onto the house roof.

Appearance - Attractive woman in her 30s with bobbed dark blonde hair. She wears a black top and shiny gold capri pants, and wears a light colored raincoat when she first enters the Crabtree house.

Weapons - She is seen holding Bullet's revolver hand gun in a number of scenes

Fate - Trapped on the house roof and presumably arrested (not shown)

Trivia - Barbara Bain makes an earlier appearance as a villainess in the series in the episode "I'm Through Being a Nice Guy" (1965)