Plot Summary:Mrs. Kelly runs a hoarding-house in the western foothills, having principally as her clientele the cowpunchers that work thereabouts, she meets with no end of trouble in securing a suitable cook that matrimonial proof, as the moment a fair queen of the pot and pan arrives she is besieged by the boarders, and invariably Cupid gets his work in. Finally Mrs. Kelly, growing desperate, sends to the city for a Chinese cook. This enrages the boarders, and when the cook arrives he is made to do a few hurried stunts to the tune of the six-shooter, and he likewise exits almost as gracefully as he entered. About this time an out-and-out city girl writes she would accept the place, loudly denouncing Cupid and his darts. She arrives; the enemy reconnoiters the situation; she meets their proposals with scorn and derision, drives them away. But on second thought she decides Big Bill Parsons is her affinity, and again the trouble is rampant. Then, lo he came, a busted actor. \"Can you cook?\" says Mrs. Kelly. He did, trouble brewing on every hand. To save the day Mrs. Kelly marries her new cook.
1990年〈平成2年〉に「原作に忠実な推理ドラマを」ということで、日本推理作家協会の協力を元に「昭和推理傑作選」と銘打たれたシリーズの中の一作として「獄門島」が放送され、以降「横溝正史シリーズ」としてシリーズ化する。金田一役の片岡鶴太郎と、磯川警部役の加藤武のレギュラー陣以外に、平幹二朗と牧瀬里穂が毎回違う役でレギュラー出演するなど変わった手法も見て取れた。また、ロケ地を本格的に選んで撮影することも特色の一つである。 獄門島:片岡鶴太郎の金田一耕助シリーズ(1990-09-28)