"...I don't want nobody ba-beeehhhhh". ops: (Sorry, mercifully, the RMT was a wonderful alternative to the disco music (some of which was decent) born during the same era as most of the Mystery Theatre's episodes.)

Actually, this one involves a Soviet-era love triangle between three classical musicians. I've previously noted how Fred Gwynne and Mandel Kramer had some vocal similarities. This one paired two other RMT actors with similar voices: Russell Horton and Bob Galaban. Galaban's character had a wandering eye for other ladies, to the chagrin of his lady musican/companion. (Can't remember what instruments the trio played...I think it was violin, cello and piano.) Horton's character secretly loved the lady. They all lived in those wonderful U.S.S.R. apartments.

This was during the time when you could snitch on your enemies and end up sending them to the Gulag for re-education or whatever they called that trumped-up punishment for desiring freedom. Galaban's character ends up falling for (or seeming to) a television reporter. He ends up being called into a lady secret police agent's office, with the offer of good things happening to him (or rather, bad things not happening to him) if he keeps an eye on Horton's character for them.

Lots of people rat one another out in this one in the name of love. 