Wow, painful (and very 50s
). I think I'll stick with her top ten stuff.
Really? I think that "Maybe I Know" is up there with her Top Tenners (studio version):
No, actually nukes were still pretty much on everyone's mind into the early 70s (think of Planet of the Apes and such)
DAMN THEM!!! DAMN THEM ALL TO HELL!!!!!!! 
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Yeah, I was thinking after I wrote that, that it's easy to compartmentalize different eras of the decade in hindsight, but to anyone who was old enough to remember in 1967, the Cuban Missile Crisis would have been an uncomfortably recent memory.
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Last Week's 50th Anniversary Viewing
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Dark Shadows
Episode 241
Originally aired May 29, 1967
IMDb said:
At the Old House, David believes Maggie is Josette's ghost. Later, Maggie calls out for David.
The week opens with
David meeting the real
Maggie. At first she seems fully engaged in her Josette persona, talking to him in complete sentences...but then she starts acting confused and asking him questions. David mentions Mr. Evans, which sparks her true memories. It's odd that David knows who Sam is, but doesn't recognize Maggie.
Maggie slips away when
Roger and
Victoria come knocking. Dad is pissed because he had to trek up to the Old House, an uncomfortable distance from his decanter. In comes
Barnabas, and afraid of his father's wrath, David lies and claims that he hasn't seen Josette. Still suspicious after his visitors leave, Barnabas goes up to Josette's room and insists to Maggie that she mustn't see visitors while attempting to reinforce that she's Josette, not Maggie. It's a busy night on the Old House set, as
Sheriff Patterson comes knocking next to have his first meeting with Barnabas. The Sheriff mainly seems interested in verifying Willie's alibis.
Reunited with his brandy at the Great House, Roger chastises David. While Vicki sees the boy to his room, he spills some details about his encounter with "Josette" when Vicki mentions having smelled jasmine at the Old House. The sheriff pops by because this is his only episode for the week, so he's gotta get his work done, and for some reason he seems to be in the habit of reporting the findings of his investigation to the Collins family instead of, I dunno, Sam and Joe maybe...?
The episode ends with what the description describes, only she calls for David as "little boy."
Episode 242
Originally aired May 30, 1967
IMDb said:
Dr. Woodard finds something suspicious in Maggie's blood slides, which are later stolen from his ransacked office.
The Real Doc Woodard is hard at work examining slides when
Burke comes by wanting good news to deliver to Sam, because "random tag along / errand boy" seems to be the closest thing he has to an occupation. Woodard mentions having consulted with a Dr. Hoffman--one who's described with male pronouns--and reveals that there's something baffling and potentially frightening, even impossible, going on in Maggie's blood samples.
At Collinwood, Roger is questioning
Elizabeth about some substantial financial discrepancies in the family business's books. He voices his suspicion that Jason is blackmailing Liz with some secret that involves the locked room downstairs, which is a handy reminder for the audience, since that plot point hasn't come up in at least a couple of weeks. Liz confronts
Jason about how she won't be able to continue paying him off under the circumstances. Jason seems coyly unaffected, clearly keeping some new scheme close to his chest. In Roger's next meeting with his sister, he makes a more personal plea for information, but to no immediate avail. Somewhere in their conversations, they allude to the fact that Burke once had a plot line of his own.
Cut to Woodard and Burke examining the doctor's now ransacked office, finding the blood samples stolen and the bars on the windows bent as if by supernatural strength--Too bad the sheriff's off-duty for the week! The Doc now affirms that whatever's going on is indeed best described as "terrifying" and "impossible."
Episode 243
Originally aired May 31, 1967
IMDb said:
Dr. Woodard hopes to examine Willie's blood. Jason informs Elizabeth that they will be married.
The Old House's latest visitor is...Doc Woodard. It's daytime, so
Willie answers. Needless to say, the good doctor's request to examine Willie's blood doesn't go over well. Confidentiality having never been his strong suit, the doctor blabs about his other patient, Maggie Evans. On cue, Willie becomes even more emphatic that the doctor leave when he sees that it's sunset...but Barnabas pops in too quickly, and actually encourages Willie to participate.
At the Great House, Jason brings flowers to Elizabeth. While he's making a show of sweet-talking her, the Doc comes knocking, wanting to question Jason about Willie's former condition. More blabbing about his patients ensues. As they compare notes, Jason's owns suspicions come back to the fore, causing him to drop by the Old House that night. Barnabas answers, explaining the Willie is out on an errand. In response to Jason's pointed questions, Barnabas reinforces the story of how he first met Willie when his nonexistent car broke down. Poor ol' Jason has no idea what he's begging for going down this route....
Back at the Great House, Jason asks Liz a lot of questions about Barnabas before getting back to his own subplot...making his milking of money from Liz a long-term, legal arrangement, per the episode description.
Episode 244
Originally aired on #SgtPepperDay
IMDb said:
Jason threatens to tell everyone that Elizabeth murdered her long missing husband Paul Stoddard.
The episode opens with Liz's reactions to Jason's proposal. As their duet continues, the audience learns a great deal about the secret that he's been holding over her...that she allegedly murdered her ex-husband 18 years ago, and he helped to cover it up.
Liz tries to confess to
Carolyn, but Jason has already put some notions in the girl's head, and she runs out when her mother starts to tell her that her father didn't love her. Jason subsequently presses Carolyn to find out how much Liz told her. He wholeheartedly contradicts Liz's story by telling the girl what she wants to hear about her father. Seemingly left with only one option, Liz asks Jason for time to prepare.
Episode 245
Originally aired June 2, 1967
IMDb said:
After Dr. Woodard arrives to take a sample of Willie's blood, Barnabas switches the slide samples.
At the Old House, Barnabas insists that Willie surrender a sample of his blood, despite his servant's characteristically frantic objections. Meanwhile, at the cleaned-up office of Doc Woodard, Burke is exercising his usual M.O. of getting in some screen time by buddying up with a more plot-relevant character. Burke speculates about a wolf or Willie Loomis possibly being behind recent happenings in Collinsport.
Cut to Doc at the Old House, having shaken Burke from his coattails. Barnabas waxes poetic about blood (It's what's for dinner!) while the Doc takes his sample from Willie. In his typically friendly but unprofessional manner, Doc lets Barnabas wander around the room with the slide, giving him ample opportunity to switch it without the need for any particular skill in sleight of hand. As the good doctor is leaving, Barnabas gives him a warning about the person who broke into his office that perhaps doubles as a veiled threat...though Barnabas actually volunteers, for the audience's benefit, that he deeply loathes that anonymous other being of whom he speaks.
At the Blue Whale, Vicki resorts to dredging up weeks-old story points combined with paranoia about howling dogs. Doc drops by on his no-confidentiality tour, volunteering the negative results in what he thinks was Willie's blood, in addition to giving a vivid description of what he found in Maggie's.
Back at the Old House, Willie's acting so frantic about what may be discovered in his blood that Barnabas seeks assurances that Willie won't go blabbing all to anyone who questions him, before revealing his switcheroo. Barnabas threatens that there may come a day when he stops protecting Willie.
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The Saint
"When Spring Is Sprung"
Originally aired June 2, 1967 (UK)
Xfinity said:
Templar believes British intelligence has ordered him to free a Soviet spy, but he could be mistaken.
More spy business, but there's a slightly better justification for it here, as Simon's involvement is the result of something he'd said in a newspaper interview about the ease with which he could arrange the defector's escape...something the show has done before when it came to jewel heists and such. Simon is recruited to help the Russians spring Spring, because Spring is supposed to have been recruited as a double agent and the alleged British intelligence official doesn't want the escape to look too easy.
The recurring character of Inspector Teal factors into the story in a more substantial way than his usual M.O. of being a comedic thorn in Simon's side. Templar plays both ends against the middle, going along with the Russians' scheme while voluntarily reporting to Teal about it just enough to put Teal in the amusing position of having to defend Templar among his colleagues at Scotland Yard.
Yep, there's one of those clocks in Simon's pad in this episode. The design is slightly different than the one in Gordon's office.
In one scene Simon pretends to be an American journalist...with all due respect to the recently deceased Sir Roger, I'm afraid that his attempt at an accent was horrendous.
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50 years ago this week:
June 4 – Stockport air disaster: British Midland flight G-ALHG crashes in Hopes Carr, Stockport, killing 72 passengers and crew.
June 5
- Six-Day War begins: Israel launches Operation Focus, a preemptive strike on Egyptian Air Force bsir[?] fields; the allied armies of Egypt Syria, Iraq, Jordan, and Iraq invade Israel. Battle of Ammunition Hill, start of the Jordanian campaign
- Murderer Richard Speck is sentenced to death in the electric chair for killing 8 student nurses in Chicago.
June 7
- Capture of East Jerusalem in a battle conducted by Israeli forces without the use of artillery in order to avoid damage to the Holy City.
- Two Moby Grape members are arrested for contributing to the delinquency of minors.
June 8 – USS Liberty incident
June 10
- Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a United Nations-mediated cease-fire.
- The Soviet Union severs diplomatic relations with Israel.
- Margrethe, heir apparent to the throne of Denmark, marries French count Henri de Laborde de Monpezat.
New on the charts that week:
"C'mon Marianne," The Four Seasons
(#9 US)
"I Was Made to Love Her," Stevie Wonder
(#2 US; #1 R&B; #5 UK)
And everybody kept on playin' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band....
New on the boob tube:
- Dark Shadows, episodes 246-250
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