I'll bet that if this show was made today, it would be a short limited series on Netflix, Hulu, or cable, with Gazzara's character progressively getting sicker and dying in the final episode, like this series.
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I'll bet that if this show was made today, it would be a short limited series on Netflix, Hulu, or cable, with Gazzara's character progressively getting sicker and dying in the final episode, like this series.
The one Beatles song I really don't like.
Ah, that was the late Peter Whitney, also well remembered for his role as Courtney, one of Sheriff Gillespie's deputies in the Sidney Poitier classic, In the Heat of the Night (Mirisch Corporation, 1967), and as one of as a toothless grave robbers in the Rod Serling's Night Gallery episode, "Deliveries in the Rear" (NBC, 1972), which also happened to be the final role of his life. Another guest star in the episode was comedian Godfrey Cambridge (the one who had his foot run over) who also visited the gallery in "Make Me Laugh" (NBC, 1971).
The bubbly bank teller was Joy Harmon (making her first of two Monkees appearances), forever famous as the girl in cinema history's most sexualized car wash in Cool Hand Luke (Warner Bros. / Seven Arts, 1967). Harmon also had the misfortune of being kissed by Frank Gorshin's Riddler in the Batman episode, "A Riddle a Day Keeps the Riddler Away" (ABC, 1966), but pranced around as a giant teenager in the Bert I. Gordon cult classic, Village of the Giants (Embassy, 1965).
Musically, The Monkees were riding a strong creative tidal wave at the time, with two number one albums in 1967, with both arguably among the most memorable of a very creatively explosive decade in music. The songs you mentioned were just unforgettable, timeless gems.
One of today's Sullivans, from Sept. 18, 1966, was the first appearance of the Muppets...introduced by Ed as "Jim Newsome's Puppets". 
Also, look what else I found...
Also, look what else I found...
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Whoa. Go, Ed.
There's nothing especially wrong with "Norwegian Wood." The music just interacts weirdly with my nervous system or something. I can't listen to it.
There's nothing especially wrong with "Norwegian Wood." The music just interacts weirdly with my nervous system or something. I can't listen to it.
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50th Anniversary Viewing
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Mission: Impossible
"The Money Machine"
Originally aired October 29, 1967
And now it's Brock Peters week (see also Tarzan)...was he ever so young?
In the not-so-disavowable category: The country's deputy finance minister (Rockne Tarkington, who did several roles on Tarzan) is in on this week's operation.
In the first half, Jim's playing Barney, setting up the titular counterfeit copying computer, while Barney plays a character role in the mission. But Barney makes up for lost time in the second half, most of which he spends sitting inside the device.
Peters had a good presence, but I wasn't into this one much. Matters of stocks and finance tend to go over my head, for one thing.
Also guesting Davis Roberts (Dr. Ozaba, "The Empath").
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The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
"The Deadly Quest Affair"
Originally aired October 30, 1967
Open Channel Damsel in Distress--Is That What Illya Is This Season?
This episode could have been titled "The Most Dangerous Game Affair." (Perhaps the actual title is a play on that one.) Of course, there's a female guest character randomly thrown in with Solo as prey for Karmak the Napoleon Stalker.
Karmak is supposed to be somebody that Solo and Kuryakin encountered two years ago, but I couldn't find any reference to the episode being a sequel, and if the character was in another episode, he wasn't played by McGavin. Karmak is going for Full Bond Villain here...he has a scar and a pet leopard and routinely disposes of underlings when they're no longer of any use to him. And Solo wrassles the leopard! There was no disclaimer in the end credits, so I'm left to assume that Robert Vaughn actually killed the leopard.
This was relatively solid as TMFU episodes go...it's pretty focused once the hunt gets going, without much in the way of random nonsense plot filler.
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The Rat Patrol
"The Death Do Us Part Raid"
Originally aired October 30, 1967
Dietrich strongly objects to being ordered to take Troy's contact into custody, which involves putting a yellow Star of David on him. The contact is said to be an Arab, so I'm not sure why they did that. If he was secretly a Jew, the story didn't get into it any further. This was a potentially strong moment in an otherwise unremarkable episode, but it was half-baked.
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Batman
"The Ogg and I"
Originally aired November 2, 1967
I didn't get much out of this one, other than that Batgirl was looking particularly good. Adam West gets points for enjoyably hamming up otherwise weak scenes. And the Skipper as "Gilligan" is good for a giggle.
Even with a two-parter, the show sticks to the time-economized habits of the season...no Bruce, Dick, or Barbara out of costume, no Wayne Manor, no Batcave/Batmobile stock footage.
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Ironside
"Let My Brother Go"
Originally aired November 2, 1967
Guesting Ivan Dixon (Hogan's Heroes) as the football player (an old friend of Mark's) and Don Marshall as the parolee brother.
I guess this would count as a Very Special Episode by 1967 standards. It doesn't start with a murder mystery, but with Ironside trying to find a way to put weapon-making inner city youths on the straight and narrow. To that end, he recruits Kinch to head an athletic program. But Kinch's brother, Boma, is working for a bookmaker and engaging in other behavior that could easily get him sent back to prison.
Not a bad episode overall...it moved along nicely. There's no formulaic murder mystery here...the manslaughter incident doesn't happen until the third act, but it is pretty contrived...when Kinch tries to pull Boma out of a crooked poker game, a fight ensues in which Boma accientally punches somebody through a closed window to the street below. Maybe he could use "shoddy TV physics" as a defense. Kinch tries to take the fall so his brother won't be caught having violated parole, but rescinds the alibi when Brother Boma threatens to get into worse trouble.
Apparently Ironside's pool room doubles as Mark's room.
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"The Collaborators"
Originally aired November 2, 1967
It's funny, I'd already been noticing some parallels in storylines between seasons, watching through the first two simultaneously. Here's a particularly obvious example...it's effectively the same premise as "Help Wanted," in which Ann tries to work as Donald's secretary. You'd think Ann and Donald would have learned their lesson there, because the story is initially based on continuity...specifically, trying to write a play about all of the wacky things that have happened to Ann since she came to New York, with details of several episodes being dropped while they're brainstorming the idea.
There's a scene in which Ann and Donald make a mess of a typewriter ribbon--I have to wonder how bizarre that would look to younger-generation folk today.
Sign o' the times: The episode gives us a preemptive "If they can put a man on the moon..." reference.
"Oh, Donald" count: 10...with additional honorable mention going to an instance of "You know, Donald"...not the exact words, but if we're playing by Johnny Thunder rules, that should have summoned her Thunderbolt.
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Tarzan
"Last of the Supermen"
Originally aired November 3, 1967
And here's Antoinette Bower again! Or should we say Fraulein Bauer...? Also guesting Brock Peters as a young tribal warrior bent on revenge because the Nazis murdered his family.
Actually nobody forces Tarzan...he's tagging along because he has an interest in helping the son of a murdered former Nazi to express his grief. A bit late in the episode the story gets into how the boy was indoctrinated in Nazi beliefs early on, before his father found God, and that the boy had grown estranged from his father because of this...that's some insight that would have helped inform viewing of the episode a bit earlier on.
It's interesting how they play the Nazi angle...the bad guys are German and there's talk of strength and their master race and whatnot, but they never drop the "little N-word." Tarzan gives an after-school special lecture to the boy after it's all over, still without dropping the word. It turns out that Tarzan knew the fate of the bonds that the bad guys were looking for all along--After the father turned a new leaf, he'd given them to the International Reparations Committee...and the boy finally cries, having seen his father's "strength in goodness."
It turns out that one of the Naz...er, guys who were involved in something bad long ago...was also in "Patterns of Force."
An underwater passage into the cave where the bonds were supposed to be hidden...now they're just teasing me! When H&I gets back to Season 1, I will re-record the episodes in question, and there will be glorious screenshots of the giant clam for all to marvel at!
Jai is barely in the episode--there's one scene of him playing volleyball with three chimps on his team. How many Cheetas did they have...?
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Star Trek
"I, Mudd"
Originally aired November 3, 1967
Stardate 4513.3
See my post here.
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The Prisoner
"The General"
Originally aired November 3, 1967 (UK)
It's interesting that they teach real-world history in the Village...though they did address the prospect of doing otherwise in the future.
So Number Six plays Kirk here, but with a punch card instead of direct vocal interaction. Destroying the General seemed a bit too easy. It's nice to see Number Six win a small victory...though it came at the cost of losing a true collaborator in his efforts to escape.
This wasn't up there with the stronger episodes for me, but it also wasn't the mess that I found the election episode to be.
Revisiting this point...
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The Avengers
"The Positive Negative Man"
Originally aired November 4, 1967 (UK)
Another episode using the formula of mysterious serial attacks, but with a generally interesting premise involving a pseudo-superhuman antagonist...one who's specially treated to serve as a conduit for artificially generated broadcast power.
Steed and Peel each get a story beat in which they're knocked out by grabbing a charged door handle...wouldn't they not be able to let go of it?
The bad guys use a miniature reel-to-reel recorder that otherwise looks exactly like a cassette recorder of the general era.
The climax features an already tied-up Peel completely covered in aluminum foil...I'm sure that's a turn-on for somebody in the audience. The deathtrap that she's supposed to serve as is foiled by Steed's rubber galoshes.
And here's another superhuman right-through-a-closed-window blow...delivered by Steed to one of the bad guys.
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Get Smart
"One of Our Olives Is Missing"
Originally Aired November 4, 1967
For historical context, Carol's own show was brand-new this season...and airing on a rival network!
This story uses Max's gadget-laden apartment, including the ever-amusing invisible wall.
This is also a Siegfried episode, but Max and Carol outSchmart him.
I didn't get what Annie's freak-out at the end was supposed to be about.
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50th Anniversary Viewing
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Mission: Impossible
"The Money Machine"
Originally aired October 29, 1967
Wiki said:
And now it's Brock Peters week (see also Tarzan)...was he ever so young?
So we're back to the ever-changing "usual manner"...which in this case involves a drive-by toss into a garbage can where it self-destructs anyway.The really tiny reel-to-reel tape that came out of a cigarette machine said:
In the not-so-disavowable category: The country's deputy finance minister (Rockne Tarkington, who did several roles on Tarzan) is in on this week's operation.
In the first half, Jim's playing Barney, setting up the titular counterfeit copying computer, while Barney plays a character role in the mission. But Barney makes up for lost time in the second half, most of which he spends sitting inside the device.
Peters had a good presence, but I wasn't into this one much. Matters of stocks and finance tend to go over my head, for one thing.
Also guesting Davis Roberts (Dr. Ozaba, "The Empath").
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The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
"The Deadly Quest Affair"
Originally aired October 30, 1967
Xfinity said:
Open Channel Damsel in Distress--Is That What Illya Is This Season?
This episode could have been titled "The Most Dangerous Game Affair." (Perhaps the actual title is a play on that one.) Of course, there's a female guest character randomly thrown in with Solo as prey for Karmak the Napoleon Stalker.
Karmak is supposed to be somebody that Solo and Kuryakin encountered two years ago, but I couldn't find any reference to the episode being a sequel, and if the character was in another episode, he wasn't played by McGavin. Karmak is going for Full Bond Villain here...he has a scar and a pet leopard and routinely disposes of underlings when they're no longer of any use to him. And Solo wrassles the leopard! There was no disclaimer in the end credits, so I'm left to assume that Robert Vaughn actually killed the leopard.
This was relatively solid as TMFU episodes go...it's pretty focused once the hunt gets going, without much in the way of random nonsense plot filler.
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The Rat Patrol
"The Death Do Us Part Raid"
Originally aired October 30, 1967
H&I said:
Dietrich strongly objects to being ordered to take Troy's contact into custody, which involves putting a yellow Star of David on him. The contact is said to be an Arab, so I'm not sure why they did that. If he was secretly a Jew, the story didn't get into it any further. This was a potentially strong moment in an otherwise unremarkable episode, but it was half-baked.
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Batman
"The Ogg and I"
Originally aired November 2, 1967
H&I said:
I didn't get much out of this one, other than that Batgirl was looking particularly good. Adam West gets points for enjoyably hamming up otherwise weak scenes. And the Skipper as "Gilligan" is good for a giggle.
Even with a two-parter, the show sticks to the time-economized habits of the season...no Bruce, Dick, or Barbara out of costume, no Wayne Manor, no Batcave/Batmobile stock footage.
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Ironside
"Let My Brother Go"
Originally aired November 2, 1967
Wiki said:
Guesting Ivan Dixon (Hogan's Heroes) as the football player (an old friend of Mark's) and Don Marshall as the parolee brother.
I guess this would count as a Very Special Episode by 1967 standards. It doesn't start with a murder mystery, but with Ironside trying to find a way to put weapon-making inner city youths on the straight and narrow. To that end, he recruits Kinch to head an athletic program. But Kinch's brother, Boma, is working for a bookmaker and engaging in other behavior that could easily get him sent back to prison.
Not a bad episode overall...it moved along nicely. There's no formulaic murder mystery here...the manslaughter incident doesn't happen until the third act, but it is pretty contrived...when Kinch tries to pull Boma out of a crooked poker game, a fight ensues in which Boma accientally punches somebody through a closed window to the street below. Maybe he could use "shoddy TV physics" as a defense. Kinch tries to take the fall so his brother won't be caught having violated parole, but rescinds the alibi when Brother Boma threatens to get into worse trouble.
Apparently Ironside's pool room doubles as Mark's room.
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"The Collaborators"
Originally aired November 2, 1967
Wiki said:
It's funny, I'd already been noticing some parallels in storylines between seasons, watching through the first two simultaneously. Here's a particularly obvious example...it's effectively the same premise as "Help Wanted," in which Ann tries to work as Donald's secretary. You'd think Ann and Donald would have learned their lesson there, because the story is initially based on continuity...specifically, trying to write a play about all of the wacky things that have happened to Ann since she came to New York, with details of several episodes being dropped while they're brainstorming the idea.
There's a scene in which Ann and Donald make a mess of a typewriter ribbon--I have to wonder how bizarre that would look to younger-generation folk today.
Sign o' the times: The episode gives us a preemptive "If they can put a man on the moon..." reference.
"Oh, Donald" count: 10...with additional honorable mention going to an instance of "You know, Donald"...not the exact words, but if we're playing by Johnny Thunder rules, that should have summoned her Thunderbolt.
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Tarzan
"Last of the Supermen"
Originally aired November 3, 1967
H&I said:
And here's Antoinette Bower again! Or should we say Fraulein Bauer...? Also guesting Brock Peters as a young tribal warrior bent on revenge because the Nazis murdered his family.
Actually nobody forces Tarzan...he's tagging along because he has an interest in helping the son of a murdered former Nazi to express his grief. A bit late in the episode the story gets into how the boy was indoctrinated in Nazi beliefs early on, before his father found God, and that the boy had grown estranged from his father because of this...that's some insight that would have helped inform viewing of the episode a bit earlier on.
It's interesting how they play the Nazi angle...the bad guys are German and there's talk of strength and their master race and whatnot, but they never drop the "little N-word." Tarzan gives an after-school special lecture to the boy after it's all over, still without dropping the word. It turns out that Tarzan knew the fate of the bonds that the bad guys were looking for all along--After the father turned a new leaf, he'd given them to the International Reparations Committee...and the boy finally cries, having seen his father's "strength in goodness."
It turns out that one of the Naz...er, guys who were involved in something bad long ago...was also in "Patterns of Force."
An underwater passage into the cave where the bonds were supposed to be hidden...now they're just teasing me! When H&I gets back to Season 1, I will re-record the episodes in question, and there will be glorious screenshots of the giant clam for all to marvel at!
Jai is barely in the episode--there's one scene of him playing volleyball with three chimps on his team. How many Cheetas did they have...?
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Star Trek
"I, Mudd"
Originally aired November 3, 1967
Stardate 4513.3
MeTV said:
See my post here.
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The Prisoner
"The General"
Originally aired November 3, 1967 (UK)
Wiki said:
It's interesting that they teach real-world history in the Village...though they did address the prospect of doing otherwise in the future.
So Number Six plays Kirk here, but with a punch card instead of direct vocal interaction. Destroying the General seemed a bit too easy. It's nice to see Number Six win a small victory...though it came at the cost of losing a true collaborator in his efforts to escape.
This wasn't up there with the stronger episodes for me, but it also wasn't the mess that I found the election episode to be.
Revisiting this point...
OTOH, in this episode Number Two says, "Number Six and I are old friends."
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The Avengers
"The Positive Negative Man"
Originally aired November 4, 1967 (UK)
Wiki said:
Another episode using the formula of mysterious serial attacks, but with a generally interesting premise involving a pseudo-superhuman antagonist...one who's specially treated to serve as a conduit for artificially generated broadcast power.
Steed and Peel each get a story beat in which they're knocked out by grabbing a charged door handle...wouldn't they not be able to let go of it?
The bad guys use a miniature reel-to-reel recorder that otherwise looks exactly like a cassette recorder of the general era.
The climax features an already tied-up Peel completely covered in aluminum foil...I'm sure that's a turn-on for somebody in the audience. The deathtrap that she's supposed to serve as is foiled by Steed's rubber galoshes.
And here's another superhuman right-through-a-closed-window blow...delivered by Steed to one of the bad guys.
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Get Smart
"One of Our Olives Is Missing"
Originally Aired November 4, 1967
Wiki said:
For historical context, Carol's own show was brand-new this season...and airing on a rival network!
Ozark Annie said:
This story uses Max's gadget-laden apartment, including the ever-amusing invisible wall.
This is also a Siegfried episode, but Max and Carol outSchmart him.
I didn't get what Annie's freak-out at the end was supposed to be about.
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50 Years Ago This Week
Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week:
Leaving the chart:
New on the chart:
"Yesterday," Ray Charles
(#25 US; #9 R&B; #44 UK)
"Neon Rainbow," The Box Tops
(#24 US; #57 UK)
"Itchycoo Park," Small Faces
(#16 US; #3 UK)
"She's My Girl," The Turtles
(#14 US)
"Different Drum," The Stone Poneys feat. Linda Ronstadt
(#13 US)
"(The Lights Went Out in) Massachusetts," Bee Gees
(#11 US; #1 UK)
"An Open Letter to My Teenage Son," Victor Lundberg
(#10 US; #40 AC)
"In and Out of Love," Diana Ross & The Supremes
(#9 US; #16 R&B; #13 UK)
And new on the boob tube:
50 Years Ago This Week
Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week:
Leaving the chart:
- "Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie," Jay & The Techniques
- "Come Back When You Grow Up," Bobby Vee & The Strangers
- "Ode to Billie Joe," Bobbie Gentry
- "You Keep Running Away," Four Tops
New on the chart:
"Yesterday," Ray Charles
(#25 US; #9 R&B; #44 UK)
"Neon Rainbow," The Box Tops
(#24 US; #57 UK)
"Itchycoo Park," Small Faces
(#16 US; #3 UK)
"She's My Girl," The Turtles
(#14 US)
"Different Drum," The Stone Poneys feat. Linda Ronstadt
(#13 US)
"(The Lights Went Out in) Massachusetts," Bee Gees
(#11 US; #1 UK)
"An Open Letter to My Teenage Son," Victor Lundberg
(#10 US; #40 AC)
"In and Out of Love," Diana Ross & The Supremes
(#9 US; #16 R&B; #13 UK)
And new on the boob tube:
- Mission: Impossible, "The Seal"
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E., "The Fiery Angel Affair"
- The Rat Patrol, "The Do-Re-Mi Raid"
- Batman, "How to Hatch a Dinosaur"
- Ironside, "Light at the End of the Journey"
- That Girl, "When in Rome"
- Tarzan, "Hotel Hurricane"
- Star Trek, "Metamorphosis"
- The Prisoner, "Many Happy Returns"
- The Avengers, "Murdersville"
The three Egghead/Olga episodes were written as a 3-parter, but were split into a 2-parter and a 1-parter in production.
Interesting. That'll be something to look for when I eventually get to the third one.
I want to say that I did not know that...but it rings a bell, so I probably just forgot. Now there's Nesmith material being put to good use! This is one of those songs that I remember hearing as a tyke in the early '70s on the station that my mom listened to in the car. I distinctly remember the "person, place, or thing" line piquing my interest because I was just learning about nouns.
The third one, "The Ogg Couple," was actually filmed second, but storywise, there's a case to be made that it was written to go first (see the third comment to this blog post). Which would explain the oddity of the "Ogg" neologism in the titles. There's no reason for the first-aired episode to be called "The Ogg and I" instead of "The Egg and I," the book/movie title it's riffing on. But if "The Ogg Couple" was written and named first, it would kind of make sense as a pun on The Odd Couple, and then "The Ogg and I" would be carrying on the wordplay.
But whose idea was it to put Egghead, an egg-themed supergenius, together with a Cossack insurrectionist queen? It’s a bizarre pairing, and one that comes largely at Egghead’s expense as this brilliant villain played by one of history’s greatest screen heavies is reduced to a dimwitted second banana to the not-very-interesting Olga. If they wanted to give Egghead a love interest, why not at least create someone thematically appropriate? Like, ohh, Frances, Queen of Bacon? Or Melba Toast? Or Chicken a la Queen? (Who would’ve constantly squabbled with Egghead over which of them should go first.)
Oh, I must see this. I absolutely love Darren McGavin.
My Mother still says this. I always reply, "They can't anymore."
I think there's a rising tide of interest in the underappreciated Giant Clam population.
Probably a lot. There's not a lot of good sportsmanship in the jungle, it seems.
The idea with this gimmick is that the electricity clenches up your muscles, preventing you from letting go-- at least in TV and movies.
That would not be me.
Wowie-- I never heard that one before.
Meh.
This is a nice one. It very much sounds like the 60s to me.
This is okay, but not their best.
But this is definitely Linda Ronstadt's best. I love this song.
Now this is greatness.
Now here's an interesting snapshot. Strong start, weak finish, you might say, but a fascinating example of how things were evolving and how minds were being changed and commonalities were being found. Also a reminder of how moderate Right Wingers in the 60s could be more tolerant than extremist alt-Lefters of the 21st century.
Not their best, but it's Diana Ross.
Yes, that's what Mixer is saying -- that they shouldn't be able to let go. And there is truth to this. I remember being taught in electronics lab in college that you should take care to touch a potentially live circuit with the back of your knuckles, so that the resultant muscle contraction from a shock will curl your fingers away from it instead of clamping them around it.
At least we can revel in our past glories. Hope everyone enjoyed the spectacular, uber-phallic video of the first Saturn V launch.My Mother still says this. I always reply, "They can't anymore."
It's a new acquisition for me, as I decided to dig into the Top 25 level for some artists, including Ray...and I'd previously been reluctant to get covers of songs that had a more definitive version. But it's not a bad rendition...it is Ray Charles, after all.
Aw, it's not Saturn V-spectacular, but I like this one. It has a pleasant sound.
A stone-cold period classic in my book.
Indeed, but it has a decent, trippy sound. I believe the video is from a Sullivan appearance that I'll be covering soon...as part of a mixed-date Best of episode that only has two performances by them representing the Nov. 12, 1967, broadcast.
Commented on the Noun Song above.
I considered putting a dig in there, but realized that I'm probably just jealous that your "long to return to my home state" song is less lame than "Indiana Wants Me."Now this is greatness.
A surprisingly positive reaction to this one. I considered getting this one as a sign o' the times curiosity, but it seems like it would be too much a downer coming up in my playlists, and I find the rah-rah-USA, "my country right or wrong, even if it means disowning my family" ending to be a bit OTT. Something to inject here, as it won't be coming up in our usual business because of low chart positioning...a number of answer records sprang up to provide the counter-argument for this one.
Working on future installments, I found this one rattling around in the lower regions of the Hot 100 in coming weeks...
"A Letter to Dad," Every Father's Teenage Son
(Charted Nov. 25, 1967; #93 US)
In this case, "not their best" is judging by a pretty damn high bar...as I'll be demonstrating when we get to the Supremes' appearance on Tarzan later this season.
Indeed. In each case, they grabbed the handle, went unconscious, and fell to the ground...which seemed a bit convenient considering the danger, at least, of not being able to let go of their respective handles.
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I have some catching up to do on my catch-up viewing, having focused on watching those extra Dark Shadows episodes last week. In the meantime, here's one...
The Monkees
"Everywhere a Sheik, Sheik"
Originally aired September 25, 1967
Wiki said:
Guesting Arnold Moss as Vidaru, the suitor that the princess is avoiding when she picks Davy out of a magazine to be her future husband. (Hey, does this mean they're famous and successful on the show now?) The premise for this episode vaguely reminds me of the set-up for Help!, in which the sacrifice of a female cult member is interrupted when it's discovered that she mailed the sacrificial ring to Ringo.
This episode is the source of the opening credts title shot of Davy...
...and one of Peter's opening credits reaction shots as well.
The King: This is where you'd live.
Mike: That's a little small, isn't it?
Songs include...
"Love is Only Sleeping" (sung but not written by Mike)
"Cuddly Toy" (written by Harry Nilsson; the sequence is at the end, completely disconnected from the story)
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Hollywood always gets this wrong -- like in Jurassic Park, where the kid grabbed the electrified fence and was blown away from it.
Oh, gods, how I loathe that song. It's incredibly sexist and degrading to women. "You're not the only cuddly toy / Ever to be enjoyed / By any boy. / You're not the only choo-choo train / To be left out in the rain / So don't complain." Disgusting! Misogynistic, dehumanizing, and I daresay, even implicitly abusive. And yet it's presented as an upbeat, playful Vaudeville number. Ick. Yuck. (I owe Neil Diamond an apology -- I thought he was responsible for this obscenity of a song.)
And now, a substantial bit of chronologically synced 50th Anniversary Catch-Up Viewing, including a timely first look at a significant upcoming chart debut...
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The Monkees
"Monkee Mayor"
Originally aired October 2, 1967
Now the boys are back to living in relative poverty despite their international magazine exposure...with neighbors taking back borrowed furniture because they're all being evicted from the building.
Modern viewers would recognize Mike's impersonations of Washington and Lincoln, but might not know who he's doing when he gets to then-in-office LBJ.
"No Time" (which I read was a band-written jam credited to engineer Hank Cicalo)
This episode didn't do a lot for me humor-wise, but it did make the point about running for office that The Prisoner's "Free for All" should have...having Mike realize that he's become like the people he was trying to remove from office.
I read that "Pleasant Valley Sunday" was also used in this episode, but it must have been cut for syndication.
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Dark Shadows
A recap of the previously unfinished week:
Episode 335
Originally aired October 6, 1967
Joan Bennett does the opening narration; and we're back in kinescope.
In his room, a crystal ball-clutching David calls for Sarah...and she appears. She tells him that "somebody" did something to keep the secret door in the mausoleum closed. When Aunt Elizabeth comes to his room with Dr. Fisher the psychiatrist, the boy doesn't deny who he was talking to, and even shows our one-shot shrink his crystal ball. David relates his dream about Barnabas...
Downstairs, Burke's getting to know Doc Woodard #3 over conversation about Maggie's abductor. Woodard notes that somebody inflicted the same type of wounds on Willie, and that person is still out there. Fisher comes down to relate that David is deeply disturbed. In his professional opinion, it's all about David's fear of death. He mistakenly speculates that the shadowy woman with the medallion represents the boy's late mother. But the mention of Barnabas's fangs provokes a visible reaction from the new Woodard.
When the doctors leave, Liz takes Burke aside to give him the bad news from her lawyers that the last owner of the Seaview house, Caleb Sayers Collins, had a provision in his will that the house couldn't be sold to anyone but a member of the Collins family for 100 years after his death...and five years of that time limit still remain.
Meanwhile, Woodard visits the mausoleum by day. His internal voiceover is working up his nerve to pull the ring when Sarah appears behind him....
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The Monkees
"Art for Monkees' Sake"
Originally aired October 9, 1967
Following the initial switch of the paintings, the boys have to break into the museum and switch them back...
"Randy Scouse Git" (written and sung by Micky Dolenz; cut in syndication from a previously reviewed episode)
Included in that clip is part of an uncredited appearance by Liberace destroying a piano with a hammer (repeated from an earlier scene, and reprised at the end of the episode after the final number...).
At the end, disconnected from the story, the television audience gets its first exposure to the group's third and final #1 single--a couple of weeks before its release and five weeks before its debut on the Hot 100 (which is coming up in next week's "50 Years Ago..." post):
"Daydream Believer"
(Charted Nov. 18, 1967; #1 US the weeks of Dec. 2 through Dec. 23; #5 UK)
Since we're already covering it here, I might as well spoil that it rockets onto the chart at an impressive starting position of #33.
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Dark Shadows
Episode 336
Originally aired October 9, 1967
Doc Woodard #3 gets a color do-over of last week's climactic scene. He proceeds to sit down and convince Sarah to tell him what she knows in order to help David. Sarah demonstrates an ability to see through the fourth wall, nervously glancing at the camera in her close-ups following one of the actors missing their cue. She then relents and shows Woodard the secret chamber, where he asks more questions about the empty coffin. In lieu of straight answers, he begins to reason through things himself...getting very close to the truth thanks in part to the telltale chains, but demonstrating that he's not as familiar with vampire lore as the audience is expected to be.
Now it's time to eat our foul-smelling vegetables, as we visit the Burke and Victoria subplot. Vicki gives being around for David as one of her reasons for not wanting to get hitched right away. We also get reminded of Burke's rival with a dramatic pan to the portrait of Barnabas.
Woodard later comes over, anxious to see Burke...whom Vicki tells us has gone out of town on business...which is kind of strange, considering how he was supposed to be ready to get married at any minute. Not wanting to share what he knows with a potential victim, Woodard asks to see books about the Collins family history. Dr. Hoffman comes back while he's in the library and goes in to try to talk him down from believing that Sarah Collins is a real ghost. Failing in that, her gears visibly shift as she starts to see him as a potential threat....
Contrary to the episode description, Woodard doesn't specify to Julia that Sarah showed him the secret chamber.
Episode 337
Originally aired October 10, 1967
Caretaker #2 (who evidently isn't significant enough to warrant a recasting announcement) is puttering around his Cemeterycave when Woodard drops by looking for info about the curse of the Collins family tomb.
While the somewhat-less-doddering-than-his-predecessor Caretaker digs into his books, Barnabas has a secret bromantic rendezvous with his cousin Roger, who mentions that he's sending David away, much to the Old House master's visible satisfaction. Elizabeth is less happy at the notion, having a loud argument with her brother before Woodard comes over and we get perhaps the ultimate DS flub in the episodes that I've seen (with thanks to DSBID for bringing this to my attention or I may have missed it while taking notes):
To the right of the portrait we see the boom mike shadow (very noticeably moving in the actual scene) AND the edge of the set!
Roger starts to blab to the doctor about sending David away when the subject of the conversation comes down. Taking the boy aside, Woodard confides how he met Sarah and saw the secret room. David makes another candle appear over Woodard's head when he speculates that Barnabas might be dead. Woodard makes David promise not to tell anyone of their conversation while he seeks to get to the bottom of things. Cue too-obvious foreshadowing of Woodard's fate and cut to commercial.
The new Woodard must have a death wish, because the next place he goes is the Old House to brazenly confront the subject of his investigations. At this point, I'm rooting for Barnabas...the new guy is playing things so smugly that he's begging to be taken down a few pegs.
Episode 338
Originally aired October 11, 1967
They're really laying the foreshadowing of Woodard's fate on thick...now it's stated outright in the opening narration that he'll be dying this night (which apparently plays out over several episodes). After a recap of yesterday's last scene, Woodard leaves the Old House as Hoffman's returning. Woodard goes straight for the window that amplifies any conversations inside. Barnabas grills Hoffman about what Woodard knows, and she makes a point of telling him (and thus Woodard) details about where she keeps her notes. While they're at it, Barnabas loudly confirms that Sarah is his sister, and gets in some chauvinistic chiding of Julia...
Burke drops by Collinwood to tell Vicki that he's heading off to South America on business. He tries to persuade her to marry him before he goes, and Liz makes the offer described above. Burke asks if there are any skeletons tucked away in the closets, thinking that he's both joking and being metaphorical. Vicki is concerned when her fiance is reluctant to accept the offer because he doesn't want to get tied up in the affairs of the Collins clan.
Meanwhile, Barnabas sends Hoffman out to find out more about what her colleague knows. She proceeds to Woodard's office and acts more interested in what he has to say about Sarah. She even drops the term "ectoplasmic" in relation to the girl. But following the eavesdropping scene, Woodard is onto Julia...now he wants to know what she's been doing with Barnabas at the Old House, and produces a list of curious medical supplies that she's been ordering. Following Barnabas's advice, she tries to deflect Woodard's suspicions by playing the gender card...
Episode 339
Originally aired October 12, 1967
"Conniption fit?" That's a little informal for an episode description, isn't it?
At the Old House, Hoffman reports Woodard's suspicions to Barnabas, who isn't pleased with the cover story that she devised about how she's been treating Barnabas for a rare blood disease. She also shares how she told Woodard that she has a romantic interest in Barnabas...
Commenting on Barnabas's fear of exposure...
At Collinwood, Mrs. Johnson (DRINK!) lets Doc Woodard in. Under cover of paying a house call on David, he sneaks into Julia's room. Mrs. Johnson later hears a noise coming from Julia's room and checks, while Woodard, who's been rummaging around for the notes, hides behind the door. Good thing for him that she doesn't think to turn off the light that he turned on. He's also temporarily lucky in that when Barnabas and Hoffman arrive, they get caught up in the drama between Liz and Roger. When Barnabas compliments Vicki during the conversation that ensues, Hoffman seems to understand the subtext.
Upstairs, Woodard finds the metal box and pries it open to reveal the notebook, which looks like a diary with a little lock on it. (In fact, DSBID asserts that it's a reuse of Jason McGuire's diary.) Clearly finding its contents startling at a glance, Woodard pockets the book and attempts to clean up any signs of his search. He goes downstairs eager to talk to Liz, only to be startled by the presence of her visitors, and then frantically makes an excuse to leave. Taking Barnabas upstairs, Julia checks the box to find that it's been pried open and the notebook taken....
Episode 340
Originally aired October 13, 1967
So the last episode in the Decades block aired on Friday, October 13...how appropriate.
Following a recap of yesterday's conclusion...
Doc Woodard is just digging into the juicy details of Julia's vampire diary when Sam drops by for one last performance with Dave. Alas, the character who's about to literally become a soul man doesn't take Evans into his confidence, but merely hints that he's working on something big while writing out a prescription for Maggie.
Frid is at his best (worst?) as Barnabas when he reveals that the job of administering the drug will be Julia's. Desperate for an out, she manages to convince him to to let her try to talk to Dave and convince him to stay silent for the sake of science. Back at his office, Woodard tries to get ahold of Sheriff Patterson by phone and is about to go out when Hoffman arrives. Pulling out the notebook, he reveals that he's read it...
For Decades viewers, Woodard's fate is left to the imagination...but it's pretty obvious what's in store for him, even without peeking on IMDb to see that a couple of Peter Turgeon's future appearances will be as "Ghost of Dave Woodard."
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While looking up videos, I caught a news story about the Monkees' 50th anniversary on YouTube, in which Micky makes an analogy that brings it all back to the BBS. Asked if the Monkees succeeded in becoming a real band, he responds, "I've often said that it's like Leonard Nimoy really becoming a Vulcan."
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The Monkees
"Monkee Mayor"
Originally aired October 2, 1967
Wiki said:
Now the boys are back to living in relative poverty despite their international magazine exposure...with neighbors taking back borrowed furniture because they're all being evicted from the building.
Modern viewers would recognize Mike's impersonations of Washington and Lincoln, but might not know who he's doing when he gets to then-in-office LBJ.
"No Time" (which I read was a band-written jam credited to engineer Hank Cicalo)
This episode didn't do a lot for me humor-wise, but it did make the point about running for office that The Prisoner's "Free for All" should have...having Mike realize that he's become like the people he was trying to remove from office.
I read that "Pleasant Valley Sunday" was also used in this episode, but it must have been cut for syndication.
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Dark Shadows
A recap of the previously unfinished week:
Episode 335
Originally aired October 6, 1967
IMDb said:
Joan Bennett does the opening narration; and we're back in kinescope.
Whatever actor is playing announcer in this case said:
In his room, a crystal ball-clutching David calls for Sarah...and she appears. She tells him that "somebody" did something to keep the secret door in the mausoleum closed. When Aunt Elizabeth comes to his room with Dr. Fisher the psychiatrist, the boy doesn't deny who he was talking to, and even shows our one-shot shrink his crystal ball. David relates his dream about Barnabas...
David Collins said:
Downstairs, Burke's getting to know Doc Woodard #3 over conversation about Maggie's abductor. Woodard notes that somebody inflicted the same type of wounds on Willie, and that person is still out there. Fisher comes down to relate that David is deeply disturbed. In his professional opinion, it's all about David's fear of death. He mistakenly speculates that the shadowy woman with the medallion represents the boy's late mother. But the mention of Barnabas's fangs provokes a visible reaction from the new Woodard.
When the doctors leave, Liz takes Burke aside to give him the bad news from her lawyers that the last owner of the Seaview house, Caleb Sayers Collins, had a provision in his will that the house couldn't be sold to anyone but a member of the Collins family for 100 years after his death...and five years of that time limit still remain.
Meanwhile, Woodard visits the mausoleum by day. His internal voiceover is working up his nerve to pull the ring when Sarah appears behind him....
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The Monkees
"Art for Monkees' Sake"
Originally aired October 9, 1967
Wiki said:
Following the initial switch of the paintings, the boys have to break into the museum and switch them back...
I detected a subtle little M:I motif in the score during this scene. There's a good sight gag after the boys have been pretending to be statues--when one of them taps Mike, he falls over while maintaining his pose.Mike said:
"Randy Scouse Git" (written and sung by Micky Dolenz; cut in syndication from a previously reviewed episode)
Included in that clip is part of an uncredited appearance by Liberace destroying a piano with a hammer (repeated from an earlier scene, and reprised at the end of the episode after the final number...).
At the end, disconnected from the story, the television audience gets its first exposure to the group's third and final #1 single--a couple of weeks before its release and five weeks before its debut on the Hot 100 (which is coming up in next week's "50 Years Ago..." post):
"Daydream Believer"
(Charted Nov. 18, 1967; #1 US the weeks of Dec. 2 through Dec. 23; #5 UK)
Since we're already covering it here, I might as well spoil that it rockets onto the chart at an impressive starting position of #33.
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Dark Shadows
Episode 336
Originally aired October 9, 1967
IMDb said:
Doc Woodard #3 gets a color do-over of last week's climactic scene. He proceeds to sit down and convince Sarah to tell him what she knows in order to help David. Sarah demonstrates an ability to see through the fourth wall, nervously glancing at the camera in her close-ups following one of the actors missing their cue. She then relents and shows Woodard the secret chamber, where he asks more questions about the empty coffin. In lieu of straight answers, he begins to reason through things himself...getting very close to the truth thanks in part to the telltale chains, but demonstrating that he's not as familiar with vampire lore as the audience is expected to be.
Now it's time to eat our foul-smelling vegetables, as we visit the Burke and Victoria subplot. Vicki gives being around for David as one of her reasons for not wanting to get hitched right away. We also get reminded of Burke's rival with a dramatic pan to the portrait of Barnabas.
Woodard later comes over, anxious to see Burke...whom Vicki tells us has gone out of town on business...which is kind of strange, considering how he was supposed to be ready to get married at any minute. Not wanting to share what he knows with a potential victim, Woodard asks to see books about the Collins family history. Dr. Hoffman comes back while he's in the library and goes in to try to talk him down from believing that Sarah Collins is a real ghost. Failing in that, her gears visibly shift as she starts to see him as a potential threat....
Contrary to the episode description, Woodard doesn't specify to Julia that Sarah showed him the secret chamber.
Episode 337
Originally aired October 10, 1967
IMDb said:
Caretaker #2 (who evidently isn't significant enough to warrant a recasting announcement) is puttering around his Cemeterycave when Woodard drops by looking for info about the curse of the Collins family tomb.
Learning some details about the supposed departure of the "original" Barnabas (as do we), Woodard expresses his belief that Barnabas never actually left Collinsport....Christine at Dark Shadows Before I Die said:
While the somewhat-less-doddering-than-his-predecessor Caretaker digs into his books, Barnabas has a secret bromantic rendezvous with his cousin Roger, who mentions that he's sending David away, much to the Old House master's visible satisfaction. Elizabeth is less happy at the notion, having a loud argument with her brother before Woodard comes over and we get perhaps the ultimate DS flub in the episodes that I've seen (with thanks to DSBID for bringing this to my attention or I may have missed it while taking notes):
To the right of the portrait we see the boom mike shadow (very noticeably moving in the actual scene) AND the edge of the set!
Roger starts to blab to the doctor about sending David away when the subject of the conversation comes down. Taking the boy aside, Woodard confides how he met Sarah and saw the secret room. David makes another candle appear over Woodard's head when he speculates that Barnabas might be dead. Woodard makes David promise not to tell anyone of their conversation while he seeks to get to the bottom of things. Cue too-obvious foreshadowing of Woodard's fate and cut to commercial.
The new Woodard must have a death wish, because the next place he goes is the Old House to brazenly confront the subject of his investigations. At this point, I'm rooting for Barnabas...the new guy is playing things so smugly that he's begging to be taken down a few pegs.
Episode 338
Originally aired October 11, 1967
IMDb said:
They're really laying the foreshadowing of Woodard's fate on thick...now it's stated outright in the opening narration that he'll be dying this night (which apparently plays out over several episodes). After a recap of yesterday's last scene, Woodard leaves the Old House as Hoffman's returning. Woodard goes straight for the window that amplifies any conversations inside. Barnabas grills Hoffman about what Woodard knows, and she makes a point of telling him (and thus Woodard) details about where she keeps her notes. While they're at it, Barnabas loudly confirms that Sarah is his sister, and gets in some chauvinistic chiding of Julia...
After which, he proceeds to advise that she use the underestimation that comes with her gender to her advantage in handling Woodard.Barnabas Collins said:
Burke drops by Collinwood to tell Vicki that he's heading off to South America on business. He tries to persuade her to marry him before he goes, and Liz makes the offer described above. Burke asks if there are any skeletons tucked away in the closets, thinking that he's both joking and being metaphorical. Vicki is concerned when her fiance is reluctant to accept the offer because he doesn't want to get tied up in the affairs of the Collins clan.
Meanwhile, Barnabas sends Hoffman out to find out more about what her colleague knows. She proceeds to Woodard's office and acts more interested in what he has to say about Sarah. She even drops the term "ectoplasmic" in relation to the girl. But following the eavesdropping scene, Woodard is onto Julia...now he wants to know what she's been doing with Barnabas at the Old House, and produces a list of curious medical supplies that she's been ordering. Following Barnabas's advice, she tries to deflect Woodard's suspicions by playing the gender card...
...but Dave isn't buying it. That ploy having failed, she warns him to stop investigating Barnabas now...before it's too late.Dr. Julia Hoffman said:
Episode 339
Originally aired October 12, 1967
IMDb said:
"Conniption fit?" That's a little informal for an episode description, isn't it?
At the Old House, Hoffman reports Woodard's suspicions to Barnabas, who isn't pleased with the cover story that she devised about how she's been treating Barnabas for a rare blood disease. She also shares how she told Woodard that she has a romantic interest in Barnabas...
Barnabas proceeds to express a firm opinion about Julia's notes...Barnabas Collins said:
DRINK!Barnabas Collins said:
DRINK!Barnabas Collins said:
Commenting on Barnabas's fear of exposure...
Hasn't she seen him pining over Sarah? Anyway, Barnabas heads to Collinwood with Julia in tow to check the metal box in which Julia keeps her notes for himself.Dr. Julia Hoffman said:
At Collinwood, Mrs. Johnson (DRINK!) lets Doc Woodard in. Under cover of paying a house call on David, he sneaks into Julia's room. Mrs. Johnson later hears a noise coming from Julia's room and checks, while Woodard, who's been rummaging around for the notes, hides behind the door. Good thing for him that she doesn't think to turn off the light that he turned on. He's also temporarily lucky in that when Barnabas and Hoffman arrive, they get caught up in the drama between Liz and Roger. When Barnabas compliments Vicki during the conversation that ensues, Hoffman seems to understand the subtext.
Upstairs, Woodard finds the metal box and pries it open to reveal the notebook, which looks like a diary with a little lock on it. (In fact, DSBID asserts that it's a reuse of Jason McGuire's diary.) Clearly finding its contents startling at a glance, Woodard pockets the book and attempts to clean up any signs of his search. He goes downstairs eager to talk to Liz, only to be startled by the presence of her visitors, and then frantically makes an excuse to leave. Taking Barnabas upstairs, Julia checks the box to find that it's been pried open and the notebook taken....
Episode 340
Originally aired October 13, 1967
IMDb said:
So the last episode in the Decades block aired on Friday, October 13...how appropriate.
Following a recap of yesterday's conclusion...
Faced with Julia's reluctance to be an accessory to her old colleague's murder, Barnabas threatens to treat Woodard to the slowest, most agonizing death possible if she doesn't devise a means to kill him that will look natural. She relents, offering that she has a drug that will make it look like he's suffered a heart attack.Barnabas Collins said:
Doc Woodard is just digging into the juicy details of Julia's vampire diary when Sam drops by for one last performance with Dave. Alas, the character who's about to literally become a soul man doesn't take Evans into his confidence, but merely hints that he's working on something big while writing out a prescription for Maggie.
Frid is at his best (worst?) as Barnabas when he reveals that the job of administering the drug will be Julia's. Desperate for an out, she manages to convince him to to let her try to talk to Dave and convince him to stay silent for the sake of science. Back at his office, Woodard tries to get ahold of Sheriff Patterson by phone and is about to go out when Hoffman arrives. Pulling out the notebook, he reveals that he's read it...
Dave proceeds to chastise Julia for harboring Barnabas. Hoffman tells Woodard that if he walks out the door, he'll never make it to the sheriff. As he goes for the phone, the silhouette of a bat appears at his window, followed by a superimposed, transparent-around-the-edges Barnabas appearing inside the office.Dr. Woodard said:
For Decades viewers, Woodard's fate is left to the imagination...but it's pretty obvious what's in store for him, even without peeking on IMDb to see that a couple of Peter Turgeon's future appearances will be as "Ghost of Dave Woodard."
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I don't think Hollywood's to blame for this one, old chap.
Those lyrics didn't sound quite right to me, so I looked them up...
I think there's an argument to be made that it's all just metaphorical dressing for the idea of a no-commitment relationship..."free love" was a popular notion at the time that would continue into the '70s...but they are pretty lousy lyrics, so I won't go so far as to be the song's advocate.A quick Google said:
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While looking up videos, I caught a news story about the Monkees' 50th anniversary on YouTube, in which Micky makes an analogy that brings it all back to the BBS. Asked if the Monkees succeeded in becoming a real band, he responds, "I've often said that it's like Leonard Nimoy really becoming a Vulcan."
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The low point of Vincent Price's career, and typical of the deservedly trashed third season, Adam West's performance is night and day from anything seen in season one.
Even with a two-parter, the show sticks to the time-economized habits of the season...no Bruce, Dick, or Barbara out of costume, no Wayne Manor, no Batcave/Batmobile stock footage.
The series played around with that; this is not the first time the group received magazine coverage (see: season one's "Monkees a'La Mode"), or were known around town, but they were still supposed to be a struggling group with few opportunities.
Many of the musical segments were "disconnected" as you say, particularly in season two, where the lion's share of group performances were shot (while on a break from touring in the summer of 1967) to be used more than once, so they could not be locked down to any one episode.
..which says something about modern education, if well known LBJ expressions draw a blank. He is a ore "modern" president tied to one of the most important periods in U.S. history (world history, in some cases).
Actually, all Monkees contributed, with the opening gobbledygook lyrics, "Hober reeber sabasoben. Hobaseeba snick, Seeberraber hobosoben" being a tribute/play on a Bill Cosby routine, used here because Micky and Mike were big Bill Cosby fans at the time.
Yep. Barely into M:I's second season, and its culturally relevant enough for The Monkees to satirize.
As mentioned before, the group was on creative fire at the time. Micky really makes his own style statement here, not all like Boyce /Hart compositions.
...and of course, the adults' first instinct is to disbelieve him.
...and despite Woodard spelling out that Willie was a victim of the same kind of bizarre attacks, Burke does not give Loomis a break. Well, at least he's still suspicious of Barnabas about something.
The more he learns, the more he's giving himself enough rope....
Which was solid plotting that keeps a bit of realism in that the DS world has no real vampire lore in the way of the work of Stoker, Le Fanu, or popular movies. Woodard has to merge his medicine with some legend of half-told story, which makes the conclusion terrifying.
Woodard Sherlock-ing right along. This scene would be reworked with Professor Stokes, Roger and Jeff Clark In House of Dark Shadows.
A month or so ago, I mentioned how Julia would come to see him, but memory had it happening faster than the actual airdates.
Now that is frightening with all it implies.
Not quite a Van Helsing, but Woodard is getting close to being "that guy" in the series.
What good vampire hunter is reserved? If push comes to shove, its best to be bold.
Woodard might be doomed, but his rapid discoveries made first run viewers think he had an edge, despite the opening narration.
Arguably, that might the first time the term was used in this sense on U.S television.
Love the build up, and now no-BS argument between the two.
Key information dump from Hoffman, as you can likely see her negative attitude anytime Barnabas shows too much interest in Vicki.
Again, love the build up. For all anyone knew in 1967, Barnabas was about to face the music....
Its amazing that Barnabas was already the idol/crush of innumerable women by this time in the series' run, even in the face of his being so overwhelmingly evil, as seen with his demand for Julia to kill Woodard. The sympathetic anti-hero version of Barnabas had not worked its way into the character at this point, so Barnabas' swooning masses were in love/lust with a true monster. There's much that can be said about that....
...and here we are. There more to this scene, and it marks a significant turn in Julia's relationship with Barnabas, continuing right up to the start of the 1795 flashback. But if you think Barnabas has no supporters going forward, you would be incorrect...
To be fair, LBJ doesn't have the sort of instantly recognized iconography going on that Washington and Lincoln do. All Mike did visually was put big, false ears on...if I didn't know offhand who was president when the show was made, I'd probably have no idea who he was doing.
We also have an episode of The Avengers coming up in a couple weeks titled "Mission: Highly Improbable." And there'll be a Get Smart later in the season titled "Operation Ridiculous."
The dead one?
The new guy was just too clumsily in all the wrong people's faces about it, like "Ha, ha, I know your secret and there's nothing you can do about it!" It'd be interesting to see how Gerringer would have played the same material.
Maybe I'll find out someday. I could see moving forward into the series another time when I have less viewing going on.
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So...not sure if this will be of general interest, but for strictly personal reasons, I decided to create a standing playlist for this week in 1969, two years ahead of the 50th anniversary point...one that I can listen to around this time every year, if you catch my drift. So without further ado, selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week ending November 8, 1969:
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I didn't even realize it was that well known. I thought it was kind of a "lost 45."
Actually, I like that song, too.
Yeah, the finish kind of ruins it.
But note most everything that comes before. Changing minds and finding common ground was how the Boomer generation changed the world more than it's ever been changed before-- contrast with the catastrophic failure of the current generation which does nothing but incite conflict and divisiveness because they think it makes them look cool on social media. The reply that you posted is another great example of that. The times they were a changin' and everybody was trying to understand and adjust.That's something else I'd love to see.
Well, it's TV. Body weight would be enough to pull their hand from the knob, but if they got hit with enough electricity to knock them out they should have suffered some severe burns. It could also possibly stop somebody's heart and/or result in personality changes. It's a bit of a cartoony trope.
This one is okay, but not their best.
Cute. I don't think I ever heard that before. And I love the girl in the video.
Ouch. They should have worked on this one a bit more.
They should have cut the other one.
Now this is pretty good. It could have been a single.
And, of course, this is one of their classics.
Kind of. It's about somebody who's expecting more from a one-night stand than she should be.