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50th Anniversary Viewing (Part 2)
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Ironside
"Poole's Paradise"
Originally aired October 2, 1969
Team Ironside are traveling through a rural area implicitly somewhere that's not supposed to be California when they're stopped by a roadblock manned by a good number of heavily armed local deputies who want to search the back of the Ironsidemobile. When the Chief informs them that they're with the SFPD and are just looking for a good place to eat while passing through, the deputy in charge, Jack Hoog (William Smith),tries to point them to the next town...and you don't need to be Robert T. Ironside to figure out what that means in TV Land.
Outside of a local diner, the escaped convict that they're looking for, D.W. Donnelly (Clu Gulager), uses the old "stick a random object in someone's back and pretend like it's a gun" trick on Ed and grabs his pistol, which has been plainly visible from his open jacket flapping around in the breeze. Donnelly forces Ed to drive him out of town. The rest of the team soon figure out what happened after touching base with Sheriff Poole (Steve Forrest), who fills them in about Donnelly. The Chief notices that Hoog only fakes sending out a radio APB; and he and Mark subsequently learn from the friendly lady running the sleepy diner, Wanda (Louise Latham), that the local sheriff's office is more like a militia. The Chief uses the phone at the diner to patch through to the Mobile Ironsidephone, but when he persuades Donnelly to talk about why he thinks Poole plans to have him killed, the call is interrupted by a deputy at the telephone company across the street.
Donnelly abandons the van when Ed fakes some Ironsidemobile trouble. They leave a hidden note, which the deputies subsequently find and Poole burns, but Eve's there to see him do it. We hear him order a deputy afterward to shoot both Donnelly and Ed if they come back to the van. Meanwhile back in town, Bob tries to butter up Wanda a little for info over a beer. Out in them thar woods, Ed gets the drop on Donnelly and takes his gun back, after which Donnelly tells him that he witnessed Deputy Hoog beating a fellow inmate, Hollinger, to death, and claims that Poole let him escape so they could silence him with no questions asked. Meanwhile, Ironside restores the remains of the burned note that Eve covertly retrieved, which tells them just that somebody named Hollinger was murdered. Ironside goes to Poole with this information to rattle him, but Poole plays it cool. While there, Mark is locked up after Webster picks a fight with him while he was trying to obtain a car to leave town. Seeing an opportunity, the Chief has Mark distract Webster back in the cell area while Eve nabs some records to try to learn more about Hollinger. What the Chief finds in those records is that there's a bigger operation going on...Poole hasn't been reporting his prisoner deaths, and has been working his surviving prisoners twice as hard while continuing to collect state funds for the others.
Out in the wilderness, Ed tries to turn Donnelly in to the deputy guarding the van, and the deputy's carbine convinces him that Donnelly was telling the truth about Poole and the gang. Ed and Donnelly cooperate to take the deputy out and reclaim the van, for which Ed has been holding the distributor rotor. When next we see them, Poole and Hoog are pursuing the wagon, but Ed and Donnelly have rigged it to drive off a cliff, becoming the requisite fiery wreck with P & H assuming that they were inside. Scratch one Ironsidemobile! Poole returns to town to tell Team Ironside about Ed's death when he and the released Mark see Ed and Donnelly walking into town, hands over their heads. Poole and Hoog try to intercept them, but Eve and Ironside block them in a hotwired car while Wanda and other onlookers watch, causing Poole to back off.
In the coda, we learn that Donnelly has been released and then meet...the new Ironsidemobile! I did not know this was coming. It's now a large but conventional-looking civilian van rather than a paddywagon, equipped with a side-door wheelchair lift and decked out with police doodads in its more handsome interior. Next thing you know, the SFPD'll be kicking him out of his Ironsidecave and making him get a real apartment.
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Get Smart
"Ironhand"
Originally aired October 3, 1969
In the teaser, Max's contact Marco (Billy Barty) is giddy about not having been killed before he could drop Ironhand's name, then gets shot when Max asks him to repeat it. Max's next contact, Agent 44 (Al Molinaro), is in one of the buggies at the baby buggy shop that Max and 99 are sent to (or at least his head and arms are sticking out of it). Max then gets instructions from the Chief via a recording in a doll.
Ironhand's (Paul Richards) reason for his moniker is a huge-ass closed iron fist with which he has a habit of smashing pretty much any object of opportunity on or near his desk, including the desk itself. His chief henchman, Crawford, is played by Edward G. Robinson Jr., and Ironhand's office looks like a slight redress of the Chief's. Back at the Chief's office, there's a parallel gag in which Larabee, who has a bowling ball stuck on his hand, accidentally smashes the presidential hotline, so he yells out the window at the President...and gets a response.
The buggy-switching part of the operation involves a group of sixteen agents doing a choreographed dance routine at the airport while pushing identical baby buggies, but somehow Max ends up with the same buggy, which has the plans. Ironhand confronts Max, but accidentally knocks himself out with his namesake when he reacts to Max's news about a bad stock market drop.
There's nothing resembling Ironside here apart from the name.
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Hogan's Heroes
"The Well"
Originally aired October 3, 1969
After Newkirk has to drop the book, stolen from Klink's office, in a dry well in a moment of opportunity, the prisoners blow up the local water works so there'll be a need to have them go down and fix the well. Extra security over some stolen spoons stymies their efforts, so they have to re-dump the conveniently wrapped book into the now-wet well, then feign an escape attempt by LeBeau to give the others a chance to lower Carter into the well, his body covered in grease. They're ultimately successful, get the contents transmitted, and return the book to Klink's safe in time.
DISSS-missed!
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Adam-12
"Log 52: Good Cop – Handle with Care"
Originally aired October 4, 1969
On patrol, Reed spots a man lying on the ground and the officers stop to investigate. While they're trying to figure out what's wrong with him (he seems to have marks on his face), the freelancers hit the scene, one taking pictures while the other asks a series of contrarian questions, most of which suggest that the man doesn't need help, while playing to a forming crowd, evidently attempting to incite them. The crowd doesn't take the bait and the man is taken away for help. Back at the station, we hear of this duo, Gurney (Carl Reindel) and Bowen (Paul Darby), having been involved in other incidents.
The duo subsequently follow the squad car in their Mustang when the officers are going to the house of a Mrs. Sanchez (Margarita Cordova) to contritely inform her of her husband's death in Texas, following up on an attempt made by the Galveston authorities. As they leave, the amateur reporters are outside and ask what they did to make the woman cry. Reed notices that they have a police radio in their car. When Reed and Malloy ask some questions of their own, the freelancers accuse the officers of harassing them. Then they threaten to go up to the house and ask the woman questions, after just having accused the officers of not having enough tact to perform their most recent duty, and Malloy sets them straight.
The next incident involves the officers taking into custody a man who's tripping (and whom we later learn had been destroying property when they were called). They put him handcuffed in the back of the car with Reed sitting next to him, but he starts freaking out, throwing his entire body around, so Reed tries to control him. As they take him into the station, he'd holding a bloody nose from having hit the back of the front seat with his face. While this understandably looks bad, in the corridor the reporters just snap a picture and run off, not even asking questions this time. The incident is written up in the paper with pictures, and apparently the man, Henderson (Ben Frank), has accused them of brutality. MacDonald questions each of the officers about this.
Back on patrol, Malloy takes it all in stride--the episode title comes from Malloy sarcastically commenting that they should wear the slogan on their uniforms. Malloy also warns Reed that the reporters are still following them because they've seen that Reed is easily riled up. Then the officers get a call about armed suspects fleeing in a car from a 211 at a liquor store. They pursue the suspect vehicle onto a backlot and corner it former occupants when they attempt to flee on foot, holding them at gunpoint with their hands against the wall. As Reed's starting to frisk them, the freelancers come up, take pictures, and accuse the officers of having the wrong suspects. While Malloy's busy trying to get them to leave, Gurney shouts a question at the suspects and one of them who hasn't been frisked yet turns and fires a gun, hitting a bystander across the street. This seems to genuinely shake Gurney and Bowen. In the coda, we learn that the bystander has died and that the department is seeking to take action against the freelancers through the city attorney.
This one suffered from too many crappy syndication cuts to commercial in mid-scene.
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50th Anniversary Viewing (Part 2)
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Ironside
"Poole's Paradise"
Originally aired October 2, 1969
Wiki said:
Team Ironside are traveling through a rural area implicitly somewhere that's not supposed to be California when they're stopped by a roadblock manned by a good number of heavily armed local deputies who want to search the back of the Ironsidemobile. When the Chief informs them that they're with the SFPD and are just looking for a good place to eat while passing through, the deputy in charge, Jack Hoog (William Smith),tries to point them to the next town...and you don't need to be Robert T. Ironside to figure out what that means in TV Land.
Outside of a local diner, the escaped convict that they're looking for, D.W. Donnelly (Clu Gulager), uses the old "stick a random object in someone's back and pretend like it's a gun" trick on Ed and grabs his pistol, which has been plainly visible from his open jacket flapping around in the breeze. Donnelly forces Ed to drive him out of town. The rest of the team soon figure out what happened after touching base with Sheriff Poole (Steve Forrest), who fills them in about Donnelly. The Chief notices that Hoog only fakes sending out a radio APB; and he and Mark subsequently learn from the friendly lady running the sleepy diner, Wanda (Louise Latham), that the local sheriff's office is more like a militia. The Chief uses the phone at the diner to patch through to the Mobile Ironsidephone, but when he persuades Donnelly to talk about why he thinks Poole plans to have him killed, the call is interrupted by a deputy at the telephone company across the street.
Donnelly abandons the van when Ed fakes some Ironsidemobile trouble. They leave a hidden note, which the deputies subsequently find and Poole burns, but Eve's there to see him do it. We hear him order a deputy afterward to shoot both Donnelly and Ed if they come back to the van. Meanwhile back in town, Bob tries to butter up Wanda a little for info over a beer. Out in them thar woods, Ed gets the drop on Donnelly and takes his gun back, after which Donnelly tells him that he witnessed Deputy Hoog beating a fellow inmate, Hollinger, to death, and claims that Poole let him escape so they could silence him with no questions asked. Meanwhile, Ironside restores the remains of the burned note that Eve covertly retrieved, which tells them just that somebody named Hollinger was murdered. Ironside goes to Poole with this information to rattle him, but Poole plays it cool. While there, Mark is locked up after Webster picks a fight with him while he was trying to obtain a car to leave town. Seeing an opportunity, the Chief has Mark distract Webster back in the cell area while Eve nabs some records to try to learn more about Hollinger. What the Chief finds in those records is that there's a bigger operation going on...Poole hasn't been reporting his prisoner deaths, and has been working his surviving prisoners twice as hard while continuing to collect state funds for the others.
Out in the wilderness, Ed tries to turn Donnelly in to the deputy guarding the van, and the deputy's carbine convinces him that Donnelly was telling the truth about Poole and the gang. Ed and Donnelly cooperate to take the deputy out and reclaim the van, for which Ed has been holding the distributor rotor. When next we see them, Poole and Hoog are pursuing the wagon, but Ed and Donnelly have rigged it to drive off a cliff, becoming the requisite fiery wreck with P & H assuming that they were inside. Scratch one Ironsidemobile! Poole returns to town to tell Team Ironside about Ed's death when he and the released Mark see Ed and Donnelly walking into town, hands over their heads. Poole and Hoog try to intercept them, but Eve and Ironside block them in a hotwired car while Wanda and other onlookers watch, causing Poole to back off.
In the coda, we learn that Donnelly has been released and then meet...the new Ironsidemobile! I did not know this was coming. It's now a large but conventional-looking civilian van rather than a paddywagon, equipped with a side-door wheelchair lift and decked out with police doodads in its more handsome interior. Next thing you know, the SFPD'll be kicking him out of his Ironsidecave and making him get a real apartment.
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Get Smart
"Ironhand"
Originally aired October 3, 1969
Wiki said:
In the teaser, Max's contact Marco (Billy Barty) is giddy about not having been killed before he could drop Ironhand's name, then gets shot when Max asks him to repeat it. Max's next contact, Agent 44 (Al Molinaro), is in one of the buggies at the baby buggy shop that Max and 99 are sent to (or at least his head and arms are sticking out of it). Max then gets instructions from the Chief via a recording in a doll.
The buggy that Max and 99 use to pick up the plans in 3 parts is loaded with weapons that Max accidentally fires off an inopportune times.The Chief's voice said:
Ironhand's (Paul Richards) reason for his moniker is a huge-ass closed iron fist with which he has a habit of smashing pretty much any object of opportunity on or near his desk, including the desk itself. His chief henchman, Crawford, is played by Edward G. Robinson Jr., and Ironhand's office looks like a slight redress of the Chief's. Back at the Chief's office, there's a parallel gag in which Larabee, who has a bowling ball stuck on his hand, accidentally smashes the presidential hotline, so he yells out the window at the President...and gets a response.
The buggy-switching part of the operation involves a group of sixteen agents doing a choreographed dance routine at the airport while pushing identical baby buggies, but somehow Max ends up with the same buggy, which has the plans. Ironhand confronts Max, but accidentally knocks himself out with his namesake when he reacts to Max's news about a bad stock market drop.
There's nothing resembling Ironside here apart from the name.
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Hogan's Heroes
"The Well"
Originally aired October 3, 1969
Wiki said:
After Newkirk has to drop the book, stolen from Klink's office, in a dry well in a moment of opportunity, the prisoners blow up the local water works so there'll be a need to have them go down and fix the well. Extra security over some stolen spoons stymies their efforts, so they have to re-dump the conveniently wrapped book into the now-wet well, then feign an escape attempt by LeBeau to give the others a chance to lower Carter into the well, his body covered in grease. They're ultimately successful, get the contents transmitted, and return the book to Klink's safe in time.
DISSS-missed!
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Adam-12
"Log 52: Good Cop – Handle with Care"
Originally aired October 4, 1969
Wiki said:
On patrol, Reed spots a man lying on the ground and the officers stop to investigate. While they're trying to figure out what's wrong with him (he seems to have marks on his face), the freelancers hit the scene, one taking pictures while the other asks a series of contrarian questions, most of which suggest that the man doesn't need help, while playing to a forming crowd, evidently attempting to incite them. The crowd doesn't take the bait and the man is taken away for help. Back at the station, we hear of this duo, Gurney (Carl Reindel) and Bowen (Paul Darby), having been involved in other incidents.
The duo subsequently follow the squad car in their Mustang when the officers are going to the house of a Mrs. Sanchez (Margarita Cordova) to contritely inform her of her husband's death in Texas, following up on an attempt made by the Galveston authorities. As they leave, the amateur reporters are outside and ask what they did to make the woman cry. Reed notices that they have a police radio in their car. When Reed and Malloy ask some questions of their own, the freelancers accuse the officers of harassing them. Then they threaten to go up to the house and ask the woman questions, after just having accused the officers of not having enough tact to perform their most recent duty, and Malloy sets them straight.
The next incident involves the officers taking into custody a man who's tripping (and whom we later learn had been destroying property when they were called). They put him handcuffed in the back of the car with Reed sitting next to him, but he starts freaking out, throwing his entire body around, so Reed tries to control him. As they take him into the station, he'd holding a bloody nose from having hit the back of the front seat with his face. While this understandably looks bad, in the corridor the reporters just snap a picture and run off, not even asking questions this time. The incident is written up in the paper with pictures, and apparently the man, Henderson (Ben Frank), has accused them of brutality. MacDonald questions each of the officers about this.
Back on patrol, Malloy takes it all in stride--the episode title comes from Malloy sarcastically commenting that they should wear the slogan on their uniforms. Malloy also warns Reed that the reporters are still following them because they've seen that Reed is easily riled up. Then the officers get a call about armed suspects fleeing in a car from a 211 at a liquor store. They pursue the suspect vehicle onto a backlot and corner it former occupants when they attempt to flee on foot, holding them at gunpoint with their hands against the wall. As Reed's starting to frisk them, the freelancers come up, take pictures, and accuse the officers of having the wrong suspects. While Malloy's busy trying to get them to leave, Gurney shouts a question at the suspects and one of them who hasn't been frisked yet turns and fires a gun, hitting a bystander across the street. This seems to genuinely shake Gurney and Bowen. In the coda, we learn that the bystander has died and that the department is seeking to take action against the freelancers through the city attorney.
This one suffered from too many crappy syndication cuts to commercial in mid-scene.
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Tom was my favorite character on Voyager, but that's not saying much.Oh?
The "half full" view is that they'd been committed to doing exactly that; she was outspoken in her beliefs on the subject, which was a point of view novel to the TV landscape at the time; and the story (as underscored by that cute line that I quoted) treated marriage as an obstacle in the couple's relationship.
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