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50th Anniversary Viewing
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The Ed Sullivan Show
Season 22, episode 27
Originally aired April 5, 1970
As represented in
The Best of the Ed Sullivan Show
Ed said:
The Temptations, as we all know, is a group that keeps coming up with one hit after another. Here they are singing their latest, "Psychedelic Shack"...gentlemen?
Ed said:
And now, from Europe--from Italy--the amazing Canestrellis.
We saw this group of trampolinists come up before two years ago, but this time the boy isn't with them and the woman does her own set, which includes jumping through a hoop that she holds up. One of them men jumps onto the other's shoulders repeatedly, culminating in Ed announcing before they do their "unique triple full twisting somersault".
Ed said:
...Buddy Rich magnificent orchestra which has toured all over the world <garbled> Marilyn Maye...
Accompanied by the swing band, Maye gives us a very bland, granny-friendly version of "Cabaret," followed by a cringey cover of the Blood, Sweat & Tears song "Spinning Wheel," which kind of mercifully transitions back into "Cabaret".
Ed said:
Byner does an impersonation of a lizard, then depicts Ed taking Chet Huntley's place on the Huntley-Brinkley Report, which includes doing David Brinkley, a commercial, and other characters.
Ed said:
The Temptations now sing "You Make Me So Very Happy," let's have a fine welcome for them...
The Temptations spice up their much cooler rendition of another song done by Blood, Sweat & Tears, "You've Made Me So Very Happy," by singing it to a group of lady dancers who accompany them onstage. Alas, I couldn't find a clip of this one.
Also in the original episode according to tv.com:
Music:
--Roy Rogers & Dale Evans - medley of patriotic songs: "This Is My Country" & "God Bless America"
--George Hamilton - medley of Hank Williams Sr. songs: "Hey Good Lookin'," "I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You")," "Cold Cold Heart," "Jambalaya (On the Bayou)," "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry," "I Saw the Light" & "Your Cheatin' Heart."
--Buddy Rich & Orchestra - "Oh Ruth"
Comedy:
--Gene Baylos (stand-up comedian)
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Ironside
"Tom Dayton Is Loose Among Us"
Originally aired April 9, 1970 (season finale)
Wiki said:
Ed goes after the psychopath who murdered his fiancee.
I wasn't too excited about the premise for this until I saw who was playing the titular character:
Guest Star
BILL BIXBY
Soon after Ed learns that Dayton is out on parole, Tom is brought to the Cave by his lawyer, Ross Farley (other Guest Star, William Smithers). Dayton attempts to apologize in what appears to be a contrite manner, and when he leaves the room, Farley gives Ed a browbeating for not being gracious in his acceptance. Through angry flashbacks, we see how Ed was a patrol car cop seven years prior when his fiancee, a nurse, was killed at the hospital where she worked. Back in series present, Ed talks to the prison psychiatrist, Dr. Morton (Ross Elliott), and Dayton's parole officer, Ken Hansen (William Bramley), but doesn't find agreement with his concerns about how dangerous Dayton is. Morton describes Dayton as "a sociopath, a psychopathically aggressive dependent," who functions well in an orderly, well-structured environment where he knows what's expected of him, but is prone to losing control under stress. In other words, you wouldn't like him when...you know.
Ed tails Dayton to his job at a library, and has a flashback to what he read in a report about how, back in 57th Anniversaryland, Dayton was working at a hospital when he learned he'd been fired and attacked the head nurse. When Ed's fiancee, who was a nurse there, tried to help, Dayton shoved her aside and she hit her head against the edge of a desk. In another flashback, an ambulatory Chief Ironside enjoys pacing back and forth while giving Flashback Ed a dressing down for figuratively stepping on his toes during his investigation to find Dayton. Ed convinces the Chief to let him in on the case as he's made himself an expert on Dayton.
Back in series present, we see things start to go south for Dayton at the library when he gets surly over a female librarian from another department, Miss Kirk (Lorraine Gary), being asked to sub at the desk instead of him, following which she reprimands him for having misfiled some books. As she's leaving for the night, she's grabbed from the bushes. Farley is at the Cave issuing a complaint about Ed's stalking when Ed gets a call from Hansen about the librarian having been assaulted. Randall doesn't want Ironside and Ed on the case, but the Chief insists. We get another flashback to the night that the Chief and Ed nabbed Dayton in front of his doting sister.
Farley brings Dayton to the Cave for questioning, which the Chief repeatedly disrupts by yelling at Eve about various sundry things, evoking amused reactions from Dayton and causing him to take Ed and the Chief into his confidence as people he can relate to. Gradually, against Farley's protests, Ed plays on Dayton's known issues with women bosses (fueled by his smothering sister) to lure Dayton into admitting that he'd similarly shut Miss Kirk up. In the final scene we learn that he's getting psychiatric help rather than another prison sentence...and the Chief offers to take the team to a French restaurant that serves chili francaise.
Bixby was doing a good job of acting pretty damn creepy in this role. And while I didn't catch the character's name, apparently Ed's fiancee was played by Don Galloway's wife, Linda.
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Adam-12
"Log 144: Bank Robbery"
Originally aired April 11, 1970
Wiki said:
Officers Malloy and Reed must deal with a domestic dispute involving a former professional wrestler.
The episode opens with Reed and Malloy responding to a call from a familiar household involving Mrs. Terry having hit Mr. Terry over the head with a beer bottle. Mr. Terry (Mike Mazurki) tries to dismiss the charge; when they insist because it's a felony, he pulls Reed into the house and attacks him. Mr. Terry is a former professional wrestler, and the officers have trouble taking him on together until the smallish Mrs. Terry (Dorothy Keller) comes home and lays into him for what a mess he made while tossing them around like rag dolls. The officers arrest both, and after taking them in pay a visit to Central Receiving to have their injuries tended to.
Next they respond to a 459 involving a drunk salesman, Charlie Jensen (Jed Allan), reporting several things missing from his apartment, including his 45s, which are strewn around in the hallway outside (which he didn't see because he came in another entrance). The trail leads the officers to another apartment, where they find one high man, Kenny Tucker (Alan Vint), and a buddy, Jerry, who's dead in the closet, to his friend's surprise. Ken says that they bought their pills from Jensen, so the officers go back to Jensen's, he reluctantly agrees to a search, and they find his stash of pills and arrest him.
Back on patrol, the officers pull over for a man, Mr. Lewis (Thomas Geas), who says that he recognizes parts from his car on a patchwork Beetle parked nearby. They stake out the car with Lewis in the back, waiting for the car's owner to show up, but get a call for a 211 at a bank and have to let him out. At the bank, they intercept and shoot it out with a pair of ski-masked bandits trying to leave in their car, winging one. When the other surrenders, they unmask the bandit to find that she's an attractive woman.
On patrol again for the coda, Reed relates how another pair of officers showed up to nab the car parts thief for Lewis, and Malloy agrees to come over to meet another friend of Jean's who's supposed to be a Miss Hollywood runner-up.
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Blake was too much of a clown to take seriously as the boss. [...] Potter was infinitely better as a grizzled WWI cavalry veteran than Blake was as a ditz in a fishing hat who never would have made colonel in real life.
My impression from the film was that Blake was milking a relatively cushy, non-front-line assignment. He didn't want to be bothered with things and generally acceded to his surgeons' demands because they were the MVPs of the unit.
iTunes doesn't do Greatest Hits of the [Decade] albums?
Those are more often than not full of re-recordings.
I would have guessed 1972 for "United We Stand"
So much airtime for this song in the early 70s.
Both of these jibe with my memory.
RJDiogenes said:
Now I think it would be interesting for you to see the whole series.
If I end up watching the full series in real time, that'll be some major delayed gratification--you'll be waiting 13 years for my informed opinion!
Opening with a flashback. Rare in 1970
1965. Or does
Branded "feel like the '70s"?
What happened to the watch?
He gave it to the father when he was telling him how he killed his son.
Is he actually a fugitive, or just a drifter?
This was discussed back when, possibly in the Other Thread, but it was felt that
Branded qualified loosely as a "fugitive premise" show, as Jason was on the run from his reputation rather than a specific human nemesis.
I'm envisioning Gilligan overlooking a vast herd of turtles. Cut 'em out, ride 'em in, Shellhide....
Mary Ann sold out?
And how was that supposed to work? Was Howell going to take over running the garden? Was Mary Ann contractually restricted from starting a new garden?
She was still tending it, but the produce grown there was the property of Mr. H.
