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50th Anniversary Viewing (Part 2)
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Ironside
"The People Against Judge McIntire"
Originally aired October 8, 1970
Wiki said:
Mark's law class re-enacts a murder case when real drama unfolds.
It sounds like
Ironside is now using a new version of its theme as well. Not sure if it was used in the last couple of episodes and I didn't notice.
The titular justice (James Daly) is enlisting the Chief's aid in the belief that one of the students is trying to kill him, having been unsuccessfully shot at through his office window. The Chief thinks that there might be a connection with a series of lectures the judge had just announced, about a case involving a man named Parkman who was found guilty of murdering his business partner. The judge wants to keep his security low profile, so Ed signs up to audit the class. Also auditing is Laurence Drescher (Alan Hale!), who testified in the case. Before the bell rings (note concerning the question of this having come up with
Dragnet), Ed chats up another student, Joanna Leigh (James's little girl Tyne). In the classroom, somebody has left a message on the blackboard for the judge in French, which translates as "I regret nothing." The judge introduces the class to Drescher, an accountant who discovered Parkman's embezzling in 1962. The class begins a multi-session re-enactment of the case, with an older student, Lee Anderson (George Murdock), while representing Parkman, over-emphatically pleading "not guilty!" After the judge dismisses the class, an attempt is made in his adjoining office using cyanide. Ed hears the struggle and rushes in after the assailant has left, and is overcome by the fumes. It's noted afterward that Parkman was executed at San Quentin via cyanide gas.
Eve questions Anderson at his plumbing job, and it turns out that he was the holdout juror in the Parkman case and bears a grudge against McIntire for pressuring him into conceding. The Chief and Eve also look into backgrounds of Leigh and Drescher. All three come to suspect that Ed's a cop because of the way he saved McIntire's life.
Back in the reenactment, McIntire gets a little too into a scripted rebuking of Mark as the defense attorney. Leigh confronts the judge after class, revealing that she's actually Parkman's daughter. She accuses him of having decided the case prematurely and influencing the jury, which lines up with Anderson's beef...but she insists that she doesn't want him dead until he's had a chance to feel guilty for his role in the trial. At the next session, McIntire seems to not be able to go through with it and announces that he'll recommend reopening the case...which is apparently the Chief's plan to force the would-be killer's next move. And the would-be killer turns out to be...the Skipper, who nabs Mrs. McIntire (Mala Powers) in the parking garage and calls the judge! Drescher reveals that he was the actual killer, and that he plans to kill the McIntires and make it look like an accident to prevent the case from being reopened. The Chief and Ed intercept them as he tries to escape the garage.
Before the retrial commences, the Chief tries to convince McIntire not to retire.
This episode used a novel editing style in dramatic moments, involving quick cuts of multiple faces accompanied by a distinctive music cue.
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The Odd Couple
"Felix Gets Sick"
Originally aired October 8, 1970
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Oscar's weekend with a beautiful stewardess is ruined when needy Felix comes down with the flu.
Oscar has Murray rush him home from the airport in his police car so he can make a date with a stewardess he met named Barbara (Bridget Hanley). He's looking forward to a weekend with her while Felix is in Washington on an assignment...but it turns out that Felix is in bed, having come back home with a 48-hour virus. Concerned about Felix's fever, Oscar has Barbara come over, while Felix is supposed to stay quiet in the bedroom. Barbara is very forward about her intentions, but even while she's talking about the importance of honesty in a relationship, Oscar's making excuses for the noises coming out of Felix's bedroom. Felix is eventually discovered behind the couch trying to sneak to his medicine, and taking care of him becomes the focus of Barbara's attention.
On Sunday, the guys come over for a poker game. Felix wants them to play loudly so it feels like he's there, so they end up playing in his bedroom, trying to use the bed that he's lying in as the table, which doesn't go well. Oscar tries to salvage what's left of his weekend on a Sunday night date with Barbara, but while he's pretending to be on the restaurant's out-of-order phone checking on Felix, Felix comes to tell Barbara that the airline called for her, and Oscar returns to the table to find...just Felix.
The coda has Oscar trying to get revenge by coming home pretending to be sick while Felix is having a date with a woman named Mary Ann (Beryl Hammond), but he abandons the pretense when Felix immediately drops everything to tend to him.
Before the restaurant date, Felix tries to get Oscar's reassurance that he'll give Felix a decent funeral, as Oscar's "got this habit of letting everything lie right where it falls."
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The Brady Bunch
"The Slumber Caper"
Originally aired October 9, 1970
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Marcia is accused by the school principal J. P. Randolph (E.G. Marshall) of drawing an unflattering picture of her English teacher Mrs. Denton. Mike and Carol believe Marcia's claim she merely copied a portrait of George Washington and never wrote Denton's name on the picture. They allow Marcia to have her planned slumber party, but she still has to serve a week's detention at school. Marcia becomes convinced her best friend Jenny was the guilty party and "uninvites" her. Greg and his brothers conspire to disrupt the party and place itching powder in the girls' sleeping bags. While the girls clean up, Marcia's friend Paula (Chris Charney) admits she took the drawing and added the insulting remark. Marcia re-invites Jenny to the party.
Guest stars: Hope Sherwood (daughter of Sherwood Schwartz) as Jenny Wilton, Barbara Bernstein (daughter of Florence Henderson) as Ruthie, and Carolyn Reed (daughter of Robert Reed) as Karen.
Note: This episode reunites E. G. Marshall (who played Lawrence Preston) with Robert Reed (who played Kenneth Preston) from their former television series The Defenders from 1961 to 1965.
The episode opens with the girls waiting pensively outside the den door for word on whether Marcia can have her slumber party. Carol convinces Mike, but Alice has a more cautionary spin on the situation. The boys aren't crazy about it, either, and Greg comes up with the idea of pulling tricks on the girls (which kinda clashes with him wanting to prove that he was mature enough to babysit in the previous episode). Then the drawing comes up, the principal notifies the parents, and they cancel the party, about which Marcia gets very upset. Mike then looks into the situation with the principal and decides to err on the side of believing Marcia, allowing her to have the party. Mike gets suspicious when the boys are enthusiastic that the party's back on. Meanwhile, Marcia comes to suspect Jenny because she uses the same desk in the period after Marcia does, and uninvites her.
The night of the party comes, with what looks like nearly a dozen of Marcia's friends attending to much giggling and squealing. As the girls play a game of truth or dare, the boys start pulling their pranks...one of them popping up in a fright mask at the top of the stairs; a rubber spider in a sleeping bag (which amuses Alice); a light-up skull in the fridge (which startles Alice). Alice refrains from intervening in the boys' antics.
When the girls settle in to tell ghost stories, the itching powder takes effect, and Paula offhandedly remarks about what she did with the picture, which she'd only intended Marcia to see. Then the parents come home from dining out, and Mike turns the situation into a teachable moment, noting that Marcia did the same thing to Jenny as the principal had done to her. She calls Jenny to apologize and invite her over. When Mike goes to answer the door, a bucket of flour falls on his head.
Shortly after the episode, General Zod takes over the school.
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The Partridge Family
"Whatever Happened to the Old Songs?"
Originally aired October 9, 1970
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Shirley's dad is having a mid-life crisis and decides to hit the road with the band to pursue his long-lost dream of being a star, but will his act appeal to the new generation?
Guest Stars: Ray Bolger and Rosemary DeCamp as Fred and Amanda Renfrew
Songs: "Baby I Love Love, I Love You"; "Together (Havin' a Ball)"; "On the Road"; "Bye Bye Blackbird"
The episode opens with Grandpa Renfrew playing his ukulele in the garage and accompanying the band on "Baby I Love Love, I Love You"...
He then jumps on a polite comment made by the kids and corners them into taking him on tour. Grandma is skeptical about his tendency to engage in impetuous behavior, and Shirley reassures her mother that he'll find out how tough life on the road is. But a montage sequence to "Together (Havin' a Ball)" shows him doing just that.
The family hopes to let Reuben break the bad news to Grandpa in an audition, but Reuben likes his act, thinking that it's campy and would bring needed comedy to the show. Then Grandpa learns what "campy" means from Chris and his spirits fall. The night of the performance at a club comes, and Amanda, sitting at a table in front, requests "Bye Bye Blackbird," which isn't the song he'd planned to play. The family accompanies him in a soft, lounge-ish arrangement, and the audience enjoys it. Fred thanks Amanda backstage and they decide to meet in the middle--her acting a little more youthful and him acting a little more mature...which begins with an around-the-world cruise.
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That Girl
"I Ain't Got Nobody"
Originally aired October 9, 1970
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Ann finds her head, but not her body, in "Playpen" magazine.
Jerry rushes into Donald's office but finds that Ann's there. When she leaves, he shows Donald the angel in the centerfold, but Donald tries to pretend not to be bothered by it. Meanwhile, Ann's applying for a job on
The Captain Gooney Show, meeting the good captain (Kenneth Mars) via a frog puppet while he hides behind the office couch. She goes to Donald to talk about the new job she got, and he initially assumes that it's the other thing. He promptly produces the picture, which appears to use her head from a shoot that she did for
Hairstyle magazine. When they confront the photographer (Eddie Ryder), he matter-of-factly admits to it, as she signed a release. Now Donald knows the truth, but Ann's worried about everyone else seeing it. And that quickly becomes an issue, as their waiter at the usual restaurant (Bob Ross) asks for "Miss February's" autograph on the spread. (Holy sexual harassment!) And of course, who should see it at the barbershop but...Mr. Marie?
Meanwhile, Jerry doesn't want to look at Ann because of the awkwardness, though she tries to explain the situation to him. Lew drops in unannounced to make a fuss about it, having bought 78 issues to keep them out of other people's hands. There's a bit of an upside as Ann gets a job offer from somebody who saw the issue, but Ann's more concerned with explaining it to her new boss, whose frog's verbal abuse causes her to quit. Lew drops by again with an apology to his daughter and a plan to sue.
In the coda, the heat has passed as the March issue has come out, but Donald teases Ann about helping get her voted "Playpen Pal of the Year".
At one point at Ann's, Mr. Marie says of Donald, "He's always here." Lew should talk!
"Oh, Donald" count:
4
"Oh, Daddy" count:
3
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Love, American Style
"Love and the Hypnotist / Love and the Psychiatrist"
Originally aired October 9, 1970
I was able to find "Love and the Hypnotist" as an individual clip on YouTube (in very poor quality). It opens with the titular character (Lou Krugman) trying to locate a groom whose bachelor party he entertained at the night before. He placed a posthypnotic suggestion on Richard (Rich Little) that causes him to act like a three-year-old (or return to normal) whenever a bell rings, and passed out before he had a chance to remove it. At the house where the wedding is taking place, the doorbell is ringing constantly, and the reverend (Burgess Meredith) becomes concerned with Richard's erratically immature behavior. This carries over into the ceremony itself, where we meet the bride, Jane (Emily Banks!). The person at the door turns out to be the hypnotist, who does his thing. The segment ends with Jane saying that having seen Richard as a child, she wants two more just like him.
In "Love and the Psychiatrist," Doris (Corinne Camacho), the wife of psychiatrist Paul Meltz (Jerry Paris), is having an affair with one of her husband's colleagues, Harry Fishberg (Larry Hagman, who's grown a beard since he left NASA). Harry tries to explain to Doris that Paul's coldness is just a facade, but they resolve to stop sneaking around and come clean about their relationship. Harry goes to see Paul at his office, and confesses to the whole affair in an impromptu session on the couch, with Paul insisting on keeping the woman anonymous and encouraging Harry to disregard the husband and follow his heart. That night at home, Doris is nervous to find out how Paul's day went, and he tells her about the session, speculating that the woman was somebody else, which makes Doris break into laughter. The next day, however, Paul bursts into Harry's office while Harry is packing a suitcase. Paul's distraught and desperate to talk to somebody because Doris left him a note that she's running off with another man. Paul expresses his rage at the situation vividly, making Harry very nervous. Then Doris comes in, surprised to see Paul there, and Harry passes it off as a session about her affair, puts the two of them on the path of reconciliation, and rushes out with suitcase in hand.
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She called him before she found the body-- did we ever find out why?
Sorry, I wasn't taking notes while watching so a lot of odd plot details got lost. She'd had a nasty fight with her husband at a party that night. She just felt like calling Steve. Also, to further clarify Sheen's role, his character was a protege of the husband at his firm, but I think the husband was planning to cut him out because he didn't approve of Sheen marrying his daughter. And Danno made an excuse to visit Sheen when the call from Not Frisco was scheduled to come in, so he was there to book him when he accepted the call.
I'm pretty sure it was Perry Mason, which means it was about ten years earlier.
Not necessarily...the show ran until '66.
), and Hogan butters him up over some doodling that he's doing. Later, stuck for a way to smuggle out three maps to his contact, Rhona (Victoria Carroll)--who runs an art gallery--because the tunnel can't be used for reasons that I didn't catch, Hogan encourages Klink to try painting and then accompanies him to the gallery to arrange for Rhona to sell three of the paintings that he's hidden maps in the back of. Rhona has three buyers lined up--the underground men leading the hits on the convoys. When Klink's ego swells up from his first two sales, the third man gets charged five times as much for his painting. In the coda, Klink pays Rhona much more to take more of his paintings, and Hogan tempers Klink's expectations by telling him that his work probably won't become really valuable until after he dies.
