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50th Anniversary Viewing (Part 2)
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Ironside
"Check, Mate; and Murder: Part 2"
Originally aired November 5, 1970
Wiki said:
Ironside's trip to Montreal continues as he gets involved in a murder plot while searching for a stolen chess set.
I thought we'd be getting away with no recap again, but in this case they show us a new teaser scene before going into one...and show some odd flashes from last week as the plot proceeds. Ironside learns that an insurance agent named Bollinger left a message for Gauthier before his death via bombing. Ed and Eve talk to Carl Shiller (John Van Dreelen), who owned the set and tells them that he was recently sent the pawn as part of a ransom attempt. They ask him to proceed with the ransom. The Chief deduces that the thieves were amateurs because of the lack of underworld knowledge about the theft, and that they were after something besides the pawn when they ransacked Gauthier's room. A fascinated Ernestine Mugford tries to keep up, taking notes...
Ernestine: You're magnificent, Bob!
Bob: That's true.
The Chief and Rousseau make a list of likely talent and show their pictures to the assembled convention attendees, one of whom saw a man identified in Rousseau's files as Arnold Beckman (William Lanteau) at the hotel. Bob later starts beating up Frank over his lack of investigative results, after having already put his own team to work out of their jurisdiction.
At dinner, Bob presses Jeanine for more info on why she lied to break up with him, and she reluctantly explains that she was already engaged at the time, and was considering breaking it off, but then discovered she was pregnant by her fiance. Later Bob beats himself up over having believed her when she told him that she didn't love him twenty years ago.
Beckman assassinates a young man via bomb, while the victim is calling Shiller about his ransom response. He's too young to have been involved in the theft, so the team assumes that he stole the set from the thief. Ironside focuses on how the pawn was packed, which was minimally, in plain white paper. This leads to attempting to find a stationery store that Gauthier may have visited as part of his own investigation. Eve finds the type of stationery that Gauthier was looking into and a list of wealthy customers who use it. The youth is identified as an employee of Leon Karp (Herbert Anderson), who's also a buyer of the stationery and shows signs of being into chess. He acts ignorant of the stolen set, but Ironside suspects he was involved in the robbery.
In the meantime, the MPD with Ed tagging along apprehend Beckman and the set. Ed, who's been snooping around the docks undercover, takes Beckman's place to find out who stole the set in the first place. Elsewhere, Claudette tries to talk Robert out of his assignment to set a bomb at the St. Jean Baptiste parade, attempting to persuade him that Pierre Bouver is just an anarchist, not a Separatist. Robert gets very upset when he finds out that his mother plans to take Ironside to the parade. Robert asks Bob if he'd ever killed anyone. The night before the parade, Robert proceeds to plant his bomb under the reviewing stand.
Ed takes a call while posing as Beckman and agrees to a payment rendezvous for the set. Ironside recruits the criminologists again to stake out the exchange. Ed fake drops off the set at an arranged place where he finds the payment, then nabs Karp picking up the set. Meanwhile, Bob has gotten a call from Jeanine, Claudette having told her what Robert's doing. At the Bombmakingcave, Robert tells Bouver that he called the police, and that he didn't set the bomb, because they're supposed to terrorize, not kill. Then Henri comes in and says that he went to where the bomb was placed and set the detonator. Ironside & co. arrive, Mark faces down an armed Henri, and Robert tells them where the bomb is. Robert goes to the bomb and defuses it.
TI is seen off at the airport by Frank, Ernestine, and Jeanine. Jeanine thanks Bob, who in turn asks her to come to San Francisco, though without a flower-wearing stipulation, then says au revoir. IMDb confirms what I automatically assumed, that we'll never see her again.
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The Odd Couple
"I Do, I Don't"
Originally aired November 5, 1970
Wiki said:
When Felix recalls his marriage and divorce, he causes a bridegroom to get cold feet and call off his wedding. Joyce Van Patten guest stars.
The episode opens with Felix in top hat and tails, leaving for a wedding where he's the best man. Later, as Oscar tries to enjoy some indoor golf, the bride, Phyllis (Joyce Van Patten), shows up at door and slaps Oscar, mistaking him for Felix through her veil. She accuses Felix of having ruined her wedding by causing the groom, Harvey (George Furth), to not show up. She describes herself as 30 and desperate, seeing this as her last shot. Phyllis relates the events of the rehearsal the night before via flashback. Felix fusses over details of ceremony, then during the exchange of vows, he starts crying (something Oscar had told him not to do before he left) and tells everyone about the circumstances of his own marriage and divorce, bringing them all down.
In the present, Felix returns to the apartment, telling Phyllis that he went looking for Harvey. Phyllis goes to lie down and shrieks in horror at Oscar's room. Felix found Harvey at a movie theater, and sends Oscar to try to talk to him. At the theater, Oscar learns that Harvey's decision was influenced by him having seen
A Man and a Woman with Phyllis, which made him feel that their relationship fell short. Oscar convinces Harvey to go see Phyllis, but she no longer want to marry him, influenced by how, which Oscar was gone, Felix showed her the transcript of his divorce.
Felix and Oscar go to the employment office where Phyllis and Harvey both work. She thinks that Harvey won't last because he's too spineless and easily influenced. She confronts him and he waffles, blowing his chance. The guys encourage Harvey to get aggressive and go after her. He yells for her and then tells her off, which wins her heart, and the couple kisses.
The episode ends with Oscar and Felix going to seen the film that Harvey was watching, which might have been
A Man and a Woman, but I wasn't clear on that.
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The Brady Bunch
"The Treasure of Sierra Avenue"
Originally aired November 6, 1970
Wiki said:
The boys discover a wallet containing $1,100 in a vacant lot. The girls want a share of the money but the boys refuse, causing tension between the groups. Mike and Carol tell the kids that they must turn the wallet in to the police. In the process, the boys learn that honesty and integrity are more important in life than "finders keepers".
Guest star: Victor Kilian as Mr. Stoner
The boys are playing football against an imaginary other team when Bobby finds the wallet while going after the ball. They count the money up at home in front of Carol and Alice, and Carol can't find any ID in the wallet. She calls Mike and has Greg talk to him; Mike's so preoccupied that he doesn't realize what Greg has told him until after he hangs up. The girls figure that it should be split equally six ways--$183.33 for each; but the boys are only planning to split it three ways. Mike intervenes in the ensuing squabble, taking the wallet to turn it into the police dept. The girls are happier about this solution than the boys. Afterward, the boys and girls still won't talk to each other, airing their grievances with each other via Alice.
Greg sees an ad in the paper for a lost wallet, with a reward involved. Still standing to keep the money if nobody claims the wallet, he and Peter are torn, but decide to call. They're happy to learn that the wallet in question only had $220 in it, but Mike listens in and is glad that they chose to make the call. He tells them that he put an ad of his own in the paper about the wallet. The boys aren't happy about this turn, and as one might expect, they get lots of calls about it, including one involving a sob story that seems to have Alice in tears, though it turns out she was interrupted while peeling an onion. None of the callers correctly identify the wallet and its contents, making the boys hopeful. Mike is concerned that all the boys can think about lately is the money. Meanwhile, the feud between the boys and girls continues, with the girls retaliating by refusing to share anything with the boys. Mike and Carol call a meeting to put an end to it, and with all the kids properly chastised, the boys agree to share the money. Then they all get worked up over the idea that they'll be getting the money after all.
The kids have starting making arrangements for what they'll spend the money on when Mike gets a call informing him that the wallet was claimed at the police station. The kids are upset to have lost their claim to the money, but the elderly man who claimed it, Mr. Stoner, visits the house, telling Carol how it was his and his wife's hard-saved vacation money. He offers the kids a $100 reward, but with Mike hovering over them, they refuse, ultimately agreeing to a reduced reward of $20. The parents are pleased to hear that the boys still intend to split the reward six ways.
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The Partridge Family
"Danny and the Mob"
Originally aired November 6, 1970
Wiki said:
While performing in Las Vegas, Danny tutors the beautiful girlfriend of a mob boss in finances so she can leave town and finds himself with a new hit but one that has nothing to do with music.
Guest Stars: Pat Harrington Jr. as Harry, Barbara Rhoades as LaVon LaVerne, Richard Bakalyan as Skee, Vic Tayback as Rocco
Song: "That'll Be the Day"
The episode opens with the group rehearsing the above-mentioned song for a performance, but Chris is drumming too fast because a strobe light on the stage is throwing him off. The rest of the family is surprised when LaVon shows up to go off with Danny. It turns out that he's serving as her stock advisor. (Seeing Danny, a man at the exchange mentions
Sesame Street.) Upset with his girlfriend's activities but never having seen Danny, Harry sends Skee and Rocco to lean on him. After a confrontation near the hotel pool, Danny--still in his bathing suit and duck floatie--goes to see a police inspector (I presume Chavez, played by Julio Medina), who doesn't take him seriously. Danny then goes to Kincaid to try to persuade him to have the band leave town. When Reuben refuses based on their gig obligation, Danny asks for help writing his will.
Danny starts taking precautions, making Shirley wonder what's wrong, and she learns about the will from Reuben. Shirley brings over LaVon, who received an anonymous telegram, and Danny runs at the sight of her. While Shirley and Reuben are pursuing him, Harry shows up and LaVon finds out that he's after Danny, and tries to tell Harry that he's 10. When they discover that it's the truth, Harry and his hoods seem to genuinely regret the misunderstanding, and Harry sends the boys to find Danny in order to make amends. A muscial sequence ensues as all of the adults pursue Danny.
The hoods finally nab Danny and bring him back to the assembled others, including Chavez, who wants to arrest the mobsters...but Danny puts in a good word for them, Skee and Rocco having explained things to him. As an alternative, Danny arranges for a shotgun wedding of Harry and LaVon. (Not sure how that would satisfy the law, but whatever.)
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"By Zeus, thine tunnels are cramped. Hast thou mead?"
And sent to the Russian front.
Nah, they never get sent to the Russian front.
Somehow I don't think either Schultz or the guys would get out of this without getting shot.
The Geneva Conventions stipulate that it's a prisoner of war's duty to try to escape, but being involved in espionage would allow them to be executed (or so these shows tell me). And Schultz just had a couple of prisoners escape during his command.
Nice. I never heard this one before.
It is kinda cute. Except for the mode of transportation, it could be the other side of "Leaving on a Jet Plane".
Bond and Five-0 would make for a nice crossover.
We'll have to settle for Jack Lord being Felix Leiter in
Dr. No.
It always amazes me how close we still were to WWII then. It seemed like ancient history at the time.
See also General Omar Bradley appearing in a
Dean Martin Celebrity Roast in the '70s.
Nice twisty plot, but did they ever explain the fingerprints?
I believe it was mentioned that the files they checked against could have been tampered with.
Celebrity Roasts are something that you don't see anymore. I suppose unrelenting Internet hatred makes them redudant.
I'm not seeing the equivalence, as the roasts consisted of good-natured ribbing from the celebrity's friendly peers.
FWIW, these had disclaimers added at the beginning about how they were made in the '70s and contained humor based on outdated cultural norms or somesuch.
