The recently deceased William Smith was James McArthur's replacement when he left the series after season 11.
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The recently deceased William Smith was James McArthur's replacement when he left the series after season 11.
This harshes my mellow.
Just okay, although I do like the first two lines.
Nice lyrics. They're in their prime.
Needless to say, I love this.
A Rock Classic.
Not quite that bad.
I'll look around. I'm not sure if there's a way to search for a channel.
Very interesting. That's exactly the impression he gave me. I can see him being Andy Griffith's polar opposite.
I did enjoy her open-minded review. The same theme comes up in the Johnny Cash cover of "Hurt," which is the other one I watched. Next on my list is Righteous Brothers, "Unchained Melody."That was trippy! I see she's an opera singer and vocal coach. I wondered how anyone could NOT have heard Aqualung! Her comments on message over style sound like something I would say.I was lucky enough to see Tull back in the 90s - fantastic show!
Maybe I will like this show.OMG--I should save this for the eventual review, but Wo Fat just entered the episode...in a bright yellow mini-sub with a red hatch!Hit it, Ringo!
"Shoot to kill. The real McGarrett will live."And...two McGarretts! Double Your Displeasure!
"Which one, Danno, which one!?!"
"Eh...shoot 'em both."
50 Years Ago This Week
October 4–7 – Pink Floyd record their groundbreaking film, Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii, at the Amphitheatre of Pompeii.
October 6 – Operation Jefferson Glenn, the last major combat engagement in the Vietnam War by U.S. forces, ended after 33 days.
October 8
October 9 – First day of an exhibition by Yoko Ono at the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York. John and Yoko, and Ringo, attend the opening. A US television programme about the exhibition is transmitted on 11 May 1972. [Not to mention John's 31st birthday.]
Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week:
Leaving the chart:
New on the chart:
"Wild Night," Van Morrison
(#28 US)
"Questions 67 and 68," Chicago
(#24 US; #34 AC; previously released in 1969, reaching #71 US)
"Two Divided by Love," The Grass Roots
(#16 US; #37 AC)
"Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)," Marvin Gaye
(#9 US; #1 R&B)
"Desiderata," Les Crane
(#8 US; #3 AC; #7 UK)
And new on the boob tube:
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Timeline entries are quoted from the Wiki pages for the month or year and Mark Lewisohn's The Beatles Day by Day, with minor editing as needed.
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October 4–7 – Pink Floyd record their groundbreaking film, Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii, at the Amphitheatre of Pompeii.
October 6 – Operation Jefferson Glenn, the last major combat engagement in the Vietnam War by U.S. forces, ended after 33 days.
October 8
- The government of Canada, led by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, adopted the policy of "multiculturalism within a bilingual framework". Trudeau addressed the House of Commons in Ottawa and said that "Although there are two official languages, there is no official culture, nor does any ethnic group take precedence over any other."
- First UK release of John Lennon's LP Imagine [about a month behind the US].
October 9 – First day of an exhibition by Yoko Ono at the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York. John and Yoko, and Ringo, attend the opening. A US television programme about the exhibition is transmitted on 11 May 1972. [Not to mention John's 31st birthday.]
Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week:
Leaving the chart:
- "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart," Bee Gees (15 weeks)
New on the chart:
"Wild Night," Van Morrison
(#28 US)
"Questions 67 and 68," Chicago
(#24 US; #34 AC; previously released in 1969, reaching #71 US)
"Two Divided by Love," The Grass Roots
(#16 US; #37 AC)
"Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)," Marvin Gaye
(#9 US; #1 R&B)
"Desiderata," Les Crane
(#8 US; #3 AC; #7 UK)
And new on the boob tube:
- Hawaii Five-O, "3,000 Crooked Miles to Honolulu"
- Adam-12, "The Sniper"
- The Brady Bunch, "The Wheeler-Dealer"
- The Partridge Family, "The Undergraduate"
- The Odd Couple, "Sleepwalker"
- Love, American Style, "Love and the Ledge / Love and the See-Through Man / Love and the Television Weekend / Love and the Waterbed"
- All in the Family, "Edith Writes a Song"
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show, "Room 223"
- Mission: Impossible, "Mindbend"
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Timeline entries are quoted from the Wiki pages for the month or year and Mark Lewisohn's The Beatles Day by Day, with minor editing as needed.
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Cue rapid-fire, monotone lecture.
Definitely one that oldies radio forgot.
And starting to enter their psychedelic phase by the sound of it.
Playfully naughty in its suggestiveness.Needless to say, I love this.
Definitely one that oldies radio remembered.
I was musing some on the show's appeal yesterday. For me, the overall package works with Lord just being a stiff, serviceable, hardboiled lead. What he lacks in the likability department, I think the rest of the cast helps make up for.Not quite that bad.
From what I caught when googling some stuff, apparently Lord's H5O co-stars didn't get along with him either, including MacArthur. Apparently he was quite the prima donna, going at least as far back as when he wanted star billing to reprise his Leiter role in the Bond films. I have to wonder how he got on with Paul Burke well enough to get on 12OCH twice.
Pity is, Paramount+ has decided not to let me take screencaps again. They come out as solid black. I was just taking them as recently as last week...wonder if there's a way to fix that.Maybe I will like this show.
McGarrett was also temporarily paralyzed for about ten minutes...viewers at home couldn't tell the difference.
As long as you're posting the original - here's the parody by National Lampoon.
National Lampoon - Deteriorata [Banana-Blue Thumb BTA 218, 45 rpm, 1972, stereo] - YouTube
Griffith could be intense and sometimes show his temper, but he did try to keep a happy atmosphere on TAGS, and most accounts agree that the set developed a comfortable family feel (except for Frances Bavier).
One story from back in the day was about a Hawaii newspaper doing a feature on locals Zulu and Kam Fong. The reporter made the mistake of referring to them as "stars" of the show. Lord had the producers call the newspaper bosses and blast them for not knowing there was only one "star" on Hawaii Five-O.
Got you covered.
Much preferable to the original.
"I knew I shoulda taken dat left toin at da Sea o' Holes...!"
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I’m pretty sure it’s a copyrights issue. Some of the reactors talk about it. YouTube will unceremoniously take down a video for a copyright strike. Some of them use little tech tricks to avoid the YouTube bots.
It’s not surprising to me that young people are completely oblivious to music that was popular before they were born. I’m watching a series now with this 20 something Aussie girl reacting to various Beatles songs. She’ll say if she’s heard the song before. But her reactions are really cute. At one,point, she says about one of the ballast, that it reminded her of a Billy Joel song. She likely has no idea that the Beatles were one of Billy’s biggest influences.
Last year two really young guys reacted to Phil Collins’ In the Air Tonight, and got the song trending nationally after their reaction vid went viral If the reactor is young enough, I can usually accept their not having heard a particular song.
Stone Cold Classic.
An Oldies staple at one time. And they do like numbers in their titles, don't they?
I think the Grass Roots are pretty much a Two-Hit Wonder.
Not as classic as his classics, but classic.
The poem sounds like a prayer and the recording doesn't help, but a mostly good philosophy to live by nevertheless.
I repent! Actually, I've never taken anything stronger than prescription Demerol in my life.
I can think of several shows where the supporting cast was the bigger appeal. A lot of people did like Jack Lord, though.
I have no idea, honestly, but the first thing I'd try is a third-party capper. You might have to take a motion cap and pull a frame.
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70 Years Ago This Season
October 3 – "Shot Heard 'Round the World (baseball)": One of the greatest moments in Major League Baseball history occurs when the New York Giants' Bobby Thomson hits a game-winning home run in the bottom of the 9th inning off of Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca, to win the National League pennant after being down 14 games.
October 3–8 – Korean War - First Battle of Maryang-san: United Nations (primarily Australian) forces drive back the Chinese.
October 4
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On October 8, "Unforgettable" by Nat King Cole is released:
(charts Nov. 3; #12 US)
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October 15
October 17 – CBS's Eye logo premieres on American television.
October 20 – The Johnny Bright incident occurs in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
October 24 – U.S. President Harry Truman declares an official end to war with Germany.
October 26 – Winston Churchill is re-elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (a month before his 77th birthday) in a general election which sees the defeat of Clement Attlee's Labour government, after 6 years in power.
October 31 – The film Scrooge, starring Alastair Sim, opens in England.
November 1 – Desert Rock exercises, the first military exercises for nuclear war, with infantry troops included, are held in the Nevada desert.
November 2 – 6,000 British troops flown into Egypt to quell unrest in the Suez Canal zone.
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On November 3, "Cold, Cold Heart" by Tony Bennett tops the Billboard Best Sellers in Stores chart.
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November 10 – Direct dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
November 11
November 22 – Paramount Pictures releases the George Pal science fiction film When Worlds Collide in the United States.
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On November 23, there's a new Man of Steel in cinemas:
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November 24 – The Broadway play Gigi opens, starring Audrey Hepburn as the lead character.
November 28 – The U.K. film Scrooge, starring Alastair Sim, premieres in the United States under the title of Charles Dickens's original novel, A Christmas Carol.
November 29 – LEO runs the world's first commercial computer program, Bakery Valuations, for J. Lyons and Co.'s tea shops in the U.K.
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Also in November, "Dust My Broom" by Elmore James (credited as "Elmo James" on the original 78) is released (charts in 1952; #9 R&B; included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll).
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c. December – The Institute of War and Peace Studies is established by Dwight D. Eisenhower at Columbia University in New York (of which he is President) with William T. R. Fox as first director.
December 6 – A state of emergency is declared in Egypt, due to increasing riots.
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On December 15, "(It's No) Sin" by Eddy Howard and His Orchestra tops the Billboard Best Sellers in Stores chart.
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December 16 – Dragnet first airs on TV.
[With Raymond Burr as Friday's Captain of the Week! Also featuring Barney Phillips as the fire chief.]
December 17 – We Charge Genocide, a petition describing genocide against African Americans, is delivered to the United Nations.
December 20
December 23 – John Huston's drama film The African Queen, starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, premieres in Hollywood.
December 24 – Gian Carlo Menotti's 45-minute opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors, premieres live on NBC in the United States, becoming the first opera written especially for television.
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On December 29, "Cry" by Johnnie Ray and The Four Lads tops the Billboard Best Sellers in Stores chart.
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December 31 – The Marshall Plan expires, after distributing more than $13.3 billion US in foreign aid to rebuild Europe.
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Timeline entries are quoted from the Wiki page for the year. Sections separated from timeline entries are mine.
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70 Years Ago This Season
October 3 – "Shot Heard 'Round the World (baseball)": One of the greatest moments in Major League Baseball history occurs when the New York Giants' Bobby Thomson hits a game-winning home run in the bottom of the 9th inning off of Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca, to win the National League pennant after being down 14 games.
October 3–8 – Korean War - First Battle of Maryang-san: United Nations (primarily Australian) forces drive back the Chinese.
October 4
- MGM's Technicolor musical film, An American in Paris, starring Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron, and directed by Vincente Minnelli, premieres in New York. It will go on to win 6 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
- Shoppers World, one of the first shopping malls in the United States, opens in Framingham, Massachusetts.
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On October 8, "Unforgettable" by Nat King Cole is released:
(charts Nov. 3; #12 US)
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October 15
- Norethisterone, the progestin used in the combined oral contraceptive pill, is synthesized by Luis E. Miramontes in Mexico.
- I Love Lucy makes its debut on CBS television in the United States.
October 17 – CBS's Eye logo premieres on American television.
October 20 – The Johnny Bright incident occurs in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
The linked Wiki page said:
October 24 – U.S. President Harry Truman declares an official end to war with Germany.
October 26 – Winston Churchill is re-elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (a month before his 77th birthday) in a general election which sees the defeat of Clement Attlee's Labour government, after 6 years in power.
October 31 – The film Scrooge, starring Alastair Sim, opens in England.
November 1 – Desert Rock exercises, the first military exercises for nuclear war, with infantry troops included, are held in the Nevada desert.
November 2 – 6,000 British troops flown into Egypt to quell unrest in the Suez Canal zone.
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On November 3, "Cold, Cold Heart" by Tony Bennett tops the Billboard Best Sellers in Stores chart.
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November 10 – Direct dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
November 11
- Juan Perón is re-elected president of Argentina.
- Monogram Pictures releases the sci-fi film Flight to Mars in the United States.
November 22 – Paramount Pictures releases the George Pal science fiction film When Worlds Collide in the United States.
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On November 23, there's a new Man of Steel in cinemas:
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November 24 – The Broadway play Gigi opens, starring Audrey Hepburn as the lead character.
November 28 – The U.K. film Scrooge, starring Alastair Sim, premieres in the United States under the title of Charles Dickens's original novel, A Christmas Carol.
November 29 – LEO runs the world's first commercial computer program, Bakery Valuations, for J. Lyons and Co.'s tea shops in the U.K.
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Also in November, "Dust My Broom" by Elmore James (credited as "Elmo James" on the original 78) is released (charts in 1952; #9 R&B; included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll).
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c. December – The Institute of War and Peace Studies is established by Dwight D. Eisenhower at Columbia University in New York (of which he is President) with William T. R. Fox as first director.
December 6 – A state of emergency is declared in Egypt, due to increasing riots.
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On December 15, "(It's No) Sin" by Eddy Howard and His Orchestra tops the Billboard Best Sellers in Stores chart.
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December 16 – Dragnet first airs on TV.
[With Raymond Burr as Friday's Captain of the Week! Also featuring Barney Phillips as the fire chief.]
December 17 – We Charge Genocide, a petition describing genocide against African Americans, is delivered to the United Nations.
December 20
- Experimental Breeder Reactor I (EBR-1), the world's first (experimental) nuclear power plant, opens in Idaho.
- The World Meteorological Organization becomes a specialized agency of the United Nations.
December 23 – John Huston's drama film The African Queen, starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, premieres in Hollywood.
December 24 – Gian Carlo Menotti's 45-minute opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors, premieres live on NBC in the United States, becoming the first opera written especially for television.
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On December 29, "Cry" by Johnnie Ray and The Four Lads tops the Billboard Best Sellers in Stores chart.
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December 31 – The Marshall Plan expires, after distributing more than $13.3 billion US in foreign aid to rebuild Europe.
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Timeline entries are quoted from the Wiki page for the year. Sections separated from timeline entries are mine.
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Not sure I like Van Morrison's idea of a wild night these days...
At least they didn't do it like on their albums: "Questions LXVII and LXVIII"; "XXV or VI to IV".
They've got a little more going on that that, but this is the last we'll be hearing of them for 50th anniversary purposes. They had a couple of lower Top 40 charters in '72.
I was debating whether to make a crack comparing it to "A Day in the Life"...and just learned that I'll have to start putting a parenthetical after my listings of positions on the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, as Rolling Stone just released a 2021 version of that list within the past month.
Can't say I'd ever heard the original...much less a parody of it. It's got a sign-o-the-times vibe to it, but it doesn't sound like something that I want to add to my collection.
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Thanks to my Doctor Demento CD collection, I heard the parody version long before I heard the original. I guess the old saying is true in this case in that the first version of something you're exposed to becomes your 'go to' version. I prefer this version to the original because it suits my state of mind most days.
It's still there, too. It's been rebuilt a couple times, but it still exists.
Unforgettable, indeed.
There's a Stone Cold Classic. And possibly a prequel to Star Trek.
And now he collaborates with Lady Gaga. Sometimes the world is good.
Ah, When Worlds Collide. A B+ Movie Classic. A great cast and as visually stunning as Forbidden Planet, but dragged down by ridiculously bad science and an average plot.
A Pop Culture Classic.
Wow. A busy year for Pop Culture Classics.
Now here's a mainstream classic that I really like a lot, largely because of my love for Humphrey Bogart. The scene where he has to drag the African Queen through the leech-infested waters is amazing to watch.
Looking back over the years, I think it's clear that you don't have to be a stable genius to create Classic Rock.
True.
The poem has a bit of a storied history. From the title, you'd think it was written by some Medieval Monk and, from the verses, you'd think it was a Hippie black light poster, but the original actually dates to the Roaring 20s, of all things (but the Roaring 20s were truly a mini 60s).
Me too. Through Dr. Demento, the parody was still getting airplay in the '80s. Unlike the original.
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55.5th-ish Anniversary Viewing (Part 1)
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The Ed Sullivan Show
Season 18, episode 23
Originally aired February 20, 1966
As not represented in The Best of the Ed Sullivan Show
The Supremes, "My World Is Empty Without You" (currently at its chart peak of #5) and "Somewhere":
Richard Kiley, "The Impossible Dream" (from Man of La Mancha):
Stiller & Meara:
Juggler Ugo Garrido:
Other performances, as listed on Metacritic:
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Branded
"Yellow for Courage"
Originally aired February 20, 1966
Jason rides into town on a wagon not looking well and carrying an unconscious surveying partner. He asks newspaperman Ab Beckett (Stuart Lancaster) where he can find Dr. Miller, who was recommended to him in another town; Beckett tries to direct him to Doc Shackley (Harry Harvey Sr.), the town's physician/barber/notary. Suspecting something shady and considering Miller to be the quack, Beckett, Shackley, and the sheriff (Dirk Evans) go the office of Dr. Karen L. Miller (Patricia Medina), and learn that Jason's buddy, now dead, is believed to have had diphtheria, which Jason is now showing symptoms of. Even less sympathetic to Jason after learning who he is, the locals quarantine Miller's office.
Miller puts a yellow armband on Jason. After a very rough, mid-sentence syndication edit, Jason hears shooting and stumbles outside to exchange shots with some escaping bank robbers. The banker (Victor Izay) wants to thank Jason, but Doc Shackley tries to keep the crowd away from him, and works them up about how Miller's trying to start an epidemic and the town doesn't need "her kind of doctor". Miller wants to try a serum on Jason; he's skeptical, but trusts her. One of the bank robbers (Michael Forest, whose character is billed as Newt Woolery) sneaks up on Miller, wanting her to tend to his wounded buddy. She pleads with him to let her leave a note for Jason's sake, which she writes in Latin.
Jason gets up and finds the note, and having been learned some Latin, he proceeds in his weakened state on horseback to the robbers' cabin. The robbers (including Red Morgan, billed as Collins) rough him up some for killing Woolery's brother, whom Miller was unable to save; then, at Jason's urging, the doctor informs them that they've been laying hands on a man with diphtheria. While Woolery's trying to persuade Miller to give him her serum, Jason gets his gun on him, and when Woolery won't drop his, shoots him. Miller proceeds to administer a shot to Jason. Cut to after Jason has recovered, with Beckett proclaiming that he'll be endorsing Dr. Miller in his paper. Jason thanks her and rides off.
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12 O'Clock High
"The Survivor"
Originally aired February 21, 1966
https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/the-classic-retro-pop-culture-thread.278375/page-95#post-12427614
Lt. John Tourneau (Don Quine) falls back while the group is in no danger to escort the bomber of his superior, Captain Ernie Bradovich (Don Gordon), which is having problems...but the captain reprimands him for it. Investigating the situation, Stovall doesn't think that the captain's attitude is warranted. Mentioning being a lawyer, the major surmises that Bradovich's attitude is a facade covering for something. In the Officers Club, Bradovich refuses to socialize. He gets called into town by his ladyfriend, Sara Blodgett (Jill Ireland), whom he's helping to secure a flat (which she complains about, though it looks standard issue for the show), and who has an infant child. Gallagher tries to intervene in the issue with Tourneau, but gets rebuffed by Bradovich. On the next mission, Bradovich's bomber is hit bad, his co-pilot is killed, and he has trouble controlling the plane while his crew starts to bail. Gallagher and a now-colder Lt. Tourneau keep formation.
The captain returns to base to find he's the only confirmed survivor, and faces suspicion that he bailed before his crew. Komansky delivers a message to Bradovich in Archbury and meets Sara, who seems eager to get out and socialize. Sandy learns that she's a widow whom Bradovich is taking care of, but not married to. Back at the Officers Club, Tourneau confronts Bradovich about the men who were lost, and the captain remains cold on the subject. Bradovich's next crew aren't happy to be assigned to him...except Komansky, who volunteers, for which Bradovich tries to get him pulled, though Gallagher refuses his request.
The captain's new crew display some insubordination on the plane, causing Komansky to go back to the waist andchew out the enlisted men involved. Back in town, a drunk Tourneau comes on to Sara, she gives him a thorough whacking with her handbag, and he hits his head on a staircase. Bradovich takes the blame for the incident, as the lieutenant doesn't remember what happened. Back in town, Sara's packing up while Sandy tries to get her to step in on Bradovich's behalf. Sandy learns that her husband died saving Bradovich, and that her splitting town was Ernie's idea. She goes to the base and confesses to what happened. Feeling that Bradovich can't be counted on to be there for his living crew, Gallagher grounds him. When he finds out that a mission is on for the next day, Bradovich goes back to Gallagher and demands to be put on it.
On the mission, when Bradovich's plane takes fighter hits, he asks about welfare of his crew. Gallagher loses an engine and has to drop out, putting Bradovich in charge of the group. Bradovich tries to hold formation as ordered, but ends up taking a hit that happens to knock him down to Gallagher's vicinity. Bradovich insists on trying to get his plane home instead of bailing, for the sake of the injured survivors on board. He ends up making a crash landing on the field, his plane and crew intact. In the coda, we find that the attitudes of Bradovich and the other men toward him have improved considerably. He also gets a little more tender with Sara, suggesting that he might take a further step in his commitment to her.
I had trouble getting into this one because the story's central character was so unlikeable for most of the episode. Also, the story seemed inconsistent on the issue of breaking formation to help another bomber, which has come up before as something that shouldn't be done.
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Batman
"The Thirteenth Hat"
Originally aired February 23, 1966
Special Guest Villain
DAVID WAYNE
as
THE MAD HATTER
Using his mesmerizer-equipped top hat, the Hatter abducts a chef, a sporting goods store proprietor, and a silver shop clerk, along with their distinctive hats. It doesn't make sense that Gordon would see the hat theft angle in these abductions, which is his reason for assuming that Tetch is involved. No officers besides O'Hara are masochistic enough to be in the room when Gordon uses the Batphone; Bruce and Dick give Aunt Harriet a bird-sighting excuse. While the Dynamic Duo are in Gordon's office, he receives a call about a fire chief (and his hat) being abducted. O'Hara makes a dramatic call ordering that all exits be cleared for the Batmobile...which also doesn't make sense, as it's just parked out in front of the steps as usual. At his hat factory hideout, Tetch has the jurors tied up in a hidden room, and their hats on dummies in a mock jury stand, with a witness stand spot for Batman's cowl. He demonstrates to moll Lisa (Diane McBain) how his automated hat-making assembly line could be used as a death trap.
Dynamic Duo talks to the hat check girl (Sandra Wells) at the convention-hosting hotel that was the scene of the fire chief's abduction. The eleventh juror, Madame Magda (Monique Le Maire), is abducted from her hat shop, where Lisa works. Lisa hands Batman a dropped clue--the card of Octave Marbot (Alberto Morin), a sculptor with whom Batman has been sitting. The Dynamic Duo go back to the Batcave to consult the Giant Lighted Lucite Map of Gotham City for some reason, while the Hatter strikes Marbot and takes his place for the Duo's arrival. He asks Batman to remove his cowl in another room for the sake of his statue. Batman sees through the ruse and finds the real Marbot in the room's closet, and the duo go out for a Batfight. When Tetch uses his hat, Batman pulls out an Anti-Mesmerizing Bat Reflector, but the beam hits Robin and Batman is knocked over the head and has plaster dumped on him, completely covering him.
HOW DOES BATMAN GET OUT OF THIS PLASTER TRAP??
HAS THE MAD HATTER OUTWITTED THE DYNAMIC DUO?? FOR HIS OWN EVIL ENDS??
THE WEB OF TERROR IS JUST STARTING TO TIGHTEN! LIKE THE WET PLASTER IS JUST STARTING TO HARDEN!!
BE PREPARED!! TOMORROW! SAME BAT-TIME!! SAME BAT-CHANNEL!!
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55.5th-ish Anniversary Viewing (Part 1)
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The Ed Sullivan Show
Season 18, episode 23
Originally aired February 20, 1966
As not represented in The Best of the Ed Sullivan Show
The Supremes, "My World Is Empty Without You" (currently at its chart peak of #5) and "Somewhere":
Richard Kiley, "The Impossible Dream" (from Man of La Mancha):
Stiller & Meara:
Juggler Ugo Garrido:
Other performances, as listed on Metacritic:
- Dave Clark Five - "Over and Over" & "At the Scene"
- Joan Diener - "What Do You Want of Me?" (from "Man of La Mancha)
- Allan Sherman (comedian-satirist)
- Menasha Skulnik (actor-comedian)
- Ken Venturi (golf pro)
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Branded
"Yellow for Courage"
Originally aired February 20, 1966
Xfinity said:
Jason rides into town on a wagon not looking well and carrying an unconscious surveying partner. He asks newspaperman Ab Beckett (Stuart Lancaster) where he can find Dr. Miller, who was recommended to him in another town; Beckett tries to direct him to Doc Shackley (Harry Harvey Sr.), the town's physician/barber/notary. Suspecting something shady and considering Miller to be the quack, Beckett, Shackley, and the sheriff (Dirk Evans) go the office of Dr. Karen L. Miller (Patricia Medina), and learn that Jason's buddy, now dead, is believed to have had diphtheria, which Jason is now showing symptoms of. Even less sympathetic to Jason after learning who he is, the locals quarantine Miller's office.
Miller puts a yellow armband on Jason. After a very rough, mid-sentence syndication edit, Jason hears shooting and stumbles outside to exchange shots with some escaping bank robbers. The banker (Victor Izay) wants to thank Jason, but Doc Shackley tries to keep the crowd away from him, and works them up about how Miller's trying to start an epidemic and the town doesn't need "her kind of doctor". Miller wants to try a serum on Jason; he's skeptical, but trusts her. One of the bank robbers (Michael Forest, whose character is billed as Newt Woolery) sneaks up on Miller, wanting her to tend to his wounded buddy. She pleads with him to let her leave a note for Jason's sake, which she writes in Latin.
Jason gets up and finds the note, and having been learned some Latin, he proceeds in his weakened state on horseback to the robbers' cabin. The robbers (including Red Morgan, billed as Collins) rough him up some for killing Woolery's brother, whom Miller was unable to save; then, at Jason's urging, the doctor informs them that they've been laying hands on a man with diphtheria. While Woolery's trying to persuade Miller to give him her serum, Jason gets his gun on him, and when Woolery won't drop his, shoots him. Miller proceeds to administer a shot to Jason. Cut to after Jason has recovered, with Beckett proclaiming that he'll be endorsing Dr. Miller in his paper. Jason thanks her and rides off.
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12 O'Clock High
"The Survivor"
Originally aired February 21, 1966
Xfinity said:
https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/the-classic-retro-pop-culture-thread.278375/page-95#post-12427614
Lt. John Tourneau (Don Quine) falls back while the group is in no danger to escort the bomber of his superior, Captain Ernie Bradovich (Don Gordon), which is having problems...but the captain reprimands him for it. Investigating the situation, Stovall doesn't think that the captain's attitude is warranted. Mentioning being a lawyer, the major surmises that Bradovich's attitude is a facade covering for something. In the Officers Club, Bradovich refuses to socialize. He gets called into town by his ladyfriend, Sara Blodgett (Jill Ireland), whom he's helping to secure a flat (which she complains about, though it looks standard issue for the show), and who has an infant child. Gallagher tries to intervene in the issue with Tourneau, but gets rebuffed by Bradovich. On the next mission, Bradovich's bomber is hit bad, his co-pilot is killed, and he has trouble controlling the plane while his crew starts to bail. Gallagher and a now-colder Lt. Tourneau keep formation.
The captain returns to base to find he's the only confirmed survivor, and faces suspicion that he bailed before his crew. Komansky delivers a message to Bradovich in Archbury and meets Sara, who seems eager to get out and socialize. Sandy learns that she's a widow whom Bradovich is taking care of, but not married to. Back at the Officers Club, Tourneau confronts Bradovich about the men who were lost, and the captain remains cold on the subject. Bradovich's next crew aren't happy to be assigned to him...except Komansky, who volunteers, for which Bradovich tries to get him pulled, though Gallagher refuses his request.
The captain's new crew display some insubordination on the plane, causing Komansky to go back to the waist andchew out the enlisted men involved. Back in town, a drunk Tourneau comes on to Sara, she gives him a thorough whacking with her handbag, and he hits his head on a staircase. Bradovich takes the blame for the incident, as the lieutenant doesn't remember what happened. Back in town, Sara's packing up while Sandy tries to get her to step in on Bradovich's behalf. Sandy learns that her husband died saving Bradovich, and that her splitting town was Ernie's idea. She goes to the base and confesses to what happened. Feeling that Bradovich can't be counted on to be there for his living crew, Gallagher grounds him. When he finds out that a mission is on for the next day, Bradovich goes back to Gallagher and demands to be put on it.
On the mission, when Bradovich's plane takes fighter hits, he asks about welfare of his crew. Gallagher loses an engine and has to drop out, putting Bradovich in charge of the group. Bradovich tries to hold formation as ordered, but ends up taking a hit that happens to knock him down to Gallagher's vicinity. Bradovich insists on trying to get his plane home instead of bailing, for the sake of the injured survivors on board. He ends up making a crash landing on the field, his plane and crew intact. In the coda, we find that the attitudes of Bradovich and the other men toward him have improved considerably. He also gets a little more tender with Sara, suggesting that he might take a further step in his commitment to her.
I had trouble getting into this one because the story's central character was so unlikeable for most of the episode. Also, the story seemed inconsistent on the issue of breaking formation to help another bomber, which has come up before as something that shouldn't be done.
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Batman
"The Thirteenth Hat"
Originally aired February 23, 1966
Wiki said:
Special Guest Villain
DAVID WAYNE
as
THE MAD HATTER
Using his mesmerizer-equipped top hat, the Hatter abducts a chef, a sporting goods store proprietor, and a silver shop clerk, along with their distinctive hats. It doesn't make sense that Gordon would see the hat theft angle in these abductions, which is his reason for assuming that Tetch is involved. No officers besides O'Hara are masochistic enough to be in the room when Gordon uses the Batphone; Bruce and Dick give Aunt Harriet a bird-sighting excuse. While the Dynamic Duo are in Gordon's office, he receives a call about a fire chief (and his hat) being abducted. O'Hara makes a dramatic call ordering that all exits be cleared for the Batmobile...which also doesn't make sense, as it's just parked out in front of the steps as usual. At his hat factory hideout, Tetch has the jurors tied up in a hidden room, and their hats on dummies in a mock jury stand, with a witness stand spot for Batman's cowl. He demonstrates to moll Lisa (Diane McBain) how his automated hat-making assembly line could be used as a death trap.
Dynamic Duo talks to the hat check girl (Sandra Wells) at the convention-hosting hotel that was the scene of the fire chief's abduction. The eleventh juror, Madame Magda (Monique Le Maire), is abducted from her hat shop, where Lisa works. Lisa hands Batman a dropped clue--the card of Octave Marbot (Alberto Morin), a sculptor with whom Batman has been sitting. The Dynamic Duo go back to the Batcave to consult the Giant Lighted Lucite Map of Gotham City for some reason, while the Hatter strikes Marbot and takes his place for the Duo's arrival. He asks Batman to remove his cowl in another room for the sake of his statue. Batman sees through the ruse and finds the real Marbot in the room's closet, and the duo go out for a Batfight. When Tetch uses his hat, Batman pulls out an Anti-Mesmerizing Bat Reflector, but the beam hits Robin and Batman is knocked over the head and has plaster dumped on him, completely covering him.
HOW DOES BATMAN GET OUT OF THIS PLASTER TRAP??
HAS THE MAD HATTER OUTWITTED THE DYNAMIC DUO?? FOR HIS OWN EVIL ENDS??
THE WEB OF TERROR IS JUST STARTING TO TIGHTEN! LIKE THE WET PLASTER IS JUST STARTING TO HARDEN!!
BE PREPARED!! TOMORROW! SAME BAT-TIME!! SAME BAT-CHANNEL!!
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Thank you, Local Correspondent!
Pretty much the definitive sitcom. And the Trek angle hadn't even occurred to me.There's a Stone Cold Classic. And possibly a prequel to Star Trek.
I was just reading something about how Tony is now suffering from Alzheimer's...but is amazingly able to snap into performing mode without missing a beat.
George Reeves is on the job--the definitive Superman for at least one generation.
Tony and his family gave what was probably his last interview with Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes last night. You can find both parts on YouTube. Excuse me, I've got something in my eye.
Both of these appearances are "mighty fine," apparently. Not that I disagree.
Man, I love this song.
He regrets buying that limited-network policy now, you bet.
Nice. They seem to do their research on this show.
"Local horse doctor's got all the cure we need, ah reckon."
This is too spookily on the nose.
Jason Latina learnorum erit.
"You want a shot, I'll give you a shot."
Interesting how a show made fifty years ago and set 150 years ago is so topical today.
It seemed to lack punch, which is a shame because that's a strong theme.
I wonder what he would have done if the jurors did not have distinctive hats.
Cool, though.
Sounds like he's a little tetch'd in the haid.
Whoa, it's like a Roger Corman movie.
Back to you, Mixer!
I've thought for a while that it would be a sweet gesture to canonize I Love Lucy, as a little tribute.
Aw, that's sad. It's nice that he can still perform, because I think the loss of dignity that comes with Alzheimer's or dementia or whatever is worse than death.
He was really perfect for the part.
And I just read that Al Harrington died back on September 21. So the opening-credits Five-O actors are all gone.
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50th Anniversary Viewing (Part 1)
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Hawaii Five-O
"Wednesday, Ladies Free"
Originally aired September 28, 1971
A nurse comes home to be strangled by a gloved assailant, who then gets out a makeup kit to methodically paint her face, placing the blonde wig on her as the finishing touch. Private investigator Jerry Rhodes (Monte Markham) shows up at the investigation of the scene...his wife, Mary, having been one of the previous victims in a series of such stranglings. Che investigates how the killer gets into the homes without any sign of breaking and entering, and has a composite sketch made of all the victims, which includes a distinctive mole on one cheek. Jerry chats up an escort named Sheila (Marjorie Battles) at a bar, while Steve consults with psychologist Dr. Holmby (Danny Kamekona) about the nature of the killer and his grudge against the unknown woman whom he's making his victims up to look like. Chin talks to Gloria Marshall (Marie Windsor), who runs an escort service. Sheila takes Jerry to her place, which he starts searching, slapping her aside, and finds shooting-up paraphernalia. Using this as leverage, he persuades her to drop the name of a former escort who matches the composite description: Cathy Field (Sheilah Wells), who's now married to an Army captain named Hank (Norman Dupont) and pregnant. Gloria subsequently drops by Cathy's home to tip her off that the police are looking for her in relation to the murders, and notes that the killings started right after she left the business. But Cathy's husband doesn't know what she used to be, and she doesn't want to risk her marriage by coming forward.
Our omniscient view clues us in to a likely suspect--a man working at a car wash (Soon Taik Oh) who takes a special interest in an attractive female customer. Steve talks to a man named Raymond Crenshaw (uncredited actor), who was having an affair with Mrs. Rhodes, which his wife knows about...a detail that Jerry withheld. Confronted with this, Jerry tells Steve how he and Mary were on the verge of making amends when the killer struck, and Steve comes to believe that he's out for revenge despite his earlier assertion to the contrary. After McGarrett leaves, Jerry calls Cathy, blackmailing her for her old black book. She drops the names Susan Hopkins, to whom she gave the book. Jerry searches Susan's place, finds the book in a cushion, and starts calling the numbers of old customers, claiming to be Cathy's agent.
Meanwhile, the killer strikes victim #6, the woman at the car wash. Jerry gets a call back from a man whose answering service he'd previously reached (the voice of Soon Taik Oh), and makes a morning appointment for him at Cathy's address. Five-O pulls an all-nighter studying details on all the victims, looking for a connection, and narrow in on a specific area that they all went through in their routines. A car wash being on the street grabs Steve's attention, and the next day he visits the establishment with Danno to demonstrate how an employee would have the opportunity to get names, addresses, and key prints. They learn that the only worker who's been there six months is a mechanic named Vic Tanaka, who comes in on Wednesday, when ladies enjoy the titular special. They raid Tanaka's place, and though he's not home, they find key-making equipment, wigs, a makeup kit, and a note with Cathy's address and a phone number.
At the Field home, Jerry is waiting as Tanaka (Oh) arrives and sneaks in while Cathy's doing housework. He approaches her in ann awkward, desperate manner, wanting to know why she stopped seeing him. She tries to get away, and a struggle ensues as Jerry watches...letting it go so far before making his presence known and promptly putting three shots in Tanaka. Jerry then sees to Cathy and makes a show of burning the black book on the stove. When Tanaka's body is taken out, Jerry plays it like he got there just in time to save Cathy. McGarrett confronts him with his number having been found at Tanaka's under Cathy's name on the note, and accuses Jerry of having killed his wife and made it look like the strangler did it--the main tip-off being that Mary didn't drive, and thus wouldn't have used the car wash. Jerry asserts that killing Mary was a crime of passion, and thus manslaughter, and that he got the idea to make it fit the strangler's M.O. after the fact. Nevertheless, Steve has him booked for Murder One.
This one had a good twist that I didn't see coming.
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Adam-12
"The Grandmothers"
Originally aired September 29, 1971
The first call is a 211 for all units in the vicinity of Adam-12. At Grandmother's House, they find 78-year-old Mrs. Frieda Pine (Florence Lake) in charge, while Mrs. Kovacs (Winifred Coffin) recovers from the robbery of $43.75. Mrs. Pine deduces that the suspect was a "hype," and proves to otherwise be very observant of details. While Pete broadcasts the suspect's description, Jim makes an excuse to go back inside and buys potholders.
The next 211 for all units involves three suspects who got away in a car that matches one that cuts right in front of them. Reed calls for backup while they attempt to follow the car quietly, but it eventually tries to flee. Mac helps cut the vehicle off, and when one of the robbers tries to make a run for it on foot, Mac's stunt double pursues and tackles him. Malloy offers a winded Mac some backhanded congratulations.
The officers respond to yet another 211, at a shop run by Ted Clover (Ozzie), who isn't as helpful with details as Mrs. Pine...but what he can be coaxed to remember matches the suspect who robbed the grandmothers. In this case, the suspect wanted exactly $115, though there was more cash in the drawer. The officers then get called back to Grandmother's House, where Mrs. Pine informs them that the suspect returned to give back the money with interest and an apology. Pine wants to drop the charge, but is informed that it's a felony, and that the suspect appears to have paid her with the money from the other robbery. Jim buys more potholders.
Back on patrol, the officers pull over a car after it makes a rolling stop. The driver identifies himself Father Meginnis (Jack Wagner), though he's wearing street clothes, and is glad to see them, explaining that he was headed for the station and handing them a bag of marijuana that he bought undercover as a sting. The father is eager to take them to the apartment of the dealer (Don't you forget about Paul Gleason), where he asks for more grass and covertly unlocks the door while the dealer gets it. Reed and Malloy bust in, the suspect takes a swing, and Meginnis punches him in the gut. After it's all over, Jim gives the father a brief warning about rolling stops.
The final call is for a 211 in progress at Grandmother's House for all units in their vicinity. The officers find the robber (Dennis Rucker) holding a gun on Pine, desperate for more money than the grandmothers have. The officers subdue him, and while Reed's putting him in the car, Pete buys a doily.
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The Brady Bunch
"The Brady Braves"
Originally aired October 1, 1971
A brief intro with more calling out for Bobby and Cindy leads into a small Mike-narrated flashback recap. We pick up with the kids meeting Jimmy face-to-face.
At first Jimmy's reluctant to help because he doesn't want to be found himself...but he gets the kids close enough to their camp that Carol finds them. Mike gives the kids a brief talking-to for wandering off, but they need to secretly smuggle some food out to their runaway friend. During a campfire singalong with Greg on acoustic guitar, the little ones start to tuck hot dogs into their coats, then ask Alice for extras and stash some beans away in a flashlight. (Mmmm...maple and alkaline flavor!) When everyone else is sleeping, they sneak out again and manage to find Jimmy, but Greg and Peter come looking for them and meet Jimmy. Greg's arguing that they should tell the folks about Jimmy when Mike finds them all.
Cut to Mike talking to Jimmy about why he ran away. When Jimmy posits being an Indian as being an either/or choice to being an astronaut, Mike tells him that he should give his grandfather a chance, then invites him back to their camp with the promise of breakfast. But come daybreak, Jimmy has vanished, and while fetching water, Alice runs into a familiar-to-us face in the wilderness. Chief Eagle Cloud meets the Bradys, thanks them from talking Jimmy into returning home, and invites the family to their camp for a ceremony in which the Bradys will be made members of his family and tribe. The Bradys are treated to a campfire dance of the tribe's children, followed by an invocation in which the chief declares them to be his people, then gives them each their tribal names. (For Peter he suggests each of the ones listed above, neither of which Peter likes, then says that he'll get back to him.) Finally, the family is invited to join in the dancing.
Cut to the Bradys having a last look at the Canyon before leaving.
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The Partridge Family
"A Man Called Snake"
Originally aired October 1, 1971
This one opens very abruptly with Snake Harry Murphy, a.k.a. Snake (Rob Reiner) at the Partridge's door. I was wondering why some episodes had teasers and others didn't...now I suspect that Antenna is sometimes cutting them, as appears to be the case here. Snake is visiting because Keith was quoted in a magazine saying that Laurie had a crush on him, and he wants her autograph. Snake then shows up in Laurie's school, driving through the corridors on his bike; and later tosses a note in the window during a class. At a home rehearsal of "Listen To The Sound," Laurie's distracted by the attention she's been getting from the biker. She tries to talk to him off-camera and comes home to announce that she made a date with him, having been won over by the somewhat softer side he displays to her.
In a talk with her mother, Laurie references when she got braces...at the age of 9--Conspicuously Flubbed Continuity Alert! Keith and Danny go to a biker hangout looking for Snake, and he intervenes on their behalf when the others get rowdy. When the boys come home, it turns out that Snake's won them over as well. Laurie ends up bringing him to a school dance, for which he dons a shabby suit, but is clearly uncomfortable in the environment. His lack of dancing prowess draws some negative attention from the other students, which turns into an offscreen rumble. When Snake takes Laurie home, they break up amicably because their worlds are too different.
In the coda, Snake sends Laurie a hot lawn flamingo to replace one that he ran over at the beginning of the episode.
I have to wonder about the timing of Reiner guesting on a show when he already had a co-starring role in another. Note also that he's not wearing his full Meathead 'stache here.
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The Odd Couple
"Hospital Mates"
Originally aired October 1, 1971
Felix comes home from the doctor after having been told that he needs surgery to fix his deviated septum and stop his honking. Gloria has the guys and Nancy for cards; Oscar doesn't want Felix talking about his nose, but it comes up anyway. It turns out that Felix is so nervous because he's never had an operation, so he picks a card to determine whether he'll get it. Right after Felix is taken to the hospital, Oscar snaps his Achilles tendon. Taken to the hospital, Oscar finds that Felix has arranged for the two of them to be put in the same room. It turns out that Oscar is afraid as well. Felix references having been in the Army...has that come up before?
The two of them are tended to by Sister Kathleen (Peggy Doyle), and then doped up before their operations. (Perhaps for nerves?) Felix is taken first. Cut to the guys coming home, Felix with his eyes bandaged and Oscar on crutches. Gloria's supposed to be tending to them, but quickly finds that she has to get away from them, and thus the duo have to take care of each other. Oscar makes another Sesame Street reference when Felix has to count the holes each time he dials a number on the phone. The two of them naturally drive each other crazy, such that Oscar tries to kick Felix out, but changes his mind when Felix puts on Gloria's coat on the way out.
In the coda, Oscar lets Felix spray whipped cream in the apartment, the latter thinking that it's air freshener.
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50th Anniversary Viewing (Part 1)
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Hawaii Five-O
"Wednesday, Ladies Free"
Originally aired September 28, 1971
Wiki said:
A nurse comes home to be strangled by a gloved assailant, who then gets out a makeup kit to methodically paint her face, placing the blonde wig on her as the finishing touch. Private investigator Jerry Rhodes (Monte Markham) shows up at the investigation of the scene...his wife, Mary, having been one of the previous victims in a series of such stranglings. Che investigates how the killer gets into the homes without any sign of breaking and entering, and has a composite sketch made of all the victims, which includes a distinctive mole on one cheek. Jerry chats up an escort named Sheila (Marjorie Battles) at a bar, while Steve consults with psychologist Dr. Holmby (Danny Kamekona) about the nature of the killer and his grudge against the unknown woman whom he's making his victims up to look like. Chin talks to Gloria Marshall (Marie Windsor), who runs an escort service. Sheila takes Jerry to her place, which he starts searching, slapping her aside, and finds shooting-up paraphernalia. Using this as leverage, he persuades her to drop the name of a former escort who matches the composite description: Cathy Field (Sheilah Wells), who's now married to an Army captain named Hank (Norman Dupont) and pregnant. Gloria subsequently drops by Cathy's home to tip her off that the police are looking for her in relation to the murders, and notes that the killings started right after she left the business. But Cathy's husband doesn't know what she used to be, and she doesn't want to risk her marriage by coming forward.
Our omniscient view clues us in to a likely suspect--a man working at a car wash (Soon Taik Oh) who takes a special interest in an attractive female customer. Steve talks to a man named Raymond Crenshaw (uncredited actor), who was having an affair with Mrs. Rhodes, which his wife knows about...a detail that Jerry withheld. Confronted with this, Jerry tells Steve how he and Mary were on the verge of making amends when the killer struck, and Steve comes to believe that he's out for revenge despite his earlier assertion to the contrary. After McGarrett leaves, Jerry calls Cathy, blackmailing her for her old black book. She drops the names Susan Hopkins, to whom she gave the book. Jerry searches Susan's place, finds the book in a cushion, and starts calling the numbers of old customers, claiming to be Cathy's agent.
Meanwhile, the killer strikes victim #6, the woman at the car wash. Jerry gets a call back from a man whose answering service he'd previously reached (the voice of Soon Taik Oh), and makes a morning appointment for him at Cathy's address. Five-O pulls an all-nighter studying details on all the victims, looking for a connection, and narrow in on a specific area that they all went through in their routines. A car wash being on the street grabs Steve's attention, and the next day he visits the establishment with Danno to demonstrate how an employee would have the opportunity to get names, addresses, and key prints. They learn that the only worker who's been there six months is a mechanic named Vic Tanaka, who comes in on Wednesday, when ladies enjoy the titular special. They raid Tanaka's place, and though he's not home, they find key-making equipment, wigs, a makeup kit, and a note with Cathy's address and a phone number.
At the Field home, Jerry is waiting as Tanaka (Oh) arrives and sneaks in while Cathy's doing housework. He approaches her in ann awkward, desperate manner, wanting to know why she stopped seeing him. She tries to get away, and a struggle ensues as Jerry watches...letting it go so far before making his presence known and promptly putting three shots in Tanaka. Jerry then sees to Cathy and makes a show of burning the black book on the stove. When Tanaka's body is taken out, Jerry plays it like he got there just in time to save Cathy. McGarrett confronts him with his number having been found at Tanaka's under Cathy's name on the note, and accuses Jerry of having killed his wife and made it look like the strangler did it--the main tip-off being that Mary didn't drive, and thus wouldn't have used the car wash. Jerry asserts that killing Mary was a crime of passion, and thus manslaughter, and that he got the idea to make it fit the strangler's M.O. after the fact. Nevertheless, Steve has him booked for Murder One.
This one had a good twist that I didn't see coming.
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Adam-12
"The Grandmothers"
Originally aired September 29, 1971
Wiki said:
The first call is a 211 for all units in the vicinity of Adam-12. At Grandmother's House, they find 78-year-old Mrs. Frieda Pine (Florence Lake) in charge, while Mrs. Kovacs (Winifred Coffin) recovers from the robbery of $43.75. Mrs. Pine deduces that the suspect was a "hype," and proves to otherwise be very observant of details. While Pete broadcasts the suspect's description, Jim makes an excuse to go back inside and buys potholders.
The next 211 for all units involves three suspects who got away in a car that matches one that cuts right in front of them. Reed calls for backup while they attempt to follow the car quietly, but it eventually tries to flee. Mac helps cut the vehicle off, and when one of the robbers tries to make a run for it on foot, Mac's stunt double pursues and tackles him. Malloy offers a winded Mac some backhanded congratulations.
The officers respond to yet another 211, at a shop run by Ted Clover (Ozzie), who isn't as helpful with details as Mrs. Pine...but what he can be coaxed to remember matches the suspect who robbed the grandmothers. In this case, the suspect wanted exactly $115, though there was more cash in the drawer. The officers then get called back to Grandmother's House, where Mrs. Pine informs them that the suspect returned to give back the money with interest and an apology. Pine wants to drop the charge, but is informed that it's a felony, and that the suspect appears to have paid her with the money from the other robbery. Jim buys more potholders.
Back on patrol, the officers pull over a car after it makes a rolling stop. The driver identifies himself Father Meginnis (Jack Wagner), though he's wearing street clothes, and is glad to see them, explaining that he was headed for the station and handing them a bag of marijuana that he bought undercover as a sting. The father is eager to take them to the apartment of the dealer (Don't you forget about Paul Gleason), where he asks for more grass and covertly unlocks the door while the dealer gets it. Reed and Malloy bust in, the suspect takes a swing, and Meginnis punches him in the gut. After it's all over, Jim gives the father a brief warning about rolling stops.
The final call is for a 211 in progress at Grandmother's House for all units in their vicinity. The officers find the robber (Dennis Rucker) holding a gun on Pine, desperate for more money than the grandmothers have. The officers subdue him, and while Reed's putting him in the car, Pete buys a doily.
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The Brady Bunch
"The Brady Braves"
Originally aired October 1, 1971
Wiki said:
A brief intro with more calling out for Bobby and Cindy leads into a small Mike-narrated flashback recap. We pick up with the kids meeting Jimmy face-to-face.
Bobby: How!
Jimmy: How what?
Bobby: Uh..how are you?
Jimmy: I'm okay.
Jimmy: How what?
Bobby: Uh..how are you?
Jimmy: I'm okay.
At first Jimmy's reluctant to help because he doesn't want to be found himself...but he gets the kids close enough to their camp that Carol finds them. Mike gives the kids a brief talking-to for wandering off, but they need to secretly smuggle some food out to their runaway friend. During a campfire singalong with Greg on acoustic guitar, the little ones start to tuck hot dogs into their coats, then ask Alice for extras and stash some beans away in a flashlight. (Mmmm...maple and alkaline flavor!) When everyone else is sleeping, they sneak out again and manage to find Jimmy, but Greg and Peter come looking for them and meet Jimmy. Greg's arguing that they should tell the folks about Jimmy when Mike finds them all.
Cut to Mike talking to Jimmy about why he ran away. When Jimmy posits being an Indian as being an either/or choice to being an astronaut, Mike tells him that he should give his grandfather a chance, then invites him back to their camp with the promise of breakfast. But come daybreak, Jimmy has vanished, and while fetching water, Alice runs into a familiar-to-us face in the wilderness. Chief Eagle Cloud meets the Bradys, thanks them from talking Jimmy into returning home, and invites the family to their camp for a ceremony in which the Bradys will be made members of his family and tribe. The Bradys are treated to a campfire dance of the tribe's children, followed by an invocation in which the chief declares them to be his people, then gives them each their tribal names. (For Peter he suggests each of the ones listed above, neither of which Peter likes, then says that he'll get back to him.) Finally, the family is invited to join in the dancing.
Cut to the Bradys having a last look at the Canyon before leaving.
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The Partridge Family
"A Man Called Snake"
Originally aired October 1, 1971
Wiki said:
This one opens very abruptly with Snake Harry Murphy, a.k.a. Snake (Rob Reiner) at the Partridge's door. I was wondering why some episodes had teasers and others didn't...now I suspect that Antenna is sometimes cutting them, as appears to be the case here. Snake is visiting because Keith was quoted in a magazine saying that Laurie had a crush on him, and he wants her autograph. Snake then shows up in Laurie's school, driving through the corridors on his bike; and later tosses a note in the window during a class. At a home rehearsal of "Listen To The Sound," Laurie's distracted by the attention she's been getting from the biker. She tries to talk to him off-camera and comes home to announce that she made a date with him, having been won over by the somewhat softer side he displays to her.
In a talk with her mother, Laurie references when she got braces...at the age of 9--Conspicuously Flubbed Continuity Alert! Keith and Danny go to a biker hangout looking for Snake, and he intervenes on their behalf when the others get rowdy. When the boys come home, it turns out that Snake's won them over as well. Laurie ends up bringing him to a school dance, for which he dons a shabby suit, but is clearly uncomfortable in the environment. His lack of dancing prowess draws some negative attention from the other students, which turns into an offscreen rumble. When Snake takes Laurie home, they break up amicably because their worlds are too different.
In the coda, Snake sends Laurie a hot lawn flamingo to replace one that he ran over at the beginning of the episode.
I have to wonder about the timing of Reiner guesting on a show when he already had a co-starring role in another. Note also that he's not wearing his full Meathead 'stache here.
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The Odd Couple
"Hospital Mates"
Originally aired October 1, 1971
Wiki said:
Felix comes home from the doctor after having been told that he needs surgery to fix his deviated septum and stop his honking. Gloria has the guys and Nancy for cards; Oscar doesn't want Felix talking about his nose, but it comes up anyway. It turns out that Felix is so nervous because he's never had an operation, so he picks a card to determine whether he'll get it. Right after Felix is taken to the hospital, Oscar snaps his Achilles tendon. Taken to the hospital, Oscar finds that Felix has arranged for the two of them to be put in the same room. It turns out that Oscar is afraid as well. Felix references having been in the Army...has that come up before?
The two of them are tended to by Sister Kathleen (Peggy Doyle), and then doped up before their operations. (Perhaps for nerves?) Felix is taken first. Cut to the guys coming home, Felix with his eyes bandaged and Oscar on crutches. Gloria's supposed to be tending to them, but quickly finds that she has to get away from them, and thus the duo have to take care of each other. Oscar makes another Sesame Street reference when Felix has to count the holes each time he dials a number on the phone. The two of them naturally drive each other crazy, such that Oscar tries to kick Felix out, but changes his mind when Felix puts on Gloria's coat on the way out.
In the coda, Oscar lets Felix spray whipped cream in the apartment, the latter thinking that it's air freshener.
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You can tell that the performances were actually back to back, with the same "walk over to Ed" placed at the end of each video.Both of these appearances are "mighty fine," apparently. Not that I disagree.
When you put it that way...
Who, Gordon or Tetch?I wonder what he would have done if the jurors did not have distinctive hats.
I think I may have mentioned this the last time around (hence having the image handy), but it reminds me of the first comic I ever bought...Detective Comics #450 (1975), "The Cape and Cowl Deathtrap":
You'd think he'd want the makeup and wig on first.
The Seven-Million Dollar Man.
That sounds like a good one, although I can see a couple of holes: There's no way that Jerry could have made up his dead wife closely enough to match the other murders, and that book burned at the scene of the shooting would have raised a lot of questions.
This is at least the second time Mac has shown up out in the field. I think he's having a mid-life crisis.
This is interesting. I don't think I knew that Ozzie Nelson directed.
And getting that squad car over the river and through the woods is a pain in the ass.
Perhaps to give to Ozzie this time. Things are getting confusing.
Then Mac bursts through the window and handcuffs the perp!
And, like, maybe don't go all rogue with these drug stings because he might get killed.
"The price of grass went up since my dealer was arrested."
This is actually pretty good. The show doesn't often, if ever, address topical themes and this is a surprisingly realistic way of addressing stereotyping.
Well, this makes up for the absence of Jim Backus.
I suppose this could be seen as either compromising the message or underscoring it. The important thing is that they meant well, and it's all rather heartwarming.
"Take a good look, kids. We're never leaving home again."
Is Snake a famous biker or does Laurie just ogle bikers?
Things might go easier for Snake if he switches to a more mammalian name.
The Meathead 'stache is a rug?
I predict this surgery will fail.
Or the nurses were just tired of listening to them.
That's hilarious.
I know, that's what I meant.
Tetch. His MO would have been out the window.
Ah, some classic Neal Adams work. I wonder where he is these days. I seem to remember him promoting some weird pseudo-science theory about the Earth growing or shrinking or something.
It looks like his last work were a couple of stories for Superman's and Batman's 80th Anniversary editions.
This was a great single, one of their best IMO. Though well played, I'm not crazy about what the Sullivan band did with it. The minimal bass and drum intro is lightened up and filled out, and I think a tenor sax has been substituted for the signature baritone, which really plumbed the depth of its range on the original. The brass punches are showy and seem out of place. I don't fault the band for not being able to fully replicate the atmosphere without strings, but overall the arrangement seems like a mis-read of a moody song with an anguished lyric. Diana is totally in control, though; her phrasing is impeccable. You can really feel the "and the" coming for Flo and Mary.
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