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50th Anniversary Viewing (Part 2)
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All in the Family
"Edith Flips Her Wig"
Originally aired October 21, 1972
Edith comes home from Saturday afternoon shopping acting tight-lipped about something that's bothering her. When the kids press, she blurts out that she was arrested for shoplifting, and gets into the history of her Aunt Gertrude, "the klepper". Archie comes home in a good mood from bowling to have the bomb dropped on him, and tries to get the story out of her, which takes the usual convoluted turns. Eventually it comes out that she ran out of a department store while trying on a wig to go after a woman she'd given bad bus info to. When Archie learns that she was put on a blacklist, he wants to straighten the matter out with the store, and cheers her up by expressing his understanding that she's not a criminal, she's just a dingbat. Then Gloria compliments the necklace that Edith's wearing, and she realizes that she stole that, too.
Mike argues that Edith should see a psychiatrist, and Edith gets further distraught when she realizes that she still has a borrowed umbrella that she thought she'd returned to Louise Jefferson. Edith opts to see Father John Majeski (Barnard Hughes reprising his role from "Edith's Accident"). After she has to remind him of what commandments she's broken, he has her get into the details of the incident and she realizes that she didn't do it on purpose, and that a floorwalker was there at the time who could serve as a witness on her behalf. Meanwhile, Archie goes to see the department store manager, Mr. Kirkwood (James Gregory), but sticks his foot in his mouth when he tries to get on the man's good side by expressing his preference for a store not run by Jews, only to be informed that Kirkwood's wife is Jewish...causing Kirkwood to describe Archie with the Yiddish word for "meathead". Despite this, Archie comes home to learn that the floorwalker has cleared Edith with his testimony.
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Emergency!
"Saddled"
Originally aired October 21, 1972
Brackett has Early called into the exam room after Dixie has her toe run over by a portable X-ray machine, and they joke about amputation. At the station, Johnny tells Roy about how he's buying a saddle so he can make extra money doing rodeos, noting that he was raised on a ranch (causing Roy to describe him as an "Indian cowboy"). The squad is called to a lunch stand run by belligerant Ben Wesley (Larry Storch) to see to a teenage girl named Lisa Hill (Ronne Troup) who was injured by an exploding pop bottle, hitting her head on a pipe and possibly getting glass in her eye. Roy notices Wesley's improperly connected gas heater and cites him for it. Station 51 is later called to a follow-up explosion at Wesley's lunch stand, finding the owner conscious but badly burned. At Rampart, Early's gotten the glass out of Lisa's eyes without serious injury, and the girl is pleased to learn that the boy she was with, Mike Allen (Michael Rupert), has been fretting out in the hall over her.
At the station, Johnny's laying it on a bit thick during a rope-tying exercise the firemen are participating in when the squad is called to see to a seven-year-old child, Timmy Collins (Christopher Gardner), whose mother (Barbara Bosson) found him outside in a coma, apparently having fallen from a tree. Both the paramedics and Brackett notice older, existing bruises all over his arms that haven't healed. Brackett examines his blood and diagnoses ITP--a disorder involving the spleen consuming blood platelets, which interferes with healing. A couple of Timmy's friends somehow get to the hospital and wander the corridors looking for him. When the nurses are rounding up potential donors (including an orderly [Jay Hammer] who's been hitting on Dyna-Nurse), the boys volunteer, but Dixie tells them they shouldn't be needed.
Station 51 is called to the scene of a camp bus that's fallen offroad down a hillside and is partly hanging off a steeper cliff. The firemen climb down to secure the bus with ropes attached to the engine. Roy busts a window to climb in and help the driver, Sister Barbara (Elizabeth Baur), who's unconscious and pinned under wreckage. The kids, none of whom seem to be seriously injured, are evacuated, and the sister's first concern when she awakes is for them. (One of the kids is played by Kelly Troup, daughter of Bobby Troup and Julie London, and half-sister of Ronne.) Then the sister asks for her rosary and beseaches Roy to read a prayer from her book. This comforts her, rather than serving as a dramatic moment for her death. The paramedics use the Porta Power to free her, and she's carried down on the Stokes via the cherry picker to a road below. When she learns she's to be taken out by helicopter, she asks Roy to accompany her as, despite all she's endured, she's afraid of flying. At Rampart, Roy expresses to Dix how he's been moved by his experience with the sister. Meanwhile, Timmy's platelet count improves thanks to the donations.
In the coda, Johnny's having second thoughts about the rodeo thing while experiencing extreme soreness after his first practice session.
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The Mary Tyler Moore Show
"Rhoda the Beautiful"
Originally aired October 21, 1972
Rhoda's reached her Calorie Cutters goal, but isn't pleased with the result...probably because she didn't look 20 pounds heavier last week, though Lou and Phyllis both notice the difference. Then she announces that she was picked for the store contest, though she doesn't feel she belongs in it, and comes to think she's there to make the other contestants look good. On the day of the contest, Rhoda can't find anything to wear that still fits her, which is laying it on a bit thick, if you'll pardon the expression. Rhoda returns from the contest to announce that she came in third, but after Phyllis leaves, she confesses to Mary that she actually won.
This one seemed like the story was there to hang odd gags on, like Mary obsessing over not liking to eat lunch alone, Rhoda enjoying food vicariously through Mary, and Phyllis singing a song she once performed in a contest while Rhoda was trying on clothes.
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The Bob Newhart Show
"Goodnight, Nancy"
Originally aired October 21, 1972
Emily takes a call from Nancy asking the Hartleys about a dinner date with her and her husband while they're in Chicago. Bob doesn't recognize Nancy by her married name, but he finds out who she is, Emily is more interested in having dinner with the Brocks than Bob is...until Emily learns that she was mistaking the girl Bob dumped for her for the college romance whom he wanted to marry. Bob has to quell potential rumors when Carol takes a follow-up message at the office. Nancy arrives at the restaurant ahead of her husband, Chuck (Dick Schaal), acts affectionate toward Bob, and, when she has him aside, matter-of-factly drops that she and Chuck are looking into getting a divorce.
At the table, Nancy repeatedly brings up old times with Bob, and Bob tries to shift attention to Emily, then accidentally agrees to a lunch date with just Nancy. Emily's insecurity comes out that night in bed, though Bob tries to downplay the situation. At work, Bob confides in Jerry that he thinks Nancy wants him, and he feels good about it, though he doesn't plan to reciprocate. At lunch, Bob tries to head Nancy off by explaining to her that what she's feeling is just infatuation, but she's ahead of him, and announces that she doesn't love him again--echoing their break-up and taking the wind of Bob's sails, as that's what he was building up to. Then Bob learns that Chuck has threatened to do bodily harm to him if Nancy has lunch with him, and Bob calls for the check. In the coda, Emily's pleased when Bob describes lunch as awkward and uncomfortable.
Continuity point: We learn that Bob and Emily have been married for three years.
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Mission: Impossible
"Cocaine"
Originally aired October 21, 1972
Carl Reid (Stephen McNally) and his right-hand man, Joseph Conrad (The Shat), meet with Fernando Laroca (Gregory Sierra), who demonstrates how their titular shipment will be smuggled in the base of a seahorse sculpture. When the artist, Rene Santoro (Miguel Landa), objects and tries to walk out, his fate makes Jim's ears burn.
Mimi's in this one, but Barney's 'stache isn't. The IMF plants a story in the paper about how New Detective in Town Barney busted a million-dollar cocaine shipment concealed as part of a liquor shipment being delivered to a swinger club that Conrad frequents, the owner of which has conveniently just had plastic surgery following an accident and is now being filled in for by an undisguised Jim. Conrad scopes the place out and takes an interest in Stoned Waitress Mimi, going to her place after work. She's just showing him the secret compartment where she keeps her private stash when Barney and his Conventional Law Enforcement Squad raid the place and don't find the drugs, but arrest Mimi. Conrad is happy to throw her under the bus when she tries to establish an alibi, as he's gotten what he wants, examining the stash after the cops leave.
Reid's chemist Stanley (Milton Selzer) declares it to be the purest blow he's ever seen. Believing Jim to be the distributor, Reid has a credit agency whose tapes have been switched by Willy look into Jim's business, finding that it's been in trouble and deducing that he's keeping it afloat with the cocaine. Conrad has Mimi bailed out and strongarms her to take him to Jim, to whom Conrad offers his services as a distributor. When Jim tries to kick Mimi out, she pulls out and starts firing a small pistol, Jim struggles with her over it, and she's fake accidentally shot.
Conrad uses this as leverage to get Jim to take him to the secret drug lab of Synthetic Cocaine Chemist Willy. Conrad calls in Stanley--who tips off Reid against Conrad's instructions--to check the operation out, and the chemist is impressed. Barney, who's been set up by this point to be corruptible and in it for his own ends, raids the place solo, and Conrad pitches to him what a great opportunity this is and arranges a meeting with a group of buyers. Barney fake knocks off Stanley to silence him. Jim, Willy, and Mimi crash the buyers' meeting, fake-revealing that their part in all of this was a con within the scheme, and split with the buyers' $5 million in cash. An uncredited Charles Napier discovers that the white powder they were buying is just sugar, and that Conrad's been fake had.
Barney buys Conrad and himself time by offering to get the buyers the real thing. Now suspicious of what Conrad's up to, Reid has him followed by a thug named Steve (Emile Beaucard) while arranging to pick up his own shipment. Conrad waylays Reid's go-between (an uncredited Timothy Brown), forces the art gallery location out of him, and shoots him, but the go-between tells Steve the location before dying. Some monitored phone calls put the IMF onto both the art gallery and the location where Laroca is picking up the money. Reid and his men catch Conrad at the sea horse sculpture, and the IMF swoops in on all of them with Conventional Backup.
This one lost me after a point, the scheme was so convoluted.
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50th Anniversary Viewing (Part 2)
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All in the Family
"Edith Flips Her Wig"
Originally aired October 21, 1972
Wiki said:
Edith comes home from Saturday afternoon shopping acting tight-lipped about something that's bothering her. When the kids press, she blurts out that she was arrested for shoplifting, and gets into the history of her Aunt Gertrude, "the klepper". Archie comes home in a good mood from bowling to have the bomb dropped on him, and tries to get the story out of her, which takes the usual convoluted turns. Eventually it comes out that she ran out of a department store while trying on a wig to go after a woman she'd given bad bus info to. When Archie learns that she was put on a blacklist, he wants to straighten the matter out with the store, and cheers her up by expressing his understanding that she's not a criminal, she's just a dingbat. Then Gloria compliments the necklace that Edith's wearing, and she realizes that she stole that, too.
Mike argues that Edith should see a psychiatrist, and Edith gets further distraught when she realizes that she still has a borrowed umbrella that she thought she'd returned to Louise Jefferson. Edith opts to see Father John Majeski (Barnard Hughes reprising his role from "Edith's Accident"). After she has to remind him of what commandments she's broken, he has her get into the details of the incident and she realizes that she didn't do it on purpose, and that a floorwalker was there at the time who could serve as a witness on her behalf. Meanwhile, Archie goes to see the department store manager, Mr. Kirkwood (James Gregory), but sticks his foot in his mouth when he tries to get on the man's good side by expressing his preference for a store not run by Jews, only to be informed that Kirkwood's wife is Jewish...causing Kirkwood to describe Archie with the Yiddish word for "meathead". Despite this, Archie comes home to learn that the floorwalker has cleared Edith with his testimony.
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Emergency!
"Saddled"
Originally aired October 21, 1972
Wiki said:
Brackett has Early called into the exam room after Dixie has her toe run over by a portable X-ray machine, and they joke about amputation. At the station, Johnny tells Roy about how he's buying a saddle so he can make extra money doing rodeos, noting that he was raised on a ranch (causing Roy to describe him as an "Indian cowboy"). The squad is called to a lunch stand run by belligerant Ben Wesley (Larry Storch) to see to a teenage girl named Lisa Hill (Ronne Troup) who was injured by an exploding pop bottle, hitting her head on a pipe and possibly getting glass in her eye. Roy notices Wesley's improperly connected gas heater and cites him for it. Station 51 is later called to a follow-up explosion at Wesley's lunch stand, finding the owner conscious but badly burned. At Rampart, Early's gotten the glass out of Lisa's eyes without serious injury, and the girl is pleased to learn that the boy she was with, Mike Allen (Michael Rupert), has been fretting out in the hall over her.
At the station, Johnny's laying it on a bit thick during a rope-tying exercise the firemen are participating in when the squad is called to see to a seven-year-old child, Timmy Collins (Christopher Gardner), whose mother (Barbara Bosson) found him outside in a coma, apparently having fallen from a tree. Both the paramedics and Brackett notice older, existing bruises all over his arms that haven't healed. Brackett examines his blood and diagnoses ITP--a disorder involving the spleen consuming blood platelets, which interferes with healing. A couple of Timmy's friends somehow get to the hospital and wander the corridors looking for him. When the nurses are rounding up potential donors (including an orderly [Jay Hammer] who's been hitting on Dyna-Nurse), the boys volunteer, but Dixie tells them they shouldn't be needed.
Station 51 is called to the scene of a camp bus that's fallen offroad down a hillside and is partly hanging off a steeper cliff. The firemen climb down to secure the bus with ropes attached to the engine. Roy busts a window to climb in and help the driver, Sister Barbara (Elizabeth Baur), who's unconscious and pinned under wreckage. The kids, none of whom seem to be seriously injured, are evacuated, and the sister's first concern when she awakes is for them. (One of the kids is played by Kelly Troup, daughter of Bobby Troup and Julie London, and half-sister of Ronne.) Then the sister asks for her rosary and beseaches Roy to read a prayer from her book. This comforts her, rather than serving as a dramatic moment for her death. The paramedics use the Porta Power to free her, and she's carried down on the Stokes via the cherry picker to a road below. When she learns she's to be taken out by helicopter, she asks Roy to accompany her as, despite all she's endured, she's afraid of flying. At Rampart, Roy expresses to Dix how he's been moved by his experience with the sister. Meanwhile, Timmy's platelet count improves thanks to the donations.
In the coda, Johnny's having second thoughts about the rodeo thing while experiencing extreme soreness after his first practice session.
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The Mary Tyler Moore Show
"Rhoda the Beautiful"
Originally aired October 21, 1972
Wiki said:
Rhoda's reached her Calorie Cutters goal, but isn't pleased with the result...probably because she didn't look 20 pounds heavier last week, though Lou and Phyllis both notice the difference. Then she announces that she was picked for the store contest, though she doesn't feel she belongs in it, and comes to think she's there to make the other contestants look good. On the day of the contest, Rhoda can't find anything to wear that still fits her, which is laying it on a bit thick, if you'll pardon the expression. Rhoda returns from the contest to announce that she came in third, but after Phyllis leaves, she confesses to Mary that she actually won.
This one seemed like the story was there to hang odd gags on, like Mary obsessing over not liking to eat lunch alone, Rhoda enjoying food vicariously through Mary, and Phyllis singing a song she once performed in a contest while Rhoda was trying on clothes.
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The Bob Newhart Show
"Goodnight, Nancy"
Originally aired October 21, 1972
Wiki said:
Emily takes a call from Nancy asking the Hartleys about a dinner date with her and her husband while they're in Chicago. Bob doesn't recognize Nancy by her married name, but he finds out who she is, Emily is more interested in having dinner with the Brocks than Bob is...until Emily learns that she was mistaking the girl Bob dumped for her for the college romance whom he wanted to marry. Bob has to quell potential rumors when Carol takes a follow-up message at the office. Nancy arrives at the restaurant ahead of her husband, Chuck (Dick Schaal), acts affectionate toward Bob, and, when she has him aside, matter-of-factly drops that she and Chuck are looking into getting a divorce.
At the table, Nancy repeatedly brings up old times with Bob, and Bob tries to shift attention to Emily, then accidentally agrees to a lunch date with just Nancy. Emily's insecurity comes out that night in bed, though Bob tries to downplay the situation. At work, Bob confides in Jerry that he thinks Nancy wants him, and he feels good about it, though he doesn't plan to reciprocate. At lunch, Bob tries to head Nancy off by explaining to her that what she's feeling is just infatuation, but she's ahead of him, and announces that she doesn't love him again--echoing their break-up and taking the wind of Bob's sails, as that's what he was building up to. Then Bob learns that Chuck has threatened to do bodily harm to him if Nancy has lunch with him, and Bob calls for the check. In the coda, Emily's pleased when Bob describes lunch as awkward and uncomfortable.
Continuity point: We learn that Bob and Emily have been married for three years.
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Mission: Impossible
"Cocaine"
Originally aired October 21, 1972
Wiki said:
Carl Reid (Stephen McNally) and his right-hand man, Joseph Conrad (The Shat), meet with Fernando Laroca (Gregory Sierra), who demonstrates how their titular shipment will be smuggled in the base of a seahorse sculpture. When the artist, Rene Santoro (Miguel Landa), objects and tries to walk out, his fate makes Jim's ears burn.
The miniature reel-to-reel tape hidden in a book in a bookshop office said:
Mimi's in this one, but Barney's 'stache isn't. The IMF plants a story in the paper about how New Detective in Town Barney busted a million-dollar cocaine shipment concealed as part of a liquor shipment being delivered to a swinger club that Conrad frequents, the owner of which has conveniently just had plastic surgery following an accident and is now being filled in for by an undisguised Jim. Conrad scopes the place out and takes an interest in Stoned Waitress Mimi, going to her place after work. She's just showing him the secret compartment where she keeps her private stash when Barney and his Conventional Law Enforcement Squad raid the place and don't find the drugs, but arrest Mimi. Conrad is happy to throw her under the bus when she tries to establish an alibi, as he's gotten what he wants, examining the stash after the cops leave.
Reid's chemist Stanley (Milton Selzer) declares it to be the purest blow he's ever seen. Believing Jim to be the distributor, Reid has a credit agency whose tapes have been switched by Willy look into Jim's business, finding that it's been in trouble and deducing that he's keeping it afloat with the cocaine. Conrad has Mimi bailed out and strongarms her to take him to Jim, to whom Conrad offers his services as a distributor. When Jim tries to kick Mimi out, she pulls out and starts firing a small pistol, Jim struggles with her over it, and she's fake accidentally shot.
Conrad uses this as leverage to get Jim to take him to the secret drug lab of Synthetic Cocaine Chemist Willy. Conrad calls in Stanley--who tips off Reid against Conrad's instructions--to check the operation out, and the chemist is impressed. Barney, who's been set up by this point to be corruptible and in it for his own ends, raids the place solo, and Conrad pitches to him what a great opportunity this is and arranges a meeting with a group of buyers. Barney fake knocks off Stanley to silence him. Jim, Willy, and Mimi crash the buyers' meeting, fake-revealing that their part in all of this was a con within the scheme, and split with the buyers' $5 million in cash. An uncredited Charles Napier discovers that the white powder they were buying is just sugar, and that Conrad's been fake had.
Barney buys Conrad and himself time by offering to get the buyers the real thing. Now suspicious of what Conrad's up to, Reid has him followed by a thug named Steve (Emile Beaucard) while arranging to pick up his own shipment. Conrad waylays Reid's go-between (an uncredited Timothy Brown), forces the art gallery location out of him, and shoots him, but the go-between tells Steve the location before dying. Some monitored phone calls put the IMF onto both the art gallery and the location where Laroca is picking up the money. Reid and his men catch Conrad at the sea horse sculpture, and the IMF swoops in on all of them with Conventional Backup.
This one lost me after a point, the scheme was so convoluted.
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It's a big war, people get away with shit.
That must have been a sight.
They did it once.
I see what you did there.
Afraid not.No clip?!?
Well, they've got Doc Bergman as a recurring character, but he usually deals with forensic stuff, not emergency medicine.
Though under other circumstances, they'd have been swarming him with helicopters and whatnot.
Interesting advice.
Mine...I found myself writing "Cyrano scenario" and condensed it.Wow. Is that your line or theirs?
Alice hungers!
Now, chum...she has as much right to the secret of her true identity as we do to ours.
I'm thinking harvest, moonlight, witchcraft.
Had to check that out, but it's not at all the same thing. In "Save All Your Kisses for Me," that he's singing to a child is a twist at the end, and there's nothing pervy in the lyrics leading up to it--he could just as easily be singing to his dog. In "Claire," the narrator is pretty explicit that he wants to be romantically involved with a child.For shame! That would never even have occurred to anybody back then.
Edit: It didn't take so long after all. The song is called "Save All Your Kisses For Me."
