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Post-50th Anniversary Viewing
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The Mod Squad
"The Wild Weekend"
Originally aired February 15, 1972
Sassy Alexander (Brenda Scott) is cruising with a couple of tennis-outfitted male friends, Kip Hanson (Stephen Young) and Doug Coulter (Nicholas Cortland), when she spots Pete walking and stops to reacquaint. Pete says that it's been two years since he's seen her, but she hasn't changed. She invites him to a birthday party that she's holding at her father's country house the next day, and Pete politely declines. Sassy leaves--dropping the guys off whether or not that was the original plan--and Kip tells Doug of his intention to change Pete's mind on Sassy's behalf.
Sassy proceeds to a dam wall that bears "Sassy Loves Pete" graffiti dated 7-24-69 and tearfully sprays over it...even as Pete, sitting at an outdoor cafe, flashes back to when it was painted, two of her birthdays ago. Linc and Julie drop in on Pete to notify him of a parole hearing they have to attend the next day--a closed-door Saturday morning session to preserve their covers. (July 24, 1971, was a Saturday.) When Pete returns home after dark, Kip and Doug jump him, goad him about upsetting Sassy, and truss him up. Pete doesn't make the hearing, so Greer sends Linc and Julie out to find him. When Sassy arrives at her father's place, she finds that Kip and Doug have a present for her--Pete tied in a chair. Pete tries to reason with her and she's ordering the guys to let him go when she realizes that Pete considers it over between them and changes her mind.
Linc and Julie return to the cafe, where the waitress, Judy (Marlene Clark), tells them of how Pete had a heavy conversation with a chick in hot pants outside the place the day before, and thoroughly describes her wheels without having gotten the plate. The 2/3 Mods trace the vehicle to Carson Alexander (Dennis Patrick), who tells them about his daughter, whom he lets do what she wants in order to have a relationship with her, and whom he didn't know was in town from college. At his house, Sassy's putting up decorations and giving Kip the cold shoulder; so Kip goes outside to vent his frustrations on Pete by tossing him into the pool with his hands still tied behind his back. Pete's struggling to stay above the surface while Kip cracks open a beer to watch, but Doug pulls Pete out.
When they're alone at the pool again, Pete tries to turn Doug against Kip, noting the moral gulf between them. Sassy comes out in a bikini to join Pete, and Doug goes back inside to see what Pete means as he finds Kip gleefully loading a pistol that he found in a drawer, talking about how he intends to show Sassy what a loser Pete is compared to him. Outside, Sassy offers to cut Pete loose if he promises to stay for her party. Pete flashes back to when he was buying a decorative glass oil lamp as a present for Sassy, and she saw that another customer had just purchased one that she liked better. She decided that she didn't want the one Pete was getting her, and walked by the other one to knock it to the floor, making a show of pretending that it was an accident. Back in the present, Pete underscores the moral of the story--that Sassy always wants what she can't have. She cuts him loose and sorrowfully heads back inside, but as Pete is starting to hoof it back to town, Kip comes up behind him and wings him in the leg, then forces him to hobble back to the house.
Mr. Alexander finds the line busy at his house, where the party is in full swing, packed with guests indulging in various controlled substances. Greer having put out an APB on Pete and Sassy, CLE picks up one of the party guests who borrows Sassy's car to go out for more liquor. At the party, Kip makes a show of dragging the bound and wounded Pete in, and the guests treat it all as a prank as Pete is doused with booze and pushed around between them with a bag over his head...but Sassy isn't pleased, and Doug tries to convince Kip to let Pete go for her sake. Kip has Doug take Pete out to the car and then talks to Sassy, who informs him that Pete still has it all over him. Kip goes out to find Doug about to untie Pete, and insists that they take him downtown as he is. Pete makes a break for it, and when Doug attempts to stop Kip from going after him in the car, Kip runs through him. The still-bound Pete rushes to Doug's side and tries to get Kip to call an ambulance. A horrified Sassy comes out and agrees with Pete's assessment of the situation, but the guy with the gun orders her to clear out the party guests instead.
The guests leave disappointed, and while Kip acts regretful about how Doug is lying on the couch bleeding internally, he refuses to call an ambulance. An attempt is made to force Pete, now untied, to drive Kip and Sassy out, but the water pump somehow became damaged along the way. Pete offers not to say anything if Kip will just leave for Doug's sake, but Kip won't trust him or Sassy, his mind now only on making his own getaway. Mr. Alexander gets through on the phone, and while Sassy tries to tell him not to come, he insists, and Kip plans to wait and use the wheels that he brings. At police HQ, the picked-up party guest has gotten lawyered up and refuses to talk, but trying to get ahold of Carson, Greer learns from his secretary (Barbara Boles) of the house, which wasn't in Alexander's records because it's owned by the company. Alexander arrives at the house and Kip tries to force him to hand over his keys. When Alexander turns his back while refusing, Kip trains his gun and Pete jumps him. Greer and the other Mods drive up to hear the shot that goes off from outside. Greer comes in armed and ready, but Kip uses Sassy as his shield, forcing the captain to drop his gun. When Kip takes Sassy outside, Linc starts running after him, and while Kip is trying to shoot him, Pete dives into Kip and starts beating him so thoroughly that Linc has to pull him off.
In the aftermath, as Doug's being wheeled out on a stretcher, Sassy tearfully expresses her regrets, admitting that she wanted to get back at Pete, but not like this; and Mr. Alexander takes her away with an officer on a note of becoming the father that she needs. Pete informs the other Mods that he and Sassy were engaged, and Julie tries to be supportive.
Greer sensibly denies Julie's request for a little vacation on Pete's behalf, and the Mods walk out of Alexander's pad with Pete tossing a bottle he was trying to open on the floor.
The implication is that Sassy was part of Pete's life before he was a cop (and we already had at least one old flame pop up before, IIRC); in which case the show was playing with what superhero comic readers have come to call a sliding timescale, as it started in '68.
If anyone wants screenshots, there are a ton of pics on the episode's IMDb page.
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The Mod Squad
"The Tangled Web"
Originally aired February 22, 1972
A young man (John Calvin) evades a police dragnet to sneak to Julie's apartment, where she has the guys sanding and painting her furniture. When she takes the garbage out, the man grabs her, putting his hand over her mouth. She comes back in and makes an excuse to send the guys on their way. The guys are stopped at a police roadblock and informed of a jewelry robbery in the area. This gets their Mod Sense tingling and they return to Julie's. Pete forces his way in the front while the stranger hides out back, where Linc finds him and lets the stunt double out for a bit of exercise as the man tries to run. Julie introduces him as a friend named Greg Boyer and he says that he was evading the police because he has a record and thought the robbery would be blamed on him; but Pete finds a bag of stolen jewels in his jacket.
Greg's story changes to how he was driven back to crime in desperation to help his father, who's out of work because of a disability. While Greg's making a call to an unknown party to arrange a rendezvous, Julie tells the guys that she owes him for times that he helped her, and they insist on getting involved. Julie wants to return the jewels, and the guys figure that the only way to avoid identifying evidence being found on the jewels would be to break into the exchange and return them that night, before inventory has been taken, so that the investigators wouldn't know what had been stolen. An improvised heist scheme ensues in which Julie stages an accident near the roadblock as a diversion while the guys and Greg climb across a rope to the rooftop of the exchange, where they lower themselves down an elevator shaft on a fire hose. They evade a night watchman and learn of a floor alarm in the vault room that wasn't active when Greg was there before, so they enter the room via a ventilator shaft and Greg climbs across ceiling fixtures into the vault alcove, and returns reporting having returned the jewels to where he took them from...though notably, neither the guys nor we see him doing this. The trio make it back to the roof and a police officer comes up as Greg is climbing down the side of a building. Pete and Linc come out of hiding to try to stop the officer from firing, but Greg is wounded in the leg and hobbles away, while the Mods find themselves caught.
Greg returns to Julie's for some bandaging, the bullet having conveniently only grazed him, and Julie goes downtown to see if she can find out what happened to Pete and Linc. She finds them in Greer's office with Chief Metcalf angrily hovering around. The guys hold back to try to keep Julie out of it and she explains what happened to Greer. While the captain bawls the guys out for what they got involved in, he tries to intervene with Metcalf not to file the report. But Metcalf updates him that the inventory has been taken and $200,000 worth of jewels are missing--the pieces that the Mods described--and the guys realize way too late that they only had Greg's word that he put them back. Metcalf has the guys booked, and Julie agrees to take Greer to Greg in order to help Pete and Linc, but they find that Greg has split the scene.
Julie visits the guys in the hoosegow, where she reports that only their fingerprints were found at the exchange, and that Greg's father, it turns out, has been dead for years. The guys send Julie to the phone company to find out who Greg made the toll call to, and it leads her to a nursery where she goes alone against the guys' advice and eavesdrops on Greg reporting to the real thief in the original burglary--the security guard, Reese (Woodrow Parfrey), who did it as an inside job and only cut Greg in to get the jewels out. Julie is spotted and caught by Reese while trying to make a call to Greer, and though Greg argues for leaving her tied up while they split the country, Reese announces that he doesn't plan to go anywhere as the authorities won't know he was involved if there's nobody to tell them...and thus he plans to off them both. Greg and Julie make a break for it and Greg is more seriously wounded while they try to get away through a greenhouse. In a temporary hiding spot, Greg admits to having been an amateur as he passes in Julie's arms. As Reese finds Julie, Greer arrives with CLE and Reese is subdued nonlethally in an exchange of fire.
In the coda, Julie learns from Greer that Greg even lied about having been in prison, having never been convicted in his previous scrapes with the law. The guys come out of a hearing board to report that they've only been put on probation, and Julie offers to feed them for the 30 days that they'll be without income. The Mods walk off in the corridors of police HQ.
The Mods seemed uncharacteristically naive in this one. Even if Greg had been telling the truth, their attempt to help him was a bad idea all around.
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Post-50th Anniversary Viewing
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The Mod Squad
"The Wild Weekend"
Originally aired February 15, 1972
IMDb said:
Sassy Alexander (Brenda Scott) is cruising with a couple of tennis-outfitted male friends, Kip Hanson (Stephen Young) and Doug Coulter (Nicholas Cortland), when she spots Pete walking and stops to reacquaint. Pete says that it's been two years since he's seen her, but she hasn't changed. She invites him to a birthday party that she's holding at her father's country house the next day, and Pete politely declines. Sassy leaves--dropping the guys off whether or not that was the original plan--and Kip tells Doug of his intention to change Pete's mind on Sassy's behalf.
Sassy proceeds to a dam wall that bears "Sassy Loves Pete" graffiti dated 7-24-69 and tearfully sprays over it...even as Pete, sitting at an outdoor cafe, flashes back to when it was painted, two of her birthdays ago. Linc and Julie drop in on Pete to notify him of a parole hearing they have to attend the next day--a closed-door Saturday morning session to preserve their covers. (July 24, 1971, was a Saturday.) When Pete returns home after dark, Kip and Doug jump him, goad him about upsetting Sassy, and truss him up. Pete doesn't make the hearing, so Greer sends Linc and Julie out to find him. When Sassy arrives at her father's place, she finds that Kip and Doug have a present for her--Pete tied in a chair. Pete tries to reason with her and she's ordering the guys to let him go when she realizes that Pete considers it over between them and changes her mind.
Linc and Julie return to the cafe, where the waitress, Judy (Marlene Clark), tells them of how Pete had a heavy conversation with a chick in hot pants outside the place the day before, and thoroughly describes her wheels without having gotten the plate. The 2/3 Mods trace the vehicle to Carson Alexander (Dennis Patrick), who tells them about his daughter, whom he lets do what she wants in order to have a relationship with her, and whom he didn't know was in town from college. At his house, Sassy's putting up decorations and giving Kip the cold shoulder; so Kip goes outside to vent his frustrations on Pete by tossing him into the pool with his hands still tied behind his back. Pete's struggling to stay above the surface while Kip cracks open a beer to watch, but Doug pulls Pete out.
Doug: Hey, Kip...this is getting a little heavy.
When they're alone at the pool again, Pete tries to turn Doug against Kip, noting the moral gulf between them. Sassy comes out in a bikini to join Pete, and Doug goes back inside to see what Pete means as he finds Kip gleefully loading a pistol that he found in a drawer, talking about how he intends to show Sassy what a loser Pete is compared to him. Outside, Sassy offers to cut Pete loose if he promises to stay for her party. Pete flashes back to when he was buying a decorative glass oil lamp as a present for Sassy, and she saw that another customer had just purchased one that she liked better. She decided that she didn't want the one Pete was getting her, and walked by the other one to knock it to the floor, making a show of pretending that it was an accident. Back in the present, Pete underscores the moral of the story--that Sassy always wants what she can't have. She cuts him loose and sorrowfully heads back inside, but as Pete is starting to hoof it back to town, Kip comes up behind him and wings him in the leg, then forces him to hobble back to the house.
Mr. Alexander finds the line busy at his house, where the party is in full swing, packed with guests indulging in various controlled substances. Greer having put out an APB on Pete and Sassy, CLE picks up one of the party guests who borrows Sassy's car to go out for more liquor. At the party, Kip makes a show of dragging the bound and wounded Pete in, and the guests treat it all as a prank as Pete is doused with booze and pushed around between them with a bag over his head...but Sassy isn't pleased, and Doug tries to convince Kip to let Pete go for her sake. Kip has Doug take Pete out to the car and then talks to Sassy, who informs him that Pete still has it all over him. Kip goes out to find Doug about to untie Pete, and insists that they take him downtown as he is. Pete makes a break for it, and when Doug attempts to stop Kip from going after him in the car, Kip runs through him. The still-bound Pete rushes to Doug's side and tries to get Kip to call an ambulance. A horrified Sassy comes out and agrees with Pete's assessment of the situation, but the guy with the gun orders her to clear out the party guests instead.
The guests leave disappointed, and while Kip acts regretful about how Doug is lying on the couch bleeding internally, he refuses to call an ambulance. An attempt is made to force Pete, now untied, to drive Kip and Sassy out, but the water pump somehow became damaged along the way. Pete offers not to say anything if Kip will just leave for Doug's sake, but Kip won't trust him or Sassy, his mind now only on making his own getaway. Mr. Alexander gets through on the phone, and while Sassy tries to tell him not to come, he insists, and Kip plans to wait and use the wheels that he brings. At police HQ, the picked-up party guest has gotten lawyered up and refuses to talk, but trying to get ahold of Carson, Greer learns from his secretary (Barbara Boles) of the house, which wasn't in Alexander's records because it's owned by the company. Alexander arrives at the house and Kip tries to force him to hand over his keys. When Alexander turns his back while refusing, Kip trains his gun and Pete jumps him. Greer and the other Mods drive up to hear the shot that goes off from outside. Greer comes in armed and ready, but Kip uses Sassy as his shield, forcing the captain to drop his gun. When Kip takes Sassy outside, Linc starts running after him, and while Kip is trying to shoot him, Pete dives into Kip and starts beating him so thoroughly that Linc has to pull him off.
In the aftermath, as Doug's being wheeled out on a stretcher, Sassy tearfully expresses her regrets, admitting that she wanted to get back at Pete, but not like this; and Mr. Alexander takes her away with an officer on a note of becoming the father that she needs. Pete informs the other Mods that he and Sassy were engaged, and Julie tries to be supportive.
Pete: She's probably better off.
Julie: We are. Where would we be without you?
Linc: Well I'd be at the beach today instead of this freaky pad in the middle of nowhere.
Julie: We are. Where would we be without you?
Linc: Well I'd be at the beach today instead of this freaky pad in the middle of nowhere.
Greer sensibly denies Julie's request for a little vacation on Pete's behalf, and the Mods walk out of Alexander's pad with Pete tossing a bottle he was trying to open on the floor.
The implication is that Sassy was part of Pete's life before he was a cop (and we already had at least one old flame pop up before, IIRC); in which case the show was playing with what superhero comic readers have come to call a sliding timescale, as it started in '68.
If anyone wants screenshots, there are a ton of pics on the episode's IMDb page.
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The Mod Squad
"The Tangled Web"
Originally aired February 22, 1972
Wiki said:
A young man (John Calvin) evades a police dragnet to sneak to Julie's apartment, where she has the guys sanding and painting her furniture. When she takes the garbage out, the man grabs her, putting his hand over her mouth. She comes back in and makes an excuse to send the guys on their way. The guys are stopped at a police roadblock and informed of a jewelry robbery in the area. This gets their Mod Sense tingling and they return to Julie's. Pete forces his way in the front while the stranger hides out back, where Linc finds him and lets the stunt double out for a bit of exercise as the man tries to run. Julie introduces him as a friend named Greg Boyer and he says that he was evading the police because he has a record and thought the robbery would be blamed on him; but Pete finds a bag of stolen jewels in his jacket.
Greg's story changes to how he was driven back to crime in desperation to help his father, who's out of work because of a disability. While Greg's making a call to an unknown party to arrange a rendezvous, Julie tells the guys that she owes him for times that he helped her, and they insist on getting involved. Julie wants to return the jewels, and the guys figure that the only way to avoid identifying evidence being found on the jewels would be to break into the exchange and return them that night, before inventory has been taken, so that the investigators wouldn't know what had been stolen. An improvised heist scheme ensues in which Julie stages an accident near the roadblock as a diversion while the guys and Greg climb across a rope to the rooftop of the exchange, where they lower themselves down an elevator shaft on a fire hose. They evade a night watchman and learn of a floor alarm in the vault room that wasn't active when Greg was there before, so they enter the room via a ventilator shaft and Greg climbs across ceiling fixtures into the vault alcove, and returns reporting having returned the jewels to where he took them from...though notably, neither the guys nor we see him doing this. The trio make it back to the roof and a police officer comes up as Greg is climbing down the side of a building. Pete and Linc come out of hiding to try to stop the officer from firing, but Greg is wounded in the leg and hobbles away, while the Mods find themselves caught.
Greg returns to Julie's for some bandaging, the bullet having conveniently only grazed him, and Julie goes downtown to see if she can find out what happened to Pete and Linc. She finds them in Greer's office with Chief Metcalf angrily hovering around. The guys hold back to try to keep Julie out of it and she explains what happened to Greer. While the captain bawls the guys out for what they got involved in, he tries to intervene with Metcalf not to file the report. But Metcalf updates him that the inventory has been taken and $200,000 worth of jewels are missing--the pieces that the Mods described--and the guys realize way too late that they only had Greg's word that he put them back. Metcalf has the guys booked, and Julie agrees to take Greer to Greg in order to help Pete and Linc, but they find that Greg has split the scene.
Julie visits the guys in the hoosegow, where she reports that only their fingerprints were found at the exchange, and that Greg's father, it turns out, has been dead for years. The guys send Julie to the phone company to find out who Greg made the toll call to, and it leads her to a nursery where she goes alone against the guys' advice and eavesdrops on Greg reporting to the real thief in the original burglary--the security guard, Reese (Woodrow Parfrey), who did it as an inside job and only cut Greg in to get the jewels out. Julie is spotted and caught by Reese while trying to make a call to Greer, and though Greg argues for leaving her tied up while they split the country, Reese announces that he doesn't plan to go anywhere as the authorities won't know he was involved if there's nobody to tell them...and thus he plans to off them both. Greg and Julie make a break for it and Greg is more seriously wounded while they try to get away through a greenhouse. In a temporary hiding spot, Greg admits to having been an amateur as he passes in Julie's arms. As Reese finds Julie, Greer arrives with CLE and Reese is subdued nonlethally in an exchange of fire.
In the coda, Julie learns from Greer that Greg even lied about having been in prison, having never been convicted in his previous scrapes with the law. The guys come out of a hearing board to report that they've only been put on probation, and Julie offers to feed them for the 30 days that they'll be without income. The Mods walk off in the corridors of police HQ.
The Mods seemed uncharacteristically naive in this one. Even if Greg had been telling the truth, their attempt to help him was a bad idea all around.
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That's how it was played, though when silencing Pete, the officer noted that Cochran was only present as a witness.
It was a warehouse lot.
The idea was that they were planning to use the neighborhood space for something that would only be enjoyed by "fat cats," instead of a "people's park" that the residents could use.
H5O has done stuff like this as well.
He pretty much described the condition without having a name for it...how they come home but the war's not over for them, that sort of thing.
It did look of an older vintage than the late '60s/early '70s.
True, it could be that they're just trying to be proactive...but they should stake her out from a safe distance.But you can't really leave her alone for a minute.
That's what I was thinking, but there's always the risk that the person already trying to kill them will be motivated to continue in order to silence them.
Vincent!
They were wearing the hats.I'm not so sure those skeletons were miners. They should probably have the ME take a look.
Part of me wants to get the DeFranco Family singles just to stick it to the Osmonds.