50th Anniversary Viewing (Part 1)
Adam-12
"Ladies' Night"
Originally aired February 18, 1975
MeTV said:
On today's patrol, Malloy and Reed try to corral cattle that are wandering into the downtown area, pull over a speeding bicyclist, chase down a man with a stolen guitar, and break up a bar fight. After their shift is over, Reed and his wife witness a gas station holdup on their way to dinner with Malloy and his girlfriend.
Judy (Pete's mystery steady revealed--Aneta Corsaut) accompanies Pete to the station so she can borrow his wheels while hers are in the shop for an accident, which Pete ribs her about. She invites Jim and Jean to join her and Pete for dinner.
On patrol, the officers come upon the strange sight of Officer Grant herding a trio of bulls down the street with his bike.
Reed: Hey, Grant, how fast were they going?
Grant explains that they came out of a truck that overturned near a railyard, and he was just trying to keep them from getting on the freeway. Jim radios for a supervisor.
Reed: We have a 415, livestock.
While they wait, Adam-12 helps Grant corral the bulls into a fenced parking lot. One of them somehow gets in an adjacent building, so Pete goes in and lets it out. There's continuity with a previous appearance when Grant likens himself to the Lone Ranger. When Mac arrives, he steps in something below the camera frame.
Back on patrol, Malloy and Reed pull over and ticket an attractive bicyclist (Erica Hagen) who passes them on the right and runs through an intersection while going 45. She only recently took up cycling to lose weight, so Pete recommends that she read up on bicycle safety.
Next the officers are assigned to a 484 of a guitar. When they spot the suspect (Russell Wiggins) walking the backlot street, he tries unsuccessfully to make a run for it. The suspect claims that he's a musician who was just borrowing it for a gig, but when that doesn't do the trick, he fast-talks his way through a series of other excuses that sink his credibility.
The officers are then flagged down by a bartender (Bill McLean) to break up a fight inside his establishment. The brawlers (John Gilgreen and Judd Laurance) object that nobody's been hurt, then a citizen steps out of the crowd (Len Wayland) and tips the officers off that the duo are just distractions for a pickpocket, whom the citizen points out. The pickpocket makes a run for it but is tackled by Pete. The citizen catches up and explains that he's a retired cop from Philly.
After watch, Jim's taking Jean (Kristin Nelson in an eleventh-hour takeover of the role originated by Mikki Jamison, who last appeared in Season 2) to the restaurant in their kid-unfriendly sporty convertible when they witness a couple of robbers making a getaway from a gas station.
Jim pursues them to get their plate number, then gives Jean detailed instructions for calling it in, promptly drops her off at a phone booth, and continues to tail the car. After making her call, Jean proceeds to the restaurant to fill in Pete and Judy. Eventually a patrol car catches up with Jim and the suspects crash their car trying to evade it. One of them then tries to run for it on foot but is pursued and tackled by Jim, who rips up his sport coat in the process. Jim puts in a shabbily attired appearance at the restaurant just long enough to apologize for having to go back to the station for paperwork.
M*A*S*H
"Love and Marriage"
Originally aired February 18, 1975
Wiki said:
A skilled Korean medical assistant (Soon-Tek Oh) wants to see his pregnant wife. Meanwhile, a GI (Dennis Dugan) wants to marry a girl from Rosie's bar, but not for good reasons.
In the OR, Burns blames the assistant, Mr. Kwang, for his own clumsiness while the guys are getting under his skin. Hawk and Trap invite Kwang to the Swamp for alcohol and apologies. When he tells them how he was forcefully recruited while attending college without getting to say goodbye to his wife, they offer to get him a three-day pass, which Radar goes out of his way not to let Blake see while he's signing it. While the surgeons are conducting pre-marital physicals for locals looking to marry personnel, they're approached by Pvt. Danny McShane, who expresses his eagerness to marry a woman named Soong Hi (Pat Li), whom they recognize as a worker at Rosie's Bar. The guys gently try to talk some sense into him, but he tells them how much he's in love with her, while estimating her age at a lot younger than she actually is (Hawk quipping that her mascara's older than 21). By night, Frank is contrivedly serving as O.D. so that he's the one who intercepts Kwang while he's trying to leave, resulting in an altercation right outside the Swamp during the poker game, in which shots are fired while Kwang flees.
Hawk and Trap are propositioned by a local quack, Dr. Pak (Jerry Fujikawa), who offers them a bribe to approve Soong Hi's physical, as part of a racket to get Korean women to the States under the cover of marriage to GIs so that they can be put to work on the streets there--a scam that they learn McShane is in on. Kwang is caught by the MPs after learning that his wife is about to give birth. Confronted with the pass that he doesn't remember signing, Blake agrees to drop desertion charges, but won't let Kwang leave the camp...so Hawkeye volunteers himself and Radar to travel to her village and bring her to the 4077th to have her baby. While they're doing that, Trap confronts McShane, getting him to drop his "aw, shucks" routine and declaring a fair-and-square failure of the physical with the help of a timely delivery of X-rays that indicate tuberculosis in Soong Hi's lungs. Out on the road, Mrs. Kwang (Jeanne Joe) goes into labor on the bus...because they don't have elevators at the 4077th. Hawk tries to get Radar to assist, but the little guy goes into full panic mode in the presence of impending childbirth.
Back at the camp, Mrs. K and her healthy baby boy are brought out on a stretcher to meet Mr. K...followed by Radar also being brought out on a stretcher. In the coda, Henry welcomes Radar Benjamin Franklin Trapper John Henry Kwang into the world...and then learns that Radar got top billing for getting Kwang the pass.
Hawaii Five-O
"And the Horse Jumped Over the Moon"
Originally aired February 18, 1975
Paramount+ said:
An elaborate sea and air scheme for heroin smuggling goes unnoticed until one of the gang tries to sell out their plan for a fix of heroin.
A fishing boat drops a dayglo orange drum onto the drink, which is then picked up via a hooked line tossed from a plane (Cessna N29162) piloted by Bernie Ross (Ed Flanders). Over land, the hook man, Kevin Caulder (studly if toothy young Bruce Boxleitner), skydives out of the plane to make a rendezvous to deliver the drum, where he's also met by his girlfriend, Laurie Benedict (Jo Ann Harris, gracing us with a midriff-baring shirt, short shorts, and a bitchin' tan). The henchman who picks up the drum calls in the successful delivery to Trans-Oceanic Lines manager John Hollander (Robert Harker), who in turn calls in a shady party from Detroit, Rick Corso (Robert Sandla), to fly out for a proposition about doing business via this new delivery scheme, designed to thwart the islands being on a virtual drug lockdown via the coordinated efforts of various agencies. While all of this is going on, Mark Traynor (E. H. Marc Baxley) wanders Honolulu desperately looking for a fix, and gets the idea to call Five-O to sell information...but before he can spill what it's about, a car pulls up next to his phone booth with the barrel of a .357 Magnum pointing out the window.
Traynor is soon identified as a former Air Force mechanic and junkie, and Che is able to raise enough of a hotel name from his old key to lead to his room, where Laurie--who, Kevin learns, tipped off Hollander about Traynor--sees Danno and Frank being let into Mark's room. Paychecks found there lead to a former employer, air cargo hauler Bernie Ross. After Five-O talks to him, they dig up Ross's long record of having been arrested on suspicion of being involved in various smuggling operations and let go. Chin tails Ross to Laurie's place, where we learn that they're having an affair behind Kevin's back and plan to no longer need him after the big delivery that Hollander has set up. Meanwhile, Steve gets a tip from an Interpol inspector about a large shipment of H coming in on an unspecified Trans-Oceanic liner. Laurie sees Kevin off as he departs with his skydiving gear for the delivery.
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Evidently a real brand and still in operation.
Chin stakes out the airfield as Ross loads up his plane and takes off...Kevin already hiding onboard. McGarrett is present at air traffic control as the plane is tracked. On the return trip from a legit delivery, Kevin deploys the line to hook another floating container left by a TO liner. Laurie is on the scene again as Kevin makes his jump to deliver the merchandise to Hollander and Corso--he and Ross having passed their test by delivering the package untampered with. Five-O has the plane searched after it lands and are mystified that the merchandise they assumed had been picked up isn't aboard.
The hook is found, and delving into Laurie's minor record turns up a connection with skydiver Kevin Caulder...who, elsewhere, is frustrated to learn that his big job was just an audition. Chin stakes out as Ross packs up his plane for another delivery...this time with Laurie aboard, which is a surprise to Kevin. While McGarrett has the plane tracked again, an argument ensues on the circling plane as Kevin learns that Ross and Laurie are in cahoots to actually steal the real dope. Elsewhere, Frank tails Hollander and Corso. After the pickup is made, the chopper heads off-course for Honolulu International, which McGarrett heads to by chopper. He witnesses as Caulder, after grabbing the bag of dope, makes an unplanned jump. Steve lands to take the diver into custody, and after confirming that he's got the goods, radios orders to Frank.
McGarrett: Move in on Hollander and Corso. Book them.
I hate iTunes so much.
It's the platform of my vast music collection. But it turns out that getting it set up was effortless...apparently it had already been installed and synced up my collection, right down to the latest playlists that I'd made before the backup, and all I had to do was turn on the program. I didn't even have to log in.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Big important people.
And in this case, notorious publicity whores. Remember the Bed-Ins?
True. Although... since the title sequence laid out the premise and preceded the story, they do have a case.
IIRC, though, the earliest episodes didn't have the narration, which kicked in partway into the first season.
I can't really say. I'm familiar with his individual songs rather than his albums. I was never really much of an album guy.
I know I've had occasion to mention that Dylan only really popped for me when I listened to his '60s albums. I should also note that the release of
Blood on the Tracks seems to have been accompanied by an immediate resurgence of interest in his prior work--his first two
Greatest Hits volumes and
Blonde on Blonde all reentered the album chart the same week as BOTT's entry.
Definitely a novelty classic. I should have said that.
You kind of did by mentioning Dr. Demento, who reportedly had a long history of association with the song.
Now we'll both be commenting on the nostalgic value.
I mean, I remember specific songs from earlier years being on the radio, but it was when my collection hit '76 that it all sounded distinctly like stuff that I remembered being on the radio at the same time.
That's interesting. If your songwriter cheats on you, is that High Infidelity?
He worked with these various groups over a span of years.
A U.S. Air Force SR-71 reconnaissance airplane set a new speed record for a transatlantic crossing, flying from New York City to London in less than two hours. Inspiring Professor Charles Xavier to obtain one for the purpose of ferrying his students on field trips. A tornado touched down in...
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I'm not sure how familiar I was with his Legion stuff at that point.
Grell will go on to follow in Neal Adams's footsteps when GL/GA is revived, but is probably most closely associated with his creation,
Warlord.
Oh, yeah, he was nuts. You should have seen what he did with Ghost Rider. He also worked on Captain America during Englehart's amazing run on the book. His characters would throw these weird punches that would have snapped the wrist of an ordinary person, and would leap horizontally across the room about one foot off the floor in defiance of gravity and inertia. Very cartoony, but I loved it.
One that sticks out in my mind from I think the first issue of
Invaders that I read in the day was a panel with a behind shot of Subby smashing an armored Nazi while in flight...one of his legs was bending outward at a sharp angle.
The Bucky pretzel-punch:
