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50th Anniversary Viewing (Part 2)
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"Fly by Night"
Originally aired January 29, 1970
Wiki said:
While flying to a cabin in Vermont, Ann, Donald and their pilot land in a snow storm after they run out of gas.
They say that it's a 10-hour drive from New York to Vermont...maybe there weren't as many interstates then.
The freeze frame comes when Ann refers to herself as "this girl".
And actually, they haven't landed yet at the end of this part. Anyway, the skipper of this half-hour tour is...
When the weather starts getting rough and the tiny craft is tossed, Ann has little quick-flashes of scenes from various episodes, which she describes as her life flashing before her eyes. Then, as she tries to think of something she can apologize to Donald for so she has something to "bargain with" to get out their situation, she goes into full-on clip show mode, treating us to wacky hijinks from various episodes. When she comes out of it for the break to commercial, she's initially relieved that the weather's cleared for a bit, only to become horrified to learn that the plane's run out of gas.
Following the commercial, more clips ensue. And then, following the last commercial, there's a romantic coda clip before...
Will the professorial pilot procure a place to park? Tune in next week--same That Time, same That Channel!
"Oh, Donald" count:
8 (5 from previous episodes)
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Ironside
"Eden Is the Place We Leave"
Originally aired January 29, 1970
Wiki said:
Ironside attempts to break a Samoan boxer's tradition of continuing life in the ring.
Ironside knows Loi Tala's (Patrick Adiarte) family from when he helped build roads and his uncle's church in his village while serving in the Navy during the war.
Loi is concerned about a fighter named Shaw whom he hospitalized during the episode-opening match, while seeing flashes of future Hulk dad John Marley. Ironside thinks that Loi is fueled by internal rage, and encourages him to get out of the ring and fall back on his photography. But it turns out that Marley is Loi's Matai--a Samoan clan leader--and he's pressuring Loi to continue to fighting while collection donations from him. Back at the cave, the Chief paints a picture of Loi being trapped by clan tradition, unable to do what he wants, which would include making a life for himself and his girlfriend Betty (Jill Townsend). After witnessing another rage incident during practice, Ironside wants Loi to see a doctor. The Chief also has a talk with the Matai, who insists that Loi's boxing is important to his people's pride.
After news breaks that Shaw has died, Team Ironside tracks down Betty, who was heading to her family in Pennsylvania. Shaw's death motivates Loi to back out of his next fight, which causes the Matai to make a dramatic show of casting him out. This puts Loi in despair. When he and Betty subsequently disappear, Ironside worries that the only target for Loi's rage will now be himself. Loi and Betty say their vows to each other in the pews of a church while another couple is getting formally married. But by the time Team Ironside gets there, Loi's ready to jump from a church window. Ironside tries to convince him to live on as an example to others among his people who'll be encouraged to seek their own freedom from tribal custom. While the Chief keeps Loi occupied, Mark comes up behind him and tries to pull him back, but Loi decks him, and his concern for Mark snaps him out of his attempt at suicide. The Chief closes the episode speaking words of wisdom that give context to the title: "Eden is a place you have to leave if you wanna make a life of your own."
This was a more interesting episode than I thought it'd be, but it was dragged down by the silliness of trying to pass Marley off as Samoan.
I hadn't realized until I noticed it in this episode's credits...it's not just 1970, it's MCMLXX!
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Get Smart
"The Mess of Adrian Listenger"
Originally aired January 30, 1970
Wiki said:
While attending the funeral of the latest CONTROL Agent who was mysteriously killed, Max, 99, and The Chief are shocked to find a carved headstone with Max's name on it. It is believed that Adrian Listenger, a CONTROL spy school dropout, is taking his revenge by systematically killing off agents who got him expelled — and his hit list includes both Max and the Chief. Guest star Pat Paulsen as "Ace Weems/Adrian Listenger". A spoof of The List of Adrian Messenger.
The birth date on Max's unfinished tombstone is 1930, which is a reasonable age for Max, but would make him seven years younger than Don Adams.
Listenger initially gets ahold of Max and the Chief in his Weems identity, as an insurance agent looking into the deaths. He leads Max and the Chief to believe that Listenger has also just died, and suggests that one of them must be the murderer. Max and the Chief each insist that the other is like a father/son to them, even though they were in the same CONTROL training school class, along with the other victims and Listenger (all of them having specifically been members of the baseball team). Nevertheless, Max and the Chief get comically suspicious of one another.
Listenger arranges for Max and the Chief to rendezvous at an abandoned hotel, setting it up so they might shoot each other. But they toss their guns away and he pops up to hold them at gunpoint.
Max: Just a minute, Listenger, there's one thing I'd like to know. Why did you kill all those CONTROL agents on the baseball team?
Listenger: Because you guys were mean to me, you were cruel to me, and you all throwed baseballs at me.
Max: But you were the catcher.
After they take out Listenger, Max points out that he and the Chief are again the only names left on the list, and their suspicion of one another flares back up.
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The Brady Bunch
"Tiger! Tiger!"
Originally aired January 30, 1970
Wiki said:
Bobby becomes upset when Tiger runs away, and the family searches for him. The kids all chip in money for Bobby to buy an ad and offer a reward. After the Brady's scour the neighborhood, Tiger is found at a neighbor's house, having fathered a litter of puppies.
Guest stars: Maggie Malooly as Mrs. Simpson, Gary Grimes as the young man
Another Bobby episode...I don't think we've gotten a Peter episode yet.
Tiger comes up missing when Bobby goes inside after playing with him to bring him his food. With the odd amounts of money being chipped in, the reward comes to $42.76.
Alice comes up with the idea that a robber who's been working in the area might have lured Tiger away in order to hit the Brady house. Thus ensues a filler subplot about Greg and Peter trying to set alarms against the robber, the adults hearing them and thinking it's a break-in, and Alice getting caught in one of their booby traps.
Resuming the Tiger plot, the Brady's get a number of false calls. Then Greg gets a call from a friend who spotted Tiger, so the Bradys go out scouting the area, with Carol and Alice coordinating the search from home via phone. Eventually Peter catches up with Tiger at the home of Tiger's mate and the puppies. Mrs. Simpson says that Tiger always ran away when she tried to get a look at his tag...yeah, contrived.
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Hogan's Heroes
"Gowns by Yvette"
Originally aired January 30, 1970
Wiki said:
Wedding bells are ringing in Hammelburg and Hogan’s anxious to help with the planning if it means he can get in touch with an underground operative.
When Burkhalter orders Klink to make arrangements for the wedding, he thinks that Burkhalter's making him marry his sister Gertrude, but it turns out that the wedding is for the general's niece Frieda (Muriel Landers) and a Count von Hertzel (Dick Wilson). Hogan claims that LeBeau is secretly a famous French gown designer, even though LeBeau can't sew...so Newkirk handles the sewing for him. They use Schultz as a model for fitting the dress.
In Hammelburg, Hogan is caught by the Gestapo trying to rendezvous with his underground contact. He gets out of it when he shows them that he's there for the wedding arrangements, but he still has to find a way to free the captured agent. During the wedding reception LeBeau sets off an air raid alarm and, while everyone's trying to get to shelter, the prisoners nab the agent and--he also being a portly man--put him in a duplicate of the gown. Thus disguised, the agent leaves the wedding with the count.
In the coda, we learn that the count somehow lost his memory of the wedding, without a mark on his head--not sure what that was about.
DIS-missed!
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Adam-12
"Log 64: Bottom of the Bottle"
Originally aired January 31, 1970
Wiki said:
The Adam-12 team sees the same alcoholic gentleman twice in one night, at a brawl and then later at a shooting call.
The opening has Reed and Malloy bringing a regular drunk named Louie (J. Pat O'Malley) into the station. Back on patrol, they get a call for a 415 at a bar. They find a Mr. Palif (Christopher Dark), whom they learn hasn't been drinking, in a physical altercation with his wife (Norma Crane), who has. Mr. Palif insists that it isn't what it looks like and has some words with the officers at the station about his wife's situation.
On patrol again, a car speeds past the officers while one of its occupants waves them on. They pursue the vehicle, which eventually crashes into a fence. When the two male occupants exit the vehicle at gunpoint, they insist that there's a girl inside who needs their help. It turns out that they were trying to rush the girl, an acquaintance who'd slit her wrists, to the hospital. The officers explain why their handling of the situation was dangerous, and summon an ambulance for the girl. The next day, the officers learn that the girl's father has filed a complaint against them over her missing wallet, which had $50 in it.
Back on patrol, the officers respond to a call about shots fired in an apartment building. Somebody fired a shotgun into an apartment's door from the outside, and It turns out to be Mrs. Pilaf's apartment, which Mr. P's has been paying for. The likely suspect in the shooting is a biker named Monk whom Mrs. P had been seeing. He'd threatened her for money when she tried to break up with him, and apparently tried to kill her when she wasn't home.
The officers track Monk to his own place and have rifles and back-up with tear gas ready. Reed and Malloy cautiously and methodically search the house and make their way upstairs, narrowing it down to one room with a closed door. Monk responds to them through the door and tries to get them to come in after him, only to fire through the door...but the officers have smartly taken cover around corners on either side of the hallway. Tear gas is fired into the room from outside and Monk surrenders.
In the coda, Mac reveals that the wallet was turned in by the kids driving the car, who found it in the back seat.
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I look forward to it. We should have a Democratic candidate by then.
The Whigs might make a comeback by then. I think the Know Nothings already have.
A little out of their jurisdiction in this one.
I think Greer was liaising with local law enforcement.
So he's protecting somebody.
Sort of...
My apologies The show I was apparently hallucinating about was called “The Outcasts.”
