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Hawaii Five-O
"A Thousand Pardons--You're Dead!"
Originally aired September 24, 1969 (Season 2 premiere)
The episode opens with a woman named Anna (Swit) celebrating over a big score at a bar run by a woman named Betsy (Barbara Nichols). She returns home drunk and is approached outside by a figure she recognizes, who knocks her out, takes her money, and runs her over with his Jeep. A military insurance policy is found on her. McGarrett talks to her employer, Betsy, with whom he's previously acquainted. Both Betsy and Anna's roommate, Yoko (Barbara Luna), indicate that Ann met a serviceman whom she married.
McGarrett sends Danno to Betsy's posing as a serviceman. Fake Corporal Williams approaches Yoko, saying that he's a buddy of Anna's husband, Eddie. Yoko gets upset and defensive, making him change the subject. Later she takes him back to her apartment, both of them shitfaced. She has a panic attack and tells him that she knows of three girls working at Betsy's, including Anna, who married soldiers and were killed.
Danny goes back to the office to report his findings and recover from his binge. Steve advises him that he could have poured his drinks in plants. Kono is sent to the office of James Watanu (James Hong), who issued the marriage licenses, and seems very nervous at having his files looked through. Meanwhile, Chin checks the military files, dealing with a Sgt. Simms (Guardino), who seems guarded and defensive. Watanu goes to Betsy in a state of panic, and she tells someone on the phone that the heat's on and "it" is finished. Simms subsequently picks up Watanu in his Jeep and drives him to a remote location. Watanu assures Simms that he won't talk and starts to have an attack; Simms tosses his heart medicine out of the Jeep, then starts trying to run him down, but Watanu succumbs to his condition.
McGarrett tracks a piece of tire tread on the scene to a Jeep that Simms used, and confronts him with knowledge that Watanu was involved in phony marriage licenses that came through Simms's office. Chin and Kono turn up that Simms is the brother of a GI who was killed in action and whose wife collected the insurance. Over a game of pool, Steve gets out of Simms that the wife claimed a policy that was originally meant to go to him, and that he irrationally blames her for his brother's death.
Meanwhile, Undercover Danno has continued to romance Yoko and eventually drops his cover. After talking to Simms, McGarrett goes to her looking for help. She's used as bait, approaching Simms about wanting in on the operation, already having a marriage license to a dead GI. When the team surrounds Simms outside of her apartment, he's holding a gun, so he ends up with a lot of bullets in him...in a driveway, not a drink.
So yeah, apparently Simms was running the scam so that he could murder the girls working under him for being involved in the scam. That seems like maybe it could have used a bit of clarification or a slight rewrite to add another layer of twist or something.
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Dragnet 1970
"Homicide – The Student"
Originally aired September 25, 1969
Tuesday, May 21 (1968?): Friday and Gannon are working the day watch out of Homicide when they're sent to investigate the sniper-style shooting of two employees at a printing plant. The next day a foreman follows up with them, having remembered a dispute between the male victim and a young part-time employee, Jeff Buckram, who hadn't shown up the day of the shooting. They first check the junior college that Buckram attends. His English teacher, Ann Tipton (Emily Banks!), describes how he's into existentialism, which she describes as being preoccupied with the darker side of life, and believing in acting on one's philosophy. Next they go to Jeff's residence and talk to his outspokenly God-fearing aunt, Ada Beale (Virginia Gregg--I'll give them credit that her period old lady look makes her almost unrecognizable here). Aunt Ada considers the stuff that Jeff reads, like Flaubert, to be the work of the Devil. Jeff (Kevin Coughlin) comes out of his room, exhibits a surly attitude, and claims that he called in because he injured himself at baseball practice, and that he doesn't own a rifle. Jeff's coach (James McEachin) tells them that Jeff was let go from the squad, and that he'd said something about saving up to buy a rifle.
Back at the apartment, Jeff is gone, but Aunt Ada points out how he'd torn a page from the Flaubert book and stuffed it in his pocket before leaving. They visit the library from which the book was borrowed. The librarian, Alice Philbin (Peggy Webber), fetches another copy of the book and reads from the page that Jeff had torn out. It's from "The Legend of Saint Julian," and describes the young future saint enthralled by killing a pigeon. The detectives return to Ann Tipton, accompanied by a comically clumsy transition...
She points them to another piece of the Buckram puzzle, a girl that he's interested in, Nancy Morton (Jill Banner). They visit her at home, and she asserts that they're just friends because he's never made a move, and describes how he lives in the world of the books that he reads. She also tells them that he picked up a rifle that he'd been keeping her place. With a little prodding, she's able to remember that he described it as a .22, which matches the murder weapon.
Back at the station, the detectives get a call from Alice Philbin telling them that Jeff's at the library. They rush there and arrest him.
The rifle is found in Aunt Ada's car, which Jeff had been using, and is confirmed to be the murder weapon. At the station, Buckram tells them how killing wasn't like Flaubert described it at all...that it just made him scared, like he'd broken something belonging to somebody else and knew that he was going to get caught and punished. He laments that he'll never be a saint like Julian.
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Adam-12
"Log 153: Find Me a Needle"
Originally aired September 27, 1969
This is Jack Hogan's last of six appearances as Sgt. Miller, though he'll back in another role in a later season. He briefs the officers at roll call about how the sixth victim of the Mullholland Mauler has survived and can talk, giving them a composite sketch and description of the auto.
On patrol, Reed and Malloy stop a 16-year-old hitchhiker, Mary Gallagher (Astrid Warner), writing her a citation to appear in juvenile court and scaring her into taking the bus. Later that night they stop a car matching the victim's description, and find a knife and blanket in the trunk, matching the assailant's M.O. They take in the driver, Nick Gentry (Jonathan Lippe). Back on patrol, the officers talk to a couple of kids parked in a car in the area of the assaults and send them on their way. As with the hitchhiker, Malloy goes out of his way to put the fear of the serial rapist/murderer at large into them.
They then find a car by the side of the road with a flat and a pair of female shoes in the passenger seat; the car is registered to a Delores Grove. Visiting the nearest garage, they find not her, but a friend (Roberta Collins) with a broken-down car, whom Delores was supposed to be giving a lift. The friend indicates that Delores isn't the walking type and would have hitchhiked. The officers figure that if Gentry is their man, he already got to her, so he's got to lead them to the victim. They drive him up to the area with Sgt. Miller, showing him Grove's car. He denies knowing anything about it but gets pretty worked up. Then they take him to the ravine where "Number Six" was found, and use an impending line-up in which she'll have the opportunity to identify him to persuade him to help them find "Number Seven"...and they do, alive (Carolyn Devore). In the car, Gentry says something to Miller about how when they scream, there's nothing else to do. As Grove is being put in an ambulance, Gentry shows a matter-of-fact interest in whether she'll live. As the officers prepare to take him back to the station, he describes how he felt bad the first time, and tried to kill himself; but didn't feel anything the subsequent times, proposing that it proves he's crazy.
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50th Anniversary Catch-Up Viewing
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Hawaii Five-O
"A Thousand Pardons--You're Dead!"
Originally aired September 24, 1969 (Season 2 premiere)
Wiki said:
The episode opens with a woman named Anna (Swit) celebrating over a big score at a bar run by a woman named Betsy (Barbara Nichols). She returns home drunk and is approached outside by a figure she recognizes, who knocks her out, takes her money, and runs her over with his Jeep. A military insurance policy is found on her. McGarrett talks to her employer, Betsy, with whom he's previously acquainted. Both Betsy and Anna's roommate, Yoko (Barbara Luna), indicate that Ann met a serviceman whom she married.
McGarrett sends Danno to Betsy's posing as a serviceman. Fake Corporal Williams approaches Yoko, saying that he's a buddy of Anna's husband, Eddie. Yoko gets upset and defensive, making him change the subject. Later she takes him back to her apartment, both of them shitfaced. She has a panic attack and tells him that she knows of three girls working at Betsy's, including Anna, who married soldiers and were killed.
Danny goes back to the office to report his findings and recover from his binge. Steve advises him that he could have poured his drinks in plants. Kono is sent to the office of James Watanu (James Hong), who issued the marriage licenses, and seems very nervous at having his files looked through. Meanwhile, Chin checks the military files, dealing with a Sgt. Simms (Guardino), who seems guarded and defensive. Watanu goes to Betsy in a state of panic, and she tells someone on the phone that the heat's on and "it" is finished. Simms subsequently picks up Watanu in his Jeep and drives him to a remote location. Watanu assures Simms that he won't talk and starts to have an attack; Simms tosses his heart medicine out of the Jeep, then starts trying to run him down, but Watanu succumbs to his condition.
McGarrett tracks a piece of tire tread on the scene to a Jeep that Simms used, and confronts him with knowledge that Watanu was involved in phony marriage licenses that came through Simms's office. Chin and Kono turn up that Simms is the brother of a GI who was killed in action and whose wife collected the insurance. Over a game of pool, Steve gets out of Simms that the wife claimed a policy that was originally meant to go to him, and that he irrationally blames her for his brother's death.
Meanwhile, Undercover Danno has continued to romance Yoko and eventually drops his cover. After talking to Simms, McGarrett goes to her looking for help. She's used as bait, approaching Simms about wanting in on the operation, already having a marriage license to a dead GI. When the team surrounds Simms outside of her apartment, he's holding a gun, so he ends up with a lot of bullets in him...in a driveway, not a drink.
So yeah, apparently Simms was running the scam so that he could murder the girls working under him for being involved in the scam. That seems like maybe it could have used a bit of clarification or a slight rewrite to add another layer of twist or something.
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Dragnet 1970
"Homicide – The Student"
Originally aired September 25, 1969
Xfinity said:
Sgt. Joe Friday said:
Tuesday, May 21 (1968?): Friday and Gannon are working the day watch out of Homicide when they're sent to investigate the sniper-style shooting of two employees at a printing plant. The next day a foreman follows up with them, having remembered a dispute between the male victim and a young part-time employee, Jeff Buckram, who hadn't shown up the day of the shooting. They first check the junior college that Buckram attends. His English teacher, Ann Tipton (Emily Banks!), describes how he's into existentialism, which she describes as being preoccupied with the darker side of life, and believing in acting on one's philosophy. Next they go to Jeff's residence and talk to his outspokenly God-fearing aunt, Ada Beale (Virginia Gregg--I'll give them credit that her period old lady look makes her almost unrecognizable here). Aunt Ada considers the stuff that Jeff reads, like Flaubert, to be the work of the Devil. Jeff (Kevin Coughlin) comes out of his room, exhibits a surly attitude, and claims that he called in because he injured himself at baseball practice, and that he doesn't own a rifle. Jeff's coach (James McEachin) tells them that Jeff was let go from the squad, and that he'd said something about saving up to buy a rifle.
Back at the apartment, Jeff is gone, but Aunt Ada points out how he'd torn a page from the Flaubert book and stuffed it in his pocket before leaving. They visit the library from which the book was borrowed. The librarian, Alice Philbin (Peggy Webber), fetches another copy of the book and reads from the page that Jeff had torn out. It's from "The Legend of Saint Julian," and describes the young future saint enthralled by killing a pigeon. The detectives return to Ann Tipton, accompanied by a comically clumsy transition...
Friday (narration): She said she was familiar with "The Legend of St. Julian".
Tipton: Oh yes, I'm familiar with "The Legend of Saint Julian".
Tipton: Oh yes, I'm familiar with "The Legend of Saint Julian".
She points them to another piece of the Buckram puzzle, a girl that he's interested in, Nancy Morton (Jill Banner). They visit her at home, and she asserts that they're just friends because he's never made a move, and describes how he lives in the world of the books that he reads. She also tells them that he picked up a rifle that he'd been keeping her place. With a little prodding, she's able to remember that he described it as a .22, which matches the murder weapon.
Back at the station, the detectives get a call from Alice Philbin telling them that Jeff's at the library. They rush there and arrest him.
Philbin: Do you think Flaubert was the reason?
Friday: No ma'am, not the reason...just the excuse.
Friday: No ma'am, not the reason...just the excuse.
The rifle is found in Aunt Ada's car, which Jeff had been using, and is confirmed to be the murder weapon. At the station, Buckram tells them how killing wasn't like Flaubert described it at all...that it just made him scared, like he'd broken something belonging to somebody else and knew that he was going to get caught and punished. He laments that he'll never be a saint like Julian.
Friday: You got a long way to go.
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Adam-12
"Log 153: Find Me a Needle"
Originally aired September 27, 1969
Wiki said:
This is Jack Hogan's last of six appearances as Sgt. Miller, though he'll back in another role in a later season. He briefs the officers at roll call about how the sixth victim of the Mullholland Mauler has survived and can talk, giving them a composite sketch and description of the auto.
On patrol, Reed and Malloy stop a 16-year-old hitchhiker, Mary Gallagher (Astrid Warner), writing her a citation to appear in juvenile court and scaring her into taking the bus. Later that night they stop a car matching the victim's description, and find a knife and blanket in the trunk, matching the assailant's M.O. They take in the driver, Nick Gentry (Jonathan Lippe). Back on patrol, the officers talk to a couple of kids parked in a car in the area of the assaults and send them on their way. As with the hitchhiker, Malloy goes out of his way to put the fear of the serial rapist/murderer at large into them.
They then find a car by the side of the road with a flat and a pair of female shoes in the passenger seat; the car is registered to a Delores Grove. Visiting the nearest garage, they find not her, but a friend (Roberta Collins) with a broken-down car, whom Delores was supposed to be giving a lift. The friend indicates that Delores isn't the walking type and would have hitchhiked. The officers figure that if Gentry is their man, he already got to her, so he's got to lead them to the victim. They drive him up to the area with Sgt. Miller, showing him Grove's car. He denies knowing anything about it but gets pretty worked up. Then they take him to the ravine where "Number Six" was found, and use an impending line-up in which she'll have the opportunity to identify him to persuade him to help them find "Number Seven"...and they do, alive (Carolyn Devore). In the car, Gentry says something to Miller about how when they scream, there's nothing else to do. As Grove is being put in an ambulance, Gentry shows a matter-of-fact interest in whether she'll live. As the officers prepare to take him back to the station, he describes how he felt bad the first time, and tried to kill himself; but didn't feel anything the subsequent times, proposing that it proves he's crazy.
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