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55.5th-ish Anniversary Viewing
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The Ed Sullivan Show
Season 18, episode 11
Originally aired November 21, 1965
As not represented in The Best of the Ed Sullivan Show
...and barely covered on YouTube:
Jean Carroll
Other performances, as listed on Metacritic:
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Branded
"The Greatest Coward on Earth"
Originally aired November 21, 1965
Jason is enjoying himself for a change, at P. T. Barnum's circus, when he's roped in out of the crowd because of his size to take on fighter Young Samson for $50. Samson proceeds to receive the Greatest Public Pummeling on Earth, but the barker can't pay up, so Jason takes him to the tent of Barnum himself (Pat O'Brien), who offers Jason Samson's job. Jason isn't interested at first, insisting on being paid his $50, and proceeds to a surveying job. Then he finds a circus poster that they're doing a show about him at Bitter Creek. Jason proceeds to the nearest circus tent looking for Barnum, but instead finds another, more struggling figure in the trade, whose full name I hadn't noticed was apparently not given at this point...but is played by Dick Clark! The man--we'll call him J. A.--is coaching a belly dancer billed as Princess Salome (Pamela Curran), and feels that he'd be breaking a code of his trade by leading Jason to Barnum, but Salome flirtily offers to help.
Jason finds Barnum, criticizes his Bitter Creek show's rehearsal, and demands that Barnum drop the show, but Barnum argues that Jason's now a historical figure. The barker, trying to score points with Barnum, give the "Hey Rube" call when he sees an opportunity, and Jason proceeds to dish out a private pummeling to several circus folk. Barnum can see that there's more to Jason than his reputation would indicate, and offers to use the show to tell his true story. Jason instead offers to get him Princess Salome, whom he learned Barnum was interested in acquiring. J. A. arrives with her and ends up asking for a percentage of Barnum's circus as payment, to which Barnum reluctantly agrees, though he insists that J. A. can't be considered a business partner. It's about here that they reveal J. A. Bailey's name in a very winky-nudgy way. Jason leaves the duo to history.
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12 O'Clock High
"Storm at Twilight"
Originally aired November 22, 1965
https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/the-classic-retro-pop-culture-thread.278375/page-82#post-12340869
The episode opens with acting 918th commander Lt. Colonel Rogers (Ted Knight) on the airfield gnashing his teeth about the number of planes lost on the latest mission, while Stovall feels responsible because he selected the young mission leader. Komansky then brings Stovall a telegram that his son has been reported missing in action. The major hits the bottle and expresses his feelings of inadequacy while linking the young men he's sending to their deaths with his son. He goes to see Britt in the middle of the night, and while the general is not amused, Harvey persuades him to to pull strings to get a waiver on his age as a personal favor. Gallagher returns and tries to talk some sense into Harvey, which includes telling him how risky their next series of missions will be, taking out German oil refineries that have been situated near POW camps, which could result in young men like his son being killed if anyone screws up. Much is made about Stovall having been an old, experienced combat pilot. I didn't get the impression that the original Stovall in the film had been one at all.
Stovall struggles with his eyesight, studying the bomber control panels and memorizing the eye charts in private with his glasses on, and passes his physical despite Gallagher telling Doc Kaiser not to do Harvey any favors. Gallagher gives the new indoctrinees his film-derived speech about how they should consider themselves already dead, then proceeds with flight training. Gallagher is tough in the co-pilot's seat, putting Harvey into difficult simulated situations, including having to land without power. Stovall acts a bit overwhelmed and disoriented when a flight of P-51s unexpectedly buzzes around them. Gallagher expresses his intent to just get tougher, and it starts to become about Harvey proving himself to the colonel. Kaiser privately tries to talk sense into him about his age-induced limitations as well. Gallagher gives Harvey a surprise 4:00 wake-up for a private training flight. Britt tells him off for this, and insists that Stovall be assigned to the next day's mission over Antwerp. Harvey feels the pressure in combat, and almost collides with another fortress. Back at base, he presses Sandy, who was flying with him, for an honest assessment, and eventually gets one.
When the Giessen mission gets the go-ahead, Stovall tries to bow out and Gallagher wont let him, but has Harvey fly as his co-pilot. A flak hit take Gallagher out, so it all rides on Stovall, who holds off on having the bombs dropped when he feels that the group isn't line up right and has them circle around for another pass. He then lets the autopilot do the flying and the target is hit successfully. Gallagher, apparently not wounded badly, disembarks himself and congratulates Harvey, who then collects on an old football bet with Britt that he apparently remembered while his life was flashing before his eyes. I think we're meant to get the impression that Harvey is now ready to step down from flight duty honorably, but he'll be back in the air in Season 3 when the show gets dumbed down.
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Gilligan's Island
"Hi-Fi Gilligan"
Originally aired November 25, 1965
The castaways are prepping for a typhoon by stocking a cave when Gilligan is hit in the jaw by a crate, causing radio broadcasts to play when he opens his mouth. Turning his head gets different stations, and being near the normal radio interferes with it. The girls have him hang from a tree to get an exercise program. Mary Ann also wants to use him to listen to a soap opera, though Ginger prefers the awards program. The noise keeps the Skipper awake, so Gilligan tries sleeping outside, but an opera brodcast breaks a glass that the Professor is drinking from. (They have glasses on the island?) Everyone else shoos Gilligan away, and he sleepily knocks over the radio and loses his reception, but also breaks the radio, which is needed to get the latest news about the typhoon's arrival.
The Professor gives up on fixing the radio, so Gilligan volunteers to let the Skipper sock him in the mouth to make him a radio again; but the Skipper ends up busting his hand knocking down a tree, so Gilligan comes up with his own mechanism for doing the job. The castaways try to crowd into the small cave, but even after removing the supplies they can't all fit, so the men draw straws to determine who'll take their chances outside. Gilligan breaks his to make sure it's the shortest, but the others discover this afterward, and the Skipper comes out to talk to him and decides to stay with his little buddy. Eventually the others all join them, after which a lightning bolt strikes the cave, destroying it. The electrical storm fixes Gilligan's tooth...and I'm sure that the radio will be back to normal next week.
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The Wild Wild West
"The Night of the Red-Eyed Madmen"
Originally aired November 26, 1965
Jim meets in a hotel lobby with a Senator Rawls (Nelson Olmsted), who wants West to talk to his niece, Lola Bracer, about a man named Jack Talbot whom she was having an affair with but has now "thrown her over". West doesn't think that this is in his jurisdiction, but the senator has reason to believe that it involves the security of the United States. Jim proceeds up to Lola's room and gets into a tussle with three men that spills out of the elevator on her floor. Jim sends them running, following which Lola (Toian Matchinga) shows him Talbot's Dear Jane letter, which reads like a little manifesto, and tells of how Talbot fell under the influence of a General Grimm. Jim takes the train to the outskirts of the place on the postmark, Mars, Nevada. Inside the Mars Military Academy, which is a fort, we see Grimm (And now...Martin Landau!) torturing Talbot (Ted Markland) for information about who he contacted, following which the general has him put in a hotbox. Jim arrives at the gate showing an interest in joining up, but Sgt. Musk (Joan Huntington) isn't impressed that he's a friend of that weakling Talbot. In the barracks, where men playfully practice garroting each other, Jim is trying on his uniform puffy shirt when one of the men picks a fight with him over Talbot while Sgt. Musk is watching. Jim shows his stuff against several of the men, which impresses her. But Grimm is aware that the senator contacted a Secret Service agent, and one of the assailants from the hotel (Gregg Martell, whose character is listed as Otto) assures the general that he'll know the man's face.
Meanwhile, a recruit named Jenny (Shary Marshall), concerned for Talbot, points Jim to the hotbox. Jim notices the man from the hotel, and has to avoid letting Otto see his face. Back on the train, Artie gets a visit from an old friend, Captain O'Brien (uncredited Ray Kellogg), who lets him know that the cavalry is standing by to help. Back at the academy, puffy-shirtless Jim is formally tested in his skills in a ring, besting a guy with a trident and net, a guy with an unbroken saber, and a martial artist; thus he's in on the operation, which involves Jenny and a male recruit named George (Don Rizzan, I think) in a cavalry uniform blowing a munitions depot. Jim directs Jenny to the train; then makes moves on Sgt. Musk to keep his face hidden from Otto; then, once alone outside, tries to free Talbot from the hotbox. But Talbot is still a true believer, and sounds an alarm. Jim tries to pass it off as delirium, but Otto finally sees his face and informs Grimm, who decides to string Jim along to get more information from him.
While Artie's keeping himself busy at the train, he receives a visit from Jenny and George, and George pulls a gun, but Artie remotely activates the pistols mounted on a turntable and persuades George to hand over his pistol and takes him prisoner. Artie proceeds to the academy in the role of Colonel Cross, a "patriot" who's looking for a leader and was sent there by George and Jenny. As a test of them both, Grimm has Artie hold an axe in front of his face while Jim is to shoot a bullet that hits the edge of the blade just right to split and pass Artie on either side. Jim succeeds, following which he and Artie sneak into Grimm's office to find the forged documents that will be used at other targets. Grimm catches them, and Jim provides a distraction for Artie to leap out a window. Grimm announces that Jim will be executed at dawn.
Brought before a firing squad, Jim puts in a last request so he can use Artie's tobacco pouch bomb to make a break. He's pursued, and finds himself in the ring with rifles trained at him from the gallery. Jim challenges Grimm to a duel, playing on the general's outspoken belief that success is all about the side with the superior soldiers. Jim keeps the upper hand in spite of Grimm having several weapons tossed down for his use, and eventually backs Grimm into a saber protruding from a wall. Their leader defeated, the men in the gallery stand down and exit.
In the coda, we learn that Artie got the cavalry there in time to pick up Grimm's men, and the train is taking Sgt. Musk and Jenny to Carson City. Musk is downtrodden that she's lost her equality, but turns all girly when Jenny presents her with the dress that was meant as part of her infiltration disguise. The episode ends on the following note...
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Hogan's Heroes
"Happiness Is a Warm Sergeant"
Originally aired November 26, 1965
In the woods, LeBeau makes contact with shot-down Captain Jeb Winslow (Bruce Yarnell), a tall, boisterous Texan. The prisoners feign Newkirk having a toothache so he can make contact with the underground in town. Newkirk spikes Schultz's beer at the bar where his contact works, so the sergeant comes back hours late roaring drunk. While Schultz is walking guard duty outside, his replacement, Sergeant Krebs (Norman Alden), arrives, and proves to be strict and no-nonsense. The prisoners talk about how long it took to "train" Schultz. Schultz sees Winslow in the barracks and thinks it's his lucky break; Hogan convinces him to stay silent in exchange for the prisoners getting rid of Krebs. They pull a variety of stunts to make Krebs looks bad, including a gag radio that sprays Klink with water; letting Krebs find a tunnel location that collapses under Klink; and letting him overhear fake escape planning. He tries to keep an eye on the barracks and Newkirk keeps him occupied with card tricks while the others slip out and stage their attempt in front of Schultz, letting him catch them.
Diiiss-missed!
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Get Smart
"Too Many Chiefs"
Originally aired November 27, 1965
The Chief, Max, and 99 are escorting defector and rescued KAOS prisoner Tanya Lupescu (Susanne Cramer) when they end up in the middle of a hotel lobby standoff between various agents from both sides, who all end up shooting each other offscreen. KAOS is concerned that Tanya will be able to identify KAOS operatives...in court! The Chief assigns Max to keep Tanya in his apartment, and Max is worried what the neighbors will say! Difficulty with the Cone of Silence rising and falling has Max and the Chief standing up and sitting down with it. Tanya starts giving the neighbors something to talk about when 99 walks in on her and Max. The Chief learns of Sebastian's involvement and briefs Max on his previous disguises, which include having hosted the Tonight Show for two weeks while impersonating Johnny Carson. We meet him at a KAOS meeting, already disguised as the Chief.
Fang appears just long enough for Max to suspect him. 99 is also watching the apartment, and there's more triangular tension with Tanya. The Chief arrives, exchanging countersigns with 99; and Sebastian arrives and Max lets him in when he bluffs about the countersigns, which Max couldn't keep straight anyway. The two Chiefs are in and out of rooms and both in contact with Max and 99 alternately, until at last they both end up in the same room and Max shines a light in Sebastian's face, which makes him draw a gun in response, exposing him and resulting in Max shooting him; though there's some doubt when the real Chief reacts badly to the light as well.
In the coda, Max has to leave his apartment and let 99 watch Tanya because Tanya's forwardness is causing him to bumble.
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55.5th-ish Anniversary Viewing
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The Ed Sullivan Show
Season 18, episode 11
Originally aired November 21, 1965
As not represented in The Best of the Ed Sullivan Show
...and barely covered on YouTube:
Jean Carroll
Other performances, as listed on Metacritic:
- Johnny Mathis sings an "On A Clear Day You Can See Forever" medley (including "Come Back to Me," "Melinda" and "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever")
- Heidi Bruhl (German singer & actress) - sings "Wonderful" and "I Could Have Danced All Night."
- Peter Nero (pianist appearing with the Ray Bloch Orchestra) - "I've Got Rhythm."
- Yellenite Trio sings "Havanegila" & 1 other song.
- Killer Joe Piro and his Discotheque Dancers (troupe includes Goldie Hawn).
- Ginny Tiu (singer-pianist appearing with her family) - includes children dancing to "This Land Is Your Land."
- Jack E. Leonard (stand-up routine)
- Topo Gigio (Italian mouse puppet)
- Cameo: Alan Jay Lerner (usical theater lyricist)
- On film: Footage of sports legends Jimmy Brown and Willie Mays.
- Willie Mays - interviewed onstage by Ed.
- Audience bows: girl scouts
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Branded
"The Greatest Coward on Earth"
Originally aired November 21, 1965
Xfinity said:
Jason is enjoying himself for a change, at P. T. Barnum's circus, when he's roped in out of the crowd because of his size to take on fighter Young Samson for $50. Samson proceeds to receive the Greatest Public Pummeling on Earth, but the barker can't pay up, so Jason takes him to the tent of Barnum himself (Pat O'Brien), who offers Jason Samson's job. Jason isn't interested at first, insisting on being paid his $50, and proceeds to a surveying job. Then he finds a circus poster that they're doing a show about him at Bitter Creek. Jason proceeds to the nearest circus tent looking for Barnum, but instead finds another, more struggling figure in the trade, whose full name I hadn't noticed was apparently not given at this point...but is played by Dick Clark! The man--we'll call him J. A.--is coaching a belly dancer billed as Princess Salome (Pamela Curran), and feels that he'd be breaking a code of his trade by leading Jason to Barnum, but Salome flirtily offers to help.
Jason finds Barnum, criticizes his Bitter Creek show's rehearsal, and demands that Barnum drop the show, but Barnum argues that Jason's now a historical figure. The barker, trying to score points with Barnum, give the "Hey Rube" call when he sees an opportunity, and Jason proceeds to dish out a private pummeling to several circus folk. Barnum can see that there's more to Jason than his reputation would indicate, and offers to use the show to tell his true story. Jason instead offers to get him Princess Salome, whom he learned Barnum was interested in acquiring. J. A. arrives with her and ends up asking for a percentage of Barnum's circus as payment, to which Barnum reluctantly agrees, though he insists that J. A. can't be considered a business partner. It's about here that they reveal J. A. Bailey's name in a very winky-nudgy way. Jason leaves the duo to history.
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12 O'Clock High
"Storm at Twilight"
Originally aired November 22, 1965
Xfinity said:
https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/the-classic-retro-pop-culture-thread.278375/page-82#post-12340869
The episode opens with acting 918th commander Lt. Colonel Rogers (Ted Knight) on the airfield gnashing his teeth about the number of planes lost on the latest mission, while Stovall feels responsible because he selected the young mission leader. Komansky then brings Stovall a telegram that his son has been reported missing in action. The major hits the bottle and expresses his feelings of inadequacy while linking the young men he's sending to their deaths with his son. He goes to see Britt in the middle of the night, and while the general is not amused, Harvey persuades him to to pull strings to get a waiver on his age as a personal favor. Gallagher returns and tries to talk some sense into Harvey, which includes telling him how risky their next series of missions will be, taking out German oil refineries that have been situated near POW camps, which could result in young men like his son being killed if anyone screws up. Much is made about Stovall having been an old, experienced combat pilot. I didn't get the impression that the original Stovall in the film had been one at all.
Stovall struggles with his eyesight, studying the bomber control panels and memorizing the eye charts in private with his glasses on, and passes his physical despite Gallagher telling Doc Kaiser not to do Harvey any favors. Gallagher gives the new indoctrinees his film-derived speech about how they should consider themselves already dead, then proceeds with flight training. Gallagher is tough in the co-pilot's seat, putting Harvey into difficult simulated situations, including having to land without power. Stovall acts a bit overwhelmed and disoriented when a flight of P-51s unexpectedly buzzes around them. Gallagher expresses his intent to just get tougher, and it starts to become about Harvey proving himself to the colonel. Kaiser privately tries to talk sense into him about his age-induced limitations as well. Gallagher gives Harvey a surprise 4:00 wake-up for a private training flight. Britt tells him off for this, and insists that Stovall be assigned to the next day's mission over Antwerp. Harvey feels the pressure in combat, and almost collides with another fortress. Back at base, he presses Sandy, who was flying with him, for an honest assessment, and eventually gets one.
When the Giessen mission gets the go-ahead, Stovall tries to bow out and Gallagher wont let him, but has Harvey fly as his co-pilot. A flak hit take Gallagher out, so it all rides on Stovall, who holds off on having the bombs dropped when he feels that the group isn't line up right and has them circle around for another pass. He then lets the autopilot do the flying and the target is hit successfully. Gallagher, apparently not wounded badly, disembarks himself and congratulates Harvey, who then collects on an old football bet with Britt that he apparently remembered while his life was flashing before his eyes. I think we're meant to get the impression that Harvey is now ready to step down from flight duty honorably, but he'll be back in the air in Season 3 when the show gets dumbed down.
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Gilligan's Island
"Hi-Fi Gilligan"
Originally aired November 25, 1965
Wiki said:
The castaways are prepping for a typhoon by stocking a cave when Gilligan is hit in the jaw by a crate, causing radio broadcasts to play when he opens his mouth. Turning his head gets different stations, and being near the normal radio interferes with it. The girls have him hang from a tree to get an exercise program. Mary Ann also wants to use him to listen to a soap opera, though Ginger prefers the awards program. The noise keeps the Skipper awake, so Gilligan tries sleeping outside, but an opera brodcast breaks a glass that the Professor is drinking from. (They have glasses on the island?) Everyone else shoos Gilligan away, and he sleepily knocks over the radio and loses his reception, but also breaks the radio, which is needed to get the latest news about the typhoon's arrival.
The Professor gives up on fixing the radio, so Gilligan volunteers to let the Skipper sock him in the mouth to make him a radio again; but the Skipper ends up busting his hand knocking down a tree, so Gilligan comes up with his own mechanism for doing the job. The castaways try to crowd into the small cave, but even after removing the supplies they can't all fit, so the men draw straws to determine who'll take their chances outside. Gilligan breaks his to make sure it's the shortest, but the others discover this afterward, and the Skipper comes out to talk to him and decides to stay with his little buddy. Eventually the others all join them, after which a lightning bolt strikes the cave, destroying it. The electrical storm fixes Gilligan's tooth...and I'm sure that the radio will be back to normal next week.
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The Wild Wild West
"The Night of the Red-Eyed Madmen"
Originally aired November 26, 1965
Must be Friday night!Wiki said:
Jim meets in a hotel lobby with a Senator Rawls (Nelson Olmsted), who wants West to talk to his niece, Lola Bracer, about a man named Jack Talbot whom she was having an affair with but has now "thrown her over". West doesn't think that this is in his jurisdiction, but the senator has reason to believe that it involves the security of the United States. Jim proceeds up to Lola's room and gets into a tussle with three men that spills out of the elevator on her floor. Jim sends them running, following which Lola (Toian Matchinga) shows him Talbot's Dear Jane letter, which reads like a little manifesto, and tells of how Talbot fell under the influence of a General Grimm. Jim takes the train to the outskirts of the place on the postmark, Mars, Nevada. Inside the Mars Military Academy, which is a fort, we see Grimm (And now...Martin Landau!) torturing Talbot (Ted Markland) for information about who he contacted, following which the general has him put in a hotbox. Jim arrives at the gate showing an interest in joining up, but Sgt. Musk (Joan Huntington) isn't impressed that he's a friend of that weakling Talbot. In the barracks, where men playfully practice garroting each other, Jim is trying on his uniform puffy shirt when one of the men picks a fight with him over Talbot while Sgt. Musk is watching. Jim shows his stuff against several of the men, which impresses her. But Grimm is aware that the senator contacted a Secret Service agent, and one of the assailants from the hotel (Gregg Martell, whose character is listed as Otto) assures the general that he'll know the man's face.
Meanwhile, a recruit named Jenny (Shary Marshall), concerned for Talbot, points Jim to the hotbox. Jim notices the man from the hotel, and has to avoid letting Otto see his face. Back on the train, Artie gets a visit from an old friend, Captain O'Brien (uncredited Ray Kellogg), who lets him know that the cavalry is standing by to help. Back at the academy, puffy-shirtless Jim is formally tested in his skills in a ring, besting a guy with a trident and net, a guy with an unbroken saber, and a martial artist; thus he's in on the operation, which involves Jenny and a male recruit named George (Don Rizzan, I think) in a cavalry uniform blowing a munitions depot. Jim directs Jenny to the train; then makes moves on Sgt. Musk to keep his face hidden from Otto; then, once alone outside, tries to free Talbot from the hotbox. But Talbot is still a true believer, and sounds an alarm. Jim tries to pass it off as delirium, but Otto finally sees his face and informs Grimm, who decides to string Jim along to get more information from him.
While Artie's keeping himself busy at the train, he receives a visit from Jenny and George, and George pulls a gun, but Artie remotely activates the pistols mounted on a turntable and persuades George to hand over his pistol and takes him prisoner. Artie proceeds to the academy in the role of Colonel Cross, a "patriot" who's looking for a leader and was sent there by George and Jenny. As a test of them both, Grimm has Artie hold an axe in front of his face while Jim is to shoot a bullet that hits the edge of the blade just right to split and pass Artie on either side. Jim succeeds, following which he and Artie sneak into Grimm's office to find the forged documents that will be used at other targets. Grimm catches them, and Jim provides a distraction for Artie to leap out a window. Grimm announces that Jim will be executed at dawn.
Brought before a firing squad, Jim puts in a last request so he can use Artie's tobacco pouch bomb to make a break. He's pursued, and finds himself in the ring with rifles trained at him from the gallery. Jim challenges Grimm to a duel, playing on the general's outspoken belief that success is all about the side with the superior soldiers. Jim keeps the upper hand in spite of Grimm having several weapons tossed down for his use, and eventually backs Grimm into a saber protruding from a wall. Their leader defeated, the men in the gallery stand down and exit.
In the coda, we learn that Artie got the cavalry there in time to pick up Grimm's men, and the train is taking Sgt. Musk and Jenny to Carson City. Musk is downtrodden that she's lost her equality, but turns all girly when Jenny presents her with the dress that was meant as part of her infiltration disguise. The episode ends on the following note...
Artie: Feminine equality! It's ridiculous. That man Grimm must have been insane!
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Hogan's Heroes
"Happiness Is a Warm Sergeant"
Originally aired November 26, 1965
Bang, bang, shoot, shoot!Wiki said:
In the woods, LeBeau makes contact with shot-down Captain Jeb Winslow (Bruce Yarnell), a tall, boisterous Texan. The prisoners feign Newkirk having a toothache so he can make contact with the underground in town. Newkirk spikes Schultz's beer at the bar where his contact works, so the sergeant comes back hours late roaring drunk. While Schultz is walking guard duty outside, his replacement, Sergeant Krebs (Norman Alden), arrives, and proves to be strict and no-nonsense. The prisoners talk about how long it took to "train" Schultz. Schultz sees Winslow in the barracks and thinks it's his lucky break; Hogan convinces him to stay silent in exchange for the prisoners getting rid of Krebs. They pull a variety of stunts to make Krebs looks bad, including a gag radio that sprays Klink with water; letting Krebs find a tunnel location that collapses under Klink; and letting him overhear fake escape planning. He tries to keep an eye on the barracks and Newkirk keeps him occupied with card tricks while the others slip out and stage their attempt in front of Schultz, letting him catch them.
Diiiss-missed!
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Get Smart
"Too Many Chiefs"
Originally aired November 27, 1965
Wiki said:
The Chief, Max, and 99 are escorting defector and rescued KAOS prisoner Tanya Lupescu (Susanne Cramer) when they end up in the middle of a hotel lobby standoff between various agents from both sides, who all end up shooting each other offscreen. KAOS is concerned that Tanya will be able to identify KAOS operatives...in court! The Chief assigns Max to keep Tanya in his apartment, and Max is worried what the neighbors will say! Difficulty with the Cone of Silence rising and falling has Max and the Chief standing up and sitting down with it. Tanya starts giving the neighbors something to talk about when 99 walks in on her and Max. The Chief learns of Sebastian's involvement and briefs Max on his previous disguises, which include having hosted the Tonight Show for two weeks while impersonating Johnny Carson. We meet him at a KAOS meeting, already disguised as the Chief.
Fang appears just long enough for Max to suspect him. 99 is also watching the apartment, and there's more triangular tension with Tanya. The Chief arrives, exchanging countersigns with 99; and Sebastian arrives and Max lets him in when he bluffs about the countersigns, which Max couldn't keep straight anyway. The two Chiefs are in and out of rooms and both in contact with Max and 99 alternately, until at last they both end up in the same room and Max shines a light in Sebastian's face, which makes him draw a gun in response, exposing him and resulting in Max shooting him; though there's some doubt when the real Chief reacts badly to the light as well.
In the coda, Max has to leave his apartment and let 99 watch Tanya because Tanya's forwardness is causing him to bumble.
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The Diogenescave, I presume?Didn't he just have a birthday a couple of months ago? No wonder he's so old!
Peace and Love, Ringo!
