Nice try, but not quite.
Also not terribly impressive.
This is better, but, man, how short these songs are.
Kind of pleasant.
As far as I can recall, I'm not familiar with her either.
The Classic/Retro Pop Culture Thread
- Thread starter The Old Mixer
- Start date
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55.5th-ish Anniversary Viewing
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The Ed Sullivan Show
Season 18, episode 12
Originally aired November 28, 1965
As represented in The Best of the Ed Sullivan Show
We appear to be getting original music in the clip above, rather than the stock piece used in Best of.
Other performances, as listed on Metacritic:
Branded
"$10,000 for Durango"
Originally aired November 28, 1965
Jason heads into Durango to cash a $10,000 check for his current employer, who just sold a cattle herd that Jason delivered. He saves a woman named Callie Clay (Martha Hyer) from being accosted by a drunk local, and learns that she's also headed for the bank. The two of them are stopped and questioned by the sheriff (John Agar), who's particularly wary of Jason when he identifies himself, but shares that he received a letter warning of a bank robbery scheduled for that day. To that end, he has men with rifles posted atop surrounding buildings. The robbers, led by Frank Ross (Lloyd Bochner), get in anyway, posing as additional deputies from another town, and take Callie with them as a hostage. When Jason comes to from being pistol-whipped, he tracks them to their lair to find that Callie is a plant working for them.
Callie wants Ross to spare Jason because he did come to her rescue twice. Then a former accomplice of Ross's, Tiny Bradford (Edwin Cook), lays siege to the hideout with his own little gang. First Jason is sent out with limited ammo to bring their horses to the building, but he's forced to take cover in a wagon; then a couple of Ross's men are sent out one by one. When Ross's own men are killed while also whittling down the rival gang's numbers, Ross is pleased as it means having to split the loot less ways. Eventually it comes down to Jason and Ross outside, with Callie intervening on Jason's behalf; Ross is killed as he and Jason struggle over a gun. Callie tries to use her feminine wiles to persuade Jason to run off with her and the loot, but he turns her over to the sheriff while arguing for leniency. As he leaves, the sheriff also gets the feminine wiles treatment, and seems like an easier mark.
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12 O'Clock High
"We're Not Coming Back"
Originally aired November 29, 1965
This is a very interesting piece of business. H&I aired it earlier, out of airdate order, and it turns out there's a reason. Remember in "Big Brother," the Jack Lord episode, how Gallagher reunited with the 918th in North Africa after a delay in Yugoslavia following the first part of a shuttle raid? This, which aired seven episodes later, is the first part of that story! As such, it goes into much more detail about what a shuttle raid is, as Gallagher briefs his crew regarding the spanking-new tactic while en route to their target for security reasons. The title line comes from Gallagher's dramatic description of their unconventional route, which doesn't involve just turning around and heading back to England.
The 918th's target is Wesselhaven, 200 miles deeper into Germany than they've ever gone before. Along the way, we get some shots of escorting Spitfires and P-38s. In the secret headquarters of Der Legion von Doom, Colonel Falkenstein (Gunnar Hellstrom) and his superior, General von Leyden (John Hoyt), try to figure out what the Americans are up to as they continue past their likely targets despite fighter attacks. After the 918th unexpectedly turns south following their attack, Falkenstein leads a fighter squadron to pursue them. The Lily and her copilot, Captain Dan Lowell (William Arvin), are hit, with an engine lost and another running hot. Gallagher breaks formation to drop altitude and makes an emergency landing in the Yugoslavian countryside.
Gallagher chooses to have the Lily camouflaged rather than scuttled, counting on Komansky to repair her. The crew are found by armed locals and disarmed as Gallagher tries to explain that they're Americans. Komansky says something that he overheard old Ukranian neighbors say that convinces them to help. Mara Yellich (Ina Balin), who speaks English and takes an interest in Gallagher, and her jealous paramour, Mikhail (Michael Forest), take the crew to their cave lair to meet their leader and Mara's father, Nicolas Yellich (George Voskovec). Gallagher gives him all the crew's money to try to get him to help Lowell get medical attention. (Aren't they not allowed to carry wallets?) Yellich has Gallagher taken out to meet a German patrol that threatens to discover the plane; the partisans take them out by surprise by pretending to be turning Gallagher over to them.
Back in the Yellichcave, Mara cleans up real good and starts to have a romantic scene with Gallagher, which is interrupted by Mikhail, wh's in turn interrupted by Nicolas. Yellich wants Gallagher to take Mara to England with them for her safety, in exchange for getting them wire that they need to repair the plane. This involves a guerilla commando raid on the local German outpost, where Falkenstein has taken charge in order to send patrols out to find the bomber crew. When the partisans and their guests from the 918th return from this, Mara informs Gallagher that Lowell has died. As the crew is preparing to leave, Mara learns of her father's plan and objects, but he threatens to make her marry Mikhail if she stays. When she realizes that her father plans to sacrifice himself to see them off safely, she insists on staying so that he'll have to live to protect her. The crew gets the Lily started as Falkenstein's staff car closes in, and Gallagher executes a rough take-off right over the car. The Lily heads for North Africa and an earlier-aired episode.
This, boys and girls, is why we didn't get a lot of episode-to-episode continuity in '60s TV; and specifically in Trek's case, why they broke up "The Naked Time" and "Tomorrow Is Yesterday".
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Gilligan's Island
"The Chain of Command"
Originally aired December 2, 1965
After what appears to be a native headdress is found, the Skipper gets the idea in his head of training a replacement in case anything happens to him. The Professor acts too eggheadedly impractical for the role, focusing on designing a fort that would take years to build. The Howells treat the prospect of capture as a social opportunity, thinking that cash will save them. The Skipper even talks to the girls, who are more concerned with Ginger's hair. Thus it comes down to Gilligan, whom the Skipper starts training. The Skipper preps a stockpile of makeshift weapons and trains the castaways to take orders in employing them, but Gilligan botches things when left to give the order.
Gilligan later finds the Skipper's hat and a cut-off note surrounded by bare footprints. He dons the hat and tries to take charge, but the Professor and Mr. Howell continue to be unhelpful. Mary Ann bolsters Gilligan's self-confidence, he gets more assertive, and the others start listening to him. They soon end up catching the Skipper in a trap, and he reveals how his abduction was a test. Staying in his role, Gilligan starts giving the Skipper orders, but loses his command cred when he backward-marches off a cliff.
In the coda, the Skipper has the gorilla drilling Gilligan.
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The Wild Wild West
"The Night of the Human Trigger"
Originally aired December 3, 1965
The town of Sentinel, Wyoming, has been abandoned following a warning. Jim and Artie find a skeptical bartender and drunk piano player still there (Lindsay Workman and Dick Winslow) before the latestunconvincing shaky cam devastating earthquake strikes. In the Abandoned Sub-Basement of the Gotham Abandoned Sub-Basement Factory, former Harvard professor Orkney Cadwallader (Burgess Meredith), who's anticipating the arrival of West and Gordon, plots with underlings Sam (Robert Phillips) and Harry (uncredited James Jeter). Jim and Artie get to the next threatened town, Ellenville, while it's still being evacuated. In their hotel, Jim encounters Cadwallader's daughter Faith (Kathie Browne), who has orders from her father to have her dimwitted brothers Hercules (Mike Masters) and Thaddeus (Gregg Palmer) kill him. She leaves him in their care while she takes a bath, though the ensuing fight rolls through the bathing room. After the brothers are sent running, Jim and Artie tail them to their father's hidden lair, where they report that West got away. But the professor is able to detect the agents' train and horses with his Penguin-Seismograph, so Jim confronted is confronted by the sons outside, taking them out simultaneously using his regular gun and sleeve gun...but he and Artie are then nabbed by a bunch of other henchmen.
The professor strings them up with vials of nitro tied to the bottom of their feet, and describes how he was drawn out West for employment and taken advantage of...following which he happened upon a technique to use dynamite at critical points on fault lines. The agents figure that the vials are fake and call his bluff. He then puts them in a mining car that's headed into an ore pulverizer, but they rock the car over and get free. The agents head to Sawtooth, where the professor plans to destroy the courthouse in which the territory's land deeds are kept. Artie talks to a couple of locals, feisty, hardheaded Aunt Martha (Virginia Sale) and Porter Richards (Hank Patterson), who refuse to evacuate.
Outside the mine where the professor plans to use the explosives, Jim simulates an Indian attack to get his men to scatter and confronts the professor, but is trapped and tied down on the ground outside with a device on his chest that will detonate the dynamite if he moves. Artie arrives posing as a professor from Vienna; distracting Cadwallader while Jim works his way free, carefully pulling up his stakes. Faith, who longs for an ordinary life, tries to talk father into abandoning his plan, but he uses wires to detonate the earthquake himself. Shaky cam ruckus and landslides ensue, but Sawtooth is still standing when the dust settles. In the coda, the professor tries to work out in his cell how he miscalculated, while Jim and Artie leave Faith behind and roll out.
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Hogan's Heroes
"The Scientist"
Originally aired December 3, 1965
Schultz orders the prisoners to stay in the barracks away from the windows, so they use the rain barrel periscope to see a civilian being escorted by guards. They press Schultz for info and trick him into revealing that the visitor is Emil Du Bois (Maurice Marsac), a captured French scientist. The prisoners check on him to find that he's a synthetic fuel expert and are ordered to eliminate him as a collaborator. Hogan convinces Klink to let LeBeau, posing as a chemist, work with Du Bois. LeBeau confronts Du Bois in the lab and the scientist tells him that the Germans are holding his daughter.
Hogan and NewKirk go to where she's being held posing as a general from the fuhrer's staff and his aide, Hogan makes a big scene demanding to take her for questioning. The Germans bring her out and they take her away in their sidecar cycle. Du Bois is smuggled out via the dog truck and reunited with his daughter. Klink is told that Du Bois has escaped and Hogan convinces him to let LeBeau pose as Du Bois for an inspection visit by Professor Altman (Parley Baer). Hogan tries to recruit Carter to teach LeBeau about chemistry, but Carter suddenly seems to know a lot less about it than in previous episodes, protesting that he only ran a drug store. Thus LeBeau fakes it with the help of some pharmacy-oriented crib notes. The prisoners receive word that the professor and his daughter have been safely picked up, and Altman leaves the stalag none the wiser. In the coda, Hogan fakes a laboratory explosion in which Du Bois was supposedly killed, with Klink's knowledge.
Diiis-missed!
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Get Smart
"My Nephew the Spy"
Originally aired December 4, 1965
Max's shoe salesman (Vincent Beck) is running the shop with a man named Victor (Conrad Janis) as a front for KAOS. They discover who their customer is when they find the phone in the pair that Max is discarding. When the Chief learns that Max's aunt and uncle are coming for a visit, he stresses to Max that they can't know that he's a CONTROL agent, though Max can't remember what cover story he previously gave them. Max is struggling with Victor in his apartment when Uncle Abner and Aunt Bertha arrive, and Victor has to go along with Max's cover story. When 99 arrives, Max tries to enlist her help in dealing with Victor, but Aunt Bertha thinks she's the maid and puts her to work. Meanwhile, Uncle Abner has started triggering Max's security devices. One of them gives Victor the opportunity to get away. Max takes his aunt and uncle to the shoe store, pretending to work there while he investigates it. He gets in a tussle with the KAOS agents while pretending to be looking for a pair of shoes in the back, ultimately overcomes the KAOS agents, and finds that they were smuggling intel inside the shoes. The break-up of a spy ring in the shoe store makes the papers, which causes Uncle Abner and Aunt Bertha to think that Max has lost his job.
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55.5th-ish Anniversary Viewing
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The Ed Sullivan Show
Season 18, episode 12
Originally aired November 28, 1965
As represented in The Best of the Ed Sullivan Show
This performance appears to be coming to us ahead of the release of the single, which will chart in about a month.Ed said:
His juggling technique with balls is pretty good...his arms appear to be elastic and sometimes it appears that he's got more than two hands. Then he does the thing with the blocks where he keeps the middle one in the air while switching the other two around it. I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt that this is harder than it looks, as it seems like something anyone could do up to a point.Ed said:
We appear to be getting original music in the clip above, rather than the stock piece used in Best of.
Glenn's performance of "Baby, the Rain Must Fall" sounds more loungey than the single.Ed said:
Other performances, as listed on Metacritic:
- Petula Clark - "Mademoiselle de Paris."
- Glenn Yarbrough - "900 Miles."
- Sally Ann Howes - "All of a Sudden My Heart Sings."
- Sammy Kaye (with orchestra) - "The Hucklebuck," "Harbor Lights" (vocal trio with steel guitar), "Baby Face," "It Isn't Fair" and "Hey Daddy."
- Victor Borge (comedy routine)
- Jackie Vernon (stand-up comedian) - talks about his childhood and odd jobs he's worked.
- All-American Football team including Bob Griese and Bubba Smith.
- The Little Angels of Korea (dancers)
- Ed introduces Korean Ambassador
Branded
"$10,000 for Durango"
Originally aired November 28, 1965
Xfinity said:
Jason heads into Durango to cash a $10,000 check for his current employer, who just sold a cattle herd that Jason delivered. He saves a woman named Callie Clay (Martha Hyer) from being accosted by a drunk local, and learns that she's also headed for the bank. The two of them are stopped and questioned by the sheriff (John Agar), who's particularly wary of Jason when he identifies himself, but shares that he received a letter warning of a bank robbery scheduled for that day. To that end, he has men with rifles posted atop surrounding buildings. The robbers, led by Frank Ross (Lloyd Bochner), get in anyway, posing as additional deputies from another town, and take Callie with them as a hostage. When Jason comes to from being pistol-whipped, he tracks them to their lair to find that Callie is a plant working for them.
Callie wants Ross to spare Jason because he did come to her rescue twice. Then a former accomplice of Ross's, Tiny Bradford (Edwin Cook), lays siege to the hideout with his own little gang. First Jason is sent out with limited ammo to bring their horses to the building, but he's forced to take cover in a wagon; then a couple of Ross's men are sent out one by one. When Ross's own men are killed while also whittling down the rival gang's numbers, Ross is pleased as it means having to split the loot less ways. Eventually it comes down to Jason and Ross outside, with Callie intervening on Jason's behalf; Ross is killed as he and Jason struggle over a gun. Callie tries to use her feminine wiles to persuade Jason to run off with her and the loot, but he turns her over to the sheriff while arguing for leniency. As he leaves, the sheriff also gets the feminine wiles treatment, and seems like an easier mark.
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12 O'Clock High
"We're Not Coming Back"
Originally aired November 29, 1965
Xfinity said:
This is a very interesting piece of business. H&I aired it earlier, out of airdate order, and it turns out there's a reason. Remember in "Big Brother," the Jack Lord episode, how Gallagher reunited with the 918th in North Africa after a delay in Yugoslavia following the first part of a shuttle raid? This, which aired seven episodes later, is the first part of that story! As such, it goes into much more detail about what a shuttle raid is, as Gallagher briefs his crew regarding the spanking-new tactic while en route to their target for security reasons. The title line comes from Gallagher's dramatic description of their unconventional route, which doesn't involve just turning around and heading back to England.
The 918th's target is Wesselhaven, 200 miles deeper into Germany than they've ever gone before. Along the way, we get some shots of escorting Spitfires and P-38s. In the secret headquarters of Der Legion von Doom, Colonel Falkenstein (Gunnar Hellstrom) and his superior, General von Leyden (John Hoyt), try to figure out what the Americans are up to as they continue past their likely targets despite fighter attacks. After the 918th unexpectedly turns south following their attack, Falkenstein leads a fighter squadron to pursue them. The Lily and her copilot, Captain Dan Lowell (William Arvin), are hit, with an engine lost and another running hot. Gallagher breaks formation to drop altitude and makes an emergency landing in the Yugoslavian countryside.
Gallagher chooses to have the Lily camouflaged rather than scuttled, counting on Komansky to repair her. The crew are found by armed locals and disarmed as Gallagher tries to explain that they're Americans. Komansky says something that he overheard old Ukranian neighbors say that convinces them to help. Mara Yellich (Ina Balin), who speaks English and takes an interest in Gallagher, and her jealous paramour, Mikhail (Michael Forest), take the crew to their cave lair to meet their leader and Mara's father, Nicolas Yellich (George Voskovec). Gallagher gives him all the crew's money to try to get him to help Lowell get medical attention. (Aren't they not allowed to carry wallets?) Yellich has Gallagher taken out to meet a German patrol that threatens to discover the plane; the partisans take them out by surprise by pretending to be turning Gallagher over to them.
Back in the Yellichcave, Mara cleans up real good and starts to have a romantic scene with Gallagher, which is interrupted by Mikhail, wh's in turn interrupted by Nicolas. Yellich wants Gallagher to take Mara to England with them for her safety, in exchange for getting them wire that they need to repair the plane. This involves a guerilla commando raid on the local German outpost, where Falkenstein has taken charge in order to send patrols out to find the bomber crew. When the partisans and their guests from the 918th return from this, Mara informs Gallagher that Lowell has died. As the crew is preparing to leave, Mara learns of her father's plan and objects, but he threatens to make her marry Mikhail if she stays. When she realizes that her father plans to sacrifice himself to see them off safely, she insists on staying so that he'll have to live to protect her. The crew gets the Lily started as Falkenstein's staff car closes in, and Gallagher executes a rough take-off right over the car. The Lily heads for North Africa and an earlier-aired episode.
This, boys and girls, is why we didn't get a lot of episode-to-episode continuity in '60s TV; and specifically in Trek's case, why they broke up "The Naked Time" and "Tomorrow Is Yesterday".
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Gilligan's Island
"The Chain of Command"
Originally aired December 2, 1965
Wiki said:
After what appears to be a native headdress is found, the Skipper gets the idea in his head of training a replacement in case anything happens to him. The Professor acts too eggheadedly impractical for the role, focusing on designing a fort that would take years to build. The Howells treat the prospect of capture as a social opportunity, thinking that cash will save them. The Skipper even talks to the girls, who are more concerned with Ginger's hair. Thus it comes down to Gilligan, whom the Skipper starts training. The Skipper preps a stockpile of makeshift weapons and trains the castaways to take orders in employing them, but Gilligan botches things when left to give the order.
Gilligan later finds the Skipper's hat and a cut-off note surrounded by bare footprints. He dons the hat and tries to take charge, but the Professor and Mr. Howell continue to be unhelpful. Mary Ann bolsters Gilligan's self-confidence, he gets more assertive, and the others start listening to him. They soon end up catching the Skipper in a trap, and he reveals how his abduction was a test. Staying in his role, Gilligan starts giving the Skipper orders, but loses his command cred when he backward-marches off a cliff.
In the coda, the Skipper has the gorilla drilling Gilligan.
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The Wild Wild West
"The Night of the Human Trigger"
Originally aired December 3, 1965
Wiki said:
The town of Sentinel, Wyoming, has been abandoned following a warning. Jim and Artie find a skeptical bartender and drunk piano player still there (Lindsay Workman and Dick Winslow) before the latest
The professor strings them up with vials of nitro tied to the bottom of their feet, and describes how he was drawn out West for employment and taken advantage of...following which he happened upon a technique to use dynamite at critical points on fault lines. The agents figure that the vials are fake and call his bluff. He then puts them in a mining car that's headed into an ore pulverizer, but they rock the car over and get free. The agents head to Sawtooth, where the professor plans to destroy the courthouse in which the territory's land deeds are kept. Artie talks to a couple of locals, feisty, hardheaded Aunt Martha (Virginia Sale) and Porter Richards (Hank Patterson), who refuse to evacuate.
Outside the mine where the professor plans to use the explosives, Jim simulates an Indian attack to get his men to scatter and confronts the professor, but is trapped and tied down on the ground outside with a device on his chest that will detonate the dynamite if he moves. Artie arrives posing as a professor from Vienna; distracting Cadwallader while Jim works his way free, carefully pulling up his stakes. Faith, who longs for an ordinary life, tries to talk father into abandoning his plan, but he uses wires to detonate the earthquake himself. Shaky cam ruckus and landslides ensue, but Sawtooth is still standing when the dust settles. In the coda, the professor tries to work out in his cell how he miscalculated, while Jim and Artie leave Faith behind and roll out.
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Hogan's Heroes
"The Scientist"
Originally aired December 3, 1965
Wiki said:
Schultz orders the prisoners to stay in the barracks away from the windows, so they use the rain barrel periscope to see a civilian being escorted by guards. They press Schultz for info and trick him into revealing that the visitor is Emil Du Bois (Maurice Marsac), a captured French scientist. The prisoners check on him to find that he's a synthetic fuel expert and are ordered to eliminate him as a collaborator. Hogan convinces Klink to let LeBeau, posing as a chemist, work with Du Bois. LeBeau confronts Du Bois in the lab and the scientist tells him that the Germans are holding his daughter.
Hogan and NewKirk go to where she's being held posing as a general from the fuhrer's staff and his aide, Hogan makes a big scene demanding to take her for questioning. The Germans bring her out and they take her away in their sidecar cycle. Du Bois is smuggled out via the dog truck and reunited with his daughter. Klink is told that Du Bois has escaped and Hogan convinces him to let LeBeau pose as Du Bois for an inspection visit by Professor Altman (Parley Baer). Hogan tries to recruit Carter to teach LeBeau about chemistry, but Carter suddenly seems to know a lot less about it than in previous episodes, protesting that he only ran a drug store. Thus LeBeau fakes it with the help of some pharmacy-oriented crib notes. The prisoners receive word that the professor and his daughter have been safely picked up, and Altman leaves the stalag none the wiser. In the coda, Hogan fakes a laboratory explosion in which Du Bois was supposedly killed, with Klink's knowledge.
Diiis-missed!
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Get Smart
"My Nephew the Spy"
Originally aired December 4, 1965
Wiki said:
Max's shoe salesman (Vincent Beck) is running the shop with a man named Victor (Conrad Janis) as a front for KAOS. They discover who their customer is when they find the phone in the pair that Max is discarding. When the Chief learns that Max's aunt and uncle are coming for a visit, he stresses to Max that they can't know that he's a CONTROL agent, though Max can't remember what cover story he previously gave them. Max is struggling with Victor in his apartment when Uncle Abner and Aunt Bertha arrive, and Victor has to go along with Max's cover story. When 99 arrives, Max tries to enlist her help in dealing with Victor, but Aunt Bertha thinks she's the maid and puts her to work. Meanwhile, Uncle Abner has started triggering Max's security devices. One of them gives Victor the opportunity to get away. Max takes his aunt and uncle to the shoe store, pretending to work there while he investigates it. He gets in a tussle with the KAOS agents while pretending to be looking for a pair of shoes in the back, ultimately overcomes the KAOS agents, and finds that they were smuggling intel inside the shoes. The break-up of a spy ring in the shoe store makes the papers, which causes Uncle Abner and Aunt Bertha to think that Max has lost his job.
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This I got because it was included on Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965–1968, a 1972 compilation album that spotlighted a lot of psychedelic garage rock and is on the Rolling Stone list. They sound kinda Byrd-ish lite.
These are both modestly charting obscuros for a reason.
It's quite nice...a striking track from this peak Stones period.
It kinda looked like he was using his nose for help.
That's like a million dollars. Apparently his boss don't care about no Bitter Creek.
Another massacre that Jason will get blamed for.
Nice trick.
Maybe it's just IDs that they can't carry.
Things move fast in wartime.
Something tells me fighting the Germans is the lesser challenge.
Another nice trick. I wouldn't have expected a bomber to be able to land and take off in the countryside, but I assume this is accurate.
Maybe we can just give them credit for inventing non-linear storytelling.
Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
Seems like more of a Star Trek or Outer Limits plot.
Wait, what gorilla?
'cause they're all in the mood for a melody.
I still think the Old West should have collapsed like a termite-infested house by now.
aka Oswald Cobblepot. Every character this guy played had a name like a Dickens character.
Mrs Kolchak. Also that alien in Star Trek.
That sounds like fun.
Does he cackle penguinically?
Man, all these evacuation deniers. Some things never change.
And three generations later, his descendants are still trying to conquer the world.
What? She doesn't get to ride on the choo choo?
That's kind of a major intel failure on the part of Mama Bear, or whoever the boss is.
Strange. It hardly seems necessary to the story.
Mindy's dad (I think).
Because they had to transfer his apps and data to the new shoe.
I guess that means that the KAOS agents get to be tried in public court rather than secret court.
Yeah, they tried but didn't quite make it.
This thread is the coolest. It's nifty that someone besides me is living 55 years ago (we even watched the same summer rerun of The Wild Wild West yesterday!)
By the way, if you're digging all the Top 40 music, you might enjoy this radio station the Journey has put together. It specifically broadcasts the music of exactly 55 years ago (and the prior two years, inclusive), constantly updated. The playlist is very deep so you'll hear lots you haven't before.
http://68.8.221.155:8000/
By the way, if you're digging all the Top 40 music, you might enjoy this radio station the Journey has put together. It specifically broadcasts the music of exactly 55 years ago (and the prior two years, inclusive), constantly updated. The playlist is very deep so you'll hear lots you haven't before.
http://68.8.221.155:8000/
I noticed that, too.It kinda looked like he was using his nose for help.
It's also the going "Alive" price for fugitive Shaolin monks.
Branded and Kung Fu...now that could have been a cool crossover. The shows were very thematically compatible.
I wouldn't give them that much credit, but I'm willing to suspend my disbelief.
I should also note that when I was trying to find a previous post for this episode, I found a reference to H&I having skipped it in my previous viewing of the series years back. It's possible that I neglected to go back and watch this one on YouTube, in which case this would have been my first time seeing it.Maybe we can just give them credit for inventing non-linear storytelling.
How so?
The one played by Janos Prohaska mentioned in the episode description. He got a scene or two prior to that, when Gilligan was fretting about the pressure.Wait, what gorilla?
Or at least be elected mayor of Gotham.
Yep, I ran across that.
Thank you!
Well, my default immersive retro era is 50 years ago; 55 is catch-up business because I started doing 50 so late in the decade.
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Good idea. I'll have to see how the timelines line up.
Edit: It's actually kinda perfect. Branded ends when Kung Fu begins, perhaps with a little overlap. Since Jason's story is left unresolved, he and Caine could easily have encountered each other-- in fact, his situation could have been resolved with the help of Caine.
I had the impression they were being realistic with the Air Force stuff, but maybe not.
Just the idea of the plot twist being a trick or test by the main characters (like "The Enterprise Incident"). Actually, it may be more of a general 60s thing, because I recall Jim West being tested a couple of times too.
Ah, okay. But no part in the plot, though.
Today Gotham, tomorrow New York State! Then on Friday, the Northeast! Then the following week....
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How so? The main issue with Jason's reputation is that he wouldn't tell the full truth of what happened at Bitter Creek for fear of endangering the Indian treaty. Or would you be referring to the mystery of how Jason was saved / ended up away from the battlefield?
When it comes to things like protocol, regulations, tactics...probably. But when it comes to what unlikely feats of derring-do our hero characters can accomplish...? Season 2 is the transition between the meaty drama that the show started as and the action/adventure show that it ended up as.I had the impression they were being realistic with the Air Force stuff, but maybe not.
Here's a cool Perry Mason article from the latest MeTV email.
I didn't have a specific resolution in mind, just the general idea of Caine being the catalyst, since Jason's show left it unresolved. But then, Caine's story didn't really have a solid resolution either (until one of his descendants got around to it).
If it was flat, dry and sufficiently long, not a problem. The era of heavy aircraft using paved runways had arrived, but there were still RAF airfields that were just that, grass fields, and even heavy bombers could use them in a pinch.
55 Years Ago This Week
July 24
July 26 – Lord Gardiner issues the Practice Statement in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom, stating that the House is not bound to follow its own previous precedent.
July 28 – The U.S. announces that a Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance plane has disappeared over Cuba.
July 29
July 30
Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week:
Leaving the chart:
New on the chart:
"My Heart's Symphony," Gary Lewis & The Playboys
(#13 US; #36 UK)
"Guantanamera," The Sandpipers
(#9 US; #3 AC; #7 UK)
"Wouldn't It Be Nice," The Beach Boys
(#8 US)
"Land of 1000 Dances," Wilson Pickett
(#6 US; #1 R&B; #22 UK)
"Sunshine Superman," Donovan
(#1 US the week of Sept. 3, 1966; #2 UK)
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Timeline entries are quoted from the Wiki pages for the month or year and Mark Lewisohn's The Beatles Day by Day, with minor editing as needed.
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July 24
- U.N. Secretary General U Thant visits Moscow.
- A USAF F-4C Phantom #63-7599 is shot down by a North Vietnamese SAM-2 45 miles (72 km) northeast of Hanoi, the first loss of a U.S. aircraft to a Vietnamese surface-to-air missile in the Vietnam War.
July 26 – Lord Gardiner issues the Practice Statement in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom, stating that the House is not bound to follow its own previous precedent.
July 28 – The U.S. announces that a Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance plane has disappeared over Cuba.
July 29
- 1966 Nigerian counter-coup: Army officers from the north of Nigeria execute head of state General Aguiyi-Ironsi and install Yakubu Gowon.
- La Noche de los Bastones Largos: Junta takes over Argentine universities.
- Bob Dylan is injured in a motorcycle accident near his home in Woodstock, New York. He is not seen in public for over a year.
- By a syndication agreement Datebook, the US teen magazine, publishes John Lennon's interview with Maureen Cleave from the London Evening Standard of 4 March.
July 30
- England beats West Germany 4–2 to win the 1966 FIFA World Cup at Wembley after extra time.
- London gangster Charlie Richardson is arrested by police; in 1967 he will be sentenced to 25 years in prison for his part in assaults and torture committed by the Richardson Gang.
Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week:
Leaving the chart:
- "Barefootin'," Robert Parker (14 weeks)
- "Don't Bring Me Down," The Animals (10 weeks)
- "He," The Righteous Brothers (8 weeks)
- "The Land of Milk and Honey," The Vogues (8 weeks)
- "Oh How Happy," Shades of Blue (12 weeks)
- "Paint It Black," The Rolling Stones (11 weeks)
- "Please Tell Me Why," The Dave Clark Five (7 weeks)
- "Rain," The Beatles (7 weeks)
- "Solitary Man," Neil Diamond (10 weeks)
New on the chart:
"My Heart's Symphony," Gary Lewis & The Playboys
(#13 US; #36 UK)
"Guantanamera," The Sandpipers
(#9 US; #3 AC; #7 UK)
"Wouldn't It Be Nice," The Beach Boys
(#8 US)
"Land of 1000 Dances," Wilson Pickett
(#6 US; #1 R&B; #22 UK)
"Sunshine Superman," Donovan
(#1 US the week of Sept. 3, 1966; #2 UK)
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Timeline entries are quoted from the Wiki pages for the month or year and Mark Lewisohn's The Beatles Day by Day, with minor editing as needed.
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How about kinda bumpy-looking Not at All Like Southern California countryside?
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Man, that was a near miss.
Pleasant enough, I guess.
I absolutely love this. It's not exactly a time-travel song, but it makes me drift off to a certain kind of Summer day in childhood.
Classic.
Oh, yeah. OTR Classic. And sounds like the 50s to me.
Classic Donovan, man. This and "Jennifer Juniper" are my favorites.
That's how I was picturing it: Bumpity bumpity bumpity, wings fall off.
50 Years Ago This Week
July 25–30 – Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli records in Munich two Debussy works for Deutsche Grammophon; it is his fifth recording.
July 26 –Apollo 15, carrying astronauts David Scott, Alfred Worden, and James Irwin, was launched from Cape Kennedy in Florida at 9:34 in the morning local time on its mission to the Moon. After separating from the attached lunar module, turning around and docking with the module without incident, the spacecraft then departed Earth orbit at 12:24 in the afternoon and proceeded on a four-day journey to the Moon.
July 27
July 28
July 29 – The United Kingdom opts out of the Space Race, with the cancellation of its Black Arrow launch vehicle.
July 30
July 31 – At 1620 UTC (11:20 a.m. Eastern time in the U.S.), Apollo 15 astronaut David Scott became the first persons to drive a wheeled vehicle on the surface of the Moon, after landing the day before, and James Irwin rode along as a passenger. The two men drove roughly 2.5 miles (4.0 km) from the landing site before returning after six hours and 34 minutes. At 9:52 a.m. Eastern time (1442 UTC), Scott and Irwin removed Rover 1, the lunar rover, from the compartment below the module and unfolded it.
The Moon Buggy has landed!
Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week:
Leaving the chart:
New on the chart:
"Do You Know What I Mean," Lee Michaels
(#6 US)
"Spanish Harlem," Aretha Franklin
(#2 US; #6 AC; #1 R&B; #14 UK)
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Timeline entries are quoted from the Wiki pages for the month or year and Mark Lewisohn's The Beatles Day by Day, with minor editing as needed.
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55 Years Ago This Week Overflow Special
Also new on the chart the week of July 30, 1966:
"How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)," Jr. Walker & The All-Stars
(#18 US; #3 R&B; #22 UK)
"Wipe Out," The Surfaris
(originally charted June 22, 1963, reaching #2 US, #10 R&B, #5 UK; reaches #16 US this run)
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July 25–30 – Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli records in Munich two Debussy works for Deutsche Grammophon; it is his fifth recording.
July 26 –Apollo 15, carrying astronauts David Scott, Alfred Worden, and James Irwin, was launched from Cape Kennedy in Florida at 9:34 in the morning local time on its mission to the Moon. After separating from the attached lunar module, turning around and docking with the module without incident, the spacecraft then departed Earth orbit at 12:24 in the afternoon and proceeded on a four-day journey to the Moon.
July 27
- The first Eisenhower dollar, a dollar coin bearing the likeness of the late President Dwight D. Eisenhower was presented by U.S. President Nixon to former U.S. First Lady Mamie Eisenhower in a ceremony at the White House.
- In New York, George Harrison announces his plan for two massive concerts on 1 August to aid famine in Bangladesh.
July 28
- The United States announced that it would discontinue further airplane surveillance flights over the People's Republic of China, after years of flying SR-71 spy planes and sending unmanned reconnaissance drones into Chinese airspace.
- Abdel Khaliq Mahjub, Sudanese communist leader, is hanged.
July 29 – The United Kingdom opts out of the Space Race, with the cancellation of its Black Arrow launch vehicle.
July 30
- In Japan, an All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 collides with a Japanese fighter jet; 162 people are killed.
- Apollo 15 made the fourth manned landing on the Moon at 6:16 p.m. Eastern time (2316 UTC), as astronauts David Scott and James Irwin descended in the lunar module "Falcon" and touched down at the eastern edge of the Mare Imbrium near the Hadley Rille. Alfred Worden remained in orbit around the Moon.
- U.S. President Nixon renamed the Air Force One 707 presidential aircraft "Spirit of '76" as one of the initial activities of the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission in preparation for the 200th anniversary of the ratification of the American Declaration of Independence set for July 4, 1976.
- First UK release of George Harrison's 'Bangladesh' single.
July 31 – At 1620 UTC (11:20 a.m. Eastern time in the U.S.), Apollo 15 astronaut David Scott became the first persons to drive a wheeled vehicle on the surface of the Moon, after landing the day before, and James Irwin rode along as a passenger. The two men drove roughly 2.5 miles (4.0 km) from the landing site before returning after six hours and 34 minutes. At 9:52 a.m. Eastern time (1442 UTC), Scott and Irwin removed Rover 1, the lunar rover, from the compartment below the module and unfolded it.
The Moon Buggy has landed!
Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week:
Leaving the chart:
- "Want Ads," The Honey Cone (16 weeks)
- "When You're Hot, You're Hot," Jerry Reed (12 weeks)
New on the chart:
"Do You Know What I Mean," Lee Michaels
(#6 US)
"Spanish Harlem," Aretha Franklin
(#2 US; #6 AC; #1 R&B; #14 UK)
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Timeline entries are quoted from the Wiki pages for the month or year and Mark Lewisohn's The Beatles Day by Day, with minor editing as needed.
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55 Years Ago This Week Overflow Special
Also new on the chart the week of July 30, 1966:
"How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)," Jr. Walker & The All-Stars
(#18 US; #3 R&B; #22 UK)
"Wipe Out," The Surfaris
(originally charted June 22, 1963, reaching #2 US, #10 R&B, #5 UK; reaches #16 US this run)
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Not one of their catchier / more memorable ones.
Now this feels kinda like the earlier '60s to me.
Peak Beach Boys from their most esteemed and recently spotlighted album.
Great classic Wilson song, one of those that dares you to sit still while listening to it. Doesn't sound at all '50s to me, natch.
There's my Donovan! This song blew my little mind when I first discovered it in the '80s...for it's deeper-diving comics reference and for its general times-signy grooviness. Definitely a feel-good favorite...and on the seasonal playlist.
...miraculously heroic, obviously faked takeoff! 42:40+
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Way back in 1982, Michael Nesmith had a short-lived series on NBC where he showed early music videos and performed in sketches.
I remember him coming out with his guitar and he talked about a song he performed in his days as a folk singer and he started strumming 'Guantanamera'; except he started singing 'One ton of mayo'.
I've never been able to listen to the song since without being reminded of that sketch.
I remember him coming out with his guitar and he talked about a song he performed in his days as a folk singer and he started strumming 'Guantanamera'; except he started singing 'One ton of mayo'.
I've never been able to listen to the song since without being reminded of that sketch.
I think this counts as 50 Years Ago business:
My Sister with her new birthday present.
Looks like they hid the runway with the camera angle.
My Sister with her new birthday present.
That was so cool.
This is a good one. I always got the feeling that he was trying to sound like (or was inspired by) The Stones.
Wow, that's cool. I never heard it before.
Meh.
Technically, it has words.
Definitely at his individualistic peak here.
The game face wins again.
Looks like they hid the runway with the camera angle. And now you have passed the curse on to us.
Yes! That's it, that's the sketch. I might have been wrong about what he initially sang;, but that's what I've forever had stuck in my head.
If your local library has a copy, I would recommend checking out 'Pet Sounds Sessions'.
It has the isolated instrumental backing tracks and it just shows how dynamic those songs are even without vocals.
That 65-66 stretch with Brian in the studio with the L.A. musicians is some of the best music being recorded at the time.
It has the isolated instrumental backing tracks and it just shows how dynamic those songs are even without vocals.
That 65-66 stretch with Brian in the studio with the L.A. musicians is some of the best music being recorded at the time.
Two fine examples of of Brian Jones' knowledge / creative brilliance turning what could have been routine songs into unique classics.
Need I ask who got/made it for her? Also, based on a recent discussion, she's 55, correct? She looks younger.I think this counts as 50 Years Ago business:
My Sister with her new birthday present.
I was disappointed that there wasn't any good third-person footage of the buggy in action. Pretty sure I've seen some, maybe that was a future mission.That was so cool.
Can't say that I noticed any particular resemblance. This is a good but relatively unremarkable oldies radio classic.
She was more faithful in this cover than with "Bridge over Troubled Water," but the arrangement still renders the song almost unrecognizable.
This is good in its own right, but not distinctive enough from the Marvin Gaye original.
A surf rock uber-classic! And pretty respectable performance for a years-later rechart.
The only actual exterior shots of the plane are a bit of taxiing. The actual take-off is entirely shown from in-cockpit and first-person camera perspective (likely via helicopter).The game face wins again.
Definitely bought, not made. This was her 50th birthday, but she definitely does look young. We all do, really. You'd never guess that my Mother is 80. And I look about 19 in Martian years.
I've seen it, too, but I don't know what mission. I love the raw footage from the buggy's POV, though. It really gives a sense of the vastness of the landscape.
This is a good example of why I never liked Seinfeld.
And, of course, I'm incapable of describing why I think so. Something in the cadence and inflection?
Definitely an uber classic.
And the facial expressions of the pilot who lifts that bird off the dirt with... sheer... force... of... will!