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55.5th-ish Anniversary Viewing
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The Ed Sullivan Show
Season 18, episode 13
Originally aired December 5, 1965
As represented in The Best of the Ed Sullivan Show
Other performances, as listed on Metacritic:
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Branded
"Romany Roundup: Part 1"
Originally aired December 5, 1965
Jason sees a rancher named Aaron Shields (Gary Merrill) about doing a survey of his land on behalf of territorial governor Sorley. Shields suspects political motives, but reluctantly allows Jason to accompany him to the Chimney Butte ranch. Shields explains how he hires Gypsies for work while expressing a low opinion of them. Then he finds out that the Gypsy leader, Kolyan (Nico Minardos) has been caught romancing his daughter, Robin (Anna Capri), and starts to whip Kolyan before Jason intervenes, getting on Shields's bad side. Kolyan invites Jason to stay in his people's camp, to the chagrin of his sister Lisa (Joan Huntington), who challenges Jason to prove himself by breaking a bronc...in which he succeeds, leading to some sparks later igniting between them.
Kolyan offers Jason a man named Lazar (Ben-Ari) as an assistant for his survey; while Shields saddles McCord with a foreman, Jud Foley (Don Collier), to go over all of his figures, though he's distracted by his ungentlemanly interest in Lisa. Shields brings the sheriff (Alan Baxter) to arrest Jason on false charges, including polluting his creek. Kolyan goes to the jail to offer bail for Jason's release, but the sheriff names a high price...almost everything Kolyan's making for breaking Shields's horses. The announcer tells us to come back next week.
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12 O'Clock High
"The Jones Boys"
Originally aired December 6, 1965
https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/the-classic-retro-pop-culture-thread.278375/page-83#post-12351316
Reynolds is playing the same character as in his previous appearance, so I think that solves the mystery of his disproportionately high billing in that one...it was likely part of a package deal with this episode, in which he factors more prominently.
Lt. Jaydee Jones (Prine) sneaks into base from an AWOL date with Lt. Jean Warner (Susan Seaforth). Sgt. Vern Chapman (Reynolds) is pilfering guns when he catches the two of them talking about it inside the gates. On his next mission, Jaydee has trouble with the takeoff due to brake failure, and Chapman, his flight engineer, struggles with him over the controls, which results in the plane crashing on the runway, killing the bombardier and fatally wounding the co-pilot. Meanwhile, Gallagher is being given a hard time by Col. Kendal Hunter (Special Guest Star [Peter] Mark Richman) about his supply shortages. Both colonels are motivated for opposing reasons to get to the bottom of what happened to the plane. Jaydee approaches Chapman, who's been selling the stolen guns in Archbury, not to volunteer any more information than he has to, which is when Chapman starts making blackmail noises.
The black market guns are brought back to base while Chapman is present, so he knows the heat's on him. Under questioning with both Joneses present, Chapman points the finger for the incident at the now-dead co-pilot. Afterward, Chapman squeezes Jaydee for an alibi for his visit to Archbury, but Frank overhears and confronts them. Chapman reveals that he knows about Jaydee having been AWOL that night and that he didn't get enough sleep to be flying the next day. In private, Jaydee asks Frank to butt out. Things smooth over between Gallagher and Hunter when the latter calls Joe to tell him that Lt. Jones is in the clear and the 918th will be getting a couple of replacement bombers. But Jaydee has to fly some training missions with Gallagher as his co-pilot/instructor.
Frank approaches Gallagher for a transfer, and he agrees, thinking that it's just an overprotective brother trying to make up for meddling. The subject of Jaydee's lack of nerve for combat flying comes up. The Brit to whom Chapman sold the guns (Noel Drayton) is brought to the base to identify the culprit. Chapman twists Jaydee's arm to go along with him in faking a mechanical issue to land their bomber in Switzerland the next day, which will take them out of the war, giving Chapman time for the heat to clear. The Brit identifies Chapman from a photo as the bomber's getting ready to take off, Gallagher tries to stop it, and Frank boards to try to warn Jaydee; but Chapman pulls a gun, cold-cocks Frank, and forces Jaydee to take off...then goes back, knocks out the bombardier, and tosses him off the plane.
The flight underway, Chapman changes the plan to landing in France, with the intent of offering the plane's bomb sight to the Germans as a tactic to negotiate not being imprisoned. Gallagher takes off in his personal P-51 to pursue the bomber. Frank, locked up in the radio compartment, answers Gallagher's hails and helps him find the bomber. Gallagher threatens to shoot them down, Frank tries to talk Jaydee into surrendering, and Chapman takes the top turret to try to take Gallagher out. Jaydee complies with Gallagher and changes course, telling the colonel that Frank is innocent. A squadron of German fighters appears and Gallagher takes them all on while Frank, having freed himself, struggles with Chapman in the cockpit and takes his gun.
The Epilog has both planes returning safely to Archbury, and Jaydee being taken into custody.
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A Charlie Brown Christmas
Originally aired December 9, 1965
Just sayin'.
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Gilligan's Island
"Don't Bug the Mosquitoes"
Originally aired December 9, 1965
The radio's back in business, so that Gilligan has something to listen to the Mosquitoes on. When the Skipper and Mr. Howell make Gilligan turn it off, they realize that the music they're still hearing is coming from the lagoon, where the band has just been dropped off via helicopter. (Their electric guitars, of course, aren't plugged into anything.) Bingo, Bango, Bongo, and Irving (Les Brown Jr., George Patterson, Ed Wade, and Kirby Johnson--the latter three credited as the Wellingtons) agree to get the castaways off the island, but they find that their unexpected hosts are every bit as crazy as the Mosquitomania that they left behind, including the girls screaming over them and Mrs. Howell going after them with scissors. The band gives a concert for the castaways, then reveal that they won't be leaving the island for a month. Skipper gets the idea (indirectly from Gilligan, as so often) to make them want to leave earlier by harassing them--that couldn't possibly backfire on the castaways, could it? Bingo (who's the drummer, but appears to be the leader/spokesman) declares that they'll be leaving the next day. The castaways celebrate, but find the next day that the Mosquitoes seem to have left without them.
But the band's mysteriously amplified music leads the castaways to them again, now on the other side of the island, and the Mosquitos declare that they'll be staying even longer until they can get the rest that they need. Afraid that the band will ultimately abandon them, the castaways come up with the idea of ingratiating themselves to the group by having the men form an opening act, the Gnats. The guys don their wigs (with the Skipper looking more like Harpo Marx), but their playing on crafted instruments drives the Mosquitoes away. Gilligan then indirectly gives Ginger the idea of having the ladies become the Honeybees. Mr. Howell does a blink-and-miss-it Sullivan impersonation while introducing them. Their act goes over much better with the band...aided, so IMDb says, by an uncredited Jackie DeShannon as Mary Ann's singing voice. The castaways pack up afterward only for the Professor to find a message that the Mosquitos have left, feeling that the Honeybees were too good to bring back to civilization. The band's parting gift is a copy of their latest album (an obviously empty sleeve).
The coda has the Gnats back on stage, with the ladies covering their ears.
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The Wild Wild West
"The Night of the Torture Chamber"
Originally aired December 10, 1965
With the help of Miss Piecemeal (Sigrid Valdis), Governor Bradford (Henry Beckman), while visiting a Professor Bolt, is switched with a lookalike posing as a statue of him. President Grant assigns the boys via telegraph to urgently meet with Bradford. When they call on the fake governor, Piecemeal, who's previously acquainted with West, briefs and instructs him on how to behave. The agents are told of a plot against the governor and invited to attend the unveiling of his statue. On the street they're attacked by men posing as vagrants and street performers. They question one of the assailants to find that he was paid with an exploding pocket watch, which kills him. Piecemeal reports the failure to Professor Horatio Bolt (Alfred Ryder), who destroys an expensive painting that doesn't live up to his artistic standards with the show's African throwing knife. Piecemeal arranges for a ballista to be used against West in the museum.
In a conversation with the real governor in his cell, Prof. Bolt describes his plan to use the governorship to funnel great pieces into his museum, including the Mona Lisa. At the reception, West is introduced to Bolt's beautiful young "student," Angelique (Viviane Ventura). Fake Guv very nervously tries to lure West into the correct spot, behind a vase, but Jim doesn't get in place and the bolt misses. While turning her charms on Jim, Piecemeal tries to cover for the governor's odd behavior, but West confronts the impostor at gunpoint, noting how he'd been using his right hand to do things while nervous, though the real governor is left-handed. Fake Guv admits to being an actor named Sam Jameson who was hired by Piecemeal, who brings in the governor's guards, who take Jim into custody, thinking that he's threatening the governor.
Jim busts loose and makes it to the train, where Artie informs him outside that it's been occupied by museum guards. (Bad guys taking over the train is a common plot point in Season 1.) Artie visits the museum posing as a representative of the French government who inspects Bolt's collection and fake-exposes many of the pieces as forgeries; while Jim breaks in, finds the cellar, and springs the governor, only to be end up being caught by chief henchman Durand (H. M. Wynant) and the guards. Artie overhears about Jim's capture, puts a gun on Bolt, and makes them take him to where Jim is being held, along with Piecemeal--being punished for her failures--in a wine press. Artie is knocked in with them and the baddies begin to crank the press down on the captives.
Jim sets some thermite to burn an exit through one of the sides and overcomes the tending guards. Upstairs, Bolt aims the ballista at the door that Jim will be coming through, but Jim grabs a Rembrandt to use as a shield, which allows him to get close enough to tussle, the outcome being as expected. In the coda, the real governor is back in power, and is taking Angelique and another lady associate of Bolt's, Helva (Nadia Sanders), into his employ rather than press charges.
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Hogan's Heroes
"Hogan's Hofbrau"
Originally aired December 10, 1965
Klink receives a visit from Captain Milheiser (Frank Marth) and Lieutenant Schmidt (Willard Sage; though onscreen it sounds like the character's name is Gurnitz), two SS officers from the passing-through Adolf Hitler Division, which the prisoners are trying to gather intel about. The officers twist Klink's arm for a "donation," threatening to put him on a black list. He ends up making one unintentionally via Schultz.
Hogan visits the local beer hall, Hilda's Hofbrau, disguised as a Luftwaffe officer to chat up the visiting officers, sussing out that they're likely headed for the Russian front and making a counterfeit donation. The other prisoners take up jobs at the beer hall, but Schultz walks in and sees them all. Hogan gives him a story about helping Hilda (Paula Stewart) feed her kids, and persuades him to see nothing with the usual premise--that he doesn't want Klink to find out how much is being done under his nose. Schultz subsequently learns that Klink plans to go to Hilda's to admit that he can't pay up, and the prisoners ask Schultz to stall him, but he's unsuccessful. (Hogan openly mentions the emergency tunnel in front of Schultz!) Hogan and the other prisoners try to slip out, but Milheiser calls Hogan over, and Klink sees them all. He's motivated to play along, though, when Hogan coughs up Klink's donation for him. In the coda, Hogan smooths things over with Klink using a story that the prisoners and Schultz were only trying to raise the money for his donation.
Disss-missssed!
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Get Smart
"Aboard the Orient Express"
Originally aired December 11, 1965
Four couriers have been killed riding the Express out of Paris. The episode opens with KAOS agent Demetrios (Theo Marcuse) giving the orders remotely for the murder of Agent 85 (Jack Donner) to an unseen assassin. The Chief, who uses the couriers to get pay to agents in the Balkans, decides to send 99, thinking that they might not expect a woman. But Max inadvertently locks the special briefcase to his wrist, effectively volunteering himself for the assignment, as only the agent he's meeting has the key, and the case is rigged to emit high voltage if any other key is used. Minelli (Del Close) assigns Max a bowler hat with a pull-down gas mask and strato-shoes.
On the train, Max makes contact with Agent 44 (Victor French), who's hiding in the closet of his train compartment and complains about not being paid. A blind man named Ernst (Bill Glover) with a seeing eye dog enters to share the compartment; and a Romanian countess (Carol Ohmart) also boards. The Special Guest Conductor comes in to stamp the passports, and gets barked at by the dog. Finally, 99 boards in disguise. Max clicks his heels together and accidentally activates the shoes, jetting up to the ceiling. Max later comes across the Countess and Ernst in their own compartment; both and the porter (Maurice Marsac) know the courier's password, though somebody slips Max a warning written in a Dixie cup. Some train turbulence has Demetrios stumbling into the compartment and Max's briefcase being detached while the lights are out.
In Max's compartment, Ernst reveals that he's a British spy, and has a knife in his back. It turns out that the agent, Krochanska, is the seeing eye dog, taking orders from Demetrios via radio...which Max interprets as "the old 'spy in dog suit' trick". Krochanska drops a pellet of the gas used to kill the other agents, but Max has trouble finding the right hat. He has, though, by the time Demetrios enters, who's overpowered by Max and 99. The Special Guest Conductor enters while the compartment is still filled with gas and acts unfazed.
In the coda, Max comes back from Austria with a copy of the Spy Guild Union Book, quoting pay regulations to the Chief.
We get a "Would you believe...?" in this one; not sure if that's come up yet.
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55.5th-ish Anniversary Viewing
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The Ed Sullivan Show
Season 18, episode 13
Originally aired December 5, 1965
As represented in The Best of the Ed Sullivan Show
I suspect that the broken mirror effect was meant for the closing note that he doesn't hold.Ed said:
I think the Best of edit picked up with the phone call.Ed said:
The duo perform "I Remember It Well" from Gigi, a romantic song about mixed memories; Followed by the upbeat "How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Loved You When You Know I've Been a Liar All My Life," which is introduced as a song from the film Royal Wedding, in which Powell co-starred with Fred Astaire; and another romantic song, "You Belong to Me," said to have been sung by Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy in an unspecified film.Ed said:
Their act includes spinning a plate while balancing a rod on two spinning daggers; balancing a plant on a stack of bricks while snatching one brick at a time from the bottom; and the lady of the duo balancing a stack of glasses and eggs on a pole from her chin; the clear tray in-between is removed so that the eggs fall into the glasses. Finally, the gentleman dives through triple flaming hoops with daggers sticking into them.Ed said:
I think this underwhelming performance indicates how much the group relied on studio production; they don't even sound like the same act.Ed said:
Other performances, as listed on Metacritic:
- Robert Goulet sings "The Moment Of Truth" and an "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever"/"Come Back to Me" medley.
- Jane Powell sings "Quiet Nights."
- Bobby Ramsen - talks about current movies and TV programs.
- The Idla Girls (Swedish gymnasts).
- Burger's Animals (trained animal act) - dog performs various stunts.
- Audience bows: Lauritz Melchoir (singer), Connie Towers (singer), and Tore Tallroth (Swedish Consul General).
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Branded
"Romany Roundup: Part 1"
Originally aired December 5, 1965
Xfinity said:
Jason sees a rancher named Aaron Shields (Gary Merrill) about doing a survey of his land on behalf of territorial governor Sorley. Shields suspects political motives, but reluctantly allows Jason to accompany him to the Chimney Butte ranch. Shields explains how he hires Gypsies for work while expressing a low opinion of them. Then he finds out that the Gypsy leader, Kolyan (Nico Minardos) has been caught romancing his daughter, Robin (Anna Capri), and starts to whip Kolyan before Jason intervenes, getting on Shields's bad side. Kolyan invites Jason to stay in his people's camp, to the chagrin of his sister Lisa (Joan Huntington), who challenges Jason to prove himself by breaking a bronc...in which he succeeds, leading to some sparks later igniting between them.
Kolyan offers Jason a man named Lazar (Ben-Ari) as an assistant for his survey; while Shields saddles McCord with a foreman, Jud Foley (Don Collier), to go over all of his figures, though he's distracted by his ungentlemanly interest in Lisa. Shields brings the sheriff (Alan Baxter) to arrest Jason on false charges, including polluting his creek. Kolyan goes to the jail to offer bail for Jason's release, but the sheriff names a high price...almost everything Kolyan's making for breaking Shields's horses. The announcer tells us to come back next week.
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12 O'Clock High
"The Jones Boys"
Originally aired December 6, 1965
Xfinity said:
https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/the-classic-retro-pop-culture-thread.278375/page-83#post-12351316
Reynolds is playing the same character as in his previous appearance, so I think that solves the mystery of his disproportionately high billing in that one...it was likely part of a package deal with this episode, in which he factors more prominently.
Lt. Jaydee Jones (Prine) sneaks into base from an AWOL date with Lt. Jean Warner (Susan Seaforth). Sgt. Vern Chapman (Reynolds) is pilfering guns when he catches the two of them talking about it inside the gates. On his next mission, Jaydee has trouble with the takeoff due to brake failure, and Chapman, his flight engineer, struggles with him over the controls, which results in the plane crashing on the runway, killing the bombardier and fatally wounding the co-pilot. Meanwhile, Gallagher is being given a hard time by Col. Kendal Hunter (Special Guest Star [Peter] Mark Richman) about his supply shortages. Both colonels are motivated for opposing reasons to get to the bottom of what happened to the plane. Jaydee approaches Chapman, who's been selling the stolen guns in Archbury, not to volunteer any more information than he has to, which is when Chapman starts making blackmail noises.
The black market guns are brought back to base while Chapman is present, so he knows the heat's on him. Under questioning with both Joneses present, Chapman points the finger for the incident at the now-dead co-pilot. Afterward, Chapman squeezes Jaydee for an alibi for his visit to Archbury, but Frank overhears and confronts them. Chapman reveals that he knows about Jaydee having been AWOL that night and that he didn't get enough sleep to be flying the next day. In private, Jaydee asks Frank to butt out. Things smooth over between Gallagher and Hunter when the latter calls Joe to tell him that Lt. Jones is in the clear and the 918th will be getting a couple of replacement bombers. But Jaydee has to fly some training missions with Gallagher as his co-pilot/instructor.
Frank approaches Gallagher for a transfer, and he agrees, thinking that it's just an overprotective brother trying to make up for meddling. The subject of Jaydee's lack of nerve for combat flying comes up. The Brit to whom Chapman sold the guns (Noel Drayton) is brought to the base to identify the culprit. Chapman twists Jaydee's arm to go along with him in faking a mechanical issue to land their bomber in Switzerland the next day, which will take them out of the war, giving Chapman time for the heat to clear. The Brit identifies Chapman from a photo as the bomber's getting ready to take off, Gallagher tries to stop it, and Frank boards to try to warn Jaydee; but Chapman pulls a gun, cold-cocks Frank, and forces Jaydee to take off...then goes back, knocks out the bombardier, and tosses him off the plane.
The flight underway, Chapman changes the plan to landing in France, with the intent of offering the plane's bomb sight to the Germans as a tactic to negotiate not being imprisoned. Gallagher takes off in his personal P-51 to pursue the bomber. Frank, locked up in the radio compartment, answers Gallagher's hails and helps him find the bomber. Gallagher threatens to shoot them down, Frank tries to talk Jaydee into surrendering, and Chapman takes the top turret to try to take Gallagher out. Jaydee complies with Gallagher and changes course, telling the colonel that Frank is innocent. A squadron of German fighters appears and Gallagher takes them all on while Frank, having freed himself, struggles with Chapman in the cockpit and takes his gun.
The Epilog has both planes returning safely to Archbury, and Jaydee being taken into custody.
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A Charlie Brown Christmas
Originally aired December 9, 1965
Xfinity said:
Just sayin'.
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Gilligan's Island
"Don't Bug the Mosquitoes"
Originally aired December 9, 1965
Wiki said:
The radio's back in business, so that Gilligan has something to listen to the Mosquitoes on. When the Skipper and Mr. Howell make Gilligan turn it off, they realize that the music they're still hearing is coming from the lagoon, where the band has just been dropped off via helicopter. (Their electric guitars, of course, aren't plugged into anything.) Bingo, Bango, Bongo, and Irving (Les Brown Jr., George Patterson, Ed Wade, and Kirby Johnson--the latter three credited as the Wellingtons) agree to get the castaways off the island, but they find that their unexpected hosts are every bit as crazy as the Mosquitomania that they left behind, including the girls screaming over them and Mrs. Howell going after them with scissors. The band gives a concert for the castaways, then reveal that they won't be leaving the island for a month. Skipper gets the idea (indirectly from Gilligan, as so often) to make them want to leave earlier by harassing them--that couldn't possibly backfire on the castaways, could it? Bingo (who's the drummer, but appears to be the leader/spokesman) declares that they'll be leaving the next day. The castaways celebrate, but find the next day that the Mosquitoes seem to have left without them.
But the band's mysteriously amplified music leads the castaways to them again, now on the other side of the island, and the Mosquitos declare that they'll be staying even longer until they can get the rest that they need. Afraid that the band will ultimately abandon them, the castaways come up with the idea of ingratiating themselves to the group by having the men form an opening act, the Gnats. The guys don their wigs (with the Skipper looking more like Harpo Marx), but their playing on crafted instruments drives the Mosquitoes away. Gilligan then indirectly gives Ginger the idea of having the ladies become the Honeybees. Mr. Howell does a blink-and-miss-it Sullivan impersonation while introducing them. Their act goes over much better with the band...aided, so IMDb says, by an uncredited Jackie DeShannon as Mary Ann's singing voice. The castaways pack up afterward only for the Professor to find a message that the Mosquitos have left, feeling that the Honeybees were too good to bring back to civilization. The band's parting gift is a copy of their latest album (an obviously empty sleeve).
The coda has the Gnats back on stage, with the ladies covering their ears.
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The Wild Wild West
"The Night of the Torture Chamber"
Originally aired December 10, 1965
Wiki said:
With the help of Miss Piecemeal (Sigrid Valdis), Governor Bradford (Henry Beckman), while visiting a Professor Bolt, is switched with a lookalike posing as a statue of him. President Grant assigns the boys via telegraph to urgently meet with Bradford. When they call on the fake governor, Piecemeal, who's previously acquainted with West, briefs and instructs him on how to behave. The agents are told of a plot against the governor and invited to attend the unveiling of his statue. On the street they're attacked by men posing as vagrants and street performers. They question one of the assailants to find that he was paid with an exploding pocket watch, which kills him. Piecemeal reports the failure to Professor Horatio Bolt (Alfred Ryder), who destroys an expensive painting that doesn't live up to his artistic standards with the show's African throwing knife. Piecemeal arranges for a ballista to be used against West in the museum.
In a conversation with the real governor in his cell, Prof. Bolt describes his plan to use the governorship to funnel great pieces into his museum, including the Mona Lisa. At the reception, West is introduced to Bolt's beautiful young "student," Angelique (Viviane Ventura). Fake Guv very nervously tries to lure West into the correct spot, behind a vase, but Jim doesn't get in place and the bolt misses. While turning her charms on Jim, Piecemeal tries to cover for the governor's odd behavior, but West confronts the impostor at gunpoint, noting how he'd been using his right hand to do things while nervous, though the real governor is left-handed. Fake Guv admits to being an actor named Sam Jameson who was hired by Piecemeal, who brings in the governor's guards, who take Jim into custody, thinking that he's threatening the governor.
Jim busts loose and makes it to the train, where Artie informs him outside that it's been occupied by museum guards. (Bad guys taking over the train is a common plot point in Season 1.) Artie visits the museum posing as a representative of the French government who inspects Bolt's collection and fake-exposes many of the pieces as forgeries; while Jim breaks in, finds the cellar, and springs the governor, only to be end up being caught by chief henchman Durand (H. M. Wynant) and the guards. Artie overhears about Jim's capture, puts a gun on Bolt, and makes them take him to where Jim is being held, along with Piecemeal--being punished for her failures--in a wine press. Artie is knocked in with them and the baddies begin to crank the press down on the captives.
Jim sets some thermite to burn an exit through one of the sides and overcomes the tending guards. Upstairs, Bolt aims the ballista at the door that Jim will be coming through, but Jim grabs a Rembrandt to use as a shield, which allows him to get close enough to tussle, the outcome being as expected. In the coda, the real governor is back in power, and is taking Angelique and another lady associate of Bolt's, Helva (Nadia Sanders), into his employ rather than press charges.
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Hogan's Heroes
"Hogan's Hofbrau"
Originally aired December 10, 1965
Wiki said:
Klink receives a visit from Captain Milheiser (Frank Marth) and Lieutenant Schmidt (Willard Sage; though onscreen it sounds like the character's name is Gurnitz), two SS officers from the passing-through Adolf Hitler Division, which the prisoners are trying to gather intel about. The officers twist Klink's arm for a "donation," threatening to put him on a black list. He ends up making one unintentionally via Schultz.
Schultz: It is against the law for an officer to strike an enlisted man!
Klink: Strike you? No. Shoot you? Yes...
Klink: Strike you? No. Shoot you? Yes...
Hogan visits the local beer hall, Hilda's Hofbrau, disguised as a Luftwaffe officer to chat up the visiting officers, sussing out that they're likely headed for the Russian front and making a counterfeit donation. The other prisoners take up jobs at the beer hall, but Schultz walks in and sees them all. Hogan gives him a story about helping Hilda (Paula Stewart) feed her kids, and persuades him to see nothing with the usual premise--that he doesn't want Klink to find out how much is being done under his nose. Schultz subsequently learns that Klink plans to go to Hilda's to admit that he can't pay up, and the prisoners ask Schultz to stall him, but he's unsuccessful. (Hogan openly mentions the emergency tunnel in front of Schultz!) Hogan and the other prisoners try to slip out, but Milheiser calls Hogan over, and Klink sees them all. He's motivated to play along, though, when Hogan coughs up Klink's donation for him. In the coda, Hogan smooths things over with Klink using a story that the prisoners and Schultz were only trying to raise the money for his donation.
Disss-missssed!
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Get Smart
"Aboard the Orient Express"
Originally aired December 11, 1965
Wiki said:
Four couriers have been killed riding the Express out of Paris. The episode opens with KAOS agent Demetrios (Theo Marcuse) giving the orders remotely for the murder of Agent 85 (Jack Donner) to an unseen assassin. The Chief, who uses the couriers to get pay to agents in the Balkans, decides to send 99, thinking that they might not expect a woman. But Max inadvertently locks the special briefcase to his wrist, effectively volunteering himself for the assignment, as only the agent he's meeting has the key, and the case is rigged to emit high voltage if any other key is used. Minelli (Del Close) assigns Max a bowler hat with a pull-down gas mask and strato-shoes.
On the train, Max makes contact with Agent 44 (Victor French), who's hiding in the closet of his train compartment and complains about not being paid. A blind man named Ernst (Bill Glover) with a seeing eye dog enters to share the compartment; and a Romanian countess (Carol Ohmart) also boards. The Special Guest Conductor comes in to stamp the passports, and gets barked at by the dog. Finally, 99 boards in disguise. Max clicks his heels together and accidentally activates the shoes, jetting up to the ceiling. Max later comes across the Countess and Ernst in their own compartment; both and the porter (Maurice Marsac) know the courier's password, though somebody slips Max a warning written in a Dixie cup. Some train turbulence has Demetrios stumbling into the compartment and Max's briefcase being detached while the lights are out.
In Max's compartment, Ernst reveals that he's a British spy, and has a knife in his back. It turns out that the agent, Krochanska, is the seeing eye dog, taking orders from Demetrios via radio...which Max interprets as "the old 'spy in dog suit' trick". Krochanska drops a pellet of the gas used to kill the other agents, but Max has trouble finding the right hat. He has, though, by the time Demetrios enters, who's overpowered by Max and 99. The Special Guest Conductor enters while the compartment is still filled with gas and acts unfazed.
Special Guest Conductor: It happens all the time on the Orient Express. If you think this is bad, you should see compartment 13.
In the coda, Max comes back from Austria with a copy of the Spy Guild Union Book, quoting pay regulations to the Chief.
We get a "Would you believe...?" in this one; not sure if that's come up yet.
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"This" as in it just happened? If so, then she's not my sister's age, as I previously inferred...she's younger than me!
Green Lantern ain't got nothin' on him.
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With every release, I gain affirmation that I made the right choice in not digging any deeper into Osmonds territory than their debut hit.
