The Classic/Retro Pop Culture Thread

The Old Mixer · Jan 20, 2022

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70 Years Ago This Season

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On January 7, the educational short Duck and Cover is released:

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January 10 – Cecil B. DeMille's circus epic, The Greatest Show on Earth, is premièred at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

January 14 - Today was first aired on NBC with Dave Garroway as host.

January 25 – British Army officers attack an Egyptian police base in Ismailia, resulting in the deaths of 50 Egyptian police officers and 4 British Army personnel.

January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.

February 2 – Groundhog Day tropical storm forms just north of Cuba, moving northeast. The storm makes landfall in southern Florida the next day as a gale-force storm and transitions to a tropical storm over the Atlantic (only Atlantic tropical storm on record in February).

February 6

Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the British Dominions: Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan and Ceylon. The princess, who is on a visit to Kenya when she hears of the death of her father, King George VI, aged 56, takes the title Elizabeth II.
In the United States of America, a mechanical heart is used for the first time in a human patient.

February 7 – Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom at St James's Palace, London, England.

February 14 – February 25 – The Winter Olympics are held in Oslo, Norway.

February 15 – The funeral of George VI takes place at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.

February 18 – Greece and Turkey join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

February 20 – Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American umpire in organized baseball, by being authorized to be a substitute umpire in the Southwestern International League.

February 26 – United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces that the United Kingdom has an atomic bomb.

March 1 – Sun Records records its first release in Memphis, Tennessee.

March 7 – NME goes on sale for the first time in the United Kingdom.

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On March 15, "Wheel of Fortune" by Kay Starr tops the Billboard Best Sellers in Stores chart.

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March 20 – The United States Senate ratifies a peace treaty with Japan.

March 21

Tornadoes ravage the lower Mississippi River Valley, leaving 208 dead, through March 22.
First reported rock and roll riot breaks out at Alan Freed's Moondog Coronation Ball in Cleveland, Ohio. Teenage excitement is blamed for the frenzy.

March 22 – Wernher von Braun publishes the first in his series of articles titled Man Will Conquer Space Soon!, including ideas for crewed flights to Mars and the Moon.

March 27 – The MGM musical Singin' in the Rain premieres at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

March 29 – U.S. President Harry S. Truman announces that he will not seek reelection.

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Also in March, "5-10-15 Hours" by Ruth Brown is released (charts in April; #1 R&B):

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Timeline entries are quoted from the Wiki pages for the year, as well as the year in film, music, and television. Sections separated from timeline entries are mine.

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TREK_GOD_1 said:
Dirty Harry was part of the aforementioned golden age for the unconventional law enforcement drama. Like any movement, what imitators do in the years to follow is not a reflection on the serious, well-presented subjects found in Dirty Harry.

I wasn't talking about imitators. I was describing Dirty Harry itself. It's gritty, but far from grounded or realistic. But this isn't a zero-sum game; neither Dirty Harry nor Adam-12 was bringing everything to the table; each had its own strengths and weaknesses.

RJDiogenes said:
I definitely should have thought of Kung Fu,

The 50th anniversary of its pilot movie is coming up in a month! I'd be willing to add it to the pile if only somebody were playing it these days.

but most of the shows with origins are offbeat in some way. You didn't often see it in cop, legal, medical type shows.

The examples I posted are all "genre" shows, but they represent a trend nevertheless. (And were there any noteworthy legal shows in the '70s?)

Kolchak? You could probably look at him both ways. He was a couple of decades into his career as a reporter, but that was apparently his first encounter with the supernatural.

Sounds like an origin to me. It doesn't have to be the character's first day on the job. It told the origin story of the show's premise.

On a side note, it looks like H&I now has H5O as the Friday show in its Day Shift block. MeTV+ is now running one less episode of H5O at night, and instead running an episode of an older show called Hawaiian Eye, which was a Robert Conrad gig. So far I haven't caught more of it than the end credits. Doing an image search, though, I think I may have found the origin of the shirtless Conrad thing.

RJDiogenes · Jan 21, 2022

The Old Mixer said:
In the United States of America, a mechanical heart is used for the first time in a human patient.

I was just thinking about this recently when that genetically engineered heart was transplanted. It's remarkable how little progress has been made in artificial heart technology over the years compared to the general progress of technology.

United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces that the United Kingdom has an atomic bomb.

Queen Elizabeth works fast.

Also in March, "5-10-15 Hours" by Ruth Brown is released (charts in April; #1 R&B):

Sounds like the 40s.

The 50th anniversary of its pilot movie is coming up in a month! I'd be willing to add it to the pile if only somebody were playing it these days.

Yeah, that's a shame. There are a few shows that I'd like to see on the retro channels in place of some of the ones that do get attention.

The examples I posted are all "genre" shows, but they represent a trend nevertheless. (And were there any noteworthy legal shows in the '70s?)

Actually, I don't know. I seldom paid attention to legal or medical shows.

Sounds like an origin to me. It doesn't have to be the character's first day on the job. It told the origin story of the show's premise.

True enough.

On a side note, it looks like H&I now has H5O as the Friday show in its Day Shift block. MeTV+ is now running one less episode of H5O at night, and instead running an episode of an older show called Hawaiian Eye, which was a Robert Conrad gig. So far I haven't caught more of it than the end credits.

I remember Hawaiian Eye, but I've never seen it. I'd like to check it out, but we still don't have MeTV+.

Doing an image search, though, I think I may have found the origin of the shirtless Conrad thing.

He liked having all those Hawaiian eyes on him. :rommie:

J.T.B. · Jan 21, 2022

RJDiogenes said:
Yeah, but I'm wondering if the car crash was planned or a glitch. Fat's man was killed and there was no way to control how badly Steve would be injured, so it seems like it must have been a genuine accident-- but, if so, what was the actual plan?

The accident was intentional, so the planted evidence of McGarrett's corruption could be found in a seemingly spontaneous and plausible way that couldn't be thwarted by McGarrett and co. IIRC they were vague about exactly how the accident was caused, but McGarrett had been seatbelted and the other guy wasn't. Also whatever they knocked McGarrett out with when he got into his own car was said to be a carefully non-lethal dose so apparently they wanted him alive for their plan.

MacLeod · Jan 21, 2022

And due the fact that is the Queens Diamond Junilee this year, we get an extra Public Holiday in the UK.

The Old Mixer · Jan 22, 2022

55th Anniversary Fly-on-the-Wall Listening

Anthology 2 gives us an alternate mix of "Penny Lane" consisting of parts recorded on December 29-30, 1966, and January 17, 1967:

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RJDiogenes said:
Queen Elizabeth works fast.

MacLeod said:
And due the fact that is the Queens Diamond Junilee this year, we get an extra Public Holiday in the UK.

Today and Queen Elizabeth II--both have been around all my life and then most of a couple of decades. I'm not much of a royal follower, but I was moved by the Elizabeth item...she was only in her 20s at the time, her father dies and she's suddenly thrust into the queenship.

RJDiogenes said:
Sounds like the 40s.

Are you fucking with me, man? That's the sound of the emerging decade!

I seldom paid attention to [...] medical shows.

That seems odd.

I remember Hawaiian Eye, but I've never seen it. I'd like to check it out, but we still don't have MeTV+.

The theme song's something of a simplistically lyriced earworm.

He liked having all those Hawaiian eyes on him.

He was noticeably skinnier then, though still fit.

RJDiogenes · Jan 22, 2022

J.T.B. said:
The accident was intentional, so the planted evidence of McGarrett's corruption could be found in a seemingly spontaneous and plausible way that couldn't be thwarted by McGarrett and co. IIRC they were vague about exactly how the accident was caused, but McGarrett had been seatbelted and the other guy wasn't. Also whatever they knocked McGarrett out with when he got into his own car was said to be a carefully non-lethal dose so apparently they wanted him alive for their plan.

So that means they killed their own guy on purpose and took a chance with killing McGarrett. I think the real situation is that the writers were more invested in the cool scene than adequately justifying it. :rommie:

The Old Mixer said:
Today and Queen Elizabeth II--both have been around all my life and then most of a couple of decades. I'm not much of a royal follower, but I was moved by the Elizabeth item...she was only in her 20s at the time, her father dies and she's suddenly thrust into the queenship.

Yeah, and her father died very young. That's a lot to deal with at that age. She's done really well.

Are you fucking with me, man? That's the sound of the emerging decade!

It made me think of one of those nightclub scenes in a 1940s movie. :rommie:

That seems odd.

Because of my career? I had no idea at that point that I would get involved in health care.

The theme song's something of a simplistically lyriced earworm.

I'll go listen.

He was noticeably skinnier then, though still fit.

I wonder if he was doing his own stunts at that point.

The Old Mixer · Jan 22, 2022

55 Years Ago This Week

January 22 – The Pro Bowl, the National Football League's seventeenth annual all-star game, was played in a heavy rainstorm at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in the week after the Super Bowl. Slightly more than 15,000 people showed up in the 93,000 seat stadium.

January 23

A border conflict broke out between the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China in a territorial dispute over an island in the Ussuri River. Each side accused the other of provocation and confrontations at what the Chinese referred to as Zhenbao Island ("Chen-pao Island") and the Soviets called Damansky Island. The dispute would culminate in a battle in 1969, and be resolved 24 years later with an agreement allowing China to control the territory.
In Munich, the trial began of former SS-General Wilhelm Harster, who stood accused of the murder of 82,856 Jews (including Anne Frank) during his tenure as chief of German security police during the Nazi German occupation of the Netherlands. Facing trial with Harster were former SS Major Wilhelm Zoepf, who operated the "Jewish Department" in The Hague during the Nazi occupation, and Harster's former secretary, Gertrud Slottke. Harster would be sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Milton Keynes (England) is founded as a new town by Order in Council, with a planning brief to become a city of 250,000 people. Its initial designated area enclosed three existing towns and twenty one villages. The area to be developed was largely farmland, with evidence of permanent settlement dating back to the Bronze Age.
NASA announced that Apollo 1, first of the American space shots to have three astronauts, would be launched on February 21, with Gus Grissom commanding, and Ed White and Roger Chaffee as the other two crewmembers. Under the schedule, the Apollo 1 capsule would orbit the Earth while the crew spent up to 14 days testing all systems on the new ship.

January 24 – President Johnson presented a record 135 billion dollar U.S. government budget to Congress for approval for fiscal year 1968. The $135,033,000,000 sought reflected the largest request for military spending since World War II ($72,300,000,000) and $18.3 billion in social programs, to be paid for by an additional ten billion dollars in individual income taxes.

January 25 – South Vietnamese junta leader and Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky fired rival, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Nguyen Huu Co while the latter was overseas on a diplomatic visit.

January 26

The Parliament of the United Kingdom decides to nationalise 90% of the nation's steel industry.
Chicago's largest-ever blizzard begins.

January 27

Apollo 1 was destroyed by fire at Launch Complex 34 at Cape Kennedy, killing all three of the American astronauts on board. Killed in the blaze were Command Pilot Gus Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White, and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee. At 6:31 in the evening, the three men were inside the capsule of the Saturn rocket, engaged in a full-scale simulation of the planned February 21 launch, and were wearing their pressurized space suits while in a pure oxygen atmosphere. A spark from a short-circuited wire ignited a flash fire that swept the cabin moments after it was noticed by Grissom. Ten seconds after a voltage spike was recorded, "a spark ignited nylon netting beneath Grissom's left couch" with the pure oxygen and flammable material allowing the flames to burn quickly. Within 17 seconds after the fire was first noticed, pressure from the expansion of gases had ruptured the command module. White had tried to open the hatch door, which had to be pulled inward, but the internal pressure would have kept it closed; Grissom had been able to remove himself from his chair and was found on the floor, and Chaffee was still strapped in his seat. America's manned space program would be grounded for 20 months for improvements, which would include an atmosphere of 60% oxygen and 40% nitrogen on future missions and a cockpit hatch that could be opened within seconds.

Earlier in the day, in Moscow, the United States, the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom signed the Outer Space Treaty, jointly agreeing not to use outer space or the Moon for military purposes. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko signed for the Soviet Union, while the American and British ambassadors to the USSR (Llewellyn Thompson and Sir Geoffrey Harrison) signed on behalf of the US and the UK. By the time of the treaty's entry into force on October 10, it would be signed by 93 nations and ratified by 16; by 2008, there were 99 nations that had ratified the treaty.
The Beatles sign a new nine-year worldwide recording contract with EMI Records. [Notable about this is that it includes a stipulation that Capitol won't be able to butcher their records anymore.]

Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week:

1. "I'm a Believer," The Monkees
2. "Tell It Like It Is," Aaron Neville
3. "Snoopy vs. The Red Baron," The Royal Guardsmen
4. "Georgy Girl," The Seekers
5. "Words of Love," The Mamas & The Papas
6. "Standing in the Shadows of Love," Four Tops
7. "Good Thing," Paul Revere & The Raiders
8. "Nashville Cats," The Lovin' Spoonful
9. "Kind of a Drag," The Buckinghams
10. "(We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet," The Blues Magoos
11. "98.6," Keith
12. "Sugar Town," Nancy Sinatra
13. "Tell It to the Rain," The Four Seasons

15. "Knight in Rusty Armour," Peter & Gordon
16. "Colour My World," Petula Clark
17. "I've Passed This Way Before," Jimmy Ruffin

19. "Green, Green Grass of Home," Tom Jones
20. "I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)," The Electric Prunes
21. "Where Will the Words Come From?," Gary Lewis & the Playboys
22. "Winchester Cathedral," The New Vaudeville Band
23. "Wild Thing," Senator Bobby feat. Bill Minkin
24. "Music to Watch Girls By," The Bob Crewe Generation
25. "Try a Little Tenderness," Otis Redding
26. "Single Girl," Sandy Posey
27. "How Do You Catch a Girl," Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs
28. "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone," The Monkees
29. "It's Now Winter's Day," Tommy Roe
30. "Talk Talk," The Music Machine

32. "That's Life," Frank Sinatra

34. "The Beat Goes On," Sonny & Cher

36. "Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye," The Casinos
37. "Bring It Up," James Brown
38. "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy," Cannonball Adderley
39. "Gimme Some Lovin'," The Spencer Davis Group

42. "Mellow Yellow," Donovan
43. "Ruby Tuesday," The Rolling Stones

46. "It Takes Two," Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston
47. "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone," The Supremes

50. "Pretty Ballerina," The Left Banke
51. "Pushin' Too Hard," The Seeds
52. "Go Where You Wanna Go," The 5th Dimension

66. "You Got to Me," Neil Diamond
67. "The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game," The Marvelettes

74. "Niki Hoeky," P.J. Proby
75. "Let's Spend the Night Together," The Rolling Stones
76. "So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star," The Byrds

79. "I've Been Lonely Too Long," The Young Rascals

90. "For What It's Worth (Stop, Hey What's That Sound)," Buffalo Springfield

93. "Let's Fall in Love," Peaches & Herb

Leaving the chart:

"Devil with the Blue Dress On / Good Golly Miss Molly," Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels (16 weeks)
"East West," Herman's Hermits (8 weeks)
"Good Vibrations," The Beach Boys (14 weeks)
"Happenings Ten Years Time Ago," The Yardbirds (9 weeks)
"Help Me Girl," Eric Burdon & The Animals (9 weeks)
"(I Know) I'm Losing You," The Temptations (10 weeks)
"I Need Somebody," ? & The Mysterians (10 weeks)
"Mustang Sally," Wilson Pickett (9 weeks)
"A Place in the Sun," Stevie Wonder (11 weeks)

Re-entering the chart:

"Let's Fall in Love," Peaches & Herb

New on the chart:

"You Got to Me," Neil Diamond
(#18 US)

"I've Been Lonely Too Long," The Young Rascals
(#16 US; #33 R&B)

"For What It's Worth (Stop, Hey What's That Sound)," Buffalo Springfield
(#7 US; #63 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time [2004])

"Love Is Here and Now You're Gone," The Supremes
(#1 US the week of Mar. 11, 1967; #1 R&B; #17 UK)

And new on the boob tube:

The Ed Sullivan Show, Season 19, episode 20
Gilligan's Island, "Lovey's Secret Admirer"
The Monkees, "Find the Monkees" / "The Audition"
The Rat Patrol, "The Last Chance Raid"
The Invaders, "The Mutation"
Batman, "Scat! Darn Catwoman"
Batman, "Penguin Is a Girl's Best Friend"
Star Trek, "Tomorrow Is Yesterday"
That Girl, "Gone with the Breeze"
The Green Hornet, "Corpse of the Year: Part 2"
Tarzan, "A Pride of Assassins"
The Time Tunnel, "The Walls of Jericho"
Hogan's Heroes, "Hogan and the Lady Doctor"
The Man from U.N.C.L.E., "The Napoleon's Tomb Affair"
The Avengers, "The Fear Merchants"
Mission: Impossible, "The Trial"
Get Smart, "The Man from YENTA"

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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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RJDiogenes said:
So that means they killed their own guy on purpose and took a chance with killing McGarrett. I think the real situation is that the writers were more invested in the cool scene than adequately justifying it.

"Their own guy" was some two-bit drug dealer or something...less than a pawn to Wo Fat.

Because of my career? I had no idea at that point that I would get involved in health care.

There's a secret origin in there...enough to base a TV movie on?

I'll go listen.

Hawaiian Eyyyyye...Hawaiian Eyyyyye...Hawaiian Eyyyyye! Hawaiian Eyyyyye...

According to the show's Wiki page, it was one of a group of conceptual spin-offs of 77 Sunset Strip...detective shows set in exotic locales.

I wonder if he was doing his own stunts at that point.

There was one on in the background when I was half awake and my glasses were off, but I was under the impression that a tumbly fight scene was going on. He was the sidekick co-star in this one, though...Anthony Eisley's Artie.

J.T.B. · Jan 22, 2022

RJDiogenes said:
So that means they killed their own guy on purpose and took a chance with killing McGarrett. I think the real situation is that the writers were more invested in the cool scene than adequately justifying it.

It wasn't their guy, it was a known local criminal that they presumably kidnapped the same way they had McGarrett before staging the crash. But yes, the were not exactly zeroing in on airtight plot points there.

The Old Mixer · Jan 22, 2022

It was a case of "Only Wo Fat could orchestrate a scheme this deviously complicated...it won't make sense to the rest of us."

RJDiogenes · Jan 23, 2022

The Old Mixer said:
Apollo 1 was destroyed by fire at Launch Complex 34 at Cape Kennedy, killing all three of the American astronauts on board.

This gives me the shudders whenever I think of it.

"You Got to Me," Neil Diamond

Not a classic, but it sounds good.

"I've Been Lonely Too Long," The Young Rascals

Oldies Radio staple.

"For What It's Worth (Stop, Hey What's That Sound)," Buffalo Springfield

There's a classic.

"Love Is Here and Now You're Gone," The Supremes

And some classic Supremes.

"Their own guy" was some two-bit drug dealer or something...less than a pawn to Wo Fat.

Ah, okay, that helps it make a little more sense.

There's a secret origin in there...enough to base a TV movie on?

More like a study in how a random event can affect your life. In 1985, I was working at a little computer component manufacturer out in the boonies, when I was suddenly and unceremoniously fired. Being broke and having rent to pay, I took a terrible data entry job at St. Margaret's in my old home town of Dorchester-- but I quickly found a more interesting position in Medical Records. After that, I became in demand and by the time the hospital closed I was assistant director of UR/QI. The Midwifery Service moved to BMC and asked me to join them, and I was with them for fourteen years until I resigned over a bit of a dispute (with the hospital). Then my siblings recruited me to come to Blue Cross. Sometimes it's good to get fired. :rommie:

Hawaiian Eyyyyye...Hawaiian Eyyyyye...Hawaiian Eyyyyye! Hawaiian Eyyyyye...

Yes, that was looping through my head until Casey Kasem saved me.

According to the show's Wiki page, it was one of a group of conceptual spin-offs of 77 Sunset Strip...detective shows set in exotic locales.

Interestingly, I remember it in the same context as 77 Sunset Strip-- an afternoon show that was on before the Marvel cartoons.

The Old Mixer · Jan 23, 2022

50 Years Ago This Week

January 23

U.S. Air Force bombing of Viet Cong guerrilla strongholds in South Vietnam halted after more than nine years. A historian would later note that "some 4 million tons of bombs fell" on South Vietnam "making it the most-bombed country in the history of aerial warfare."
Formula One champion Jackie Stewart began the defense of his title by winning the 1972 Argentine Grand Prix in Buenos Aires. On completion of the race, he learned that his father, Robert Paul Stewart, had died earlier in the day.

January 24

After hiding for more than 27 years, Sergeant Shoichi Yokoi was discovered on Guam by two hunters, Manuel de Garcia and Jesus Duenas. One of 19,000 Japanese soldiers occupying the island during World War II, Sgt. Yokoi had disappeared into the jungle near the Talofofo River after American forces recaptured Guam in 1944.
Meeting with scientists at Multan, Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto secretly launched Pakistan's program to build a nuclear weapon.
The Iowa Caucus, which would later mark the opening of delegate selection in U.S. presidential election campaigns, was conducted for the first time. The initial event, marked by gatherings in 2,600 at homes and meeting rooms in election precincts statewide, was limited to registered Democrats, and would displace the New Hampshire primary as the first test for political party nominees. When the results were finally tabulated the next day, U.S. Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine won 18 of Iowa's 46 Democratic delegates, while U.S. Senator George McGovern of South Dakota won 10, while the remaining 18 were uncommitted.

January 25 – Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman to be elected to Congress (representing New York's 12th Congressional District) announced that she would seek the Democratic nomination for president.

January 26

A Croatian terrorist organization planted a bomb in JAT Yugoslav Flight 364, which exploded over Czechoslovakia, at an altitude of 33,000 feet, killing 27 of the 28 people on board. Remarkably, a stewardess Vesna Vulović, who had been in the tail section of the DC-9, survived despite falling more than six miles, landing near Srbská Kamenice. She was released after a hospitalization of 16 months.
On the lawn in front of the Australian Parliament in Canberra, four young Aborigine men (Michael Anderson, Billy Craigie, Gary Williams and Tony Coorey) erected a tent that they called the Aboriginal Embassy, a symbol of the feeling that the indigenous Australians were treated as foreigners in their own homeland. Soon, the four were joined by others, until nearly 2,000 supporters encamped in front of the Parliament. The "embassy" was torn down six months later.

January 27

The first home video game system, Odyssey, was introduced by Magnavox. Designed by Ralph Baer, the console could be hooked up to a television set for two players to play a tennis-like game, similar to Nolan Bushnell's game Pong.

In a meeting at the office of U.S. Attorney General John N. Mitchell, G. Gordon Liddy presented the "Gemstone Plan" to Mitchell, John Dean, and Jeb Magruder. Mitchell was also the Director of the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CRP), and Liddy was CRP's chief lawyer. Liddy suggested budgeting $1,000,000 for mugging and even kidnapping "leaders of anti-Nixon demonstrations"; hiring prostitutes to solicit during the 1972 Democratic National Convention; and break-ins and installation of electronic surveillance as necessary. Mitchell rejected the plan, but retained Liddy to suggest new ideas.
Police Officers Gregory Philip Foster and Rocco W. Laurie of the New York City Police Department were shot in the back and killed while walking their patrol beat by members of the Black Liberation Army. Foster and Laurie had served together as United States Marines in the Vietnam War and had requested assignment to the same NYPD precinct. A television film, Foster and Laurie, about the two slain officers would be broadcast in 1975.
Died: Mahalia Jackson, 60, African-American gospel singer

Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week:

1. "American Pie," Don McLean
2. "Brand New Key," Melanie
3. "Let's Stay Together," Al Green
4. "Sunshine," Jonathan Edwards
5. "Day After Day," Badfinger
6. "Clean Up Woman," Betty Wright
7. "Scorpio," Dennis Coffey & The Detroit Guitar Band
8. "Never Been to Spain," Three Dog Night
9. "You Are Everything," The Stylistics
10. "Sugar Daddy," Jackson 5
11. "Drowning in the Sea of Love," Joe Simon
12. "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)," The New Seekers
13. "Hurting Each Other," Carpenters
14. "Without You," Nilsson
15. "Joy," Apollo feat. Tom Parker <***>
16. "Precious and Few," Climax
17. "Anticipation," Carly Simon
18. "Family Affair," Sly & The Family Stone
19. "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (in Perfect Harmony)," The Hillside Singers
20. "It's One of Those Nights (Yes Love)," The Partridge Family
21. "Stay with Me," Faces

23. "Black Dog," Led Zeppelin

25. "Levon," Elton John
26. "Hey Girl" / "I Knew You When", Donny Osmond
27. "Fire and Water," Wilson Pickett
28. "Make Me the Woman That You Go Home To," Gladys Knight & the Pips

30. "One Monkey Don't Stop No Show Part I," Honey Cone
31. "Got to Be There," Michael Jackson
32. "Down by the Lazy River," The Osmonds
33. "Don't Say You Don't Remember," Beverly Bremers
34. "Hey Big Brother," Rare Earth

36. "Feeling Alright," Joe Cocker
37. "Bang a Gong (Get It On)," T. Rex
38. "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," Robert John

40. "Floy Joy," The Supremes
41. "Ain't Understanding Mellow," Jerry Butler & Brenda Lee Eager

43. "Those Were the Days," Carroll O'Connor & Jean Stapleton (as the Bunkers)

48. "Footstompin' Music," Grand Funk Railroad

57. "Jungle Fever," The Chakachas

60. "Everything I Own," Bread

65. "My World," Bee Gees

72. "I Gotcha," Joe Tex

75. "Slippin' into Darkness," War

77. "Sweet Seasons," Carole King
78. "Iron Man," Black Sabbath

82. "The Way of Love," Cher

100. "Diamonds Are Forever," Shirley Bassey

Leaving the chart:

"All I Ever Need Is You," Sonny & Cher (15 weeks)
"Cherish," David Cassidy (12 weeks)
"Have You Seen Her," The Chi-Lites (14 weeks)
"An Old Fashioned Love Song," Three Dog Night (11 weeks)
"Pretty as You Feel," Jefferson Airplane (10 weeks)
"Superstar" / "Bless the Beasts and Children", Carpenters (21 weeks)

Recent and new on the chart:

"Joy," Apollo 100 feat. Tom Parker
(Jan. 1; #6 US; #2 AC)

"Sweet Seasons," Carole King
(#9 US; #2 AC)

"The Way of Love," Cher
(#7 US; #2 AC)

"Everything I Own," Bread
(#5 US; #3 AC; #32 UK)

And new on the boob tube:

Hawaii Five-O, "Skinhead"
Adam-12, "The Parole Violator"
The Brady Bunch, "The Big Bet"
The Partridge Family, "I Am Curious . . . Partridge"
The Odd Couple, "Where's Grandpa?"
Love, American Style, "Love and the Anxious Mama / Love and the Boomerang / Love and the Private Eye"
All in the Family, "Archie Sees a Mugging"
Emergency!, "Botulism"
The Mary Tyler Moore Show, "More Than Neighbors"
Mission: Impossible, "Bag Woman"

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Timeline entries are quoted from the Wiki pages for the month or year.

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RJDiogenes said:
Not a classic, but it sounds good.

It got oldies radio airplay in my neck.

Oldies Radio staple.

A good one from their string of classics.

There's a classic.

Are they singing about...the war? *gasp*

And some classic Supremes.

A distinctive one.

my siblings

One of whom might have gotten the "enough to base a...movie on" reference.

Yes, that was looping through my head until Casey Kasem saved me.

I should've put in a Long-Distance Dedication.

DarrenTR1970 · Jan 24, 2022

The Old Mixer said:
Are they singing about...the war? *gasp*

They're actually singing about a riot on Sunset Strip in L.A.

The owners of several nightclubs had become concerned about the rock bands performing in the clubs along the Strip attracting the 'wrong crowd' and had persuaded the city of L.A. to enact a 10pm curfew in the area; meaning the bands could no longer perform and the crowds of teenagers and twenty-somethings had to go home.

There was a protest and the riot police were called in, resulting in several people being shot and wounded. Stephen Stills witnessed this and wrote the song in response.

The Standells (Dirty Water) wrote a song 'Riot on Sunset Strip' in response.

Riot On Sunset Strip - YouTube

As well as Michael Nesmith of the Monkees

The Monkees - Daily Nightly - YouTube

RJDiogenes · Jan 24, 2022

The Old Mixer said:
Liddy suggested budgeting $1,000,000 for mugging and even kidnapping "leaders of anti-Nixon demonstrations"; hiring prostitutes to solicit during the 1972 Democratic National Convention; and break-ins and installation of electronic surveillance as necessary. Mitchell rejected the plan, but retained Liddy to suggest new ideas.

"Keep 'em coming, Gordo." :rommie:

"Joy," Apollo 100 feat. Tom Parker

This is a good one, as far as songless songs go.

"Sweet Seasons," Carole King

This is lovely.

"The Way of Love," Cher

Not bad, but pales next to other stuff she did back then.

"Everything I Own," Bread

I love this. Bread did some really nice stuff in those days.

It got oldies radio airplay in my neck.

I'm pretty sure I never heard it before.

Are they singing about...the war? *gasp*

Apparently a curfew, as Darren says. :rommie:

One of whom might have gotten the "enough to base a...movie on" reference.

Oops. No Captain America for me this time, I take it. :rommie:

I should've put in a Long-Distance Dedication.

Ah, that would be a nice Twilight Zone moment.

TREK_GOD_1 · Jan 25, 2022

The Old Mixer said:
50 Years Ago This Week

January 27

Police Officers Gregory Philip Foster and Rocco W. Laurie of the New York City Police Department were shot in the back and killed while walking their patrol beat by members of the Black Liberation Army. Foster and Laurie had served together as United States Marines in the Vietnam War and had requested assignment to the same NYPD precinct. A television film, Foster and Laurie, about the two slain officers would be broadcast in 1975.

Foster and Laurie--

--served in Vietnam and were decorated for bravery--but did not serve together. That fiction was created by the irresponsible news media (what a shock) not long after they were assassinated as an attempt to add a greater sense of tragedy to a case that was already unimaginably tragic.

Foster and Laurie's assassinations were the next in a series of attacks on the police across the country. However, New York was particularly deadly, as one year earlier--on May 21, 1971--officers Joseph Piagentini and Waverly Jones--

--were lured to a Harlem housing complex on a fake call, and ambushed. Of note, that in both sets of assassinations, the black officer was targeted with shots to the back of the head, while the white officer was not. Historians and those who had some association with the events theorized the black officers might have been dealt a more gruesome blow due to being seen as a "traitor", thus they "deserved" the type of attacks received. The assassinations triggered national outrage, gaining much social and political attention, including that of then-president Nixon.

The TV movie was based on Al Silverman's 1974 book of the same name, but being television, certain characters were either merged with others, omitted, and above all else, the grisly nature of the murders and their aftermath were drastically changed. One such TV-friendly change had Foster (played by Dorian Harewood) still alive in the operating room, when the real Gregory Foster was clearly dead before his body hit the sidewalk. In the case of TV-Laurie (played by Perry King), his fictional fate was closer to fact as he depicted as still being alive, but paralyzed and unable to communicate.

DarrenTR1970 · Jan 25, 2022

Since 'The Partridge Family' is covered on this thread, I thought I'd take a moment and mention that Danny Bonaduce's mother passed away last Sunday at the age of 97.
He mentioned it this morning on his radio show here in Seattle.

The Old Mixer · Jan 25, 2022

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50th Anniversary Viewing (Part 1)

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Hawaii Five-O
"The Ninety-Second War (Part 2)"
Originally aired January 18, 1972

Wiki said:
Wo Fat's plan revolves around a missile test--and ninety crucial seconds.

The episode opens with The 377-Second Recap. (I should have noted last time that the McGarrett imposter was voiced by an uncredited actor when he talked.) The story commences with the Governor and recurring federal bigwig Jonathan Kaye (Tim O'Connor is at least our third actor to play the role, and it looks like there are more to come), now said to be the Pentagon's chief of special operations, being motorcaded into Diamond Head Crater, a highly secure NORAD wannabe. Steve is flown in by helicopter, and for some reason they make him wear a helmet. Kaye 3.0 leads a meeting attended by military brass and intelligence officials discussing Wo Fat's plan. A decoded high-speed transmission indicates that the code name of Wo Fat's plan is Rip Van Winkle...a name that the imposter dropped last week. An Army general (Les Keiter) notes a recent 3.5-second blackout of the facility's missile tracking system, which causes McGarrett to speculate that it was a test for a 90-second one. McGarrett's attention is drawn to the facility's chief of operation, Hans Vogler (Donald Pleasence).

After the meeting, the facility receives a visitor from the Soviet Union--Misha the Bear (Roger C. Carmel, reprising his role from the "F.O.B. Honolulu" two-parter). He shares information about Soviet tracking facilities having falsely detected multiple Chinese missile launches, also attributed to Rip Van Winkle. Kaye and McGarrett then meet an allergy specialist named Dr. Kingsby (Dick Faun) regarding Vogler's daughter, whose acute asthmatic condition is supposed to be Vogler's reason for having transferred to Hawaii. Kingsby reports that the pollen supposedly responsible for her attacks when Vogler was at White Sands didn't exist there. Vogler is brought in for questioning about this and the tracking blackout, and how the attacks at White Sands were artificially induced. Vogler breaks down emotionally, indicates that he was responsible, and suffers an attack.

In a drug-revived state, Vogler is questioned by McGarrett about how he was captured during the war by the Russians and released as a deep mole who was never used by the Soviets, but was later compelled by Wo Fat to trigger his daughter's attacks. Coming to full consciousness, Vogler indicates that Wo Fat is holding his daughter in Hawaii, and that he was to black out the missile tracking system at noon that day...which is in three hours. Kaye speculates that the Chinese have now developed an ICBM to deliver their nuclear devices, and he wants America to be able to observe it. Vogler reports to Wo Fat outside the drydocked yellow sub to buy two more hours. Fat checks into Vogler's story about his whereabouts, and American intelligence sees that it checks out.

Kaye has a hastily prepped satellite launched from Cape Kennedy ahead of the delayed blackout. Danno minds Vogler, who has to initiate the blackout on schedule. Vogler describes to him how a computer card causes the 90-second blackout, and Danno has to pull a gun on him to stop him from inserting it exactly on schedule, as the Cape needs a little more time. The observation of the test firing is successful, and back at his lair, Fat reboards his sub to report his own perceived success. In the coda, we learn that Vogler's daughter has been returned and that Steve plans to contribute the $2 million from his Chinese-provided Swiss bank account to the Policemen's Widows and Orphans Fund.

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Adam-12
"The Tip"
Originally aired January 19, 1972

Wiki said:
In a comic relief segment Malloy and Reed deal with a woman (Guest star Rose Marie) who thinks she has a rattlesnake in her luggage, an out-of-town traffic violator, and a bar brawl, all while tackling armored truck robbers whose attacks have been predicted in advance by an informant.

Based on a tip from T.J., Malloy and Reed are staking out a bank while an armored car delivery is being made. Tear gas bursts up from a culvert to envelop the guards, causing the officers to swoop into action, but the robbery is successful under cover of the cloud. Malloy takes some heat from Mac for not getting more from his informant, who just left a message for him.

The officers then see a woman at a bus depot (Rose Marie), who hears what she thinks is a rattlesnake in her bag after it's unloaded from the baggage compartment. Reed carefully unzips the bag, then opens it with a broom handle, sorting through the contents to find a rattling electric toothbrush.

The officers go to see T.J. at his shoe-shining stand (Eddie Quillan, who's apparently supposed to be the same character as Robert Donner's recurring informant, usually billed as Teejay, who hasn't appeared at this point since 1969). They try to get more info out of him, and he describes how he overheard a couple of men planning the heist in a bar.

While the officers are stopped at a corner, a man comes up quickly beside them and has to slam on his brakes to avoid hitting a crossing woman. Malloy explains to Mr. Waters (Larry Wilde) from New York that the pedestrian had the right of way because she was in a crosswalk.

Deciding to get some excitement going, Reed discusses seven so they can get assigned to a 415 fight at a bar. One of the participants is a Richard Sims (actor unclear), who has a tattoo that matches T.J.'s description. At the station they consults with with detective Sgt. Hugh Brasher (Larry Linville) about how to proceed with investigating Sims in relation to the robberies. Sims's file turns up that one of Sims's associates is Frank Mosley (Mark Allen), one of the guards in the last robbery...who previously worked for the Department of Public Works. The officers think he's been helping plan the robberies, and was an inside man on the latest because the culvert was too small for Sims to crawl out of.

Reed and Malloy don SWAT gear and confer with Mac and a couple of other SWAT officers at L-20s pull-out planning table in the parking lot. Upon getting a call for another robbery, the officers enter a nearby manhole and search the sewer tunnel to find the robber, who fires his rifle and tosses a tear gas grenade. The officers don gas masks and subdue Sims with a flare-like concussive charge.

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The Brady Bunch
"Jan's Aunt Jenny"
Originally aired January 21, 1972

Wiki said:
Jan discovers an old photograph of a child that looks just like her. Carol explains it is Aunt Jenny (Imogene Coca) and describes her to Jan. Jan is anxious to meet her great-aunt, but changes her attitude on seeing a current photo of Jenny. Jan worries she will resemble the old and eccentric-looking Jenny at that age. Jan's doubt is placated when she meets Aunt Jenny, a fun-loving Auntie Mame-type, and realizes her beauty within. The subplot has the Bradys cleaning junk from the attic and Mike attempting to restore an old record player.

The 40-year-old picture is found because they're bringing stuff down out of the attic and going through it. Jan decides to write to Aunt Jenny and exchange current pictures. She gets a nice letter back, but is horrified by the photo because she thinks she'll look like that in 40 years, and starts considering a career in missionary work. While Mike's trying to get an old phonograph working, the parents announce that Aunt Jenny will be visiting.

Aunt Jenny arrives in a limo with a police motorcycle escort. The well-traveled and well-connected Jenny meets the family bearing in-advance Christmas gifts. Jan comes down late to meet her "soul sister," who's especially pleased to meet her. The parents later try to make excuses for Jan's sullen behavior, but have to confess regarding what's bothering her. Jenny has a light-spirited talk with Jan in which Jenny expresses her happiness with being who she is. Jan subsequently finds herself taken with Jenny's worldly ways, which include treating the Bradys to a Japanese meal with tea and having calls taken from her secretary about things like being invited to Ari's birthday party and a proposal from a senator. After Jenny has to leave for Paris at a moment's notice to keep a prior engagement she'd forgotten about, Jan does a 180, declaring that she wants to grow up to look just like her aunt.

In the coda, Jan gets a leg cast from Aunt Jenny--who reportedly had a skiing accident--adorned with autographs from famous people; and acts confident in taking a call from a boy about a date.

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The Partridge Family
"Waiting for Bolero"
Originally aired January 21, 1972

Wiki said:
In order to be independent, Keith moves into a room in the house next door.

The episode openw with Keith practicing with Laurie to persuade Mom to let him get his own place. When he takes the opportunity to do the real thing, Shirley promptly refuses. Nevertheless, Keith answers an ad about a bachelor apartment that would involve light gardening, and it turns out to be at the house next door. Once he's moved in, Keith has to learn to deal with things like ironing because Shirley won't do it for him. Danny hires out his services as Keith's inside man for matters such as this and being smuggled simple peanut butter lunches, but Shirley quickly finds out, and taunts Keith with talk of what the family is having for lunch.

Keith invites a college pom-pom girl named Vicky over, but confesses to Laurie that the bachelor life isn't all it's cracked up to be, especially as the "light gardening" takes hours a day. Keith borrows a record of Ravel's Bolero for his date. When Vicky (Pam Peters) arrives, Danny eavesdrops with binoculars. Not knowing about the date, Shirley--who thinks that Keith's busy working on a song--chooses that evening to take dinner and desert over, so Danny delivers a warning message via an arrow through the window. Keith promptly shoves Vicky into a closet and pretends to be working. Keith hurries Shirley out, but then a group of friends unexpectedly arrives to check out the pad and turn what was supposed to be a romantic date into a general party. Keith ends up having to go ask Shirley about using his own room to work on the song while his uninvited guests are at his place, and ultimately asks to move back in. Cut to a gig performance of "Every Song Is You".

In the coda, Danny tries to bill Keith for his services rendered, but Shirley turns around and bills Danny for a bit more.

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The Odd Couple
"You Saved My Life"
Originally aired January 21, 1972

Wiki said:
After Oscar saves Felix's life, Felix goes overboard to repay the debt. First appearance of Penny Marshall as Myrna Turner, Oscar's secretary.

While Oscar is busy making a mess inside while trying to work, Felix comes home and is disappointed with the window washing, so he tries to do it himself and ends up hanging backward over the window ledge. Oscar belatedly notices while passing through and carries Felix in. Felix is moved by his near-death experience and lavishes Oscar with additional attention, which Oscar can't even get away from at his office, thanks to Felix's enlistment of Myrna. Oscar asks Murray for protection, arguing that Felix is a public nuisance. Felix's meddling includes approaching the IRS to go through Oscar's taxes in an attempt to reduce his alimony payments, which causes Oscar to go into a panic. Murray gives Oscar the idea of staging an opportunity for Felix to even the score by saving his life.

During a dinner prepared by Felix, Oscar pretends to choke on a chicken bone, but is informed that the chicken is boneless. Oscar's next ploy is to turn all the gas on slightly, and pretend to choke on it, but it ends up knocking Felix out. Finally, Oscar climbs out on the ledge under the pretense of stargazing, but Murray and then Myrna each come by first. Having heard from a neighbor about a man hanging outside the window, Felix rushes in while Oscar is out of the room and falls out the window again. Oscar agrees to save him if Felix promises to stop thanking him for saving his life. Felix is nevertheless once again moved by the experience...

Felix: I'll tell you frankly...I've never considered the possibility of Felix Unger dying.
Oscar: I have.

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DarrenTR1970 said:
They're actually singing about a riot on Sunset Strip in L.A.

OK...guess I shoulda looked the song up.

RJDiogenes said:
This is a good one, as far as songless songs go.

An electronic arrangement of Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring," this one's ascendency into the Top 20 took me by surprise. Not sure if I wanna get it, it's a little cheesy.

This is lovely.

Sounds alright, but hasn't made much of an impression on me.

Not bad, but pales next to other stuff she did back then.

Apparently a cover of an English arrangement of a song originally written in French; kinda reminds me of contemporaneous Elvis.

I love this. Bread did some really nice stuff in those days.

The one that I knew!

Oops. No Captain America for me this time, I take it.

We filed slowly, languidly into the hall
The auditorium was vast and silent
As we seated and were darkened, the voice continued
The program for this evening is not new
You've seen this entertainment through and through
You've seen your birth your life and death
You might recall all of the rest
Did you have a good world when you died?
Enough to base a movie on?

--Jim Morrison, "The Movie"

RJDiogenes · Jan 25, 2022

The Old Mixer said:
motorcaded into Diamond Head Crater, a highly secure NORAD wannabe.

We're heading into James Bond territory here.

Steve is flown in by helicopter, and for some reason they make him wear a helmet.

To protect the helicopter blades.

Hans Vogler (Donald Pleasence).

A well-known weasel, notable for Fantastic Voyage.

Misha the Bear (Roger C. Carmel

Hey, Harry.

In a drug-revived state, Vogler is questioned by McGarrett about how he was captured during the war by the Russians

Okay, where's Misha?

Kaye has a hastily prepped satellite launched from Cape Kennedy ahead of the delayed blackout.

We're in full James Bond mode now. :rommie:

Fat reboards his sub to report his own perceived success.

I have no idea what just happened. :rommie:

Steve plans to contribute the $2 million from his Chinese-provided Swiss bank account to the Policemen's Widows and Orphans Fund.

It's not yours, Steve, but it's the thought that counts. Or maybe the bragging that counts. :rommie:

Tear gas bursts up from a culvert to envelop the guards, causing the officers to swoop into action, but the robbery is successful under cover of the cloud.

Probably should have had more cars assigned.

Malloy explains to Mr. Waters (Larry Wilde) from New York that the pedestrian had the right of way because she was in a crosswalk.

And that you can't just run over people who get in your way.

Sgt. Hugh Brasher (Larry Linville)

Ol' Ferret Face.

Reed and Malloy don SWAT gear

Detective work, SWAT ops-- these guys just walk in and take over wherever they go.

they're bringing stuff down out of the attic

I wonder where they keep the attic.

but is horrified by the photo because she thinks she'll look like that in 40 years

More like 52 or so, given Imogene Coca's age. And what's wrong with Imogene Coca, anyway?

After Jenny has to leave for Paris at a moment's notice to keep a prior engagement she'd forgotten about, Jan does a 180, declaring that she wants to grow up to look just like her aunt.

Lesson learned. Once again, possibly the wrong lesson, but some education has taken place.

The episode openw with Keith practicing with Laurie to persuade Mom to let him get his own place.

How old is he supposed to be?

Shirley quickly finds out, and taunts Keith with talk of what the family is having for lunch.

Wow, Shirley's got a dark side. :rommie:

especially as the "light gardening" takes hours a day.

Does doing the gardening mean he lives there for free, because it seems like not too long ago he couldn't even afford a car.

so Danny delivers a warning message via an arrow through the window.

And Danny has a cool side.

and ultimately asks to move back in.

And all is right with the world.

thanks to Felix's enlistment of Myrna.

Love Myrna. :rommie:

Felix: I'll tell you frankly...I've never considered the possibility of Felix Unger dying.
Oscar: I have.

An electronic arrangement of Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring," this one's ascendency into the Top 20 took me by surprise. Not sure if I wanna get it, it's a little cheesy.

You take that Bach.

Apparently a cover of an English arrangement of a song originally written in French; kinda reminds me of contemporaneous Elvis.

That's interesting.

We filed slowly, languidly into the hall
The auditorium was vast and silent
As we seated and were darkened, the voice continued
The program for this evening is not new
You've seen this entertainment through and through
You've seen your birth your life and death
You might recall all of the rest
Did you have a good world when you died?
Enough to base a movie on?

--Jim Morrison, "The Movie"

Okay, I'm not sorry I didn't know that. :rommie:

But, yes, a sibling may have....

The Old Mixer · Jan 26, 2022

RJDiogenes said:
To protect the helicopter blades.

A well-known weasel, notable for Fantastic Voyage.

And for being the inspiration for Dr. Evil.

We're in full James Bond mode now.

At least they didn't have to call in the Space Marines...

I have no idea what just happened.

Wo Fat thought his blackout for the missile test was successful; America secretly watched the test.

It's not yours, Steve, but it's the thought that counts. Or maybe the bragging that counts.

Whose is it? As he put it, it was a donation from the Chinese government. They gave him the money as a means of framing him; he donated it.

Detective work, SWAT ops-- these guys just walk in and take over wherever they go.

They're sometimes like composite cops.

I wonder where they keep the attic.

In the remodeled version of the original exterior house, in the basement, IIRC.

More like 52 or so, given Imogene Coca's age. And what's wrong with Imogene Coca, anyway?

She wasn't what most would consider to be conventionally attractive.

How old is he supposed to be?

Not sure exactly, but he's still in high school.

Wow, Shirley's got a dark side.

She was using motherly wiles to lure her boy home.

Does doing the gardening mean he lives there for free, because it seems like not too long ago he couldn't even afford a car.

It might have made the place more affordable. But yeah, probably a continuity issue; though maybe he figured the new song would pay for it.

And Danny has a cool side.

He's kinda like a stopped clock in that way.

Love Myrna.

Murray and Myrna together on the show makes it sort of a Happy Days / Laverne & Shirley preunion.

You take that Bach.

I would take the Bach over that.

Okay, I'm not sorry I didn't know that. But, yes, a sibling may have....

There's more, but it has a brief sexually explicit moment, which is why I didn't post the audio clip from An American Prayer.

DarrenTR1970 · Jan 26, 2022

The Old Mixer said:
OK...guess I shoulda looked the song up.

Muppets - Stop Whats's that sound - YouTube

Not to worry. For years I thought it was a song by The Muppets.

RJDiogenes · Jan 26, 2022

The Old Mixer said:
And for being the inspiration for Dr. Evil.

I did not know that.

Wo Fat thought his blackout for the missile test was successful; America secretly watched the test.

Okay, that makes sense. But Misha was talking about false positives and Kaye was speculating that Fat wanted us to see the test, which didn't fit at all with what was happening.

Whose is it? As he put it, it was a donation from the Chinese government. They gave him the money as a means of framing him; he donated it.

Maybe, but, since it was a part of an espionage operation, it seems like the government would have seized it and impounded it in a massive warehouse while "top men" investigated it.

She wasn't what most would consider to be conventionally attractive.

No, but she was adorable. Certainly not someone to freak out over. They should have used Phyllis Diller or somebody.

Not sure exactly, but he's still in high school.

Seems like he'd have to be 18 to lease an apartment. Of course, I was 18 when I was in high school, for five or six weeks.

Murray and Myrna together on the show makes it sort of a Happy Days / Laverne & Shirley preunion.

Garry Marshall, who was Penny Marshall's brother, also played Werner Turner, Myrna's brother. I think there were other Turner relatives with rhyming names, too.

I would take the Bach over that.

The original is always better than the reboot. :rommie:

DarrenTR1970 said:
Not to worry. For years I thought it was a song by The Muppets.

I thought the same thing about "Windy."

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