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50th Anniversary Viewing (Part 1)
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Hawaii Five-O
"Skinhead"
Originally aired January 25, 1972
At a bar that plays cheesy stock music, the titular character, a big, creepy-looking dude (Lee Paul), tries to forcefully come on to a young lady (Miko Mayama). After she takes a call from the boyfriend she's meeting, an altercation ensues in which she fends the skinhead off with her purse; the guy the skinhead had been sitting next to (Murray MacLeod) tries to intervene and the skinhead pushes him down. Skinhead then follows the lady outside to her car and starts to tear at her clothes. The other guy goes to the door and watches with interest--but does nothing--as the skinhead chases after the girl, she tries to fight him off with her nails, and he decks her...then acts horrified at what he's done.
Steve goes to the hospital to talk to the girl, Nora Kiyama, who's the latest in a series of rape victims. Che turns up large footprints, chest hairs, blood, and shirt fibers left by the assailant. Five-O has potential suspects gathered at a local Army base; the skinhead we know identifies himself as Mitchell Kenner, and is reluctant to unbutton his shirt when ordered, because of the incriminating scratches on his chest. He smugly offers an alibi about falling on a hedge, but acts concerned when McGarrett looks at his service record. Kono finds shoes matching the prints in his locker. Nora is brought in to identify him in a lineup, she's traumatized at the sight of him, and he's booked.
Assistant D.A. Manicote (Glenn Cannon in his second appearance in a long-term recurring role) tells Steve how most of the evidence is circumstantial, and that the proprietor of the bar conflicts the eyewitness testimony of his bartender by claiming that he saw nothing happen, so they have to find a third witness, the other guy who was involved in the altercation. Steve goes to the bar to lean on the owner (Robert Luck), who changes his story to one better matching the bartender's. The owner recalls that the man involved in the altercation wore a gas station attendant's shirt with the name Chris on it. McGarrett goes to see the most likely suspect, an underaged blond dude we haven't seen (Dean Altier), who describes how a coworker named Luke borrowed one of his shirts.
Outside the chambers of Judge Kalehei (Yankee Chang), Steve has to pull Kono off Kenner when the latter is dismissive of the victim because she's not white. Danno brings Luke Leonard--the man who'd been sitting next to Mitchell at the bar--to the courthouse. Kenner sees Leonard and asks his appointed defense attorney, Arthur Tosaki (Kwan Hi Lim), to find out who he is, with the story that he could provide an alibi. Kenner then goes to see Leonard to threaten him into perjuring himself.
At the trial, Tosaki argues against the certainty of the rape, as Nora was unconscious when it happened, and presses her about her sexual activities prior to the incident in an attempt to suggest that she was promiscuous enough to have had willing sex with Kenner prior to the attack. As Leonard's testifying, Kono comes in with info for Steve about how Kenner was seen at Leonard's place. Manicote questions Leonard about this, and Leonard nervously testifies to how Kenner threatened to kill him. Leonard then tells his version of how things happened on the night of the assault.
Back at 5OHQ, McGarrett is bothered with how things have developed--how Leonard, whom he judges to be a weasel, stood up to testify, and isn't running scared from Kenner, who's out on bail and isn't pursuing the man who crossed him. Steve takes a closer look at Kenner's record and investigates an eighteen-month period when he was out of the service. The team finds that Kenner's been making payments to a Canadian urologist who performed multiple operations on him after he suffered pelvic damage from an auto accident...attempting to reverse Kenner's permanent impotence. Determining that rape by Kenner wasn't a possibility, the team takes a closer look at Leonard, and find evidence that he burned the borrowed shirt he was wearing that night. Confronted with the shirt's surviving buttons, Luke panics and tries to make a run for it...though it turns out that one of the buttons couldn't be found and was substituted with one borrowed from Chris.
Kenner agrees to a lesser charge of aggravated assault and admits to how he threatened Luke to testify that he did rape the girl, because he didn't want anyone to know about his impotence. Steve chastises Kenner for thinking of himself as a man, given what he did.
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Adam-12
"The Parole Violator"
Originally aired January 26, 1972
Malloy's off duty in sweats doing his basketball coach thing when a player named Kyler Johnson (Hilly Hicks) talks to him privately to tip him off that a missing player, Larry Ciprio, has been using again. On a seven, Malloy and Reed have lunch with Larry's parole officer, Steve Hernandez (Trini López), who reports that Larry doesn't seem to be buying but has come up missing.
The officers get a call for ambulance traffic. At the scene, they find that a young boy's been hit by a car. The boy sees Reed and thinks that his father has come back. Reed rides in the ambulance with him, which is getting to be a regular thing. At the hospital, the boy's mother, Joan Coberly (Rachel Romen), tells Reed that Bobby's father was killed in Vietnam.
On patrol, the officers see a car that runs a stop sign and think it could be their hit-and-run driver. When pulled over, the owner, Dennis Baker (Peter Leeds), cooperates, but his young passenger, Bill Morry (Russell G. Wiggins), gets mouthy. Malloy checks Morry's license, then openly passes Reed a note that he's hot, and arrests him. In the squad car, it turns out that Morry's an undercover narcotics cop who's been investigating Baker as a suspected dealer.
Reed calls the hospital to find that Bobby's out of surgery but faces potential paralysis. Mac (who only appears by voice in this episode) radios in a tip from a man named Harry Sutter who works at the park about Larry Ciprio. Sutter points Malloy to the gym where Larry's (John Roper) practicing. Hernandez meets them there, and while Larry's very defensive and mysterious, he insists that he isn't using.
Mac gives the officers an update that Bobby's alright, then they meet Hernandez again. Tipped off by an anonymous letter, he found a small packet of heroin in Larry's mother's house, though it seemed conspicuously placed in the open. They all go back to the house and talk to Mrs. Cipreano (Carmen Zapata), who begs them to help her boy. Larry angrily confronts them, and he admits to having bought a couple of bags in a moment of weakness but decided against using them. It turns out that his mother tipped off Hernandez and left the heroin out where the officer could find it. Larry starts to try to run out, but Hernandez and Malloy convince him to face the music. Reed checks the smaller building out back where Larry's been staying, and find that Mrs. C's fears that Larry's little brother might try to emulate him were justified, as Frankie is lying unconscious after having shot up. Back at the station, Malloy learns via phone that Frankie is also going to make it.
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The Brady Bunch
"The Big Bet"
Originally aired January 28, 1972
Bobby's getting to be a nuisance, isn't he? He comes home excited to tell everyone how many chin-ups he did in school, but only Greg is there. When Greg, who was talking to Rachel on the phone, is dismissive, Bobby insists on a bet that Greg can't do twice as many chin-ups as he can. Bobby trains up for the day of the competition, while Greg doesn't take it seriously. Meanwhile, Mike gets an invitation to his high school reunion, which is that Saturday...that seems kind of short notice. Mike reluctantly reveals to Carol that his school nickname was--wait for it--"Hot Lips". Mike and Carol make a parallel bet about whether Carol can correctly identify Mike's old girlfriend in the yearbook. Back in the main plot, Bobby gives Greg a chance to get out of the bet, but Greg refuses. Bobby ends up doing eleven chin-ups, doubling his own five from the week before. Greg starts out strong and confident, but only manages nineteen.
Greg ends up having to do menial chores for Bobby, as well as for the other kids on Bobby's behalf; and to pretty much let Bobby have whatever he wants. Bobby insists on accompanying Greg on his date with Rachel to the drive-in, and the parents rule that this is a fair demand...Mike slipping in a little lesson about the risks of gambling. On the date, Bobby makes a show of ordering Greg around and gets in the way of Greg and Rachel doing what they'd like to be doing. Bobby insists on Greg putting the top down, to the annoyance of other viewers, then takes out an umbrella, so Greg puts the top up again...and Bobby's umbrella pierces it. Bobby finds himself having to earn $150 to pay for the top, which means he now has to do Greg's chores for money.
Carol also wins her bet, though only with the help of the girlfriend having visited the house offscreen and introduced herself.
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The Partridge Family
"I Am Curious...Partridge"
Originally aired January 28, 1972
Missing teaser alert, and it shows...as usual, we're obviously being plopped into a situation in progress. In this case, most of the family has already seen the story, which is in a Sunday magazine supplement, and loaded with juicy items that Danny made up in the interest of publicity. Laurie serves Keith breakfast in bed so she can bring the magazine to him. Mortified by the fake personal details, Keith tries to go to school in disguise, but all the girls are tossing him black garters; the guys in the gym shower are looking for a tattoo he doesn't have; and Mrs. Damion (Maxine Stuart), the English teacher he allegedly has a crush on, recites love poetry directly to him in front of the class.
The second part of the story the following weekend focuses its embarrassment on Shirley, and she has a PTA fashion show to attend that day. The milkman (Bobby Baum) delivers in a trench coat, which the story claims is a turn-on; and she's made to do a faux striptease at the fashion show, because part of the story claimed that she used to run an exotic dancing school. The family is scheduled to play at a convention to an all-male audience the following night, at which they perform "If You Ever Go" while Shirley looks sheepish on the keyboard.
As a gag after the performance, the kids all wear false beards for an encore bow, because beards are also supposed to be one of her turn-ons.
In the coda, the other kids have gotten back at Danny by having an embarrassing Sunday magazine story printed about him.
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The Odd Couple
"Where's Grandpa?"
Originally aired January 28, 1972
The episode opens with Oscar enjoying poker night with Murray, Vinnie, Speed, and not Felix, who's in Acapulco for a week. After a warning call from the senior facility, Grandpa Unger shows up at the door bearing multiple bags, having gotten into a fight with Grandma. He ruins the game by repeatedly reading Oscar's hands aloud, then starts acting depressed like Felix is said to have been when he moved in. Grandpa thinks his Mimi was fooling around with other guys in their senior community. Down in the laundry room, Grandpa meets Loretta Spoon (Ann Doran) and asks her out for a date. Oscar's pleased because it means he can play poker, but Loretta comes over to try to explain that her acceptance of the date was a misunderstanding, and Oscar has to break the news to Grandpa. During a game of gin with Oscar, Murray gets a call about a jumper outside the apartment, who turns out to be Grandpa, who wants to come in but is too petrified to move, so Oscar goes out to bring him in. After the incident, Mimi's coming to get Grandpa, but he's afraid he's going to blow it again with his jealousy, so Oscar tries to rehearse their reunion. Mimi (Madge Kennedy) arrives, Grandpa asks for her forgiveness, and they reconcile.
Felix is back in the coda, reading Oscar's gin cards aloud.
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50th Anniversary Viewing (Part 1)
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Hawaii Five-O
"Skinhead"
Originally aired January 25, 1972
Wiki said:
At a bar that plays cheesy stock music, the titular character, a big, creepy-looking dude (Lee Paul), tries to forcefully come on to a young lady (Miko Mayama). After she takes a call from the boyfriend she's meeting, an altercation ensues in which she fends the skinhead off with her purse; the guy the skinhead had been sitting next to (Murray MacLeod) tries to intervene and the skinhead pushes him down. Skinhead then follows the lady outside to her car and starts to tear at her clothes. The other guy goes to the door and watches with interest--but does nothing--as the skinhead chases after the girl, she tries to fight him off with her nails, and he decks her...then acts horrified at what he's done.
Steve goes to the hospital to talk to the girl, Nora Kiyama, who's the latest in a series of rape victims. Che turns up large footprints, chest hairs, blood, and shirt fibers left by the assailant. Five-O has potential suspects gathered at a local Army base; the skinhead we know identifies himself as Mitchell Kenner, and is reluctant to unbutton his shirt when ordered, because of the incriminating scratches on his chest. He smugly offers an alibi about falling on a hedge, but acts concerned when McGarrett looks at his service record. Kono finds shoes matching the prints in his locker. Nora is brought in to identify him in a lineup, she's traumatized at the sight of him, and he's booked.
Assistant D.A. Manicote (Glenn Cannon in his second appearance in a long-term recurring role) tells Steve how most of the evidence is circumstantial, and that the proprietor of the bar conflicts the eyewitness testimony of his bartender by claiming that he saw nothing happen, so they have to find a third witness, the other guy who was involved in the altercation. Steve goes to the bar to lean on the owner (Robert Luck), who changes his story to one better matching the bartender's. The owner recalls that the man involved in the altercation wore a gas station attendant's shirt with the name Chris on it. McGarrett goes to see the most likely suspect, an underaged blond dude we haven't seen (Dean Altier), who describes how a coworker named Luke borrowed one of his shirts.
Outside the chambers of Judge Kalehei (Yankee Chang), Steve has to pull Kono off Kenner when the latter is dismissive of the victim because she's not white. Danno brings Luke Leonard--the man who'd been sitting next to Mitchell at the bar--to the courthouse. Kenner sees Leonard and asks his appointed defense attorney, Arthur Tosaki (Kwan Hi Lim), to find out who he is, with the story that he could provide an alibi. Kenner then goes to see Leonard to threaten him into perjuring himself.
At the trial, Tosaki argues against the certainty of the rape, as Nora was unconscious when it happened, and presses her about her sexual activities prior to the incident in an attempt to suggest that she was promiscuous enough to have had willing sex with Kenner prior to the attack. As Leonard's testifying, Kono comes in with info for Steve about how Kenner was seen at Leonard's place. Manicote questions Leonard about this, and Leonard nervously testifies to how Kenner threatened to kill him. Leonard then tells his version of how things happened on the night of the assault.
Back at 5OHQ, McGarrett is bothered with how things have developed--how Leonard, whom he judges to be a weasel, stood up to testify, and isn't running scared from Kenner, who's out on bail and isn't pursuing the man who crossed him. Steve takes a closer look at Kenner's record and investigates an eighteen-month period when he was out of the service. The team finds that Kenner's been making payments to a Canadian urologist who performed multiple operations on him after he suffered pelvic damage from an auto accident...attempting to reverse Kenner's permanent impotence. Determining that rape by Kenner wasn't a possibility, the team takes a closer look at Leonard, and find evidence that he burned the borrowed shirt he was wearing that night. Confronted with the shirt's surviving buttons, Luke panics and tries to make a run for it...though it turns out that one of the buttons couldn't be found and was substituted with one borrowed from Chris.
Kenner agrees to a lesser charge of aggravated assault and admits to how he threatened Luke to testify that he did rape the girl, because he didn't want anyone to know about his impotence. Steve chastises Kenner for thinking of himself as a man, given what he did.
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Adam-12
"The Parole Violator"
Originally aired January 26, 1972
Wiki said:
Malloy's off duty in sweats doing his basketball coach thing when a player named Kyler Johnson (Hilly Hicks) talks to him privately to tip him off that a missing player, Larry Ciprio, has been using again. On a seven, Malloy and Reed have lunch with Larry's parole officer, Steve Hernandez (Trini López), who reports that Larry doesn't seem to be buying but has come up missing.
The officers get a call for ambulance traffic. At the scene, they find that a young boy's been hit by a car. The boy sees Reed and thinks that his father has come back. Reed rides in the ambulance with him, which is getting to be a regular thing. At the hospital, the boy's mother, Joan Coberly (Rachel Romen), tells Reed that Bobby's father was killed in Vietnam.
On patrol, the officers see a car that runs a stop sign and think it could be their hit-and-run driver. When pulled over, the owner, Dennis Baker (Peter Leeds), cooperates, but his young passenger, Bill Morry (Russell G. Wiggins), gets mouthy. Malloy checks Morry's license, then openly passes Reed a note that he's hot, and arrests him. In the squad car, it turns out that Morry's an undercover narcotics cop who's been investigating Baker as a suspected dealer.
Reed calls the hospital to find that Bobby's out of surgery but faces potential paralysis. Mac (who only appears by voice in this episode) radios in a tip from a man named Harry Sutter who works at the park about Larry Ciprio. Sutter points Malloy to the gym where Larry's (John Roper) practicing. Hernandez meets them there, and while Larry's very defensive and mysterious, he insists that he isn't using.
Mac gives the officers an update that Bobby's alright, then they meet Hernandez again. Tipped off by an anonymous letter, he found a small packet of heroin in Larry's mother's house, though it seemed conspicuously placed in the open. They all go back to the house and talk to Mrs. Cipreano (Carmen Zapata), who begs them to help her boy. Larry angrily confronts them, and he admits to having bought a couple of bags in a moment of weakness but decided against using them. It turns out that his mother tipped off Hernandez and left the heroin out where the officer could find it. Larry starts to try to run out, but Hernandez and Malloy convince him to face the music. Reed checks the smaller building out back where Larry's been staying, and find that Mrs. C's fears that Larry's little brother might try to emulate him were justified, as Frankie is lying unconscious after having shot up. Back at the station, Malloy learns via phone that Frankie is also going to make it.
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The Brady Bunch
"The Big Bet"
Originally aired January 28, 1972
Wiki said:
Bobby's getting to be a nuisance, isn't he? He comes home excited to tell everyone how many chin-ups he did in school, but only Greg is there. When Greg, who was talking to Rachel on the phone, is dismissive, Bobby insists on a bet that Greg can't do twice as many chin-ups as he can. Bobby trains up for the day of the competition, while Greg doesn't take it seriously. Meanwhile, Mike gets an invitation to his high school reunion, which is that Saturday...that seems kind of short notice. Mike reluctantly reveals to Carol that his school nickname was--wait for it--"Hot Lips". Mike and Carol make a parallel bet about whether Carol can correctly identify Mike's old girlfriend in the yearbook. Back in the main plot, Bobby gives Greg a chance to get out of the bet, but Greg refuses. Bobby ends up doing eleven chin-ups, doubling his own five from the week before. Greg starts out strong and confident, but only manages nineteen.
Greg ends up having to do menial chores for Bobby, as well as for the other kids on Bobby's behalf; and to pretty much let Bobby have whatever he wants. Bobby insists on accompanying Greg on his date with Rachel to the drive-in, and the parents rule that this is a fair demand...Mike slipping in a little lesson about the risks of gambling. On the date, Bobby makes a show of ordering Greg around and gets in the way of Greg and Rachel doing what they'd like to be doing. Bobby insists on Greg putting the top down, to the annoyance of other viewers, then takes out an umbrella, so Greg puts the top up again...and Bobby's umbrella pierces it. Bobby finds himself having to earn $150 to pay for the top, which means he now has to do Greg's chores for money.
Carol also wins her bet, though only with the help of the girlfriend having visited the house offscreen and introduced herself.
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The Partridge Family
"I Am Curious...Partridge"
Originally aired January 28, 1972
Wiki said:
Missing teaser alert, and it shows...as usual, we're obviously being plopped into a situation in progress. In this case, most of the family has already seen the story, which is in a Sunday magazine supplement, and loaded with juicy items that Danny made up in the interest of publicity. Laurie serves Keith breakfast in bed so she can bring the magazine to him. Mortified by the fake personal details, Keith tries to go to school in disguise, but all the girls are tossing him black garters; the guys in the gym shower are looking for a tattoo he doesn't have; and Mrs. Damion (Maxine Stuart), the English teacher he allegedly has a crush on, recites love poetry directly to him in front of the class.
The second part of the story the following weekend focuses its embarrassment on Shirley, and she has a PTA fashion show to attend that day. The milkman (Bobby Baum) delivers in a trench coat, which the story claims is a turn-on; and she's made to do a faux striptease at the fashion show, because part of the story claimed that she used to run an exotic dancing school. The family is scheduled to play at a convention to an all-male audience the following night, at which they perform "If You Ever Go" while Shirley looks sheepish on the keyboard.
As a gag after the performance, the kids all wear false beards for an encore bow, because beards are also supposed to be one of her turn-ons.
In the coda, the other kids have gotten back at Danny by having an embarrassing Sunday magazine story printed about him.
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The Odd Couple
"Where's Grandpa?"
Originally aired January 28, 1972
Wiki said:
The episode opens with Oscar enjoying poker night with Murray, Vinnie, Speed, and not Felix, who's in Acapulco for a week. After a warning call from the senior facility, Grandpa Unger shows up at the door bearing multiple bags, having gotten into a fight with Grandma. He ruins the game by repeatedly reading Oscar's hands aloud, then starts acting depressed like Felix is said to have been when he moved in. Grandpa thinks his Mimi was fooling around with other guys in their senior community. Down in the laundry room, Grandpa meets Loretta Spoon (Ann Doran) and asks her out for a date. Oscar's pleased because it means he can play poker, but Loretta comes over to try to explain that her acceptance of the date was a misunderstanding, and Oscar has to break the news to Grandpa. During a game of gin with Oscar, Murray gets a call about a jumper outside the apartment, who turns out to be Grandpa, who wants to come in but is too petrified to move, so Oscar goes out to bring him in. After the incident, Mimi's coming to get Grandpa, but he's afraid he's going to blow it again with his jealousy, so Oscar tries to rehearse their reunion. Mimi (Madge Kennedy) arrives, Grandpa asks for her forgiveness, and they reconcile.
Felix is back in the coda, reading Oscar's gin cards aloud.
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The issue is that they weren't really a functioning band, but were pretending to be one. This really showed in the concert episode, when they each got their little spotlights displaying their musical talents, but were never seen onstage together actually performing as a unit.
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