Ah, thank you. My memory does still work sometimes.
Good thing it didn't go to jury.
You need to take some time off work. I'll write you a note.
The Classic/Retro Pop Culture Thread
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55 Years Ago This Week
March 5 – Mohammad Mosaddegh, deposed Iranian prime minister, dies after fourteen years of house arrest.
March 6 – Mark Twain Tonight starring Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain, premieres on CBS television in the United States.
March 7
March 8 – The U.S. Department of Defense announced that American forces in the Vietnam War had suffered their heaviest casualties since the start of the war, with 232 men killed and 1,381 wounded during the week ending March 4. The single bloodiest day was Tuesday, February 28, when 61 American servicemen died.
March 9
March 10
March 11
Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week:
Leaving the chart:
Recent and new on the chart:
"Dry Your Eyes," Brenda & The Tabulations
(Feb. 25; #20 US; #8 R&B)
"Don't You Care," The Buckinghams
(#6 US)
"Bernadette," Four Tops
(#4 US; #3 R&B; #8 UK)
"Sweet Soul Music," Arthur Conley
(#2 US; #2 R&B; #7 UK)
And new on the boob tube:
(I just realized that I'd been neglecting to include Dragnet in the new year!)
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Timeline entries are quoted from the Wiki pages for the month or year.
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55th Anniversary Fly-on-the-Wall Listening
Anthology 2 gives us a remix of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" comprising various elements that were recorded on March 1 and 2, 1967:
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March 5 – Mohammad Mosaddegh, deposed Iranian prime minister, dies after fourteen years of house arrest.
March 6 – Mark Twain Tonight starring Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain, premieres on CBS television in the United States.
March 7
- U.S. labor union leader Jimmy Hoffa begins his 8-year sentence for attempting to bribe a jury.
- CBS Reports aired the first television news documentary in U.S. history to report on gay and lesbian issues. Hosted by Mike Wallace, and viewed by 40 million people, "The Homosexuals" "reflected the bias of the American Psychological Association...labeling homosexuality a mental illness" but also showed gays and lesbians as individuals whose civil rights were deprived. TV critics reacted differently, with Chicago Tribune columnist Clay Gowran, who called the show "garbage" and said that "it was permitted.. not only to justify the aberration but, it seemed, to glorify it", while Tribune columnist Herb Lyon wrote that it "was one of the most intelligent, mature, incisive shows ever produced."
- You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, a musical comedy based on the comic strip Peanuts, was first performed, appearing as an "off-Broadway" musical at Theatre 80 in New York's East Village. With music and lyrics by Clark Gesner, the musical launched the career of Gary Burghoff, who appeared as the title character. Continuing to be performed at colleges and high schools, it is credited with being "the most produced musical in history".
March 8 – The U.S. Department of Defense announced that American forces in the Vietnam War had suffered their heaviest casualties since the start of the war, with 232 men killed and 1,381 wounded during the week ending March 4. The single bloodiest day was Tuesday, February 28, when 61 American servicemen died.
March 9
- U.S. Navy Lt. (jg) Frank Prendergast became "the only American aviator to escape after being captured in North Vietnam", after bailing out of his plane and coming down off the coast of North Vietnam's Thanh Hoa Province. After inflating his life preserver, Prendergast was forced to surrender when a party of NVA soldiers waded out toward him. As he and they slowly marched back toward shore, several U.S. Navy planes strafed the beach, and all but two of the soldiers fled. With each strafing run, the two soldiers would dive underwater while Prendergast remained standing; when he saw an SH-3 rescue helicopter, he waited for his two captors to go underwater again, pulled a small .25 caliber automatic from his flight suit and shot the first guard to surface, while the SH-3's door gunner killed the other one. Prendergast was safely flown back to the USS Kitty Hawk.
- Joseph Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, defects to the United States via the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi.
March 10
- American aircraft attacked the steel and iron works at Thái Nguyên, North Vietnam, for the first time. During the mission, USAF Captain Robert Pardo and his wingman, Captain Earl Aman, were flying F-4 Phantom jets, when Aman's plane was damaged by antiaircraft fire and lost almost all of its fuel. Captain Pardo radioed Aman to lower the stricken plane's tailhook and pushed Aman's F-4 by maneuvering to place Aman's tailhook against the base of his own windscreen. With one of his own F-4's engines on fire, Pardo pushed Aman's powerless plane for 90 miles (145 km), and all four men aboard the two fighters ejected over Laos, where they could avoid capture, rather than North Vietnam. Another USAF Captain, Merlyn Hans Dethlefsen, earned the Medal of Honor for his heroism on the same day, destroying one of the North Vietnamese missile sites guarding Thai Nguyen, despite the damage to his own F-105 Thunderchief. Captain Dethlefsen would be presented the nation's highest honor by President Johnson on February 1, 1968.
- Mrs. Maria Teresa Sepulveda, a 21-year-old woman in Mexico City, gave birth in the first confirmed case of octuplets, four boys and four girls. Although all eight were born alive, none of the Sepulveda babies, who ranged in size from 18 1/2 to 22 ounces, survived; the last one, a boy, passing away 14 hours after his birth.
March 11
- The first list of endangered species was issued by Stewart Udall, the U.S. Secretary of the Interior with a total of 78 animals in the U.S. that were threatened with extinction. The list contained 14 mammals (including the grizzly bear, the red wolf, and the Florida manatee); 36 birds (including the Southern bald eagle, the California condor, and the ivory-billed woodpecker; three reptiles (including the American alligator); three amphibians (including the black toad), and 22 fishes (including the blue walleye and five varieties of trout). Animals on the list that would become extinct after 1967 were the dusky seaside sparrow, the longjaw cisco and the Maryland darter.
- The AGM-62 Walleye bomb, which had a television camera and could be guided to its target after being released, was used for the first time in combat, with the U.S. Navy making an attack on the Sam Son barracks of the North Vietnamese Army.
- The first phase of the Cambodian Civil War begins between the Kingdom of Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge.
Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week:
Leaving the chart:
- "It's Now Winter's Day," Tommy Roe (11 weeks)
- "Music to Watch Girls By," The Bob Crewe Generation (10 weeks)
- "Pushin' Too Hard," The Seeds (11 weeks)
- "Snoopy vs. The Red Baron," The Royal Guardsmen (12 weeks)
- "Tell It Like It Is," Aaron Neville (14 weeks)
Recent and new on the chart:
"Dry Your Eyes," Brenda & The Tabulations
(Feb. 25; #20 US; #8 R&B)
"Don't You Care," The Buckinghams
(#6 US)
"Bernadette," Four Tops
(#4 US; #3 R&B; #8 UK)
"Sweet Soul Music," Arthur Conley
(#2 US; #2 R&B; #7 UK)
And new on the boob tube:
- The Ed Sullivan Show, Season 19, episode 26
- Gilligan's Island, "The Second Ginger Grant"
- The Monkees, "Alias Micky Dolenz"
- The Invaders, "Quantity: Unknown"
- Batman, "King Tut's Coup"
- Batman, "Batman's Waterloo"
- Star Trek, "The Devil in the Dark"
- That Girl, "You Have to Know Someone to Be Unknown"
- Dragnet 1967, "The Candy Store Robberies"
- The Green Hornet, "Invasion from Outer Space: Part 1"
- The Wild Wild West, "The Night of the Colonel's Ghost"
- Tarzan, "The Perils of Charity Jones: Part 1"
- The Time Tunnel, "Attack of the Barbarians"
- Hogan's Heroes, "The Most Escape-Proof Camp I've Ever Escaped From"
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E., "The Hot Number Affair"
- The Avengers, "The Bird Who Knew Too Much"
- Get Smart, "How to Succeed in the Spy Business Without Really Trying"
(I just realized that I'd been neglecting to include Dragnet in the new year!)
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Timeline entries are quoted from the Wiki pages for the month or year.
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55th Anniversary Fly-on-the-Wall Listening
Anthology 2 gives us a remix of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" comprising various elements that were recorded on March 1 and 2, 1967:
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50th Anniversary Viewing (Part 2)
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All in the Family
"Edith the Judge"
Originally aired February 26, 1972
After a beat of Mike and Gloria finding the place to themselves on a Sunday and starting to take advantage of the situation before Edith comes home (which is very similar to the opening scene of the pilots and first episode), Archie comes home from the launderette wanting to lock the doors and pretend that nobody's home, following an incident in which one of the machines broke down, ruining Archie's load. The proprietor, Joe Girgis (Jack Weston), comes by, and accuses Archie of having overloaded the machine. Archie defines Girgis by his "Ay-rab" ethnicity, though Girgis is a Methodist. There's a also a running gag of Girgis having a tendency to break down crying over just about anything, happy or sad. In a very lamely sitcomish manner, Girgis decides to let Edith judge the situation based on her honesty. Edith takes her role very seriously, which includes making some more Perry Mason references...but abruptly tries to abstain when she learns that Archie weighed his load on the Bunkers' scale, and the difference from Girgis's estimate is five pounds. It turns out that Edith considers herself the guilty party, because she'd adjusted the bathroom scale down by five pounds for Archie's benefit.
Along the way, they couldn't pass up the opportunity to get in a gag about Archie having mixed his whites and his coloreds.
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The Mary Tyler Moore Show
"Some of My Best Friends Are Rhoda"
Originally aired February 26, 1972
Mary meets Joanne Forbes (Mary Frann) when Joanne accidentally rear-ends Mary's car outside the apartment. Mary invites her in for coffee and the two learn that they're sorority sisters from different colleges. As Mary begins to spend more time with Joanne, playing tennis and such, she has to turn down and cancel dates with Rhoda. All the while, Joanne, who didn't want to go through her insurance company, continually puts off giving Mary a check. Things comes to a head when they need somebody for a doubles match at Joanne's country club, and it becomes clear that Joanne doesn't want to bring Rhoda there because she's Jewish. Mary briefly claims to be Jewish herself to gauge Joanne's reaction, and finds that it does make a difference. As Joanne makes excuses to leave, Mary insists upon getting her check.
In a cutaway to Rhoda's apartment, they use an exterior shot that focuses on a tower on the side of the house...maybe implicitly trying to retcon its location.
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Emergency!
"Dealer's Wild"
Originally aired February 26, 1972
Squad 51 arrives at a small airport, with the plane being piloted by the boy, Frankie Pierce (Buddy Foster), circling overhead. Roy gets on the radio with him, asks about his father's condition, and has him apply oxygen. It turns out that there are no pilots readily available and that Roy has flying experience but is unlicensed, so he has the attendant get an owner's manual for that type of plane and tries to talk Frankie down, though he doesn't think that the boy's chances are good. Roy moves to the radio of a plane on the field so he can see the boy's plane. Things get tense as the nervous boy makes some mistakes, but Roy manages to ease him down into a rough landing. Mr. Pierce is taken to Rampart, where Brackett stabilizes him and tries to keep Frankie's spirits up, and later sees to it that a spare bed is found for the boy.
Then we get to the titular comical subplot; when Johnny complains about how he always loses games at the station because of ever-changing house rules, Roy suggests that he create his own game. The paramedics next respond to a call for an attempted suicide at an apartment. The super describes how tenant Dave Morgan (Lou Krugman) tried to slit his wrists and turned on the gas. He's taken to Rampart. Off-duty, Kell goes to Dixie's place to unwind with some wine. He unloads about how Pierce has a 50 percent chance of living to face a greatly reduced quality of life, and contrasts this situation with Morgan trying to take his own life.
Johnny's trying to explain the Beta Antares-style rules of his new game to Roy when the station gets a call for an overturned oil truck at a refinery. While the paramedics work to free the driver with their tools, the engine sprays the spilled oil. As the man is freed, the area around the truck is covered with foam. After the driver is taken to the ambulance in the parking lot, Johnny calls the man's condition in to Rampart, which causes Brackett to call for a skull X-ray when he's brought in.
At Rampart, we get the second beat of Johnny trying to approach a pretty nurse who won't talk to him--this appears to be set-up for the similarly titled next episode, complete with Johnny declaring, "Wait 'til next time." Back at the station, Johnny's starting his game with the Usual Firemen when Squad 51 gets a call. The paramedics find a young woman apparently suffering a trip outside a home. She's identified by neighbors as Donna Melvin (Susan Madigan), but none of the onlookers want to answer questions about what she might have taken. The girl's mother is said to be entertaining guests at home, and her consent would be needed to treat Donna at the hospital.
At Rampart, the driver's wife, Mrs. Thompson (Coleen Gray), is informed that he's suffering from a cerebral hemorrhage, and that the next several days will tell. Cut to Brackett and Morton getting back to work on Pierce (the abruptness possibly owing to syndication editing). Things take a turn for the worse, and while Early tries to tell Brackett in the hall that Thompson's going to make it, Brackett's focused on having to give Frankie the news about his father.
Leaving the hospital, Morgan threatens to sue. Donna's mother (Marian Collier) shows up to yell at her recovered daughter. At the station, as the paramedics go off duty, we learn that Johnny lost at his own game.
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Mission: Impossible
"Trapped"
Originally aired February 26, 1972
Season finale
The opening scene is of the heist, pulled off by men in uniform in a military warehouse in Southeast Asia.
At the briefing, Casey demonstrates her Piano Woman skills, her role being to resemble an old flame of Doug's whom he's fixated with. Jim and Willy hijack the truck of Art's brother-in-law, Ed Fenton (Bob Golden). Meanwhile, at stately Stafford Manor (yes, they're using that exterior again), Art and Doug fight over this in front of their wheelchair-bound father, Joe...establishing a rift between the brothers over Doug's drinking, womanizing ways since losing the old flame. Jim and Barney visit the Staffords to let them know they've got Ed and the van, and want to horn in on their operation. Jim meets Doug at a club to talk with him about preemptively hitting Art, while the bartender, Al (Walter Barnes), reports this meeting to Art. Casey goes on as the club's singer, getting Doug's attention, and he chats her up at a table afterward. The waitress, Annette (Sharon Acker), takes Casey aside and tries to warn her about Doug's abusive nature. After Jim leaves, Art's henchman Broyles (Rudy Solari) tries to put the hit on him. Jim falls from a fire escape stairway in an exchange of fire and hits his head on a wall. He wanders around, a false ID he's carrying for his role as Tim Rayburn being his only clue to his identity. (This all seems very similar to Barney's recent impairment complication, from a gunshot grazing his head IIRC.)
Doug goes to Casey's place, makes moves on her, and forcefully insists that she wear something blue. (Casey later describes this as "kinky".) She signals Barney, who makes a call that Doug answers to hear the fake voice of Art (via an IMF actor on tape) asking for her; his suspicions are supported by Casey having a framed photo of Art. He confronts her about this just before his drugged drink knocks him out. Willy comes in to shoot him up with something; when he wakes up, Willy comes back in toting a gun and giving the impression that he's working for Art, and Casey fake-knocks Willy out with a statuette from behind. Doug resolves to deal with his brother preemptively.
Meanwhile, Jim stumbles by the club and remembers Casey singing. He stumbles in and asks Annette questions when she recognizes him, and Al calls in the white-haired guy sighting to Al. Annette takes Jim to her place--You go, Concussion Jim!
Doug pays Barney a visit looking for Jim and negotiates their organization's help in offing Al and taking over the family business. Jim sees a matchbook for the hotel they're staying at and calls the desk asking about it; Barney and Doug are in the lobby at the time and Barney grabs the phone, but it's too late. Doug takes Barney to the airport or bus depot locker where he's got emeralds stashed, and plainclothes men surround him. Art pops in, is tackled by Willy, and is questioned about Jim's whereabouts. After tracking Jim down and finding out that Art's sent Broyles and Unnamed Stooge to hit Jim, Barney calls Annette's place and, eventually getting Jim on the phone, jogs his memory by repeating familiar names, including ones specific to the episode--but no former IMFers, alas...or mention of secretaries, disavowals, smoking tapes, or conventional law enforcement agencies. This nevertheless ends up doing the trick, and Jim whips out his stunt double in time to successfully take on Art's goons when they arrive. Cue the M:A theme.
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50th Anniversary Viewing (Part 2)
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All in the Family
"Edith the Judge"
Originally aired February 26, 1972
Wiki said:
After a beat of Mike and Gloria finding the place to themselves on a Sunday and starting to take advantage of the situation before Edith comes home (which is very similar to the opening scene of the pilots and first episode), Archie comes home from the launderette wanting to lock the doors and pretend that nobody's home, following an incident in which one of the machines broke down, ruining Archie's load. The proprietor, Joe Girgis (Jack Weston), comes by, and accuses Archie of having overloaded the machine. Archie defines Girgis by his "Ay-rab" ethnicity, though Girgis is a Methodist. There's a also a running gag of Girgis having a tendency to break down crying over just about anything, happy or sad. In a very lamely sitcomish manner, Girgis decides to let Edith judge the situation based on her honesty. Edith takes her role very seriously, which includes making some more Perry Mason references...but abruptly tries to abstain when she learns that Archie weighed his load on the Bunkers' scale, and the difference from Girgis's estimate is five pounds. It turns out that Edith considers herself the guilty party, because she'd adjusted the bathroom scale down by five pounds for Archie's benefit.
Along the way, they couldn't pass up the opportunity to get in a gag about Archie having mixed his whites and his coloreds.
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The Mary Tyler Moore Show
"Some of My Best Friends Are Rhoda"
Originally aired February 26, 1972
Wiki said:
Mary meets Joanne Forbes (Mary Frann) when Joanne accidentally rear-ends Mary's car outside the apartment. Mary invites her in for coffee and the two learn that they're sorority sisters from different colleges. As Mary begins to spend more time with Joanne, playing tennis and such, she has to turn down and cancel dates with Rhoda. All the while, Joanne, who didn't want to go through her insurance company, continually puts off giving Mary a check. Things comes to a head when they need somebody for a doubles match at Joanne's country club, and it becomes clear that Joanne doesn't want to bring Rhoda there because she's Jewish. Mary briefly claims to be Jewish herself to gauge Joanne's reaction, and finds that it does make a difference. As Joanne makes excuses to leave, Mary insists upon getting her check.
In a cutaway to Rhoda's apartment, they use an exterior shot that focuses on a tower on the side of the house...maybe implicitly trying to retcon its location.
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Emergency!
"Dealer's Wild"
Originally aired February 26, 1972
Wiki said:
Squad 51 arrives at a small airport, with the plane being piloted by the boy, Frankie Pierce (Buddy Foster), circling overhead. Roy gets on the radio with him, asks about his father's condition, and has him apply oxygen. It turns out that there are no pilots readily available and that Roy has flying experience but is unlicensed, so he has the attendant get an owner's manual for that type of plane and tries to talk Frankie down, though he doesn't think that the boy's chances are good. Roy moves to the radio of a plane on the field so he can see the boy's plane. Things get tense as the nervous boy makes some mistakes, but Roy manages to ease him down into a rough landing. Mr. Pierce is taken to Rampart, where Brackett stabilizes him and tries to keep Frankie's spirits up, and later sees to it that a spare bed is found for the boy.
Then we get to the titular comical subplot; when Johnny complains about how he always loses games at the station because of ever-changing house rules, Roy suggests that he create his own game. The paramedics next respond to a call for an attempted suicide at an apartment. The super describes how tenant Dave Morgan (Lou Krugman) tried to slit his wrists and turned on the gas. He's taken to Rampart. Off-duty, Kell goes to Dixie's place to unwind with some wine. He unloads about how Pierce has a 50 percent chance of living to face a greatly reduced quality of life, and contrasts this situation with Morgan trying to take his own life.
Johnny's trying to explain the Beta Antares-style rules of his new game to Roy when the station gets a call for an overturned oil truck at a refinery. While the paramedics work to free the driver with their tools, the engine sprays the spilled oil. As the man is freed, the area around the truck is covered with foam. After the driver is taken to the ambulance in the parking lot, Johnny calls the man's condition in to Rampart, which causes Brackett to call for a skull X-ray when he's brought in.
At Rampart, we get the second beat of Johnny trying to approach a pretty nurse who won't talk to him--this appears to be set-up for the similarly titled next episode, complete with Johnny declaring, "Wait 'til next time." Back at the station, Johnny's starting his game with the Usual Firemen when Squad 51 gets a call. The paramedics find a young woman apparently suffering a trip outside a home. She's identified by neighbors as Donna Melvin (Susan Madigan), but none of the onlookers want to answer questions about what she might have taken. The girl's mother is said to be entertaining guests at home, and her consent would be needed to treat Donna at the hospital.
At Rampart, the driver's wife, Mrs. Thompson (Coleen Gray), is informed that he's suffering from a cerebral hemorrhage, and that the next several days will tell. Cut to Brackett and Morton getting back to work on Pierce (the abruptness possibly owing to syndication editing). Things take a turn for the worse, and while Early tries to tell Brackett in the hall that Thompson's going to make it, Brackett's focused on having to give Frankie the news about his father.
Leaving the hospital, Morgan threatens to sue. Donna's mother (Marian Collier) shows up to yell at her recovered daughter. At the station, as the paramedics go off duty, we learn that Johnny lost at his own game.
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Mission: Impossible
"Trapped"
Originally aired February 26, 1972
Season finale
Wiki said:
The opening scene is of the heist, pulled off by men in uniform in a military warehouse in Southeast Asia.
The miniature reel-to-reel tape in a life guard station said:
At the briefing, Casey demonstrates her Piano Woman skills, her role being to resemble an old flame of Doug's whom he's fixated with. Jim and Willy hijack the truck of Art's brother-in-law, Ed Fenton (Bob Golden). Meanwhile, at stately Stafford Manor (yes, they're using that exterior again), Art and Doug fight over this in front of their wheelchair-bound father, Joe...establishing a rift between the brothers over Doug's drinking, womanizing ways since losing the old flame. Jim and Barney visit the Staffords to let them know they've got Ed and the van, and want to horn in on their operation. Jim meets Doug at a club to talk with him about preemptively hitting Art, while the bartender, Al (Walter Barnes), reports this meeting to Art. Casey goes on as the club's singer, getting Doug's attention, and he chats her up at a table afterward. The waitress, Annette (Sharon Acker), takes Casey aside and tries to warn her about Doug's abusive nature. After Jim leaves, Art's henchman Broyles (Rudy Solari) tries to put the hit on him. Jim falls from a fire escape stairway in an exchange of fire and hits his head on a wall. He wanders around, a false ID he's carrying for his role as Tim Rayburn being his only clue to his identity. (This all seems very similar to Barney's recent impairment complication, from a gunshot grazing his head IIRC.)
Doug goes to Casey's place, makes moves on her, and forcefully insists that she wear something blue. (Casey later describes this as "kinky".) She signals Barney, who makes a call that Doug answers to hear the fake voice of Art (via an IMF actor on tape) asking for her; his suspicions are supported by Casey having a framed photo of Art. He confronts her about this just before his drugged drink knocks him out. Willy comes in to shoot him up with something; when he wakes up, Willy comes back in toting a gun and giving the impression that he's working for Art, and Casey fake-knocks Willy out with a statuette from behind. Doug resolves to deal with his brother preemptively.
Meanwhile, Jim stumbles by the club and remembers Casey singing. He stumbles in and asks Annette questions when she recognizes him, and Al calls in the white-haired guy sighting to Al. Annette takes Jim to her place--You go, Concussion Jim!
Doug pays Barney a visit looking for Jim and negotiates their organization's help in offing Al and taking over the family business. Jim sees a matchbook for the hotel they're staying at and calls the desk asking about it; Barney and Doug are in the lobby at the time and Barney grabs the phone, but it's too late. Doug takes Barney to the airport or bus depot locker where he's got emeralds stashed, and plainclothes men surround him. Art pops in, is tackled by Willy, and is questioned about Jim's whereabouts. After tracking Jim down and finding out that Art's sent Broyles and Unnamed Stooge to hit Jim, Barney calls Annette's place and, eventually getting Jim on the phone, jogs his memory by repeating familiar names, including ones specific to the episode--but no former IMFers, alas...or mention of secretaries, disavowals, smoking tapes, or conventional law enforcement agencies. This nevertheless ends up doing the trick, and Jim whips out his stunt double in time to successfully take on Art's goons when they arrive. Cue the M:A theme._______
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Mitchell Ryan has passed on. He enjoyed a very lengthy, diverse career, but fantasy media fans will remember him as the original (and best) Burke Devlin on Dark Shadows, and Riker's father on Star Trek: The Next Generation.
I'll always cherish this...
And I'm back on the grid. Comcast sucks, by the way.
I wonder how local affiliates dealt with that one.
This was great. I saw it when it first came to Boston and it was almost certainly the first play I ever saw. I remember being surprised at the very minimalist sets.
Wow, that is remarkable.
Also remarkable. I didn't think such a thing was possible.
I don't remember this one. It sounds... er... very retro.
I forgot about this one. It used to get a fair amount of airplay. Nice.
Same here. Good one.
Make that three. That's also a very cool video.
"Old Mix is now serving a life sentence at the state penitentiary without chance of parole."
Even armed home invaders can sense Edith's purity of spirit.
Nice. Did Girgis let her off the hook?
Now that's a good use of the term.
Bob's second wife.
That's pretty heavy for MTM.
I'm not fooled for a second. The laws of time and space are being violated here.
Having coached people over the phone with their computers, the thought of doing it with someone in a plane gives me chills.
So are these two an item, or just Kirk and McCoy?
And this is the sort of thing that leads many health care providers to rely too much on wine.
Which eventually comes to be known as Fizbin.
Must be a Sox fan.
That seems odd. Emergency treatment doesn't require consent.
This all has kind of a Dragnet feel to it. Probably they all do, but this one really struck me.
Wow, the IMF team will have to renew their passports.
That's got to be somebody's house.
Overpopulation Planet Lady, among a zillion others (no pun intended).
In this case it seems to add nothing to the plot, except spice for the season finale.
Depends on what the "something" was.
Seriously. I would have gotten Gage and DeSoto.Annette takes Jim to her place--You go, Concussion Jim!
"Conventional Law Enforcement. Get your hands up, or whatever."
"How about Brenda and the Tabulations? Remember them?"
That would have been cool to mention Rollin and Cinnamon at that point.
As I said, the amnesia element doesn't seem to have added much at all.
Ah, that's sad. He had a good run at 88 years, and a great career, but it can't help but be sad still.
What th--??
50 Years Ago This Week
March 5 – Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis leaves the Greek Communist Party.
March 6 – United States immigration authorities revoked the visa of John Lennon.
March 7
March 8
March 10 – Broadcaster Larry King was cleared of charges of grand larceny that had been brought by a former business partner. His arrest in December 1971 nearly ruined his career, and King would work at various radio jobs before getting a nationally syndicated talk show in 1978. In 1985, he would launch Larry King Live on CNN.
March 11 – Carnival Cruise Lines made its very first voyage, as the Mardi Gras departed Miami for an 8-day cruise ... and ran aground on a sandbar. The 530 passengers, most of whom were travel agents and their families, continued to enjoy themselves until tugboats dislodged the ship the next day, and the new company received national publicity from the incident.
Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week:
Leaving the chart:
New on the chart:
"Taxi," Harry Chapin
(#24 US)
"Give Ireland Back to the Irish," Wings
(#21 US; #16 UK despite being banned)
"Rockin' Robin," Michael Jackson
(#2 US; #2 R&B; #3 UK)
"The Candy Man," Sammy Davis, Jr. w/ The Mike Curb Congregation
(#1 US the weeks of June 10 through 24, 1972; #1 AC)
And new on the boob tube:
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Timeline entries are quoted from the Wiki pages for the month or year.
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March 5 – Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis leaves the Greek Communist Party.
March 6 – United States immigration authorities revoked the visa of John Lennon.
March 7
- TWA Flight 7 was half an hour into its flight from New York to Los Angeles when the airline's officials were notified that it had a time bomb on board. The plane landed back at JFK at 12:10 pm. A trained German shepherd named "Brandy" sniffed out the explosive, found in an attache case in the cockpit. With five pounds of C4, the device would have destroyed the Boeing 707, with 52 on board, in midflight at 1:00 pm. Police defused the explosive with 12 minutes to spare.
- Federal Express was granted an FAA Operating Certificate by the Federal Aviation Administration, permitting it to operate jet service to deliver packages.
March 8
- As the extortion plot against Trans World Airlines continued, a C4 packed time bomb was found on a second Boeing 707. Hidden in a bathroom, the bomb exploded at 3:55 a.m. while the jet sat, unoccupied, at the airport in Las Vegas. Two searches had failed to detect the explosive. The plane had arrived seven hours earlier from New York. The plotters had warned TWA about bombs on four separate flights, and had demanded a $2,000,000 ransom.
- The highest recorded speed for a gust of wind was measured at 207 m.p.h. during a storm at Thule Air Base in Greenland.
March 10 – Broadcaster Larry King was cleared of charges of grand larceny that had been brought by a former business partner. His arrest in December 1971 nearly ruined his career, and King would work at various radio jobs before getting a nationally syndicated talk show in 1978. In 1985, he would launch Larry King Live on CNN.
March 11 – Carnival Cruise Lines made its very first voyage, as the Mardi Gras departed Miami for an 8-day cruise ... and ran aground on a sandbar. The 530 passengers, most of whom were travel agents and their families, continued to enjoy themselves until tugboats dislodged the ship the next day, and the new company received national publicity from the incident.
Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week:
Leaving the chart:
- "Anticipation," Carly Simon (13 weeks)
- "Day After Day," Badfinger (14 weeks)
- "Feeling Alright," Joe Cocker (9 weeks this run; 15 weeks total)
- "Fire and Water," Wilson Pickett (11 weeks)
- "Stay with Me," Faces (10 weeks)
New on the chart:
"Taxi," Harry Chapin
(#24 US)
"Give Ireland Back to the Irish," Wings
(#21 US; #16 UK despite being banned)
"Rockin' Robin," Michael Jackson
(#2 US; #2 R&B; #3 UK)
"The Candy Man," Sammy Davis, Jr. w/ The Mike Curb Congregation
(#1 US the weeks of June 10 through 24, 1972; #1 AC)
And new on the boob tube:
- Hawaii Five-O, "R & R & R" (season finale)
- Adam-12, "Eyewitness"
- The Brady Bunch, "The Fender Benders" (season finale)
- The Partridge Family, "All's War in Love and Fairs"
- All in the Family, "Maude" (season finale)
- Emergency!, "Publicity Hound"
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Timeline entries are quoted from the Wiki pages for the month or year.
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[Cue John Sebastian.]
I think a group came and did it at my elementary school. It was a Peanuts play, I assume that one.
Like a previous decade? Definitely no later than the earliest parts of the then-current one.
See? They did play the Buckinghams in Boston. Definitely an enjoyable oldies radio staple.
Perhaps their last stone-cold classic.
Another oldies radio staple, and good referencing of other current artists and recent numbers.
He cried because she'd restored his faith in human nature, but still planned to send them the bill.
Hadn't realized that.
Seems like they're trying to fit in with their timeslot buddy AITF.
They play it like they're an item, but he won't commit.
Nope, they stayed in L.A.
I find that hard to believe.
A complication; they seem bigger on those these days.
Or even Paris, Dana, or their Doug.
That was sent to me via TREK_GOD_1 back when I was reviewing Dark Shadows.What th--??
Retro TV....
I want to watch cartoons from the 90s like 'Turtles' and 'Biker Mice From Mars'.
I want to watch cartoons from the 90s like 'Turtles' and 'Biker Mice From Mars'.
Since we're at the end of the sixth season and soon starting the seventh season of 'Mission: Impossible', I'll get the ball rolling with a little trivia.
At the end of the sixth season, Lynda Day George announced she was pregnant. After reduced roles in the first four episodes produced where she is seen mostly in close-up, or impersonating someone else, Lynda took a ten-week maternity leave. Her absence being explained as Casey being sent on assignment in Europe by 'The Secretary'.
The first seven 'M:I' episodes without Lynda were filled by Barbara Anderson, late of 'Ironside'. Barbara had left the series for marriage and to start a family. When neither happened right away, she called her agent asking for work. Two weeks later she was hired for 'M:I'. Initially slated for only one episode, Barbara was eventually called back, appearing in seven of the ten episodes sans Lynda because, according to producer Barry Crane, she was the best actress for the role.
Also, between the end of the sixth season and the start of the seventh, Greg Morris grew a mustache, because, as Greg explained, 'I grew my first mustache at the age of thirteen or fourteen, then shaved it off when I got in the business.'
It went over well with the cast and crew, but one female fan said he looked handsomer without the mustache, so he shaved it off again.
If the 'M:I' episodes were being watched in production order, instead of broadcast order, Greg's mustache appears in the first four episodes filmed.
At the end of the sixth season, Lynda Day George announced she was pregnant. After reduced roles in the first four episodes produced where she is seen mostly in close-up, or impersonating someone else, Lynda took a ten-week maternity leave. Her absence being explained as Casey being sent on assignment in Europe by 'The Secretary'.
The first seven 'M:I' episodes without Lynda were filled by Barbara Anderson, late of 'Ironside'. Barbara had left the series for marriage and to start a family. When neither happened right away, she called her agent asking for work. Two weeks later she was hired for 'M:I'. Initially slated for only one episode, Barbara was eventually called back, appearing in seven of the ten episodes sans Lynda because, according to producer Barry Crane, she was the best actress for the role.
Also, between the end of the sixth season and the start of the seventh, Greg Morris grew a mustache, because, as Greg explained, 'I grew my first mustache at the age of thirteen or fourteen, then shaved it off when I got in the business.'
It went over well with the cast and crew, but one female fan said he looked handsomer without the mustache, so he shaved it off again.
If the 'M:I' episodes were being watched in production order, instead of broadcast order, Greg's mustache appears in the first four episodes filmed.
Time to step up security, guys.
Another exciting movie moment.
Stone-cold Classic. We won't talk about "Sequel."
A very polite protest song.
Ah, young Michael. Sounds like the 50s, obviously, but it suits him.
Good one, though it seems mostly forgotten now. I recall a lot of people assuming that it was a metaphor for selling drugs to kids.
As we know, that all kind of blurs together for me.
They definitely played this one, yeah.
It will be interesting to see if anything else like that comes up. I don't recall the show being especially topical.
I think they've been grounded. Maybe Phelps chose not to accept an assignment.
Actually true in this case-- I noticed it while proofreading.
True.
Ahh, okay.
Burn! Or... afterburn.Lucky for them that the Air Force had started using a Navy fighter!
I think the only cartoon I'd like to see again that isn't on DVD is QT Hush, which is about as obscure as it gets.
I wonder if she got her own tape.
Must have been a great fan.
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50th Anniversary Viewing (Part 1)
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Hawaii Five-O
"Follow the White Brick Road"
Originally aired February 29, 1972
The episode bears an acknowledgment to "the assistance of the Department of Defense and the United States Navy," displayed prominently upon the return after the opening credits. Real-life Navy admiral Joseph McGoldrick plays Admiral Sample, who briefs Steve and the Governor.
The episode opens with sailor Albert Woodley (Stephen Matthews) being chased in the streets by plainclothes investigators. Woodley gets away in a cab and proceeds to a tattoo parlor, where he delivers a block of smack. After leaving, Woodly collapses dead in the street; his distinctive tattoo is considered a clue. Danny's put aboard his ship, the USS John Haskell (USS Whipple, FF-1062), as a medical corpsman while the frigate is four days out from Pearl so he can work closely with the Navy's undercover man there, Chief Hospital Corpsman Franklyn (Charles Gilbert).
Back on the island, Steve and Kono track down the tattoo artist, John Surigao (Moki Palacio), and question him about Woodley. He feigns ignorance, but Steve considers him a person of interest. On the ship, a desperate Art Salton (Mark Jenkins) approaches Damage Controlman 3C John Dillon (David Birney) about getting a fix, having been referred to him by Woodley. Dillon plays it cool, but ultimately agrees to a deal. Danno later catches Salton--unable to hold out until the arranged time--trying to break into the dispensary. Danno openly fingers him as an addict, and gives him a chance to turn himself in via an exemption program that will help him kick his habit without a court martial. Salton goes back to Dillon, telling him what he plans to do and wanting his down payment back. Dillon gives him his money, but persuades him to wait to kick his habit and turn himself in until after they get to Pearl, on the basis that Art won't be able to hold on for four days without proper treatment...and offers him something to hold him over in the meantime. Art is later found in a coma.
Doc Bergman determines that Woodley was killed by a rare plant-based alkaloid that can kill through skin contact with only a trace amount. Che finds a noteworthy compound under Woodley's fingernails that Steve thinks may indicate his contraband hiding place on the ship. The compound is determined to be a chemical that's used in fire extinguisher packing. Steve subsequently dons his uniform to be ferried out to the Haskell, and has the captain run a drill so Danno and Chief Franklyn have a chance to run around below decks checking the extinguishers. Danno finds a brick in one of them and plants a hidden camera in nearby first aid box.
The ship arrives at Pearl as Five-O and Claude Wells of Navy Investigative Service (Ken J. Mitchell) stake out the dock and the camera is monitored. Dillon--a chief suspect because he maintains the extinguishers--disembarks like the other sailors, without stopping at the stashing place. Then everyone's interest is raised when a harbor maintenance man (future Angel-watcher David Doyle) boards and makes the pickup. He's caught and leaned on to cooperate, proceeding to make his drop as Steve and Danno tail him first to a bus depot locker, then to plant the key in a hotel restroom. Dillon visits the restroom, picks up the brick, and is tailed as he makes a call at the tattoo parlor. He's nabbed outside afterward with his payment, and Surigao is chased down trying to escape. The episode ends on the sober note of Danno learning from Wells that Art Salton has died.
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Adam-12
"Who Won?"
Originally aired March 1, 1972
The officers get a call from Mac that some drag-racing kids they've tried to come to terms with are at it again. They and Wells bust the kids. In a conversation with dragsters Spider Watson (Murray MacLeod), Fat Charlie (Neil Moran), and Donny Simmons (Jerome M. Sheldon), we learn that Malloy and Reed have been trying to get them organized with access to a proper racetrack; the officers believe that Fat Charlie is against this plan because he profits from setting up the illegal races. With Spider's help, Reed's working on getting an old junker race-ready so he can participate. Spider accompanies the off-duty officers to the office of racetrack runner J. Benson (Dick Clark), who remains skeptical about the proposition for various reasons, including rowdy behavior in the surrounding neighborhood and safety requirements.
Back on patrol, dispatch okays a plot-serving seven for the officers to drop by the track to see how things are going with the racers getting their act together there. Wells, who's been ribbing his fellow officers for playing social worker, has agreed to race Reed in his younger brother's car. At the location for the safety checks, there's tension between Spider and Wells over the latter's enjoyment of busting the racers. Benson arrives to inform everyone that the first race has to be delayed because somebody broke into the timing tower and stole the equipment therein. Fat Charlie tries to convince the other racers that Benson's stiffing them.
Spider later calls the officers at the station to tip them off that Fat Charlie's set up a drag, threatening to blow the whole deal. Benson's present because the race is on his block, and declares that the deal is off. Spider and Donny try to convince them that Charlie did this specifically to sabotage the deal. Malloy drives up with Charlie under arrest, having found chain cutters in Charlie's car and the timing tower's equipment in his garage.
The track race proceeds, and Benson is impressed with the kids' organization. The "grudge match" between Wells and Reed is announced, and Spider has to loan Wells a helmet. Wells's car stalls on him at the starting line, making it an easy win for Jim, while the announcer ribs the loser over the loudspeaker.
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The Brady Bunch
"My Fair Opponent"
Originally aired March 3, 1972
Marcia comes home in a demonstrably foul mood over Molly having been nominated so she could be humiliated from being put up against Sally Hobert, the most popular girl in the class. Something Alice says reminds Marcia of My Fair Lady, which gives her the idea of helping to coach Molly in overcoming her awkward shyness and presenting herself better. When Marcia's done, everyone in the Brady home is dumbstruck by the change in Molly. Marcia comes home from school to report that Molly's makeover is a success at school, but now Sally has dropped out, and because of the way the competition works, Marcia has been promoted to the position of competing nominee.
Marcia's torn between possibly crushing Molly and wanting to be hostess. She decides to drop out, but then learns that the guest of honor, who'll escort the hostess, will be astronaut Colonel Dick Whitfield, who's said to be slated for an upcoming lunar mission. Furthermore, Marcia's ire is raised when the now swell-headed Molly asserts that Marcia wouldn't have won, motivating Marcia to beat her.
The girls present themselves before the committee, led by Mr. Watkins (Lindsay Workman). He announces that Molly won based on her speech, which Marcia helped to write. Molly comes by the house afterward to apologize for how she's behaved, and brings Col. Whitfield (William Wellman Jr.) with her to announce that after Molly told Watkins about everything Marcia did to help her, it was decided to allow the girls to be co-hostesses. Marcia comes home afterward on cloud nine after having danced with Col. Whitfield, boasting of how many times she stepped on his feet.
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The Partridge Family
"The Partridge Papers"
Originally aired March 3, 1972
The teaser's been cut, so we come back from the credits with Laurie upset that Danny gave away the wrong shoebox, the one that she hid her diary in. She recruits Keith and Danny to switch shoeboxes at the school newspaper office, but they fail offscreen. After failing to convince the editor, Marvin, to give the diary back to her, Laurie recruits the guys again, this time to help her break in after hours and steal the diary. They send the adults and smaller kids on a wild goose chase shopping errand to have the place to themselves, though Shirley sees through it.
Meanwhile, Marvin (Bruce Kimmel) pays a visit to the Partridge home looking for Laurie and has a talk with Shirley, who sees that his hostility toward Laurie is a cover for having feelings for her; and he admits to having kept the diary as a way of holding her attention. They go to the newspaper office to pick up the diary while the kids try to hide, but one of them accidentally kicks Danny's leg under a table and set off his tape player. After a bit of scolding for her kids, Shirley nudges Marvin to tell Laurie how he feels about her. Cut to the group at a gig performing "It's One of Those Nights (Yes Love)," while Marvin watches admiringly in the audience.
In the coda, Laurie uses a love letter from a girlfriend as leverage to stop Keith from reading her diary to the family.
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So...it's a bit soon to give definite details, but I'm planning a move to a neighboring town sometime in April. Last I checked, Comcast wasn't available there, which means that anniversary viewing business will take a massive hit, as I'll lose everything I've been saving on DVR. 50th anniversary viewing can continue with at least the four shows I've been watching on Paramount Plus (sans the missing episodes for the sitcoms) and AITF, which I've been buying. We'll see what my other options are with whatever service I end up getting. 55th anniversary hiatus viewing is pretty much out the window, as that was all on DVR.
The lemonade here is that I should have more time for things like album reviews and working in Dark Shadows, provided it remains available on Pluto TV. The show I'm most sore about losing is Mod Squad--I've been recording it from MeTV+ and was planning to catch up on as much as I could during the hiatus before including its fifth and final season in next season's 50th anniversary viewing.
50th Anniversary Viewing (Part 1)
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Hawaii Five-O
"Follow the White Brick Road"
Originally aired February 29, 1972
Wiki said:
The episode bears an acknowledgment to "the assistance of the Department of Defense and the United States Navy," displayed prominently upon the return after the opening credits. Real-life Navy admiral Joseph McGoldrick plays Admiral Sample, who briefs Steve and the Governor.
The episode opens with sailor Albert Woodley (Stephen Matthews) being chased in the streets by plainclothes investigators. Woodley gets away in a cab and proceeds to a tattoo parlor, where he delivers a block of smack. After leaving, Woodly collapses dead in the street; his distinctive tattoo is considered a clue. Danny's put aboard his ship, the USS John Haskell (USS Whipple, FF-1062), as a medical corpsman while the frigate is four days out from Pearl so he can work closely with the Navy's undercover man there, Chief Hospital Corpsman Franklyn (Charles Gilbert).
Back on the island, Steve and Kono track down the tattoo artist, John Surigao (Moki Palacio), and question him about Woodley. He feigns ignorance, but Steve considers him a person of interest. On the ship, a desperate Art Salton (Mark Jenkins) approaches Damage Controlman 3C John Dillon (David Birney) about getting a fix, having been referred to him by Woodley. Dillon plays it cool, but ultimately agrees to a deal. Danno later catches Salton--unable to hold out until the arranged time--trying to break into the dispensary. Danno openly fingers him as an addict, and gives him a chance to turn himself in via an exemption program that will help him kick his habit without a court martial. Salton goes back to Dillon, telling him what he plans to do and wanting his down payment back. Dillon gives him his money, but persuades him to wait to kick his habit and turn himself in until after they get to Pearl, on the basis that Art won't be able to hold on for four days without proper treatment...and offers him something to hold him over in the meantime. Art is later found in a coma.
Doc Bergman determines that Woodley was killed by a rare plant-based alkaloid that can kill through skin contact with only a trace amount. Che finds a noteworthy compound under Woodley's fingernails that Steve thinks may indicate his contraband hiding place on the ship. The compound is determined to be a chemical that's used in fire extinguisher packing. Steve subsequently dons his uniform to be ferried out to the Haskell, and has the captain run a drill so Danno and Chief Franklyn have a chance to run around below decks checking the extinguishers. Danno finds a brick in one of them and plants a hidden camera in nearby first aid box.
The ship arrives at Pearl as Five-O and Claude Wells of Navy Investigative Service (Ken J. Mitchell) stake out the dock and the camera is monitored. Dillon--a chief suspect because he maintains the extinguishers--disembarks like the other sailors, without stopping at the stashing place. Then everyone's interest is raised when a harbor maintenance man (future Angel-watcher David Doyle) boards and makes the pickup. He's caught and leaned on to cooperate, proceeding to make his drop as Steve and Danno tail him first to a bus depot locker, then to plant the key in a hotel restroom. Dillon visits the restroom, picks up the brick, and is tailed as he makes a call at the tattoo parlor. He's nabbed outside afterward with his payment, and Surigao is chased down trying to escape. The episode ends on the sober note of Danno learning from Wells that Art Salton has died.
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Adam-12
"Who Won?"
Originally aired March 1, 1972
Wiki said:
The officers get a call from Mac that some drag-racing kids they've tried to come to terms with are at it again. They and Wells bust the kids. In a conversation with dragsters Spider Watson (Murray MacLeod), Fat Charlie (Neil Moran), and Donny Simmons (Jerome M. Sheldon), we learn that Malloy and Reed have been trying to get them organized with access to a proper racetrack; the officers believe that Fat Charlie is against this plan because he profits from setting up the illegal races. With Spider's help, Reed's working on getting an old junker race-ready so he can participate. Spider accompanies the off-duty officers to the office of racetrack runner J. Benson (Dick Clark), who remains skeptical about the proposition for various reasons, including rowdy behavior in the surrounding neighborhood and safety requirements.
Back on patrol, dispatch okays a plot-serving seven for the officers to drop by the track to see how things are going with the racers getting their act together there. Wells, who's been ribbing his fellow officers for playing social worker, has agreed to race Reed in his younger brother's car. At the location for the safety checks, there's tension between Spider and Wells over the latter's enjoyment of busting the racers. Benson arrives to inform everyone that the first race has to be delayed because somebody broke into the timing tower and stole the equipment therein. Fat Charlie tries to convince the other racers that Benson's stiffing them.
Spider later calls the officers at the station to tip them off that Fat Charlie's set up a drag, threatening to blow the whole deal. Benson's present because the race is on his block, and declares that the deal is off. Spider and Donny try to convince them that Charlie did this specifically to sabotage the deal. Malloy drives up with Charlie under arrest, having found chain cutters in Charlie's car and the timing tower's equipment in his garage.
The track race proceeds, and Benson is impressed with the kids' organization. The "grudge match" between Wells and Reed is announced, and Spider has to loan Wells a helmet. Wells's car stalls on him at the starting line, making it an easy win for Jim, while the announcer ribs the loser over the loudspeaker.
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The Brady Bunch
"My Fair Opponent"
Originally aired March 3, 1972
Wiki said:
Marcia comes home in a demonstrably foul mood over Molly having been nominated so she could be humiliated from being put up against Sally Hobert, the most popular girl in the class. Something Alice says reminds Marcia of My Fair Lady, which gives her the idea of helping to coach Molly in overcoming her awkward shyness and presenting herself better. When Marcia's done, everyone in the Brady home is dumbstruck by the change in Molly. Marcia comes home from school to report that Molly's makeover is a success at school, but now Sally has dropped out, and because of the way the competition works, Marcia has been promoted to the position of competing nominee.
Marcia's torn between possibly crushing Molly and wanting to be hostess. She decides to drop out, but then learns that the guest of honor, who'll escort the hostess, will be astronaut Colonel Dick Whitfield, who's said to be slated for an upcoming lunar mission. Furthermore, Marcia's ire is raised when the now swell-headed Molly asserts that Marcia wouldn't have won, motivating Marcia to beat her.
The girls present themselves before the committee, led by Mr. Watkins (Lindsay Workman). He announces that Molly won based on her speech, which Marcia helped to write. Molly comes by the house afterward to apologize for how she's behaved, and brings Col. Whitfield (William Wellman Jr.) with her to announce that after Molly told Watkins about everything Marcia did to help her, it was decided to allow the girls to be co-hostesses. Marcia comes home afterward on cloud nine after having danced with Col. Whitfield, boasting of how many times she stepped on his feet.
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The Partridge Family
"The Partridge Papers"
Originally aired March 3, 1972
Wiki said:
The teaser's been cut, so we come back from the credits with Laurie upset that Danny gave away the wrong shoebox, the one that she hid her diary in. She recruits Keith and Danny to switch shoeboxes at the school newspaper office, but they fail offscreen. After failing to convince the editor, Marvin, to give the diary back to her, Laurie recruits the guys again, this time to help her break in after hours and steal the diary. They send the adults and smaller kids on a wild goose chase shopping errand to have the place to themselves, though Shirley sees through it.
Keith tosses portraits of himself and Danny on the table at the appropriate moments; Laurie turns off the tape at that point. As the break-in commences, the music sends up M:I's as well. Once the kids are in, Laurie has to crawl through an air vent to get into the locked office, but ends up crawling back into the outer room through another vent. But Danny's found a key hanging on the wall in the meantime, so they commence to rummage through the office.The miniature reel-to-reel tape strapped to Danny's ankle said:
Meanwhile, Marvin (Bruce Kimmel) pays a visit to the Partridge home looking for Laurie and has a talk with Shirley, who sees that his hostility toward Laurie is a cover for having feelings for her; and he admits to having kept the diary as a way of holding her attention. They go to the newspaper office to pick up the diary while the kids try to hide, but one of them accidentally kicks Danny's leg under a table and set off his tape player. After a bit of scolding for her kids, Shirley nudges Marvin to tell Laurie how he feels about her. Cut to the group at a gig performing "It's One of Those Nights (Yes Love)," while Marvin watches admiringly in the audience.
In the coda, Laurie uses a love letter from a girlfriend as leverage to stop Keith from reading her diary to the family.
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I don't have this one, but was a vaguely familiar with it and figured it might be of interest. It kind of loses me.
Whaddya expect from Paul? This one was Wings' first single, and wasn't actually on the Wild Life album in the day, but has been included as a bonus track in the digital age.
Michael will always beat Donny, but this one strikes me as Michael competing down on Donny's level.
Well, it didn't get airplay on rock/pop-oriented oldies radio...but it was very much out and about in my early childhood, which informed my decision to go ahead and get this despite it not being in my usual wheelhouse.
It's Sammy Davis, Jr., ya damn hippies!
Alas, we may not see here.
Disavowed! Guy on Tape is just keeping him busy!I think they've been grounded. Maybe Phelps chose not to accept an assignment.
For context, I'd been routinely ragging on the Devlin character while Ryan was playing him; but I found his replacement to be completely underwhelming, and opined that I was starting to appreciate what Ryan had brought to the role.Ahh, okay.
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So...it's a bit soon to give definite details, but I'm planning a move to a neighboring town sometime in April. Last I checked, Comcast wasn't available there, which means that anniversary viewing business will take a massive hit, as I'll lose everything I've been saving on DVR. 50th anniversary viewing can continue with at least the four shows I've been watching on Paramount Plus (sans the missing episodes for the sitcoms) and AITF, which I've been buying. We'll see what my other options are with whatever service I end up getting. 55th anniversary hiatus viewing is pretty much out the window, as that was all on DVR.
The lemonade here is that I should have more time for things like album reviews and working in Dark Shadows, provided it remains available on Pluto TV. The show I'm most sore about losing is Mod Squad--I've been recording it from MeTV+ and was planning to catch up on as much as I could during the hiatus before including its fifth and final season in next season's 50th anniversary viewing.
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I'm not familiar with where you live, but is it possible that your local library system has some of the TV shows you're currently watching?
I'm fortunate in that I straddle two different county library systems and they both offer pretty complete TV series available for check out for 30 days, and, if they don't have it, if you suggest it and there's demand, they try and procure a copy.
It's how I was able to get a couple of magazines ('Mojo' and 'Empire') on the shelves, as well as blu-ray copies of the latest 'Star Blazers 2199/2202'.
I'm not familiar with where you live, but is it possible that your local library system has some of the TV shows you're currently watching?
I'm fortunate in that I straddle two different county library systems and they both offer pretty complete TV series available for check out for 30 days, and, if they don't have it, if you suggest it and there's demand, they try and procure a copy.
It's how I was able to get a couple of magazines ('Mojo' and 'Empire') on the shelves, as well as blu-ray copies of the latest 'Star Blazers 2199/2202'.
Most libraries will have a dvd and blu-ray collection, and most will have ebook and media services as well. The main ones which my library has are Hoopla and Kanopy. Kanopy doesn't do television and when I checked Hoopla for some of the series that you are reviewing, I only found Route 66. If your new library doesn't have what you are looking for, they will probably have a purchase request option where you can ask them to buy a series for their collection, as DarrenTR1970 said. You can also request that they try to borrow items through Inter-Library Loan for you. We do that for our patrons at my library all of the time. I didn't look through WorldCat to see what was available, but I can, if you are interested.
One for the good title column.
This is interesting and I wonder how it came about. I can see the Navy wanting to support a Friday-style anti-drug PSA, but I can't see them backing a story that acknowledges drug rings operating in the service.
A popular character actor in WWII movies.
These guys got to have parties all the time on Seaview.
He loved Bridget.
There's the PSA.
Bad Decisionman 1-A.
I wonder what his status is. Reservist, probably. I wonder if wearing the uniform is a show of respect or showing off. Or maybe it's some kind of regulation.
Cool. He doesn't seem to pop up often.
A cautionary tale indeed.
Rebels, just because.
American Icon.
So many safety and insurance issues. It certainly wouldn't be possible these days.
That's why the show's about them and not you, jerk.
Charlie is no criminal mastermind.
Cop out. And I have a feeling that Wells's little brother got beat up that night.
Marcia's not the most popular girl in class?
"An upcoming lunar mission." Makes me wonder what the state of the Space Program is in the Bradyverse. They're probably much more advanced than we are.
Marcia seems to have an easily raisable ire.
That's several giant leaps for girlkind.
Because contacting the principal would be fruitless!
And burns it.
Wow, Laurie gets in on the action.
I'm sure she wasn't grossed out at all.
I wonder if that's how Phelps keeps his people in line.
Interesting. I thought it was huge everywhere.
He couldn't.
"Conventional law enforcement is not capable... snicker... of stopping the Chicken Run."
Congratulations. Hopefully this is a good move.
Aside from the suggestions from the other guys, I'm pretty sure there are ways of backing up files from a DVR to a regular drive. Probably not feasible in the real world, but I just thought I'd put it out there.
Sometimes things are available on YouTube. I found a couple of episodes of Get Christie Love on there, and there were those episodes of Twelve O'Clock High.
Maybe you can make a deal with whoever takes your house or apartment.
I think I'd be more interested in remote/digital options these days. Depending on what my new cable options are, I may look into cutting the cord as well.
Apparently it was a known issue they were looking to combat.
I think they've established that.
That's why the show's about them and not you, jerk.
The way it played was more like a performance issue, giving him a suitable comeuppance. Or were you being punny there?
Apparently she's second, just so she can compete for stuff.
How so? We were doing lunar missions then.
It was more like the guys were making her do all the work.
It should be a big and long overdue quality of life improvement; and I'm getting a good deal considering the rental market these days.
Maybe; I'd have to learn how, and might need equipment I don't have, and Xfinity may have the ports disabled. I'm willing to make a clean break at this point.
Heh. No, I just would have preferred to see Reed legitimately kick his butt. It would have been better for the character and the plot.
Something about the way it was phrased made it sound like the missions were more routine or more ambitious or something. I dunno.
I thought of something else that might be better, but not by much: VCRs and blank tapes are probably dirt cheap on eBay. Of course, that's an analog system so you'd have to play the episodes and run the tapes in real time to record.
With hundreds of hours of recordings? That would be all kinds ofI thought of something else that might be better, but not by much: VCRs and blank tapes are probably dirt cheap on eBay. Of course, that's an analog system so you'd have to play the episodes and run the tapes in real time to record.
! Before I moved to my current place, I threw out a garbage bag full of VHS tapes...mostly the ones I'd recorded Star Trek episodes on.
@The Old Mixer
If you're moving into a new house and are planning to 'cut the cord' as it were, there are several good outdoor HD antennas on the market.
When my aunt's old tube TV gave up the ghost a few years ago, she finally broke down and bought a flat screen TV along with an outdoor HD antenna.
We (I mean me), went outside and attached it to the chimney, then ran the cable down the outside of the house, through the wall and connected it to the TV.
It took a couple of tries at adjusting the antenna and scanning to get the best signal, but she ended up receiving all of the major networks along with their subsidiaries.
I would check online to see what over the air channels you get in your area and their signal strength. You'll need an omnidirectional antenna with at least a 75-100 mile range to get the best reception. Just remember, that as with the old antennas, bad weather can interfere with the signal. But it's a lot cheaper than cable/satellite.
If you're moving into a new house and are planning to 'cut the cord' as it were, there are several good outdoor HD antennas on the market.
When my aunt's old tube TV gave up the ghost a few years ago, she finally broke down and bought a flat screen TV along with an outdoor HD antenna.
We (I mean me), went outside and attached it to the chimney, then ran the cable down the outside of the house, through the wall and connected it to the TV.
It took a couple of tries at adjusting the antenna and scanning to get the best signal, but she ended up receiving all of the major networks along with their subsidiaries.
I would check online to see what over the air channels you get in your area and their signal strength. You'll need an omnidirectional antenna with at least a 75-100 mile range to get the best reception. Just remember, that as with the old antennas, bad weather can interfere with the signal. But it's a lot cheaper than cable/satellite.
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Yeah, I didn't think that would be workable.With hundreds of hours of recordings? That would be all kinds of
55 Years Ago This Week
March 12
March 13 – Moise Tshombe, ex-prime minister of Congo, is sentenced to death in absentia.
March 14
March 16
March 17 - The Grateful Dead debut their first album, The Grateful Dead.
March 18
Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week:
Leaving the chart:
Recent and new on the chart:
"Beggin'," The Four Seasons
(Mar. 4; #16 US)
"Friday on My Mind," The Easybeats
(#16 US; #6 UK)
"At the Zoo," Simon & Garfunkel
(#16 US)
"On a Carousel," The Hollies
(#11 US; #4 UK)
"Somethin' Stupid," Frank & Nancy Sinatra
(#1 US the weeks of Apr. 15 through May 6, 1967; #1 AC; #1 UK)
And new on the boob tube:
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March 12
- The Indonesian State Assembly takes all presidential powers from Sukarno and names Suharto as acting president (Suharto resigned in 1998).
- The Velvet Underground's first album, The Velvet Underground & Nico, is released in the United States. It is initially a commercial failure but receives widespread critical and commercial acclaim in later years.
March 13 – Moise Tshombe, ex-prime minister of Congo, is sentenced to death in absentia.
March 14
- The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy was moved, along with the bodies of two of his children who died in infancy, to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery, 20 feet from the site where he had been laid to rest on November 25, 1963.
- Nine executives of the German pharmaceutical company Grunenthal are charged for breaking German drug laws because of thalidomide.
March 16
- The first of two unexplained incidents happened at Malmstrom Air Force Base, near Great Falls, Montana, where the U.S. Air Force had missile silos for its Minuteman ICBMs. According to later accounts, crews in the areas had seen unidentified objects hovering near or over the silos of the Echo Flight section, and starting at 8:45, the launch facilities of ten missiles began going offline and inoperable. Eight days later, at the Oscar Flight section of Malmstrom AFB, another set of missiles went offline after a UFO was seen.
- In the ASPIDA case in Greece, 15 officers are sentenced to 2–18 years in prison, accused of treason and intentions of staging a coup.
March 17 - The Grateful Dead debut their first album, The Grateful Dead.
March 18
- The supertanker SS Torrey Canyon runs aground between Land's End and the Scilly Isles off the coast of Britain.
- The classic Pirates of the Caribbean attraction opens at Disneyland, California.
- The first demonstration of "slow motion instant replay" on television was shown to viewers of ABC Wide World of Sports who had tuned in to see the finals of the "World Series of Skiing" at Vail, Colorado. The repeating of the same scene at the original speed had been shown as early as December 7, 1963, but the Ampex HS-100 made it possible to slow down, freeze, or reverse the action for analysis by television commentators.
Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week:
Leaving the chart:
- "Green, Green Grass of Home," Tom Jones (12 weeks)
- "I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)," The Electric Prunes (14 weeks)
- "Let's Spend the Night Together," The Rolling Stones (8 weeks)
- "98.6," Keith (14 weeks)
- "Pretty Ballerina," The Left Banke (10 weeks)
- "So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star," The Byrds (7 weeks)
- "(We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet," The Blues Magoos (14 weeks)
Recent and new on the chart:
"Beggin'," The Four Seasons
(Mar. 4; #16 US)
"Friday on My Mind," The Easybeats
(#16 US; #6 UK)
"At the Zoo," Simon & Garfunkel
(#16 US)
"On a Carousel," The Hollies
(#11 US; #4 UK)
"Somethin' Stupid," Frank & Nancy Sinatra
(#1 US the weeks of Apr. 15 through May 6, 1967; #1 AC; #1 UK)
And new on the boob tube:
- The Ed Sullivan Show, Season 19, episode 27
- Gilligan's Island, "The Secret of Gilligan's Island"
- The Monkees, "Monkee Chow Mein"
- The Rat Patrol, "The Bring 'Em Back Alive Raid"
- The Invaders, "The Innocent"
- Batman, "Black Widow Strikes Again"
- Batman, "Caught in the Spider's Den"
- That Girl, "The Honeymoon Apartment"
- Dragnet 1967, "The Fur Burglary"
- The Green Hornet, "Invasion from Outer Space: Part 2" (series finale)
- The Wild Wild West, "The Night of the Deadly Blossom"
- Tarzan, "The Perils of Charity Jones: Part 2"
- The Time Tunnel, "Merlin the Magician"
- Hogan's Heroes, "The Tower"
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E., "The When in Roma Affair"
- The Avengers, "The Hidden Tiger"
- Mission: Impossible, "The Train"
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