Alright, this is a bit of a cheat. The album comes out November 72, but this instrumental wasn't released as a single until February 73. It's just too good to pass up. It's another "Hold my beer" moments.
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Alright, this is a bit of a cheat. The album comes out November 72, but this instrumental wasn't released as a single until February 73. It's just too good to pass up. It's another "Hold my beer" moments.
Well, that's an odd title.
I don't remember this episode at all. It's an oddly standard sitcom plot-- not even that, given the lack of conflict.
Again? They need to upgrade their plan to a better network.
I wonder how he knew.
Ubiquitous and lovable character actor.
Never engage in a battle of wills with Brackett.
Just an old country doctor, but he knows his stuff.
Okay, it's time to wonder how long he has been having these and not reporting them.
Which was probably the cause of the accident.
And to get him out of their hair. But they might want to consider a pacemaker or something for the guy.
Johnny don't get no respect.
I remember that.
A classic. Did it also include Sue Anne and Chuckles the Clown?
Read a book, Teach.
"Here, let me just mutilate your face and you'll be all set."
I think we knew that.
It seems like they've been trying to get back to a little international intrigue, despite their Mission: Untouchables restrictions.
It also seems like more IMFers are taking bullets this season.
You can't keep Willy down. Speaking of The Sweet.
That shows great foresight, considering that she left weeks ago.
Willy's got a good part in this one.
I think he's had enough drink for this mission.
Does anybody even know that Willy has been suffering from a gunshot wound through all this?
The IMFers cup their ears, waiting for the gunshot....
I wonder if anyone has ever tried it. Considering that people stow away in the wheel wells of airplanes, I wouldn't be surprised.
Maybe they should have explained that to him.
I generally take Squiggy's side when it comes to instrumentals, but this one is really top notch.
Maybe they're taking their cues from M:I.
There was conflict/tension...just not between Archie and Mike. Edith kicking Bobbi Jo out was the highlight of the episode...I want to say that Stapleton was earning her paycheck, but she always does.
It was in a dead zone.Again? They need to upgrade their plan to a better network.
Just came upon the scene, I think. Keep in mind there was a bright red paramedic truck parked by the side of the road.
The Joe Friday of emergency medicine, but with a bit more personal charm and big '70s sideburns.Never engage in a battle of wills with Brackett.
I snipped out the very end of the Wiki description because it misleadingly asserted that the hemorrhage was caused by alcoholism, which contradicted the whole point of that scene--the little girl's father assumed she was a drunk driver.
Hopefully on the cruise ship he wouldn't be playing toddler Kal-El trying to hold up a tractor, but I could see him diving in after a person overboard...
Sue Anne hasn't been invented yet, and seems to have a predecessor on the board named Mimi. Chuckles is on the board, and makes a cameo walking into Lou's office for a meeting at the end of the scene. You don't see him here because Lou is in the process of swapping the Six O'clock News into his time slot, but it's a good look at the board.A classic. Did it also include Sue Anne and Chuckles the Clown?
Yeah, I was thinking of commenting on that, but it's not the first time they've gone overseas to tackle the Syndicate.
She was in last week's episode! I think the reason they established that she'd be on "assignments" (plural) was to avoid the Substitute Artie effect when the episodes were inevitably aired out of production order. Which won't cover Barney's mustache also popping in and out of the show, though we've yet to see it reappear at this point.
They would've had an idea from what they overheard.
Jim [internally]: I feel so conflicted...normally I enjoy this sort of thing, but this time it's Willy...
"To heck with the escape, turn off the motor!"
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Happy 75th birthday to Brian Johnson of AC/DC. Since this this the Classic/Retro Pop Culture thread, and this is only a year removed from the time frame being discussed, here's Brian's first group, the glam-rock band Geordie
It does call into question whether or not Casey is the only one with mask making skills in the IMF, since there are upcoming episodes sans Casey where a character is required to wear a mask.
Did they schedule the missions in advance? "Okay Casey, we're going to need a mask of this guy for the week of October ninth and a couple of weeks after that, we'll need a mask of this guy. Get cracking before you're off to Europe."
She was amazing. It becomes really evident when you see her interviewed.
Very nearly.
Good point.
Hopefully he was appropriately chagrined-- although I shouldn't be too hard on a guy whose kid was just killed.
Good premise for a show: The Bad Samaritan.
Gilligan! And Edge of Evening-- a Soap Opera?
Seems like at least a couple of weeks in a row.
Seems like forever!
Ah, I didn't realize she was on plural assignments-- which makes even less sense, but is more convenient for the show.
"Doctor Hartley, I have a rather unique problem...."
Wow, Glam Rock to Heavy Metal-- judging from this, he did better with the Heavy Metal, I have to say.
That's what I was thinking. Does Jim obsessively monitor the intelligence feeds to anticipate the next assignment? The last guy wouldn't work weekends, but this one is on the clock 24/7.
I assume it’s a reference to the CBS soapEdge of Evening-- a Soap Opera?
The Edge of Night.
That's exactly what I was thinking. My Aunt Judy used to watch that religiously. "The Eddddge of Night...."
IIRC, there was an episode last season in which Barney created a mask during the mission.
Yeah, the difference is uncanny.
Pretty much the point of the revelation--Fridayesque downbeat.
The odd thing being that it's actually on in the evening, rather than the afternoon.Gilligan! And Edge of Evening-- a Soap Opera?
I don't think the previous week's episode had a Syndicate angle. I was thinking of the episode from last season when they were in the Alps or wherever with action in a tram car.
"Mmm-hmm...I see. And you say you do these things because the man on the self-destructing tapes tells you to...?"
That's what I figured.
They said Dallas invented the nighttime soap, but WJM did it first.
Oh, right, last week was domestic foreign intrigue.
In the last episode, Phelps wakes up in bed with Suzanne Pleshette....
50 Years Ago This Week
October 8
October 9
October 10
October 11
October 12
October 13
October 14
Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week:
Leaving the chart:
New on the chart:
"Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)," Jim Croce
(#17 US; #11 AC)
"Something's Wrong with Me," Austin Roberts
(#12 US; #16 AC)
"I'm Stone in Love with You," The Stylistics
(#10 US; #27 AC; #4 R&B; #9 UK)
"Papa Was a Rollin' Stone," The Temptations
(#1 US the week of Dec. 2, 1972; #5 R&B; #14 UK; #168 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time [2004])
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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October 8
- At the Paris Peace Talks, North Vietnam's negotiator, Lê Đức Thọ reached an agreement with Henry Kissinger of the United States on ending the Vietnam War. Demands were dropped for Nguyễn Văn Thiệu to step down as President of South Vietnam, but elections would be held there within six months, North Vietnamese troops would remain in the South, and the United States would recognize the sovereignty of North Vietnam. Kissinger envisioned signing the treaty on October 30, but Thieu's objections led to a breakdown in the agreement.
- R. Sargent Shriver is chosen to replace Thomas Eagleton as the U.S. vice-presidential nominee of the Democratic Party.
- Died: Prescott Bush, 77, U.S. Senator from Connecticut 1952–63, father and grandfather, respectively, of U.S. Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush.
October 9
- Written by Gerome Ragni, who had scored a Broadway success with the musical Hair, the rock musical Dude: The Highway Life opened at the Broadway Theatre. Dude was universally reviled by the critics and closed after 16 performances, having lost $800,000. Martin Gottfried described it as "incoherent, childish, and boring".
October 10
- With the headline "FBI Finds Nixon Aides Sabotaged Democrats", the Washington Post carried Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward's revelation that the Watergate break-in was not an isolated incident, but part of a campaign by the White House. "The activities, according to information in FBI and Department of Justice files, were aimed at all the major Democratic presidential contenders", the investigative reporters noted, "and—since 1971—represented a basic strategy of the Nixon re-election effort."
October 11
- The case of Roe v. Wade was reargued before the United States Supreme Court, after having first been argued on December 13, 1971, before seven Justices. While the initial opinion by Justice Harry Blackmun had simply found the challenged laws against abortion to be "unconstitutionally vague", the revised 1973 Blackmun opinion went further in declaring most restrictions against the right of choice to be unconstitutitional. "Had the Blackmun first drafts in the abortion cases come down as the final decisions", notes one commentator, "American life and politics might have been quite different."
October 12
- A brawl on board the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Kitty Hawk injured 46 people. About 100 black and white sailors fought for hours with knives, forks and chains, before the fight was broken up by a squad of U.S. Marines. Details were released six weeks afterward by the U.S. Navy. The fight began when a sailor asked for two sandwiches at the ship's mess hall and was given only one. Twenty-five men, all black, were charged.
October 13
- Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, a Fairchild FH-227D passenger aircraft with 45 people on board, including the "Old Christians" rugby team, crashed into a mountain while flying from Montevideo to Santiago. Sixteen people survived for the next 72 days, and would be forced to resort to cannibalism to stay alive.
October 14
- A TV western with a Buddhist theme, Kung Fu premiered as a television series on the American ABC network and ran for three seasons.
- Last Tango in Paris, an X-rated film starring Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider, premiered at the New York Film Festival. Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, it would become the seventh highest-grossing film of 1973 after its general release on January 27, 1973, despite being limited to moviegoers 17 and older.
Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week:
Leaving the chart:
- "Pop That Thang," The Isley Brothers (15 weeks)
New on the chart:
"Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)," Jim Croce
(#17 US; #11 AC)
"Something's Wrong with Me," Austin Roberts
(#12 US; #16 AC)
"I'm Stone in Love with You," The Stylistics
(#10 US; #27 AC; #4 R&B; #9 UK)
"Papa Was a Rollin' Stone," The Temptations
(#1 US the week of Dec. 2, 1972; #5 R&B; #14 UK; #168 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time [2004])
And new on the boob tube:
- M*A*S*H, "Chief Surgeon Who?"
- Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Season 6, episode 5
- Hawaii Five-O, "The Jinn Who Clears the Way"
- Adam-12, "Training Wheels"
- The Brady Bunch, "Today, I Am a Freshman"
- Love, American Style, "Love and Dear Old Mom and Dad / Love and the High School Sweetheart / Love and the Spaced Out Chick / Love and the Country Girl"
- Kung Fu, "King of the Mountain" (series premiere)
- All in the Family, "Lionel Steps Out"
- Emergency!, "Peace Pipe"
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show, "It's Whether You Win or Lose"
- Mission: Impossible, "TOD-5"
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I mentioned this in another thread, that my Mom, Wink and I got free movie passes to see a rough cut of "Alive" the movie based on this tragic event. The effects weren't finished, the dialogue needed to be looped, there was a temp score, etc. We were given a form to fill out afterwards about what we liked, didn't, etc. Saw the film several months later in general release and you could see where changes had been made to tighten up the pacing among other things.
Classic. Brings a tear to my eye every time.
Nope. Doesn't ring a bell.
Same.
This on the other hand. Stone cold classic. I like how it just stays locked in the groove the entire time. Also, the first appearance of Richard Street, who replaced Paul Williams due to ill health, and Damon Harris, who replaced Eddie Kendricks, who left for a solo career.
Less known is that this is a cover version. Here is the original version by The Undisputed Truth.
And, just for fun, here's the mashup version.
Okay, this is a revelation that requires more research.
One of my all-time favorite shows and characters. This may have been mentioned before.
Yep, this was a big deal.
Jim Croce. 'nuff said.
Wow, this stirs distant memories. Of all things, it makes me think of sitting in a neighbor's bedroom, reading an issue of Werewolf by Night. I think was totally lost to Oldies Radio, though.
Love it. One of the two best Stylistics songs.
A sad classic.
Less known indeed. Not too different, really, but the Temptations really get into it.
These mashups just fascinate me.
It just occurred to me, and I know that this was unintentional on the part of writer/producer Norman Whitfield when he wrote this song, which was then covered, is that this could be two families talking about the same man. There's the line that Papa had three children with another wife. In the Undisputed Truth's version, it's one man and two women talking. While in the Temptations version, it's three men talking to Mama. Papa left two broken families.
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50th Anniversary Viewing (Part 1)
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M*A*S*H
"Requiem for a Lightweight"
Originally aired October 1, 1972
When all personnel are called to the operating room, Hawkeye and Trapper have a run-in with Nurse Margie Cutler (Marcia Strassman), who's rushing out of the shower and accidentally leaves her towel behind, earning her a double salute. She's receptive to Hawkeye flirting during surgery, and Trapper is also interested in her, but a disapproving Hot Lips arranges for her to be transferred to another unit. The guys go straight to Blake, who needs to find someone to compete in an inter-unit boxing tournament. Though they initially laugh him off, Hawkeye persuades Trapper to take up the challenge. Radar is paid to serve as a sparring partner while Trapper gets himself back into shape, and ends up beating him. William Christopher makes his debut during this scene.
More training ensues, and we don't even have a Rocky theme yet. The guys are discouraged when they get a look at Sgt. "Killer" Flacker (uncredited Mike McGirr), the gorilla who'll be boxing for General Barker (Sorrell Booke), so they conspire with Captain "Ugly John" Black (John Orchard) to treat Trapper's gloves with ether. But they're stupid enough to reveal their plan in front of Burns, so with Hot Lips's help, he switches the ether with distilled water.
Mulcahy serves as announcer and ref for the match. Hawkeye discovers the switch as the fight is underway and Trapper is reeling, so he runs off to get more ether. With the gloves properly treated, Trapper gets in close enough to give Flacker a good whiff, which sends him stumbling back out of the ring, onto Burns and Hot Lips. Cutler is kept on, and now has eyes only for Trapper, ignoring Hawkeye's efforts.
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Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Season 6, episode 4
Originally aired October 2, 1972
Wiki, IMDb, and Paramount Plus all agree that this was the fourth episode of the season, but last week's in-episode preview promised Don Rickles (and more Milner & McCord).
Rich does brief gags as Raymond Burr / Ironside; George Burns; John Wayne (twice); Richard Nixon doing Clark Gable; and his impression of Don Rickles: "He's short, pudgy, and has a big mouth." Lucie does bits with Lester.
Lucie Arnaz and Old McDonald.
Laugh-In Salutes Adult Books and Movies:
Lucie applying for a job in a roller derby:
The news segment opens with a Cabaret theme, and includes gags about a couple of current shows of interest:
General Bull Wright's back, and he brought his son:
A near-the-end cocktail party:
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Hawaii Five-O
"Pig in a Blanket"
Originally aired October 3, 1972
Yeah, did they think we wouldn't notice? The details of this story are somewhat different, but if they were going to revisit the basic premise, they could have at least used another character. It might've been a good spotlight for the new guy in the credits.
The episode opens with Danno having just bowled in a tournament with uniformed officer Chinough Olena (Frank Atienza), who goes on duty afterward and chases down a speeding driver. The driver (Dennis Redfield) pulls over only to shoot Olena when he approaches the car, but the officer gets off a couple of shots that blow out a tire and wound the driver. At the hospital Danno reports to Steve that the driver was caught with a load of dope, and Danno goes into a brief flashback about how Olena shot someone who was about to stab him in a struggle a year prior. In the present, Olena then goes "red blanket" as Danno watches helplessly from behind glass. Hawaii's answer to Kelly Brackett, Dr. Natanoa (Seth Sakai), is unable to save Olena, and Danno is on the verge of tears as the blanket is pulled over his face. Danny then goes out to comfort Chinough's wife, Rona (Elissa Fontes). Danno makes the highly questionable decision to visit the room of the conscious perp, who's boasting to the nurse about what he did to the other guy, and drops the episode title after Danno updates him. The perp's taunting puts Williams on the verge of losing his cool.
Danno commiserates with Ben at a bar about the rising number of police shootings, and when a patron complains about a news flash of Chinough's death interrupting a game, Ben has to intervene as Danno tries to provoke a fight. Walking back to his car, Danny sees a masked and armed robber making his getaway from a drugstore and pursues him, but loses sight of his car. Spotting a matching car in the opposite lane, Danny tails it to a home and tries to arrest the driver when he gets out. When the shadowy figure crouches with what appears to be a gun in his hand, Danno fires. A distraught Mrs. Klein (Louise Latham) comes out, identifying the young man as her son, Ricky (James Simpson), and the gun turns out to be a soldering iron that Ricky just bought. Ricky's older brother, Harold (John Rubinstein), seems a little too quick under the circumstances to demonstrate his counterculture cred by rolling off anti-establishment talking points. Ricky is rushed to the hospital, where Natanoa goes to work again, but the boy faces spinal injury even if he manages to pull through.
McGarrett tries to defend Danno's judgment to the reporters who question him after Olena's funeral, but Williams declares himself guilty and turns over his gun and badge on the spot. McGarrett then talks to Mrs. Klein at her home and seems determined to make a case that Dan could have been right, noting that some of the equipment in Ricky's car was hot and questioning the length of time it took Ricky to run his errand. He sends Ben and Chin out to retrace the robber's possible path to look for evidence. Chin has to identify himself to snarky onlookers as he raids a Goodwill box in the vicinity, but he hits the jackpot, finding the robber's mask, gun, coat, and money. Given where the items were found, however, Che is unable to turn up conclusive forensic evidence of who they may have belonged to, leaving Steve dramatically frustrated and self-referential...
The Attorney General calls McGarrett to inform him that he's bringing charges against Danno, but Ricky makes it out of surgery with Natanoa giving him a good chance for full recovery. Steve goes to talk to a semi-conscious Ricky, who knows that the items were found in a Goodwill box and drops a collective pronoun indicating that he was with someone else that night, but swears to his mother that he didn't rob the store. Playing a hunch, McGarrett confronts Harold in the hospital corridor with Danno present, demonstrating how a revolver is loaded and claiming that they got a thumbprint off the hastily wiped weapon. Harold tries to run for it, is tackled, and confesses. Only then does he break down crying over almost getting his brother killed. Danno expresses his gratitude that somebody didn't give up on him.
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Adam-12
"Lost and Found"
Originally aired October 4, 1972
The episode opens with the officers discussing plans to have Pete bring a date to go out with Jim and Jean when a car rushes out in front of them at an intersection and stops. The driver, Jay Simmons (Fred Holliday), gets out to ask them for help with his young son, Jimmy (Kirby Furlong), who's unconscious and having respiratory problems. The officers put Jimmy and his mother, Mary (speaking words of wisdom, Nancy King), in the back and rush to Rampart, where Dixie meets them at the door, and he's taken in to see L.A.'s answer to Dr. Natanoa, Kelly Brackett, who confirms that it's the diabetus. Pete keeps the now-conscious Jimmy company while Brackett goes out to inform his parents. A nurse (Deidre Hall) brings Jimmy orange juice, but he just wants to go home, not knowing that he's in the presence of the future Electra Woman. (Her character, Sally Lewis, made her debut in last week's Emergency!, and will recur for the first half of that show's current season.) In a moment of pure viewer-teasing, Dr. Early shares a corridor cameo with DeSoto and Gage, the latter of whom is trying to pick up another nurse. Roy drags him away and Malloy walks out into the corridor just after the paramedics pass his doorway to walk off camera. I wonder if Johnny ever caught a rerun of that Adam-12 episode he was obsessing over last season, because he could have asked Malloy how it ended!
The officers take their seven at the hospital, where Pete introduces Jim to his current girlfriend, Kathy Stephens (Elaine Giftos), a nurse who mans a phone for the hospital's hot line program. After teasing Jim with how much she's heard about him, Kathy informs the officers that the program is about to be shut down due to lack of funding, and then gets her latest in a series of hang-up calls from a girl named Sheri, who has a troubled history that includes drug use, juvie time, and a negligent mother who's also a user, and has been threatening to commit suicide. Sheri (Diane Sherry) calls back and Kathy manages to keep her on the phone. When Sheri indicates that she took a bag of her mother's pills, the officers hit a couple of the other phones, Malloy trying to locate Sheri's probation officer and Reed trying to put a trace on the call. Sheri hangs up as she's losing consciousness, but Pete has gotten her full name and address, so the officers go to see her mother, Irma Baker (Chanin Hale), who's prepping for a date and doesn't know or care where her daughter is, blowing off the overdose as something Sheri's been through before. Mac relays a known hangout of Sheri's to the officers, and they arrive there to find her unconscious in a phone booth.
When the officers take Sheri to Rampart, Brackett informs them that Jimmy Simmons has ran away from the hospital, and has to be found before he goes into a coma. Mac coordinates the search for Jimmy from the back of his wagon in a parking lot. Malloy asks the distraught Simmonses about something Jimmy told him about how he was looking forward to them buying him a present, and they indicate that he'd been wanting a dog, so the officers drive around to all the pet stores in the area as darkness falls. A proprietor of one of the stores (Milton Frome) tells them about a boy Jimmy's age who came into the store a couple of hours earlier looking at all the puppies, and indicates that he headed for a nearby park. The officers drive around the park, probing with their searchlight, and spot a small terrier sitting and barking. They get out to find Jimmy lying in the grass beside him and rush the boy back to Rampart.
As Jimmy is recovering, the officers discuss how he'll be allowed to keep Fritzy if he cooperates with his parents in treating his condition. The officers go see Kathy, who shows them the hotline room now empty of furniture...but as they're discussing plans to go out, one of the still-connected phones on the floor rings, and the officers leave Kathy to answer it.
The Emergency! cast members get a couple of prominent "Special Appearances by" cards in the closing credits.
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The Brady Bunch
"The Tiki Caves"
Originally aired October 6, 1972
Yep, he's another Jim Backus alright. And when they showed the Sherwood Schwartz production credit over a shot of the jungle outside the cave, it made me think I was watching Gilligan's Island for a moment! (I think they might have been using the lagoon set, but shot from a novel angle.) There's another Bob Johnson-sounding recap narration. As the story commences, without showing himself, Vincent Price's character decides to try to scare the boys out by making spooky noises.
Well your voice sure does! Price gives us reason to worry a little when he talks to one of the idols in the cave, addressing it as Oliver. He ends up showing himself by popping out of a coffin-type box in a native headdress and feathered cape, but the boys run further into the cave, so he takes up a spear and reveals what he was up to, threatening them with being trapped. He ends up tying them to tikis (definitely cause for parental concern there) and introduces himself as Professor Hubert Whitehead, who's given up on the academic world and now intends to strike it rich with his find. The boys tell him about the idol, which he fishes out of Greg's pocket (
) and declares to be a valuable find. But he doesn't believe that the boys brought it from Honolulu, insisting that they found it in his cave.
After an escape attempt is foiled and the boys are tied up again, Greg decides to switch to lying, going along with the professor's belief by offering to show him where they found the idol--actually stalling for time with faith that the folks will be looking for them. But Whitehead comes to believe their original story, and intends to leave them tied in the cave while he splits with what he can take. Meanwhile, the girls have divulged the boys' plan to their worried parents, and Mr. Hanalei has told them where he directed the trio. The parents search the darkened jungle, finding the trail that the boys left last episode with Bobby's popcorn, which leads them to the cave. After Whitehead has explained himself, having intended to tell somebody where to find the boys, Mike convinces him to report his find to the state, offering his family as witnesses to ensure he gets credit. Mike is agape when he watches the professor hug Oliver in happiness.
Cut to the reunited, lei-sporting Bradys attending a luau, where, after a fire dance, we learn that Whitehead is the guest of honor, having been made the curator of a wing of the museum that's named after him--that's taking the happy ending thing perhaps a bit far. Then the Bradys take turns trying to blow a conch (Peter's attempt sounds better than his voice at this point) and watch grass-skirted female dancers. As the Bradys pack on the day of their return home, I find myself disappointed that none of them took a dive off that high-rise hotel they were staying in...I've developed certain expectations for TV shows set in Hawaii.
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The Odd Couple
"The Pen Is Mightier Than the Pencil"
Originally aired October 6, 1972
After being outraged that a magazine photo spread uses text that spins his subject in a way that he hadn't intended, Felix decides to learn to write his own copy. Felix drive Oscar crazy trying to watch him write, so he enrolls in a creative writing class taught by Gerard Ferguson (Elliott Reid), whom he annoys by asking too many questions and commenting out loud at every instruction. On his way home from class, Felix is inspired by a construction site to write a poem, "Ode to a Skyscraper," which he reads for Oscar. Oscar and Miriam Welby (Elinor Donahue)--Felix's girlfriend, who made her debut in the season premiere that Paramount Plus skipped--think his poems are awful and plan to cheer him up when he returns from his next class...but he comes home with an A-plus. This only fuels him to go whole-hog with his poetry, so Oscar decides to go to the teacher, whom he considers to be a fraud, to set Felix straight.
Oscar sits through one of Ferguson's classes, where he's dumbfounded by a student named Mr. Fegivney (Wally Cox) reading the end of his steamy romance novel. Oscar approaches Ferguson afterward with a story he's written, threatening to expose the instructor. But Ferguson gets him to agree not to publish it if he can get one of Felix's poems sold the next day. To Oscar's surprise, Felix comes home with a check from a buyer. Suspicious that it's not a publisher, Felix goes back to Ferguson and learns that one of Felix's love poems was sold to a woman for use on her dog's tombstone. Ferguson defends this by pointing to examples of other successful students of his course, including the man who wrote the slogan "Loose Lips Sink Ships" in World War II. (The teach seems perhaps a bit young to have had his course that far back. Looking it up, the actor was college age when America entered the war.) Oscar returns home to apologize to Felix, but finds his roommate disillusioned after having met his poem's buyer and seen the hydrant-shaped tombstone on which his work is immortalized.
In the coda, Oscar is trying his own hand at writing odes to people's dogs, having learned that there's money in it.
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Love, American Style
"Love and the Girlish Groom / Love and the New You / Love and the Oldlyweds / Love and the Wishing Star"
Originally aired October 6, 1972
In "Love and the New You," Sheila (
) breaks off her engagement to Eugene (Shecky Greene) on the basis that he's dull and a slob. Eugene's trying to kill himself by sticking his head in an electric oven when his buddy Barry (Norman Alden) encourages him to try an outfit called New You Incorporated for a makeover. A stylist called Mr. Price (Lester Fletcher) pays a visit to work on Eugene...accompanied by an assistant who's sporting some notably familiar-looking threads. Eugene acquires a styled wig, fake mustache, new suit, and polished mannerisms, and ends up rejecting Sheila with an insult about her own appearance...so Barry recommends that she go to New You to get herself dolled up, and sets up Eugene on a blind date with her. Sheila's new look changes Eugene's attitude about her, but as the couple start to make out, it becomes a comedy of errors as their appliances come off. They resume their old appearances and couch potato habits, now more appreciative of what they already had.
"Love and the Oldlyweds" opens with Bertha Furman (Nancy Walker) fussing--while her husband Charles (Richard Deacon) acts more blasé--because their daughter, Ruth (Cheryl Miller), is bringing over her fiancé to meet the folks. Both parents are taken aback when Phil turns out to be an elderly gentleman (Cyril Delevanti) whose previous marriage was in World War I! All sorts of remarks about Phil's age ensue, mainly out of his presence and delivered by Walker. The parents sit Ruth down to talk her into not rushing things, and she decides to just have an affair. The segment ends without much of a delivery on its premise, just one last comment from Mom: "Oh, good...and if he lives, you can marry him."
"Love and the Wishing Star" has another elderly gent, Mr. Palvecko (Sam Jaffe), spending New Year's Eve with his cat while fussing over a life-size sculpture of his departed wife, Hilde. His neighbor, Tom (Jason Wingreen), comes over with a party hat and noisemaker to try to get him to celebrate, but when he learns that it's also Palvecko's wedding anniversary, Tom bows out to leave him with his memories. Palvecko then wishes on a star in memory of Hilde, and a bumbling fairy godfather named Walter (Soupy Sales) appears. Walter has to resolve Palvecko's loneliness by midnight as his last chance to rectify past errors before the man upstairs takes away his wings. But when summoning an exotic dancer named Fifi (Trish Mahoney) doesn't do the trick, Walter realizes that Palvecko is only interested in one woman, and he steers Palvecko into wishing to again be as one with Hilde. In the last seconds before the stroke of midnight, lightning flashes, Walter disappears, and Palvecko is transformed into a statue, eternally holding hands with Hilde. A bit of voiced over monologue from Sales fills us in that the man upstairs approves.
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50th Anniversary Viewing (Part 1)
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M*A*S*H
"Requiem for a Lightweight"
Originally aired October 1, 1972
Wiki said:
When all personnel are called to the operating room, Hawkeye and Trapper have a run-in with Nurse Margie Cutler (Marcia Strassman), who's rushing out of the shower and accidentally leaves her towel behind, earning her a double salute. She's receptive to Hawkeye flirting during surgery, and Trapper is also interested in her, but a disapproving Hot Lips arranges for her to be transferred to another unit. The guys go straight to Blake, who needs to find someone to compete in an inter-unit boxing tournament. Though they initially laugh him off, Hawkeye persuades Trapper to take up the challenge. Radar is paid to serve as a sparring partner while Trapper gets himself back into shape, and ends up beating him. William Christopher makes his debut during this scene.
Father Mulcahy: I trained a number of boys to box back home.
Hawkeye: Any advice for Trapper?
Father Mulcahy: Prayer. I don't think he's got one.
Hawkeye: Any advice for Trapper?
Father Mulcahy: Prayer. I don't think he's got one.
More training ensues, and we don't even have a Rocky theme yet. The guys are discouraged when they get a look at Sgt. "Killer" Flacker (uncredited Mike McGirr), the gorilla who'll be boxing for General Barker (Sorrell Booke), so they conspire with Captain "Ugly John" Black (John Orchard) to treat Trapper's gloves with ether. But they're stupid enough to reveal their plan in front of Burns, so with Hot Lips's help, he switches the ether with distilled water.
Mulcahy serves as announcer and ref for the match. Hawkeye discovers the switch as the fight is underway and Trapper is reeling, so he runs off to get more ether. With the gloves properly treated, Trapper gets in close enough to give Flacker a good whiff, which sends him stumbling back out of the ring, onto Burns and Hot Lips. Cutler is kept on, and now has eyes only for Trapper, ignoring Hawkeye's efforts.
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Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Season 6, episode 4
Originally aired October 2, 1972
The Wiki list of guest appearances said:
Wiki, IMDb, and Paramount Plus all agree that this was the fourth episode of the season, but last week's in-episode preview promised Don Rickles (and more Milner & McCord).
Rich does brief gags as Raymond Burr / Ironside; George Burns; John Wayne (twice); Richard Nixon doing Clark Gable; and his impression of Don Rickles: "He's short, pudgy, and has a big mouth." Lucie does bits with Lester.
Lucie Arnaz and Old McDonald.
Laugh-In Salutes Adult Books and Movies:
Lucie applying for a job in a roller derby:
The news segment opens with a Cabaret theme, and includes gags about a couple of current shows of interest:
General Bull Wright's back, and he brought his son:
A near-the-end cocktail party:
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Hawaii Five-O
"Pig in a Blanket"
Originally aired October 3, 1972
Wiki said:
Yeah, did they think we wouldn't notice? The details of this story are somewhat different, but if they were going to revisit the basic premise, they could have at least used another character. It might've been a good spotlight for the new guy in the credits.
The episode opens with Danno having just bowled in a tournament with uniformed officer Chinough Olena (Frank Atienza), who goes on duty afterward and chases down a speeding driver. The driver (Dennis Redfield) pulls over only to shoot Olena when he approaches the car, but the officer gets off a couple of shots that blow out a tire and wound the driver. At the hospital Danno reports to Steve that the driver was caught with a load of dope, and Danno goes into a brief flashback about how Olena shot someone who was about to stab him in a struggle a year prior. In the present, Olena then goes "red blanket" as Danno watches helplessly from behind glass. Hawaii's answer to Kelly Brackett, Dr. Natanoa (Seth Sakai), is unable to save Olena, and Danno is on the verge of tears as the blanket is pulled over his face. Danny then goes out to comfort Chinough's wife, Rona (Elissa Fontes). Danno makes the highly questionable decision to visit the room of the conscious perp, who's boasting to the nurse about what he did to the other guy, and drops the episode title after Danno updates him. The perp's taunting puts Williams on the verge of losing his cool.
Danno commiserates with Ben at a bar about the rising number of police shootings, and when a patron complains about a news flash of Chinough's death interrupting a game, Ben has to intervene as Danno tries to provoke a fight. Walking back to his car, Danny sees a masked and armed robber making his getaway from a drugstore and pursues him, but loses sight of his car. Spotting a matching car in the opposite lane, Danny tails it to a home and tries to arrest the driver when he gets out. When the shadowy figure crouches with what appears to be a gun in his hand, Danno fires. A distraught Mrs. Klein (Louise Latham) comes out, identifying the young man as her son, Ricky (James Simpson), and the gun turns out to be a soldering iron that Ricky just bought. Ricky's older brother, Harold (John Rubinstein), seems a little too quick under the circumstances to demonstrate his counterculture cred by rolling off anti-establishment talking points. Ricky is rushed to the hospital, where Natanoa goes to work again, but the boy faces spinal injury even if he manages to pull through.
McGarrett tries to defend Danno's judgment to the reporters who question him after Olena's funeral, but Williams declares himself guilty and turns over his gun and badge on the spot. McGarrett then talks to Mrs. Klein at her home and seems determined to make a case that Dan could have been right, noting that some of the equipment in Ricky's car was hot and questioning the length of time it took Ricky to run his errand. He sends Ben and Chin out to retrace the robber's possible path to look for evidence. Chin has to identify himself to snarky onlookers as he raids a Goodwill box in the vicinity, but he hits the jackpot, finding the robber's mask, gun, coat, and money. Given where the items were found, however, Che is unable to turn up conclusive forensic evidence of who they may have belonged to, leaving Steve dramatically frustrated and self-referential...
McGarrett: We've cracked crime syndicates and dope rings. We've nailed double agents, rapists, and murderers! And here we are with a lousy little drugstore heist on our hands with Danno's life on the line and we can't crack it--I mean, somebody ought to call a cop!
The Attorney General calls McGarrett to inform him that he's bringing charges against Danno, but Ricky makes it out of surgery with Natanoa giving him a good chance for full recovery. Steve goes to talk to a semi-conscious Ricky, who knows that the items were found in a Goodwill box and drops a collective pronoun indicating that he was with someone else that night, but swears to his mother that he didn't rob the store. Playing a hunch, McGarrett confronts Harold in the hospital corridor with Danno present, demonstrating how a revolver is loaded and claiming that they got a thumbprint off the hastily wiped weapon. Harold tries to run for it, is tackled, and confesses. Only then does he break down crying over almost getting his brother killed. Danno expresses his gratitude that somebody didn't give up on him.
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Adam-12
"Lost and Found"
Originally aired October 4, 1972
Wiki said:
The episode opens with the officers discussing plans to have Pete bring a date to go out with Jim and Jean when a car rushes out in front of them at an intersection and stops. The driver, Jay Simmons (Fred Holliday), gets out to ask them for help with his young son, Jimmy (Kirby Furlong), who's unconscious and having respiratory problems. The officers put Jimmy and his mother, Mary (speaking words of wisdom, Nancy King), in the back and rush to Rampart, where Dixie meets them at the door, and he's taken in to see L.A.'s answer to Dr. Natanoa, Kelly Brackett, who confirms that it's the diabetus. Pete keeps the now-conscious Jimmy company while Brackett goes out to inform his parents. A nurse (Deidre Hall) brings Jimmy orange juice, but he just wants to go home, not knowing that he's in the presence of the future Electra Woman. (Her character, Sally Lewis, made her debut in last week's Emergency!, and will recur for the first half of that show's current season.) In a moment of pure viewer-teasing, Dr. Early shares a corridor cameo with DeSoto and Gage, the latter of whom is trying to pick up another nurse. Roy drags him away and Malloy walks out into the corridor just after the paramedics pass his doorway to walk off camera. I wonder if Johnny ever caught a rerun of that Adam-12 episode he was obsessing over last season, because he could have asked Malloy how it ended!
The officers take their seven at the hospital, where Pete introduces Jim to his current girlfriend, Kathy Stephens (Elaine Giftos), a nurse who mans a phone for the hospital's hot line program. After teasing Jim with how much she's heard about him, Kathy informs the officers that the program is about to be shut down due to lack of funding, and then gets her latest in a series of hang-up calls from a girl named Sheri, who has a troubled history that includes drug use, juvie time, and a negligent mother who's also a user, and has been threatening to commit suicide. Sheri (Diane Sherry) calls back and Kathy manages to keep her on the phone. When Sheri indicates that she took a bag of her mother's pills, the officers hit a couple of the other phones, Malloy trying to locate Sheri's probation officer and Reed trying to put a trace on the call. Sheri hangs up as she's losing consciousness, but Pete has gotten her full name and address, so the officers go to see her mother, Irma Baker (Chanin Hale), who's prepping for a date and doesn't know or care where her daughter is, blowing off the overdose as something Sheri's been through before. Mac relays a known hangout of Sheri's to the officers, and they arrive there to find her unconscious in a phone booth.
When the officers take Sheri to Rampart, Brackett informs them that Jimmy Simmons has ran away from the hospital, and has to be found before he goes into a coma. Mac coordinates the search for Jimmy from the back of his wagon in a parking lot. Malloy asks the distraught Simmonses about something Jimmy told him about how he was looking forward to them buying him a present, and they indicate that he'd been wanting a dog, so the officers drive around to all the pet stores in the area as darkness falls. A proprietor of one of the stores (Milton Frome) tells them about a boy Jimmy's age who came into the store a couple of hours earlier looking at all the puppies, and indicates that he headed for a nearby park. The officers drive around the park, probing with their searchlight, and spot a small terrier sitting and barking. They get out to find Jimmy lying in the grass beside him and rush the boy back to Rampart.
As Jimmy is recovering, the officers discuss how he'll be allowed to keep Fritzy if he cooperates with his parents in treating his condition. The officers go see Kathy, who shows them the hotline room now empty of furniture...but as they're discussing plans to go out, one of the still-connected phones on the floor rings, and the officers leave Kathy to answer it.
The Emergency! cast members get a couple of prominent "Special Appearances by" cards in the closing credits.
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The Brady Bunch
"The Tiki Caves"
Originally aired October 6, 1972
Wiki said:
Yep, he's another Jim Backus alright. And when they showed the Sherwood Schwartz production credit over a shot of the jungle outside the cave, it made me think I was watching Gilligan's Island for a moment! (I think they might have been using the lagoon set, but shot from a novel angle.) There's another Bob Johnson-sounding recap narration. As the story commences, without showing himself, Vincent Price's character decides to try to scare the boys out by making spooky noises.
Peter: That wasn't my imagination--my imagination doesn't creak!
Well your voice sure does! Price gives us reason to worry a little when he talks to one of the idols in the cave, addressing it as Oliver. He ends up showing himself by popping out of a coffin-type box in a native headdress and feathered cape, but the boys run further into the cave, so he takes up a spear and reveals what he was up to, threatening them with being trapped. He ends up tying them to tikis (definitely cause for parental concern there) and introduces himself as Professor Hubert Whitehead, who's given up on the academic world and now intends to strike it rich with his find. The boys tell him about the idol, which he fishes out of Greg's pocket (
) and declares to be a valuable find. But he doesn't believe that the boys brought it from Honolulu, insisting that they found it in his cave.After an escape attempt is foiled and the boys are tied up again, Greg decides to switch to lying, going along with the professor's belief by offering to show him where they found the idol--actually stalling for time with faith that the folks will be looking for them. But Whitehead comes to believe their original story, and intends to leave them tied in the cave while he splits with what he can take. Meanwhile, the girls have divulged the boys' plan to their worried parents, and Mr. Hanalei has told them where he directed the trio. The parents search the darkened jungle, finding the trail that the boys left last episode with Bobby's popcorn, which leads them to the cave. After Whitehead has explained himself, having intended to tell somebody where to find the boys, Mike convinces him to report his find to the state, offering his family as witnesses to ensure he gets credit. Mike is agape when he watches the professor hug Oliver in happiness.
Cut to the reunited, lei-sporting Bradys attending a luau, where, after a fire dance, we learn that Whitehead is the guest of honor, having been made the curator of a wing of the museum that's named after him--that's taking the happy ending thing perhaps a bit far. Then the Bradys take turns trying to blow a conch (Peter's attempt sounds better than his voice at this point) and watch grass-skirted female dancers. As the Bradys pack on the day of their return home, I find myself disappointed that none of them took a dive off that high-rise hotel they were staying in...I've developed certain expectations for TV shows set in Hawaii.
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The Odd Couple
"The Pen Is Mightier Than the Pencil"
Originally aired October 6, 1972
Paramount Plus said:
After being outraged that a magazine photo spread uses text that spins his subject in a way that he hadn't intended, Felix decides to learn to write his own copy. Felix drive Oscar crazy trying to watch him write, so he enrolls in a creative writing class taught by Gerard Ferguson (Elliott Reid), whom he annoys by asking too many questions and commenting out loud at every instruction. On his way home from class, Felix is inspired by a construction site to write a poem, "Ode to a Skyscraper," which he reads for Oscar. Oscar and Miriam Welby (Elinor Donahue)--Felix's girlfriend, who made her debut in the season premiere that Paramount Plus skipped--think his poems are awful and plan to cheer him up when he returns from his next class...but he comes home with an A-plus. This only fuels him to go whole-hog with his poetry, so Oscar decides to go to the teacher, whom he considers to be a fraud, to set Felix straight.
Oscar sits through one of Ferguson's classes, where he's dumbfounded by a student named Mr. Fegivney (Wally Cox) reading the end of his steamy romance novel. Oscar approaches Ferguson afterward with a story he's written, threatening to expose the instructor. But Ferguson gets him to agree not to publish it if he can get one of Felix's poems sold the next day. To Oscar's surprise, Felix comes home with a check from a buyer. Suspicious that it's not a publisher, Felix goes back to Ferguson and learns that one of Felix's love poems was sold to a woman for use on her dog's tombstone. Ferguson defends this by pointing to examples of other successful students of his course, including the man who wrote the slogan "Loose Lips Sink Ships" in World War II. (The teach seems perhaps a bit young to have had his course that far back. Looking it up, the actor was college age when America entered the war.) Oscar returns home to apologize to Felix, but finds his roommate disillusioned after having met his poem's buyer and seen the hydrant-shaped tombstone on which his work is immortalized.
In the coda, Oscar is trying his own hand at writing odes to people's dogs, having learned that there's money in it.
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Love, American Style
"Love and the Girlish Groom / Love and the New You / Love and the Oldlyweds / Love and the Wishing Star"
Originally aired October 6, 1972
In "Love and the New You," Sheila (
) breaks off her engagement to Eugene (Shecky Greene) on the basis that he's dull and a slob. Eugene's trying to kill himself by sticking his head in an electric oven when his buddy Barry (Norman Alden) encourages him to try an outfit called New You Incorporated for a makeover. A stylist called Mr. Price (Lester Fletcher) pays a visit to work on Eugene...accompanied by an assistant who's sporting some notably familiar-looking threads. Eugene acquires a styled wig, fake mustache, new suit, and polished mannerisms, and ends up rejecting Sheila with an insult about her own appearance...so Barry recommends that she go to New You to get herself dolled up, and sets up Eugene on a blind date with her. Sheila's new look changes Eugene's attitude about her, but as the couple start to make out, it becomes a comedy of errors as their appliances come off. They resume their old appearances and couch potato habits, now more appreciative of what they already had.
"Love and the Oldlyweds" opens with Bertha Furman (Nancy Walker) fussing--while her husband Charles (Richard Deacon) acts more blasé--because their daughter, Ruth (Cheryl Miller), is bringing over her fiancé to meet the folks. Both parents are taken aback when Phil turns out to be an elderly gentleman (Cyril Delevanti) whose previous marriage was in World War I! All sorts of remarks about Phil's age ensue, mainly out of his presence and delivered by Walker. The parents sit Ruth down to talk her into not rushing things, and she decides to just have an affair. The segment ends without much of a delivery on its premise, just one last comment from Mom: "Oh, good...and if he lives, you can marry him."
"Love and the Wishing Star" has another elderly gent, Mr. Palvecko (Sam Jaffe), spending New Year's Eve with his cat while fussing over a life-size sculpture of his departed wife, Hilde. His neighbor, Tom (Jason Wingreen), comes over with a party hat and noisemaker to try to get him to celebrate, but when he learns that it's also Palvecko's wedding anniversary, Tom bows out to leave him with his memories. Palvecko then wishes on a star in memory of Hilde, and a bumbling fairy godfather named Walter (Soupy Sales) appears. Walter has to resolve Palvecko's loneliness by midnight as his last chance to rectify past errors before the man upstairs takes away his wings. But when summoning an exotic dancer named Fifi (Trish Mahoney) doesn't do the trick, Walter realizes that Palvecko is only interested in one woman, and he steers Palvecko into wishing to again be as one with Hilde. In the last seconds before the stroke of midnight, lightning flashes, Walter disappears, and Palvecko is transformed into a statue, eternally holding hands with Hilde. A bit of voiced over monologue from Sales fills us in that the man upstairs approves.
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He sounds a little more James Taylor here than in his breakout single, though for some reason I find myself singing the title line in my mock-Dylan voice.
1972 continues to pull obscure shit out its ass...DarrenTR1970 said:
...and yet somebody remembers it--and it managed to chart higher than a Jim Croce classic in its day.RJDiogenes said:
DarrenTR1970 said:
I'm in the middle on this one...I already had it, but don't consider it to be one of their more memorable songs...though its melody bears a distracting resemblance to the years-later hit "I've Never Been to Me" by Charlene.RJDiogenes said:
DarrenTR1970 said:
This is the single edit, which is what I have...the album version, which I've yet to listen to, is around 12 minutes long. Even in its abbreviated form, the long intro build-up reminds me more than a little of the "Theme from 'Shaft'".RJDiogenes said:
I thought that might be of some interest.RJDiogenes said:Okay, this is a revelation that requires more research.
...cue flashback...One of my all-time favorite shows and characters. This may have been mentioned before.
I know nothing about it, other than being familiar with the title.
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I'm sure there's a whole list of songs that we consider "Classics" these days, that if we were to look at where they placed on the charts when they were initially released, they probably didn't crack the top twenty or forty.
I have the 12-minute version, and it's all about staying locked in the groove. The single cuts out the underlying sense of tension/menace and build-up with no release. You keep waiting for the tempo to change and it never does, at least not until the fade out, where the drummer adds some fills to the beat.
I've read where The Temptations would eventually dismiss Norman Whitfield as producer because they felt like guest vocalists on their own albums, which they believed were being turned into a showcase for Whitfield's production style and choice of lyrics. It's true that the next two albums "Masterpiece" and "Zoom" contain songs that break the 12-minute mark and hardly feature The Temptations. "Masterpiece" the title song from the same album, runs nearly fourteen minutes, yet the vocals only amount to about 2 1/2-3 minutes.
Timeless.
Another classic of the "Philadelphia Sound".
Good song, but not a personal favorite.
Good insight. It would cool to see it produced that way as a performance or video.
Parody of the title to a Rod Serling story.
Mrs Kot-TAH. She was a real cutie. She was also in the Tremors TV series.
Hot Lips would quickly be without a staff if she transferred every nurse who socialized with the men in camp.
Mulcahy was the master of that low-key humor. He's one of the cast members that did not need to be replaced.
That's what he gets for talking his friend into getting beat up.
I wonder if anyone ever did a Rich Little impersonation.
Well, that was silly.
Lucie does good slapstick.
I laughed at the Jack Lord joke.
The Dreaded Deadline Doom, maybe? I seem to remember other shows recycling scripts for that reason. The one specific example I can dredge up is Charlie's Angels using an old Rookies story.
The setup....
Those things are dangerous.
Why? His judgment was pretty bad.
Speaking of Rod Serling, that sounded a bit Serlingesque to me.
This doesn't really address Danno being a little quick on the draw.
The payoff.
Webbiverse fan service. That kinda rhymes.
That would have been great. "Hey, it's great that they made a TV show about you guys. They should make one about us, too."I wonder if Johnny ever caught a rerun of that Adam-12 episode he was obsessing over last season, because he could have asked Malloy how it ended!
Frequently seen guest star in those days.
This week's theme: Finding unconscious people before they die.
Now that is a vivid image to end on.
The Castaways were on Hawaii the whole time.
Actually, it would be an honor to be tied up by Vincent Price.
"Is that the idol or are you just happy to see me?"The boys tell him about the idol, which he fishes out of Greg's pocket (
The professor is a tad eccentric.
There are going to be so many lawsuits....
"Last one in the drink is a rotten egg!"
The ambassador from the Zephram Cochrane episode.
Way to be supportive, Oscar.
Beloved character actor, as well as Mr Peepers and Hiram Holiday.
They seem to have a habit of thinking WWII was more recent than it was.
Logan's Run crossover.
That's a hell of a mission patch on his chest. He must be assigned to the biggest Starbase ever.
That's a good one.
The math actually works on that one.
Yeah, kind of anticlimactic, but I do like the punchline.
Classic comedian.
Well, that was sweet.
Croce is so ingrained in my brain cells I can't compare him to anybody else.
This one and "Betcha By Golly Wow" are my favorites for this band.
I had a busy day yesterday, so I could only check briefly. It sounds like a real train wreck-- and there was a link to another train wreck. I'll read more today.
Kinda like I Am Curious (Yellow), it was in the air. Plus, I remember it being parodied in MAD, which I read voraciously in those days.
Except for the pay phone aspect. Every time I hear it, along with others like "Fool In The Rain," I think about how they couldn't even be written today.
It's not so much that end of it, but the crap I've never heard before in my life that outcharted them.
Wow, I did not realize that was her! She had very short hair in this.
Do you feel that there were cast members who did need to be replaced, even before they were? I'll try playing myself: As cast with McClean Stevenson, Blake is a little too indistinguishable from the surgeons. Harry Morgan stands out much better as clearly being the commanding officer.
Thought you might like that.I laughed at the Jack Lord joke.
Actually, that was the main event. The turnabout version was just an afterthought.
Well, he pursued the right vehicle, and reacted when one of the occupants crouched and pointed what appeared to be a gun in dark conditions at him. If he hadn't shot and it had been a gun, he'd be dead.
I was thinking more like, "Hey, you're Malloy from Adam-12...can I have your autograph?"
Searching her distinctive surname, she's popped up here previously in two episodes of Love, American Style and a Partridge Family.
"C'mon, Jim, let's get outta here before she gets us involved again..."
Better known to general TV audiences for her role on Father Knows Best (didn't know about that myself) and as a recurring love interest of Sheriff Andy Taylor.
Given what I can see of the rank stripes, I have to wonder if that was Doohan's tunic.That's a hell of a mission patch on his chest. He must be assigned to the biggest Starbase ever.
Yeah, the longer hair was better.
Yeah, exactly, Potter was much more appropriate. M*A*S*H always had a serious side even at the beginning, so it wasn't like F Troop where you could get away with a ditz in command. Similar deal with Trapper. He was too much like Hawkeye, while BJ was a better partner because of the contrast in character (which I think led to a deeper friendship). Burns was a one-note, tiresome character, while Winchester was witty and more conflicted. The only other character that I would have replaced was Hot Lips-- her inexplicable relationship with Burns made her look ridiculous (although they did develop her into a more believable, if not more likeable, character after he left). But Mulcahy, Radar, and Klinger were fine the way they were.
Yeah, I guess so.
"Er... see me later... everybody's watching."
Pete is kind of on all the time, too.
I actually did know both of those, somewhere in the recesses of my mind.
I wonder if any of them knew or cared what it was.