The Classic/Retro Pop Culture Thread

[DarrenTR1970]

The Poseidon Adventure Directed by Ronald Neame Starring Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, Carol Lynley, Roddy McDowall, Stella Stevens, Shelley Winters, and Leslie Nielsen

A couple of items.

One - Every year I hold a 'Disaster Double Feature' on New Year's Eve consisting of 'The Towering Inferno' and 'The Poseidon Adventure'. I've mentioned in a previous post that I try and sync up the wave capsizing the boat at the same time the clock strikes midnight.

Two - Back in the mid-eighties I managed to get my hands on a disaster trifecta of 'The Poseidon Adventure', 'The Glass Inferno' and 'The Tower', the latter two novels which formed the basis for the movie 'The Towering Inferno'.

The movie streamlines the book by removing and combining characters. A few of the key differences are that Susan and Robin's parents accompany them on the voyage and make it to the end of the story. When Robin goes missing while looking for the bathroom, Susan goes looking for him and gets raped by one of the crewmen. In the story, Robin is never found, and Robin's mother blames her husband for letting him wander off alone. The implication is that the marriage, which was already strained, and the voyage was a way to bring the family together, is ultimately doomed to separation and divorce. Belle survives the rescue of Reverend Scott but dies of a heart attack just as the rescuers cut through the hull. And, in a cruel twist of fate/irony, the people that stayed behind in the ballroom and those that headed towards the bow of the ship, including a couple that left Reverend Scott's group to join up with the group heading for the bow, all survived and were rescued with no casualties. Meaning that all their efforts to reach the stern and shaft alley and the casualties along the way, were for nothing, they would have been better off staying put.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Robin goes missing while looking for the bathroom

I'd forgotten to mention that--in the film, a funny bit of business in which Robin slips into a gentlemen's room, but the urinals are hanging upside down far above his head.

And, in a cruel twist of fate/irony, the people that stayed behind in the ballroom and those that headed towards the bow of the ship, including a couple that left Reverend Scott's group to join up with the group heading for the bow, all survived and were rescued with no casualties. Meaning that all their efforts to reach the stern and shaft alley and the casualties along the way, were for nothing, they would have been better off staying put.

Ugh. The film may have been a bit "Hollywood"--make the hero look good by making other characters wrong/incompetent--but it's better than making the entire ordeal pointless.

 

[RJDiogenes]

The Poseidon Adventure

Or The Upsidedown Adventure, as it was called in MAD (or maybe it was Crazy).

I can see Movies! muting "bastard," but Eric Shea later saying "shove it"? (Both read loud and clear in the closed captioning...which does later mask out the word following "son of a".)

Boo! Down with censorship!

The captain objects strongly to endangering the ship and passengers, but Linarcos threatens to relieve him of command if he doesn't comply.

I guess he picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue.

Scott believes in encouraging people to find the strength of God within themselves, rather than praying for divine intervention.

So! It's all his fault!

She's self-conscious of being recognized for her former profession, paranoid that a crewman might be a former customer.

But her hair is all different now and stuff.

Nancy Drew is the one he tells to shove it.

Why would he do such a thing?

Which Martin is the one to point out.

One of the jokes in the MAD parody involved "getting the shaft."

At dinner, the purser was talking about how he was the one who really ran the ship

But he's really just a Gopher.

The less glamorous part of being Gene Hackman is having to give Shelley Winters a posterior boost from beneath.

I don't suppose they censored that.

The Poseidon Adventure (4/5) Movie CLIP - You Killed Her! (1972) HD - YouTube

The dialogue and production are very theatrical, to the point of being Shakespearian.

This sequence is perhaps a little over the top...

Reminds me of The Exorcist, ironically enough.

Overall, this was a pretty enjoyably watchable spectacle film with a large cast of recognizable faces.

Definitely a snapshot of a moment in time with that cast. Of all those disaster movies, I probably enjoyed this one the most, although I mainly found it depressing.

They still make it.

They changed the formula. Now it's something else.

Generally the overbearing part. Cliff wanted him and his son out from under the old man's thumb.

Cliff is not ready for the adult world.

Yeah, Pete telling her is what convinces her to tell him where her husband might have gone.

I might have expected her to want to go along with them to help talk with the guys, and maybe participate in the search, because it's, y'know, her kid and he's dying.

But just a tease. Given that Julie gets so little to do, it might have been nice to actually let her gain the upper hand.

Yeah, and she should also be trained in TV Fu, like everyone else.

He became so when confronted by Cliff, but started off pretty gruff and demanding.

He came off as a jerk at the beginning, but the kid had been missing for months at that point, so it was kind of understandable.

You have to wonder if Charlie's Angels wasn't a massive overcompensation for whatever was going on with Julie...

Both of those shows were Aaron Spelling productions. Mod Squad was long gone by the time of the Angels, but it would have been cool to bring in some or all of them for guest roles.

True, but then Paco could have turned around and went out the way he came in.

Right, and he would have been covered with soap, so he could have slipped away.

Capped.

One - Every year I hold a 'Disaster Double Feature' on New Year's Eve consisting of 'The Towering Inferno' and 'The Poseidon Adventure'. I've mentioned in a previous post that I try and sync up the wave capsizing the boat at the same time the clock strikes midnight.

That's sick. I like it.

Meaning that all their efforts to reach the stern and shaft alley and the casualties along the way, were for nothing, they would have been better off staying put.

That's really awful. I would have been so pissed off if I had read that.

I'd forgotten to mention that--in the film, a funny bit of business in which Robin slips into a gentlemen's room, but the urinals are hanging upside down far above his head.

 

[The Old Mixer]

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Post-55th Anniversary Viewing

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"The Night of the Cadre"
Originally aired March 24, 1967

Jim impersonates a killer in order to track down General Titus Trask, a renegade army officer with a desire to kill President Grant. Can Jim stop Trask from turning President Grant into a mindless zombie?

Jim is observing the execution of Ralph Kleed (Vince Howard), a convicted killer who's known to have an interest in killing Grant; because there's been a rash of convicted killers who are known to have an interest killing Grant having been set free--like that would ever be a thing. Kleed is brought into the office of Warden Primwick (Tol Avery) and strapped into a chair to make a final statement...and he gives us this mind-bogglingly contradictory one...

Kleed: Well...if it ain't the great James West--the secretest secret agent of them all.​

The warden assures this agent who's famous for being a secret that Kleed will be executed on schedule, but Kleed seizes upon a distraction to slip a dog whistle into his mouth--conveniently not noticed by West--which produces an obvious effect on the Warden...who, after holding his ears in a state of disorientation, brings in the guards and orders that Kleed be freed. Kleed walks out, and when Jim tries to confront the warden, the warden attacks him with his cane. Jim forces him into the chair, straps him in, and tries to catch up with Kleed, but only finds the whistle.

It's found that the whistle contains a Franconium pyrite crystal, and that a similar crystal was found implanted in the warden's brain from an operation that had apparently been done on him in secret. When Artie blows the whistle, the crystal moves around and shatters, demonstrating that the whistle is tuned to have an effect on that type of crystal. (If the whistle works on the crystal without the crystal being in it, then why was it in the whistle in the first place?) With the president scheduled to make a visit to the area in a few days, the agents determine the area where the warden would have been traveling when he had the operation, and Jim poses as Carl Storch, the last unfreed convicted killer who's known to have an interest in killing Grant, for a fake transfer in a paddy wagon driven by Artie. A group of uniformed horsemen stop the wagon and free West, and it turns out that the sergeant (Richard Jaeckel) isn't just in charge of the other men, he's controlling them with a dog whistle. Jim volunteers to be the one to off Artie, so that he can be sure to hit him in his bulletproof vest. After Jim is knocked out and taken away, Artie transforms himself and the wagon to pose as a traveling salesman.

Jim comes to, finding himself in a uniform in an underground bunker with a flighty secretary named Josephine (Sheilah Wells) standing over him and General Titus Trask (Don Gordon) in the next room, observing as a uniformed Kleed dodges artillery explosions outside at Vasquez Rocks, and is ultimately run down and speared by a group of whistle-controlled soldiers. When prompted, West-as-Storch recalls that Trask was a sergeant who was booted from the Army by Grant for causing the death of his men on maneuvers. Trask refers to his mind-controlled group of soldiers as his cadre, and clarifies that they're the freed killers who have a hatred for Grant. (If your soldiers are going to be mind-controlled to be fearless and incapable of feeling pain as Titus describes, I could maybe see them being experienced killers still being a desirable quality, but why would they need to have an established motivation to kill Grant?) After having Professor Frimm (Ken Drake) explain to Jim how the whistle gives the commands to people implanted with the crystal, Titus announces that he's decided not to implant "Storch" with the crystal, as he could use a backup second-in-command as a potential replacement for Sergeant Stryker. After they leave, the still alive and bandaged-up Kleed, lying in a bed behind a curtain, tells Stryker that Storch is really James West, secret agent--You've heard of him, right?

Artie follows the explosions as Jim takes his turn dodging them in "Battle Alley"--all that's missing is a guy in a lizard suit. In the bunker, Stryker informs Titus of West's identity. When Stryker brings out the whistle-controlled cadre, Jim takes them all down, but is felled by another shell. Artie works at the larger hideout's door, knocking out a guard with a gas-filled balloon. Sneaking around inside, he stays in character when caught by Josephine, attempting to sell his wares. He shows a sketch of West to her, claiming he's a man who owes him money, and bribes her with truffles. Meanwhile, Jim wakes up strapped to a slab in the professor's lab to find that he's been figuratively unmuttonchopped. Titus informs him that the plan has been modified to capturing the president and performing the operation on him...with the help of the famously trusted James West leading the cadre to divert any suspicion. To that end, the professor is to perform the operation on Jim. (Jim doesn't need to be an experienced enemy operative with a preexisting desire to kidnap the president?)

While the professor's preparing for the operation, Artie sneakily knocks out his assistant (uncredited Duke Fishman) and chloroforms the professor. Jim then bandages his head and rides out to meet up with Titus, Stryker, and the cadre, waiting outside--because you'd just have the mind-controlled agent sent out right after the operation without any recovery or confirming that the operation took place. But apparently they're on a very tight schedule, as they're already overlooking the pass where the presidential escort will be arriving. Jim takes off on before he's supposed to, and the cadre, now conditioned to follow him, do so. He sends them running up Vasquez rocks on foot before Stryker catches up and stops them with a whistle...but Artie, waiting atop the rocks, drops a couple of water cooler bottles of colorful gas that knock out Stryker and the cadre. Titus then approaches West with a gun, but Artie distracts Titus so that Jim can get into a tussle with him, which ends with the faux general taking a fatal fall from the rocks--I guess he was our figurative guy in a lizard suit. The presidential party goes through the pass as scheduled.

In the train coda, Artie's working on making his knockout gas odorless and colorless, when the train suddenly stops, breaking a vial that proves to be effective on him.

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Or The Upsidedown Adventure, as it was called in MAD (or maybe it was Crazy).

According to the Wiki article, the Mad parody called it "The Poopsidedown Adventure," and it was their biggest selling issue. But it also claimed that it was the first issue without Alfred E. Neuman on the cover.

I guess he picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue.

Surely you can't be serious--Leslie Nielsen is an entirely different actor...altogether!

So! It's all his fault!

What's that?

Why would he do such a thing?

Because she's a big sister playing mother?

I don't suppose they censored that.

If they had, I wouldn't be describing it.

Reminds me of The Exorcist, ironically enough.

And that's right around the corner.

Definitely a snapshot of a moment in time with that cast. Of all those disaster movies, I probably enjoyed this one the most, although I mainly found it depressing.

Not as depressing as the book!

I might have expected her to want to go along with them to help talk with the guys, and maybe participate in the search, because it's, y'know, her kid and he's dying.

Cliff described her as being a bit absentee or somesuch, which is why he had to go around her. In any case, she was there in the climax to cradle Cliff after he fell out of the car. Don't think we ever saw her with the kid...he was out of the story once he got taken to the hospital.

He came off as a jerk at the beginning, but the kid had been missing for months at that point, so it was kind of understandable.

He was also barking at Pete in the scene where he was trying to talk to Trudy.

Both of those shows were Aaron Spelling productions.

Hence my suggesting a connection the shows' dramatically different portrayals of female undercover police officers.

Not as "far above his head" as I'd misremembered, but...

 

[Nerys Myk]

Of the Mods, Julie had more of a hippie vibe than Pete.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Kleed: Well...if it ain't the great James West--the secretest secret agent of them all.

He read about him in a fan magazine.

Kleed seizes upon a distraction to slip a dog whistle into his mouth--conveniently not noticed by West

Or the guards, who should be searching prisoners for inappropriate stuff.

Kleed walks out, and when Jim tries to confront the warden, the warden attacks him with his cane.

Since the warden doesn't have the authority to free prisoners and West is Secret Service, why didn't he just stop him? It seems like the guards wouldn't even follow such an order, but back then who knows?

a similar crystal was found implanted in the warden's brain from an operation that had apparently been done on him in secret.

If Dr Loveless can invent interdimensional paintings, I suppose I can accept secret brain surgery in the 1870s.

(If the whistle works on the crystal without the crystal being in it, then why was it in the whistle in the first place?)

Possibly to have a specific effect, rather than just shattering?

a fake transfer in a paddy wagon

Racism! Just kidding. I come from an Irish family and they actually take pride in it.

the sergeant (Richard Jaeckel)

A popular character actor for decades.

a uniformed Kleed dodges artillery explosions outside at Vasquez Rocks, and is ultimately run down and speared by a group of whistle-controlled soldiers.

After all that trouble to acquire him.

(If your soldiers are going to be mind-controlled to be fearless and incapable of feeling pain as Titus describes, I could maybe see them being experienced killers still being a desirable quality, but why would they need to have an established motivation to kill Grant?)

True, and mind controlling them may even compromise their effectiveness.

the still alive and bandaged-up Kleed, lying in a bed behind a curtain, tells Stryker that Storch is really James West, secret agent--You've heard of him, right?

And James West kinda should have seen that coming.

all that's missing is a guy in a lizard suit.

Things are always better with a guy in a lizard suit.

He shows a sketch of West to her, claiming he's a man who owes him money, and bribes her with truffles.

Does Titus get his secretaries from a temp agency or something?

Jim wakes up strapped to a slab in the professor's lab to find that he's been figuratively unmuttonchopped.

Okay, that sentence caused me physical pain.

(Jim doesn't need to be an experienced enemy operative with a preexisting desire to kidnap the president?)

Well, it worked on the warden-- although we don't really know his political views.

because you'd just have the mind-controlled agent sent out right after the operation without any recovery or confirming that the operation took place.

Uh oh! Better get JCAHO! Hmm, I suppose that only works if you know that JCAHO is pronounced Jay-ko.

The presidential party goes through the pass as scheduled.

Aw, no Grant cameo.

Artie's working on making his knockout gas odorless and colorless, when the train suddenly stops, breaking a vial that proves to be effective on him.

That's pretty slapstick.

According to the Wiki article, the Mad parody called it "The Poopsidedown Adventure," and it was their biggest selling issue.

Yup, it was definitely Crazy-- and it was also Crazy's very first issue, which I did not remember.

Surely you can't be serious--Leslie Nielsen is an entirely different actor...altogether!

Oh, right. And don't call me Shirley!

What's that?

Bringing down the wrath of god upon their boat.

If they had, I wouldn't be describing it.

Logical.

And that's right around the corner.

Now there's a scary one.

Not as depressing as the book!

Seriously. That's not a book I want to read.

Cliff described her as being a bit absentee or somesuch, which is why he had to go around her. In any case, she was there in the climax to cradle Cliff after he fell out of the car. Don't think we ever saw her with the kid...he was out of the story once he got taken to the hospital.

Okay, I'm on Team Gramps. Gramps gets the kid.

Hence my suggesting a connection the shows' dramatically different portrayals of female undercover police officers.

True. Although he did Honey West prior to Mod Squad. On the other hand, The Rookies was also on the air around this time and I don't think they had any female officers at all.

Not as "far above his head" as I'd misremembered, but...

A miss is as good as a mile.

Of the Mods, Julie had more of a hippie vibe than Pete.

Yeah, she was kind of the Flower Child type.

 

[The Old Mixer]

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Post-50th Anniversary Viewing

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The Mod Squad
"A Short Course in War"
Originally aired January 5, 1971

A campus demonstration may turn into a bloody conflict if a mentally disturbed student has his way.

An ordinary day at City College...[/BatmanAnnouncer] Miss Osgood (Josephine Hutchinson) is giving a lecture about ancient Greek worship when, led by instigator Jeff Dalton (Jack Bender), most of the students break out into humming in unison to disrupt the class. When part-timer Julie questions what their game is, Dalton gets on his soapbox about a revolution to force change in the outdated curriculum. Osgood tries to reason with the students, but they continue the protest, causing her to storm out in frustration, and Julie is labeled a sell-out for following her. (If only they knew...) Dalton then schedules a committee meeting about a bigger follow-up for the next day, and another outsider, a meek-seeming, overdressed student named Walter (Bob Balaban), expresses interest in joining but is ignored.

The guys are playing chess at Julie's pad while she's moping about having to switch to auditing a different course. Linc offers to take her to the campus before the registrar closes...which conveniently interrupts Pete's impending checkmate. Pete goes along and the guys are waiting for Julie when a rowdy group of students unload out of car packed with gear. Julie's told she has to get Osgood's signature before the building closes, having hoped to avoid facing her about dropping the class. Osgood is disarmingly polite, expressing appreciation for Julie's support. Outside, the guys have a strange run-in with an uptight Walter, now wearing a fatigue jacket with a uniform-looking shirt and tie underneath, lugging a heavy case, and expressing concern about the time. Osgood's alarm clock goes off, reminding her to take her medicine, but it's not in her purse, so she continues her discussion with Julie, only for the Dalton-led group of student protestors to overrun and occupy the building. They insist that Osgood has to stay, and Julie volunteers to stay with her. As the students begin boarding up the doors, Osgood tries to ask to go to her car for something but doesn't fully explain herself, so Dalton refuses. Walter pops in offering to help, but he's not a member of the committee, so Dalton has him kicked out. The guys watch from outside as Dalton gives a speech from the third-floor window of the dean's office via bullhorn, demanding that the dean be brought before him, holding the building's records and Miss Osgood hostage.

Greer shows up in an unofficial capacity. Inside, Osgood starts coughing and pleads to leave again, but Dalton just uses it as an opportunity to get in some propaganda. Osgood confides in Julie that she has a heart condition, which she's kept secret from the board of trustees for fear that they'd retire her. Julie goes to Dalton about this, and he takes her seriously, but is interrupted by the arrival of Dean Harris (Paul Kent), and proceeds to deliver his list of demands out the window. The dean counters that they have to vacate the office before he can do anything. The students respond by dropping firecrackers out the window, but while those are going off, the dean and others start falling...to automatic rifle fire from an adjacent window, sending the crowd outside scattering for cover. Dalton and his posse burst into the next office to find that Walter is the gunman, and looking very pleased with himself.

Walter tells a horrified Dalton that he's just carrying out the threat of war in Dalton's inflammatory rhetoric. When Dalton isn't cool with that, Walter declares him to be a gutless, bleeding-heart traitor, and forces Dalton's right-hand man, Lon (Mike Warren), to tie him to a radiator. With the Dean and five others having been shot and Walter making statements out the window while claiming to represent the committee, Greer and campus security don't know what they're up against, having to assume that other student occupants are in on it despite a member of the committee in their custody protesting otherwise. As reinforcements arrive, Pete and Linc decide to have an unauthorized look inside before the situation escalates. Julie approaches Walter about Osgood needing her medicine, and is making progress by appealing to his desire to be seen as a leader, when Lon takes the opportunity to make a lunge for Walter's unattended rifle, and Walter shoots him with a pistol. This causes Walter to go over the edge, assuming that it was all a trick and declaring all of the students present to be lying enemies and now his additional hostages.

Linc calls Greer via a campus phone and the captain directs them to a ventilation shaft they can use to gether intel about what the situation is in the dean's office, but no heroics! They crawl into place and start to work on unscrewing a pair of ceiling grates, with everyone but Walter noticing and keeping mum. Greer gets on a bullhorn to serve as a distraction for the guys, but Walter, having demanded no police or national guard, fires on and wings him. Osgood then picks up where Greer left off, leading the students in starting a Greek battle song. Everyone joins, including Dalton, singing and clapping in time to cover the noise that Walter had started to notice. A disoriented Walter points his rifle at Osgood and demands that she stop the commotion, and then Pete and Linc jump down and subdue him. Pete informs Greer that it's over, but it proves to be a sober victory, as Osgood has succumbed to her condition. A tearful Julie takes her limp, extended hand.

Julie has a look around Osgood's office--its window now boarded up and the desks scattered about. Dalton, about to be taken away by Greer, expresses his regret, and Julie tells him to read the next lesson that Osgood had marked in her book. Osgood's voiceover recites a passage about those who love reaping of this life and planting the seeds of tomorrow, as the Mods walk out of the building and into the parking lot.

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The Mod Squad
"Kicks Incorporated"
Originally aired January 12, 1971

The Squad investigates a unique nuisance racket headed by a man who turns out to be a close friend of Greer's.

An organized gang of youths is committing preplanned acts of vandalism and harassment, including spray-painting cars, making obscene phone calls, and scattering trash on people's lawns and tearing out their mailboxes. At HQ, a lieutenant who's not important enough to get a name but does know about the Mods (Fred Holliday) makes a deal with Greer that if he can produce an eyewitness, Greer will assign his kids to the case. Greer gets an office visit from his close friend Perry Lemko (Jack Cassidy) with the intent of taking off for an afternoon of golf when the lieutenant rushes in to breathlessly report that he's found his witness. The woman, Mrs. Hamilton (Barbara Rush), has been regularly receiving obscene calls that are always accompanied by other acts of vandalism such as those described. The only person she can think of that might have it in for her so badly is Melba Norwood, a woman who's seeing her ex-husband. As agreed upon, Greer goes to the Mods...

Pete: Terrific! I've never set a trap for a kid dumping garbage before.​

Mrs. Norwood waits by the phone while Pete and Julie stake the place out in a car across the street, pretending to make out whenever another car comes by. When she gets her call, Norwood signals the Mods by walkie talkie, and they relay it to Linc around the block. The vandals pull up, one of them (Skip [Cal Wilson]) starts dumping garbage, and Pete gets in a tussle with him, causing the driver (Johnny [Richard Kim Milford]) to split. Then Linc screeches up and intervenes--slugging Pete! Linc then serves as Skip's backup getaway. Skip meets up with Johnny at a diner, and when he offers Linc some good bread for helping out, Linc expresses an interest in getting a piece of their action. The vandals have Linc hand over his ID for verification by whoever's running the show.

Johnny picks up Linc by night for a trial run, returning his ID. Linc's missions, which he chooses to accept, include dumping detergent into a lawn fountain, shooting car tires with a dart gun, running a garden hose into a mail slot, and putting a load of fish into the retracted top of a convertible. Johnny then takes Linc to an office marked "Fun and Games Ltd." for payment. There a group of youths make calls and plot on a map, supervised by an older leader (Leo Gordon). The group is addressed via speaker by the mastermind behind the operation, whom they call the Cheerleader--Lemko, as you already know--who refers to them as Unit Five; rewards them with a stock dividend; and indicates that the acts are reviewed and authorized to fall short of felony. Linc reports to Greer and the others that the organization's services are for hire to anyone who approaches them wanting to harass somebody, with considerably varying rates. Greer wants to move in immediately, but when he and the lieutenant follow Linc to the F&G office, Linc finds it cleared out.

Linc hangs around the diner, where Johnny eventually shows his head and explains that the "shut down" is a routine precaution that the Cheerleader insists upon from time to time. Julie comes up with the idea of trying the other end of the operation, by getting info from a satisfied customer. Thus she pays a visit to Melba Norwood (Diane McBain), pretending to represent the organization and wanting to conduct a survey. It turns out that Melba only hired them impulsively while drunk and in a bad mood, but has no complaints. Julie tries the number that Norwood called, but only gets one of those answering machines that's newfangled enough that Julie has to describe the "wait for the beep" part. While the Mods are assembled in Greer's office, he gets a call from Lemko wanting to set up another golf date. Linc recognizes his voice and idiosyncrasy of sprinkling in French phrases on the speaker. When the call is over, Greer treats Linc's accusation as a joke, but the Mods challenge him to give them information about Lemko if the man has nothing hide.

Pete: Linc has a funny little habit of being right.​

At the golf course, Lemko introduces Greer to his "good friend" Danny Thomas (the show's co-executive producer as himself)--who, in a nice touch, clearly isn't as familiar with Lemko as Lemko pretends to be with him. Linc and Pete watch from afar as Lemko gets a taste of his own medicine, finding that his entire set of clubs has been sabotaged to come apart...to Thomas's bewildered amusement.

Lemko returns with Greer to his stately manor (one of those familiar-from-use Beverly Hills homes that happens to look a lot like Wayne Manor, but doesn't seem to quite match up) to find graffiti spray-painted on his car; garbage dumped all over his lawn; his water hose bunched up on his steps so that it sprays him when he tries to move it; his door knob sawed off; and the door itself unhinged so that it falls in. A furious Greer shows up at Pete's pad looking for Linc (they seem to have forgotten that Linc has his own place), but Pete coolly informs the captain that their investigations have turned up that Lemko is a man of mysterious means who doesn't file for income tax, which puts Greer on the defensive concerning how little he knows about Perry.

Greer: He's a friend of Danny Thomas!​

Greer leaves having resolved to conduct his own investigation of Lemko; and Linc comes out of hiding. At home, Lemko continues to be frustrated by the Mods' pranks, which include ringing his phone off the hook and sabotaging his shower and desk chair. Lemko answers the phone to speak to Linc, who offers to make a deal with him and lets on that he has inside knowledge of the operation. Linc visits Lemko Manor uncharacteristically brandishing a gun to discuss terms of partnership. Disarmed by Linc acting paranoid of a trap, Lemko calmly answers questions about his organization, which consists of eight units; and then takes the first opportunity to grab Linc's gun and lead him out...to where Greer, Pete, and a couple of conventionally uniformed officers are waiting. Linc takes back the gun and pulls the trigger to release a flag reading "Peace".

Lemko: Well...may I say, young man, well played.
Linc: Merci beaucoup.​

Julie arrives to see Lemko being driven away in a squad car, and Greer and the Mods start to do the usual walk-off on Lemko's lawn...only to end up breaking into a run when they trip a sprinkler trap previously set by Linc and Pete. In a final humorous touch, animated water drops run down the screen, washing away the pre-closing credits as they appear.




That's a pair of episodes that certainly demonstrates the full range of the show, doesn't it? I hope that they made a point of rerunning this one around April 1. I think the main guy who was seen working the phone bank was an uncredited Elliott Street, who has a role in the next episode.

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Since the warden doesn't have the authority to free prisoners and West is Secret Service, why didn't he just stop him? It seems like the guards wouldn't even follow such an order, but back then who knows?

Who needs mind control surgery when you've got extras who mindlessly follow orders?

Possibly to have a specific effect, rather than just shattering?

Maybe.

Racism! Just kidding. I come from an Irish family and they actually take pride in it.

Don't think I'd ever realized the origin of the term, it's so common.

And James West kinda should have seen that coming.

In general, yes. In that specific circumstance, we were led to believe that Kleed had been killed.

Does Titus get his secretaries from a temp agency or something?

This was a particularly underwhelming main female guest...just a kooky-acting moll who didn't serve much of a purpose in the plot.

Okay, that sentence caused me physical pain.

The seeming wordplay in the first part was entirely accidental, FWIW.

Yup, it was definitely Crazy-- and it was also Crazy's very first issue, which I did not remember.

I was thinking of mentioning that Crazy was just getting started around this point in '73.

Oh, right. And don't call me Shirley!

You'd have scored better if you'd worked in a "LESLIE NIELSEN IS AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT ACTOR."

Bringing down the wrath of god upon their boat.

Ah.

Logical.

Seriously. That's not a book I want to read.

I guess that the half-full portion of the glass is that more people survived...but the ones you were invested in following died and suffered for nothing. Rogo's dramatic condemnation of Scott would play better in the book version, where it turned out Scott really was getting them killed rather than saving them.

Okay, I'm on Team Gramps. Gramps gets the kid.

And the kid is raised as a tool of the establishment.

Although he did Honey West prior to Mod Squad.

Geez, I'd already forgotten about that.

A miss is as good as a mile.

Hell, a kid who really had to go could have fun in there.

Yeah, she was kind of the Flower Child type.

She looked it, but acted very straight.

 

[RJDiogenes]

An ordinary day at City College...[/BatmanAnnouncer]

They should have used the Batman announcer on the next episode.

Dalton gets on his soapbox about a revolution to force change in the outdated curriculum.

Dude, it's a history class. Outdated is the point.

Julie is labeled a sell-out for following her. (If only they knew...)

I was about to say.

Walter (Bob Balaban)

Chandrasekhar in 2010, and I'm pretty sure something else that I'm forgetting.

Linc offers to take her to the campus

Is there any consistency about who has a car and who doesn't?

an uptight Walter, now wearing a fatigue jacket with a uniform-looking shirt and tie underneath, lugging a heavy case, and expressing concern about the time.

That would certainly draw attention these days.

Greer shows up in an unofficial capacity.

He just sensed the Mods were in a situation?

Walter tells a horrified Dalton that he's just carrying out the threat of war in Dalton's inflammatory rhetoric.

You've created a monster, Dalton.

tie him to a radiator

Ouch!

With the Dean and five others having been shot

Wounded? Killed?

Pete and Linc decide to have an unauthorized look inside before the situation escalates.

Escalation is well under way.

but no heroics!

Heck, no.

They crawl into place and start to work on unscrewing a pair of ceiling grates

In preparation for heroics.

Greer gets on a bullhorn to serve as a distraction for the guys, but Walter, having demanded no police or national guard, fires on and wings him.

Whoa. You know things are heavy when Greer gets shot.

Pete informs Greer that it's over, but it proves to be a sober victory, as Osgood has succumbed to her condition. A tearful Julie takes her limp, extended hand.

Damn. And that's on Dalton's head.

Dalton, about to be taken away by Greer, expresses his regret, and Julie tells him to read the next lesson that Osgood had marked in her book. Osgood's voiceover recites a passage about those who love reaping of this life and planting the seeds of tomorrow, as the Mods walk out of the building and into the parking lot.

Well, that's definitely a high point for the show and a lesson even more relevant for today. Well done.

An organized gang of youths is committing preplanned acts of vandalism and harassment, including spray-painting cars, making obscene phone calls, and scattering trash on people's lawns and tearing out their mailboxes.

All signs point to the Joker.

Perry Lemko (Jack Cassidy)

Father of David and Sean, and a very strange, sad man.

The woman, Mrs. Hamilton (Barbara Rush), has been regularly receiving obscene calls that are always accompanied by other acts of vandalism such as those described.

Regularly? This seems to contradict the other woman's later testimony.

Pete: Terrific! I've never set a trap for a kid dumping garbage before.

"Holy litterbugs, captain!"

Then Linc screeches up and intervenes--slugging Pete!

Plot twist!

The vandals have Linc hand over his ID for verification by whoever's running the show.

"Oh, you're a cop. Just the kind of man we're looking for!"

Linc's missions, which he chooses to accept, include dumping detergent into a lawn fountain, shooting car tires with a dart gun, running a garden hose into a mail slot, and putting a load of fish into the retracted top of a convertible.

I'd kind of be contemplating switching sides at this point.

who refers to them as Unit Five

Backdoor pilot.

and indicates that the acts are reviewed and authorized to fall short of felony.

No Felony Squad crossover this week.

Thus she pays a visit to Melba Norwood (Diane McBain), pretending to represent the organization and wanting to conduct a survey.

"How likely are you to recommend our services to a friend or relative?"

It turns out that Melba only hired them impulsively while drunk and in a bad mood, but has no complaints.

She must be frequently drunk and impulsive, based on what her victim said.

one of those answering machines that's newfangled enough that Julie has to describe the "wait for the beep" part.

"Press 1 for Garbage, Press 2 for Fish...."

Lemko introduces Greer to his "good friend" Danny Thomas

Didn't see that coming.

Lemko returns with Greer to his stately manor (one of those familiar-from-use Beverly Hills homes that happens to look a lot like Wayne Manor, but doesn't seem to quite match up) to find graffiti spray-painted on his car; garbage dumped all over his lawn; his water hose bunched up on his steps so that it sprays him when he tries to move it; his door knob sawed off; and the door itself unhinged so that it falls in.

That's hilarious.

A furious Greer shows up at Pete's pad looking for Linc (they seem to have forgotten that Linc has his own place)

He doesn't live with Julie anymore?

Greer: He's a friend of Danny Thomas!

Linc takes back the gun and pulls the trigger to release a flag reading "Peace".

Lemko: Well...may I say, young man, well played.
Linc: Merci beaucoup.

Wow.

Greer and the Mods start to do the usual walk-off on Lemko's lawn...only to end up breaking into a run when they trip a sprinkler trap previously set by Linc and Pete. In a final humorous touch, animated water drops run down the screen, washing away the pre-closing credits as they appear.

Well played, indeed.

That's a pair of episodes that certainly demonstrates the full range of the show, doesn't it?

Yeah, these were definitely two of the best we've had so far.

Don't think I'd ever realized the origin of the term, it's so common.

When I was a kid in Dorchester, there were a lot of sirens, and whenever a siren would go by one of my relatives would inevitably say, "There goes the Paddy Wagon."

The seeming wordplay in the first part was entirely accidental, FWIW.

I had a feeling.

I was thinking of mentioning that Crazy was just getting started around this point in '73.

I still remember seeing it there on the newsstand as I was looking for the latest issue of MAD. I was so excited.

You'd have scored better if you'd worked in a "LESLIE NIELSEN IS AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT ACTOR."

I would have, but I seem to have forgotten yet something else.

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Well, there's no questioning his heroism, that's for sure.

I guess that the half-full portion of the glass is that more people survived...but the ones you were invested in following died and suffered for nothing. Rogo's dramatic condemnation of Scott would play better in the book version, where it turned out Scott really was getting them killed rather than saving them.

Yeah, it's very nihilistic. Which works for something like Night of the Living Dead, but not for something like this.

And the kid is raised as a tool of the establishment.

Better than those two kooks.

Hell, a kid who really had to go could have fun in there.

She looked it, but acted very straight.

Well, she's a sell out now.

 

[The Old Mixer]

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Post-50th Anniversary Viewing

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The Mod Squad
"A Bummer for R.J."
Originally aired January 19, 1971

Carl Betz plays a disillusioned solid citizen who becomes involved in the death of a hippie girl. He's seeking the girl's killer while his heartsick daughter searches desperately for him.

At a groovy club, older swinger Robert "R.J." Coleman (Betz) makes inroads with a young redhead named Donna (Brooke Mills), who takes him back to her beaded pad. While the pair start to make out, a man outside the window is ready with a camera (Dan[iel J.] Travanty). R.J. has flashes of his daughter (Tracy Reilly) and starts to back out, but the photographer comes in with a gun, and it becomes clear that it was all a setup that Donna was in on. R.J. and the photographer struggle over the gun, and a stray shot fatally hits Donna. Both men split, though R.J. checks on her first.

Meanwhile, a more grown-up version of R.J.'s daughter, Lorrie (Clark's high school sweetheart and mother, Annette O'Toole), is hitting the hippie scene showing an outdated picture of her old man, who split after he divorced her mother and has reportedly turned "flower child". Lorrie's wallet is pilfered at a sidewalk cafe, so she drops in on her friend Julie--who's painting her pad and--get this--has to call in to bow out of coming in for a case, because she has company! Pete and Linc are assigned to investigate the murder of Donna Pierson. The elder, hard-of-hearing waiter at the disco, Leo (Herbie Faye), tells magazine reporter Linc that Donna used to get a lot of older men loaded. Pete talks to Lois Johnson (Joyce Jameson), a flaky neighbor of Donna's who gave the police a description of R.J., learning that Donna worked as model and that the guy she was most frequently seen with was named Johnny. He then hits the studio and talks to another redheaded model, Tonie (Barbara Rhoades), during a shoot in a bikini (though they initially tease us into thinking she's nude). She's evasive, but after Pete leaves, Johnny--the photographer--comes out of hiding...threatening Tonie to report to him if she sees Pete again.

Linc and Pete, now with a new gold Challenger, pick up Julie.

Julie: What does the captain want?
Pete: You...working.
Julie: Figures.​

R.J. hits the bus station, sees Lorrie showing his picture around, and hides from her. He calls a friend to loan him some money, and the friend insists on seeing him. Back at Julie's pad, the guys find Lorrie's picture of his father, and when they hear that's gone hippie, realize that he resembles the man in the police sketch; and have a police artist make a more detailed sketch of Coleman with the longer hair and sideburns in the original. Meanwhile, R.J. questions a Mexican-dressed hippie named Fleas (Elliott Street) who sits on the street outside the disco selling dogs, asking about a man fitting the photographer's description who might have been seen with Donna. Fleas gives him the name Johnny Graham, then calls Johnny to tip him off about the guy who's asking about him. Johnny loads his gun.

Pete and Linc show around the new sketch and get no hits. Lorrie tells Julie that she's got a fresh lead on her father and Julie conspicuously clams up. R.J.'s straight friend Arlen Rogers (Robert Patten) visits his shabby digs and R.J. breaks down, talking a bit about the circumstances of his divorce (which involved his wife seeing another man) before Arlen leaves the money. R.J. then stakes out a restaurant called Arlo's that Fleas told him about and is approached by Johnny. A scuffle ensues, Johnny threatens R.J. with his gun, and both split at the sound of a siren. The guys show the sketch of Coleman to an eyewitness, learn that he was injured in the scuffle, and find him at a free clinic. At Julie's, Coleman tells the assembled Mods the full story of what happened with Johnny and Donna, and talks a bit about how he tried to change himself, thinking that he might win his wife back. While the Mods are staking out the hangouts looking for Johnny, R.J. is cooling his heels at Julie's, makes the connection that Fleas ratted on him, and takes off, leaving a brief, apologetic note written in lipstick on a newspaper.

R.J. confronts Fleas in an alley outside the disco. Julie gets a call that somebody fitting Coleman's description was just in a scuffle, and the guys proceed to the free clinic to talk to the injured other party, Fleas. He gives them Johnny's address, where Coleman goes, getting into a scuffle and chase. The Mods and Lorrie, who's since been filled in by Julie, screech up during the action, and Linc's gravity-defying stunt double earns his paycheck, subduing Johnny with Pete's help. Father and daughter tearfully reunite.

Outside the courtroom, a dressed-up but still sideburned Coleman reports that charges have been dropped against him and walks off with Lorrie; and Linc reports that Johnny's being charged with second-degree murder. Not looking forward to reporting to the captain the next day (having stayed on the case against his orders somewhere along the way), the Mods load into the Challenger and drive off.

_______

The Mod Squad
"The Hot, Hot Car"
Originally aired January 26, 1971

The squad begins an intense search for a stolen car---wired with a bomb set to go off in eight hours.

At Amfor Industries, an executive named Sims (Arthur Franz) is planning an out-of-town trip in a Dictaphone when he sees a pair of professional car thieves (Frank [Lloyd Battista] and Kurt [John Gruber]) who drove in via a Quik-Key Service van taking his partner's car, a blue 1970 Continental. Sims has a visible internal struggle about calling the police; after he does, he informs Greer that he'd wired the car with dynamite, set to detonate at 5:00 p.m.--less than eight hours away. Sims explains that his partner was heading out of town for the weekend to meet Mrs. Sims; and Greer offers that the charge will only be attempted murder if, with Sims's full cooperation, they can find the car on time.

The thieves turn the car over to their client, a smooth operator they know only as Dirk (Greg Mullavey), who quickly arranges to have a fender scrape buffed out and the car painted. Then, in his official capacity as Dirk Keats of the Travelcar Agency, he arranges to have a couple named the Thomases pick up the car that afternoon to drive it to New Orleans. Greer quickly gets Pete and Linc on the case, as it connects with a car theft operation they've already been investigating. In an unusually direct bit of business, the Mods confront the thieves at their garage, roughing them up and laying on them exactly what's happening to try to get them to talk. (If there wasn't a literal ticking bomb in the episode, they'd normally have gone undercover and stuff.) The thieves are unable to provide any clues to Dirk's identity, but the locations of their exchanges with him narrow the search to a four-mile radius.

Finally earning her check for something other than having house guests, Julie drives a catering van around to auto repair places in the search area. Dirk has just driven away with the canary yellow Continental when Julie pulls into Beryl's Auto Body Shop to sell coffee to the proprietor (Ned Glass), and scope the place out. On a snoopy trip to the washroom, she spies a sander with blue paint on it and collects a sample. Elsewhere and as anticipated by Greer, Dirk takes the car to a specialist in changing engine numbers using acid (Frank Farmer). Back at the agency, Dirk interviews the Thomases--George (Robert Donner), his wife (Tamar Cooper), and young daughter, Jill (Shannon Terhune)...a down-on-their luck rural family who applied to drive a car to Orleans because George has a gas station job lined up there.

Under separate covers as a phone company guy and fast-talking salesman, Pete and Linc scope out places where the engine work might be done; while Greer leans on Beryl to determine the color that the car was painted. Julie drives her wagon up to the right place and spots the car while money is being exchanged, and lets herself be seen. After being interrupted by a random jogger (Robert Miller Driscoll) wanting to make an order, Julie starts to radio in to Greer only to be slugged unconscious by repeated blows from Dirk, who puts her in the Continental and, after another interruption from the unwary jogger, hurries away.

Jogger: You know, the women these days are really something. All this talk about liberation and everything, and when you want a sandwich, you can't even find one.​

Being only an amateur kidnapper, Dirk takes Julie bound, blindfolded, and gagged to his home, and while he's making a call to his partner in Orleans in another room, Julie--her legs being untied--gets up and tries to feel her way to a door, but is caught. With Julie tied more securely on the couch, he goes back to the agency to put the Thomases in their ride. Meanwhile, Julie's van is found at Betts Metalworks, so Greer leans on the proprietor, who has a picture he posed for with Dirk's car in the background, from which Greer and the guys are able to work out potential numbers on a blurry, partially obscured plate. Dirk is home again when Greer and the Mods come knocking. He tries to make a break for it, jumping off a second-floor balcony to be run down by Pete and Linc, who lean on him for info while Greer sees to an unblemished but still punch-drunk Julie.

Pete: By the time you get out of jail, cars are gonna be a thing of the past, now tell us!​

Dirk directs them to the Thomases and their planned route, Interstate 10. Greer and the guys go up in an air rescue chopper and spot the car; Greer then gets on the loudspeaker, addresses the Thomases by name, and orders them to pull over. They comply, the chopper lands on the side of the highway, and Greer and the guys pull the Thomases out of the car and rush them to a ditch just in time for the car to go up.

Info gained from Dirk and his home blow his hot car ring wide open, determining that the cars were being used in a rental agency in Orleans. Greer offer the Thomases a ride back into town in the chopper to hook them up with a new car, and Pete and Linc--as well as a paramedic squad truck and a CLE squad car--drive off, leaving the remains of the Continental on the highway. (Apparently nobody called the bomb squad, even though they were pursuing a vehicle known to have a bomb attached to it.)

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Dude, it's a history class. Outdated is the point.

Also a required course for humanities majors, which was their beef with it.

Chandrasekhar in 2010, and I'm pretty sure something else that I'm forgetting.

Russell Dalrymple, the TV executive on Seinfeld! I hadn't realized until I looked him up.

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Is there any consistency about who has a car and who doesn't?

Pete and Linc seem to be sharing it.

He just sensed the Mods were in a situation?

Pete called him.

You've created a monster, Dalton.

I think Walter had a monster in him waiting for an opportunity to come out.

Ouch!

It was a shirt-sleeve day.

Wounded? Killed?

It seems it was the dean and six others; five wounded, including the dean; two students dead.

Escalation is well under way.

Escalation by the authorities--storming the place and killing the hostages inside, thinking they were in on it.

Damn. And that's on Dalton's head.

Left to his own devices, he was about to let her go. He lost control of the situation.

Regularly? This seems to contradict the other woman's later testimony.

She hired them for an ongoing harassment service, not one incident.

"Oh, you're a cop. Just the kind of man we're looking for!"

Not that ID, obviously.

I'd kind of be contemplating switching sides at this point.

"How likely are you to recommend our services to a friend or relative?"

Pretty much.

"Press 1 for Garbage, Press 2 for Fish...."

I don't think that was a thing yet.

Didn't see that coming.

Make room for caddie.

I still remember seeing it there on the newsstand as I was looking for the latest issue of MAD. I was so excited.

If you'd been reading Marvels at that point, you would have seen it hyped in Bullpen Bulletins.

I would have, but I seem to have forgotten yet something else.

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[Nerys Myk]

She looked it, but acted very straight.

She always sounded kind of high.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

Well, here it is. After years of Covid related delays, the 50th Anniversary 'Who's Next/Life House' Box set, with the 'Life House' demos sequenced as Pete intended

WHO’S NEXT / LIFE HOUSE Super Deluxe Edition contains 10-CDs all remastered from original tapes by long time Who engineer Jon Astley as well as a Blu-ray Audio disc with newly made Atmos & 5.1 surround mixes of the original album and 14 bonus tracks by Steven Wilson. The set features 155 total tracks including 89 unreleased tracks & mixes and another 57 previously released tracks but with a fresh remix. Showcased are Pete Townshend’s Life House demos, the band’s Record Plant NYC 1971 sessions, the Olympic Studios 1970-1972 sessions, singles & additional sessions, and 2 complete concerts for the first-time ever from London’s Young Vic Theatre and San Francisco’s Civic Auditorium both from 1971 and newly mixed.

The box contains a 100-page hard back book designed by Richard Evans with an introduction by Pete Townshend and new sleeve notes by compilers Andy Neil and Matt Kent giving an overview of this classic album as well as rare photos and memorabilia from the era.

Life House – The Graphic Novel is a newly commissioned work putting the album’s story into an interpretation in words and pictures of the story, it is a 172-page hard backed book and overseen by Pete Townshend.

To round off this exceptional set there is a wallet containing a 20” x 30” poster of a gig in Sunderland, England, May 7, 1970; a 25.5” x 34.25 poster of a gig at Denver Coliseum, Denver, CO, December 10, 1971; a 20-page concert program from the Rainbow Theatre, London, November 4, 1971; a 16-page UK tour program, October/November 1971; a collectible four pin button set; and an 8” x 10” color photo of The Who with printed autographs.

CD ONE: WHO’S NEXT (Remastered)
1. Baba O’Riley
2. Bargain
3. Love Ain’t for Keeping
4. My Wife
5. The Song Is Over
6. Getting In Tune
7. Going Mobile
8. Behind Blue Eyes
9. Won’t Get Fooled Again

CD TWO: PETE TOWNSHEND'S LIFE HOUSE DEMOS 1970 - 1971 – PART 1
1. Teenage Wasteland (Demo)*
2. Too Much (Demo) *
3. Going Mobile (Demo)*
4. There's A Fortune in Those Hills (Demo)*
5. Love Ain't For Keeping (Demo)*
6. Bargain (Demo)*
7. Greyhound Girl (Demo)*
8. Mary (Alternate Mix) (Demo)**
9. Behind Blue Eyes (Demo)*
10. Time Is Passing (Demo)*
11. Finally, Over (Demo)**
12. Baba O'Riley (Original Demo)**

CD THREE: PETE TOWNSHEND'S LIFE HOUSE DEMOS 1970 – 1971 – PART 2
1. Pure And Easy (Home Studio Mix) (Demo)*
2. Getting In Tune (Alternate Mix) (Demo)**
3. Nothing Is Everything (Let's See Action) (Demo)*
4. Won't Get Fooled Again (Demo)*
5. Baba O'Riley (Demo)*
6. Song Is Over (2021 Remix) (Demo)**
7. Pure And Easy (Olympic Studios Mix) (Demo)**
8. Mary (Original Mix) (Demo)*
9. Baba O'Riley (First Editing Demo)**
10. Song Is Over (Original Demo)*

CD FOUR: RECORD PLANT, NYC SESSIONS MARCH 1971
1. Don’t Do It (aka Baby Don’t You Do It) [Take 2, Unedited, March 16, 1971]**
2. Won’t Get Fooled Again [Take 13, March 16, 1971]*
3. Behind Blue Eyes (Version 1) [Take 15, March 16, 1971]**
4. Love Ain't For Keeping [Take 14, March 17, 1971]*
5. The Note (aka Pure and Easy) [Take 21, March 17, 1971]*
6. I’m In Tune (aka Getting in Tune) [Take 6, March 18, 1971*
7. Behind Blue Eyes (Version 2) [Take 10, March 18, 1971]*

CD FIVE: OLYMPIC SOUND STUDIOS, LONDON SESSIONS 1970-72
1. Pure And Easy*
2. I Don’t Know Myself [B-side with Unreleased Count-in]
3. Time Is Passing [Stereo Mix]**
4. Too Much of Anything [Original 1971 Vocal]**
5. Naked Eye [1971 Remake]**
6. Bargain (Early Mix)**
7. Love Ain't For Keeping (Unedited Mix)**
8. My Wife (Unedited Mix)**
9. Getting In Tune (Take 1 with Jam)**
10. Going Mobile (Alternate Mix)**
11. Song Is Over (Backing Track) [with Nicky Hopkins]**
12. When I Was a Boy**
13. Let's See Action (Unedited Mix)**
14. Relay (Unedited Mix) [Alternate Vocal]**
15. Put The Money Down [Remix with Original Vocal]*
16. Join Together [Unedited Remix]**

CD SIX: SINGLES & SESSIONS 1970-72
1. The Seeker (Original Single Mix)
2. Here For More [Original Single Mix]
3. Heaven And Hell [New Stereo Mix]**
4. Water [Eel Pie Sound Studio – New Unedited Mix]**
5. I Don't Know Myself [Eel Pie Sound Studio – New Unedited Mix]**
6. Naked Eye [Eel Pie Sound Studio – New Unedited Mix]**
7. Postcard [Eel Pie Sound Studio – Original 1970 Mix]**
8. Now I'm A Farmer [Eel Pie Sound Studio – New Remix]**
9. The Seeker (Unedited Version)**
10. Water (IBC Version)**
11. I Don’t Know Myself (IBC Version)**
12. Let's See Action (Original Single Mix)
13. When I Was a Boy (Original Single Mix)
14. Join Together (Original Single Mix)
15. Relay (Original Single Mix)
16. Waspman (Original Single Mix)
17. Long Live Rock (Original Olympic Mix)

CD SEVEN: LIVE AT THE YOUNG VIC, LONDON – APRIL 26, 1971
1. Love Ain’t for Keeping*
2. Pure And Easy*
3. Young Man Blues*
4. Time Is Passing*
5. Behind Blue Eyes*
6. I Don’t Even Know Myself*
7. Too Much of Anything*
8. Getting In Tune*
9. Bargain*

CD EIGHT: LIVE AT THE YOUNG VIC, LONDON – APRIL 26, 1971
1. Pinball Wizard**
2. See Me, Feel Me**
3. Baby Don’t You Do It*
4. Water*
5. My Generation*
6. (I’m A) Road Runner*
7. Naked Eye*
8. Bony Moronie*
9. Won’t Get Fooled Again*

CD NINE: LIVE AT THE CIVIC AUDITORIUM, SAN FRANCISCO – DECEMBER 12, 1971
1. Introduction**
2. I Can't Explain*
3. Substitute*
4. Summertime Blues**
5. My Wife*
6. Baba O'Riley**
7. Behind Blue Eyes*
8. Bargain*
9. Won't Get Fooled Again**
10. Baby Don't You Do It*
11. Magic Bus**

CD TEN: LIVE AT THE CIVIC AUDITORIUM, SAN FRANCISCO – DECEMBER 12, 1971
1. Introduction To Tommy**
2. Overture**
3. Amazing Journey**
4. Sparks**
5. Pinball Wizard**
6. See Me Feel Me**
7. My Generation**
8. Naked Eye*
9. Going Down*

BLU-RAY AUDIO:
Steven Wilson Atmos Mix (48kHz 24-bit)**
Steven Wilson 5.1 Mix (48kHz 24-bit)**
Steven Wilson Stereo Mix (96kHz 24-bit)*
Original 1971 Stereo Mix (96kHz 24-bit)
1. Baba O’Riley
2. Bargain
3. Love Ain’t For Keeping
4. My Wife
5. The Song Is Over
6. Getting In Tune
7. Going Mobile
8. Behind Blue Eyes
9. Won’t Get Fooled Again

Bonus Tracks:
Steven Wilson Atmos Mix (48kHz 24-bit)
Steven Wilson 5.1 Mix (48kHz 24-bit)
1. The Seeker (Unedited Version)**
2. Here For More*
3. Now I'm A Farmer**
4. I Don't Know Myself (Eel Pie Sound Version)**
5. Water (IBC Version)**
6. Naked Eye (Olympic Sound Version)**
7. Pure And Easy**
8. Too Much of Anything**
9. Let's See Action**
10. When I Was a Boy**
11. Join Together (Unedited Version)**
12. Put The Money Down**
13. Relay (Unedited Version)**
14. Long Live Rock**

There are some live performances from this era that aren't on the box set, but otherwise this is everything associated with 'Who's Next'/'Life House'.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

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R.I.P. Randy Meisner. This probably ranks up there as one of the great vocal performances of any song of any genre; and that little smile there near the end when he knows he hit the high note and the audience response.

 

[RJDiogenes]

"A Bummer for R.J."

There we go!

ready with a camera (Dan[iel J.] Travanty)

Hill Street Blues, I think, or one of those gritty 80s cop shows.

Lorrie's wallet is pilfered at a sidewalk cafe

A crime which will go forever unsolved.

her friend Julie--who's painting her pad and--get this--has to call in to bow out of coming in for a case, because she has company!

This explains a lot.

The elder, hard-of-hearing waiter at the disco, Leo

What is he, over 30?

Tonie (Barbara Rhoades)

Another frequently seen character actor in those days.

(though they initially tease us into thinking she's nude)

We should know better by now.

Julie: What does the captain want?
Pete: You...working.
Julie: Figures.​

Ouch. Meta.

Fleas gives him the name Johnny Graham, then calls Johnny to tip him off about the guy who's asking about him.

Johnny has quite a network.

A scuffle ensues, Johnny threatens R.J. with his gun, and both split at the sound of a siren.

What exactly was RJ intending to do with Johnny when he found him? He wasn't going to kill him. Did he want him to turn himself in or something?

R.J. is cooling his heels at Julie's, makes the connection that Fleas ratted on him, and takes off

Now, come on, what's he going to do with Fleas? He's just tracking people down to scuffle with them at this point.

Linc's gravity-defying stunt double earns his paycheck, subduing Johnny with Pete's help

Scuffle with Linc's stunt double and it's your last scuffle.

Father and daughter tearfully reunite.

"Sorry I've been avoiding you, but I've been busy tracking people down and scuffling with them."

Outside the courtroom, a dressed-up but still sideburned Coleman reports that charges have been dropped against him and walks off with Lorrie

He's still not getting his wife back.

Not looking forward to reporting to the captain the next day (having stayed on the case against his orders somewhere along the way)

He's still cranky from getting shot and his friend turning out to be a Batman villain.

Sims has a visible internal struggle about calling the police; after he does, he informs Greer that he'd wired the car with dynamite, set to detonate at 5:00 p.m.--less than eight hours away.

Nice touch, the guy turning himself right in like that.

Greer offers that the charge will only be attempted murder if, with Sims's full cooperation, they can find the car on time.

I'm not sure if Greer has the authority to do that.

In an unusually direct bit of business, the Mods confront the thieves at their garage, roughing them up and laying on them exactly what's happening to try to get them to talk. (If there wasn't a literal ticking bomb in the episode, they'd normally have gone undercover and stuff.)

Yeah, the tension has been ramped up right off the bat.

Julie starts to radio in to Greer only to be slugged unconscious by repeated blows from Dirk

Ouch. Now she has a legit reason to call in sick.

Jogger: You know, the women these days are really something. All this talk about liberation and everything, and when you want a sandwich, you can't even find one.​

Plus which, the pimento loaf is way overpriced.

Pete: By the time you get out of jail, cars are gonna be a thing of the past, now tell us!​

I'd like to hear more of Pete's thoughts on the future of automotive transportation.

Greer and the guys go up in an air rescue chopper and spot the car; Greer then gets on the loudspeaker, addresses the Thomases by name, and orders them to pull over. They comply, the chopper lands on the side of the highway, and Greer and the guys pull the Thomases out of the car and rush them to a ditch just in time for the car to go up.

That was an exciting climax.

(Apparently nobody called the bomb squad, even though they were pursuing a vehicle known to have a bomb attached to it.)

And shouldn't somebody wait for the fire department to arrive?

Russell Dalrymple, the TV executive on Seinfeld! I hadn't realized until I looked him up.

I never would have known that, but the other one that I was trying to think of was Close Encounters.

Pete called him.

Oh.

I think Walter had a monster in him waiting for an opportunity to come out.

Yeah, that is definitely true.

It seems it was the dean and six others; five wounded, including the dean; two students dead.

Maybe taking a history class isn't so bad.

Left to his own devices, he was about to let her go. He lost control of the situation.

They did do a nice job of giving the character nuance, but it's still all on him.

She hired them for an ongoing harassment service, not one incident.

Ohh, like the Wine-A-Month Club. Sweet.

Not that ID, obviously.

Make room for caddie.

Cute.

If you'd been reading Marvels at that point, you would have seen it hyped in Bullpen Bulletins.

Actually, it was finding Crazy that led me back to reading Marvels, at least in part.

Well, here it is. After years of Covid related delays, the 50th Anniversary 'Who's Next/Life House' Box set, with the 'Life House' demos sequenced as Pete intended

Wow, that is pretty amazing. My Brother would have loved it.

R.I.P. Randy Meisner.

RIP. He was only 77.

 

[The Old Mixer]

50 Years Ago This Week

July 29

• Voters in Greece abolished the monarchy in a nationwide vote taking place four weeks after Giorgios Papadopoulos declared himself as president and overthrew King Constantine II. The vote was more than 78% in favor of creating the Hellenic Republic.
• In the U.S., the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis went through an elaborate early-morning procedure to transport its assets two and one-half blocks from its old location at 510 Marquette Avenue to its new headquarters at 250 Marquette Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The move of five billion dollars ($5,000,000,000) in currency, coins and securities took place between 2 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. after city police sealed off the 12-block area around both buildings and 76 policemen, U.S. Secret Service agents and U.S. Federal Reserve Bank security guards patrolled the area.
• The 1973 Dutch Grand Prix was won by Jackie Stewart. British driver Roger Williamson was killed during the race, in an accident witnessed live on European television. His fellow driver David Purley was later awarded the George Medal for his unsuccessful attempts to save Williamson.

July 30

• Eighteen coal miners were killed at the coal mine near Staveley, Derbyshire, UK, when the brake mechanism on their elevator cage failed as they were descending underground.

July 31

• Delta Air Lines Flight 723, with 83 passengers and six crew, crashed while attempting to land at Boston's Logan Airport runway in poor visibility, striking a sea wall about 165 feet (50 m) to the right of the runway centerline and about 3,000 feet (910 m) short. All but one of the people on board died instantly. The survivor was seriously injured and died several months after the accident.

August 1

• In La Grange, Texas, Fayette County Sheriff T. J. Flournoy reluctantly led deputies in closing "Edna's Fashionable Ranch Boardinghouse", a house of prostitution....The business had been operating since 1844, before the Republic of Texas had been admitted as a U.S. state. Texas Governor Dolph Briscoe had informed Sheriff Flournoy that if the county didn't close the bordello, the Texas Rangers would be dispatched to do the job, notwithstanding a petition to Briscoe from La Grange businessmen, the local newspaper and other local residents. Flournoy told reporters, "It's been there all my life and all my daddy's life and never caused anybody any trouble. Every large city in Texas has things 1,000 times worse." The story of the "Chicken Ranch" would become popularized in the ZZ Top song "La Grange" and dramatized in the 1978 musical and 1982 film The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.
• William E. Colby was confirmed as the new Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) by the U.S. Senate, 83 to 13, after Colby's pledge to not use the CIA solely against foreign nations and not within U.S. borders.
• The U.S. extended South Vietnam a loan of $50,000,000 for the purchase of industrial machinery, spare parts and other manufactured products as part of postwar economic reconstruction. The agreement was made between U.S. Ambassador Graham Martin and South Vietnam's Foreign Minister, Nguyen Phu Duc. On the same day, the Soviet Union pledged economic aid to the Viet Cong for machinery, food, medicine, consumer goods, and "other materials necessary for normalizing the population's life."

August 2

• A flash fire killed 50 people at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man. The four-level building had 4,000 people inside at the time, where hundreds had been attending a rock concert, when a series of explosions went off and the fires began.
• Spiro Agnew, the Vice President of the United States, was notified by a federal prosecutor in Baltimore, George Beall, of a federal investigation, unrelated to the Watergate scandal, for possible violations of bribery, conspiracy and tax fraud arising from receipt of "kickbacks" from persons who benefited from his help. The Washington Post revealed on August 7 that Agnew was being accused of federal crimes.

August 3

• Four residents were killed and 12 injured when the former Grand Central Hotel in New York City collapsed. At the time of its 1870 opening, it was New York City's most elegant lodging and the largest hotel in the U.S., but had deteriorated more than a century later and was a residential apartment building, the University Hotel, at the time of the accident. The eight-story, 400-room building fell shortly after 5:00 in the afternoon. Most of the 308 persons registered as living at the building had escaped after rumbling began and plaster began falling, but 16 failed to heed warnings to get out.

August 4

• Former Argentine president Juan Perón and his wife Isabel Perón were nominated by the Justicialist Party as candidates for President and Vice President of Argentina in advance of Argentina's presidential election scheduled for September 23, Mr. and Mrs. Peron accepted the nominations on August 18.
• Died: Sam Katzman, 72, American producer known for his successful low budget films

Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week:

1. "The Morning After," Maureen McGovern
2. "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown," Jim Croce
3. "Live and Let Die," Paul McCartney & Wings
4. "Smoke on the Water," Deep Purple
5. "Yesterday Once More," Carpenters
6. "Diamond Girl," Seals & Crofts
7. "Touch Me in the Morning," Diana Ross
8. "Brother Louie," Stories
9. "Will It Go Round in Circles," Billy Preston
10. "Shambala," Three Dog Night
11. "Feelin' Stronger Every Day," Chicago
12. "Monster Mash," Bobby "Boris" Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers
13. "I Believe in You (You Believe in Me)," Johnnie Taylor
14. "Get Down," Gilbert O'Sullivan
15. "Uneasy Rider," The Charlie Daniels Band
16. "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy," Bette Midler
17. "Let's Get It On," Marvin Gaye
18. "Money," Pink Floyd
19. "Here I Am (Come and Take Me)," Al Green
20. "If You Want Me to Stay," Sly & The Family Stone
21. "Kodachrome," Paul Simon
22. "Delta Dawn," Helen Reddy
23. "Natural High," Bloodstone
24. "Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose," Dawn feat. Tony Orlando
25. "So Very Hard to Go," Tower of Power
26. "Angel," Aretha Franklin

28. "Where Peaceful Waters Flow," Gladys Knight & the Pips
29. "Behind Closed Doors," Charlie Rich
30. "Are You Man Enough," Four Tops
31. "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)," George Harrison

33. "Gypsy Man," War
34. "Playground in My Mind," Clint Holmes

37. "Long Train Runnin'," The Doobie Brothers
38. "Right Place, Wrong Time," Dr. John

40. "My Love," Paul McCartney & Wings

44. "Why Me," Kris Kristofferson
45. "Believe in Humanity," Carole King

47. "That Lady (Part 1)," The Isley Brothers

50. "I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby," Barry White

54. "Over the Hills and Far Away," Led Zeppelin

56. "One of a Kind (Love Affair)," The Spinners

59. "Daddy Could Swear, I Declare," Gladys Knight & The Pips
60. "Loves Me Like a Rock," Paul Simon

63. "Time to Get Down," The O'Jays
64. "Pillow Talk," Sylvia

67. "My Maria," B. W. Stevenson

69. "We're an American Band," Grand Funk
70. "Theme from Cleopatra Jones," Joe Simon feat. The Mainstreeters

74. "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting," Elton John

81. "Tequila Sunrise," Eagles

89. "Half-Breed," Cher

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Hill Street Blues, I think, or one of those gritty 80s cop shows.

Yeah, he came up before on one of the shows as Dan or Danny, and I had to clarify that it was the same guy, hence the bracketed addition.

A crime which will go forever unsolved.

It was the girls at the table next to her. Thomas/Spelling Productions caught the whole thing on film.

This explains a lot.

Indeed.

What is he, over 30?

Herbie Faye was over 70 at the time--born in 1899.

Ouch. Meta.

I have to wonder if they were deliberately acknowledging her frequent absence at this point.

What exactly was RJ intending to do with Johnny when he found him? He wasn't going to kill him. Did he want him to turn himself in or something?

That's a good question; and he was a desperate man, his motives might not have been rational.

Now, come on, what's he going to do with Fleas? He's just tracking people down to scuffle with them at this point.

He did get Johnny's address this time.

Scuffle with Linc's stunt double and it's your last scuffle.

Solid.

"Sorry I've been avoiding you, but I've been busy tracking people down and scuffling with them."

He's still not getting his wife back.

Ruin his happy ending, dude!

I should note that while RJ dressed the part a bit more blatantly while immersed in the flower child scene, his surviving hair and sideburns at the end being considered hippie reinforces what we were discussing about Pete. A guy with RJ's hair and sideburns wearing a suit wouldn't have made anyone bat an eyelash a few years later.

He's still cranky from getting shot and his friend turning out to be a Batman villain.

Also coming off as pretty gullible these days.

I'm not sure if Greer has the authority to do that.

I think he could determine what he'd charge/book him for, at least.

Yeah, the tension has been ramped up right off the bat.

I should note that the episode was punctuated with glimpses of the bomb hanging from the undercarriage of the car. Convenient that neither Dirk nor either of the pros he had work on the car inspected it closely enough to notice it.

I'd like to hear more of Pete's thoughts on the future of automotive transportation.

Probably of the Avery Brooks school.

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And shouldn't somebody wait for the fire department to arrive?

Given that the paramedics were there, maybe they'd already been in and out.

They did do a nice job of giving the character nuance, but it's still all on him.

I can't agree. He bore some culpability, but he didn't ask for and couldn't have reasonably expected what happened.

Cute.

Lemko made a lame joke about the show in the scene, but it was meant to come off as lame.

Actually, it was finding Crazy that led me back to reading Marvels, at least in part.

Ah.

RIP. He was only 77.

"Take It to the Limit" was a good one...great driving song, especially in the California desert.

 

[Nerys Myk]

50 Years Ago This Week

July 29

• Voters in Greece abolished the monarchy in a nationwide vote taking place four weeks after Giorgios Papadopoulos declared himself as president and overthrew King Constantine II. The vote was more than 78% in favor of creating the Hellenic Republic.
• In the U.S., the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis went through an elaborate early-morning procedure to transport its assets two and one-half blocks from its old location at 510 Marquette Avenue to its new headquarters at 250 Marquette Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The move of five billion dollars ($5,000,000,000) in currency, coins and securities took place between 2 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. after city police sealed off the 12-block area around both buildings and 76 policemen, U.S. Secret Service agents and U.S. Federal Reserve Bank security guards patrolled the area.
• The 1973 Dutch Grand Prix was won by Jackie Stewart. British driver Roger Williamson was killed during the race, in an accident witnessed live on European television. His fellow driver David Purley was later awarded the George Medal for his unsuccessful attempts to save Williamson.

July 30

• Eighteen coal miners were killed at the coal mine near Staveley, Derbyshire, UK, when the brake mechanism on their elevator cage failed as they were descending underground.

July 31

• Delta Air Lines Flight 723, with 83 passengers and six crew, crashed while attempting to land at Boston's Logan Airport runway in poor visibility, striking a sea wall about 165 feet (50 m) to the right of the runway centerline and about 3,000 feet (910 m) short. All but one of the people on board died instantly. The survivor was seriously injured and died several months after the accident.

August 1

• In La Grange, Texas, Fayette County Sheriff T. J. Flournoy reluctantly led deputies in closing "Edna's Fashionable Ranch Boardinghouse", a house of prostitution....The business had been operating since 1844, before the Republic of Texas had been admitted as a U.S. state. Texas Governor Dolph Briscoe had informed Sheriff Flournoy that if the county didn't close the bordello, the Texas Rangers would be dispatched to do the job, notwithstanding a petition to Briscoe from La Grange businessmen, the local newspaper and other local residents. Flournoy told reporters, "It's been there all my life and all my daddy's life and never caused anybody any trouble. Every large city in Texas has things 1,000 times worse." The story of the "Chicken Ranch" would become popularized in the ZZ Top song "La Grange" and dramatized in the 1978 musical and 1982 film The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.
• William E. Colby was confirmed as the new Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) by the U.S. Senate, 83 to 13, after Colby's pledge to not use the CIA solely against foreign nations and not within U.S. borders.
• The U.S. extended South Vietnam a loan of $50,000,000 for the purchase of industrial machinery, spare parts and other manufactured products as part of postwar economic reconstruction. The agreement was made between U.S. Ambassador Graham Martin and South Vietnam's Foreign Minister, Nguyen Phu Duc. On the same day, the Soviet Union pledged economic aid to the Viet Cong for machinery, food, medicine, consumer goods, and "other materials necessary for normalizing the population's life."

August 2

• A flash fire killed 50 people at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man. The four-level building had 4,000 people inside at the time, where hundreds had been attending a rock concert, when a series of explosions went off and the fires began.
• Spiro Agnew, the Vice President of the United States, was notified by a federal prosecutor in Baltimore, George Beall, of a federal investigation, unrelated to the Watergate scandal, for possible violations of bribery, conspiracy and tax fraud arising from receipt of "kickbacks" from persons who benefited from his help. The Washington Post revealed on August 7 that Agnew was being accused of federal crimes.

August 3

• Four residents were killed and 12 injured when the former Grand Central Hotel in New York City collapsed. At the time of its 1870 opening, it was New York City's most elegant lodging and the largest hotel in the U.S., but had deteriorated more than a century later and was a residential apartment building, the University Hotel, at the time of the accident. The eight-story, 400-room building fell shortly after 5:00 in the afternoon. Most of the 308 persons registered as living at the building had escaped after rumbling began and plaster began falling, but 16 failed to heed warnings to get out.

August 4

• Former Argentine president Juan Perón and his wife Isabel Perón were nominated by the Justicialist Party as candidates for President and Vice President of Argentina in advance of Argentina's presidential election scheduled for September 23, Mr. and Mrs. Peron accepted the nominations on August 18.
• Died: Sam Katzman, 72, American producer known for his successful low budget films

Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week:



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Yeah, he came up before on one of the shows as Dan or Danny, and I had to clarify that it was the same guy, hence the bracketed addition.


It was the girls at the table next to her. Thomas/Spelling Productions caught the whole thing on film.


Indeed.


Herbie Faye was over 70 at the time--born in 1899.


I have to wonder if they were deliberately acknowledging her frequent absence at this point.


That's a good question; and he was a desperate man, his motives might not have been rational.


He did get Johnny's address this time.


Solid.





Ruin his happy ending, dude!


Also coming off as pretty gullible these days.


I think he could determine what he'd charge/book him for, at least.


I should note that the episode was punctuated with glimpses of the bomb hanging from the undercarriage of the car. Convenient that neither Dirk nor either of the pros he had work on the car inspected it closely enough to notice it.


Probably of the Avery Brooks school.

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Given that the paramedics were there, maybe they'd already been in and out.


I can't agree. He bore some culpability, but he didn't ask for and couldn't have reasonably expected what happened.


Lemko made a lame joke about the show in the scene, but it was meant to come off as lame.


Ah.


"Take It to the Limit" was a good one...great driving song, especially in the California desert.

As a then 14 year old, more and more of the songs on the Hot 100 are familiar.

 

[The Old Mixer]

As a then 14 year old, more and more of the songs on the Hot 100 are familiar.

When I was populating my chronological playlists, '76 (when I was 6 turning 7) was where it really started to pop for me. I had firsthand recollection of hearing songs from at least '73 on contemporary radio prior to that, but what came when was a blur. Around '76, it all starts fitting like a glove.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

When I was populating my chronological playlists, '76 (when I was 6 turning 7) was where it really started to pop for me. I had firsthand recollection of hearing songs from at least '73 on contemporary radio prior to that, but what came when was a blur. Around '76, it all starts fitting like a glove.

As a then 14 year old, more and more of the songs on the Hot 100 are familiar.

I don't think I ever had an epiphany when it comes to music on the radio. I remember the radio station that our family listened to the most while growing up was KUBE 93.3 FM with their Top 40 playlist. It was Charlie, Ty and Mary White in the mornings, Tom Hutler in the mid-afternoon and Bob Case for the drive home.

 

[RJDiogenes]

The vote was more than 78% in favor of creating the Hellenic Republic.

The vote to bring back togas was less successful.

Delta Air Lines Flight 723, with 83 passengers and six crew, crashed while attempting to land at Boston's Logan Airport runway in poor visibility

I remember this.

In La Grange, Texas, Fayette County Sheriff T. J. Flournoy reluctantly led deputies in closing "Edna's Fashionable Ranch Boardinghouse", a house of prostitution....

So much for the Sexual Revolution.

Spiro Agnew, the Vice President of the United States, was notified by a federal prosecutor in Baltimore, George Beall, of a federal investigation, unrelated to the Watergate scandal, for possible violations of bribery, conspiracy and tax fraud arising from receipt of "kickbacks" from persons who benefited from his help.

How quaint.

"Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting," Elton John

Classic Elton.

"Loves Me Like a Rock," Paul Simon

Classic Solo Simon.

"Half-Breed," Cher

This is great. There was a brief window of time when Cher did a handful of really nice work.

Yeah, he came up before on one of the shows as Dan or Danny, and I had to clarify that it was the same guy, hence the bracketed addition.

That explains the Deja Vu.

It was the girls at the table next to her. Thomas/Spelling Productions caught the whole thing on film.

The statute of limitations has run out now. We'll have to refer the case to the Time Travel Department.

Herbie Faye was over 70 at the time--born in 1899.

Good for him, hanging out with Hippie Chicks at his age.

Ruin his happy ending, dude!

His daughter still loves him, so he's pretty lucky.

Probably of the Avery Brooks school.

Now we have flying cars but no Lotus.

I can't agree. He bore some culpability, but he didn't ask for and couldn't have reasonably expected what happened.

Well, it better not happen again, that's all I can say!

"Take It to the Limit" was a good one...great driving song, especially in the California desert.

True. I should add it to my driving CD.

As a then 14 year old, more and more of the songs on the Hot 100 are familiar.

I was twelve and it was just about now that I started putting the radio on in the background as I was reading or whatever.

When I was populating my chronological playlists, '76 (when I was 6 turning 7) was where it really started to pop for me. I had firsthand recollection of hearing songs from at least '73 on contemporary radio prior to that, but what came when was a blur. Around '76, it all starts fitting like a glove.

I have strong memories of music from the late 60s, but it was all based on what my Mother was listening to at home or what my Uncles were playing in their cars. Then I spent a couple of years listening to very specific stuff on 8-Track, like Simon & Garfunkel and Donovan. Then I started listening to the Top 40 station (which was WRKO) about "now."

 

[The Old Mixer]

How quaint.

Gerald Ford's journey to the White House begins...

Classic Elton.

Perhaps reaching his early peak with this album.

Classic Solo Simon.

Friendly radio fare.

This is great. There was a brief window of time when Cher did a handful of really nice work.

It doesn't age very well. I had to look it up, but it turns out that, not surprisingly, she was race-faking, playing up a little bit of not-on-record alleged Native American blood. There's a promotional video available on YouTube, but knowing the above, it's really cringey.

The statute of limitations has run out now. We'll have to refer the case to the Time Travel Department.

That would be Irwin Allen's jurisdiction.

Now we have flying cars

We do? Haven't seen any around here.

I was twelve and it was just about now that I started putting the radio on in the background as I was reading or whatever.

That was about the age when I started proactively listening to the radio, rather than just whatever was on in the car or that my sister was listening to.

 

[publiusr]

There was a public television program called "Around the Bend" from the 1970s---a later prgram copied the name---but the original one was rather like Romper Rooom...any memories?