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50th Anniversary Viewing
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The Ed Sullivan Show
Season 22, episode 16
Originally aired January 11, 1970
As represented in
The Best of the Ed Sullivan Show
Ed said:
...opens right now with the exciting Ike & Tina Turner Revue and they are wonderful!
Tina sings the Revue's distinctive rendition of CCR's "Proud Mary" (single charts Jan. 30, 1971; #4 US, #5 US) accompanied by three dancers, with Ike and the band in the background.
Overall, a very energetic performance.
Ed said:
The comedy of Flip Wilson!
Flip's routine involves his reverend's wife claiming that the Devil made her buy expensive dresses.
Ed said:
Now here's Tiny Tim with the all-girl rock group who call themselves the Enchanted Forest, so let's have a WONDERFUL welcome...!
Tim and the Forest give us
a rendition of '50s classic "Earth Angel" that starts relatively straight and gets spoofier as it goes on, ending with Tim lying on his back and kicking up his legs. Note that Tim had just married Miss Vicki on
The Tonight Show on Dec. 17, 1969.
Ed said:
Sonny does a country cover of "It's Just a Matter of Time," written and originally recorded by Brook Benton in 1959. Sonny's version charts the week of Jan. 24, 1970, reaching #87 US, #31 AC, and #1 Country.
Ed said:
Sword balancer--he's sensational--Vino Venito!
Venito balances a flaming chandelier on a pair of swords joined tip to tip, with one of the hilts in his mouth, then climbs a freestanding ladder and sways it back and forth from the top, all while maintaining the chandelier's balance.
The
Best of edit concludes with Ike & Tina returning to perform
the funky Ike original "Bold Soul Sister" (charted Dec. 20, 1969; #59 US, #22 R&B).
Also in the original episode according to tv.com:
Music:
--Sonny James - "Free Roamin' Mind"
--Tiny Tim sings a medley of old-fashioned love songs to his wife, Miss Vicki.
--Karen Wyman (17-year-old singer from New York) - "Time and Love."
Comedy:
--Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara (comedy team)
Also appearing:
--Carter & Lynn (Adagio dance duo, from Detroit, Michigan)
--Audience bows: Miss Vicki's parents, Tiny Tim's parents, and The Kessler Twins.
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Mission: Impossible
"The Falcon: Part 2"
Originally aired January 11, 1970
Wiki said:
The wedding is halted when Francesca shoots herself dead…or does she?
The drive-in theater speaker in the six-minute recap said:
...a different, slightly condensed version of what it said last week.
Picking up from last week's balcony-hanger, Paris isn't seen and manages to get back into his own window. With Tracey's help he proceeds to prepare a mask of his own face over a mask of Nicolai's. Meanwhile, Vargas plots with Captain Buccaro (Jack Donner) to do away with Sabattini. Elsewhere, Barney falls through the bottom of his crawlspace into the tombs and is knocked unconscious. When he wakes up, he discovers that he's blind. He radios Jim, who guides him via map.
Away from the palace, Willy stalls the bishop by giving him a lift in his buggy to the wrong destination. Zastro plays prima donna, insisting on performing on schedule even though the wedding hasn't taken place yet. With the help of a vanishing trick involving two curtained booths, Paris replaces Nicolai and Sebastian replaces Paris as Zastro. Fake Nicolai serves as Faker Zastro's plant in the audience, allowing for Zastro and Madame Vinsky to give a scripted performance.
The bishop finally arrives and Francesca has her gun and pill ready. Fake Nicolai "notices" her gun, and a struggle ensues in which two shots are fired--one real, stray bullet, and one blank that seems to kill her, with the help of the pill and some fake blood. (She picks this IMF shit up fast--maybe we'll be seeing her in the portfolio!) Fake Nicolai has Francesca hastily buried, but the plan requires Barney to hook her up with some air. She wakes up in the tomb and starts to freak out, then passes out. Despite his handicap, Barney comes through in the nick of time, and his eyesight kicks back in right after. Barney proceeds to show Francesca his crawlspace, helping her escape from the tombs.
Because of something Vinsky said that foreshadowed Francesca's actions, Vargas starts listening to what she has to say about Sabattini. He dismisses Zastro from the palace and has Vinsky stick around. Influenced by her, he insists to Sabattini that they now have to take the government by force. As Zastro's show is packing up, Willy smuggles Real Nicolai out of the palace in an equipment box, and Barney and Francesca crawl up into the vanishing booths.
Jim shows up at the palace gate with one of the real crown jewels (swapped out by Barney last week); Sabattini and Vargas quickly check and discover that the crown jewels have been replaced by fakes. Jim's story involves persuading info about the location of the rest of the jewels from Prince Stephan...if only he were alive to be persuaded. Sabattini arranges it. Vinsky calls Vargas, tells him that she knows where the jewels are, that Sabattini plans to have him killed, and not to accompany Sabattini and Jim to the prison. When Sabattini and Jim leave the palace, she confers with Vargas, asserting that Sabattini's list of untrustworthy officers in his safe has Vargas's name on it. Meanwhile, Fake Nicolai busts into the safe and transmits the combination to Vinsky via her earpiece so that she can appear to divine it with her mental powers. The To Be Continued card comes up as Vargas and Vinsky are approaching the room with the safe and Fake Nicolai is in the process of loading it with his forgery.
Note that the character of Sebastian only has lines when he's disguised as Paris, hence Frank da Vinci not being credited.
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Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Season 3, episode 17
Originally aired January 12, 1970
The Wiki list of guest appearances said:
Peter Wintonick, Jonathan Winters
Gary Owens has been referencing the Farkels in his announcements lately, and no longer seems to be referencing Morgul, the Friendly Drelb.
And speaking of the Farkels....The skit is briefly revisited after the commercial.
The news song motif appears to be Shirley Temple:
Note how News of the Future mentions the Native American occupation of Alcatraz.
Ernestine learns who she's been calling:
There's another Ernestine piece later in the episode.
Big Al covers a Swiss cheese throwing competition.
The Fickle Finger of Fate is back, and it's going to the Air Force.
Laugh-In salutes the American tourist:
Jonathan Winters's Maude Frickert meets Wolfgang.
I had to look up who Peter Wintonick was, and I didn't notice anybody resembling him in the episode.
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Get Smart
"House of Max: Part 2"
Originally aired January 16, 1970
Wiki said:
After surviving an attack by a wax werewolf, Max covertly infiltrates the wax museum. He poses as a wax sculpture of Hitler in order to catch Duval in the act of bringing his waxworks (some of which include W.C. Fields and Laurel and Hardy) to life in order to kill.
The onscreen title is actually "House of Max: Conclusion". Chief Inspector Sparrow narrates the 5-1/2 minute recap. The recap is so long that Decades played one of their brief post-opening-credits spots
before proceeding to the opening credits!
Picking up from last week, Sparrow shoots the werewolf and Max assumes it was a hippie.
Sparrow: First Jack the Ripper, who terrorized London at the turn of the century...and now the werewolf. Who'll be next to drive the women of England mad?
Max: Engelbert Humperdinck?
As Max assumes the position of the Hitler dummy, Sparrow accidentally gets handcuffed to him, so they send 99 in disguise to delay Duval at a restaurant. When Duval gets back, he decides to send his Hitler figure after Max...and as we were reminded in the recap, his serum will kill a human. Max comes to life proactively and goes into a Hitler routine, which distracts Duval's German KAOS contact, Auerbach (Kurt Kreuger). Duval then sends other figures after Max...first Laurel and Hardy (Jim MacGeorge and E.J. Schuster), then W.C. Fields (Bill Oberlin), all of whom talk so they can go into character-appropriate routines. Eventually Max is caught but manages to escape from being dropped into a cauldron of boiling wax, and 99 and Sparrow show up, having nabbed Duval in the meantime off-camera.
All of the wax figures in this two-parter are actually actors trying to stand perfectly still in their poses when not brought to life.
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The Brady Bunch
"Mike's Horror-Scope"
Originally aired January 16, 1970
Wiki said:
Carol reads Mike's horoscope, which tells of a strange woman entering his life. Mike is besieged by fussy and eccentric client Beebe Gallini (Abbe Lane), the head of a cosmetics company, who monopolizes his time, which disrupts family activities. Beebe visits the Brady home and dictates impossible design specifications, but Mike ultimately loses the deal after the children's interruptions anger Beebe. Mike realizes losing the deal has saved his firm from a nervous breakdown.
Guest star: Joe Ross as Duane Cartwright (uncredited)
Ms. Gallini wants Mike to design her new factory...and she wants it to be pink. (Duane is her assistant.) Lane is basically doing a Zsa Zsa thing. After she's hired Mike, she calls him at home on a Saturday and he has to bow out of taking the boys on a fishing trip...so Alice takes the girls riding and Carol takes the boys fishing--oh noes, divided family! The fishing trip does turn out to be a disaster for Carol.
Beebe wants the factory to have a distinctive appearance, so she tells Mike to make it the shape of a powderpuff, in spite of his protests that a factory needs to be designed with practical considerations in mind. When he comes up with a sketch for it (which looks like a UFO), she tells him that she wants it to look "fluffier". As the project continues, Mike is away from home a lot, unable to spend time with the family.
When Beebe comes to the house wanting Mike to change the design he's been working on to one of a compact, she gets hit by Peter's model airplane and caught in a squirt gun crossfire between Bobby and Cindy. She refers to the children as "creatures" and immediately fires Mike. I think they missed an obvious opportunity to have Mike lose the contract by standing up to her.
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Hogan's Heroes
"Fat Hermann, Go Home"
Originally aired January 16, 1970
Wiki said:
To retrieve museum pieces the Nazis have been looting, Marya convinces Schultz to play the part of Hermann Göring.
This is Nita Talbot's sixth of seven appearances as Russian agent Marya. She recruits Schultz to impersonate Göring ostensibly as a double for the reichsmarschall's own safety. This is specifically for Fake Göring's visit to Stalag 13, which doesn't make a lot of sense considering that everyone knows who Schultz is there. The prisoners have their own half-baked plan to kidnap Göring to get at the art, so Marya modifies their plan to entail having access via Schultz, who has the train that's carrying the art brought to the Stalag.
Following the robbery, when Hochstetter arrives to get to the bottom of things, Schultz fools him and Klink by coming out of the bathroom with shaving cream on his face. A diversion caused by some fireworks--simulating an attack on the Stalag--helps the prisoners to successfully smuggle out the art. After it's over, Hogan convinces Hochstetter to sit on the matter by suggesting that some high-level intrigue between Göring and Hitler was involved.
DIS-missed!
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Speaking of Casey, we've got a station here that re-runs old Casey on Saturday mornings. Yesterday was a week from 1975, one of my favorite years for music. It's pretty cool.
That does sound cool. Last year Sirius ran his first broadcast from 1970 on its anniversary.
that it has its own Wiki page!)
