That's too bad. I had forgotten about that Spider Man appearance, but I remember it now.
And Ark II!
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That's too bad. I had forgotten about that Spider Man appearance, but I remember it now.
And Ark II!
I have a Mission: Impossible question.
When I was a child, I seem to remember watching an episode in which some kind of war attack was faked, a bombing maybe. The person the IMF team were trying to fool was underground and used a periscope to see what was on the surface. The IMF team had a model placed around the periscope of blown up and smoldering buildings. This fooled the person into thinking an attack had taken place.
I've tried reading capsule descriptions, and while there are several episodes with similar ideas, I haven't found the one I'm looking for yet.
Does anyone know which episode this might be? Naturally, some, any, or all of this may be a complete fabrication of my imagination, or a combination of several episodes, and/or maybe even something from another series. I was pretty small when I saw it.
When I was a child, I seem to remember watching an episode in which some kind of war attack was faked, a bombing maybe. The person the IMF team were trying to fool was underground and used a periscope to see what was on the surface. The IMF team had a model placed around the periscope of blown up and smoldering buildings. This fooled the person into thinking an attack had taken place.
I've tried reading capsule descriptions, and while there are several episodes with similar ideas, I haven't found the one I'm looking for yet.
Does anyone know which episode this might be? Naturally, some, any, or all of this may be a complete fabrication of my imagination, or a combination of several episodes, and/or maybe even something from another series. I was pretty small when I saw it.
Could it be "Two Thousand" with Vic Morrow?
That's one of the ones that seems similar. I'm in the process of watching it, but I don't think that's the one.
One in the 'Good Title' column.
So that's how they get around the background checks.
So he's in some kind of real bunker, like an old fallout shelter or something?
Sounds like a pretty intense and forlorn episode.
And the relationship between the two guys as well. That's a cool ending. It also reminds me a bit of a Starsky & Hutch episode from later in the decade.
They're probably remastering the special effects.
Danny's ahead of his time for once.
"Now go to bed so you'll be rested for band practice, along with my other underage performers!"
A popular character actor who died young.
They call him Flicker, Flicker....
"Forget it, Flicker. You're not the only fish in the sea!"
"They're mammals, mom."
Something tells me that won't last long.
Ah, Howard Cosell. There's another inexplicable guy.
Kind of surprising. It's pretty good, and timely. Kind of anticipates John Denver's "Calypso."
They didn't realize. Those dolphins regret it now.
Still lots going on, though. They really pack their scripts.
That's what I mean. It's the same thing that's come up in 12 O'Clock High a couple of times. If you do that, you're going to have an army of agents and operatives wondering what they haven't been told and might kill them at any moment.
Nice. The show had heart.
Maybe the lawyers found some reason to change it.
Aw, that sucks. It seems like hardly a week goes by without a familiar face passing on. Peter Scolari just died a few days ago as well.
It sounds like this one to me.
It's a coastal gun emplacement, so an open space at the front where the gun was, and the rest of it buried in the hillside.
Thanks to your description, I looked it up in my book 'The Complete Mission: Impossible Dossier'.
It's a second season episode called 'The Photographer', featuring Anthony Zerbre, in his first of five 'Mission' appearances. It first aired December 17, 1967.
Yes, that's it. Queueing it up now to watch the whole thing now. Thank you very much!
Thank you, @The Return of Zombie Cheerleader and @RJDiogenes for your suggestions.
Not a problem.
If you can get your hands on a good used copy, I recommend buying it; it has several behind the scenes stories about the production of the series, and since it was written about twenty years after the show ended, the author was able to interview the majority of the cast and crew who were still living.
The chapter about the firing of Martin Landau and Barbara Bain is really fascinating.
It's kinda 'Depending upon who you ask' situation.
Landau says he quit because he would sign a five year contract.
The head of Paramount says he was let go.
The Bain situation is murky. No one can say with certainty why Bain left/was fired.
What is less known is that the show almost lost Greg Morris at the same time.
Contract negotiations stalled and his agent was told by Paramount that another actor was being considered to replace him if he didn't accept the offer.
Greg did and stayed for the remainder of the series.
Another one that was a bit of a change of pace for centering on an ongoing situation that was mostly happening in the same location.
Yep. The "stubborn jerk" bit was pure gold.
Now "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!" will be accompanied by Jan hulking out and going on a rampage.
And game show host. That's the main thing I recognize him from.
He seemed pretty subdued/low-key here.
Ah, I totally forgot that one. I was considering requesting a cameo from Christopher to clear this up, but that shouldn't be necessary now.
I just popped on that sequence to refresh my memory. For a highly skilled secret agent who specializes in impersonations and elaborate con schemes, Rollin has the worst poker face ever. Landau always made it a little too obvious when Rollin was fretting over whether the bad guys would buy whatever was going on.
ETA--55 years ago tonight:
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Nice. That's a great use of a historical structure in the story.
Now that would get my interest.
Ah, that's right. I vaguely remember a game show.
He was always a favorite of guys like Rich Little.
Worst poker face, but one of the most memorable faces ever overall.
In retrospect, Charlie Brown kind of reminds me of Rorschach.
This is what Martin Landau had to say about how he played Rollin Hand in Mission: Impossible.
'More than most characters on series television,' Landau feels, 'we had to fatten the characters we played. You had to make the audience believe that this guy was all the things that were said about him.' One way he made Rollin 'fatter' was his behavior in crises. Rollin was the supreme master of the bluff, often blustering his way out of tight spots and exhaling relief when the performance was over. 'People use the word 'cool' in relation to my character,' he says. 'Well, the character was cool, but he was also scared from time to time. You learn the most about a character when he's alone, and it's in those moments alone when you saw the real Rollin, his vulnerability.'
'More than most characters on series television,' Landau feels, 'we had to fatten the characters we played. You had to make the audience believe that this guy was all the things that were said about him.' One way he made Rollin 'fatter' was his behavior in crises. Rollin was the supreme master of the bluff, often blustering his way out of tight spots and exhaling relief when the performance was over. 'People use the word 'cool' in relation to my character,' he says. 'Well, the character was cool, but he was also scared from time to time. You learn the most about a character when he's alone, and it's in those moments alone when you saw the real Rollin, his vulnerability.'
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50th Anniversary Viewing (Part 2)
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Love, American Style
"Love and the Awakening / Love and the Bashful Groom / Love and the Four-Sided Triangle / Love and the Naked Stranger"
Originally aired October 22, 1971
"Love and the Awakening" opens with actress Elizabeth (Elaine Giftos) doing a brass bed love scene with Earl (Aron Kincaid), under the direction of German-accented Mr. Chaney (Bernie Kopell), who isn't pleased with the results. Elizabeth explains to her director that she doesn't have real-world experience in that area; and Chaney learns why when he meets her nebbish of a boyfriend, Stanley (Peter Kastner), with whom she has a wholesome, non-physical relationship. Chaney tries to resolve this by going through Stanley, but he refuses to consummate their relationship until marriage. Chaney then lures them into doing a love scene together, which involves convincing Stanley that he's got star potential; but Stanley's nervous and lousy, so Chaney tries to show him how it's done with Elizabeth...which she starts to get into, making Stanley jealous. It looks like Stanley and Elizabeth are starting to get into the groove with each other when Stanley breaks into his usual sexual tension reliever of doing push-ups. After he leaves, Chaney offers to help Elizabeth rehearse. Cut to Elizabeth giving a much more convincing brass bed performance, while Chaney does push-ups.
"Love and the Bashful Groom" has Linda (Meredith MacRae) bringing Calvin (Paul Petersen) to the Green Glen Resort--a nudist colony where she grew up--for their wedding; though he'd rather have a traditional church ceremony. Cal meets a friend named Jerry (Christopher Stone), who's in the buff, and is told that he'll have to undress to impress Linda's parents.
Cal doesn't even want to see Linda nude before the appropriate time, but meets her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hutton (Dick Wilson and Jeff Donnell) in the their native attire. Cal ultimately ends up bringing himself to strip down for the ceremony, walking out into the courtyard with his eyes closed, but when he opens them he finds that everyone else is traditionally clothed (saw that coming a mile away)...though the parents and guests decide to follow his example and start enthusiastically stripping down in front of the shocked minister.
In "Love and the Four-Sided Triangle," Melvin (Elliott Street) is trying to woo his boss's bespectacled, romance magazine-reading secretary, Alice Graff (Karen Valentine), though she doesn't notice him. The boss, Mr. Cal Tucker (Dick Gautier, whom I wouldn't have recognized here as Hymie), notices that Melvin's been fouling up, and Melvin confesses that he's in love with Miss Graff. Tucker offers to tell her for him...but clearly more enthusiastic about the hunky boss, she gets the wrong idea, thinking Tucker's talking about himself. Melvin listens as Alice tells a friend about the situation on the phone and thinks that Tucker took his gal. Protesting that he's happily married, Tucker promises to clear things up. Cal gets a pink, perfumed lover letter at home, which his wife, Nancy (Ruta Lee), notices, so he drops it in the toaster. At work, he has the lovestruck Alice brought in to see him. When he tells her that he's married, she just thinks that he's feeling guilty about the situation. When Cal's unable to clear things up, Melvin goes to see Nancy, telling her that Cal and Alice are madly in love with each other, and that Alice is planning to come to ask her to give Cal up; but from his description of how things went down, Nancy comes to understand the situation better than Melvin does. Having been spitefully tipped off by Melvin, Cal tries to get Nancy out of the house. Alice comes to the door announcing that she's going to take Nancy's husband away from her, and describes their love in florid prose emulating her magazines. Nancy pretends to go along with it and insists that Alice should move in with them so they can share Cal, claiming that they've done this sort of thing before. Being turned off by this, when Melvin comes to the door, Alice sees him in a new light. Melvin goes with it, and Cal thanks Nancy for getting him out of the situation.
In "Love and the Naked Stranger," the exaggeratedly described man (Ronnie Schell) comes home to a woman in a brass bed, strips down to his underwear, and gets in with her...only to find that the woman, Nadine (Joyce Van Patten), isn't his wife and he's in the wrong apartment. He hides under the bed as her husband, Arthur (Frank Aletter), comes home to tell her that the company president, A. J. Potts (Dana Elcar), is coming up to discuss a potential transfer to Paris. Nadine tries to keep Arthur distracted so the stranger can get out, though he doesn't succeed. This includes a bit where the stranger has to climb over the bed as Arthur's crawling under it to retrieve something. Mr. Potts arrives, and more shenanigans ensue in which the stranger always ends up back under the bed. In a final escape attempt, he crawls out to run right into Potts, and promptly leaves. Potts announces that Arthur's got the job, as he now believes that he and Nadine will fit into the French lifestyle fine...and ends the episode on a note of flirting with Nadine, thinking that she's that kind of woman.
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The Mary Tyler Moore Show
"Cover Boy"
Originally aired October 23, 1971
That Ted's actually reading the news correctly tips Mary and Murray that something's up. Ted's commercial actor brother Hal (Jack Cassidy) arrives at the station, and there are clear indications of rivalry. Ted wants Lou to give him a raise in front of Hal, but he blows it by asking for too much. When Hal wants to double date, Ted pretends that Mary's his girlfriend and asks her to hook Hal up with "that Israeli friend of yours"...Rhoda. At Mary's apartment, Ted starts to blow his cover when he isn't familiar with the place. The brothers explain how their extreme competitiveness goes back to how their parents raised them. Ted proves to be out of his element at the fancy restaurant that they go to...and feels the need to act romantic toward Mary to compete with Hal's affectionate gestures toward Rhoda. This continues back to Mary's place, where Ted feels that he has to stay into the night because Hal is upstairs at Rhoda's and he can't let Hal see him leave. Mary and Ted stay up until dawn playing Go Fish, only to learn from Rhoda that Hal left in a cab a half-hour after they got there. Mary struggles the next day at work without sleep, while Ted, who comes in much later, still gets a full night's worth. Mary persuades Ted to come clean to Hal about their relationship charade, and Ted further admits to his own feelings of inadequacy. Even this turns into a sort of competition, as Hal tries to one-up Ted in that department. The episode ends on the note of Murray being frustrated because nobody else in the newsroom hears Ted admit that he's a lousy newscaster...Mary having fallen asleep at her typewriter.
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Mission: Impossible
"The Miracle"
Originally aired October 23, 1971
Frank Kearney (Joe Don Baker) and Milt Anderson (Lee Delano) are waiting for a man named Taynor to bring in a boatload of "H" when Frank pulls a gun on Milt, outing him as narc. A struggle ensues in which Frank knocks out Milt and rolls him off a drinkside cliff in a car.
The IMF's plan involves the cooperation of a hospital, which gives them control of part of a floor and all the personnel they need. Guest agents attending the briefing include Steve Johnson (Lawrence Montaigne) and Manny (Ollie O'Toole)--who demonstrates his pickpocketing skill by tossing Barney and Willy their wallet and keys, respectively. We learn that Kearney's Catholic upbringing is believed to still be a significant factor in his psychology. Casey waits on and flirts with Kearney at a restaurant meeting with Taynor. Outside, Rival Mobster Jim holds a gun on Taynor and his man, Hank Benton (Lando!) in their car, trying to strongarm them into doing a deal that would involve the November shipment. In the restaurant, Willy walks up and fake-shoots Kearney with a tranquilizer bullet. At the hospital, Father Stonn tends to Kearney's just-in-case rites, while Barney fake operates on a sometimes conscious(!!!) Kearney, who gets to watch fake footage on a monitor of his open heart!!!! Benton also gets to watch, from the hallway through an open door!!!!! Having just gotten my first operation last year, I'm happy to report that this is not how any of this works!
Willy pays a visit to Taynor, pretending to work for Jim...wait, he does work for Jim, but you know what I mean. Taynor presses hospital worker Sam Evans (Leon Russom) to keep tabs on Kearney. Casey visits Kearney at the hospital and shows him a fake newspaper article about his surgery. Barney uses drugs to condition Kearney into wanting to marry Casey. Evans walks in on this but is stopped from making a call by Barney. Jim and Willy tail Taynor and Benton to a warehouse and hold them up along with the men they're doing a deal with, then make an escape under gunfire. Benton learns that Evans has come up missing. When they see Jim walking into the hospital, Taynor sics Benton on him. Jim, still in his role, propositions Kearney. Outside, Willy stops Benton from putting the hit on Jim, who seems genuinely surprised when Willy brings him the shotgun afterward.
Quack Dr. Barney sets up the idea that the new heart may affect how Kearney feels about things as Frank is checking out of the hospital. At the restaurant, Taynor and Benton confront Kearney as he's romancing Casey, and Kearney finds himself ordering wine--which he normally eschews because he associates it with Catholic priests--thanks to his conditioning. Seeing Casey in private, Kearney slips and refers to her as his wife, and ends up fake-slapping her...as in I think it was supposed to look like a real slap, but we literally see Baker's slapping hand clap his other hand in front of her face, like it accidentally got in the shot, Dark Shadows-style. Casey plays a fake radio program via KRTR (reel-to-reel) about transplant patients taking on the behavior of their donors. Kearney brings up the subject of marriage deliberately, feeling that he wants more than to fool around. Jim calls Kearney and sets a rendezvous for their deal. Kearney calls Taynor to let him know that he's about to hit Jim...as in execute him with a gun, not really obviously fake-slap him.
Manny bumps into Kearney outside, swapping his gun with a trick one that he can't pull the trigger of...which Jim subsequently demonstrates does work. Kearney goes to Father Stonn to find out who the donor was, and Stonn is persuaded to reveal that it was a fellow priest. Kearney starts smashing up the church's statuary in frustration. Outside in the backlot, somebody tries to do a drive-by hit on Kearney. I wasn't clear if this was a real attempt on Taynor's part of a fake one on the IMF's, but I think it was the latter. Frank wants Casey to run off with him to South America, and takes her to the boat with the H on it, intending it to be their nest egg. Taynor and Benton drive up to find Kearney with the box of illicit cargo. Kearney tries to tell Taynor that the dead priest made him do it, and Benton's about to put a real hit on Kearney when the police swoop in, as the IMFers openly watch...Mission: Accomplished.
If you had trouble following parts of this plot, join the club.
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50th Anniversary Viewing (Part 2)
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Love, American Style
"Love and the Awakening / Love and the Bashful Groom / Love and the Four-Sided Triangle / Love and the Naked Stranger"
Originally aired October 22, 1971
"Love and the Awakening" opens with actress Elizabeth (Elaine Giftos) doing a brass bed love scene with Earl (Aron Kincaid), under the direction of German-accented Mr. Chaney (Bernie Kopell), who isn't pleased with the results. Elizabeth explains to her director that she doesn't have real-world experience in that area; and Chaney learns why when he meets her nebbish of a boyfriend, Stanley (Peter Kastner), with whom she has a wholesome, non-physical relationship. Chaney tries to resolve this by going through Stanley, but he refuses to consummate their relationship until marriage. Chaney then lures them into doing a love scene together, which involves convincing Stanley that he's got star potential; but Stanley's nervous and lousy, so Chaney tries to show him how it's done with Elizabeth...which she starts to get into, making Stanley jealous. It looks like Stanley and Elizabeth are starting to get into the groove with each other when Stanley breaks into his usual sexual tension reliever of doing push-ups. After he leaves, Chaney offers to help Elizabeth rehearse. Cut to Elizabeth giving a much more convincing brass bed performance, while Chaney does push-ups.
"Love and the Bashful Groom" has Linda (Meredith MacRae) bringing Calvin (Paul Petersen) to the Green Glen Resort--a nudist colony where she grew up--for their wedding; though he'd rather have a traditional church ceremony. Cal meets a friend named Jerry (Christopher Stone), who's in the buff, and is told that he'll have to undress to impress Linda's parents.
Calvin: Can't they like me with my clothes on!?!
Cal doesn't even want to see Linda nude before the appropriate time, but meets her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hutton (Dick Wilson and Jeff Donnell) in the their native attire. Cal ultimately ends up bringing himself to strip down for the ceremony, walking out into the courtyard with his eyes closed, but when he opens them he finds that everyone else is traditionally clothed (saw that coming a mile away)...though the parents and guests decide to follow his example and start enthusiastically stripping down in front of the shocked minister.
In "Love and the Four-Sided Triangle," Melvin (Elliott Street) is trying to woo his boss's bespectacled, romance magazine-reading secretary, Alice Graff (Karen Valentine), though she doesn't notice him. The boss, Mr. Cal Tucker (Dick Gautier, whom I wouldn't have recognized here as Hymie), notices that Melvin's been fouling up, and Melvin confesses that he's in love with Miss Graff. Tucker offers to tell her for him...but clearly more enthusiastic about the hunky boss, she gets the wrong idea, thinking Tucker's talking about himself. Melvin listens as Alice tells a friend about the situation on the phone and thinks that Tucker took his gal. Protesting that he's happily married, Tucker promises to clear things up. Cal gets a pink, perfumed lover letter at home, which his wife, Nancy (Ruta Lee), notices, so he drops it in the toaster. At work, he has the lovestruck Alice brought in to see him. When he tells her that he's married, she just thinks that he's feeling guilty about the situation. When Cal's unable to clear things up, Melvin goes to see Nancy, telling her that Cal and Alice are madly in love with each other, and that Alice is planning to come to ask her to give Cal up; but from his description of how things went down, Nancy comes to understand the situation better than Melvin does. Having been spitefully tipped off by Melvin, Cal tries to get Nancy out of the house. Alice comes to the door announcing that she's going to take Nancy's husband away from her, and describes their love in florid prose emulating her magazines. Nancy pretends to go along with it and insists that Alice should move in with them so they can share Cal, claiming that they've done this sort of thing before. Being turned off by this, when Melvin comes to the door, Alice sees him in a new light. Melvin goes with it, and Cal thanks Nancy for getting him out of the situation.
In "Love and the Naked Stranger," the exaggeratedly described man (Ronnie Schell) comes home to a woman in a brass bed, strips down to his underwear, and gets in with her...only to find that the woman, Nadine (Joyce Van Patten), isn't his wife and he's in the wrong apartment. He hides under the bed as her husband, Arthur (Frank Aletter), comes home to tell her that the company president, A. J. Potts (Dana Elcar), is coming up to discuss a potential transfer to Paris. Nadine tries to keep Arthur distracted so the stranger can get out, though he doesn't succeed. This includes a bit where the stranger has to climb over the bed as Arthur's crawling under it to retrieve something. Mr. Potts arrives, and more shenanigans ensue in which the stranger always ends up back under the bed. In a final escape attempt, he crawls out to run right into Potts, and promptly leaves. Potts announces that Arthur's got the job, as he now believes that he and Nadine will fit into the French lifestyle fine...and ends the episode on a note of flirting with Nadine, thinking that she's that kind of woman.
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The Mary Tyler Moore Show
"Cover Boy"
Originally aired October 23, 1971
Wiki said:
That Ted's actually reading the news correctly tips Mary and Murray that something's up. Ted's commercial actor brother Hal (Jack Cassidy) arrives at the station, and there are clear indications of rivalry. Ted wants Lou to give him a raise in front of Hal, but he blows it by asking for too much. When Hal wants to double date, Ted pretends that Mary's his girlfriend and asks her to hook Hal up with "that Israeli friend of yours"...Rhoda. At Mary's apartment, Ted starts to blow his cover when he isn't familiar with the place. The brothers explain how their extreme competitiveness goes back to how their parents raised them. Ted proves to be out of his element at the fancy restaurant that they go to...and feels the need to act romantic toward Mary to compete with Hal's affectionate gestures toward Rhoda. This continues back to Mary's place, where Ted feels that he has to stay into the night because Hal is upstairs at Rhoda's and he can't let Hal see him leave. Mary and Ted stay up until dawn playing Go Fish, only to learn from Rhoda that Hal left in a cab a half-hour after they got there. Mary struggles the next day at work without sleep, while Ted, who comes in much later, still gets a full night's worth. Mary persuades Ted to come clean to Hal about their relationship charade, and Ted further admits to his own feelings of inadequacy. Even this turns into a sort of competition, as Hal tries to one-up Ted in that department. The episode ends on the note of Murray being frustrated because nobody else in the newsroom hears Ted admit that he's a lousy newscaster...Mary having fallen asleep at her typewriter.
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Mission: Impossible
"The Miracle"
Originally aired October 23, 1971
Wiki said:
Frank Kearney (Joe Don Baker) and Milt Anderson (Lee Delano) are waiting for a man named Taynor to bring in a boatload of "H" when Frank pulls a gun on Milt, outing him as narc. A struggle ensues in which Frank knocks out Milt and rolls him off a drinkside cliff in a car.
No unrealistic hurry in this ticking clock! I just realized that Greg Morris got a promotion this season. He's now in the "Starring" category behind Peter Graves, with Lynda Day George and Peter Lupus falling under "Also Starring". He does not, however, get a separate "Starring" bill like Martin Landau and Leonard Nimoy did.The miniature reel-to-reel tape with no establishing set up in a bait shop or something said:
The IMF's plan involves the cooperation of a hospital, which gives them control of part of a floor and all the personnel they need. Guest agents attending the briefing include Steve Johnson (Lawrence Montaigne) and Manny (Ollie O'Toole)--who demonstrates his pickpocketing skill by tossing Barney and Willy their wallet and keys, respectively. We learn that Kearney's Catholic upbringing is believed to still be a significant factor in his psychology. Casey waits on and flirts with Kearney at a restaurant meeting with Taynor. Outside, Rival Mobster Jim holds a gun on Taynor and his man, Hank Benton (Lando!) in their car, trying to strongarm them into doing a deal that would involve the November shipment. In the restaurant, Willy walks up and fake-shoots Kearney with a tranquilizer bullet. At the hospital, Father Stonn tends to Kearney's just-in-case rites, while Barney fake operates on a sometimes conscious(!!!) Kearney, who gets to watch fake footage on a monitor of his open heart!!!! Benton also gets to watch, from the hallway through an open door!!!!! Having just gotten my first operation last year, I'm happy to report that this is not how any of this works!
Willy pays a visit to Taynor, pretending to work for Jim...wait, he does work for Jim, but you know what I mean. Taynor presses hospital worker Sam Evans (Leon Russom) to keep tabs on Kearney. Casey visits Kearney at the hospital and shows him a fake newspaper article about his surgery. Barney uses drugs to condition Kearney into wanting to marry Casey. Evans walks in on this but is stopped from making a call by Barney. Jim and Willy tail Taynor and Benton to a warehouse and hold them up along with the men they're doing a deal with, then make an escape under gunfire. Benton learns that Evans has come up missing. When they see Jim walking into the hospital, Taynor sics Benton on him. Jim, still in his role, propositions Kearney. Outside, Willy stops Benton from putting the hit on Jim, who seems genuinely surprised when Willy brings him the shotgun afterward.
Quack Dr. Barney sets up the idea that the new heart may affect how Kearney feels about things as Frank is checking out of the hospital. At the restaurant, Taynor and Benton confront Kearney as he's romancing Casey, and Kearney finds himself ordering wine--which he normally eschews because he associates it with Catholic priests--thanks to his conditioning. Seeing Casey in private, Kearney slips and refers to her as his wife, and ends up fake-slapping her...as in I think it was supposed to look like a real slap, but we literally see Baker's slapping hand clap his other hand in front of her face, like it accidentally got in the shot, Dark Shadows-style. Casey plays a fake radio program via KRTR (reel-to-reel) about transplant patients taking on the behavior of their donors. Kearney brings up the subject of marriage deliberately, feeling that he wants more than to fool around. Jim calls Kearney and sets a rendezvous for their deal. Kearney calls Taynor to let him know that he's about to hit Jim...as in execute him with a gun, not really obviously fake-slap him.
Manny bumps into Kearney outside, swapping his gun with a trick one that he can't pull the trigger of...which Jim subsequently demonstrates does work. Kearney goes to Father Stonn to find out who the donor was, and Stonn is persuaded to reveal that it was a fellow priest. Kearney starts smashing up the church's statuary in frustration. Outside in the backlot, somebody tries to do a drive-by hit on Kearney. I wasn't clear if this was a real attempt on Taynor's part of a fake one on the IMF's, but I think it was the latter. Frank wants Casey to run off with him to South America, and takes her to the boat with the H on it, intending it to be their nest egg. Taynor and Benton drive up to find Kearney with the box of illicit cargo. Kearney tries to tell Taynor that the dead priest made him do it, and Benton's about to put a real hit on Kearney when the police swoop in, as the IMFers openly watch...Mission: Accomplished.
If you had trouble following parts of this plot, join the club.
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At least Rorschach was symmetrical...
Whatever his intent, he typically showed way too much on his face while in assumed character in the middle of a situation. His replacement, at least, was more practiced in keeping his emotional reactions in check.
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A ubiquitous character actor in those days, and very cute.
Classic LAS plot.
Here's one that I remember well-- it may have come up before under the topic of faux nudity, which this has a lot of. In particular, I remember a couple of girls sitting on a wall with their backs to the camera.
Another classic.
Luckily. Maybe.
Another good one.
Overall, this episode is the perfect example of what made LAS great.
Another popular character actor who excelled at being evil and insidious. Unfortunately, he was also seriously mentally ill and came to a gruesome end.
Now Ted will have to kill him.
Which show are we watching here?
At least they're not "and the rest."
And his downfall. I'll have to see if I can record this to inflict it on my Mother.
Groovy!
Not sure if they had JCAHO accreditation in those days.
That seems unnecessary.
Maybe his priest side stopped his mobster side.
Most confusing episode ever!
That's normal for me. It makes me want to write an IMF-style adventure story that's just a sequence of random events with no regard to sense or sensibility.
True. And he got canned beans instead of rocks.At least Rorschach was symmetrical...
When the technology becomes available, I want to visit the universe where Lloyd Bridges and Martin Landau are the captain and first officer of the Enterprise.Whatever his intent, he typically showed way too much on his face while in assumed character in the middle of a situation. His replacement, at least, was more practiced in keeping his emotional reactions in check.
Sometimes the show makes it seem like Oahu is lousy with abandoned military installations for criminals to use. Also, later on they used recycled footage from this episode for another sniper situation.
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55 Years Ago This Week
October 30 – Cheri Jo Bates, an 18-year old freshman at Riverside Community College in southern California, was brutally murdered after leaving the campus library at closing time. When her body was found the next morning, she had been "slashed three times in the chest, once in the back, and seven times in her throat" with a wounds "so extensive that she was nearly decapitated". An anonymous letter, claiming responsibility for the killing, would be received by city police on November 29, with the warning that Bates "is not the first and she will not be the last". The form of the murders, and the wording of the letters, were similar enough to that of the Zodiac Killer that Bates would be considered to have likely been his first victim.
October 31
November 1
November 2
November 4 – 1966 flood of the Arno river in Italy hits Florence, flooding it to a maximum depth of 6.7 m (22 ft), leaving thousands homeless and destroying millions of masterpieces of art and rare books. In addition, a severe tidal flood hits Venice.
November 5 – Thirty-eight African states demand that the United Kingdom use force against the Rhodesian government.
Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week:
Leaving the chart:
Re-entering the chart:
New on the chart:
"(Come 'Round Here) I'm the One You Need," The Miracles
(#17 US; #4 R&B; #37 UK)
"A Hazy Shade of Winter," Simon & Garfunkel
(#13 US)
And new on the boob tube:
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Timeline entries are quoted from the Wiki pages for the month or year.
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October 30 – Cheri Jo Bates, an 18-year old freshman at Riverside Community College in southern California, was brutally murdered after leaving the campus library at closing time. When her body was found the next morning, she had been "slashed three times in the chest, once in the back, and seven times in her throat" with a wounds "so extensive that she was nearly decapitated". An anonymous letter, claiming responsibility for the killing, would be received by city police on November 29, with the warning that Bates "is not the first and she will not be the last". The form of the murders, and the wording of the letters, were similar enough to that of the Zodiac Killer that Bates would be considered to have likely been his first victim.
October 31
- A footlocker, containing the materials from the 1963 autopsy of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, was brought to the National Archives Building following an authorization by the Kennedy family, and opened in the presence of the officials from the Archives, the Government Services Administration, and the U.S. Department of Justice, on condition that the contents not be available for five years. When an inventory was made, eight of the nine sets of items were available, the stainless steel container that had contained Kennedy's brain was found to be empty. Explanations differ, with some authors believing it to be part of the coverup of a conspiracy, the custodian, Burke Marshall would testify in 1978 that the brain tissue was disposed of by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy in order to prevent it from being "placed on public display in future years in an institution such as the Smithsonian."
- U.S. President Johnson, on his first visit to Malaysia, stopped at Kampung Labu Jaya village in Negeri Sembilan state. The village would rename itself Kampung L.B. Johnson in honor of the 36th American president.
November 1
- Inventor Candido Jacuzzi of Lafayette, California, was granted U.S. Design Patent No. 206,143 for a large "Hydrotherapy Tub" that would bear his family's surname. Jacuzzi, who had immigrated to the United States from Italy at the age of 17, had developed the initial technology, a pump that could create a swirling whirlpool within a standard bathtub, in 1947. The invention had arisen from necessity, to ease the rheumatoid arthritis of Candido's child, who would document the history in a 2005 book.
- The National Football League in the United States awards its sixteenth franchise to the city of New Orleans. The team will be named the New Orleans Saints.
November 2
- Israel moved one step closer to developing its own nuclear bomb when its armaments agency, RAFAEL (an acronym based upon Reshut l'pituah Emtzaei L'ehima, Hebrew for "Authority for the Development of Means of Warfare") achieved a successful test implosion of a nuclear device. RAFAEL Director Munya Mador would later describe the date as the moment that "a test of special import" was achieved, representing "unambiguous experimental proof of the efficacy of the system" that "we had waited many years for."
- The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residency in the United States.
November 4 – 1966 flood of the Arno river in Italy hits Florence, flooding it to a maximum depth of 6.7 m (22 ft), leaving thousands homeless and destroying millions of masterpieces of art and rare books. In addition, a severe tidal flood hits Venice.
November 5 – Thirty-eight African states demand that the United Kingdom use force against the Rhodesian government.
Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week:
Leaving the chart:
- "All Strung Out," Nino Tempo & April Stevens (8 weeks)
- "Black Is Black," Los Bravos (12 weeks)
- "Wipe Out," The Surfaris (30 weeks total; 14 weeks this run)
Re-entering the chart:
- Whispers (Getttin' Louder)," Jackie Wilson
New on the chart:
"(Come 'Round Here) I'm the One You Need," The Miracles
(#17 US; #4 R&B; #37 UK)
"A Hazy Shade of Winter," Simon & Garfunkel
(#13 US)
And new on the boob tube:
- The Ed Sullivan Show, Season 19, episode 8
- Gilligan's Island, "Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow"
- The Monkees, "Don't Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth"
- The Rat Patrol, "The Fatal Chase Raid"
- Batman, "Hizzonner the Penguin"
- Batman, "Dizzoner the Penguin"
- Star Trek, "Dagger of the Mind"
- That Girl, "Time for Arrest"
- The Wild Wild West, "The Night of the Bottomless Pit"
- Tarzan, "The Deadly Silence: Part 2"
- Hogan's Heroes, "A Klink, a Bomb and a Short Fuse"
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E., "The Candidate's Wife Affair"
- 12 O'Clock High, "The Pariah"
- Get Smart, "Hoo Done It"
- Mission: Impossible, "The Ransom"
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Timeline entries are quoted from the Wiki pages for the month or year.
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His desire to marry was supposed to be the priest's influence...he was a strictly no-commitments type.
But she rolled with it and everything. Wish I could do screencaps.
I don't have the book in front of me, so I'm paraphrasing, but Nimoy said he adopted a low key approach to the character of Paris and the characters he played on Mission and only acted theatrically when the script called for it.
It's interesting to see how Landau and Bain would have played characters in the first three episodes of the fourth season because they were being written and filmed while the two were still under contract with Paramount and everyone was still under the impression that they would return to the show.
It's interesting to see how Landau and Bain would have played characters in the first three episodes of the fourth season because they were being written and filmed while the two were still under contract with Paramount and everyone was still under the impression that they would return to the show.
Makes sense considering their history and location. And you never know where an abandoned military installation will turn up. It was just a couple of years ago that I found out there was an abandoned missile site in the Blue Hills, right up behind the function hall where I had my prom.
I like to think he's in a jar somewhere, having conversations with Leonard Nimoy.
Sounds a bit different for them, but not bad.
An S&G Classic.
Muscle memory from all those other slaps in the line of duty.