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I was gonna give somebody the chance to make a case for why I should add this to my collection. RJ...?
A song that may or may not have been part of The Who's/Pete Townshend's abandoned 'Lifehouse' album. When Pete compiled all of his demos for the limited edition 'Lifehouse Chronicles' box set, this song was included as part of the main story. So, if Pete thinks it is, that's good enough for me. We'll probably get a definitive answer when the 'Who's Next'/'Lifehouse' box set comes out later this year.
Neilia Hunter Biden, the wife of U.S. Senator-elect (and future U.S. Vice-President and President) Joe Biden was killed in a traffic accident, along with the couple's 13-month-old daughter, Naomi.
Normally I think of politicians as a sub-human offshoot of humanity, kind of like Morlocks, but when you think of all the tragedies that this guy has gone through and come out of as the epitome of calm and compassion, and with a devotion to public service to boot, he's really an amazing role model for the next generation. If they're smart enough to take advantage.
Hawaii Five-O
"The Clock Struck Twelve"
Originally aired December 5, 1972
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McGarrett is assigned to preserve security and ensure an orderly trial after a series of bomb threats follows the arrest of a band of Hawaiian vigilantes.
While protestors picket outside the Honolulu Judiciary Building to "free the Seven," several ordinary-looking individuals plant ticking devices in various parts of the courthouse. But it turns out that these are dummy devices planted by plainclothes officers, so that Steve can demonstrate the vulnerability of the building to the Governor and Manicote in the face of bomb threats. (The title comes from the dummy devices going off at noon, with a cut to Steve at HQ saying, "Boom.") It turns out that the Seven are members of a radical native group who want to drive drug-using hippies from the islands, and are responsible for the rape and death by burning of a girl named Mary Ann (Cris Callow) when they torched her commune. She's able to identify a couple of them as her dying act. Steve pleads with the Seven in their cells to identify their associates who are sending the bomb threats.
Five-O plans their security measures simultaneously with the bombers assembling their devices. The Governor wants Five-O to live-test their security, regardless of the dangers, so a plainclothes officer crashes a car outside in the wee hours the night before the trial as a diversion for Danno and Ben to climb up into windows and split up to plant their devices. While Danno is sneaking around in the basement, he finds an actual bomb planted in the ceiling.
The building is cleared and searched inch by inch. The device that was found has a long-term timer indicating that it could have been planted before Five-O's measures were in place. They carefully examine the still-live device to track down manufacturing info, which leads them to a local construction company who ordered a shipment of dynamite. There they find missing dynamite and are pointed to a demolitions expert who's called in sick, Abraham Meleha (Manu Tupou). Meanwhile, Danno carefully prepares to disarm the device, conferring remotely with Che. Now daylight, Abe and an accomplice observe from a nearby rooftop as the demolitions team move in, and Abe preps a backup plan to use a rifle to detonate one of the devices as it's being carried out to the van. Danno successfully disarms the device, only to be immediately be informed by a uniformed officer that another one's been found.
Danno and Che go right back to work as the rest of Five-O moves in on Meleha's residence, finding bomb-making materials as well as Abe's brother, David (M*A*S*H's Patrick Adiarte), whom Abe tied up when he tried to call the authorities. David updates them regarding Abe's whereabouts and state of armament. While Danno finishes the second device, Steve choppers back into town, scanning the rooftops while ordering that the bombs not be taken out of the building. McGarrett spots Meleha, bullhorns for him to surrender, and ends up taking him down in an exchange of rifle fire, following which the bombs are carried out to the van.
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Adam-12
"The Chaser"
Originally aired December 6, 1972
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Malloy and Reed have to deal with an out of state bounty hunter tracking down a bail jumper.
The officers are enjoying a code seven at a diner when the waitress, Jenny (Marie Windsor), tips them off that a man who just took a booth is carrying a gun. The officers search him and learn that he's Mike Dehner (Bruce Gordon), a PI from Missouri who's tracking down a bail jumper. Malloy insists that because his permit is from out of state, he needs to keep his weapon locked up.
Later the officers receive the latest call from elderly Mr. Reardon (Burt Mustin), who wants them to ticket hippie vehicles in his neighborhood that aren't parked legally. During an exchange with the opinionated senior, Reed asserts that how people dress and wear their hair is their own business. Reardon drops a reference to the Wobblies in the 1920s.
Next the officers are called to a citizen who's holding a 211 suspect in the parking lot of an airline office. They find Dehner, there investigating a stewardess who's associated with his jumper, with a young black man named Wally Lembeck (Christopher Graham) sitting on the ground by his car and sporting a head wound. Dehner insists that he only used his handcuffs as weapons in self-defense, as Lembeck's accomplice in an alleged mugging attempt had a knife. The officers get Lembeck medical help, and Malloy wishes there were a witness to the incident, as he doesn't buy Dehner's story.
The officers are flagged down by a woman in a car (former iconic nosy neighbor Sandra Gould), who wants them to pull over and give her a ticket. It turns out that her issue is with the bald tires that she's driving on, which she wants to force her husband to have changed. The officers are happy to comply.
The officers are then called to the station, where Mac has Lembeck's friend, Timmy Colton (Hilly Hicks), in his office. Colton has come forward with a story about how it was Dehner who confronted the duo when he found them near his car, swearing that he doesn't have a knife, and explaining that he ran because he's on probation. Mac then gets a call informing him that Lembeck has testified, and his story matches Colton's.
The officers find that Dehner has checked out of his hotel, but a call he made leads to the apartment of the stewardess, where Dehner has his jumper, Harold Farrow (Gary Van Orman), handcuffed with a battered face. The officers find that Dehner is carrying his weapon, which they relieve him of as they arrest him for ADW in the Lembeck incident.
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The Brady Bunch
"Greg's Triangle"
Originally aired December 8, 1972
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Greg is excited about his blossoming relationship with his new girlfriend, Jennifer. However, his loyalty is tested when he finds out Marcia and Jennifer are competing against each other for the captain of the cheerleading squad.
It's another day at Westdale High when knockout Jennifer Nichols (Tannis G. Montgomery) arranges to accidentally bump into Greg so she can butter up his ego and ask him to teach her to surf that weekend. Greg comes home on Cloud Nine, but is reminded that his date conflicts with a golf game in which he was to be Mike's partner. Mike is understanding, and Carol offers to be Mike's partner if he'll teach her to play. Mike is skeptical of taking on a novice, so Carol tries to learn the game via Alice reading to her from a how-to book.
Wiki said:
Although Carol is learning how to play golf, it is revealed in the first season episode "Vote for Brady" that she has a set of clubs and used to play golf all the time.
Meanwhile, Marcia has been practicing to compete for the position of head cheerleader, and insists to her sisters that she doesn't intend to take advantage of Greg being chair of the judging committee.
Following their date, Greg brings Jennifer home to meet the folks, and she lays things on especially thick for them...which they see through, discussing the purpose of her "snow job" after the kids leave. Greg subsequently learns from Jennifer in a phone call that she's competing in the tryout, and realizes that he has a titular situation.
When Marcia sees Greg and Jennifer together at school, she accuses Greg of being in her rival's pocket. Carol's still practicing, even though the game was supposed to have been the same Saturday as the date; and she has to break it to Mike that she busted up his five iron. Greg's having a sleepless night when a light bulb goes off over his head, waking up his brothers. Cut to the competition, with the contestants performing their cheers for the Bears. Greg watches calmly and takes the scores from the other three judges, planning to let them decide for him...but each votes for a different contestant, putting Greg in the position of breaking the tie. He ends up picking the third girl, Pat Conway (Rita Wilson). When Marcia comes home, she sincerely expresses her appreciation for Greg's impartiality. But when Greg calls Jennifer thinking she might be so gracious, he gets hung up on and begins to realize that he was being used.
In the coda, Greg is back to partnering with his dad, and is now mooning over the golf pro's daughter.
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The Odd Couple
"The Odd Father"
Originally aired December 8, 1972
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Felix is afraid that he's losing contact with his daughter and resolves to become a better father.
It makes sense that Felix would priortize getting to know Edna better now that she's being played by a new actress (Doney Oatman). She's staying for the weekend and Felix tries unsuccessfully to get her to do something with him rather than watch TV. Oscar comes home from a trip in a foul mood, but Edna's exicted to see him, paying more attention to him than Felix.
Felix: She likes David Cassidy more than me! Oscar: So do I!
Oscar suggests that Edna might be interested in seeing what her father does, so Felix takes her to the house of a client who's having Felix do his family portrait. Felix is surprised to learn that Mr. and Mrs. Albertson are little people (Frank and Sadie Delfino), though their son Wilfred isn't (Stephen Liss). Felix tries to hard not to draw attention to this, including when Oscar drops by to pick up Edna for his ball game, but Felix eventually blurts out the M-word.
Felix ends up having a good talk with Mr. Albertson about the challenges of parenting. When he returns home, Felix learns that Edna's decided she wants to be an umpire. Felix feels left out, so he persuades Oscar to teach him about what umpires do. Felix skips out on photographing a wedding to catch Edna's first game in her new role, though his unexpected presence deflates her enthusiasm. Following the game, Oscar and Edna are mad because Felix embarrassed her. Oscar has a talk with Edna about how her father would do anything for her, following which Felix and Edna have one...and we learn that she ejected him from the park; but Edna asserts that she loves her father even though he bugs her. Edna also gives up umpiring, as she was only doing it to try to impress a boy.
Not only did Frank Delfino play the Hamburglar in McDonald's commercials, but he and Sadie were Mike Lookinland and Susan Olsen's stand-ins on The Brady Bunch!
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Love, American Style
"Love and the Ghost / Love and the Out-of-Town Client / Love and the Secret Habit"
Originally aired December 8, 1972
"Love and the Ghost" opens with Hubert (William Windom) waking up to a visitation from his deceased wife, Barbara (Betsy Palmer), who wants to pick up their marriage where they left off. The reason for Hubert's lack of enthusiasm becomes clear when his new fiancee, Tish (Pat Delaney), drops by, provoking Barbara to drive her out by invisibly smashing objects. Hubert calls a flamboyant, cape-sporting ghost hunter (Anthony Holland), who finds that he can't drive Barbara away and sits down to talk with her. Barbara doesn't intend to leave until she's found a man who's everything that Hubert used to be for her. When the ghost hunter is reporting his lack of success to Hubert, he realizes who he can hook her up with in the afterlife who meets all of her qualifications--chief among them honesty. Cut to a double wedding, in which Hubert and Tish exchange vows, followed by the spirit couple, Barbara and Abe (Robert V. Barron).
In "Love and the Out-of-Town Client," Peter Fox (Richard Schaal) and his redheaded secretary, Millie (Bonnie Boland), are setting up a hotel room to recreate how it looked five years before as an anniversary surprise for Peter's wife, Peggy. Peter checks in with his boss to find that he's expected to entertain the titular personage, Adrien S. Clark, who has a reputation for aggressive philandering. Millie arranges for a girlfriend who'd be to his liking to rendezvous with Clark in his hotel room; then she calls Peggy as part of the surprise arrangement, and accidentally gives her the same room number.
Glinda reports that she can't make it, so Millie volunteers to sacrifice herself, and Peter takes her to Clark's (Joe Silver) room. Then Clark's wife, Netta (Imogene Coca), arrives unexpectedly; Adrien perpetrates the ruse that he's having a business meeting with Peter, and passes off Millie as Peter's wife. Peter leaves to go down to his room and explain to Peggy, following which Glinda (Jenifer Shaw) arrives after all. Clark takes Netta's glasses and tries to convince her that the bubbly blonde is still Mrs. Fox. Then, while Netta is out of the room again, Adrien hides Glinda in the closet when the actual Peggy Fox (Neile Adams) shows up at the door. Adrien's trying to explain the situation to her when Netta re-enters, and Adrien has to tell his wife that this third, raven-haired woman is Mrs. Fox. Peggy is also shoved in a closet when Millie returns, and Netta starts to doubt her sanity. (Gaslighting! Gaslighting! Buzz, buzz!) Peter returns to learn that his wife's in the closet, and Netta calls a doctor when she finds Glinda in the other one. While Netta's lying down, Peter and Peggy go downstairs to enjoy their second honeymoon, and Adrien leaves to hit the town with Glinda and Millie. The "doctor" (Michael St. Angel) arrives to find Netta alone, and it turns out that Netta was faking and he's actually the man with whom she's fooling around.
In "Love and the Secret Habit," swinger Mark (Michael Callan) preps his "loser" pal Leonard (Michael Brandon) and his pad to project the right image for a blind date, though Leonard is uncomfortable with all the artifice. Leonard is dumbstruck when the attractive Eileen (Michele Marsh) arrives. Things start off a bit awkwardly, and Eileen, who acts more reserved than expected, notices a planted book, The Sensuous Bachelor, following which Leonard tries playing the African drum music that Mark brought him and shows her a picture of a fake mother. Eileen responds better when Leonard starts acting more like himself and takes an interest in her, and then she lets it slip that she's a former nun. This makes Leonard uncomfortable, and he starts to treat her differently. Then Mark arrives with bubbly blonde Rosalie (Joy Harmon), the neighbor who recommended Eileen.
Mark tries to get the party going, but Leonard makes an effort to keep things clean for Eileen's sake. Leonard ends up taking Mark aside to explain why he's acting so strangely, following which Mark tries to rein in Rosalie's forward behavior, and ends up blurting out that Eileen's a nun. Eileen then awkwardly finds herself the center of the conversation, and Mark makes an excuse to leave with Rosalie. When Leonard tries to stop Eileen from leaving, she calls him out for not being able to see her as a woman, and he finds himself listing her attractive qualities, then finally does make a move...and she habitually responds by blessing him.
It turns out that the Seven are members of a radical native group who want to drive drug-using hippies from the islands, and are responsible for the rape and death by burning of a girl named Mary Ann (Cris Callow) when they torched her commune.
It turns out that her issue is with the bald tires that she's driving on, which she wants to force her husband to have changed. The officers are happy to comply.
Isn't picking someone specifically because they're not your sister or girlfriend just as bad as picking someone because they are your sister or girlfriend?
But when Greg calls Jennifer thinking she might be so gracious, he gets hung up on and begins to realize that he was being used.
Not only did Frank Delfino play the Hamburglar in McDonald's commercials, but he and Sadie were Mike Lookinland and Susan Olsen's stand-ins on The Brady Bunch!
The "doctor" (Michael St. Angel) arrives to find Netta alone, and it turns out that Netta was faking and he's actually the man with whom she's fooling around.
Completely nuts. I picture the writers with index cards thumbtacked to the wall, connected by strings of yarn.
she calls him out for not being able to see her as a woman, and he finds himself listing her attractive qualities, then finally does make a move...and she habitually responds by blessing him.
Isn't picking someone specifically because they're not your sister or girlfriend just as bad as picking someone because they are your sister or girlfriend?
If you mean was it more acceptable to say, I recall a preference being expressed back in my childhood for "little people"; and the idea here was simply that Felix was trying so hard not to make a big deal of the situation that he ended up blurting it out anyway.
That's fascinating. I wonder what stand-ins did on Brady Bunch. It's not like they need stunt doubles or anything.
I suppose it would make sense for Danno to have some Bomb Squad training, but you'd think they'd have the real deal on site by the time the second one was found.
Seems like it's been way too long since we had a good drinking...
The girl would have felt pretty bad if she found out, but the episode wasn't long enough to handle that.
If you mean was it more acceptable to say, I recall a preference being expressed back in my childhood for "little people"; and the idea here was simply that Felix was trying so hard not to make a big deal of the situation that he ended up blurting it out anyway.
After some bits of business about Edith having bought decaffinated coffee, the arbitrariness of God's name, and Archie's opinion of the kids going to an art museum, Edith is looking for a receipt for a pair of shoes that don't fit Archie and finds months-old lottery tickets in her purse. Gloria calls a candy store to find that one of them has a winning number, worth $500. Archie's ready to claim it when Edith--who didn't even remember having the tickets--tells him that the ticket belongs to George Jefferson.
Archie has to endure one of Edith's stories to learn how Edith had agreed to get some items at the store for Louise, including the tickets. After the kids leave, he tries to convince Edith that she only owes the Jeffersons the $2 that bought the tickets, and then learns that Edith was never paid for the tickets. Louise and Henry come over, having been called earlier by Edith, and Archie insists that the tickets belong to him and Edith, though Edith feels otherwise. In the kitchen, Louise offers to split the money, but Edith gives her the ticket. The Jeffersons slip out before Archie learns, then Henry comes back to offer Archie the same deal. Not yet knowing that Henry has the ticket, Archie refuses to split the money.
In the coda, the Jeffersons have given the Bunkers a $100 gift certificate to a lingerie shop, which doesn't make Archie feel any better.
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Emergency!
"Musical Mania"
Originally aired December 9, 1972
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John takes up bagpipes, then trombone, and finally guitar after Chet jokes with him about playing the squad's horn.
Chet mocks Johnny about playing a tune while testing the squad truck's horn, and Roy warns Chet that he's just started a comic subplot. The squad is called to see to a man who collapsed in a greenhouse nursery; his general rigidity, spasms, and a cut he recently sustained indicate tetanus. While the man is being treated at Rampart, Dix sees to a rural couple in the corridor, Boyd and Mary Kate Clements (Russell Wiggins and Kathleen Gackle), who've brought in their young Son, Donald, for what Early diagonses as lead poisoning. Dix informs Mary Kate that they won't have to pay if they can't, but Mary Kate is concerned that her husband is too proud to accept charity. (I have to wonder how many families from Appalachia who haven't struck Texas tea move to L.A.) Early makes another discovery--that the boy is over a year older than he appears, being unusually small for his age.
At the station, Roy's prediction comes true as Johnny takes to the pipes, and Roy convinces him to try another instrument. The station is called to an ice cream truck that's crashed into a power pole. The paramedics see to the driver, who was in the back when the parked truck's brakes failed.
At Rampart, Johnny chats up Betty Snyder (Kathryn Kelly Wiget), the daughter of the patient with tetanus, and she tells him that she used to play the trombone. Early recommends hormone treatment for Donald's deprivation dwarfism, but Boyd, already belligerantly distrustful of pretty much everything, refuses because he thinks Early wants to use his son as a guinea pig.
The squad arrives at a high school where a teenage girl has collapsed, the cause being determined to have been that she was taking reds. (An uncredited Virginia Gregg plays a teacher.) She's rushed to Rampart for emergency treatment. Her mother, Lucille Rodgers (Alice Nunn), arrives, dismissive of the idea that Beth was taking drugs, only to be informed by Brackett that her her daughter died minutes before.
The station is called to a farm where a glider plane has crash-landed. The amateur pilot, Homer Breedlove (uncredited Oliver Clark), isn't seriously injured, but is stuck in the glider and refuses to be cut out, so multiple firefighters have to pull the heavy-set man out.
At Rampart, Boyd's going to see Early about taking Donald when he strikes up a conversation with Harry Matthews (uncredited John Rayner), a distraught man whose wife and son have been hit by drunk driver. In reassuring Matthews about Early's qualifications, Boyd changes his own attitude about having Donald treated.
Joe Early: Y'know, Dix, some days I'm glad I ate all those peanut butter sandwiches to get through med school.
Back at the station, Roy and Chet are finding Johnny's trombone playing to be no improvement when the station is called to assist a man trapped under a house. A neighbor informs them that the man, Tom, was trying to shore up his cliffside home to deal with earth slippage when the structure collapsed on him. The firefighters find the underside of the house so unstable that they go inside to get to Tom through the floor. The pinned-down Tom manages to indicate his location by knocking with a hammer. The firefighters remove a section of floor with the rescue saw and a hamme. Johnny crawls down and uses the porta power to lift the beam, then helps Tom out because it's too dangerous to treat him under the collapsing house. As soon as the firefighters evacuate the house with Tom, it crashes down further.
The firefighters are enjoying a peaceful station coda when Johnny comes in with his new acoustic guitar...his playing of which proves to be preferable to the earlier instruments.
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The Mary Tyler Moore Show
"Operation: Lou"
Originally aired December 9, 1972
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Lou goes to the hospital to have some shrapnel from World War II removed and leaves Mary in charge. Unfortunately, Mary and Murray clash, but, at the same time, Lou bonds with Ted in the hospital.
Lou initially says that he's going on vacation, but Mary quickly learns the truth when she takes a call from his surgeon.
Mary: Is it bad? I mean, where were you wounded?
[Awkward pause.] Lou: Let's just say France.
Lou announces to the newsroom that he's leaving Mary in charge.
Lou: I want you treat her just like you treat me. With respect...trust...and a certain amount of fear.
Mary pays Lou a hospital visit, and reveals that the cat's out of the bag and Ted came with her. Ted stays behind when Mary leaves, but Lou soon convinces him to leave.
Back at the newsroom, Murray takes exception when Mary edits his copy. In a follow-up visit, Lou notices tension between the two of them. When it's Ted's turn, Lou is genuinely impressed to be given an expensive bottle of scotch. They drink together and it comes out that Ted considers Lou to be his best friend.
Mary tries to reason with Murray at the newsroom. Lou checks out the next day, and a nun (Florida Friebus) gives him the shrapnel in a vial.
Nun: Goodbye, Mr. Grant. Stay well now. Lou: I think I will. People seldom throw grenades at me now.
Lou doesn't want to keep the souvenir, so he gives it to Ted, receiving a hug of gratitude. Ted wheels Lou out of his room...
"Why is it I suddenly feel like solving a crime?"
Later Ted gives Lou a memento paperweight he had made with the shrapnel in it. Murray and Mary are on the same page in their reaction to Lou's new attitude toward Ted. Lou chews out Mary for allowing news footage to air with mismatched copy. Murray says that it was Ted's mistake, and Lou accuses them of using Ted as a scapegoat. But Lou returns to his old attitude when Ted blows off a major scoop to give a surprise on-air tribute to Lou, telling the viewers about his surgery.
The closing credits play over a scene rather than shots of the cast members from earlier in the episode. The scene is of Ted having been left alone in the darkened office, waiting for Lou (who's left for the night) to chew him out.
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The Bob Newhart Show
"Bob and Emily and Howard and Carol and Jerry"
Originally aired December 9, 1972
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Howard and Carol start dating. Pat Morita has a minor role in this episode as a bartender.
After Emily takes Howard to a dentist's appointment in Bob's office building, she drops in to see Carol, who expresses curiosity about him. That they've socialized before is addressed but downplayed. When Emily talks to Bob about the idea of setting up Howard and Carol...
Bob: Psychologists spend years trying to repair the damage you're thinking about doing.
When Emily leaves Bob's office, Howard is already chatting up Carol, who's very impressed...but Howard is under the influence following his appointment.
Howard: Hi, Emily. Emily: Hi, Howard, how are you? Howard: High, Emily.
When Bob and Emily accompany Howard to meet Carol at a Japanese restaurant, Howard doesn't remember Carol, and she's less impressed with his normal personality. (Foreshadowing his iconic role in Seinfeld, James Hong plays a customer whom Howard mistakes for the maître d' when trying to secure a table. "Borden, FOUR!")
Unfortunately, Howard had a great time and doesn't pick up on the signals Carol was sending him by making various excuses to leave early, nor does he take a hint when she avoids follow-up calls and date invitations. Then Jerry brings Carol by the apartment after a date of opportunity while Howard is in the next room. (This is almost getting to be like a LAS segment.) Howard gets the message this time.
Howard: I've never been rejected before! Bob: Maybe you were and you didn't know it.
Carol talks to Howard in the bathroom, trying to explain her behavior and then to figure out why Howard changed so much after they met. By the time it comes out that he was doped up, Bob and Emily have joined them. (Jerry eventually ends up in there, too.) Howard gets assertive and lays it to Carol straight, and she finds herself attracted to him again. He has to leave on a flight, so he insists that she come with him...to Canton, Ohio.
Having gotten a look in the bathroom at what her husband does for a living...
Emily: Bob, I gotta tell you in all honesty...you're overpaid.
(Also downplaying that she joined a therapy group of his in the first episode.)
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Mission: Impossible
"Crack-Up"
Originally aired December 9, 1972
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In order to bring down a brilliant hitman, the team tricks him into believing he kills people during blackouts.
Following his latest win at the Mid-Town Chess Club, Peter Cordel (Alex Cord) performs a contract hit on a Mrs. Taylor (Cathleen Cordell), who inherited valuable stock-voting rights.
The miniature reel-to-reel tape in a biker contact's chopper bag said:
Good morning, Mr. Phelps. Peter Cordel, a killer for hire, is a man of extraordinary intelligence. Although we are certain that he has murdered at least nine persons, conventional law enforcement agencies have never been able to obtain the evidence even to arrest him. More importantly, we have been unable to identify the Syndicate employer for whom all these murders are thought to have been committed. Your mission, Jim, if you decide to accept it, is to get Cordel and to learn the identity of his employer. This tape will self-destruct in five seconds. Good luck, Jim.
The IMF plan to get at Cordel through the chess club. This is a leftover from Lynda Day George's pregnancy, with Marlyn Mason substituting for her as Sandy. Another guest agent is Dr. Adler (Arthur Franz), whose patented death-simulating pills play a major role in the scheme. Psychiatrist-by-Day, Chess-Master-by-Day-Off Jim exposes Cordel to a chemical that will make him susceptible to hypnosis via one of his chess pieces. This begins to take effect during the game, which Barney monitors to feed Jim computer-determined moves via the old "two-radio in the horn-rimmed glasses" trick, enabling him to checkmate Peter. Seeing Cordel out to his car, Jim uses a lighter to put him under and give him instructions, including a trigger phrase that will enable anyone to put him back in his trance state.
"When in doubt, take a pawn."
Adler then approaches and, in a discussion about the game, uses the phrase to put him back under and set up what looks like the aftermath of Cordel having killed Adler with his own cane.
Willy waylays Leslie Harper (uncredited Britt Leach), a man from a rival syndicate, at a bar where he plans to meet with Cordel to make an offer for his services. Willy plants Harper's introductory note in Sandy's purse, so she can pose as Leslie. A planted story in the paper about Adler's fake death makes the Syndicate nervous about Peter going rogue, so they approach his brother and confidante, Harry (Peter Breck). While Sandy's seducing Peter to sweeten her offer, Detective Barney pays a visit to question Peter about Adler, for which Sandy provides him with a false alibi. She leaves Peter wanting more, and Harry threatens her on the way out.
In the next game of their series, Jim breaks confidentiality with a fake patient to casually give Peter an infodump about the delusional condition that Peter is being led to believe he's suffering from. Peter postpones the game and is confronted by Barney outside. Telephone Van Willy stalls Harry by forcing a traffic accident with him, and Barney uses the trigger phrase, following which he puts a gun in Peter's hand and fires it. When the accident onlookers get there, they find Barney on the ground with a really fake TV-blood wound. Peter finds Sandy waiting for him at his apartment, then Harry arrives to confront Peter about the fake murder. Sandy uses the trigger phrase and Jim pops in from the other room to slug Harry. They stage things to make Peter think that he shot Harry this time; then Sandy knocks him out with a drug.
A distraught Peter wakes up in a fake funny farm for felons, with Dr. Jim tending to him. After Jim leaves, a burly orderly comes in and tries to smother Peter with a pillow, fleeing when Peter manages to hit the buzzer. The next staffer to enter is Willy, who blows off the incident but lets Sandy visit. Peter wants Sandy to make contact with his anonymous employer to blackmail him into helping Peter, giving her a 555 number and a chess-themed code phrase exchange. Sandy arranges for a rendezvous and is picked up by a limo. But Harry comes to in a medical ward, overpowers his guard, and makes a call to the limo to tip Peter's employer off about what's been happening, including Sandy's involvement. The employer turns out not to be the man in the back of the limo (Earl Ebi), but the chauffeur (Edward Knight). Nevertheless, the IMFers and conventional law enforcement swoop in and surround the limo. The chauffeur is taken into custody and the IMFers, including Sandy, drive off.
After some bits of business about Edith having bought decaffinated coffee, the arbitrariness of God's name, and Archie's opinion of the kids going to an art museum
Swiss-cheese memory. Maybe Edith is really Sam Beckett.
After the kids leave, he tries to convince Edith that she only owes the Jeffersons the $2 that bought the tickets, and then learns that Edith was never paid for the tickets.
It's interesting that Meathead didn't get to put his two cents in. Would he have opposed Archie just for the hell of it or promoted the idea of splitting it because of his communist beliefs?
Chet mocks Johnny about playing a tune while testing the squad truck's horn
Her mother, Lucille Rodgers (Alice Nunn), arrives, dismissive of the idea that Beth was taking drugs, only to be informed by Brackett that her her daughter died minutes before.
When Bob and Emily accompany Howard to meet Carol at a Japanese restaurant, Howard doesn't remember Carol, and she's less impressed with his normal personality.
Ignorance is bliss, especially when you forget your divorce.
Carol talks to Howard in the bathroom, trying to explain her behavior and then to figure out why Howard changed so much after they met. By the time it comes out that he was doped up, Bob and Emily have joined them. (Jerry eventually ends up in there, too.)
Well, this is a game changer. Haha. No, seriously, if they have this technology, why not just turn their enemies into allies? Or at least make them confess? Evildoers would be their pawns. Haha. No, seriously.
Classic. I actually had this one pinned to my wall. I was still living with my parents and part of my bedroom wall was corkboard, thanks to the previous owners, and I had it covered with comics.
I doubt they actually appear in aired footage, they'd just use them for set-up.
I am skipping a lot of very snippet-heavy posts to write that 72 saw Elvis’s marriage collapse and he entered a bathos period of recordings. Separate Ways goes, The time has come for us to go our separate ways, and pick up all the pieces left behind us…
I HATE Always on My Mind, because it is so careless about the other person: Little things I should’ve said and done, I just never took the time…eh . . . But hey babe, uh, you were always on my mind.
Love takes effort and work and it is evidenced by caring about little things and words and kindnesses. Elvis and Priscilla had been friends then lovers since 1958, and remained friends; and he would call her in later life to talk to her. But he was on the road or in Vegas, cheated, and kind of lost interest in her after she gave birth and was a mom. In the recent movie when she’s walking out, I was yelling at him internally to get on his knees, do whatever it takes to keep your life partner and child’s mother. His life likely would have gone differently. Guys in the band who met up with him after a hiatus in 72 said he was like a different man than he was in the height of his comeback/return to performing era 69-71. Ya makes your choices, I guess. Too bad though.
It's interesting that Meathead didn't get to put his two cents in. Would he have opposed Archie just for the hell of it or promoted the idea of splitting it because of his communist beliefs?
I think he wasn't around by that point, but he and Gloria did get their "opposing Archie just for the hell of it" moment earlier in the situation, when Archie was chastising Edith for wasting money on lottery tickets before finding out they had a winner, and they were all, "C'mon, it's just a little harmless gambling!" If it were Archie wanting to spend money on lottery tickets, they'd be chastising him about how many starving McGoverns that money could feed or something.
I was wondering that myself. They were playing it like it was part of Lou's job that she was picking up. There were a couple of gags where Mary found herself answering the phone like she was still taking calls for Lou, and realized that the calls were now for her.
I wonder what Dr Brackett would think of this. Not pathetic Ted, but the self medicating while inpatient.
Ironside must be a pretty popular show at this point. Not only did it last eight seasons, but immersive retro shows us that it was routinely being referenced elsewhere. There aren't usually YouTube clips, but whenever Rich Little's a cameo guest on Laugh-In, he does bits of Raymond Burr as Ironside.
I don't know, Howard seems like a good catch to me. Well paid, low maintenance, unintentionally funny....
Maybe not low maintenance...they were playing up his neurotic behavior here, if that's the right description for it. Under the influence, he was laying it on thick about what a breathtaking experience flying was or whatever.
Ignorance is bliss, especially when you forget your divorce.
I noticed that, plus Cordel's actor being a Cord. I kept correcting that I was spelling the character's name with two L's...there may still be a couple of those up there.
The codephrase exchange with the employer was like that. Sandy had to ask him to identify the winning move of a specific game. Don't recall what it was offhand, but one of the pieces was a bishop, I think.
I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt that all this made some kind of sense.
I am skipping a lot of very snippet-heavy posts to write that 72 saw Elvis’s marriage collapse and he entered a bathos period of recordings. Separate Ways goes, The time has come for us to go our separate ways, and pick up all the pieces left behind us…
Interesting...I didn't know that was the context of the song. Looking it up, it was cowritten by Red West...Memphis Mafia member, former frequent Wild Wild West stuntman/heavy, and future Black Sheep mechanic.
I HATE Always on My Mind, because it is so careless about the other person: Little things I should’ve said and done, I just never took the time…eh . . . But hey babe, uh, you were always on my mind.
"Sutton Roley was an excellent director," says Bruce Lansbury. "Sutton would take a flabby script and inject visual excitement and pace. He'd paint a whole room red just to create something new. He always surprised you."
"I was very pleased with that show," the director recollects. "It was off-centered It could have been deadly, but there was something about it. . ."
At times Cordel is so overwhelmed by the IMF offensive and his fear of impending insanity that he almost becomes sympathetic, a point which concerned producer Barry Crane. This problem was handled in the usual manner, by portraying the villain so nastily that his predicament is more satisfying than disturbing.
The show's pratfalls - the potentially dull chess sequences, the silliness of Cordel's zombielike blackouts and subsequent "Killings", the planeness of the plot and the sympathy dilemma - are sidestepped with confidence, making Roley's final Mission a most accomplished one.
As we close out 2022 and move on to 2023 with the 'Classic/Retro Pop Culture' thread, here's a song that I bet you didn't know was a cover. Albert Hammond with 'The Air That I Breathe'.
I HATE Always on My Mind, because it is so careless about the other person: Little things I should’ve said and done, I just never took the time…eh . . . But hey babe, uh, you were always on my mind.
I think that's the idea. Regrets, recriminations, a guilty conscience over things that can't be fixed, a desperate desire for forgiveness-- not a happy song, by any means.
In the recent movie when she’s walking out, I was yelling at him internally to get on his knees, do whatever it takes to keep your life partner and child’s mother. His life likely would have gone differently. Guys in the band who met up with him after a hiatus in 72 said he was like a different man than he was in the height of his comeback/return to performing era 69-71. Ya makes your choices, I guess. Too bad though.
Sometimes it seems like they do a little round up of current hot topics before getting into the meat of the story.
If it were Archie wanting to spend money on lottery tickets, they'd be chastising him about how many starving McGoverns that money could feed or something.
Oh, yeah, we had that at the house in Dorchester. Luckily, I didn't eat things that weren't food. According to my Mother, I didn't even eat things that were food.
I was wondering that myself. They were playing it like it was part of Lou's job that she was picking up. There were a couple of gags where Mary found herself answering the phone like she was still taking calls for Lou, and realized that the calls were now for her.
Ironside must be a pretty popular show at this point. Not only did it last eight seasons, but immersive retro shows us that it was routinely being referenced elsewhere. There aren't usually YouTube clips, but whenever Rich Little's a cameo guest on Laugh-In, he does bits of Raymond Burr as Ironside.
At times Cordel is so overwhelmed by the IMF offensive and his fear of impending insanity that he almost becomes sympathetic, a point which concerned producer Barry Crane. This problem was handled in the usual manner, by portraying the villain so nastily that his predicament is more satisfying than disturbing.
As we close out 2022 and move on to 2023 with the 'Classic/Retro Pop Culture' thread, here's a song that I bet you didn't know was a cover. Albert Hammond with 'The Air That I Breathe'.
You win that bet. I always assumed it was a Hollies original. This is nice, but I still think the Hollies version is better. The lyrics are so lovely that the power of the band's orchestral Rock makes it literally breathtaking-- pun intended.
Hawkeye is treating a wounded North Korean soldier, whom Burns wants removed from the ward. Blake agrees with Burns, not wanting to use valuable bed space or blood on the enemy, but he agrees to let Hawkeye keep him outside the ward, so Hawkeye gives his own bunk to the P.O.W., Pai (Byron Chung). Searching for a potential donor, the guys find that Frank has the same blood type, so they extract a pint while he's sleeping deeply (giving Alda an opportunity to indulge in a Lugosi impersonation). After the transfusion, however, the situation in the description happens. Hawkeye and Trapper decide that they need to determine if Frank has hepatitis, both for his own good and to potentially get him shipped out, so they start asking him about his health, but he won't let them take a blood sample. They decide to use a little of his blood they have left over, along with a urine sample.
For this purpose they have Frank engage in a beverage taste test, and have Radar close the latrine, forcing Frank to go in a specific pot, which they then have driven out for an examination. In the meantime, they decide that they have to keep Frank from exerting himself, so they waylay him and Hot Lips on their way to a romantic rendezvous (preceded by Alda engaging in a nature film-style narration as Hawkeye observes their signaling). When Burns is getting prepped to perform surgery, they tell him what they did and about the possibility that he has hepatitis. He reasonably points out that it would normally take weeks to develop such symptoms, and after some hijinks involving handcuffing his arms around Hot Lips and a confused Blake getting involved, the report comes in to reveal that Frank's clean. In the coda, Hawkeye and Trapper give Frank flowers.
This episode marks Karen Philipp's only other appearance as Lt. Maria "Dish" Schneider after the pilot episode. Hawkeye's trying to pick her up in the mess tent...in the pilot, I was under the impression that she was his to raffle away.
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Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Season 6, episode 13
Originally aired December December 11, 1972
Adam-12
"Hot Spell"
Originally aired December 13, 1972
The first sentence on Wiki said:
Malloy and Reed have to wear their long-sleeved uniforms despite a hot forecast, then learn they could have changed to short sleeves but missed the radio notification.
I was thinking that this would have been better placed closer to the return from summer hiatus, but Reed addresses the season: "One of these days I'm gonna move to where winter's winter, and summer stays where it belongs." Incredulous that they have to wear their class-A uniforms, the officers respond to a 484 at the Griffith Park Recreation Center, where they talk to a concession stand proprietor, Fred Tosca (Rodolfo Hoyos). He asks them about their state of uniform and tells them how a regular customer, Dave, had the air pump stolen from his bike and tried to go after the thief, but didn't appreciate Tosca calling the police and took off. Dave also dropped a reference to having been ripped off by "hypes". Surmising that Dave must have been a pusher hiding his stash in the pump, they refer Tosca to a detective to call should Dave show up again.
Responding to a neighbor dispute, the officers meet George Strothers (Scatman Crothers), who has an issue about the man next door, Oren Johnson, having regular yard sales that result in buyers trampling over his lawn. Interested to hear how Johnson sells a lot of appliances, the officers check out the merchandise at the sale, taking serial numbers off an electric typewriter and TV set. While Johnson (Joel Fluellen) tells Malloy about how a young man named Bannerman gets him goods "on consignment," Reed calls in the numbers and finds that the items are stolen, which surprises Johnson. The officers hide while Bannerman (Russell Wiggins) comes by in his van to take the TV for a buyer he's lined up, and arrest him.
Hoping it will get him leniency from the judge, Bannerman offers them a tip on where they can find Carl Carney, wanted for a couple of murders in a liquor store robbery, who's said to be packing a lot of heat. The officers call for backup, who are all wearing code-C short-sleeved uniforms, and raid the fleabag hotel where Carney's holed up, finding that he's left the room and spotting a man in a phone booth (Leo Gordon, who was one of the episode writers) who matches his description. Carney tries to make a run for it but is caught by Malloy and Reed.
At HQ, Mac tries to rib Pete and Jim while they're changing into their code-C's, telling them that the call came through hours ago. Back on patrol, the officers return to the park and find a woman writhing in pain in a parked car (Lynn Cartwright, who was Leo Gordon's wife), who turns out to have been stood up for her fix from Dave. They spot a man walking away with a bike nearby (John Lance) and approach him. They address him as Dave, he tries to make a run for it, and they tackle and arrest him. Inspecting his pump, they find his stash as expected. He protests that he doesn't hurt anybody as his client is taken away in an ambulance.
Given Mark VII's propensity to reuse the same actors, it's also possible that some of them had package deals that involved appearing in other episodes of Emergency! and/or Adam-12.
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This is about when I'd normally post a "50 Years Ago This Holiday Season," but it happens that I don't have anything specifically from 1972 in my Christmas collection. I did do something pretty nifty this year with my retro shuffle, though. My master shuffle is a smart playlist consisting of the 50 Years Ago This Week singles list and a 50th Anniversary Album Tracks list that now includes representative tracks from any album on the chart that I have tracks from. My main holiday shuffle for the past few years has been a chronologically arranged one, so I created a separate retro version of that by lopping out everything newer than 1972 (actually 1971). Then I created a separate smart playlist that includes that, the 50 Years Ago This Week list, and the 50th Anniversary Album Tracks list, for a mix of contemporary 1972 music and period-specific holiday classics. The 50th Anniversary Holiday Master Shuffle for the current week consists of 362 tracks with a total running time of over 20 hours; roughly a third of the material being the holiday songs (which go back to the '40s).
Given Mark VII's propensity to reuse the same actors, it's also possible that some of them had package deals that involved appearing in other episodes of Emergency! and/or Adam-12.
My master shuffle is a smart playlist consisting of the 50 Years Ago This Week singles list and a 50th Anniversary Album Tracks list that now includes representative tracks from any album on the chart that I have tracks from. My main holiday shuffle for the past few years has been a chronologically arranged one, so I created a separate retro version of that by lopping out everything newer than 1972 (actually 1971). Then I created a separate smart playlist that includes that, the 50 Years Ago This Week list, and the 50th Anniversary Album Tracks list, for a mix of contemporary 1972 music and period-specific holiday classics. The 50th Anniversary Holiday Master Shuffle for the current week consists of 362 tracks with a total running time of over 20 hours; roughly a third of the material being the holiday songs (which go back to the '40s).
U.S. bombing of North Vietnam was temporarily halted for 36 hours at 8:00 am local time on Christmas Eve, although Radio Hanoi reported that raids had continued as late as 7:30 pm.
Died: Charles Atlas (Angelo Sicilano), 80, American bodybuilder and developer of dynamic tension program sold by mail.
December 25
An unpublished decree took effect in the U.S.S.R., making it illegal for Soviet residents to meet with foreigners "for the purpose of disseminating false or slanderous information about the Soviet Union", a definition that covered most dissidents. Confirmation of the decree's existence would not be made until more than five months later.
Yuri Andropov, the Director of the KGB, recommended that the Soviet Politburo allocate $100,000 in U.S. currency to influence the March parliamentary elections in Chile. The Politburo approved the transfer on February 7, 1973.
December 26
In what has been described as the airstrike that "decided the entire air war over North Vietnam", Operation Linebacker II saw 220 American aircraft strike targets over a fifteen-minute period, destroying a missile assembly facility, and crippling radar stations and airbases. The North Vietnamese agreed to resume peace talks after three more days of bombing. The bombings on the day after Christmas also destroyed residences and businesses on Hanoi's Kham Tien Street, killing 215 civilians.
The Santiago, Chile, newspaper El Mercurio broke the story that the 16 survivors of the Uruguayan plane crash in the Andes mountains had turned to cannibalism to avoid starvation.
Died: Harry S. Truman, 88, the 33rd President of the United States, died at 7:50 am in Kansas City.
December 27
New constitutions took effect, independently of each other, in both South Korea and North Korea.
The Environmental Protection Agency issued new regulations requiring unleaded gasoline to be available in all American stations no later than July 1, 1974, with a limit of 0.05 grams (0.0018 oz) of lead per gallon.
December 28
Kim Il-sung, who was already (since 1948) the Prime Minister of North Korea and General Secretary of its Workers' Party, became the nation's first President, when the office was created as part of a new Constitution.
December 29
At 11:42 p.m., Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 crashed into the Everglades in Florida, killing 101 of 176 on board. The cockpit crew had been preoccupied with checking the L-1011's landing gear when a light on the instrument panel had failed to come on. Distracted, nobody realized that the autopilot had become disengaged, and that they were slowly losing altitude. The last recorded words were the co-pilot saying "We did something to the altitude. We're still at 2000, right?" and the pilot responding, "Hey, what's happening here?" Ghosts of the dead are said to have been seen by others, as described in John G. Fuller's bestseller Ghost of Flight 401.
Edward Lorenz proposed the now-famous butterfly effect in a paper delivered to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, entitled "Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly's Wings in Brazil Set Off a Tornado in Texas?"
Life magazine's final weekly issue carried the December 29, 1972, date, though it was on newsstands the week before, the first issue having been on November 23, 1936.
The U.S. Army received its last draftees. After the close of the Vietnam War conscription of Americans into the service ceased, and all services were composed of volunteers.
The takeover of Israel's embassy in Thailand, by Palestinian terrorists, ended peacefully after intervention by Egypt's ambassador and Thai officials. The four Arab gunmen, granted safe passage to Cairo, released their Israeli hostages, including the ambassador. Before everyone departed, the Egyptian and Israeli ambassadors, the four gunmen and five diplomats all ate dinner together inside the embassy.
December 30
The "Christmas Bombing" of North Vietnam halted by order of U.S. President Nixon, after the North Vietnamese agreed to resume negotiations with Henry Kissinger beginning on January 8. A total of 20,370 tons of bombs were dropped on North Vietnam over eleven days. The North Vietnamese government reported later that 1,318 civilians had been killed in Hanoi during the air raids, including 28 at the Bach Mai Hospital.
1. "Me and Mrs. Jones," Billy Paul
2. "Clair," Gilbert O'Sullivan
3. "You Ought to Be with Me," Al Green
4. "You're So Vain," Carly Simon
5. "It Never Rains in Southern California," Albert Hammond
6. "Funny Face," Donna Fargo
7. "I Am Woman," Helen Reddy
8. "Rockin' Pneumonia--Boogie Woogie Flu," Johnny Rivers
9. "Superfly," Curtis Mayfield
10. "Your Mama Don't Dance," Kenny Loggins & Jim Messina
11. "Keeper of the Castle," Four Tops
12. "Something's Wrong with Me," Austin Roberts
13. "Living in the Past," Jethro Tull
14. "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone," The Temptations
15. "Sweet Surrender," Bread
16. "Superstition," Stevie Wonder
17. "Walk on Water," Neil Diamond
18. "Sitting," Cat Stevens
19. "If You Don't Know Me by Now," Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes
20. "Crocodile Rock," Elton John
21. "Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight," James Taylor
22. "I Can See Clearly Now," Johnny Nash
23. "Pieces of April," Three Dog Night
24. "Why Can't We Live Together," Timmy Thomas
25. "Corner of the Sky," Jackson 5
26. "Been to Canaan," Carole King
27. "Hi, Hi, Hi," Wings
28. "I Wanna Be with You," Raspberries
29. "Summer Breeze," Seals & Crofts
30. "Oh Babe, What Would You Say?," Hurricane Smith
32. "Long Dark Road," The Hollies
33. "Trouble Man," Marvin Gaye
34. "Separate Ways," Elvis Presley
35. "The World Is a Ghetto," War
36. "Ventura Highway," America
37. "Do It Again," Steely Dan
38. "I'm Stone in Love with You," The Stylistics
39. "Crazy Horses," The Osmonds
40. "You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio," Joni Mitchell
41. "Rocky Mountain High," John Denver
43. "Dancing in the Moonlight," King Harvest
46. "Love Jones," Brighter Side of Darkness
47. "The Relay," The Who
48. "Dialogue (Part I & II)," Chicago
49. "Jambalaya (On the Bayou)," The Blue Ridge Rangers
54. "Daddy's Home," Jermaine Jackson
55. "Reelin' and Rockin'," Chuck Berry
56. "Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)," Jim Croce
68. "992 Arguments," The O'Jays
72. "Do You Want to Dance?," Bette Midler 73. "Peaceful Easy Feeling," Eagles
77. "The Cover of 'Rolling Stone'," Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show
79. "Could It Be I'm Falling in Love," The Spinners
80. "Last Song," Edward Bear 81. "Don't Expect Me to Be Your Friend," Lobo
I'll be switching to the vintage Christmas-only list tonight, though.
I should add that because I'd recently dramatically expanded the album list, I ended up discontinuing the 55th anniversary lists and am now more solidly immersed in the 50th anniversary timeframe.
I never really thought about it, but, yeah, no gray areas in Mission: Impossible. Aside from their tactics.
It's good that they recognized the potential issue, as that was a problem I initially had with the show from casual exposure on MeTV...back in the day when the IMF's plans would go off more or less flawlessly, I was inclined to root for the bad guys because of how they were being so thoroughly suckered.
