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50th Anniversary Viewing (Part 1)
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M*A*S*H
"Love Story"
Originally aired January 7, 1973
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Radar receives a "Dear John" letter, then seeks advice from Hawkeye when he falls for a nurse (Kelly Jean Peters) with a taste for the classics.
Everyone notices that Radar's not acting like his usual self. A physical turns up nothing, so the guys ask him outright, and he hands them a record that his girl back home, Linda Sue, made in a department store, cheerfully informing him that she's marrying another man. The guys try unsuccessfully to recruit one of the existing nurses to get radar out of his funk. (A couple weeks earlier and they could have killed two birds with one stone.) Then a new nurse arrives at camp, Lt. Louise Anderson (Peters), and a spark of attraction is ignited as Radar helps her with her bag.
Hawkeye scopes out Anderson, finding that she's an aficionado of classical literature and music, and she assumes that he's trying to pick her up. Hawkeye gives Radar some classic literature and tries to coach Radar about faking an interest in that and the music. The guys try to get a conversation going between the two in the mess tent, and Radar mostly flubs it, though he nevertheless gets Louise's attention with his faked shared interests, then ends up letting her do most of the talking. Houlihan files a complaint with Blake because it's against regulations for enlisted men to consort with officers. The guys then pull out the stops to stymie all of Hot Lips and Frank's subsequent attempts to rendezvous, eventually causing her to agree to give up on pursuing action against Radar.
Back in the mess tent, Lt. Anderson is still doing all the talking, while Radar is happily nodding off.
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Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Season 6, episode 15
Originally aired January 8, 1973
The Wiki list of guest appearances said:
Charlie Callas, Kent McCord, Martin Milner, Don Rickles, Duke Hazlett
Don is the main guest.
The cocktail party:
I think that's Duke Hazlett doing the Sinatra-style news intro:
Ernestine calls Gene Hackman.
A Salute to Good Manners:
A hypnotism act:
Trouble with an invisible man:
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Hawaii Five-O
"Thanks for the Honeymoon"
Originally aired January 9, 1973
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An underworld fringe character agrees to turn state's evidence against a mobster if McGarrett releases her from prison and arranges her wedding to the father of her unborn child.
McGarrett and Manicote go to prison to negotiate a deal with an armed robber named Toni (former identical cousins Patty Duke), who offers to testify that a drug king named Manola (Lane Bradford) murdered a man named Victor Delgado (Kenneth Ing). Her terms are immunity for her and her partner-in-crime, Marty (Larry Kert); a reduced charge for both that doesn't include Marty having shot a guard; and a wedding with Marty in an outside church and honeymoon in a hotel, to legitimize the baby that she's carrying...with Toni being able to pick her own maid of honor. Toni telling her story on tape segues into her showing Five-O and Manicote the crime scene, describing how she and Marty were used to lure Delgado in for a rendezvous in which Manola started beating Delgado, then the couple were made to split. She tells how she stopped their car and got out to witness Manola pushing Delgado's car over a cliff. Steve and Manicote ask questions designed to trip her up if she's lying, and she offers details that match evidence found at the crime scene. Steve calls for Manola to be brought in, betting that the prison grapevine has already informed him to run.
Steve brings Marty to Toni, where he argues that they should get married in the prison chapel for security, but Toni insists on her plan. The couple are taken to a church, where Steve walks Toni down the aisle while the maid of honor, photojournalist Margo Cooper (Carol Lawrence), flashes away and tosses rice afterward. After the wedding, McGarrett surprises Toni by having a chopper pick the couple up and fly them to an alternate honeymoon hotel--all in the name of security. They're taken to a place on Kuilima Point, which is heavily guarded and has the entire sixth floor reserved, with guards on the roof and a command center and quarters for Steve in addition to the honeymoon suite. It turns out that Cooper, who's also at the hotel, is an old flame of Steve's, and the two catch up. Meanwhile, Manola hires an unassuming-looking hit man named Vincent (Richard Collier), who checks in at the hotel and scopes out the security by "accidentally" taking an elevator to the sixth floor. He returns to Manola to report that the place is too heavily guarded, so Manola makes a call to Plan B--a Dr. Harlow (George Herman), who's trying out a poisonous gas on rats.
While Steve takes a romantic walk on the beach with Margo, back at Manola's place, Vincent briefs Harlow on the security layout. Back at the hotel, a diversion allows Vincent the opportunity to slip up to the room service cart and plant a canister in it. While Steve and Margo get romantic in his temporary digs, the gas starts going to work. Marty struggles to remove the canister while succumbing to the gas, making enough noise to alert Steve, who smells cyanide and takes hasty precautions to dispose of it, then summons a doctor.
While the doctor tends to the couple, Steve has a parting scene with a tearful Margo, establishing that they're just ships passing in the night. Steve then infroms a conscious Toni of how Marty tried to save her, and something she says causes McGarrett to call her out on how she never intended to testify against Manola. Then the doctor comes in to inform them that Marty is dead. Manola subsequently watches a news report about how both died, accompanied by a picture of their bodies taken by Margo (which doesn't seem like the sort of thing that they'd show on the evening news). Days later, Manola is brought in to Steve's office to be confronted by Toni, who now intends to testify for real, and Ben books 'im.
I was surprised that Toni's very specific arrangements, including Margo's diversionary involvement, didn't turn out to be part of some larger scheme.
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Adam-12
"Clear with a Civilian: Part 1"
Originally aired January 10, 1973
The first sentence on Wiki said:
Reed spreads his flu to several other officers, leaving the station undermanned.
At roll call, Mac fills us in on the station being shorthanded, and identifies a nose-blowing Reed as "Typhoid Mary". It seems like he should still be home if he's continuing to actively spread germs, but he takes it all in good humor. On patrol, Reed spots one man walking another at shotgun-point; he calls for backup, gets out, and approaches them from behind with his own shotgun, while Malloy drives ahead. On foot, Malloy pulls the hostage into an alley, and after a brief exchange of fire, the man with the gun (Robert Donner) surrenders. The hostage (John Nolan), however, is uncooperative, trying to downplay the situation and reluctantly producing falsified ID. The hostage is arrested as well, and at the station is identified as bookmaker Paul Freemont.
Back on patrol, the officers pull over a Mr. Marshall (Jack Manning) for going 40 in 25 zone, though he protests that it's a speed trap. While Jim's handling the ticket, a woman (Peggy Rea) runs over from a market across the street wanting Pete to look at a melon, then elaborates that somebody threatened to kill her. The proprietor (Penny Santon) runs over protesting that the customer is always poking holes in her fruit. Malloy agrees that the fruit is pretty ripe, then advises that the customer buy her fruit elsewhere, and that the proprietor should get better fruit. The customer agrees to pay for the melon to avoid charges for stealing it, and when she comes up short, Pete makes up the difference.
An appetite-challenged Reed doesn't want to have seven, so it goes off smoothly with a quick scene edit. Now on night patrol, Reed spots a flashlight in a department store window, so the officers get out and check the outside of the establishment front and back. Everything seems secure, but after they've driven off, Reed wants to go back. This time both see the flashlight. Around back, Reed sees a man climbing down from the roof and arrests him.
On patrol again, the officers see a young man walking, try to stop him to talk, and he runs. Reed pursues on foot, chasing him for blocks, and loses him, ripping up his uniform in a tumble. Toward the end of watch, Mac calls the officers back to the station for an assignment, informing them that they'll be working extra hours. While they're on their way, they pull over a Mrs. Dixon (Juanita Moore) for turning right on red without stopping. She protests at first, saying that she has an appointment, then asks where the police station is.
Back at the station, Malloy reports to Mac, who informs him that he and Reed are to drive a new police commissioner around on patrol. The commissioner turns out to be Edna Dixon.
Jack Webb: Travel with officers Reed and Malloy as they continue their ride with the commissioner.
TO BE CONTINUED IN PART II
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The Brady Bunch
"Law and Disorder"
Originally aired January 12, 1973
The first sentence on Wiki said:
Bobby learns about power, discretion, and responsibility when he is named safety monitor at school (involuntarily).
Bobby's little pals and gals at school are already avoiding him as the episode opens, even though he's not yet in uniform. At home, the parents learn what it's about--he's the fuzz, man! They try to encourage him to take pride in his responsibility, and subsequently Carol finds him up at night studying the rules. Back at school, Bobby dons his SM armband and gets to work, writing up students for infractions like chewing gum, littering, and disorderly conduct in the halls. He even ends up citing Cindy and some friends for running in the halls. Carol explains to Cindy that the same standards apply as if Bobby were a policeman.
Bobby then brings his law-and-order schtick into the Brady home, reporting his siblings and even Alice for breaking house rules. Meanwhile, the Brady clan has been fixing up an old sailboat that Mike got ahold of, and none of the kids want to go on its maiden voyage if Bobby's coming, clueing in the parents to the tension that his extracurricular role has been causing.
After school, a girl named Jill (Shawn Schepps) recruits Bobby's aide in retrieving her cat from a nearby abandoned house. He's reluctant to break rules by entering the domicile, but does so, getting himself and his good suit (which he was wearing for SM picture day) all sooted up. Getting home late to find the rest of the family gone, he puts his suit in the washer with an entire box of soap and comes back down later to find the laundry room over his head in suds. Carol and Alice come home to find him, and the parents grant him leniency on the basis that he broke the rules in the name of reason and justice. They also have a talking-to with him about writing up family members, explaining the circumstances behind some of their violations.
Later, as the Bradys are preparing to take the boat out, Bobby splits his shrunken former dress pants.
Wiki said:
Note: Barry Williams admitted to being stoned in the scene where he is pumping up the bike tire.
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The Odd Couple
"I Gotta Be Me"
Originally aired January 12, 1973
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Felix and Oscar turn to group therapy to resolve their mutual hostility.
Felix tries treating his friends to some fine home cuisine and wine tasting, but a fight with Oscar causes Miriam and Murray to make excuses and leave. The next day the roommates pick at each other's eating habits at breakfast, causing Myrna to cut out, but not before she brings up her group therapy sessions. Concerned with how their squabbling is driving away their friends, Felix buys a self-help book and makes a case for the two of them to try the group therapy.
Felix and Oscar each separately decide to see Myrna's therapist, Dr. Able (Norman Shelly), ending up at his office at the same time. Cut to the two of them at one of the sessions that Myrna attends, sitting in a (semi-)circle with others. (One gets the impression that there were supposed to be more patients than the two additional ones that we see onscreen.) Felix and Oscar's bickering disrupts the session, so the doctor dismisses them from the room to talk to the two of them privately afterward, at which point he advises them to try an exercise in role reversal. Back at home, Oscar tidies up the apartment in a tux, while Felix wears an undershirt and backwards baseball cap and makes an effort to act dismissively slovenly. Miriam and Murray come to eat Oscar's fine cuisine, and Felix spoils his efforts by acting like Oscar usually does. The roommates break into another fracas, and their friends are about to leave again when Miriam tells them that the real issue isn't what the two of them do, it's how they fight about it. In the end, Felix admits that Oscar did a pretty good him.
I thought that the role-reversal gag had more potential than was realized in its one scene in the episode. They should have gotten it going earlier in the story and given it room to breathe.
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