50th Anniversary Viewing
M*A*S*H
"Aid Station"
Originally aired February 11, 1975
Wiki said:
Hawkeye, Margaret, and Klinger are sent to a frontline aid station that is short-staffed and under heavy fire.
Blake calls the officers to his office to inform them that an aid station under shelling needs temporary replacements for a surgeon, a nurse, and a corpsman. (There never seem to be any other officers for these scenes past the big four, even though all of the nurses are supposed to be lieutenants.) Houlihan volunteers immediately, and Hawkeye gets chosen by process of elimination in a drawing of breakfast sausages from a bedpan. Finally, Mulcahy randomly draws Klinger's personnel card. Klinger, in uniform for the occasion, dictates a will to Radar for his dress collection. Hawkeye also informs Trap of a will he's leaving.
Hawk lets Hot Lips change the Jeep's wheel along the way. As the party gets closer to the station, the Jeep has to dodge shells, and when they arrive, they find the building in ruins. Hawkeye gets to work setting up his makeshift OR among the rubble. Klinger has to sign off the radio because of shelling, leaving Radar to worry. (There seems to be an effort to establish a friendship between the two here, which I can't recall having come up before.)
Working effectively outdoors under camo netting, Klinger and Houlihan both find themselves having to pitch in outside their comfort zones, the former having to hold a wound closed with his hands and the latter having to cut open a patient. Back at the 4077th, Frank finds himself under pressure to perform without Hawkeye there to do his share of the gruesome stuff or Margaret to support him. By night, Radar bearing his teddy and Henry bearing booze both come to the Swamp for company while concerned about the welfare of the others, and, in Henry's case, to unload about the responsibilities of command. At the aid station, Hawkeye ends up cuddling close to Margaret in a platonic show of emotional support.
As they're returning to the 4077th the next day, Hawk and Klinger both express their appreciation for Margaret...Hawk giving her a peck on the cheek and Klinger getting a laugh out of both of the others by switching to a lady's hat. All find themselves happy to be home again. Trap and Frank each suspect that more happened between Hawk and Hot Lips than actually did; and Margaret does act very preoccupied while Frank's fretting over it. Meanwhile, Klinger's upset that Radar either let go of or lost some of his favorite dresses. In the coda, as the others are kvetching over breakfast in the mess tent, Hawk and Margaret share a meaningful exchange of looks and silent raising of their coffee cups.
Hawaii Five-O
"Study in Rage"
Originally aired February 11, 1975
Paramount+ said:
When a psychotic man kills his doctor, Five-O must use an unfinished painting to gather clues to his whereabouts.
Psychiatrist Dr. Arthur Spear (John Stalker) takes interest in a news report of how industrialist Victor Martin was found bludgeoned to death on a life raft and the cabin cruiser he was traveling to Hawaii in was burned and sunk. Spear listens to a tape of one of his patients, Mike Opana, expressing a desire to kill Martin for coming between him and someone named Glynis. But Mike (Richard Hatch--the future Viper squadron leader, not the future naked reality show contestant) has snuck into the office and is eavesdropping. After Spear calls Five-O offering info about the Martin case, Mike garottes him and takes his file out of the doctor's cabinet. As Five-O investigates the scene while trying to come up with a connection between Spear and Martin, we learn that Martin has a daughter named Glynis back in L.A. (Gretchen Corbett).
Steve visits Spear's wife Ethel (Electra Gailes Fair) and takes an interest in a hobby painting of her husband's said to be a look inside the mind of one of his patients. It shows the profile of a skull with several scenes depicted inside of it, and bears in lieu of a signature a cryptic alphanumeric code, which is soon found to be the code assigned to a missing file of Spear's. Chin is able to determine from the code that the referring doctor was allergist William Chow (Mel Chow)...who's playing tennis with Mike after Mike has treated his towel with a chemical. As Chin's arriving at the club, Chow has just died of respiratory failure while having a drink. Mike looks at a picture of himself and Glynis that he keeps in his locker.
Danno questions Mike in the aftermath; and Chow's files are found to have been ransacked; while prints left at Spear's office are found to match ones on Martin's boat, but not any prints on file. At an unoccupied house overlooking the ocean, Mike has a brief fantasy of Glynis and a child coming home to greet him. At Mike's pad, his roommate, Charlie Moka (Alan Naluai), expresses his frustration that Mike's pining over a chick from the mainland whom he had a brief fling with; following which Mike has a flash of him and Glynis having fun on the beach. (Mike's established to be half Native Hawaiian here, with Hatch attempting an appropriate accent.) Five-O studies the painting, trying to interpret the images within it. When they look into a high school class indicated in an image of a dance in connection with a pair of initials in another image, they turn up a class member named Connie Honaka. Mike watches from afar as Danno meets Glynis at the airport
Mike drops in on Glynis at the Ilikai. She questions why anyone would want to kill her father, and gives off signals that Mike's in the friend zone. Doc Bergman determines Chow's cause of death to be pulmonary edema caused by verathion phosphate poisoning, absorbed through contact. (I'm unclear if this is a real thing or I just got the spelling wrong, because I'm not getting any search matches.) Che determines that the poison was on Chow's tennis towel, and that the wire Spear was strangled with steer gut, used to make tennis racket string. Frank and Duke visit Honaka (Josie Over), who's living with her father and has an infant. She recognizes the initials as belonging to an old boyfriend named Mike Anapo whom her father drove off and whom she describes as having been very gentle and caring, unlike her absent baby daddy. Checking a tennis shop, McGarrett finds Opana's name on the wall as the resident tennis pro, and realizes that the surname is a reversal of Anapo.
Danno visits Opana's place, questions Charlie, and learns about Mike having gone off the deep end for Glynis, even having built a house for the two of them...which Mike is taking her to see. Steve calls HPD to meet him and Danno at the address. Glynis is impressed, but when she learns that Mike built the place for them, she informs him that she's engaged, and when he rants about her father, she objects that he had nothing to do with her leaving him and realizes that Mike killed her father. As McGarrett announces the place being surrounded, Glynis fends off Mike with a crowbar. HPD fires tear gas into the house and Steve and Danno charge in with gas masks to subdue Mike and carry the two of them out.
McGarrett: Book him, sergeant. Murder one, three counts.
Emergency!
"Back-Up"
Originally aired February 15, 1975
Edited IMDb said:
A young OD victim is brought into the ER. A man fakes back pain to get a free ride to the hospital. Johny gets peeved at all the frivolous calls the squad goes on while real emergency victims need help. A man is shocked after kicking in his TV screen. The ambulance carrying the paramedics and a heart attack victim is involved in a traffic accident.
Two young men wheel a girl (uncredited Patch Mackenzie) into Rampart's reception area on a stretcher and split, because Greer's got an assignment for them. The patient is determined to be an OD victim, Brackett finds where she's been shooting up on her foot, and diagnoses that a bruised spot up her leg is from having been shot up with milk in an ill-informed attempt to treat her. Gloria's brought through it to be advised by Brackett about the milk myth. Playing tough with her between scenes, Dix manages to get contact info for her family.
Squad 51 is called to sub for another squad whose engine has been assigned to a fleabag to assist an older man who goes by Wild Bill (Keenan Wynn) lying on the floor complaining of a back injury. When his story about how he called them doesn't add up, the paramedics quickly determine that he's faking. As Johnny's expressing his frustration regarding frivolous calls, the squad is called to a suburban home where a former Rams player known to the kids in the neighborhood as Old 87 (Michael Conrad) is unconscious from electrical shock after putting his foot into the TV screen while watching a game. He comes to on his own with a momentarily violent reaction, then his personal physician arrives. This only feeds Johnny's anger, and at Rampart, while Dix is dealing with a whirlwind of activity, Roy and Johnny learn from a paramedic named Sam (uncredited Scott Arthur Allen) that they're not the only ones being called out of their usual area because the squads are getting so many calls. Johnny finds Wild Bill being examined by Doc Morton for a different feigned injury and clue Mike in on how he's a lonely attention-seeker.
Back at the station, Roy and Johnny find that a firefighter named Bill who's subbing for a sick Chet is an even more questionable cook. The squad is called to one emergency, then Squad 36 is called to sub for them with the 51 crew for a heart attack situation that's actually closer to where Squad 51 is. When DeSoto and Gage find that their call is a false alarm from a woman who's trying to force her husband to see a doctor about his back pain, they rush out to meet up with their engine ahead of 36. At the scene, they find Stanley tending to the heart attack victim (uncredited Robert Karnes) while the man's family looks on with concern. The man briefly comes to, but then goes into v-fib. As his condition worsens, Early tells the paramedics to bring him in ASAP. While both paramedics are accompanying the victim, the ambulance gets into an accident at an intersection.
While Roy checks on the driver of the car (uncredited Paula Victor), the driver of the damaged ambulance (uncredited Angelo De Meo) is unable to get another one sent, so Engine 51 is summoned to transport the heart attack victim, who goes into full arrest on the back of the engine.
At Rampart, a previously established group of visiting hospital administrators watches as the victim is rushed in to be treated and eventually pulled through by Brackett. Roy and Johnny go to the hospital cafeteria and are brainstorming a priority-based call system when they get another call to sub for an unavailable squad.
In the coda, the exhausted paramedics turn over the squad to their relief shift, who get called to sub for Squad 10 at Wild Bill's address. Johnny enthusiastically accepts when Roy invites him to the DeSotos' for breakfast.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
"You Can't Lose 'em All"
Originally aired February 15, 1975
Edited Wiki said:
It's Teddy Awards time and Ted feels upset when he is not even nominated after last year's win, while Lou feels worse when he is selected for a career award he despises.
Ted's conducting a campaign to follow up on his victory the previous year, writing complimentary letters to TV reviewers (praising one's write-up of
Tony Orlando and Dawn) and making public appearances. When Mary expresses curiosity about the Albert Mason Award for Unforgettable Contribution to Broadcasting, Lou's outspoken in his disdain for it, expressing a low opinion of Mason and considering the award to be for over-the-hill types at the ends of their careers. Lou learns from an inside source that Ted wasn't even nominated, and feels an obligation to break the news to him, doing so over liquor. Sue Ann visits the newsroom to spread the good news that she's up for an award for daytime programming. Murray feels so bad for Ted that he blames his own writing to make Ted feel better. Meanwhile, Lou is shocked to learn that he's getting the Albert Mason Award.
Ted's spirits are picked up when he's tapped to serve as the presenter of the award he won last year; while Lou, in addition to not wanting his award, is nervous about having to give a speech. Mary offers to let him try out his speech at her pre-awards party (where she's unfortunately not wearing the Green Dress), and it turns out that he's written one insulting the award and casting Mason in a bad light, which Mary insists that he can't give at the ceremony. At the presentation, Sue Ann co-wins her award alongside Father Dannenbrink (Fred Grandy), host of a religious show; while Ted presents the best newscaster award to Les Stewart (Lee Vines). When Lou's award is announced and he has no speech to give, he finds himself paralyzed with stage fright, unable to get out of his seat. He tries to get Mary to accept it for him, but ultimately stands up, briefly mutters his acceptance, and has the MC (Larry Wilde) toss the award to him.
The Bob Newhart Show
"Bob Hits the Ceiling"
Originally aired February 15, 1975
Wiki said:
Bob reluctantly agrees to a therapy session to help Emily's friend (Cynthia Harris) with her marriage problems.
The living room furniture is different this week. Emily volunteers Bob to see school dietitian Diane Nugent over the marital problems she's having with her husband, a gym teacher. Bob thinks it's a bad idea to take a patient with a personal connection, but is backed into it when he agrees to see a relative of Howard's. At his office, Diane (Harris) tells Bob of how her husband, Frank, seems more interested in his own body lately than hers. After Diane's been seeing Bob for a while, Emily's under the impression that she and Frank are making progress, but she shows up at the apartment on bridge night alone and bearing suitcases, declaring that she's left Frank and will be staying with the Hartleys.
Bob finds Diane's presence to be an imposition, particularly when she takes a collect call from Frank, who's in Mexico City for a convention, in the middle of the night; but Bob insists that she not go back to him for the wrong reasons and ends up having an impromptu session with her on the Hartleys' bed. After Frank (Mike Henry) returns, he comes to the office to confront Bob over his sessions with Diane. He turns out to be very simple-minded and temperamental for a teacher, and Bob sits him down for an unscheduled session, advising him to express his affection for Diane and spend more time with her. When Bob offers to let his large, athletic patient release his tension by ripping a phone book in half, it turns out that Frank can't do it and Bob can...which motivates Bob to start hitting the gym.
My Uncle had one. The windows were crazy. My dad help him install an 8-track deck in it.
Trying to up the '70s ante, eh?
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