_______ Post-50th Anniversary Viewing _______ The Mod Squad "The Wild Weekend" Originally aired February 15, 1972 Sassy Alexander (Brenda Scott) is cruising with a couple of tennis-outfitted male friends, Kip Hanson (Stephen Young) and Doug Coulter (Nicholas Cortland), when she spots Pete walking and stops to reacquaint. Pete says that it's been two years since he's seen her, but she hasn't changed. She invites him to a birthday party that she's holding at her father's country house the next day, and Pete politely declines. Sassy leaves--dropping the guys off whether or not that was the original plan--and Kip tells Doug of his intention to change Pete's mind on Sassy's behalf. Sassy proceeds to a dam wall that bears "Sassy Loves Pete" graffiti dated 7-24-69 and tearfully sprays over it...even as Pete, sitting at an outdoor cafe, flashes back to when it was painted, two of her birthdays ago. Linc and Julie drop in on Pete to notify him of a parole hearing they have to attend the next day--a closed-door Saturday morning session to preserve their covers. (July 24, 1971, was a Saturday.) When Pete returns home after dark, Kip and Doug jump him, goad him about upsetting Sassy, and truss him up. Pete doesn't make the hearing, so Greer sends Linc and Julie out to find him. When Sassy arrives at her father's place, she finds that Kip and Doug have a present for her--Pete tied in a chair. Pete tries to reason with her and she's ordering the guys to let him go when she realizes that Pete considers it over between them and changes her mind. Linc and Julie return to the cafe, where the waitress, Judy (Marlene Clark), tells them of how Pete had a heavy conversation with a chick in hot pants outside the place the day before, and thoroughly describes her wheels without having gotten the plate. The 2/3 Mods trace the vehicle to Carson Alexander (Dennis Patrick), who tells them about his daughter, whom he lets do what she wants in order to have a relationship with her, and whom he didn't know was in town from college. At his house, Sassy's putting up decorations and giving Kip the cold shoulder; so Kip goes outside to vent his frustrations on Pete by tossing him into the pool with his hands still tied behind his back. Pete's struggling to stay above the surface while Kip cracks open a beer to watch, but Doug pulls Pete out. Doug: Hey, Kip...this is getting a little heavy. When they're alone at the pool again, Pete tries to turn Doug against Kip, noting the moral gulf between them. Sassy comes out in a bikini to join Pete, and Doug goes back inside to see what Pete means as he finds Kip gleefully loading a pistol that he found in a drawer, talking about how he intends to show Sassy what a loser Pete is compared to him. Outside, Sassy offers to cut Pete loose if he promises to stay for her party. Pete flashes back to when he was buying a decorative glass oil lamp as a present for Sassy, and she saw that another customer had just purchased one that she liked better. She decided that she didn't want the one Pete was getting her, and walked by the other one to knock it to the floor, making a show of pretending that it was an accident. Back in the present, Pete underscores the moral of the story--that Sassy always wants what she can't have. She cuts him loose and sorrowfully heads back inside, but as Pete is starting to hoof it back to town, Kip comes up behind him and wings him in the leg, then forces him to hobble back to the house. Mr. Alexander finds the line busy at his house, where the party is in full swing, packed with guests indulging in various controlled substances. Greer having put out an APB on Pete and Sassy, CLE picks up one of the party guests who borrows Sassy's car to go out for more liquor. At the party, Kip makes a show of dragging the bound and wounded Pete in, and the guests treat it all as a prank as Pete is doused with booze and pushed around between them with a bag over his head...but Sassy isn't pleased, and Doug tries to convince Kip to let Pete go for her sake. Kip has Doug take Pete out to the car and then talks to Sassy, who informs him that Pete still has it all over him. Kip goes out to find Doug about to untie Pete, and insists that they take him downtown as he is. Pete makes a break for it, and when Doug attempts to stop Kip from going after him in the car, Kip runs through him. The still-bound Pete rushes to Doug's side and tries to get Kip to call an ambulance. A horrified Sassy comes out and agrees with Pete's assessment of the situation, but the guy with the gun orders her to clear out the party guests instead. The guests leave disappointed, and while Kip acts regretful about how Doug is lying on the couch bleeding internally, he refuses to call an ambulance. An attempt is made to force Pete, now untied, to drive Kip and Sassy out, but the water pump somehow became damaged along the way. Pete offers not to say anything if Kip will just leave for Doug's sake, but Kip won't trust him or Sassy, his mind now only on making his own getaway. Mr. Alexander gets through on the phone, and while Sassy tries to tell him not to come, he insists, and Kip plans to wait and use the wheels that he brings. At police HQ, the picked-up party guest has gotten lawyered up and refuses to talk, but trying to get ahold of Carson, Greer learns from his secretary (Barbara Boles) of the house, which wasn't in Alexander's records because it's owned by the company. Alexander arrives at the house and Kip tries to force him to hand over his keys. When Alexander turns his back while refusing, Kip trains his gun and Pete jumps him. Greer and the other Mods drive up to hear the shot that goes off from outside. Greer comes in armed and ready, but Kip uses Sassy as his shield, forcing the captain to drop his gun. When Kip takes Sassy outside, Linc starts running after him, and while Kip is trying to shoot him, Pete dives into Kip and starts beating him so thoroughly that Linc has to pull him off. In the aftermath, as Doug's being wheeled out on a stretcher, Sassy tearfully expresses her regrets, admitting that she wanted to get back at Pete, but not like this; and Mr. Alexander takes her away with an officer on a note of becoming the father that she needs. Pete informs the other Mods that he and Sassy were engaged, and Julie tries to be supportive. Pete: She's probably better off. Julie: We are. Where would we be without you? Linc: Well I'd be at the beach today instead of this freaky pad in the middle of nowhere. Greer sensibly denies Julie's request for a little vacation on Pete's behalf, and the Mods walk out of Alexander's pad with Pete tossing a bottle he was trying to open on the floor. The implication is that Sassy was part of Pete's life before he was a cop (and we already had at least one old flame pop up before, IIRC); in which case the show was playing with what superhero comic readers have come to call a sliding timescale, as it started in '68. If anyone wants screenshots, there are a ton of pics on the episode's IMDb page. _______ The Mod Squad "The Tangled Web" Originally aired February 22, 1972 A young man (John Calvin) evades a police dragnet to sneak to Julie's apartment, where she has the guys sanding and painting her furniture. When she takes the garbage out, the man grabs her, putting his hand over her mouth. She comes back in and makes an excuse to send the guys on their way. The guys are stopped at a police roadblock and informed of a jewelry robbery in the area. This gets their Mod Sense tingling and they return to Julie's. Pete forces his way in the front while the stranger hides out back, where Linc finds him and lets the stunt double out for a bit of exercise as the man tries to run. Julie introduces him as a friend named Greg Boyer and he says that he was evading the police because he has a record and thought the robbery would be blamed on him; but Pete finds a bag of stolen jewels in his jacket. Greg's story changes to how he was driven back to crime in desperation to help his father, who's out of work because of a disability. While Greg's making a call to an unknown party to arrange a rendezvous, Julie tells the guys that she owes him for times that he helped her, and they insist on getting involved. Julie wants to return the jewels, and the guys figure that the only way to avoid identifying evidence being found on the jewels would be to break into the exchange and return them that night, before inventory has been taken, so that the investigators wouldn't know what had been stolen. An improvised heist scheme ensues in which Julie stages an accident near the roadblock as a diversion while the guys and Greg climb across a rope to the rooftop of the exchange, where they lower themselves down an elevator shaft on a fire hose. They evade a night watchman and learn of a floor alarm in the vault room that wasn't active when Greg was there before, so they enter the room via a ventilator shaft and Greg climbs across ceiling fixtures into the vault alcove, and returns reporting having returned the jewels to where he took them from...though notably, neither the guys nor we see him doing this. The trio make it back to the roof and a police officer comes up as Greg is climbing down the side of a building. Pete and Linc come out of hiding to try to stop the officer from firing, but Greg is wounded in the leg and hobbles away, while the Mods find themselves caught. Greg returns to Julie's for some bandaging, the bullet having conveniently only grazed him, and Julie goes downtown to see if she can find out what happened to Pete and Linc. She finds them in Greer's office with Chief Metcalf angrily hovering around. The guys hold back to try to keep Julie out of it and she explains what happened to Greer. While the captain bawls the guys out for what they got involved in, he tries to intervene with Metcalf not to file the report. But Metcalf updates him that the inventory has been taken and $200,000 worth of jewels are missing--the pieces that the Mods described--and the guys realize way too late that they only had Greg's word that he put them back. Metcalf has the guys booked, and Julie agrees to take Greer to Greg in order to help Pete and Linc, but they find that Greg has split the scene. Julie visits the guys in the hoosegow, where she reports that only their fingerprints were found at the exchange, and that Greg's father, it turns out, has been dead for years. The guys send Julie to the phone company to find out who Greg made the toll call to, and it leads her to a nursery where she goes alone against the guys' advice and eavesdrops on Greg reporting to the real thief in the original burglary--the security guard, Reese (Woodrow Parfrey), who did it as an inside job and only cut Greg in to get the jewels out. Julie is spotted and caught by Reese while trying to make a call to Greer, and though Greg argues for leaving her tied up while they split the country, Reese announces that he doesn't plan to go anywhere as the authorities won't know he was involved if there's nobody to tell them...and thus he plans to off them both. Greg and Julie make a break for it and Greg is more seriously wounded while they try to get away through a greenhouse. In a temporary hiding spot, Greg admits to having been an amateur as he passes in Julie's arms. As Reese finds Julie, Greer arrives with CLE and Reese is subdued nonlethally in an exchange of fire. In the coda, Julie learns from Greer that Greg even lied about having been in prison, having never been convicted in his previous scrapes with the law. The guys come out of a hearing board to report that they've only been put on probation, and Julie offers to feed them for the 30 days that they'll be without income. The Mods walk off in the corridors of police HQ. The Mods seemed uncharacteristically naive in this one. Even if Greg had been telling the truth, their attempt to help him was a bad idea all around. _______ That's how it was played, though when silencing Pete, the officer noted that Cochran was only present as a witness. It was a warehouse lot. The idea was that they were planning to use the neighborhood space for something that would only be enjoyed by "fat cats," instead of a "people's park" that the residents could use. H5O has done stuff like this as well. He pretty much described the condition without having a name for it...how they come home but the war's not over for them, that sort of thing. It did look of an older vintage than the late '60s/early '70s. True, it could be that they're just trying to be proactive...but they should stake her out from a safe distance. That's what I was thinking, but there's always the risk that the person already trying to kill them will be motivated to continue in order to silence them. Vincent! They were wearing the hats.
With the same can of spray paint that she's been keeping under her pillow all these years. That's nice attention to detail. Pete couldn't take a couple of tennis bums? Did he give his stunt double the day off or something? Kinda makes you wonder what their normal, everyday lives are like. "She's involved in a sociopathic threesome that goes around trussing people up, but she's still my little girl." Doug seems to be flirting with sanity for a moment. This is the type of guy who's been torturing small animals all his life and nobody noticed. "I know this guy named Greer who would never fall for you. Here's his number." This is getting a little heavier, man. Hopefully a little Demerol or something for Pete. And heavier still. Because seeing the love of her life get shot in the leg didn't do it for her. Weird that Alexander didn't mention it. He seemed cooperative. It seems like we've seen this type of thing from Pete before-- he loses it when pushed too far. "Rather in a way that I prevailed." One that brings her candy and presents in jail. Way to ground the situation, Linc. Which is unfortunate, because there would have been no problem in pushing it back a year or two. Will next week be Linc's turn to have an unsavory former friend show up? "This is why I was afraid I'd be blamed." "He was always there for me when I got in trouble on vacation." Buttinskis Incorporated. What kind of fumes were they exposed to in that mine shaft? Please tell me this is a comedy episode. This seems like an ill-advised homage to Mission: Impossible. "Stop climbing down the side of that building or I'll shoot!" "Please falsify official records on behalf of my probationary undercover cops who just committed a felony in contradiction to everything they've been taught and claim to believe in. I'll handle it." "What do you mean, slow of mind?" (<-- I bet you don't Cap that ) Shocker. They left fingerprints?! It's going to take more than $200k to fix that. Of course she does. "Your usefulness is at an end, boy." A high price to pay for being a moron. Also, his name was Percival. I wonder how the owners of the jewelry exchange feel about that. So many stupid things. Is this even the same show that did that Vietnam Vet episode? Wow. Yeah, I was just mocking his violent aggression and weapons stockpiling over a public park. You'd think he was trying to overthrow the military-industrial complex or something. That's a job for petitions, not a private militia. A Vietnam vet going nuts and shooting indiscriminately into a crowd of cops and civilians? I can't remember anything that extreme. Makes sense. The only retro term I could think of was shell shocked, and I think that was more from the WWII Era. Yeah, it does, although I don't know much about uniforms. The hat seems pretty old fashioned. They should hire private bodyguards. Charlie's Angels aren't on the air yet, but I'm sure they exist. Hmm. The same character pops up deep in a mine shaft in the desert after disappearing in caves near the seashore. I like it. He's really a Ghoul. They could have bought the hats. I'll bet they were hiding stolen goods and killed each other in an attempt to cut the other one out.
I was tempted to start a new thread for this, but since they originally formed in 1984, I figured the "classic" label still applies...even though they're still doing what they love. Anyone with even the slightest awareness of American pop culture during the past forty years, knows the name New Kids on the Block. Even if you've never heard any of their songs, its likely you've seen pictures or read articles about them at some point. Well, good news for all the longtime fans - Donnie, Danny, Jordan, Jonathan, and Joey have done it again. Next month (May 17th, to be exact), they'll be releasing their first album in 11 years, and the 8th overall. The new effort is titled "Still Kids", and it will contain 14 tracks. The leading single, similarly titled "Kids", has been online since March 4th, and from June to August of this year, the band will be touring with Paula Abdul and DJ Jazzy Jeff. Here's the song; I hope you get a real kick out of it!
Paul McCartney's website uploaded audio of 'Junior's Farm' as a teaser for the album, and, what I find interesting, is that it's a completely different take than the one that I have on my bootleg copy of 'One Hand Clapping'. In my copy Paul says, "Take me down James" and Jimmy McCulloch does a tentative guitar solo; while in the audio on McCartney's website, Paul says, "Take me down Jimmy" and McCulloch unleashes a blistering solo. Makes me wonder is some of the other audio on the release is going to be different takes than the ones found on the bootleg.
He was surprised and outnumbered, but yeah, I was disappointed that he didn't put up more of a fight. They were having trouble reaching him by the time they found out Sassy was throwing a party. How Sassy left her father's pad... Shout-out to the vintage Coke machine! I was also noticing the similarity. A browse didn't help, either. I feel like I should Cap that, but... It was kind of extreme. Which is exactly what Rivera was doing. There've been a number of sniper episodes, but the vet story that popped into my mind was "King of the Hill," covered here.
@RJDiogenes My guess is that the episode was inspired by the University of Texas tower shooting of 1966, where after shooting his wife and stabbing his mother, 25 year old Marine veteran Charles Whitman climbed to the top of the Main Building at the University of Texas, Austin, barricade himself and, using a high powered rifle, killed 15 people and injured 31 more before being killed by two police officers. It was turned into a made for tv movie staring Kurt Russell and Ned Beatty in 1975.
Actually, I'm aware of New Kids on the Block for a particular reason: They come from my old neighborhood in Dorchester. In fact, I worked with Donnie Wahlberg's mother for a few years at St. Margaret's Hospital, where she was a nurse and I was the QA guy. I once hit her up for some autographed memorabilia for my cousin Shannon. Oh, I'm going to have to take a look at this. "Junior's Farm" is my personal fave among McCartney's solo work. Seems like the first thing he'd think of, though. Looks like the set dressers just raided the prop room. I love the giant hand. Can't beat those old Coke bottles. Good grief. It's a running gag from Sergio's Groo the Wanderer. Classic stuff! No, that was just a generic riff on everything he said being a lie. Much more sensible than armed revolution. Okay, yeah, that one was pretty intense. You're probably right. I had it in the back of my mind that it was inspired some real event.
He was established to have other properties and was taken aback to learn that Sassy was in town. It looks like that's a chair. I got some weird chat AI result using the Arthurian knight as an example character in a lying riddle.
Man I hate posting things like this. We lost another one today. Michael Pinder, the last original member of The Moody Blues passed away from complications related to dementia/alzheimers disease. My favorite song of his oddly enough wasn't even released on a Moody Blues album, but as the B-Side to 'Ride My See-Saw,' in October 1968. A Simple Game The Four Tops would take the song to No. 3 on the UK charts in 1971, with Moody Blues producer Tony Clarke behind the desk and Michael Pinder and Justin Hayward contributing keyboards, guitar and backing vocals.
Okay, I guess. Yeah, I think so. I think I've seen it, or one like it, in other shows. I'm hearing that generic Ed Sullivan juggling music. I thought a funny name would make it funnier. Unfortunately, it's only going to get worse. That's awful in so many ways. RIP, Michael Pinder.
There was a nifty practical shot here, where the camera pans up from Julie down at the backlot roadblock, up to the stunt guys climbing between the rooftops. I have to wonder, if Greg was just supposed to be the pick-up guy, how did he slip into cat burglar mode so naturally, as if he were repeating a job that he'd already done?
Good point. That should have been another red flag for them. But they were clearly high or something.
_______ Post-50th Anniversary Viewing _______ The Mod Squad "Outside Position" Originally aired February 29, 1972 At Robin Hills Farms (a ranch I'm pretty sure we've seen burning in an episode of Emergency!), stable boy Jimmy Dills (Sherman) is sneaking home the owner's daughter, Robin Keller (future Robin knock-off Judy Strangis) while a pair of deputies led by Shugo (Judy's future co-star Norman Alden) wait for the opportunity to have some alone time with Jimmy's truck. When Jimmy returns to it, they ponce on him, promptly find a kilo of grass that he swears he's never seen, and arrest him...all while Robin's father, industrialist Fred Keller (Frank Marth), looks on with interest but diverts his daughter's attention from the incident. Over a year later, Pete takes interest when Jimmy gets out on parole thanks to a new program for first-time offenders. Pete's an old friend who's lined up a new job for Jimmy and meets him at the bus station, where Shugo--now working security directly for Keller--leans on Jimmy to stay away from Robin until Pete intervenes. Pete presses Jimmy about why he pleaded guilty, and subsequently turns up that Jimmy was led to believe that the grass was Robin's by a high-priced lawyer named King who was hired by Mr. Keller. Pete is outraged when Jimmy's jaded parole officer, Albert Cavelli (Vernon Weddle), specifically orders him to stay away from Robin as well. Jimmy receives a visit from Robin at his new job, and acts sore about her lack of testimony at the trial or contact during his incarceration, though it becomes clear that her father has been manipulating the situation the entire time. Then Robin drops the bomb that she had their baby, and was forced by her father to give him up for adoption. As they hug, Shugo takes pictures. Not knowing of this development, Pete gets the Mods involved in investigating the circumstances of Jimmy's conviction. Pete stirs things up at the ranch by confronting Keller, King, and Shugo. Linc talks to the other deputy, who thinks it was all a set-up and points him to the junkie who was Shugo's informant, Victor Boichek (Rex Holman). Desperate for a fix, Boichek admits to having been blackmailed into planting the grass in Jimmy's truck. Meanwhile, Robin has taken Jimmy to spy on their baby, having learned the identity of the older, unwell-to-do couple who were lined up by her father to adopt him; and is subsequently confronted by Cavelli with pictures of Jimmy and Robin together. This motivates Jimmy to go along with Robin's plan to break into the couple's home, kidnap the baby, and run for the border. (Say, wasn't this a Julie episode that we watched last year?) The abducted baby doesn't seem to be feeling well? Check. Pete and Julie try to catch up with the crazy kids and find that Keller has a helicopter searching the area. Not knowing Pete's wheels, Jimmy tries to lose him, feeling that a high-speed chase with his sick baby in the car will establish his parenting cred. He does eventually pull over to try to lure his pursuer away on foot, and finds that it's just Mods wanting to help. At the hospital, the baby is found to have an untreated infection, and Greer pulls strings to have Jimmy placed in Pete's custody, but Jimmy takes the first opportunity to make a run for it. At Linc's prodding, Greer tries to bring in Shugo to shake him up, and when Shugo puts up a fight, Greer's stunt double comes out to play for a change: While Shugo starts squealing, Jimmy proceeds to Robin Hills, where he breaks into what I assume is Shugo's locker and takes a gun, then confronts Keller, who makes it clear that he's not interested in a grandson who's not of "blooded stock". Pete and Linc arrive and try to talk Jimmy down, but Keller keeps him off-balance by taunting him to go ahead and pull the trigger. As Jimmy's standing down, Keller whips a pistol out of his desk drawer and wings him, only to promptly be proven an unworthy opponent for Linc's stunt double. Keller is taken into custody, Jimmy is loaded into an ambulance, and Greer and the Mods walk to three different cars at Robin Hills Farms. _______ The Mod Squad "Big George" Originally aired March 7, 1972 Season 4 finale After an evening of tossing the pigskin with his son, Jimmy (Michael-James Wixted; insert peanut joke here), the titular George Carter (Griffith) goes to the local market for eggs and is parked outside to witness as a pair of stocking-masked robbers hold the place up, one of them shooting the proprietor, Ernie, when he goes for his own gun. The shooter (Stanley Kamel) takes his mask off in front of Carter and is questioned by arriving police. Carter comes forward to identify him as the shooter. Cut to the Mods already embedded in the Carter household, which includes Julie helping George's wife, Agnes (Sharon Acker), take care of their infant. Greer picks up George to take him to the courthouse for the conviction of the shooter, Knight. There's an awkward moment as George is being interviewed by reporters in the hall and Knight and his attorney (Bart Burns) come off the elevator. Later at home, Agnes starts getting threatening calls, and we see an unidentified figure stalking around outside. Greer has no leads on Knight's accomplice, and is puzzled why such threats wouldn't have been made prior to George's testimony. Their assignment officially over, the Mods volunteer to continue watching the Carters on their own time (because if anything can flush out a suspect, it's Julie being off the clock). Linc is injured when somebody on a dirt bike tries to run down George outside of his electric company job. Greer puts the Mods back on the job...but George loses his, as the company fears being endangered by future attempts; and nobody shows up at Jimmy's birthday party, the kids' parents all making excuses...though the Mods make a game attempt to get it going themselves. George goes out to get drunk, and even the bartender (Victor Izay) doesn't want him around. After Pete brings him home and Agnes tries to convince him that they need to move, George takes the next threatening call himself. After George does a little Bailey bit about wondering whether he's worth more to his family dead than alive, Greer and the Mods help set the Carters up in a new town under aliases with a new job for George and a new school for Jimmy. But one night the Carters realize they're being followed and George tries to lose his pursuer, only to find out after he's cornered in an alley that it's Pete. George describes to Pete how much the situation is affecting him, fearing that eventually the killer (as everyone refers to him, even though he isn't known to have killed anyone yet) is going to find him. Desperate to proactively find the most likely suspect, Knight's unidentified accomplice, George goes back to the city and assaults Knight's attorney, Paul Sommers. Afterward in jail, George is shocked senseless at what he's become. Greer enlists his cooperation in a scheme to lure out the suspected would-be killer. This involves George being presented with a Citizen of the Year award while Greer, the Mods, and police snipers stake the courtyard location out. George is taken aside and isolated by a man posing as one of the uniformed officers (Buddy Pantsari, I presume, who's billed as "Accomplice"), who gives him a story about Jimmy having been in an accident. As the "killer"/accomplice is about to make his move on "the fink," Greer and the others catch up, shots are exchanged, George jumps the accomplice, and Greer takes him out. In the coda, George decides to return the family to their old life. The Carters say goodbye to Greer and the Mods, who walk back into police HQ. _______ It wouldn't be a red flag for them, as it supported his story at the time. It's something that doesn't make any sense in hindsight, following further revelations.
So, I was right. This is an edit of two different performances recorded when the cameras weren't filming. The one I have on bootleg is a different performance done for the camera.
Ah, one of those farmer's daughter stories. Longest Mod Squad episode ever! Jimmy wasn't suspicious that the guy who hated him hired a lawyer for him? Jaded or on the take? Major complication. That's bad evil planning by Keller. He should have lined up somebody in another part of the country, as far away as possible. They do seem to recycle plots. So many bad decisions driving the plot. The Mods arrest the adoptive parents for bad parenting. "I'm not going to jail for a crime I did commit!" Go, Greer! Apparently Robin Hills is a horse ranch. That was pretty stupid on Keller's part, with Pete and Linc standing right there. It's like the writers felt they needed a token gunshot for their cop show. Not necessary, because this was a nice little change-of-pace human interest story. The Mod writers like the name Jimmy. They must have been listening to "Junior's Farm." I'm a blockhead, I don't Cap it. The Mods score a cool guest star for their finale! The future Dr Kroger and futurer Dr Kozinsky-- although the latter precedes the former. Patient Zero. A question apparently never answered. They should have all gone on vacation together. No good deed goes unpunished. Now that would have been a hell of a season finale. Informally or as part of some witness protection program? It seems like ramping up the hunt for the harasser would have been a better next step. The same thing happened with Jimmy last episode. I'll bet Andy Griffith was great in this part. Both Andy and Greer get in on the action! This one seemed a little too hurried along, but overall we had two nice human-interest stories to close out the season. So did Greg actually commit the theft or did he just receive the goods? Clearly I'm confused. Thank you, this is the one I wanted to hear. And both of these are more than a minute longer than the version that I have in my collection, which I presume must be the single edit.
50 Years Ago This Week April 28 The U.S. television series The F.B.I., starring Efrem Zimbalist Jr., broadcast its 241st and final original episode after nine seasons on the ABC network. April 29 In a nationally televised speech, U.S. President Nixon announced that, instead of releasing tape recordings, requested by the House Judiciary Committee, of key conversations, he had instead arranged to have some of them, but not all, transcribed by his staff. The transcripts began with a recording taken on September 15, 1972, and did not include the June 23, 1972, tape that would ultimately show that Nixon had ordered the halting of further FBI investigation into the burglary. The edited 1,200 pages of transcripts were known for using the phrase "expletive deleted" in place of profanities used during the conversations by the President and his staff. In lieu of presenting the tapes, Nixon said that the leaders of the Judiciary panel would be invited to come to the White House to listen to recordings. Argentine terrorists released U.S. oil executive Victor Samuelson following five months of captivity, after Esso Argentina, a subsidiary of the Exxon Corporation, had paid a record ransom of $14,200,000 on March 11 to guerrillas of the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP). Samuelson, who had been kidnapped on December 6 from a dining room at the company's refinery where he had been the manager, dropped Samuelson off at the home of the family's pediatrician, Dr. Federico Pfister, in the town of Acasusso, outside of Buenos Aires. April 30 The last of the Phase III wage and price controls implemented by U.S. President Nixon came to an end with the expiration of the statutory authority, after failing to stop the increase of inflation. Agnes Moorehead, 73, American stage, film and TV actress best known as "Endora" on the popular TV series Bewitched, died of uterine cancer. Nixon: The Last Hundred Days May 1 The first successful nuclear fusion using a laser (inertial confinement fusion) was achieved by scientists at KMS Industries, backed by Keeve M. "Kip" Siegel at Ann Arbor, Michigan, targeting a deuterium-tritium pellet and collecting the evidence with neutron-sensitive nuclear emulsion detectors developed by physicist Robert Hofstadter. After confirmation of the results, the breakthrough was announced 12 days later, on May 13. In San Francisco, seven African American men were arrested in the Zebra murders case. Four of the men were released for lack of evidence on May 3. The other three—J. C. Simon, 29; Larry Green, 22; and Manuel Moore, 23—went to trial along with Jessie Lee Cooks, who had been arrested earlier, and all four would be convicted of murder in 1976 and sentenced to life imprisonment. May 2 Six people were killed in Northern Ireland, and 18 injured, when the Ulster Volunteer Force terrorist group detonated a bomb in the Rose & Crown Bar in Belfast. Former U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew was disbarred from the practice of law in a unanimous decision of the Maryland Court of Appeals, the highest in the state. Agnew, who had pled no contest to a charge of tax evasion on October 10 and resigned the office, was described by the Court as "so morally obtuse that he consciously cheats for his own pecuniary gain." May 4 In Manhattan, a crowd of 1,000 rallied on Christopher Street to urge the New York City Council to pass a bill recognizing equal rights for gay and lesbian people. The Expo '74 world's fair was opened in Spokane, Washington as U.S. President Richard Nixon declared the start of the fair at a ceremony attended by 85,000 people. T-minus 97 days and counting. Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week: Leaving the chart: "Love's Theme," Love Unlimited Orchestra (22 weeks) "Rock On," David Essex (25 weeks) "The Way We Were," Barbra Streisand (23 weeks) New on the chart: "Already Gone," Eagles (#32 US) "Save the Last Dance for Me," The DeFranco Family feat. Tony DeFranco (#18 US) "Finally Got Myself Together (I'm a Changed Man)," The Impressions (#17 US; #1 R&B) "Be Thankful for What You Got," William DeVaughn (#4 US; #31 AC; #1 R&B; #31 UK) _______ Timeline entries are quoted from the Wiki page for the month. _______ I don't think he knew at that point that his employer was onto him and would go to such crooked lengths to keep the couple separated. The latter wasn't explicitly established; I think it was meant to demonstrate that Keller was a man of influence. They were clearly trying to make the adoptive parents unsympathetic...when we first saw the mother, she had the baby in one arm and a cigarette in her mouth while coming out of the unemployment office. Shugo was portrayed as something of a spineless pushover. There was a cute bit of business at the end of the scene where Pete confronts everybody at the ranch when he orders Shugo to give him a ride back into town--"Now!!!" Yes, and Jimmy's job was taking care of the horses. More like they wanted a nice, pat excuse to end the story with Keller being arrested. And here I thought that one was way too obvious. Meet George Carter His boy Jimmy This kid looks way too young to be the governor of Georgia: Number 39...number 39...number 39... I didn't even recognize her, though the name rang a bell. A lot of names have become familiar in immersive retro viewing who weren't Trek guests. Indeed, they were apparently lampshading the motive. There ya go! Informally. Greer and the Mods were all offering to chip in money to help the family move. He got to demonstrate his dramatic chops. Here's the Mods' description of the character to Greer when George didn't think the Mods should continue babysitting him despite the threats... Linc: We know George. He's not a complicated thinking machine. Pete: George is a simple, beautiful man....He's not a violent man, he just refuses to accept it. He just picked up the goods to take them away from the scene. "Junior's Farm" was originally released as a non-album single; the commercially available version was 4:20, which is the one that's been released on compilation albums. There was a shorter radio edit.
I don't think I've ever seen a single episode of this show. I don't remember it ever being syndicated on either local channel or being on any of the Retro channels. He's such a weasel. This was everywhere for a long time. Actually, the first thing that pops into my head when I see it is Howard the Duck. Unrelated to the news item, I remember those old Esso signs and when they changed to the rectangular Exxon signs. I thought the new signs were much cooler because of the dos equis. Cheap, clean energy will be available in 5-10 years! I can't help but think that our method of choosing elected officials is flawed. Tick tock tick tock.... Classic Eagles Era, although I find this one kind of high school. I do like it, though. I remember this from Lost 45s. It's not bad or anything. I don't think I've ever heard this one before. I'm having trouble focusing on it. I didn't think I'd know this one, either, but I remember it. Nice. Oh, I see. The girl told him after he got sprung. Probably the worst of all Keller's crimes. It was actually a nice little bit of writing when you think about it. The writer must have been familiar with horse ranches. For some unknown reason, I associated peanuts with Charlie Brown (which is why I said Blockhead). Yeah, pretty obvious. I'm sure I'd recognize a lot more of them if I was seeing them. And change their names and get them jobs-- I don't think this part of the plot was well thought through. He's been very good in every non-comedy role I've seen him in, including a TV movie in the 70s where he played a disturbingly evil character. Okay, I thought he was the actual thief. That's apparently the one I got. It's 3:03.
Well, out of all the songs posted, this is the only one that seems to have withstood the test of time; which is interesting seeing as how low it charted.
50th Anniversary single release - 10cc with the song "The Wall Street Shuffle", from their upcoming album, "Sheet Music." Written primarily by Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman, the title came from Eric Stewart and Lol Creme's visit to New York during a three day promotional tour. While crossing Wall Street, Lol said, "Wall Street. The Wall Street Shuffle." To which Eric replied, "Let's do the 'Wall Street Shuffle'." During the cab ride back to the hotel, Eric came up with the riff and the chorus and once back at Strawberry Studios, with Graham's help, completed the verses. Released the first week of May 1974, the single would reach #10 on the UK charts. Anni-Frid Lyngstad of ABBA, would release a cover version on her second solo album Frida ensam; which is bascially an ABBA album in all but name as it features Benny, Bjorn (minus Agnetha Faltskog) and other members of ABBA's studio/touring band and was produced by Anni-Frid's husband Benny.
I have a vague memory of it having been on when I was little, that's about it. Nixon contributes to pop culture. Now that you mention it, there's another thing that I vaguely recall. My thoughts exactly. I was surprised that such a stone-cold classic charted so poorly...the other entries being so obscure was just rubbing it in. Seems like we haven't seen Donny in a while... Part of me wants to get the DeFranco Family singles just to stick it to the Osmonds. I already had this and the next one, though neither was familiar. This one's not bad. This one's very forgettable to me. I thought it was odd that the radio promo version would be available on a collection, but apparently it's on Wingspan, which I own on CD: FWIW, here's the original full-length version: