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50th Anniversary Viewing (Part 1)
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Hogan's Heroes
"The Dropouts"
Originally aired December 27, 1970
The episode opens with Hogan and Carter keeping watch in German uniforms while the rest of the team is in the process of setting a bridge to blow. A car pulls up with a Gestapo officer and two civilians, and for once, our undercover heroes are actually depicted speaking German instead of English in comical accents. The Gestapo officer steps on Carter's foot, making him exclaim in English, and then pulls his gun. But he disappears with the men he's escorting while Carter and Hogan are on their knees with their backs turned. Hogan orders the mission scrubbed, but is suspicious of what the SS captain is up to, given his unusual behavior. Captain Steiner (Gordon Pinsent), Professor Bauer (John Stephenson), and Dr. Riemann (Ben Wright) subsequently arrive at Stalag 13, where Klink gives them the VIP treatment; they say that they have no business there, it's just a social call, the accommodations having been recommended by Goering. Hogan, who plans to evacuate the entire operation, is brought to Klink's quarters, and Steiner looks like he recognizes him; but Klink just asks Hogan to have LeBeau make a French meal for his guests. Next Schultz shows the guests the barracks. Steiner dismisses Schultz, after which the SS captain and scientists speak openly about the previous night's encounter. They explain that the scientists have been working on atomic research, and are carrying five flasks of heavy water, and ask for Hogan's help getting to Switzerland; he offers to get them to England instead.
Baker intercepts a call from Hochstetter ordering Klink to arrest his visitors. As Klink and Schultz search the camp for them, they disguise themselves as prisoners and go to work picking up litter outside. Hochstetter arrives and the guard around the camp is doubled. As Hochstetter will be coming and going, Hogan plans to smuggle the defectors out in the major's trunk, one trip at a time. Hogan plants evidence indicating that the defectors had been hiding in the cooler and have since moved on, and the smuggling works as planned. In the coda, Klink and Schultz are having an argument and Hogan excuses himself with a...
Dis-missed!
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The Ed Sullivan Show
Season 23, episode 15
Originally aired December 27, 1970
As represented in The Best of the Ed Sullivan Show
The only thing I have from this broadcast comes from a mixed Best of installment with segments going back to 1968: pianist Peter Nero, accompanied by an orchestra, playing "Rhapsody in Blue," while also rising from his bench and getting in some conducting between the piano parts.
Also in the original episode according to tv.com:
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Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Season 4, episode 15
Originally aired December 28, 1970
A Q&A with William F. Buckley:
Laugh-In looks back at 1970 (not the 70s):
A bit more about 1970.
More questions for William F. Buckley.
Some last words about 1970.
A last segment of questions for William F. Buckley, including from Ernestine.
A year-closing Auld Lang Syne:
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Hawaii Five-O
"Paniolo"
Originally aired December 30, 1970
The episode opens with paniolos Frank Kuakua (Frank Silvera) and Hody Linquist (Royal Dano) herding cattle when they cross paths with a bulldozer clearing the land. At Frank's ranch, real estate agent Lester Cronin (William Bigelow II) tries to talk Frank into selling his land, and as leverage bears unhappy news that Frank's friend and barkeep, Harry Pawai (Robert M. Luck), sold Cronin an $800 IOU from Kuakua. Frank shoves the agent aside down some porch steps, accidentally killing him when his head hits a tree stump. Frank sends Cronin's car over a cliff with his body in it to make it look like he died in a different type of accident, and then visits his daughter, Dorothy Owens (Marilyn Chris), and grandson, Bud (George "Keoki" Awai). Motivated to keep the ranch to pass down to Bud, Frank tries to hit Dorothy up for the $800, and asks her to support his alibi of having been visiting her the entire day without telling her what it's about.
Meanwhile, McGarrett has sent Danno to pick Cronin up on fraud and corruption charges, Danno finds that he's disappeared, and later locates his car via helicopter search (improbably holding a radio conversation via hand mic without a headset). Frank goes to Harry's bar, and when Harry nervously comes clean about the IOU, Frank and Hody claim that they never saw Cronin. Frank also finds out about Danno having gone to Harry's to ask about Cronin. A doctor's forensic analysis finds wood slivers in Cronin's head, leading to the deduction that Cronin was already dead before his car went over. McGarrett goes to question Frank after learning from Harry that Cronin was last seen heading for Kuakua's ranch, and confronts Frank with the fact that the IOU wasn't found on Cronin's body. Dorothy backs up Frank's alibi, still not knowing what it's about, but her story doesn't agree with her work schedule, so she admits to having lied for her father. She calls Frank to tell him, and he rides into the wilderness armed with a rifle on an old horse.
McGarrett and local police chief Kubota (Michael Morgan) talk to Hody at Harry's, and Hody comes clean about what happened and tips them off to where he believes Frank has headed. Chopper Danno and a horsed posse that includes McGarrett and a tracker named Charlie (Beau Van Den Ecker) search Ka Palekani Wahi (according to the closed captioning--I couldn't find a match), a scenic area of green mountains. I think they conceived the whole episode to show off this piece of landscape and give Jack Lord an excuse to model this outfit:
Chopper Danno spots Frank, but loses him in a gorge. It gets dark and the posse has to camp down for the night. Frank, also camping without a fire, dreams of spending time with his grandson. In the morning Frank has to shoot his worn-down horse, which is heard by the posse. Danno and the posse find Frank mounting some high ground, and Steve calls off Danno to approach Kuakua alone and try to reason with him, appealing to Frank to choose to live for his daughter and grandson. As Frank approaches, he raises his rifle, the posse fires on him, and he wings Steve before being brought down, to Steve's clear regret.
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Ironside
"Blackout"
Originally aired December 31, 1970
The Chief on way to speaking engagement, and Ed is at the Cave watching a basketball game (which the Chief is also following in the van via a portable TV), when the lights go out in what I think they said was a four-square-mile area of San Francisco. The Chief quickly suspects sabotage, and heads for police HQ, which in this case isn't the same as his place, and has an auxiliary generator. There he touches base with an old mentor, Sgt. Spangler (Jack Albertson), and his younger, less experienced superior, Lt. Holloway (Roman Gabriel). Then HQ's power goes out, and Spangler says that he was knocked on the head by the unidentified saboteur, who then got away in a car. Out in the blacked-out portion of the city, odd drive-by fire-bombings are reported. The Chief suspects that there's a larger purpose and the bombings are a diversion. Meanwhile, we see a man with a blowtorch working at methodically breaking into something while accomplices dressed as cops and using a police vehicle keep lookout outside.
Back at HQ, somebody has broken into and ransacked a microfilm room. They bring in a plain-clothes officer named Kinney (Sandy Kenyon), who's familiar with the records department, to examine the scene and determine what's missing, though the Chief thinks that this is another diversion. Officer Brill (Myron Healey), who was supposed to be manning the room, says that he was called away by an unknown figure in the dark. The chief suspects that Kinney, Brill, or the absent Sgt. Reddick, who's in charge of records, may be complicit, and looks into their files, having deduced that whoever ransacked the room was trained, as he knew how to cover his tracks. Reddick (Bill Quinn), a uniformed officer, comes in, saying that he got a call at home, raising suspicion because they'd tried calling him there previously. Meanwhile, out in the city, Ed is scoping out a blocked-off street when he's stopped by the phony patrol officers, who have a story for the barricades.
Some missing microfilm is found thrown away in a men's room, and Reddick reports that the missing files were of routine, non-criminal investigations, confirming Ironside's suspicions. Ed returns and his report of what was going on at the blocked-off location, which includes the Federal Reserve Bank, smells fishy. Team Ironside and the local fuzz go there and apprehend the phony cop outside, following which Ed nabs the crew of the culprits' loot-hauling van when it pulls up, and the robbers are nabbed coming out. The place they've been robbing is identified as the warehouse of a company that prints foreign bank notes.
Power is restored in time for the climax, in which it looks like the Chief in pointing the finger at Spangler, but Kinney, who's also in the room, tips his hand that he's the inside man. In the coda, it's revealed that Reddick was just moonlighting.
Eve is in the episode, but sidelined from the main story again. I wonder if Barbara Anderson was pregnant or something. I noticed that she spent a lot of her on-camera time in this one sitting at a table.
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Which is absolutely gorgeous, though I'm sure that DJs would have had issues with the quiet fade-in. But "Mother" is a good preview of what the John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band album has in store, and the album is John's masterpiece...one critic referred to it as "Sgt. Lennon". Recorded in the wake of John and Yoko's primal therapy, it unleashes all of John's demons in one raw, powerful package. John once said that "Imagine" was a watered-down version of upcoming non-album single "Power to the People". Along the same lines, I think that the more generally appreciated Imagine album is a watered down John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band.
50th Anniversary Viewing (Part 1)
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Hogan's Heroes
"The Dropouts"
Originally aired December 27, 1970
Wiki said:
The episode opens with Hogan and Carter keeping watch in German uniforms while the rest of the team is in the process of setting a bridge to blow. A car pulls up with a Gestapo officer and two civilians, and for once, our undercover heroes are actually depicted speaking German instead of English in comical accents. The Gestapo officer steps on Carter's foot, making him exclaim in English, and then pulls his gun. But he disappears with the men he's escorting while Carter and Hogan are on their knees with their backs turned. Hogan orders the mission scrubbed, but is suspicious of what the SS captain is up to, given his unusual behavior. Captain Steiner (Gordon Pinsent), Professor Bauer (John Stephenson), and Dr. Riemann (Ben Wright) subsequently arrive at Stalag 13, where Klink gives them the VIP treatment; they say that they have no business there, it's just a social call, the accommodations having been recommended by Goering. Hogan, who plans to evacuate the entire operation, is brought to Klink's quarters, and Steiner looks like he recognizes him; but Klink just asks Hogan to have LeBeau make a French meal for his guests. Next Schultz shows the guests the barracks. Steiner dismisses Schultz, after which the SS captain and scientists speak openly about the previous night's encounter. They explain that the scientists have been working on atomic research, and are carrying five flasks of heavy water, and ask for Hogan's help getting to Switzerland; he offers to get them to England instead.
Baker intercepts a call from Hochstetter ordering Klink to arrest his visitors. As Klink and Schultz search the camp for them, they disguise themselves as prisoners and go to work picking up litter outside. Hochstetter arrives and the guard around the camp is doubled. As Hochstetter will be coming and going, Hogan plans to smuggle the defectors out in the major's trunk, one trip at a time. Hogan plants evidence indicating that the defectors had been hiding in the cooler and have since moved on, and the smuggling works as planned. In the coda, Klink and Schultz are having an argument and Hogan excuses himself with a...
Dis-missed!
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The Ed Sullivan Show
Season 23, episode 15
Originally aired December 27, 1970
As represented in The Best of the Ed Sullivan Show
The only thing I have from this broadcast comes from a mixed Best of installment with segments going back to 1968: pianist Peter Nero, accompanied by an orchestra, playing "Rhapsody in Blue," while also rising from his bench and getting in some conducting between the piano parts.
Also in the original episode according to tv.com:
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Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Season 4, episode 15
Originally aired December 28, 1970
The Wiki list of guest appearances said:
A Q&A with William F. Buckley:
Laugh-In looks back at 1970 (not the 70s):
A bit more about 1970.
More questions for William F. Buckley.
Some last words about 1970.
A last segment of questions for William F. Buckley, including from Ernestine.
A year-closing Auld Lang Syne:
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Hawaii Five-O
"Paniolo"
Originally aired December 30, 1970
Wiki said:
The episode opens with paniolos Frank Kuakua (Frank Silvera) and Hody Linquist (Royal Dano) herding cattle when they cross paths with a bulldozer clearing the land. At Frank's ranch, real estate agent Lester Cronin (William Bigelow II) tries to talk Frank into selling his land, and as leverage bears unhappy news that Frank's friend and barkeep, Harry Pawai (Robert M. Luck), sold Cronin an $800 IOU from Kuakua. Frank shoves the agent aside down some porch steps, accidentally killing him when his head hits a tree stump. Frank sends Cronin's car over a cliff with his body in it to make it look like he died in a different type of accident, and then visits his daughter, Dorothy Owens (Marilyn Chris), and grandson, Bud (George "Keoki" Awai). Motivated to keep the ranch to pass down to Bud, Frank tries to hit Dorothy up for the $800, and asks her to support his alibi of having been visiting her the entire day without telling her what it's about.
Meanwhile, McGarrett has sent Danno to pick Cronin up on fraud and corruption charges, Danno finds that he's disappeared, and later locates his car via helicopter search (improbably holding a radio conversation via hand mic without a headset). Frank goes to Harry's bar, and when Harry nervously comes clean about the IOU, Frank and Hody claim that they never saw Cronin. Frank also finds out about Danno having gone to Harry's to ask about Cronin. A doctor's forensic analysis finds wood slivers in Cronin's head, leading to the deduction that Cronin was already dead before his car went over. McGarrett goes to question Frank after learning from Harry that Cronin was last seen heading for Kuakua's ranch, and confronts Frank with the fact that the IOU wasn't found on Cronin's body. Dorothy backs up Frank's alibi, still not knowing what it's about, but her story doesn't agree with her work schedule, so she admits to having lied for her father. She calls Frank to tell him, and he rides into the wilderness armed with a rifle on an old horse.
McGarrett and local police chief Kubota (Michael Morgan) talk to Hody at Harry's, and Hody comes clean about what happened and tips them off to where he believes Frank has headed. Chopper Danno and a horsed posse that includes McGarrett and a tracker named Charlie (Beau Van Den Ecker) search Ka Palekani Wahi (according to the closed captioning--I couldn't find a match), a scenic area of green mountains. I think they conceived the whole episode to show off this piece of landscape and give Jack Lord an excuse to model this outfit:
Chopper Danno spots Frank, but loses him in a gorge. It gets dark and the posse has to camp down for the night. Frank, also camping without a fire, dreams of spending time with his grandson. In the morning Frank has to shoot his worn-down horse, which is heard by the posse. Danno and the posse find Frank mounting some high ground, and Steve calls off Danno to approach Kuakua alone and try to reason with him, appealing to Frank to choose to live for his daughter and grandson. As Frank approaches, he raises his rifle, the posse fires on him, and he wings Steve before being brought down, to Steve's clear regret.
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Ironside
"Blackout"
Originally aired December 31, 1970
Wiki said:
The Chief on way to speaking engagement, and Ed is at the Cave watching a basketball game (which the Chief is also following in the van via a portable TV), when the lights go out in what I think they said was a four-square-mile area of San Francisco. The Chief quickly suspects sabotage, and heads for police HQ, which in this case isn't the same as his place, and has an auxiliary generator. There he touches base with an old mentor, Sgt. Spangler (Jack Albertson), and his younger, less experienced superior, Lt. Holloway (Roman Gabriel). Then HQ's power goes out, and Spangler says that he was knocked on the head by the unidentified saboteur, who then got away in a car. Out in the blacked-out portion of the city, odd drive-by fire-bombings are reported. The Chief suspects that there's a larger purpose and the bombings are a diversion. Meanwhile, we see a man with a blowtorch working at methodically breaking into something while accomplices dressed as cops and using a police vehicle keep lookout outside.
Back at HQ, somebody has broken into and ransacked a microfilm room. They bring in a plain-clothes officer named Kinney (Sandy Kenyon), who's familiar with the records department, to examine the scene and determine what's missing, though the Chief thinks that this is another diversion. Officer Brill (Myron Healey), who was supposed to be manning the room, says that he was called away by an unknown figure in the dark. The chief suspects that Kinney, Brill, or the absent Sgt. Reddick, who's in charge of records, may be complicit, and looks into their files, having deduced that whoever ransacked the room was trained, as he knew how to cover his tracks. Reddick (Bill Quinn), a uniformed officer, comes in, saying that he got a call at home, raising suspicion because they'd tried calling him there previously. Meanwhile, out in the city, Ed is scoping out a blocked-off street when he's stopped by the phony patrol officers, who have a story for the barricades.
Some missing microfilm is found thrown away in a men's room, and Reddick reports that the missing files were of routine, non-criminal investigations, confirming Ironside's suspicions. Ed returns and his report of what was going on at the blocked-off location, which includes the Federal Reserve Bank, smells fishy. Team Ironside and the local fuzz go there and apprehend the phony cop outside, following which Ed nabs the crew of the culprits' loot-hauling van when it pulls up, and the robbers are nabbed coming out. The place they've been robbing is identified as the warehouse of a company that prints foreign bank notes.
Power is restored in time for the climax, in which it looks like the Chief in pointing the finger at Spangler, but Kinney, who's also in the room, tips his hand that he's the inside man. In the coda, it's revealed that Reddick was just moonlighting.
Eve is in the episode, but sidelined from the main story again. I wonder if Barbara Anderson was pregnant or something. I noticed that she spent a lot of her on-camera time in this one sitting at a table.
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John could have chosen a more radio-palatable single, though I see that this one was edited down in single form...I've only owned the album version, but I imagine that they removed the funeral bells, which open the LP. And indeed, I just read that John considered issuing this as the single instead:
Which is absolutely gorgeous, though I'm sure that DJs would have had issues with the quiet fade-in. But "Mother" is a good preview of what the John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band album has in store, and the album is John's masterpiece...one critic referred to it as "Sgt. Lennon". Recorded in the wake of John and Yoko's primal therapy, it unleashes all of John's demons in one raw, powerful package. John once said that "Imagine" was a watered-down version of upcoming non-album single "Power to the People". Along the same lines, I think that the more generally appreciated Imagine album is a watered down John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band.
I recommend it. The movie is reputed to have a particular appeal to guys who've been in what we now call the Friend Zone. You may already be familiar with the film's most famous scene. And if it sweetens the deal, there's a segment about Casablanca.
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In this case, a lot of heisters.
