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50th Anniversary Viewing (Part 2)
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"The Night They Raided Daddy's"
Originally aired February 19, 1970
Wiki said:
Ann's father hires a musical group to increase business at his restaurant. He doesn't know that the group performs nude.
When Ann and Donald visit the Marie home in Brewster, Ann is concerned to find Mr. Marie at home at 7 in the evening playing solitaire. When she presses him, he seems frustrated with the restaurant business. Ann and Donald then visit the restaurant and find that business has been down for months, while a competitor has been doing extremely well. They then go to that restaurant and find that it's because Tony's has hired a hip pop/rock band...at least by
That Girl standards. The band and their psychedelic lighting look groovy, but the music is actually pretty loungey. Nevertheless, they serve as a stark contrast to the clarinet and accordion duo that's been playing at Lew's place. Ann cites a group called The Electric Yo-Yos as an example of the type of band Lew's restaurant needs. They take Lew to Tony's to see the band, which convinces him.
Lew goes to an agent to audition a group, but he's concerned that first group are so scruffy that they'd be an issue with the Board of Health. He then watches a cleaner-looking group with respectable-looking matching costumes called The Blue Boys and decides to hire them. We learn right after he leaves that they do their finale totally naked.
For the first night that the band plays, the restaurant is crowded and Lew's sporting a Nehru jacket (looking less hip than Bond villain). The Sheriff and a reverend and his family are among the diners that evening. When the band does their finale (off camera, of course), it shocks the crowd as Lew and Ann look on from behind a curtain. They return home and fret until Lew checks back with the guy he's got running the restaurant (Bill Quinn) and learn that the place is even more packed than before. Donald gets a member of the group on the phone and talks him into doing something shockingly different from other groups by putting more clothes on at the end.
In the coda, Lew sincerely thanks Donald and, when Donald's not in earshot, admits to Ann that he likes him--He's just becoming a big ol' softy now!
"Oh, Donald" count:
2
"Oh, Daddy" count:
4
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Ironside
"Ransom"
Originally aired February 19, 1970
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A banker is unwilling to help the police capture the man who kidnapped his wife and Eve.
When we meet the banker, Eric Saginor (John Saxon), and his wife, Susan (Carla Borelli), we see obvious tension between them, and learn that he's hungry for a promotion. The abduction of Susan takes place outside of a restaurant where he's dining with Eve. Eve pulls her gun on one of the hippie-type kidnappers, but his unseen partner gets the drop on her. The ladies are taken to hippies' shabby lair, where a female accomplice waits for them.
Ironside deduces that the kidnappers may be actors based on an ear-witness having heard one of them use the phrase "break a leg". He also learns that Eric was being passed over for promotion specifically because of an "unstable personal life". Eric is put forth as a suspect early on, and seems a little too obvious in his general unlikability. Eric doesn't want police involvement, and persuades his better-reputed bank pal, Paul Friedland (Fritz Weaver), to borrow the money on his behalf. Eric makes the drop at a taco stand, but during the kidnapper doing the pickup, Chris Courtland (Michael Walker), gets into an accident on his bike while trying to hightail out, after which Eric retrieves the package. We see from a one-sided phone conversation that Courtland's partner, Pucci (Art Metrano), is answering to somebody else. The team finds that Courtland is an actor, with a previous narcotics arrest in Boston.
The investigation of Eric also turns up that he was in a great deal of debt, with a suspicious pattern of professional shortages in the books coinciding with personal deposits, which were being invested in a piece of land. The Chief narrows in on Paul, who was responsible for Eric's promotion evaluation and is involved in the theater. Paul is surprised to learn that Eric sold the land.
We learn during her captivity that it's Eve birthday. At one point the ladies make a break for it when Eve uses a fire extinguisher on Pucci, but their female accomplice, Nola (Miki McDonald), cuts off their escape by driving up in a minibus and brandishing a gun. At another point, Pucci sarcastically refers to Eve as Margo Lane.
The team tails Eric to a meeting with the kidnappers at their layer, at one point stopping so he can lure in and knock out a detective who's helping them. Eric arrives at Shabby Hippie Manor with the money and pulls a gun on Pucci, but he and Eve find themselves surrounded by...Paul and Susan. Paul plans to kill Eric and Eve, which makes Susan protest. Ed bursts in to the rescue, and the place goes up in flames from gasoline that was going to be used in the murder.
In the coda Ironside explains that Friedland was helping mismanage Eric's money, and Eve's birthday is celebrated with some couple's anniversary cake, which was the only one available on short notice.
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Get Smart
"And Only Two Ninety-Nine"
Originally aired February 20, 1970
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Max comes home from work one evening to find 99 in bed, with a black eye. She's actually an impostor — the real 99 (who gave her the black eye) was kidnapped by KAOS but had escaped, and was now with the Chief — but the Chief orders Max to pretend that he's taken in by the deception while 99 and the Chief try to find out what KAOS is up to.
I don't think I'd noticed when scenes had previously taken place in their bedroom, but Max and 99 have got the twin beds thing going on. It's a little sad that
The Brady Bunch is more cutting edge. Anyway, when Max gets home, Fake 99 (66?) has just called off a visit from 99's mother. As she's going to sleep, the Chief calls to tell Max that 99 is with him. After the opening credits, the real 99 tells the Chief how she was temporarily abducted and replaced.
99 said:
And then she told me that she'd take perfect care of my husband, and that's when I hit her.
Yeah, who knows, the impostor might wanna trade in for a queen-sized. Anyway, the Chief wants 99 to go back to where she was being held in order to not tip off her captors. When she makes a call to the Chief via fingernail phone from what looks like a king-sized bed in her cell, 99 says that she wished she had a set-up like that at home. Her captor, Melnick Archer (H.M. Wynant), informs her that the plan is to have the impostor murder her husband and frame her for doing it. We learn that the impostor is doing this by cumulatively poisoning Max's meals.
Max questions if the 99 who went to the Chief is actually the impostor, though he has noticed changes in her habits. And now Larabee is offering to have his wife take care of the twins--where was she the other week when Larabee and the Chief had to do it? The Chief notices the ill effects of the poison on Max, but doesn't figure out what's going on despite Max telling him that the impostor insists that Max eat at home for every meal.
When 99 learns what the plan is, she lures her guard into her cell, chops him out, and calls the Chief. When 99 gets to Smart apartment ahead of the Chief, it falls to the barely conscious Max to determine which is his wife. He initially points to Larabee, but then realizes that the impostor would still have a black eye under her makeup. In the closing beat, Larabee wolfs down a helping of the impostor's poisoned pie.
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The Brady Bunch
"The Hero"
Originally aired February 20, 1970
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Peter learns a lesson in heroism and humility after being written up as "Hero of the Month" in the local newspaper for saving a young girl's life during an accident at Driscoll's Toy Shop. Peter is so enamored with his heroics that throws himself a congratulatory party. He is humbled when no one shows up.
Guest stars: Dani Nolan as Mrs. Spencer, Melanie Baker as Tina Spencer, Dave Morick as Earl Hopkins, Randy Lane as Steve, Susan Joyce as Jennifer, Iler Rasmussen as Jason, Joe Conley as the delivery courier
Yes, Peter's finally getting his episode, and it's a pretty meaty one. He starts with an action/adventure beat, when a loose wall shelf threatens to fall on the girl as she's climbing up to reach a doll and he lunges in to save her--He's the Indiana Jones of the toy store set! His ego is gradually boosted by the fuss and attention that he receives...the girls coming in to compliment him; the boys apologizing for not believing him; Alice making him a special dessert; making the front page of the paper. Then the conceit sets in, as he starts keeping a scrapbook; posing in the mirror; thinking that he's too big to do his chores; and telling exaggerated stories about what happened. It doesn't take long for his siblings to turn against him.
When Mrs. Spencer offers to buy him anything he wants from the toy store, it quickly turns into everything he wants. As the delivery man arrives at the Brady home with the many boxes of goods and brings in a punching ball...
Alice said:
Ohhh...so Peter finally got tired of using Bobby!
The parents insist that Peter can only keep one gift, and warn him of the fickleness of fame. But then the newspaper gives him a plague and a $50 check, and he decides to spend the check on throwing his party. The kids he tries to invite by phone all come up with excuses for missing it, and he walks in on the older siblings objecting to the parents. When nobody shows for the party, Mike spins it as a teachable moment. Once Peter has been satisfactorily humbled, the family and the Spencers throw him a surprise party.
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Hogan's Heroes
"Standing Room Only"
Originally aired February 20, 1970
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With fifteen escapees awaiting transfer and a Luftwaffe major threatening to expose Klink’s theft of camp funds, Hogan has his hands full dealing with trouble.
Klink is trying to entertain a ladyfriend, Sofia (Victoria Carroll), when the tower guards shoot at a prisoner attempting to escape. Hogan bribes Schultz into saying that the prisoner was just airing his blanket. Then we learn that the tunnel is crowded with escapees from another Stalag, too many for the underground to handle at once.
Burkhalter assigns the other stalag's kommandant, Major Strauss (Noam Pitlik), to work under Klink to learn from Stalag 13's example of being reputedly escape proof. The jealous major uses the opportunity to search for skeletons in Klink's closet. To this end, he studies Klink's books, and learns from Schultz of Klink's ladyfriend and (continuity alert) his recent hosting of Fake Göring.
Hogan's plan to get the extra prisoners out through the area's heavier guard coverage is to smuggle them out openly disguised as soldiers, but arranges for seven of them to come back and surrender at the gate as part of a deal with Klink, only to be subsequently taken into custody by a prisoner disguised as a German captain (Forrest Compton). Hogan suggests that the untrusting Strauss accompany the captain, and then hints to Klink that he likely won't be hearing from the major again. When Klink asks why Hogan helped him, Hogan is open in his assessment that with Klink in charge at Stalag 13, the Allies have a better chance of winning the war.
In the coda, Hogan takes advantage of a distraction to get in some time with Sofia in Klink's living area.
Didn't notice a DIS-missed in this one.
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