Post-50th Anniversary Viewing
Happy Days
"Haunted"
Originally aired October 29, 1974
Paramount+ said:
Richie fights his fears over attending a Halloween party at a haunted house where he believes he saw a headless ghost.
Wiki said:
This was the only episode Garry Marshall directed for the series.
As Arnold's decorates for Halloween, Ralph shares his plan to host his Halloween party at a secret location to avoid it being crashed by prankster Bag Zombroski (Neil J. Schwartz) and his gang of vandals, the Demons--the old Simpson house, believed to be haunted. Although uncomfortable about the locale, Richie agrees to scope the place out while taking Joanie to her Chipmunks meeting; but sees something in a closet that motivates him to run out in terror, causing Joanie to tease him. At home, Richie tells his father that he thought he saw a headless body. At Arnold's, Fonzie advises Richie to face his fears. Back at home, Richie's watching a late vampire movie when Joanie sneaks up behind him wearing werewolf paws. An awoken Mr. C sits down in front of the TV with Richie and starts getting frightened by the film himself.
All three of Gerry Marshall's kids appear as trick-or-treaters--the first, Lori, as a friend of Joanie's dressed as a witch. While Richie, dressed in a skeleton costume, frets about attending the party, Howard passes out candy to Scotti Marshall dressed as a cowboy, and Kathi Marshall as a princess, each kid getting fresh with Mr. C in their own way. When Richie arrives at the Simpson house with his date, Gloria (Linda Purl)--dressed in a mild harem outfit--they find the place decorated but seemingly unoccupied. As their tension at the surroundings mounts, Ralph rises from a coffin to greet them.
Then the rest of the guests come out of hiding to commence with dancing and bobbing for apples--Potsie wearing the Fantastic Man costume from
Love, American Style.
Fonzie puts in a brief appearance in a Lone Ranger mask and his usual attire with a girl in an Indian outfit whom he refers to as Tonto. When Richie makes a show of playing things cool despite Ralph's attempt to scare his guests by turning off lights and rattling chains, Ralph and Potsie decide to get him by effectively challenging him to open the closet. He finds the headless body in a rocking chair, which turns out to be an old dummy. Then a similar figure walks down the stairs, scaring Potsie and Ralph among other guests--but Richie unmasks "Magnolia Simpson" as Bag Zombroski, and the other Demons come out of hiding.
In the coda, Richie comes home while Joanie's admiring her trick-or-treating haul, and Howard closes the episode with a bad joke.
Howard: If you take the inside out of a hot dog, what have you got left?
I just realized that recurring Arnold's waitress Marsha Simms (Beatrice Colen) is the same actress who'll play Etta Candy on
Wonder Woman.
Planet of the Apes
"The Deception"
Originally aired November 1, 1974
Edited Wiki said:
While Galen and Virdon hunt down a band of murderous ape vigilantes, the blind daughter of a recently murdered ape falls in love with Burke--unaware that he is human.
The episode opens at the funeral of an ape named Lucian, believed to have been murdered by human, who's mourned by his daughter, Fauna (Jane Actman), and brother, Sestus (John Milford). A masked group of ape vigilantes known as the Dragoons enacts retribution against the local human community, burning the home of Jasko (Hal Baylor) and dragging him to his death behind a horse...while Jasko's hosting the fugitives, who are away from the house fishing at the time and get back too late. The fugitives approach Fauna to talk to her. Being blind, she doesn't know that two of them are humans, and they lead her to believe that they're apes because of her hatred of humans over her father's murder. We learn that her Uncle Sestus is one of the Dragoons.
While Fauna hosts the fugitives at her home, they ask her for details about the humans who allegedly killed her father--and learn that Sestus was the eyewitness. The fugitives make an excuse to avoid being seen by the returning uncle, so she shows them a hiding place--the Gilligan Cave. She wants to touch Burke's face because his voice reminds her of a lost love, so Galen quietly steps up in his place. Once alone, the humans brainstorm a plan to have Galen infiltrate the Dragoons. He approaches Sestus posing as an ape who's been victimized by humans and wants to get even. Sestus takes him to a Dragoon meeting and plans to initiate him as a member.
Meanwhile, Virdon is caught trying to sneak up on a lone Dragoon, overpowering him with the Fu. After telling Fauna the story of an ape named Robinson Crusoe, Burke learns from a journal that Lucian was secretly meeting with a group of human friends. Fauna tells Galen how she's fallen in love with Burke, and he almost tells her the truth in attempting to discourage her. Returning to the hiding place, Galen--afraid of Fauna being hurt by the titular situation--confronts Burke with this development and things get heated. Burke decides to go level with her. He uses the story of Isaac, Jacob, and Esau to admit to having committed a deception that wasn't meant to hurt her, while stopping short of telling her the full truth, then takes his leave from her for what's intended to be the last time.
The humans break into the house of a patrol ape named Perdix (Baynes Barron) to bring him to the Dragoon meeting that Galen attends, at which leader Zon (Pat Renella) formally behoods Galen and assigns him the honor of killing their next victim. Galen tries to stall them by telling them about the two humans he found, but they agree to go after them the next morning. Perdix holds the guys overnight, so Galen comes to them hooded and frees them with the gun he was given. Virdon takes Perdix to where the Dragoons are gathering and rearms him. Although outnumbered, Perdix calls for the apes to surrender, directly confronting Zon. Then Fauna, who's been wandering up on the clifftop, falls in the drink and Burke, having caught up, dives in to save her, aided by Virdon. When she comes to on the cave exterior set, Burke lets her feel his face and she recoils in horror. Sestus tries to reason with her, telling her that these humans saved her life; when she won't let go of her hatred for those she holds responsible for killing her father, Sestus confesses that he was present when Zon accidentally killed Lucian in an altercation. Zon tries to rally the Dragoons against the humans to divert their attention, but they unhood and ape-gait out...giving Perdix the advantage he needs to take Zon into custody.
As Burke tries to apologize to Fauna, she expresses her bewilderment at how she could have fallen for a human, and he gives her a peck on the prosthetic, following which the fugitives exit along the shoreline.
All in the Family
"Where's Archie?"
Originally aired November 2, 1974
Wiki said:
Edith and Gloria start to panic when Archie fails to call from a weekend convention.
NOTE: Due to a contract dispute, Carroll O'Connor does not appear in this episode.
If there was a contract dispute going on, I have to assume that this and the next episode were the earliest of the season in production order.
Edith practices her presentation for a Tupperware party she's hosting while Archie's in Buffalo at a convention. Gloria's worried because she got a call from Butch McPherson, the friend Archie was supposed to be rooming with, that he didn't show. Mike convinces her to get ready for the Marx Brothers festival they're going to. Mike and Gloria come back downstairs as Groucho and Harpo , respectively (Mike wearing black tape as eyebrows and a mustache) and engage in several minutes of schtick with Edith and Irene before Gloria gets a follow-up call that Archie didn't arrive on the second bus, either.
Miss Henderson the Tupperware lady arrives (future fact-keeper Charlotte Rae)--who, clearly taking her calling too seriously, waxes about her travels in the northeast states and fusses about the proper arrangement of the pieces. Mike and Gloria keep the news from Edith while Mike tries to convince Gloria that there's nothing to worry about. Various neighbors arrive, including Louise, whom Mrs. Henderson gets on the bad side of with racial comments. Edith manages not to let the costumed Gloria and Mike bursting back in distract her from the speech she's been practicing the entire episode. But she loses her composure and blows her speech when she sees Mrs. Henderson cleaning her nose with a handerkerchief, which takes her back to a childhood experience that she'd earlier shared with Irene, in which she flubbed her lines in a play because her attention was fixed on her little brother picking his nose.
As the party commences despite this, Edith answers another call from Butch, finally learning that Archie's missing and becoming overwhelmed with thoughts of what could have happened to him.
Hector Elias and Roxanna Bonilla appear at the party in the credited roles of Alfredo and Maria Estrada, both characters having been recast since they first appeared in last season's "We're Having a Heat Wave".
Quick and dirty 'shop because I was inspired
I wouldn't lean on that prop so hard, Roger.
It's difficult to offend the Irish. They kind of embrace stuff like that.
I can imagine, but nowadays somebody else is likely to get horribly offended on their behalf.
I'm sure everybody has seen this:
Well, I hadn't.
He's still around irregularly at this point, FWIW, but won't be for long.
Which reminds me of a cool mom of a high school friend who came home when we were playing my Beatles records on her bedroom stereo. She yelled for us to turn it up.