Episode 87 - Steve & Dave and the Gang at Jon's Drive In

This week's title pretty much wrote itself.

MILLS WATSON.  You know you're getting quality.  Also, it was just his 85th birthday!

It was just my 60th birthday, for what it's worth.

We get the trope of the drunk writer.

I wonder if Steve teaches people to behave like this....

I couldn't get past chapter four.

James Garner actually did lay carpet for a living for a while!

Steve understands Korsakoff's syndrome!

You have to love Rocky taking a swing at anyone!

I've used too many exclamation points, but I really like this one, but I also don't.  The pacing is off somehow, it's like they had more story to tell.  The performances were great.

Seeing Dennis kick into action, and then...

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Episode 86 - Dave and Steve Find Jon to be an Attractive Nuisance

Thought I'd get Jonno in on the title action.

We're into 1978.

Lots of fun this week, Jim trying to figure out how he has been screwed again is a recurring theme if you have not picked up on that yet.

Gretchen Corbett's last appearance as Beth Davenport, so we have a special spotlight this week.

Yup, that's right, a spotlight when I'm driving, we just like to live on the edge.

People really did eat dog food, probably, in the 70s.

Well, Johnny LaRue did anyway. 

That's Cooking With LaRue, a LaRue Enterprises production, LaRue Ontario.

Rocky is working with the mob?

What's with everyone being so afraid of garlic?

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Episode 85 - Steve and Dave aMaze

I am truly sorry for this title.

LARRY LINVILLE!!!!

Oh man, you know, about 15 minutes in I figured 'wait, this guy is one of my people' (experimental psychologist).

I'm curious as to who is funding this work.  Either way his grant is up now that Trump is in power...

There are some really not at all how it works things in this about what I do.

There are some things that are right!

Not goons, hired goons, but students, graduate students.

Bob Newhart celebrity bowling!

I never thought research ethics would come up as an important plot point in a Rockford Episode.

I helped write the ethics policies for two Canadian universities (pats self on back).

Fun spotlight this week, and of course Jon's intro.

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Episode 84 - Dave and Steve Wonder if Jon is the Queen of Peru

I like this title.

Some great 70s stuff this week.

This is a fun one.

Hey some casual racism!

Isn't that the guy who took creepy pics of Andy Travis and Jennifer Marlowe?

(There's a plane crash this week, so we get a Jon cameo).

Pop culture is lame again.

Ken Swofford is awesome.

Calling all you hoosiers.....

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Episode 83 - Steve Forces Retirement on Dave

Again, it's the name of the episode, we aren't going anywhere...

LARRY HAGMAN?!

Oh, hey, drop by the watch party on Thursday nights at 8.30 pm EDT :

Oh this one has Beth too, plus and old friend of Beth's.

I like how if this was today, the idea of harvesting kelp and turning it into some sort of green energy would be pretty hot actually.

Any episode where Jimmy Joe makes an appearance is a good one in my book.  To be clear, I have no book.

This is a big day for Beth, but we're going to see less and less of her.

We've also got a lot of Angel in this one.  He is at his Angelest too!

This is not the April Wine podcast.

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Episode 82 - Dave and Steve Spend a Night in the Hotel of Fear

We had separate rooms....

The phone message matters to the plot!

Oh man, this is an Angel episode, which makes it so fun.

It's Gerald McRaney's final appearance on the show.

Steve and I both noticed how the show treated sex workers as people who deserve respect.  Because they are, you know, people.

Sometime's Jim Garner's just overall goodness shows up in a scene.  I don't mean Rockford's I mean Jim Garner's.

We get a callback to an earlier episode too, which rarely happened back then.

Steve calls you a hooker because you're a hooker.

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Episode 81 - Steve and Dave Haven't Even Heard of Deer Lick Falls

This week's title?  Oh I'd give it about a 6.75/10.

The hicks from the lick.

The episode itself is much better than that.

Some strong guest stars this week, including Priscilla Barnes.

Some WW2 callbacks.

Somehow I think this is much closer to how most planned contract killings actually go than what we normally see on TV.

It's a Lt. Chapman episode so his exasperation is always entertaining.

Oh we've got Dennis as well.

Oh and we get a lovely little Angel scam near the end!

You could have called this episode 'The Mayor's Committee From Dunning Kruger Falls'.

This is our most Fonda heavy episode.

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