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.....
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.
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.
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.
You may have heard of Battle of the Network Shows when we had Mike from the very same podcast/site on for Episode 48.
Well this week we have, NAZI GOLD!
You have to remember that WW2 was the same distance in time from this episode as 1993 is to now. So umm, we're old.
Star Trek connection this week.
Wait, there are two guys from the Abwehr in this episode.
Jon gives us a cameo with a plane crash report.
Lt. Chapman actually speaking French!
Hey the French guys are actual French guys!
This new person, the grad student, was she intended to be on for more than this one episode? I know of liked her, but I have a soft spot for grad students.
Göring plays an important role in this story. Yes that Hermann Göring.
Thanks Rick!
I am proud of this title.
This one is funny.
This one has Jan Curtin's cousin Valerie, who does a pretty good job. Oh she also co wrote the script for And Justice For All. So 'I'm out of order, you're out of order', that's her line. OK, we don't know if it is hers or Barry Levinson, to whom she was married at the time, but I'm giving it to her.
Karma is way more complicated than people think.
'Are you here for pre death'?
Gordon looks like a VP academic.
Steve and I both have mixed feelings on this one.
I don't think we've seen a many months later flash forward like this.
This one has almost everything.
Recurring actors in different roles,
A mobbed up comedian.
A guest star from Petticoat Junction!
A guest star from Right Guard ads.
Could you ask for anything more?
It also has a serious discussion about coming out and being closeted. It's handled pretty well, especially for a tv show from 1977. The scene, near the end of the episode, is one of the most powerful things either of us have seen on the show up to this point,
It even has Lt. Diehl! It's the last time we will see him until one of the reunion movies.
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