Tue, Mar 4, 1975 – 13 · The Paducah Sun (Paducah, Kentucky) · Newspapers.com
Tue, Mar 4, 1975 – 15 · The Paducah Sun (Paducah, Kentucky) · Newspapers.com
Tue, Mar 4, 1975 – 14 · The Paducah Sun (Paducah, Kentucky) · Newspapers.com
Fri, Feb 28, 1975 – 30 · The Paducah Sun (Paducah, Kentucky) · Newspapers.com
Tue, Mar 4, 1975 – 4 · The Messenger (Madisonville, Kentucky) · Newspapers.com 
Tue, Mar 4, 1975 – 11 · The Messenger (Madisonville, Kentucky) · Newspapers.com 
Tue, Mar 4, 1975 – 11 · The Messenger (Madisonville, Kentucky) · Newspapers.com 
Tue, Mar 4, 1975 – 10 · The Messenger (Madisonville, Kentucky) · Newspapers.com
Tue, Mar 4, 1975 – 2 · The Messenger (Madisonville, Kentucky) · Newspapers.com 
Tue, Mar 4, 1975 – 31 · The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) · Newspapers.com
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These are things I thought it might be fun to think and talk about. I think I'm going to plan to do another of these posts on Sunday and then plan to do them on Sundays thereafter. I don't know why I like to think about this old stuff so much, but I do. I just saw the great new movie Nomadland, and that main character wonders at the end whether she has spent too much of her life remembering. I can relate to that. But it's not like I don't live in the now. As previously reported in this paragraph, I saw Nomadland. I just really like having my childhood running in the background of my adulthood.
ReplyDeleteWell, that's the plan.
In the NBA, I'm rooting for the Bullets. In the ABA, I'm rooting for the Colonels. In the KHSAA Second District tournament tomorrow night 1975, I'm rooting for Heath against Tilghman. And I'm excited to see tonight's Happy Days, which I actually don't remember--that's unusual. Also, I thought that Blondie was pretty funny.
This is still Season 2 of Happy Days. It has not jumped the shark. I think it's great.
ReplyDeleteTonight 1975's episode, "Fonzie Joins the Band," portends the whole show shift from Cunningham-house to Fonzie focus, however.
ReplyDeleteMr. C books Richie's band--Rich on keyboards, Potsie on vocals, Ralph on saxophone and some other character on drums--at a country club, on the condition that the boys wear tuxedos. Learning of the boys' dismay over not having the necessary suits, Fonzie commits to securing them. Ralph assumes Fonzie is simply going to steal the tuxes, but, in fact, he is able to borrow them from a dry cleaner in exchange for breaking a date with the man's daughter. (That's pretty funny.)
The new rub, though, is that Fonzie has brought five suits--one for each of the four band members and one for him. Fonz intends to join the act as a bongo specialist (to impress a girl). This presents a dilemma for the boys. They are thankful that Fonzie's unique ways have enabled them to break through with an audience they would've never accessed without him, and, yet, they are concerned that he is going to weaken the performance and threaten their longer-term appeal.
The other three guys in the band quickly elect Richie as the band leader, in order to force him into confronting Fonzie. Given Ron Howard's and Henry Winkler's relationship to Happy Days and each other in the show's first couple of seasons, this episode is some pretty clever writing from Art Baer and Ben Joelson.
ReplyDeleteUltimately, it plays out that Fonzie saves Richie from getting beaten up, and Richie sides with loyal Fonzie and keeps him in the band (with bongos muffled by cummerbunds stuffed in the drums), and fuddy-duddy Mr. C gets caught up in the fun of a bunny hop to the boys' souped-up sendup of country-club-crowd-pleaser "Perfidia." It was a satisfying resolution, and I also always kind of liked those episodes where they all go to Hollywood and Fonzie jumps the shark, anyway.
ReplyDeleteJimmie Walker--whose Good Times is causing so much Happy Days heartburn at 7 p.m. Tuesdays in TV75--is among the panelists on the Match Game airing at 2:30 today 1975 on Channel 12.
ReplyDeleteAs usual, Brett Somers and Richard Dawson are also on this episode. Brett Somers and Jack Krugman were married at the time, and Richard Dawson turned up on last Friday's Odd Couple. And so I imagine these people all getting together at Brett and Jack's apartment from time to time, maybe for some Mille Bornes and contemporary bass-flute favorites.
ReplyDeleteWell, it's lunch time in 2021, where I will be actually playing Mille Bornes. But don't fret that today's 1975 fun is over--there's a Tattletales on tap for this afternoon.
ReplyDeleteWait until you see who UK draws in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. My mother was furious.
ReplyDeleteAlabama's last game of the regular season is at Auburn. UK's last game is at Mississippi State. UK beat Alabama twice in the regular season, so if the Cats win and Alabama loses, UK will have the tie-breaker. This is the first year that two teams from the same conference can go to the NCAA's, which is a big deal for both teams. The SEC champion will be in the Mideast Region -- with Indiana. The other team will go to a different region.
ReplyDeleteGo, UK!
ReplyDeleteThe 1st Daytime Emmy Awards transpired May 28, 1974. Winners in the game-show category were The Hollywood Squares for best director and writing. Peter Marshall from The Hollywood Squares won for host; Monty Hall with Let’s Make a Deal was nominated. Somehow, then, those two nominated shows failed to win for outstanding show. That top award went to Password.
ReplyDeleteThe 2nd Daytime Emmy Awards are scheduled for May 15, 1975, and I’m excited to see how they come out. For my money, To Tell the Truth is the best of all of them. I also really like Name That Tune, and I have soft spots for Tattletales, Match Game, The Price Is Right, Wheel of Fortune and Password.
A lot of folks love the original Password.
DeleteThe mid-1970's were a bad time for folks who liked clever game shows. Password, Jeopardy, and Concentration were all wiped out before I had the chance to fully appreciate them. Jeopardy eventually returned, and became bigger than ever, but Password and Concentration never really came back.
DeleteWe have a cracker of a Tattletales today, and Bert Convy is excited: "We have perhaps the most dynamite set of celebrity couples we've ever had." I've watched some Tattletales in my day, boy, and I'm here to tell you that is some high praise from typically gentle and genial Bert.
ReplyDeleteLaboring on behalf of the blue section of the studio audience are actress Patti Deutsch and writer Donald Ross. I've seen these two before, and they're solid competitors. (Rest in peace, Patti and Donald, and I'm thankful you appear to have been there for each other in Los Angeles at the end.)
ReplyDeleteRepresenting the bananas and the greens are two giant stars and their wives, whom I don't believe I've ever seen on Tattletales: Milton and Ruth Berle and (lively) Glenn and Cynthia Ford.
All three of the husbands are smoking cigars.
Deadlocked at the half. The husbands, who tried to guess their wives' answers in the first half, are headed to the soundproof booth, with their wives exiting sequestration and greeting the studio audience to great applause.
ReplyDeleteFirst Q for the men in Half 2: Name one thing that keeps you from being perfect.
ReplyDeleteI get sleepy pretty early in the evenings, and I get pretty cranky when things don't start settling down around the house when I'm sleepy. I don't want a bunch of new questions about retirement accounts or house repairs after, say, 8:30 or 9 p.m. That's not real nice of me.
This question is impossible. Smart Mom would have no chance of matching me on this.
DeleteHmmm ... Glenn Ford goes to the grocery store every day.
ReplyDeleteNone of the couples aligned on their answers, so we're still tied going in to the fourth and final question. Each couple has won $100 for their audience sections, and, with the carryover from the Q3 shutout, this final question will be worth $450!
ReplyDeleteQ4: Which one of you is more convincing at telling white lies?
ReplyDeleteThat's me. I was a huge liar as a child, and it's something I'm still tempted by and struggle to tamp down. It's awful.
This is me, too.
DeletePatti&Donald: Both agree it's him.
ReplyDeleteRuth&Milton: Both agree it's him.
Cynthia&Glenn: Both agree it's him.
The $450 is split three ways among the competitor tallies, as is the $1,000 winning bonus, and--as I understand it--that means each of the 450 individuals spread among the three studio-audience sections goes home from CBS Television City at 7800 Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles with a check for $3.89.
No, after watching today's episode, it sounds like they each would've gotten $11.67.
DeleteHere's what's on TV tonight, Wednesday, March 5, 1975:
ReplyDelete— Little House on the Prairie, a Bob Hope special and Petrocelli at 7, 8 and 9 on Channel 6;
— That’s My Mama and, then at 7:30, a movie about a Vietnam veteran in a wheelchair on 3, and
— Tony Randall and Charo on Tony Orlando and Dawn, Cannon and The Manhunter at 7, 8 and 9 on 12.
The ABC Wide World Special at 10:30 on 3 is a country-music awards hosted by Roger Miller, and Mr. and Mrs. Norman Vincent Peale is Tom Snyder’s guest on Tomorrow Show at midngiht on 6.
I like the new Chevy Vega hatchback coupe. It's sporty. But I wouldn't go for white.
ReplyDeleteI want that boxed, frozen Stewart Torpedo Sandwich. I want it.
ReplyDeleteThe Price Is Right is glorious.
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