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SEASON 1 – ABC

Theme music by Herschel Burke Gilbert

• 001. The Sharpshooter – 9/30/1958
  • In the early 1880’s following the death of his wife homesteader and Union Civil War veteran Lucas McCain (Chuck Connors) and his ten-year old son Mark (Johnny Crawford) come from their hometown Enid, Oklahoma to the town of North Fork in the New Mexico Territory where McCain plans to buy and operate a ranch. Meanwhile a sharpshooter named Vernon Tippert (Dennis Hopper) plans to enter a turkey shoot contest and his uncle Wes (Charles Arnt) desires to place outside bets on Tippert. McCain and Mark come upon the old Dunlap Ranch and seek out Judge Hanavan (Sidney Blackmer) to purchase it. They check into a California House hotel run by the Judge and his wife Nancy (Kathleen Mulqueen), and he also registers with the judge to enter the shoot using his rifle. When Sheriff Fred Tomlinson (R.G. Armstrong) overhears Mark chatting with Vernon and realizes that where he came from, he was known as The Rifleman, everyone starts betting on him with Jim Lewis (Leif Erickson), the man who basically runs the town. When it becomes clear that Lewis will kill both Vernon and Mark if he wins, he throws the contest with one shot off center. Lewis mocks Lucas, and the judge, who lost a lot of money on him, refuses to sell him the ranch. Wes Tippert tries to claim the money that Lewis promised him if Vernon won, and Lewis kills him. When Vernon hears about his uncle he heads to the Last Chance Saloon for revenge, but Lucas heads there to claim Vernon’s money and takes them all out in a shootout. Vernon joins to assist him and is shot in the hand. As Lucas and Mark start to head out of town, the Judge asks them to stay. Carl Lamprey is Mickey Simpson. Virginia Aldridge is the waitress. 2/4/18

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SEASON 1 – ABC

Created by William S. Roberts and developed by Donna Reed and Tony Owen

Theme song: “Happy Days” by Irving Friedman, William Loose, Stu Phillips, and Hans J. Salter

• 001. Weekend Trip – 9/24/1958
  • Donna Stone (Donna Reed) fields the complaints from her children Mary (Shelly Fabares) and Jeff (Paul Petersen), who are upset because their father Dr. Alex Stone (Carl Betz) can’t spend time with them skiing or playing chess because his job as the Hilldale pediatrician keeps him so busy. Donna suggests a weekend getaway to Owens Mountain, but he can’t justify leaving his patients behind. When Donna arranges for their friend Bo Boland (Jackie Kelk) to cover his practice, Alex informs her that he is also testifying for his friend, bank manager George Heiser (Howard Wendell), who is trying to get out of a ticket. Donna then convinces Heiser that this could bring bad publicity to the bank, so he drops the case. Then Donna’s friend Marge Whitman (Louise Lewis) reminds her that Donna was supposed to host a luncheon that weekend, but Marge takes it over. Finally Alex’s patient Edmund Barclay (Hugh Corcoran) gets sick, and Alex can’t diagnose the issue. Donna figures out that he is avoiding school to steer clear of bully Sloppy Callahan who has just moved away. She visits Edmund and his mother (Alice Reinhart) and tells him the news about Sloppy, and suddenly his health is restored. Mary goes on ahead to the lake with the McLanes, but Jeff comes down with chicken pox and they decide to cancel the trip. Donna and Alex decide to not notify Bo that the trip was canceled so that they can have some time together in front of a fire after all. 1/29/14 Read the rest of this entry »

SEASON 1 – NBC

Theme song: “Together” by Rick Howard and Bob Wirth, sang by Ron Dante

• 001. Pilot – 9/25/1982
  • Edward Stratton III (Joel Higgins) is a millionaire who has made his fortune from his toy company, and lives in a Shallow Springs, Long Island mansion, brimming with toys and electronics. His business manager Louis Morgan (Robert Picardo) and lawyer Leonard Rollins (Leonard Lightfoot) inform him that he is broke, but Edward seems unconcerned. Just then an 12-year old boy named Ricky (Ricky Schroder) shows up and claims to be Edward’s son, his mother having sent him to military school after she got re-married. Edward is glad to visit with him, but says he can’t stay. Ricky then overhears Louis discussing the money that he embezzled from Stratton, and turns him in. Edward is proud but asks his personal secretary Kate (Erin Gray) to drive him back to military school. Ricky is distraught and even more so when he is badgered by his school roommate Derek Taylor (Jason Bateman). Edward then shows up and asks Ricky to come back with him, explaining that he’d like to help Ricky be more of a kid…and Ricky to help him be more of an adult. 1/30/14

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SEASON 1 – NBC

Created by Dan Harmon.

Theme song: “At Least It Was Here” by The 88

• 001. Pilot – 9/17/2009
  • Jeff Winger (Joel McHale) is a disbarred lawyer who is attending Greendale Community College in Colorado in order to try and get his license back. He tries to take advantage of a favor that he once did for faculty member Ian Duncan (John Oliver) when he got him out of a DUI, to get all of the test answers for the year. Duncan counter offers a trade of cars, and Jeff accepts. Jeff becomes attracted to student Britta Perry (Gillian Jacobs) and lures the skeptical student to a made-up Spanish study group. She invites the seemingly autistic Abed Nadir (Danny Pudi), who in turns invites along retired entrepreneur Pierce Hawthorne (Chevy Chase), middle-aged divorcee Shirley Bennett (Yvette Nicole Brown), high school dropout Annie Edison (Alison Brie), and high school football star Troy Barnes (Donald Glover). The group quickly falls apart as they begin to argue, and Britta, knowing the study group was a ruse, convinces Jeff to restore order to the group. He convinces the group that they all have common ground and that they truly are a ‘community,’ which seems to work, but Britta rejects Jeff anyway because he lied about the study group. The test answers that Jeff had obtained turn out to be blank, and the group takes pity on him and agrees to help him study. Jim Rash plays Dean Craig Pelton, Dino Stamatopoulos stars as Alex “Star-Burn” Osbourne. 1/29/14

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SEASON 1 – NBC

This series was created by Ted Key, based on his one-panel comic strip of the same name that originally appeared in “The Saturday Evening Post”

Theme music: “Hazel” by James Van Heusen (music) and Sammy Cahn (lyrics, not used)

• 001. Hazel and the Playground – 9/28/1961
  • Hazel Burke (Shirley Booth) is the take-charge industrious maid for the Baxter family in Hydsburg, New York, led by the father George (Don DeFore), a lawyer, his wife Dorothy – aka Missy – (Whitney Blake), an interior decorator, and their son Harold (Bobby Buntrock). George is working at home on a Sunday getting paperwork together to woo potential client Mr. Pruett (Maurice Manson), a prominent citizen whose grandfather donated the local botanical gardens to the city. Hazel mentions that she had to flick a parishioner in the ear at church because he kept falling asleep, who unbeknownst to her was Mr. Pruett. Hazel then teaches Harold to place kick a football and sends it sailing into the chimney of neighbors Herbert (Donald Foster) and Harriet Johnson (Norma Varden), causing the house to fill with smoke. Hazel laments that the city doesn’t have a playground and goes to see the park commissioner Osborn Bailey (Francis De Sales) to plead that he turn the botanical gardens into one, but he says that she has to have a survey with 5000 signatures to get the proposal on the ballot. She goes onto a televised bowling competition and announces her intention to get the signatures. Pruett sees her on TV and recognizes her as the lady who flicked him, but Mrs. Pruett (Lurene Tuttle) supports Hazel and makes her husband sign the petition. In the end, Pruett Playground is dedicated and Hazel has Mr. Pruett kick a football filled with helium that winds up back in the Johnsons’ chimney. Hal Smith is the TV show announcer. 1/29/14 Read the rest of this entry »