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SEASON 1 – CBS

Created by Sherwood Schwartz

Theme Song: “The Ballad of Gilligan’s Island” (Version 1) written by Sherwood Schwartz and George Wyle, performed by The Wellingtons

• 000. Marooned – UNAIRED PILOT 1964
  • After the S.S. Minnow, a charter ship that has departed from Honolulu, Hawaii, is caught in a storm and directed off course, Skipper Jonas Grumby and First Mate Gilligan awaken on a uncharted desert island with their passengers Thurston & Lovey Howell, a high school professor (John Gabriel), Ginger (Kit Smythe), and Bunny (Nancy McCarthy). Gilligan foils the Professor’s attempts at fixing the transmitter by accidentally snagging it – along with the radio – with his fishing pole and inadvertently feeding it to the fish. Eventually Gilligan finds the radio inside of one of the fish that he catches, and the crew begins listening to the fish to see if they can locate the transmitter. NOTE: The calypso theme song of the pilot was written by John Williams and performed by Sherwood Schwartz. 4/14/13 Read the rest of this entry »

SEASON 1 – ABC

Created by Danny Arnold and Theodore J. Flicker

Theme music written by Jack Elliot and Allyn Ferguson, performed by Chuck Berghofer

• 001. Ramon – 1/23/1975
  • Captain Barney Miller (Hal Linden) must deal with his wife Elizabeth (Barbara Barrie) who is concerned about the amount of danger involved with her husband’s job in the 12th Precinct, located in the Greenwich Village area of Manhattan, as well as a junkie named Ramon (Chu Chu Malave), who is holding  hostage the other officers at the station – Sgt. Phillip Fish (Abe Vigoda), Det. Stanley “Wojo” Wojciehowicz (Max Gail), Sgt. Ron Harris (Ron Glass), Sgt. Nick Yemana (Jack Soo), and Sgt. Miguel “Chano” Amangual (Gregory Sierra). Eventually Barney is able to talk Ramon into surrendering his gun, by offering him the card of the lawyer that Barney’s daughter Rachel (Anne Wyndham) is dating. Barney’s wife is not happy when she hears that her husband’s life has been in danger once again. 4/14/13 Read the rest of this entry »

SEASON 1 – ABC

Created by Tracy Newman and Jonathan Stark

Opening theme written by Glen Clark & Jim Belushi. Performed by Jim Belushi and the Sacred Hearts. 

• 001. Pilot-10/3/2001
  • Jim (Jim Belushi) is a Chicago contractor who works at Ground Up Construction with his best friend and brother-in-law architect Andy (Larry Joe Campbell) who lives across the street from him. Jim’s is married to Andy’s sister Cheryl (Courtney Thorne-Smith). They have three children: Ruby (Taylor Atelian), Gracie (Billi Bruno), and the baby Kyle. Ruby is starting kindergarten and cries every time she is dropped off, causing Cheryl to stay in the parking lot for most of her day. Jim thinks he can be more resolute in walking away, but when he attempts it, he has to be escorted out of the school when the teacher Mrs. Carter (Mary Kathleen Gordon). Unaware of this, Cheryl brags to Andy and their sister Dana (Kimberly Williams-Paisley) that he has been able to accomplish this, and Andy accidentally lets it slip that Jim hasn’t been showing up to work until after 3pm. Cheryl realizes that Jim is now waiting in the parking lot all day as well. Meanwhile Andy’s girlfriend Carrie (Katie O’Rourke) has left him over a fight about whether he broke her hairdryer of if it died of wear-and-tear. Jim and Cheryl have them over for dinner and try to reconcile them. It initially works when Andy brings her a new hairdryer, but they eventually fight again on whether he broke it or not. Jim tells them that the key to a good relationship is good communication, so Cheryl lets loose on him since he hasn’t told her that he is waiting in the parking lot. Ruby then lets it slip that Jim has put her in a new school. This makes her legitimately furious. Jim then has to tell Ruby he won’t be staying at school because she is getting to the age where she needs to do things she doesn’t want to. Then he has to apologize to Cheryl, who ultimately forgives him. However they do continue to argue on whether Jim once slammed a car door in her face or not, and age-old argument they’ve been having. 4/18/20

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SEASON 1

Created by John L. Greene

Theme music composed by George Greeley

• 001. My Favorite Martin – 9/29/1963
  • Los Angeles reporter Tim O’Hara (Bill Bixby) lives in an apartment above the garage of the home of his landlady Mrs. Lorelei Brown (Pamela Britton) and her daughter Angela (Ann Marshall). He works for the Los Angeles Sun newspaper, and has a flirtatious relationship with Mrs. Brown’s niece Annabelle (Ina Victor). One morning after resetting all of his alarm clocks and falling back to sleep, he awoken by all three ladies and told that his editor Harry Burns (J. Pat O’Malley) wants him ot Edwards Air Force Base to report on a test flight of the X-15 aircraft. By the time Tim arrives, he has missed a near collision between the X-15 what the pilot identifies as a flying saucer. However he is rushed out by Col. Whitehead (Herbert Rudley) before he can get the story. On his way home, he spots the UFO go down and follows it to its crash, where he meets a man who identifies himself as a visiting Martian (Ray Walston), who is an anthropologist and has been to Earth many times before. Tim takes him back to his house, and witnesses him raise his antenna and turn himself invisible so he can sneak in. Tim allows the injured Martian to stay with him until he can recover and repair his ship. He also learns that the Martian can read minds and teleport himself. Based on the information provided to him by the Martian, he publishes an article stating that the pilot of the X-15 claimed to see a flying saucer. O’Malley and Lt. Murphy (Simon Oakland) pay him a visit to find out how he got the story. When they see the Martian in his house, Tim tells them that he is actually his Uncle Martin. When Tim refuses to reveal his source, he is thrown in jail. Martin teleports himself into the jail and tells Tim to claim he intercepted their broadcast on his car radio. When Murphy hears him talking to someone, an invisible Martin convinces him that Tim is a master ventriloquist. When Tim tells them the story about the radio, it checks out thanks to some interference from Martin. Tim agrees to help Martin raise the money needed to repair his ship by playing in Las Vegas, while Martin agrees to help Tim get Award winning stories through his mind-reading. Lee Krieger is the radarman. Marc Towers is the plainclothesman. 4/14/20

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SEASON 1 – CBS

Based on the British sitcom “Till Death Do Us Part” created by Johnny Specht in 1965. Further developed by Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin. 

Opening song “Those Were the Days” written by Charles Strouse and Lee Adams, performed by Carroll O’Connor and Jean Stapleton. 

• 000. Justice for All – UNAIRED 1968
  • It is the anniversary of working class married couple Archie and Edith Justice. While they are out at church, their daughter Gloria (Kelly Jean Peters) and her out-of-work student husband Richard “Dickie” (Tim McIntire), who Archie often refers to as ‘Meathead’, prepare a surprise party, and arrange for their black next-door-neighbor Lionel (D’urville Martin) to assist in delivering flowers and a gift to Edith as if it were from Archie. The Bunkers return home early from church because Archie is irritated with Reverend Felcher for his socialist propaganda and walks out, only to catch Dickie and Gloria in a passionate embrace. Archie is constantly at odds with Dickie over his liberal activism and they proceed to argue throughout the entire brunch, broaching topics from Archie’s opinions about blacks and Mike and Gloria’s stance on atheism. Lionel arrives with the gifts, and then takes delight in acting like a stereotypical black simpleton in front of Archie, knowing that Archie is a non-intellectual bigot who adamantly claims not to be one. At one point both Lionel and Dickie question Archie to see if he is Jewish just to get under his skin. When Edith opens her lace napkins, she is touched, and Archie is surprised to find out that they were sent by him. Edith reads the card out loud, and it appears that Archie is touched by it. Dickie tries to prod him to admit it, and then provoke him by telling Archie that it’s not like he wrote the card. Archie says that the person who picked it out requires good taste, to which Dickie reminds him that it was actually him who picked out the card. 4/14/20

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