The Brady Bunch: The Harebrained Scheme


From Season 5, Episode 22
Original Airdate: March 8, 1974
Bobby needs money, so he starts selling hair tonic. Greg decides to buy a bottle right before graduation to help his little brother, but it turns his hair orange.

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Barney Miller: Ramon


From Crackle: Ramon

From Season 1, Episode 1
Original Airdate: January 23, 1975
Captain Barney Miller runs headlong into a gun-toting teenage addict trying to break out of the police station.

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Alfred Hitchcock: How to Get Rid of Your Wife


From Season 2, Episode 8
Original Airdate: December 20, 1963
A man dreams up an elaborate scheme to get rid of his domineering wife.
The great comedian Bob Newhart here plays it straight (sort of) as the hen-pecked wife. Jane Withers, the hen pecker, started her career as a child star, often playing a bit of a meddlesome child. You might remember her best in all those commercials as Josephine the Plumber. Finally, Harold Gould, who recently passed away, plays the District Attorney in the last act. He was in tons of TV series and played the role of Martin Morgenstern, the father of Rhoda Morgenstern (Valerie Harper) in Mary Tyler Moore and Rhoda.

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Dragnet: Homicide: The Student

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From Season 4, Episode 2
Original Airdate: September 25, 1969
Sgt. Friday and Officer Gannon discover their suspect in a double slaying is an ardent reader of stories about strange attitudes toward death.

Virginia Gregg was a favorite of Jack Webb favorite, playing roles in the original Dragnet in the fifties, Emergency and Adam-12. She had a long career in radio and guest roles in lots of television series. If her voice seems to have a creepy edge to it, she was the voice of Norman Bates “mother” in Psycho.


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Bewitched: Nobody But a Frog Knows How to Live


From Season 3, Episode 32
Original Airdate: April 27, 1967
A frog turned into a man wants Samantha to change him back.

John Fiedler plays Fergus, who wants to be changed back into a frog. If you needed a high-pitched, squeeky voiced, pipsqueek of a character, then John Fiedler was your man. His long career included roles as the nervous Juror #2 in “12 Angry Men,” in Star Trek’s “Wolf in the Fold” and in the role of Mr. Peterson on one of my favorite shows, The Bob Newhart Show. He was also the voice on numerous Walt Disney animated films including the “Winnie the Pooh” films as the voice of Piglet.

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Ironside: The Past is Prologue


From Season 1, Episode 15
Original Airdate: December 7, 1967
After 17 years as a solid citizen, a man is recognized as an escaped convict.

This is one of those, “Before They Were Stars” episodes. Harrison Ford plays the son of a carpenter who is recognized as an escaped murderer. This was one of Ford’s earliest roles. He had a lot of small roles back then, but not enough to pay the bills, so, ironically, he learned carpentry to earn extra money. He did work carpentry work for George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola, which helped lead to roles in “American Graffiti,” “Star Wars” and “Raiders of the Last Ark.”


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