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Touched by an Angel: Last Call (1997)
God works in mysterious way
This was a great episode. Powerful, thought provoking and very emotional. We can all identify with the characters in this. People trying their best to avoid life, escaping their pain, holding onto hatred and resentment, waiting for their ship to come in and solve all of life's problems .
Monica has one miracle to give away to a regular group of world-weary patrons in a Chicago bar. She suffers humiliation & ridicule when she announces she is an angel with a gift to give and crawls under a pool table in embarrassment. She makes a play to escape the bar but is forbidden by Tess (who gives her the perfect reason why she must face this group of cynics). No one believes her and when they eventually do, nobody wants the miracle. How it plays out is beautifully done.
This is where the show was at it's best. It missed the mark plenty of times but nails it here. One of the best in the series.
Lost in Space: My Friend, Mr. Nobody (1965)
Wonderful
Ms Cartwright gets a rare opportunity to shine. And shine she does. She acts up a storm beyond her years. Emotional stuff and easily in the top 5 of the entire series. This Lost In Space was quality. It wasn't always that way but this episode was an exception.
Happy Days: Hard Cover (1977)
These were crappy days
Sorry Happy Days fans, but this jumped the shark way before Fonzie actually did. It really had became a pantomime, slapstick show by this point geared more to pre and young teens. Fonz's confidence was bordering on arrogance and his control over women was not so much disturbing as embarrassing.
Rich is in a dating slump and Fonz takes him to the library because it's full of females. He meets his future wife there (Lori Beth) and they go back to her room at the college dorm to make out but stay past the 10pm curfew and must get out without being caught. Anyway what happens is not great comedy. Super cool Fonz pretending to be a woman putting on a loud 10 year old girly voice impression? Puleeez.
Always loved the first two seasons when it was more a period piece of growing up in the 50's. Clever writing, direction. Ron Howard was the unofficial star, had good acting chops and the likability of the supporting cast and the great chemistry they shared. This was when the Fonz WAS really cool. He was used sparingly and had an air of mystery and quiet authority about him. Heyyyyy
Happy Days: Fish and the Fins (1975)
Fab Happy Days
Johnny Fish & The Fins are a very big rock group of the 50's. The band announce they are coming to Milwaukee and Richie casually mentions to Ralph and Potsie that he used to be good friends with The Fins keyboard player, Rocky Rhodes. This is when Richie's problems start. This episode doesn't show Ralph, Potsie, Fonz in the greatest light as friends at all. Nor does it his date, Corrine.
When Potsie and Ralph learn of his friendship with Rocky, they demand he get them tickets. They attempt to meet the band at their motel but the security won't allow them in. Mrs C comes to the rescue by getting through to Rocky on the phone and acquiring the much desired tickets. Problem is they are in Row LL right at the very back in the rafters. Ralph, Potsie, Fonz and Corrine are not impressed at all and don't believe that he knows the great Rocky Rhodes. They all ostracize him.
Richie can save face and prove himself though, as Rocky takes up Mrs C's offer to have the band stay at the Cunningham house for a few days so they can get some reprieve from the fans surrounding their motel. Unfortunately, Rocky forbids Richie from telling any of his friends as it could blow their cover and the chance of any privacy. He reluctantly agrees to Rocky's wishes, and yet again shows what a loyal and dependable young man he is, even though it costs him heartache with his "friends" and his date. It all works out fine for Rich in the end and he is rewarded for being honorable.
Fish & The Fins incidentally are played by real rock group of the 70's - Flash Cadillac & The Continental Kids - who had a pretty big hit in 1976 with "Did You Boogie With Your Baby In The Back Row Of The Movie Show" as well as appearing in 'American Graffiti' with, ironically, Ron Howard. They perform one song 'Youngblood' (written by Leiber, Stoller & Pomus and a hit for The Coasters in 1957) at the big concert at the show's end. This was intended as a single release for Flash Cadillac but it never eventuated.
Great episode. To me this, and season 2, was the peak period for Happy Days.