The Terrible Catsafterme

SEASON 1 – NBC

Created by James Komack

Theme song: “Chico and the Man” composed and performed by Jose Feliciano

• 001. Pilot – 9/13/1974
  • Ed Brown (Jack Albertson) is a grouchy mechanic who runs a garage in East Los Angeles, California, but is disgruntled about the way his life is going following the death of his wife Margaret and the fact that the neighborhood is being overrun by Mexicans, causing him to drink too much and have frequent arguments with God. After rudely serving one customer (King Moody), he is visited by a local young Mexican named Chico Rodriguez (Freddie Prinze) who has grown up in the neighborhood admiring Ed and is now looking to work for him. Ed has no interest and asks him to leave, but Chico keeps hanging around and coming with ideas on how to grow the business. He even gives away a hubcap to one customer (Rodolfo Hoyos Jr.) in order to advance public relations, but later admits to Ed that he took it from the other side of the customer’s car. Ed makes it clear that he wants Chico to leave, so he finally take the hint and goes. The next morning he finds that Chico has spent all night in the garage and has moved into the van that Ed is storing in it. No matter what he says, he can’t convince Chico to leave. Two officers (Jerry Fogel, Sidney Clute) show up and start to arrest Chico for a robbery, but Ed comes to his defense and tells the officers that he not only was there all night, but that he works for him as well. He tells Chico that he only did it because he doesn’t want any trouble, again asking him to leave. After Chico leaves a Spanish ‘margarita’ in Ed’s liquor bottle in reference to Ed’s wife Margaret, Ed decides to keep him on. The hubcap customer returns and needs another hubcap. 9/16/20

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SEASON 1 – NBC

Created by David Swift

Theme music by Bernard Green

• 000. Peepers – UNAIRED PILOT 1952
  • Robinson J. Peepers arrives at Jefferson City’s junior high school to begin his teaching assignment in the general science department. He meets the principal Mr. Gurney and finds out that he has arrived six months too early and his services won’t be required until the following Fall when an additional wing is built and a new class is added. Peepers is mistaken for a student by the nurse (Helen Wagner) and swept into Miss Dean’s music class. Mr. Gurney rescues him and allows him to stay at the school and assigns him to work with the existing science teacher Mr. Wadd, who would prefer to work alone. Wadd assigns Peepers menial tasks such as sharpening pencils and cleaning the equipment. When Wadd finds out that Mrs. Deen would rather sit with Peepers than go to lunch with him, he convinces Principal Gurney that he can handle the extra classroom and that Peepers is not needed. Gurney concurs and reluctantly lets Peepers go, inviting him to have lunch before he leaves. Wadd steals Peepers’ seat, and as Peepers is making his way to another table, he accidentally knocks off Wadd’s toupee, making him the laughing stock of the lunchroom. Wadd ends up disappearing in shame, so Principal Gurney assigns Peepers to take over the class. Walter Matthau plays the part of Coach Charlie Burr, although he is credited onscreen as David Tyrell. Betty Sinclair plays Miss Jellison. Penny Santon is the cook. 12/30/14

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SEASON 1 – NBC

Created by Bill Lawrence

Theme song: “Superman” performed by Lazlo Bain

• 001. My First Day – 10/2/2001
  • Jonathan “J.D.” Dorian (Zach Braff) prepares for his first day as a medical intern at Sacred Heart Hospital in an inner city in California. His good friend Chris Turk (Donald Faison), with whom he roomed in college and medical school, is also starting as an intern, but as a surgical intern, a group that has a friendly rivalry with the medical interns. J.D. thinks he is losing Chris’ friendship when he decides not to room with him. J.D.’s mentor Dr. Percival “Perry” Cox (John C. McGinley) is quite sarcastic and hard on J.D., especially when he has to rely on Nurse Carla Espinosa (Judy Reyes) to perform a routine IV placement. J.D. also strikes up a flirtatious interest in medical intern Elliot Reed (Sarah Chalke), with whom he gets an immediate date – but then cancels after she doesn’t reciprocate helping him with an answer to a question during rounds asked by the seemingly friendly Chief of Medicine Dr. Bob Kelso (Ken Jenkins). J.D. has a hard night his first night on-call, and one of his patients, Mr. Burski (Ted Rogers) actually dies. He ends up on the bad side of Kelso, who berates him for wanting to help a patient without insurance and asking to bypass requesting the permission of a family to perform an autopsy on the patient he lost. He also runs afoul of the hospital janitor (Neil Flynn) by making small talk about a broken door. Some friction develops between Carla and Elliot, after Elliot makes a snide comment about Carla having a sexual encounter with J.D. in the on-call room. In the end, it is Dr. Cox whom J.D. realizes is the ‘good guy’ when he talks him through inserting a chest tube. Chris changes his mind about rooming with J.D. and also tells him that he is scared to death by his job on a daily basis. Elliot helps J.D. out by arranging the autopsy for the patient who died…and gives him a kiss on the cheek. Sam Lloyd stars as hospital attorney Ted Buckland. Aloma Wright is Nurse Laverne Roberts. Robert Maschio is ‘high-fiver’ Todd Quinlan. Matt Winston is Dr. Jeffrey Steadman.  9/16/14

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SEASON 1 – CBS

Theme music by Wilbur Hatch

NOTE: Although the premise was completely changed, this series was a continuation of the series “The Lucy Show,” as Lucille Ball opted to end that show and re-format it to include her children as part of the cast

• 001. Mod, Mod Lucy – 9/23/1968
  • Lucy Carter (Lucille Ball) is a widow living in Los Angeles with her two children Craig (Desi Arnaz Jr.) and Kim (Lucie Arnaz), working at Carter’s Unique Employment Agency under her boss and brother-in-law Harrison Otis Carter (Gale Gordon), who is constantly exasperated with Lucy’s antics. The agency gets contracted form an important client named Mr. Caldwell (Lew Parker) to hire a band for his daughter Laurie’s (Nancy Roth) birthday party. Lucy suggest her kids’ band, with Craig on drums and Kim on vocals. Harry agrees to use them at the rate of $50, but Kim loses her voice while surfing and getting caught in the rain. Lucy takes over her role and performs the song All Alone and a dance to the song I Know a Place at the party in her mod attire, much to the delight of the partygoers and ire of Harry. Doris Singleton portrays Carter’s secretary Miss Doris Singleton. Nancy Howard is Mrs. Caldwell. Ludy’s singing voice is provided by Carole Cook. 9/16/14

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SEASON 1 – NBC

Created by Jack Webb

This series is the second version of the show of the same name, which originally aired between 1951-1959, itself a spin-off of the radio program of the same name that broadcast between 1949-1957

Theme song: “Dragnet” (aka “Badge 714”) by Walter Schumann

• 001. The LSD Story – 1/12/1967
  • Detectives Joe Friday (Jack Webb) and his partner Bill Gannon (Harry Morgan) work for the Los Angeles Police Department and are on the trail of a new hallucinogenic drug known as LSD that is gaining popularity, particularly among juveniles. They respond to a call reporting a juvenile in MacArthur Park who has painted his face and is chewing the bark off of a tree. When they arrive, they find his head buried in the ground. He is Benjie Carver (Michael Burns), but he goes by the name of “Blue Boy.” His parents (Robert Knapp, Eve Brent) rush to his aid and demand that he is released, but they hold him under a generic law for minors. Of concern is the fact that there are no laws against LSD on the books yet. But once the law passes, Friday and Gannon are able to get information from two girls, Sandra (Sheri Lee Bernath) and Edna Mae (Heather Menzies), to lead them to an acid party in the Hollywood Hills. They arrest all parties for being under the interest, but it is a pharmacist who has sold empty pill capsules that leads them to the location of Blue Boy, who is found dead from an overdose at the scene of his apartment. Art Balinger is Captain Lou Richey, Alfred Shelly is Sgt. Dominic Carr, Olan Soule is Ray Murray, George Fenneman is the main title announcer, and John Stephenson is the narrator. 9/15/14

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