It’s summah in Maine! And we’re taking a short vacation. But that doesn’t mean you have to take a vacation from us. Enjoy the most recent episode of our other podcast, Crime & Stuff, in which we discuss the Maine Paddleboard Murder, but mostly discuss the movie that dominated our summer of 1975, and is … Continue reading "S2, Episode 14: Maine Paddleboard Murder, Jaws, etc."
In “The Sunday Drivers,” Season 1, Episode 13 of The Mod Squad, Linc, Julie and Pete take a road trip to Vegas, baby. They’re there to see a friend from Linc’s misspent youth who’s a “crash driver,” (yes just what it sounds like), but their plans are thwarted when the friend, Tommy Salido…crashes. And dies. … Continue reading "S2, Episode 13: The Mod Squad"
The squad goes under cover at an underground newspaper to find out who bombed it in “The Guru,” Season 1, Episode 12. Guest stars include Dabney Coleman and Jane Eliot, who played Tracy Quartermaine on General Hospital! Lots of hippies, impassioned speeches, hypocritical lefties, money-grubbing landlords and the age-old dilemma of what a man says … Continue reading "S2, Episode 12: The Mod Squad"
It’s Season 1, Episode 11 of the Mod Squad, “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Starlet,” in which the best option to find a serial killer of young, blond women who aspire to make it in Hollywood seems to be… wait for it… to use Julie as bait! Joan Van Ark steals the show as a character we’re … Continue reading "S2, Episode 11: The Mod Squad"
Love is everywhere… except in the cold, hard hearts of Beverly Hills’ super wealthy parents. It’s a theme The Mod Squad can’t hammer home enough, and in Season 1, Episode 10 — “Love” — Pete’s neglected cousin has had enough on her 18th birthday. When being part of a burglary duo doesn’t get mother and … Continue reading "S2, Episode 10: The Mod Squad"
“A Quiet Weekend in the Country” is anything but for Julie, Linc and Pete as they try to figure out why Greer’s tipster Eddie Sweeney fatally got his motorcycle shot out from under him. It couldn’t have something to do with folksy storekeeper Ed (Dub Taylor), could it? Or angry coercive-controlling too-old husband and campground … Continue reading "S2, Episode 9: The Mod Squad"
In The Price of Terror, someone’s after Captain Greer! His garage door blows up right when he’s opening it, then someone tries to run him over. He’s been getting death threats, too. No doubt, someone he put away who’s not happy with him. He doesn’t want the squad involved but they, and Chief Barney Metcalf, have … Continue reading "S2, Episode 8: The Mod Squad"
The Mod Squad has 48 hours to find Tara Chapman, who not only is infected with a deadly form of meningitis, but also is being stalked by a hit man and any toady he can convince to help him him. The squad gets no sleep as they scour a very hot Los Angeles to find … Continue reading "S2, Episode 7: The Mod Squad"
In “A Time to Love – A Time To Cry,” Dave, Adam’s probation officer buddy, is sure his … client? What do you call someone who’s overseen by a probation officer? Anyway, Robbie, didn’t kill “evil, despicable” Luanne, who was found dead in Robbie’s photo studio after both of them spent an evening tripping on … Continue reading "S2, Episode 6: The Mod Squad"
Something suddenly came up, but now we’re back! In Can’t Tell the Players Without a Programmer, a school friend of Pete’s (beautiful young woman in distress, of course) is being blackmailed over her mother’s fling with a younger man. I know! What a scandal! Of course, they can’t complete the assignment without Julie being used … Continue reading "S2, Episode 5: The Mod Squad"
Like the Little Drummer Boy, we bring to you what we can — a holiday gift that includes a sad RIP to Michael Cole, a JonBenet mea culpa, some very special holiday Am I the Asshole discussions, some recommendations, some gripes, and lots of fun! Happy Holidays and here’s to a great 2025, when we’ll … Continue reading "A very special 2024 holiday episode"
When Smitty Comes Marching Home… from Vietnam, his nemesis ends up dead and old buddy Linc ends up being conflicted between trying to help his childhood best friend and being fuzz, man. Great appearance by the awesome Lou Gossett Jr., we get a rare glimpse of Linc’s classy pad, Pete speaks Spanish and Greer laments, … Continue reading "S2, Episode 4: The Mod Squad"
In Season 1, Episode 3 of The Mod Squad, Julie, Linc and Pete get pulled into a mysterious caper — yes, we said caper — by an affable but dangerous criminal Pete met while going undercover in prison. A couple groovy buses, some really bad trips, some far-out hippies, and a lot of costumes for … Continue reading "S2, Episode 3: The Mod Squad"
In “Bad Man on Campus,” Linc, Julie and Pete go undercover at a high school to find out why a popular teacher ended up dead under a pier. No, they’re not going to fink on kids! Come on! They want to find out who the adults who are using the kids for their own criminal … Continue reading "S2, Episode 2: The Mod Squad"
Welcome to Season 2 of Groovy Tube! In our first episode we take you through, almost line-by-line, the September 1968 pilot of The Mod Squad, “In the Teeth of the Barracuda.” Don’t ask us what it means, we don’t know either. Over this season we’ll take you episode-by-episode through the ground-breaking show, which had a … Continue reading "S2, Episode 1: The Mod Squad"
In our last Season 1 episode, we discuss two of our favorite Brady Bunch episodes and some other stuff as we wrap up the series. It’s not good bye, though, just see you later. Season two begins July 15! And it’ll be solid, man.
We can’t leave The Brady Bunch behind without talking about its main character — the house! And what better way to do that than to discuss the HGTV miniseries “A Very Brady Renovation.” Everyone knows, famously, how the exterior shots of the Brady home didn’t match the interior — either of the set or the … Continue reading "S1, Episode 34: The Crimes of the Brady Bunch"
And it all comes to a close for the Man Named Brady and his bunch. In the final episode of the original series, The Hair-Brained Scheme, Bobby’s get-rich-quick-scheme hair tonic turns Greg’s hair orange the day before his high school graduation. On top of it, Cindy tries to jump on the get rich bandwagon with … Continue reading "S1, Episode 33: The Crimes of the Brady Bunch"
Mike’s boss Mr. Matthews (Yes! we know it used to be Mr. Phillips! Don’t worry, we cover that) sends him a pool table for doing such a great job on the Whitley project. Bobby becomes a pool shark. What could possibly go wrong? We discuss The Hustler, Season 5, Episode 21, of The Brady Bunch. … Continue reading "S1, Episode 32: The Crimes of the Brady Bunch"
Good old-fashioned Brady trickery is back with a vengeance in Season 5, Episode 20, “Snooperstar.” Marcia decides to teach Cindy a lesson for snooping, in what’s probably the most humiliating episode of misused and underused Susan Olsen’s career. The only upside? A guess visit from Natalie Schaefer, aka Lovey, Mrs. Thurston Howell III, as yet … Continue reading "S1, Episode 31: Crimes of the Brady Bunch"