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Hail To The Chief.
(Airdate: December 28, 1964)
STORYLINE:
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The President
(Henry Talbot), a key factor
in an upcoming Geneva Conference, receives an
accidental head injury while visiting South America. Seaview is commandeered by the
government as a platform to conduct top-secret surgery
to save Talbot's life. Through subterfuge, a spy (Dr. Laura
Rettig) is gotten aboard in place of team specialist
Dr. Taylor (someone
had to
die) with the intent to use Taylor's cutting
edge treatment machine to kill the president. On board, Rettig experiments with the
machine, altering its settings way-high in preparation to toasting
the President's little gray cells. Crane gets a
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The insideous Dr. Rettig tests Taylor's
machine.
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funny when many of Seaview's controls spew out wrong information.
He suspects Rettig's machine, and asks for a test. The spy
returns the settings to normal and passes the test, just as
Seaview strikes an underwater ridge, causing a key valve to
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Clark's offer.
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Clark's struggle.
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The pressure mounts.
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Crane to the
rescue.
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Nelson lunges to save the
President's life.
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The incident
gives seaman Clark (God bless him) an opportunity to do
something other than whine. With Crane's help, he frees the
valve and saves the day so the mission can continue. The
President is transferred to Seaview via a diving bell and Rettig
almost kills him with the high powered clot dissolver but Nelson
intercedes just in time. Upon recovery, the President tells
Crane and Nelson thanks, and, oh, by the way, for security reasons,
you're confined to the ship until further notice. The two
officers decide that there wasn't really anyone in Norfolk they
want to see anyway.
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Written: Don Brinkley
Directed: Gerd Oswald
Guest
Cast
Dr. Laura Rettig..............................Viveca
Lindfors
Gen. George Beeker................................John
Hoyt
Monique.............................................Nancy
Kovack
Steno girl...........................................Susan
Flannery
Larry
Tobin........................................James
Doohan
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Subsurface presidential transfer.
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Gotta love those glasses and that ever-dangling
cigarette.
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Morgan.................................Edward C.
Platt
Clark...............................................Paul
Carr
Dr. Jameson...................Malcolm
Atterbury
Enemy Chairman...................Berry
Kroeger
Dr. Taylor...................................Tom
Palmer
Dr. Kranze.................................David
Lewis
Joe Oberhansley......................Lorence
Kerr
Enemy agent............................Paul
Sorenson
Secretary of State........................James
Seay
Secretary.....................................Viola
Harris
Bystanders.............................Miriam
Schiller
Paul Kremin
Crewman’s voice...........................Irwin
Allen
Pres. Henry Talbot McNeil...James
Gonzalez
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This episode is
loaded with great actors in supporting roles. . . iconic faces
around every corner. (Mouse over for identities.) |
| Mark says:
The most boring episode of year one. Every decision is talked
out and the action scenes are sluggish. There is a great cast
of character actors but they are stifled by the stodgy proceedings. |
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Mike says: Viveca Lindfors at Dr. Rettig is wonderfully over the top in,
if nothing else, her appearance; gotta love that perpetual cigarette dangling from her mouth. The idea of
frying the Presidents brain is horrendous. Having the brain machine throw Seaview's instrument
readings out of whack was logical,
at least on the surface, and Crane, as would be the case
in real life, was right there to spot
the association. Rather than pay
Ford Rainey the bigger bucks to pretty much sleep through
this entire episode, James Gonzalez stood (er .
. . lay) in as the
President.
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