High Anxiety (1977)

High Anxiety (1977)

starring Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman

directed by Mel Brooks

94 minutes

Doctor Richard Thorndyke (Mel Brooks) takes over the Psycho-Neurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous. His predecessor died suddenly. Thorndyke is misled by his employees, including Nurse Diesel (Cloris Leachman), to believe that many of the patients are in worse shape that they actually are.

Ballard 1.07

Fork in the Road

Ballard is forced to spend some time in the hospital. The Pearlman case and the Ibarra case, in which Driscoll was the primary suspect, are taken away from the cold case unit and given to homicide. Ballard swipes Driscoll's phone and hands it off to Laffont.

Ballard is forced to stay at a motel and is assigned a security detail. She tries pushing back but it gets her nowhere. She starts to work on another cold case, Ray Lee. There was no body in the case of Ray Lee but thanks to someone who remembers something from years ago they locate the body in a canyon not far from a hiking trail.

Ballard visits a prisoner related to one of the victims whose belongings they found in the storage unit. She gets some more information from him and then refers his case to a defense attorney who promises to help him.

Teen Titans 5.08

Lightspeed

The H.I.V.E. Five (Jinx, Gizmo, Mammoth, Billy Numerous, See-More, Kyd Wykkyd) are foiled multiple times in their attempts to rob and steal, by Kid Flash. They capture him and Jinx calls Madame Rouge to let her know. Kid Flash escapes.

Madame Rouge arrives and is disappointed to learn that Kid Flash has escaped. She goes after him herself. She wears him down but Jinx catches him. Madame Rouge's is unimpressed so Jinx frees Kid Flash. Madame Rouge and Jinx exchange more words before Madame Rouge departs, empty-handed.

Wife vs. Secretary (1936)

Wife vs. Secretary (1936)

starring Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy

directed by Clarence Brown

88 minutes

Van Stanhope (Clark Gable), in part due to a series of boneheaded decisions (of his own) and in part fue to things his mother tells her daughter-in-law, leads Linda (Myrna Loy), said daughter-in-law, to believe that he is having an affair with Whitey (Jean Harlow), his secretary. Linda tries to be understanding but eventually it gets to be too much and even though there isn't anything romantic going on between her husband and his secretary she starts to think very seriously about asking for a divorce.

Fumo Chitai 1.02

aka The Waste Land

Episode 2

The aircraft division at Kinki Trading continues to try and win the jet fighter contract from the Japanese government. Iki gets an assistant, Koide. Tokyo Trading, one of Kinki's rivals, has the upper hand. General Kaiduka, the Japanese Defense Minister, buries a report on the power of the Luckheed F-104, Kinki's jet.

Iki and Satoi, his boss, appeal to a leading politician in the opposition party. The politician pledges that he will have the Defense Minister answer for burying the report. The politician backs off this pledge after he receives a visit from Samejime, an employee of Tokyo Trading.

The Outer Limits (1963) 1.22

Specimen: Unknown

starring Stephen McNally, Richard Jaeckel

written by Stephen Lord

directed by Gerd Oswald

Four astronauts return by shuttlecraft from a space station in orbit around Earth. A strange spore (found attached to the space station) killed one of the other crewmen. They bring with them specimens of the spores. The spores turn into flower like objects and spray the men with pellets and gas. Once by one the men succumb to the plants.

Batman: Caped Crusader 2.01

Brute Force

The trial of Rupert Thorne is about to begin. The prosecution's star witness is Julian Gregory, Thorne's accountant. Edward Nygma, one of Thorne's enforcers, is in charge of finding the accountant (aka the squealer) and bumping him off.

Nygma turns to Hugo Strange for some help. Strange gives him a solution that Nygma injects into one of his unsuspecting lackeys. The lackey grows to monstrous proportions and attempts to murder the squealer. Batman, Montoya, and several other police officers get in the way of the monster man.

The fight ends when Batman kills the monster man with his car, although it takes several attempts to get the job done. The accountant makes it to court and testifies against Thorne, but the judge throws out the case against Thorne.