Show Notes and Episode Playlist: Episode 12-4: Dan August

*We hope you enjoy our look at Dan August as Summer comes to a close. If only we could have released The Kid with the Broken Halo (with June Allyson) in June.

*We talk about Dan August and Robert Pine not in a standalone Pick Your Pine but at the end of our Celebrity Bowling episode!

*Shout-out to Jonathan Martin's book Quinn Martin, Producer.

*Dan August aired for 26 episodes in the 1970-71 season on ABC Wednesdays at 10:00 PM, then Thursdays at 9:30. After Burt Reynolds became a big movie star, CBS showed reruns in its late night lineup in Summer 1973 and Summer 1975.

*World Vision International is the Christian aid agency. Worldvision Enterprises was the programming distributor that emerged from the FCC's Fin-Syn rules that blocked original owner ABC from syndicating its own programs. Aaron Spelling's company was involved with it, and then Spelling's company was absorbed into Viacom.

*The episode with Richard Basehart and John Ritter is #12, "Quadrangle of Death." Robert Pine appears in episode 21, "Bullet for a Hero." Ricardo Montalban is in the second episode, "The Murder of a Small Town."

*Ralph Senesky's blog is here.

*Dave Grusin did not win a Batty for the St. Elsewhere theme song, which lost to Henry Mancini's What's Happening!! for Outstanding Instrumental. Cheers won that season for Theme with Vocals (Season 6 Battys).  Good Times did, however, win in the Season 4 Battys over Punky Brewster and The Mary Tyler Moore Show, giving Grusin his Batty.

*Grusin also created themes for The Name of the Game, It Takes a Thief, and more.

*Ena Hartman's lone role as a series regular is Dan August, but she is considered a trailblazer for her work in other TV series of the era. She is in the first Airport movie and stars in Terminal Island.

*Barney Phillips' coroner is named Mike Golden.

*"The Manufactured Man" premiered March 11, 1971, the 22nd episode of the series.

*Harrison Ford was 28 when this episode aired. Billy Dee Williams was 33. David Soul was 27, Mickey Rooney was 50.

*Keith Andes (Lawrence Merrill II) was the lead in This Man Dawson (1959) and NBC soap Paradise Bay (1965).

*Harry Harris of the Philadelphia Inquirer, who we quote on the podcast, wrote his own obituary, and you can see it here.

*Hawk is Burt's 1966 ABC series. Reynolds is an Iroquois NYC police detective.

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*And here is this week's video playlist! Click below for promos, commercials, a whole lot of theme songs and intros, and...cabbage?

And remember, you can always check out our official YouTube page for all of our past podcasts and episode-specific playlists for each one!