It continued to rain for most of the morning. Though it was slowing down by 11:30, I still took Uber. The one going to work arrived in 4 minutes. It took me a minute or two to figure out where the one going home was, but it did arrive in 10 minutes.
Work was even less trouble. The head bagger did most of the sweeping and indoor trash, which left me to round up the carts and the outside trash. My only problem was the wind. We were blasted with 40-mile-an-hour gales today. They tended to blow the carts literally in the middle of the road, forcing me to chase them.
At least we weren't busy. In fact, we were pretty dead for most of the afternoon, likely helped by football playoffs beginning today. I heard part of the Browns-Texans game on the Uber driver's radio going home, including an amazing 83-yard touchdown by the Texans' corner Steve Nelson. The Texans went on to maul the Browns 45-14. (Later learned that the Chiefs also mauled the Dolphins, 26-7.)
Soon as I got home, I grabbed dinner, then went upstairs, changed, and went into today's Match Game marathon on YouTube. CHiPs, a police drama about motorcycle-riding officers on the California Highway Patrol, was one of the most popular shows of the late 70's and early 80's. Brianne Leary, who appeared in the show's second season, had originally been a contestant in 1976 who won quite a bit of money. She became one of the few contestants to join the panel when she appeared on two weeks in 1979, including the one with Bob Barker and her doing cartwheels that was just on Buzzr.
Robert Pine was one of the show's stars and head officers, and one of the few to last the entire run of the series. Appropriately, he also appeared the most on Match Game. He began in 1978 and was a semi-regular through the last syndicated season in 1982. While not always the funniest, he was an excellent player and a genial presence compared to some of the stranger people around him. (Nowadays, he's best-known as the father of actor Chris Pine.)
Lovely Randi Oakes first appeared on CHiPs in 1979 and turned up on a memorable Match Game week a year later. She would also be the only CHiPs cast member to appear on The Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour shortly before the show's run ended in 1983. She got to see Gene compliment Fern Fitzgerald on her lovely red dress and hat (which she claimed to have gotten from Larry Hagman), only for Marty Cohen to show up in his own chic sunglasses.
Let's go on patrol with some of the best cops on the highways and keep the streets of Burbank safe in this wild marathon!
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CHiPS reminds me of a funny story from my parents' and my cross country trip in 1978. We were in line at the Universal Studios tour when a person was there passing out tickets to Match Game. We had to be at CBS Studio Center at a certain time. It was on Beverly Boulevard and we only had a Rand McNally Road map, not a street map. So I said, "Daddy, there's the California Highway Patrol, like on CHiPS! They should know where Beverly Boulevard is."
We stopped. THEY HAD TO GET OUT A MAP and look it up!
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