What's Happening!!: Doobie or Not Doobie, Part 2

What's Happening!!: Doobie or Not Doobie, Part 2
ABC
February 4, 1978
Sitcom
DVD
B+

Sally Wade wrote this as well as Part 1, although much of the episode is given over to the DB concert.  And that's perfectly fine with me, since I was chair-dancing to "Takin' It to the Streets" and the rest.  Rerun of course gets caught, but the Doobies let the guys off the hook and instead have Al Dunbar (Theodore Wilson) and Bruno (Alonzo Brown, Jr.) arrested.  Mama is absent and definitely would not approve of the bootlegging.

What's Happening!!: Doobie or Not Doobie, Part 1

What's Happening!!: Doobie or Not Doobie, Part 1
ABC
January 28, 1978
Sitcom
DVD
B

The Doobie Brothers are going to perform for charity at their alma mater, which just happens to be the gang's high school.  (Amusingly, 29-year-old Pat Simmons says he was a classmate of Rerun's.  Of course, Fred Berry was 26 rather than 19 or 20 at this point.)  The guys are unable to get tickets until Rerun meets Al Dunbar (frequent guest star Theodore Wilson) and his muscular sidekick Bruno (Alonzo Brown, Jr.).  Mr. Dunbar wants Rerun to bootleg the concert in exchange for three front-row seats and $4.  Rerun doesn't realize this is illegal.  The D.B. do a bit of "Echoes of Love" and "Little Darling," although ironically I think there's more of them performing in the surprisingly long "next week" portion.  This two-parter (including Raj's "Which Doobie you be?" line) is apparently better remembered than a lot of the series, to the point that there's a Facebook page about Part 2!

This is the first of eight WH episodes written by Sally Wade.  Note that the series had switched from Thursdays to Saturdays, opposite The Bob Newhart Show.