Soap: Episode 16

New opening credits, now with Chuck and Bob

Soap: Episode 16
ABC
January 10, 1978
Dramedy
DVD
B

Jessica, Chester, and Ingrid all visit Corinne in jail, so Corinne finds out who her biological mother is.  She's understandably upset.  Mary later explains to her family who Ingrid is and how Jessica ended up adopting Corinne 23 years ago.  (Presumably when she was a baby.  And Eunice probably wasn't very old or she would've been more suspicious.)  After a very quick search of the Tates' house, Tinkler finds the knife, brick, and gun used to kill Peter (who we previously learned was stabbed, shot, strangled, suffocated, and bludgeoned).  Corinne is no longer a suspect, but Jessica is.

This has the only appearance of William Daniels as German detective Heinrich Himmel.

The Bob Newhart Show: Fathers and Sons and Mothers

The Bob Newhart Show: Fathers and Sons and Mothers
CBS
November 29, 1975
Sitcom
DVD
B-

Bob's mother stays with him and Emily while her house is being painted.  (His father is away.)  Meanwhile William Daniels guest-stars as the son of Mr. Vickers (Lucian Scott) and proves to be as bad as we've heard.  It seems odd that Howard has never heard that Martha calls Bob "Sonny," or that his father is named Herb, especially since Howard has been dating Ellen all this time, but then Howard doesn't have the best memory.