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Sets: Background Dialogue

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I hope you have crop failure.

(The Action)


Hutch mutters under his breath as Starsky
makes the move on Julie McDermott
(The Action)
  • “like on the slopes of Aspen”
  • “got frostbite in your mouth”
  • “I hope you have crop failure”
  • “Jive Chump”

Police Chatter on Radio
(Discomania)
  • “10-70 investigation”
  • “Central Three”
  • “1000 Chestnut”
  • “918x”
  • “Northern Thirty to headquarters”
  • “Uh, negative.”
  • “Frisby, home break-in”
  • “Mission Five, headquarters”
  • “Mission Five, send the wagon”

Police Chatter on Radio
(Dandruff)
  • “Mission One”
  • “Mission One, stand by there”
  • “Mission One, 10-4”
  • “Attention all units”
  • “Alarm at 1940 Carlson”

Over the Hospital PA
(The Plague)
  • “Nurse Webster report to Dr. Badham in surgery”
  • “Nurse Hall, call your station”
  • “Dr. Smith, call your office”
  • “Dr. Redfield, report to Dr. Martin in Administration” x4
  • “Nurse Bartlett, call Physical Therapy on 214” x2
  • Cooper

Over the Airport PA
(Targets Without a Badge: Part 3)
  • “Flight 116, now boarding at Gate 4”
  • “All passengers for flight #419 to Chicago…”
  • “…may now board at Gate #43.”

Over the Hospital PA
(Blindfold)
  • “Dr. Donahue, call 276”
  • “Dr. Gary, emergency call line six, Dr. Gary”
  • “Officer Hutchinson, telephone call at Nurse’s Station Five, Officer Ken Hutchinson”

Over the Hospital PA
(The Game)
  • “Dr. Donahue, call 276”
  • “Dr. Gary, emergency call line six, Dr. Gary”

Over the Hospital PA
(Partners)
  • “Dr. Hyatt, Dr. Hyatt, report to Admitting”
  • “Nurse Phillips, report to the Maternity Ward”
  • “Dr. Bear, Dr. Bear, please call your service”

Over the Hospital PA
(Black and Blue)
  • “Dr. Richfield, call your office”
  • “Dr. Redfield, report to Dr. Garr in Administration”

Announcer Says at Monty’s Bookie Joint
(Savage Sunday)
  • “and heading in for the stretch…”
  • “no photo finish for you here”
  • “that’s it, folks”
  • “…for the sixth race in just 20 minutes”

Announcer Says Regarding the Bulls-Stags Game on the Radio
(Shootout)
  • “Thompson to setbacks”
  • “handoff to Reader”
  • “big hole across the 30”
  • “out-of-bounds in the 32nd”
  • “And there’s the gun ending the first half with the score”
  • “Bulls 24, Stags 17”

Heard in the Background in Neighborhood
(Deckwatch)
  • barking dogs
  • children playing
  • birds chirping
  • helicopter in the air
  • clock ticking

Heard in the Background of The Rookies, “Blue Christmas”
(Class in Crime)
  • “I’ll check it out.”
  • “Could you tell me what happened, Ma’am?”
  • “Lockhart. Mrs. Tony Lockhart.”
  • “Mrs. Lockhart, what happened here?”
  • “Well, I was baking some gingerbread men for my tree and I heard a noise. And there was a man standing on my fire escape, so I screamed. And he ran, and I called you.”
  • “Could you give me a description of him?”
  • “I’m afraid I couldn’t. It all happened so suddenly.”
  • … “You did say he was mad at you.”
  • “No, he always calls me on Christmas Eve, you know what I mean.”

In Walter Healey’s Mind as He is Voodoo-ized
(Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island)
  • eerie flute music
  • squawking birds
  • “You will obey!”
  • jewelry jingling
  • “You belong to me!”
  • laughing

On the Radio at the Huntley House
(Birds of a Feather)
  • “…fire in Lone Pine last night claimed the lives of Donna Pilfrey, 3”
  • “and her 86-year-old grandfather Edmund Pilfrey.”
  • “It is believed that the elder Pilfrie dozed off with a cigarette”
  • “while babysitting for the child’s parents…”
  • “The burial will be at the family plot in two weeks.”

Dialogue Heard on “The Disenchanted”
(Huggy Can’t Go Home)
  • “The previous segment of “The Disenchanted” had Phil and Mary leaving for Montego Bay on what they hoped to be a rescue mission for their splintered marriage.”
  • “Sean, meanwhile, remains in…desperately attempting…”
  • “Rebecca, over their divorce as she is carrying the child of…”
  • “But I kind of like my wife to greet me at the door when I come home.”
  • “Oh, I could have arranged for a stay, but I couldn’t get a permit in time.”
  • “You know, had a tough day at the office.”
  • “You were a good cook once, when you wanted to be.”
  • “Oh Roy, all I did was pull it out of the frozen food section, pay the man $3.29, and throw it in the microwave. My cooking stinks and you know it.”
  • “Honey, I’m home. Marcy, where are you?”
  • “Well, they’re not mine.”
  • “It’s too late for that, Marcy, years too late.”
  • “Roy, where are you going?”
  • “Any place, Marcy, any place, but here.”

Dialogue from Television Show Heard at Elaine’s Apartment
(Jojo)
  • “What did the doctor say?”
  • “Well, it boils down to a nutshell, Miriam.”
  • “continue to keep him under observation, look for signs of progress”
  • “that doesn’t sound too hopeful”
  • “and Anne. Will she be able to live with the fact that Jason has no memories? No prior thoughts to the accident?”
  • “I’m sorry, Miriam.”

Dialogue on Television Show Baron Turns On
When He and Marianne Arrive at His Place
(Ballad For a Blue Lady)
  • “I’m not.”
  • “No, I don’t know. I thought…”
  • “What did you think?”
  • “Well, what then?”
  • “Jane, I know. I know everything.”
  • “What are you talking about…What is there to know?”

Dialogue on television show Jimmy Lucas
turns on before he shoots Palmer
(Birds of a Feather)
  • “What’s wrong, Dave? It’s more than just nervousness, isn’t it?”
  • “I know.”
  • “Know? What do you know?”
  • “Everything.”

Heard in the background over the craps game
(The Action)
  • “five hundred”
  • “give me $1500”
  • “two thousand over here”
  • “another $1000”
  • “five hundred”
  • “I want $5000”
  • “apologize dice”
  • “hot shooter”
  • “atta boy and away one more time”
  • “I’m gonna play $200”
  • “we were good for a minute. You can’t win them all.”
  • “you’re gonna get them now, come on, Baby”
  • “move on, Hot Guys”

Football game on radio at the Marlborough Health Club
(The Action)
  • “Ball is snapped, he steps back into the pocket”
  • “But the blintz is on by the middle linebacker, number fifty-six.”
  • “He’s missed two of his blockers already…”
  • “…Let’s take another look at that.”
  • “You might never see it again.”

Heard in the background at airport
(The Plague)
  • “flight 255…leaves in five minutes”
  • “white zone is for the immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. No parking.”
  • “Flight 432 to Alabama boarding at Gate 5”
  • “Seven now boarding at Gate 12”

Known about the “heat wave”
(Death in a Different Place)
  • it is the first of the month
  • the radio announcer calls it a “blockbuster”
  • the high will be 97 degrees Fahrenheit
  • it is the fifth day in a row of heat
  • there is no relief in sight

Narration for the cop show Starsky watches at the Country Squire
(The Specialist)
  • “patrol”
  • “all units to the vicinity”
  • “officer down”
  • “fired upon”
  • “gray late model sedan”
  • “no license ID”
  • “reported headed north at high speed”
  • “possible destination ’garbled’”
  • “patrol on the following division unit”
  • “code 3”
  • “switch to tack 2”

Horse race results on the radio
(Savage Sunday)
  • “Bangor by a length”
  • “Foolish Pride on the outside”
  • “heading for the stretch”
  • “no photo finish here, folks”
  • “that’s it, folks!”

Horse race results on the radio
(The Heroes)
  • “they’re in the gate and they’re off!”
  • “it’s Expensive Girl breaking out on top”
  • “Pan Hand is second, King Bangor is third”
  • “Cool Jazz in fourth place”
  • “Cool Jazz, Expensive, and King Bangor…”
  • “coming around the park turn, it’s King Bangor by a length, Foolish Pride by two”
  • “and in third place, Fire Foot”
  • “and heading for the stretch, it’s King Bangor by a length”
  • “Foolish Pride coming up on the outside, it’s King Bangor”

Horse race results on the radio
(The Action)
  • “Around the far turn, Hopeful in front by a length.”
  • “Amnesiac moving up fast on the outside.”
  • “Proud Moment is in third.”
  • “Salty Babe closing in on the outside, the rest of the field are far back.”
  • “Amnesiac and Hopeful, Salty Babe coming up.”
  • “Amnesiac, Hopeful, Salty Babe. Amnesiac and Salty Babe.”
  • “It’s Amnesiac winning it by a neck, Salty Babe came in second, and Hopeful finishing third.”
  • “We’ll be right back in one minute with the pay-off after this commercial break…”
  • “…Here’s the results of the fifth race.”
  • “There was a steward’s inquiry for interference at the start.”
  • “Amnesiac finished first, but was disqualified and placed last.”
  • “The official results are Salty Babe, the winner, paying $6 a win.”

Heard on Harry Johnson’s radio
(The Hostages)
  • “That was Scotty Kane playing “Ease My Mind” on this bright and chipper Friday morning”
  • “The time is four minutes to seven. Four before seven.”
  • “And now, let’s go back to music.”

On radio in car after Starsky and Rosey Malone’s date
(I Love You, Rosey Malone)
  • “The time, 10:00.”
  • “And now, the news.”
  • “Investigations into syndicate activities continues to dominate the news.”
  • “It now appears that the Senate Investigating Committee will be concentrating on reputed syndicate control of our city.”
  • “The committee made a…”
  • “…and the question is whether the star witness, Frank Malone, will turn out to be a dud”
  • “or take refuge in the Fifth”
  • “or will be forced to reveal syndicate operations.”

Heard at the Green Parrot, nattered by Sugar
(Death in a Different Place)
  • “Oh, I love that music, oh, keep playing Frankie and Johnny.”
  • “Oh, they were lovers, mmm.”
  • “I think they were also hairstylists, I’m not sure.”
  • “Oh, I feel like a million tonight, but mmm, I’ll take them two at a time.”
  • You know, I’ll never forget the time I was out west.”
  • “Mmm, where the men are men and the women are women, and everyone else is on Medicaid.”
  • “I met a very gay Indian, a sweet Sioux.”
  • “Oh, he said, I’d love to make love to you.”
  • “How?”
  • “But if you do wait, I haven’t finished. Now just relax.”
  • “Let me finish this little joke…that was a good one, mmm.”
  • “We’ll do it in the second show.”
  • “Thank you, thank you, before I out, one more minute…”