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...Island is obviously suburban, reaching only 20 miles from Manhattan at its farthest point. Most Americans would also consider California's Marin County to be a suburb: many of its residents commute across the Golden Gate Bridge to San Francisco from upper-bohemian Sausalito, sophisticated Mill Valley or nondescript San Rafael...
...allows us to eagerly identify ourselves with the attractive (if nondescript) young couple of the opening sequence, Tomas and Ingrid, two earnest radicals in their middle twenties who live together in very familiar Bohemian circumstances, lyrical and vaguely troubled lovers. They reinforce our instinctive sympathy with brief interior monologues to explain what's happening to them and "inside" of them. Tomas starts a new job to further his political education, sorting out the papers of Dr. Arthur Bauer, an aging leftist intellectual ("the reconstructing-a-life myth," i. e. Citizen Kane ), and he moves in at the Doctor's place...
...puppet voices-as well as the piano accompaniment for the Stand-wells' singing-come from Peschka. He vocalizes every day to keep his five voices in shape, "otherwise they'll collapse into just one nondescript baritone." A complicated system of tape recordings permits him to sing and play duets with himself. Because Murdock is busy backstage with lights, sound and scenery, only two characters at the same time can appear on the stage. When one exits, Peschka keeps acting with one hand while Murdock hastily strips one puppet off his outstretched hand, puts on another...
Three other old ABC headliners returned inauspiciously in action series. Burt Reynolds (Hawk) is back as Dan August, a nondescript homicide detective. Christopher George (Rat Patrol) is resurrected as The Immortal, a racing driver whose blood antibodies "make him immune to all diseases, including the aging process." Like The Fugitive before him, he is on the run-in this case doomed to spend the whole cliché-choked series fleeing an aging and baleful billionaire (David Brian) who wants to siphon off a few pints...
They made their own sound-laughter, interminable rapping, impromptu guitar-plucking, the blare of transistor radios, and finally a makeshift concert by nondescript local bands, with amplifiers powered by two ice-cream trucks. The most distinctive note was the brash hawking of drugs. "Good black hashish for $3.50!" shouted one youth. Countered a bearded pusher: "Buy one tab of acid and get a free tab of smack!" Kids on bad trips were treated by volunteer physicians, and were urged over a makeshift public-address system to "bring a few joints for the doctors." As the week progressed, drug abuse became...