Bill Zuckert

            On Saturday morning I continued searching for images for my photo-video of “Les millionaires” by Serge Gainsbourg. I have 183 so far. 

            I weighed 89.2 kilos before breakfast. I played my Gibson Les Paul Studio during song practice for the last of two sessions and it stayed in tune the whole time. Tomorrow I’ll begin a two session stretch of playing my Kramer. 

            Around midday I rode to No Frills where I bought five bags of grapes, three packs of strawberries, some bananas, avocadoes, two packs of cherry tomatoes, a pack of mini-cucumbers, two bottles of Garden Cocktail, a bottle of cranberry-raspberry juice, and a jug of orange juice. I did a price match on the grapes with the Walmart price of $6.55 a kilo but each bag was still about $5 each. 

            I weighed 90 kilos at 14:30. I had a tomato and avocado salad with lime juice and a glass of Garden Cocktail. 

            I took a siesta and got up at 17:00 but still felt tired so I went back to bed for another forty minutes. 

            I weighed 90.15 kilos at 17:55. 

            I was caught up in my journal at 19:01. 

            I recorded from cassette tape through audio interface to Audacity and then extracted to my hard drive an early Christian and the Lions rehearsal with Tom Smarda, Steve Lowe and Mike Martin. We worked on my songs “Fallen”, “Angeline”, and “Seven Shades of Blues”. Tom mentions in the session that we have a gig in about a month on May 11 and so this had to be April of 1994. Steve had yet to work out his great guitar accompaniment for “Angeline”. Mike just kept playing his bongos at a fast tempo while we were trying to slowly work out the songs and it was very distracting. The digitized recording didn’t sound as clear as previous ones. I exported the same file in MP3 and it sounded a little better. 

            I ate some grapes while watching episode 9 of Captain Nice. I watched episode 7 last night but episode 8 seems to be unavailable either in torrent form or for streaming. 

            Carter Nash is doing some important lab work late at night at the police station for Chief Segal but the night club next door is making a lot of noise. He goes over and talks with Lola the owner about them turning the music down. But in reality the band is playing loud to cover the noise of the men digging to break Doc Simmons out of jail before he is transferred to prison. Lola invites Carter to have a drink but he says he doesn’t imbibe. She offers him a non-alcoholic fruit punch and he agrees to that but the bartender drugs it and Carter is immediately unconscious. Lola has him thrown in the alley and the hatcheck girl takes pictures that are sent to the newspaper. 

            The next night Carter is trying to finish his work but the noise from the club compels him to once again confront Lola. This time he refuses a drink but Lola pretends to be faint and asks him to help her to the bar. She asks the bartender for a glass of water, which he spikes again. She pretends to take a sip and then says it tastes funny. She asks Carter to try it and he is again drugged. This time however he is semi-conscious, staggers and knocks over some garbage cans that are full of the dirt from the digging of the tunnel. He realizes there is a jail break going on but he’s incoherent and collapses. 

            Meanwhile Milton the Mole breaks into Doc’s cell. Sergeant Candy Cane catches them but they kidnap her and take her with them into the tunnel. 

            Carter wakes up again and this time manages to take his super power serum. He turns to Captain Nice but he is still drugged. He staggers and smashes through the wall of Lola’s then stumbles around causing destruction with his super strength, not knowing what he’s doing. He ends up bringing down part of the ceiling, which blocks the exit door. 

            Doc, Milton, and Candy emerge in the back room of the club but Lola tells them there’s no exit and so they have to go back into the tunnel. The bartender throws a grenade at Nice and then runs for the tunnel. Captain Nice doesn’t even know it’s a grenade when he casually tosses it away and it goes down the hole to explode in the tunnel. 

            Now Doc has no place to go but back in his cell. He is now there with Milton, Lola, Candy, and all the guests and staff from the club as the club band happily plays in the crowded cell. 

            Police Chief Segal was played by Bill Zuckert, who started acting on radio in 1941 and his voice could be heard in hundreds of dramas over the next twenty years. He co-starred in the radio drama series Crime and Peter Chambers in 1954. He made his film debut in Ada in 1961. He played Sheriff Johnny Behan in the third season Star Trek episode “Spectre of the Gun”.