Wednesday, 11 March 2026

Charles R. Rondeau


            On Tuesday morning I collected more images for my photo-video of “Les millionaires” by Serge Gainsbourg. I have 199 so far.
            I weighed 87.75 kilos before breakfast. 
            I played my Martin acoustic during song practice for the first of two sessions and it actually stayed in tune half the time. All my guitars seem to like this weather.
            Around midday I took my laundry to the laundromat and brought it home at around 15:30.
            I weighed 87.6 kilos at 15:45. 
            I took a siesta at 16:30 and slept until 18:18. 
            I weighed 89 kilos at 18:25. 
            I was caught up in my journal at 19:36. 
            Once again I struggled with trying to record from cassette tape to Audacity because I couldn’t get a waveform. I tried a couple of restarts and spent a lot of time clicking around in Settings until just before dinner I saw that I had both Stereo Mix and my Scarlett audio interface enabled as input devices. I disabled the Stereo Mix and finally got a waveform when recording but by then it was suppertime and too late to record. Tomorrow I’ll try again and hopefully the settings won’t change again by themselves.
            I ate some grapes, an orange and a fig while watching episode 13 of Captain Nice. Episode 8 and 12 are missing from my download but I found them on archive.org, so I’ll watch episode 8 tomorrow and 12 on Thursday. The entire series only has 15 episodes.
            Carter Nash sees a man on the ledge who looks like he is going to jump so he ducks into an alley to change to Captain Nice. But before he can drink his super power serum he sees that the man is just retrieving a cat. He stoops down to put the serum back in his briefcase but he is in front of the back door of a business and a beautiful woman carrying packages steps out and trips over him. To make up for the mishap he offers to help her with her packages. Another attractive woman comes out and he helps her as well. She thinks he’s working with her and she tells him to come inside. He sees there are four pretty women carrying packages out to a van and continues to assist them until he sees a man tied up and realizes the four women are thieves. The girls force him into the fur storage safe and lock the door. He takes his serum but when the woman tripped over him some of it spilled and it doesn’t give him enough power to break out. 
            The next morning when Chief Segal and Sergeant Candy Cane investigate the robbery they find Carter shivering in the safe. The store owner recognizes Carter as someone who was helping the fur filchers. He is under suspicion and will be charged if the real thieves are not found. 
            Segal orders every beautiful woman in town with a police record to be brought in for the police line-up. The viewing audience of men is standing room only and the line-ups are booked up until Friday. 
            Carter’s only clue is that he found on the floor of the fur store bits of a type of floor wax that is used at dance studios. Candy does some research on her own and finds there is one dance studio with four beautiful employees who match Carter’s description of the thieves. 
            Candy goes undercover and gets a job at the dance studio but she doesn’t realize that one of the women recognizes her. They plan to use Candy as bait to catch Carter, who was the only witness to their fur robbery. They call Carter to tell him Candy needs his help. He finds Candy in studio 16 but it turns out to be rigged. A pump is being used to remove the air from the room and Carter and Candy are becoming weak. Carter feels he has no choice but to reveal his secret identity to Candy but by the time he does she is unconscious. After changing to Captain Nice he makes a run for the door but a customer opens it and he smashes through several walls until he is out in the alley. The gang of lovely ladies is rounded up and arrested. 
            This episode was directed by Charles R. Rondeau, who made his directorial debut with The Littlest Hobo in 1958. He directed 3 of the 15 episodes of Captain Nice. He directed 4 episodes of Get Smart, 44 episodes of Love American Style, 15 episodes of Room 222, 6 episodes of Tabitha, 4 episodes of Batman, 20 episodes of F Troop, 14 episodes of Surfside 6, 12 episodes of Hawaiian Eye, and 6 episodes of The Partridge Family. He directed the movies The Threat, The Girl in Lovers Lane and The Devil’s Partner.



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