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01x01 - With a Little Help From My Friends: Part 1

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Powerhouse". Aired: December 12, 1982 – January 3, 1983.*
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Set in Washington, D.C., Powerhouse is focused on the adventures of a racially and ethnically diverse group of three teenagers two kids and one adult from the inner city, based at a former boxing and sports gym hangout turned into a youth community center.

01x01 - With a Little Help From My Friends: Part 1

Post by bunniefuu »

don't move we'll be right back

what you got 6240 for what do you thanks

it's that's all good but maybe next week

is gonna be better right yeah

same no hard as a been since you've seen

the old Germany for a place I know seven

years why'd you decide to come back you

know the bureaucracy hasn't gotten any

smaller not the Department of Recreation

all I need from them is a license you

know what you don't

listen you guys are on business

this is Brenda game she's the new owner

that's fine by me just as long as she

don't get nowhere

listen I'll give it to you one more time

you see you and your friends you're out

she said she's been open up a Youth

Center here you know kids you're welcome

to drop by any time

lady we may just take you up on that

every one of those guys at least ten

times next day back out on the street I

listen you're gonna be all right yeah

fine

you know what I reach for now Thank You

Luton good luck

come on

Joey if you stopped eating that garbage

start showing up the workouts you can go

Tim round rather than three and I don't

want to hear I can't around your enemy

yeah we may have a problem at the old

gym some broads trying to move in

okay you know it's going on here

not read them not

can help you get it to the curb okay

I'll bring the planes by the way you're

trying to set up a youth center here you

want to join up

it's been a long time

Harriette Swan

welcome to powerhouse a private Center

no mere Recreation Department looking

over my shoulder I'm mad with the

recreation department anymore

I've moved up in the world I'm on the

City Council now congratulations

one of my duties is to oversee the

licensing of our youth activities your

application is on my best sorry about

that

Lucy but I'm going to do for the

commiseration neighborhood would want to

give me your license

so now you Amaya to organize an athletic

program not to be a social worker I do a

program the decision is final

excuse me are you the person in charge

run the games Kevin Jackson it's pretty

rough yet

thank you

yeah you can start by getting out of

here and if I think of anything else

well I'll let you know

catch my drift

we got a problem and so when you find it

it keeps sticking your nose where it

don't belong neighbors outside is a punk

convinced is a big show

should I call the police I don't think

it would do any good

I'd like to see if I could do some way

to involve the people who live around

here yeah

I get the impression you inside of here

thank you ladies and gentlemen I really

appreciate your support now and I'll

need it even more in the future

exactly what were you trying to

accomplish by doing this well first I

wanted to get my building back but also

to show get some people joined together

congratulations to our 4-h friends

nationwide for a successful campaign on

pet and animal care stay tuned

please tell us what you do you pump

blood to bring oxygen to body cells

exercise you say running swimming you

actually are take care a great way to be

a powerhouse

i thought the lens is out here

can i help you with something yes i'm

interested in that piano back there

if the price is right and it works hey

how you doing

hi

no no but if you do that then red queen

takes white knight

i guess you could do that but then i'd

take your queen and you'd have to move

this pawn to block my queen

and then i'd go straight up for your

rook completely knocking out your king's

side defense

then you'd have to castle and i'd take

your knight you'd have to sacrifice your

bishop meanwhile i'd be building an

attack force of this queen

and this rook putting you in checkmate

run up on me again

you're gonna come and tune the piano

this afternoon i guess so

you gonna join that group

um well i don't know

are you oh maybe i'm still checking them

out

see ya hey wait a second

i'm low low

yeah fine

i'm pepper pepper jean mackenzie hi

are you all right yeah

fine

yeah yeah

just a little superficial heart damage

come on come on lady live a little it's

only a buck and i could win a hundred

dollars that's right

any two-digit number huh well i don't

know

come on hey your friend here he bought

two of them tell her you won a couple of

weeks ago didn't you 125. did you hear

that 125

that was his one dollar i don't want to

keep you away from all this money huh

65. that's an excellent selection there

we go

sorry about that i guess it kind of

slipped out of my hands

hang on to your dollar man the odds

stink

oh is that proof let's go hey wait a

minute wait a minute

hey man where do you get off huh there's

people eating canned dog food because

the guys like you

so do me a favor and stop collecting on

this block yeah and if i don't

i'll hassle you every chance i get

hey man wait a minute

i'll tell you what i'll make you a deal

what kind of deal

we'll go over there and match baskets

now okay

if you win i stop collecting this block

if i win you buy a dollar ticket for me

every week and stop hassling

how do i know you'll keep your word

you don't

yeah you'll make it up to me all right

caster when somebody planted with the

games woman and guess who's gonna

volunteer

me yeah you tom you're the closest thing

we got to a normal person

yeah now i want to know everything that

goes on over there

i want you to check the stash make sure

it's still there but don't

touch me if they saw me already what if

they don't let me in they'll let you in

tone

there's nothing that do gooder legs

better than a convert

hey you need a hand

yeah sure it comes to the shoulder a

couple of legs

lost my job thanks to you

on three one two

three

hey tony come on over here

oh no no i can't i

two one two three four

to teamwork to powerhouse make

successful open houses friday night

to ms swan may she love everything she

sees

you

your friends hey all right

to uh

nobody answered basement window was open

actually besides join this group

after all

4 987 anyone from monopoly

plus 3 660 dollars

that makes a total of 8 647

i think we should take that to the

police it's numbers money

gotta be let's hope nobody claims it

about a

you get this powerhouse we can find some

other place this is personal

and you saw the money oh yeah yeah i saw

the money

and is it safe it couldn't be safer

good time

do just make sure that no one gets into

their office until nine

we're just gonna have a little fun i

know mine

hey tony how you doing

very nice okay excuse me everybody

i think it's time for us to start a

grand tour would you follow me please

this is the library the kids do things

together and

friendships grow

don't forget the art room

they're just trying to

this is a help of my day powerhouse

games

he ran this place for 30 years after he

retired from the ring

this is where i learned all my lessons

about physical fitness and sportsmanship

which is what

why what's this about lieutenant what in

the world is going on here

well we received some information uh

there's a possibility of drugs in the

process

hey lieutenant

downtown

a salute to our girl scout friends in

new orleans louisiana

for their outstanding efforts to

increase public sensitivity to the deaf

powerhouse will be right back

feeling uptight you know there's really

a simple way to get rid of tension and

relax

take a big breath in nice and slow as

big as you can

and when you take the breath in tense up

your face your shoulders

your hands your torso your legs and your

feet make your body as tight as you can

i let the breath out slowly try it

breathe in tense up your face shoulders

hands your torso your legs and feet and

relax

don't you sit there do something breathe

in

face shoulders

torso legs and feet

so if you're feeling tense don't just

sit there do something

now here are some scenes from the next

powerhouse

tell me what you were gonna do man

whoever planted those drugs

caster says we re-occupied powerhouse

at me they're not tonight kids

is

until