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01x05 - You Make Me Sick

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.

01x05 - You Make Me Sick

Post by bunniefuu »

I'm just gonna die

hi there this is Brenda games we're

doing

don't move an inch the powers down we'll

be right back

don't fight the common cold it's a great

way to be a powerhouse if you've got

something to say make it 10 feet away in

terms of stress there's one simple

remedy

good laugh

the sandwich

this is hotel

you can recognize this disease by severe

sweating dizziness and highly inflamed

island

these symptoms should see a doctor

immediately I want to keep this disease

from spreading to power house which is

why I sent one of you for a Health

Department briefing Jennifer just what

you lose a chance a lecture virus will

keep us both after school the thing is

they don't know the source of the

red-eye virus so they don't know how it

is passed

recommend some ways to prevent the

spreading with any disease like wash

your hands before you handle food oh and

don't show your food at other people

especially fruits and other things for

sure to cover your nose and mouth when

you cough or sneeze and don't share your

column I use anybody else's

and finally another dangerous wear

disease can be spread is by kissing kiss

if you cover your nose and mouth have

been people are dying of this disease

because I've got this simple in my place

once listen I'm telling you there's

nobody sick around here nobody has got

red eyelids look you wanna expect the

police coming inspector what do you want

me to don't bring it to you anytime

tomorrow if you like

red eyelids no anything so ridiculous

since you've been working

jumping jacks

I'll call an ambulance

well I'm nursing mr. lunch yesterday

I know where she buys her groceries at

hall's on 18th Street house burned a

doctor she'll be all right won't you

you're doing the best we can for her but

your best isn't good enough visitors

probably comes from an isolated area

maybe a jungle we can't fight it into

women where it comes from the doctor is

gotta be something we can do to help

yeah there is you can make a list of all

the things that miss Gaines did this

past week give it to miss Jordan and

then you can help me find the person who

brought this disease to the city carrots

radishes the works and we don't want to

sell it for a private dinner party

the writers keep it like this all the

time this picture was absolutely not

necessary said he tearing this is next

to godliness that's my watchword well it

all seems to check out but before we go

I'd like to have a list of names of all

of your employees employees

one day much Sunday dinner Tuesday

breakfast eggs juice toast Tuesday

morning she man first aid classes here

times don't come checked everything else

so you got any better ideas

burn this worse already and the doctor

said she might gets back person come

forward

hey wait a second who told the doctor

that Brenda didn't eat lunch yesterday

she didn't the cat ate her sandwich to

make her sick hold it if Brenda got sick

from eating one bite the one who really

be sick is

to my Red Cross friends in Indiantown

Gap Pennsylvania for the council work

with Vietnamese refugees way to go

stay tuned powerhouse we'll be right

back

this is a biofeedback machine if you're

feeling tense or nervous this machine

lets you know it today it is wired to

the fingertips of Gregory Richards

talking about a situation and it's very

nervous his father dr. Terry Richards is

showing him how biofeedback work is fast

and just feel how nervous you get I

cannot stomach by just thinking about

standing in front of his class

Gregory gets more and more nervous and

the sounds and numbers of the Machine

immediately go down

okay well the important thing about

biofeedback is that scientists and

doctors use it to help us learn to

reduce the tensions we feel now let's

see if we can get you to relax they're

getting control of yourself I want you

to start thinking about the image that

we've been working on which is lying

under the warm colors of your bed now

the sounds and numbers go up the

information field back to grab you by

the machine can find is that his

peaceful thoughts are reducing his

tensions with the help of biofeedback

machines we are already learning to

control some headaches stomachaches and

other illnesses related detention you

know the machine didn't do anything to

you

we did it you use the power in your mind

to relax your body and anytime you feel

nervous and tense you can do it

biofeedback another way science is

helping you will become a powerhouse

you

I checked that face out myself this

morning it was clean the doctor the cat

and grender both ate the same tuna your

sandwich can't you Le do an autopsy on

Gremlin all

right give me the address and I'll pick

up your cat here you

go the cat we didn't touch him doctor we

used gloves and tongues and bury them

both Dr H all right call me tomorrow

we'll have the lab report but don't

expect it at

tomorrow B could be dead by

then that's how long it takes I'm sorry

Dr hul

[Applause]

please tomorrow's too late we got to do

something now got to find the person who

brought the disease to the city

[Music]

I got it but we're going to have to take

every possible precaution come on let's

go

oh hey Bonnie I think you better come

out here

coming sorry for all the delay folks I'm

a little shorthanded today

all are you the proprietor of this place

huh that's him that's

Barney we have reason to believe that a

sandwich sold here was infected with the

mystery disease check

[Music]

please

everybody Health Department's been in

here this morning I I got a clean bill

of health maybe you better get another

one I'm not messing with that

bad what are you trying to do ruin me I

swear no sandwich I made got any

diseases in it wait a second you didn't

make it it was a woman

what woman she was young and kind of

tired looking and she wore dark glasses

like maybe cuz her ey looks were R

anyone who's been near that woman is in

danger you to get yourself to a hospital

you don't look very well who is this

girl Barney you got to tell us where she

lives name is Charlene

[Music]

mcne

[Music]

all I know is she said she had a job for

one night I don't understand how you

kids dress nowadays it all started with

that pump

music I really can't let you go poking

around in Charlene's room unless I know

what this is about we think your tenant

may have the rede virus that's been

spreading throughout the city don't let

Tony going alone

then the dark glasses I should have

known she's exposed everyone living in

this house you see anything I just got

of here give me a

[Music]

minute here's

something it's a photograph she tore in

half is this her that's her all right

look where she is she's in a jungle what

wonder why she tore that up I can't

imagine she was real proud of that

photograph she worked in a jungle till a

month ago when she came here which

jungle where why I never thought to ask

well where is she now I don't know she

said she had some job for the night uh

what have you got she wrote something on

this pad but she tore off the top page

we'll see if you can find a pencil you

can make it out if you try show how to

do

it

[Music]

[Music]

do you should have seen him before the

operation

[Music]

[Music]

always

you I help

you uh yeah yeah you see this is this is

this is girl she got this this virus

[Music]

uh doctor the report on the cat it's

positive I want that Dino clo

you can tell Barney yourself he was just

admitted I don't believe we came all

this way for nothing oh I really feel

like an idiot I don't get it why would

Charlene write down this address if her

job wasn't here you heard the Hotel chef

he wouldn't hire anyone for one night

hey wait a second what I think there may

be more than one Kitchen come

[Music]

on

[Music]

look where there

charine oh it's okay we don't want to

hurt wait a second we just want to talk

to

you wait a second you get Sal you go

go

oh

no don't eat your salad don't e your

salad don't eat your

salad don't eat your salad

sorry excuse me excuse

me I'm terribly sorry for this

Interruption but please do not eat your

salad I repeat you got eat your

salad

[Music]

she's going to be up

here

[Music]

sh what do you want go away you brought

the Redeye virus into the city didn't

you no I don't know what you're talking

about just leave me alone you got it in

the jungle is that right please tell us

where look I don't have it

anymore and I didn't mean to hurt

anybody where Charlene tell us where you

got it please Charlene if you don't tell

us our friend is going to

[Music]

die I

[Music]

can't I really didn't know I had the

disease but now it's too

late people are dead this isn't working

Charlene listen to me nobody is out to

punish

you it's not your fault you got

sick I know you wouldn't want to hurt

anybody now you got a chance to save a

lot of people's lives please tell us

where you got the

[Music]

[Applause]

disease

I got it when I was working in the

Pacific on an island

[Music]

named come on Charlene we're going to

get you to a

[Music]

hospital

[Music]

greetings to our YMCA friends in New

Orleans Louisiana who keep fit through

gymnastics stay tuned Powerhouse will be

right

back this week accident of the week goes

to Wheeling Wisconsin where Beverly bra

is preparing to bike ready bever am I

ready I've been practicing all week I'm

in terrific shape has checked her skill

now she checks the road for hidden

danger and she's

off

uhoh she she she's out oh no and there

you have it Beverly never checked her

equipment now the judges scores 9.9 9.5

9.0 8.5 and from East Germany 10.0

J and now a word from our new

champion and there you have it folks

this is not how it Go self when doing

something risky always check your

equipment that's the way to be a

Powerhouse want to lose weight try run

it in place it burns up Gories and the

more calories you burn up the more

weight you lose so get those feet going

try it get your whole foot on the ground

not just your toes breathe in and run

breathe out and run get 6 in off the

ground you can do it any time anywhere

so don't just sit there and do

[Music]

something

[Music]

if you want to get in shape get moving

run a little more every day don't just

sit there do

[Music]

something I'm hungry what's keeping

lunch you're getting better Brenda your

appetite's bad well I owe it all to

you hey yeah I guess you could say that

huh hey Tony don't you think the health

department did do a little bit Yeah like

contacting pooo and getting medicine to

treat her with I still say I owe you my

life yeah well that ought to at least be

worth you buying us lunch huh gladly

where is it pepper getting it Peppa's

getting it no wonder it's taking so long

[Music]

lunchtime a

sandwich

[Music]

power talk out it's always you got to

let it come out it's better than

anything that money can buy we all have

a Powerhouse keep out

inside

Powerhouse come in through the

PowerHouse think of what you can do you

came all you keep on working

until the PowerHouse is

you

Powerhouse coming through Powerhouse

think of what you can do you can't hold

Ste you keep on working to the

poweres the power houses the power

houses