"Time Capsule"

This is another episode that doesn't quite come together but is interesting, especially in retrospect.  I feel like the "time capsule" aspect could've been developed more, but then we don't even know what year this is set.  The capsule will be opened in the 2050s, by which point Marion hopes women have more say (Howard shushes her), and Fonzie expects to be still alive and known.  Anyway, another C+.

Notes:

• It was definitely a trope, especially on ABC sitcoms, for people to be trapped in a small place and learn more about each other, most notably on The Brady Bunch and Three's Company, and even Welcome Back, Kotter had the gang trapped in a museum with John Astin as a loon, because hey.
• Susan Cotton plays the "icy" but meltable-by-Fonzie Miss Radcliff, and she'd return as a Librarian later in '77, so I guess she was typecast.
• And, yes, yes, yes, that is Lynda Goodfriend as Kim, the "Mixed Nut" ("Chestnut" if you're curious) that Richie pairs off with.  We don't learn much about Kim, other than she plays the ukulele.  A few weeks later Goodfriend would debut as klutzy but sweet Sunshine Akalino on Blansky's Beauties, a series that would connect with the Marshallverse in odd ways.  And we will definitely see more of her.
• I've already talked about David Ketchum, but this is the HD debut for his writing partner here, Tony DiMarco, who would do eight more and then five of the California episodes for Laverne & Shirley.