My Favorite Martian (1963)

My Favorite Martian (1963)

The Andy Griffith Show with special guest star Bill Bixby (1962)

My Favorite Martian (1965)

People like to say that My Mother the Car was the worst of the worst, but had this show been canceled after one season - it might have the distinction. Television at its most wretched.

The Courtship of Eddie's Father with special guest star Jodie Foster (1971)

The Dating Game with celebrity contestants Bill Bixby and Richard Dawson (1968)

My Favorite Martian (1965)

Masquerade Party featuring Bill Bixby, Richard Dawson, Allen Ludden and Nipsey Russell (1974)

The Liar's Club with Bill Bixby, Norm Crosby, Rod Serling, Betty Walker and Betty White (1969)

The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1971)

My Favorite Martian with special guest star Richard Deacon (1964) - Footage Offline - 10/12/10

My Favorite Martian with special guest star Butch Patrick (1963)

The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1970)

Cop Out (1977)

An un-aired game show pilot that moves like molasses.

My Favorite Martian with guest star Alan Hale Jr. (1964)

It always feels weird watching The Skipper appear in a 1960s sitcom other than Gilligan's Island. It just seems so adulterous!

Allan Melvin 1922-2008

Well, this was a shock. I was just listening to one of Allan Melvin's introductions to an episode of The Phil Silvers Show on the fine Sgt. Bilko DVD set and wondered,"Gee, how old is Allan Melvin now?" Typing his name into google produced an announcement from TODAY... he died this week. Unreal. The news hit the wires about an hour ago. Melvin was a staple of Bilko, The Andy Griffith Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Brady Bunch, All in the Family, and countless television shows of the fifties, sixties and seventies and many, many commercials. Melvin also did many cartoon voices for Hanna Barbera. See him in some of the Bilko stuff previously posted on this site. Check out Melvin in a commercial, as a villain in an episode of The Andy Griffith Show, as a "space enforcer" in Lost in Space, briefly in My Favorite Martian (well, according to IMDB listings he appears in this episode, but I didn't have the patience to sit through it - you tell me if you spot him), as Charlie in an episode of Wait Till Your Father Gets Home, The Phil Silvers Show and as Sarge Snorkel in a Beetle Bailey short. More of this to come as I find it.