Showing posts with label ray walston. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ray walston. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
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.
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Monday, December 7, 2009
Thursday, March 13, 2008
My World... And Welcome to It with Henry Morgan and Ray Walston (1969)
This rare sitcom had a serious cult following when it aired for one season in 1969-70. Based on "drawings, stories, inspirational pieces and things that go bump in the night" by James Thurber, it featured a lead character scared by real life, who retreated into his drawing board. Sounds sort of like me, except my drawing board is old TV shows on the internet. After NBC got rid of the show, CBS bought it and aired it from May 1972 until September.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
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!
Saturday, January 19, 2008
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.
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