What's My Line with mystery guest Tyrone Power and guest panelist Wally Cox (1955)

Hollywood Squares (1967)

Mister Peepers (1952)

I've Got a Secret with guest Wally Cox (1960)

Password with celebrity contestant Wally Cox - Clip (1965)

The Hollywood Squares - Pilot - with Wally Cox, Morey Amsterdam, Rose Marie, Robert Q. Lewis, Jim Backus and host Bert Parks (1965)

The Storybook Squares with celebrity contestants Wally Cox, Stu Gilliam, Soupy Sales, Arte Johnson, Charlie Weaver and Paul Winchell (1969)

Car 54, Where Are You? with special guest star Wally Cox (1962)

Mister Peepers - Pilot (1952)

Wally Cox 78: Dufo - What a Crazy Guy (1951)

"What a crazy guy" was essentially Wally Cox's catchphrase that was somewhat of a connector in his old stand-up act. His act won him first prize on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts around 1949.

Rare and Interesting Shows I Can't Embed (But You Can Download)

These television programs do not have a function that will allow me to embed them here, but I can link to them and you can either watch them online or download them to your hardrive. Some interesting rarities.
The Frances Langford - Don Ameche Show
My Favorite Husband
Ranch Party
The Dennis Day Show
The Adventures of Hiram Holiday
The Mickey Rooney Show
Angel
The Tony Randall Show

School House starring Kenny Delmar, Wally Cox and Arnold Stang (1949)

Mister Peepers (1952)

Mister Peepers is considered among the top echelon of nineteen fifties sitcoms although I personally feel it is somewhat overrated. To be fair, I've only watched maybe six early episodes of the series, but I wasn't enthralled by it. I am a big fan of Wally Cox, however. His stand-up act, the little I've heard of it (on a radio episode of Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts), is hilarious. I'm also a fan of Underdog and the premiere episode of Mission: Impossible, both featuring Cox. I also get a kick out of the fact that he was best friends with Marlon Brando and the man that taught Brando how to ride a hog for The Wild One. For me, the best thing about Mister Peepers is its theme song composed by Bernie Greene. WFMU recently posted an item about Bernie Greene. Listen to a great sounding MP3 of the Mister Peepers theme here.

What's My Line - Mystery Guest Marathon - Part One

Most of these are from the early fifties.

Mr. Peepers and Marlon Brando's best friend, Wally Cox:

Fred Allen:

Roy Campanella:
Nat King Cole:

Billy Rose:

Ann Southern:

Ronald Reagan:


Johnny Olsen:

Various Hollywood Squares

The Buick Berle Show (1955) - Footage Offline 2/26/08

An hour's worth of The Buick -Berle Show, obviously with Milton Berle but also guest stars Peter Lawford and Carol Channing -posted by Ira Gallen of TVDays.com. This was the seventh season of The Milton Berle Show, now with a new sponsor. Like most early television shows, and the radio programs that came before them, a show's name was at the mercy of a sponsor. Formerly The Texaco Star Theatre we see it now as The Buick Berle Show. I'm sure most people just called it The Milton Berle Show ... much to the shagrin of network suits. And to Milton's consternation the show changed from a weekly Milton showcase to just twice a month, The Martha Raye Show co-starring Wally Cox picking up the timeslot for the other two weeks. Goodman Ace and the number one female television and radio comedy writer for over forty years, Selma Diamond, were writers on this incarnation of the Berle show. You can listen to a nice chunk of the Selma Diamond Talks LP, pictured above, on this episode of The Generation Exploitation Podcast. It is a collection of audio from Selma's appearances on The Tonight Show with Jack Paar.

Like most episodes, this one opens with a ridiculously elaborate opening number of chorus dancers and soft shoe. Berle makes reference to 1986 in his opening monologue. At the six minute and forty second mark the hilarious bird faced Arnold Stang makes his appearance. Stang started with Berle on radio and constantly upstaged the famous cigar chomper (not an easy feat!). Stang was piss-your-pants funny and the highlight of most Milton Berle shows. He of course went on to be the voice of Hanna-Barbera's Top Cat. Wally Cox played a like-minded wimp on The Martha Raye Show, although Stang's meek self was likely to blow his top at Berle each week, where Cox was more likely to be pushed around, leaving his glasses crooked.