Alumni Sighting, sort of.

2016-11-01 Thread Dan Goodwin
On Make Room for Daddy this morning, Pat Buttram appeared as a character named Harvey Bullock. The name should ring a bell as the real Harvey wrote 31 episodes of TAGS and another 21 episodes of Gomer Pyle. He also wrote 8 episodes for Danny Thomas in MRFD although not this particular show.

Alumni Sighting - sort of

2015-06-18 Thread Dan Goodwin
We all know Sam Edwards (Lester Scobey) was one of Jack Webb's stable of actors in his 1967 iteration of Dragnet. In an episode titled The Squeeze, Sam appears twice but never in person. First, a photo is shown of a potential victim by the name of Paul Carter. It is Sam. Later, there is audio

Alumni Sighting (Sort Of)

2014-08-12 Thread DAVID QUINN
Last night I was listening to an old time radio show, The Great Gildersleeve. It was the episode of 18 October 1942, where Gildersleeve is first appointed to his job as Water Commissioner. Any Who, Gildersleeve is sitting in the barber chair in Floyd's Barber Shop just finishing up his

Alumni Sighting (sort of...)

2014-01-09 Thread Albert A
The other day I saw on an Animaniacs cartoon episode (HUB channel), an animated depiction of one of Mayberry's own leading citizens!The Animaniacs in Boot Camping end up in boot camp instead of summer camp. Wakko is at the barber shop and while in the chair, pulls all these stunts and gags on

Alumni Sighting (sort of)

2012-05-27 Thread Gary Muskat
I was watching Batman on MeTV yesterday and they had the Shame episode on. There was a blonde woman in there that I didn't recognize until I saw her name in the credits. It turned out to be Joan (Alma Parker) Staley who was Don Knotts' love interest in The Ghost and Mr. Chicken. Apparently she