I just grabbed it off the shelf without looking...the same way I got you!! 😂 This show is so cringeworthingly over the top, but some of Paul's lines are hilarious!
Could you imagine if they made 2 1/2 men in the 1970s with Jack Nicholson and Paul Lynde and Danny Bonnaduce ? That show back then would of been a juggernaut of a hit. Paul Lynde and Jack Nicholson are very similar. I think they would have haf great chemistry on screen Nicholson as the straight serious with Lyndes comic timing.
Those of us who liked Jack Lord, even years before Stoney Burke and Hawaii Five-O, can see the star quality about him. Good looking, a fine actor, with a real screen presence. This is a more complex story line than the usual MILLIONAIRE scripts, and Lord carries it off well, being completely believable as well as touching...
Oiginally telecast on January 7, 1959. Robert Leslie Bellem and Whitney Ellsworth previously wrote various episodes of "THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN" (eith Ellsworth as producer).
I had a bad time in NYC in 2007 because they didn't have this show at the TV and radio museum. BOOOOOOOOOO. Thanks RU-vid. Never need to leave the house again.
This show was criticized at the time and through the years. But watching this, other than the over-done flirting scenes by Paul, this had some good writing. I think it could have lasted if they didn't go overboard with some of Paul Lynde's scenes. It was awkward watching him look at that young girl's breasts. Nevertheless I laughed a lot, especially the last scenes.
When they said in the dream they were married 25 years, the episode aired in 1955. They couldn't have even imagined how clothing and music styles would have evolved between 1955 and 1980, so they just stayed where they were.
Of COURSE he was, ya IDIOT!! Are you stealing from me??* *Not YOU, just riffing on the old man shut-in character he played on the Seinfeld episode...he was hilarious
In the first 4 minutes, we see a very young Tony Randall ("The Odd Couple" movie, I think) and the young lady who played Jerry Mathews' (Beaver's) teacher on TV"s "Leave It To Beaver". People have said I have a talent for recollection of TV and movie character's names, but I just can't recall the name of that young lady who played Beaver's teacher in the TV series! 🤔
This show is a click because they look good together aside from the funny lines of course. In the Eve Arden show, there was no chemistry with the potential love interest. Probably why it wàs only for 1 season. Just too bad. I love Eve Arden.
