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Post by inger on Nov 21, 2024 12:17:20 GMT -5
I actually watched some clips from "I'm Dickens, He's Fenster" a few years ago and didn't find it very funny. John Astin made a pretty good living on television and was still working into the 2000s. Marty Ingels worked a lot during the 60's and 70's, then disappeared in the 80's, but came back in the 90's and worked here and there until his death in 2015. Ingels was married to Shirley Jones for almost 40 years, so I believe she was the primary bread winner. Emmaline Henry was also in "Rosemary's Baby" and was still appearing in many TV shows all through the 70's until her death in 1979 at the age of 50. Yeah, the bad shows far outnumber the good ones. They can't all be "The Hathaways."😉 Glad somebody else even remembers Dickens-Fenster. Some other not-funny comedies from around that time were "McKeever And The Colonel" (set in a boys military academy with a pre-Uncle Fester Jackie Coogan) and "Room For One More" (about a family that adopted something like eight kids starring omnipresent character actor Andrew Duggan) and "Ensign O'Toole" (starring a pre-Herbie The Love Bug Dean Jones.) How about "Grindl" starring old Sid Caesar sidekick Imogene Coca as a maid. There were hundreds of them, and one thing they all had in common was that they all were able to convince a network to put them on the air. "My Mother The Car" has lots of company at the bottom of the barrel. I recall most of these, meaning they must have been on my mother’s watch list. The Hathaways was the clear winner because they had monkeys. Dickens/Fenster as well. Can’t believe I have vague recall of Grindl, but I do… |
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Post by Max on Nov 21, 2024 16:18:16 GMT -5
Irish Jerry Quarry. He was always the available man. He defeated an aging Floyd Patterson (seems like everyone did) and other top contenders like the aforementioned Earnie Shavers and Ron Lyle as well as other familiar names from that era like Buster Mathis and Thad Spencer and Oscar "Ringo" Bonavena. But he couldn't handle the likes of Ali or Frazier, each of whom defeated him twice. I think those high-profile televised fights are why he is remembered so vividly. I always gave Quarry credit for being the only one of the Top Ten-ranked contenders to agree to fight Muhammad Ali when Ali's career resumed in 1970. He was also part of that eight-man box-off to determine a new champion after Ali was forced out. If memory serves Ernie Terrell won that playoff, which Joe Frazier sat out before attaining the belt himself. Remember Jerry's brother Mike was a light-heavyweight contender himself. Both of them died way too young from boxing related brain damage. I remember Jerry Quarry being in an episode of "I Dream Of Jeannie." Hard to believe that Jerry Quarry and Doctor Bellows crossed paths. And as an aside (since this is a TV thread) I always found Mrs. Bellows kind of sneaky hot for an "older" woman. Philly girl Emmaline Henry, who was earlier in an obscure sitcom called "I'm Dickens, He's Fenster" which starred John Astin and Marty Ingels as bumbling carpenters. Anybody else remember that one? I actually watched some clips from "I'm Dickens, He's Fenster" a few years ago and didn't find it very funny. John Astin made a pretty good living on television and was still working into the 2000s. Marty Ingels worked a lot during the 60's and 70's, then disappeared in the 80's, but came back in the 90's and worked here and there until his death in 2015. Ingels was married to Shirley Jones for almost 40 years, so I believe she was the primary bread winner. Emmaline Henry was also in "Rosemary's Baby" and was still appearing in many TV shows all through the 70's until her death in 1979 at the age of 50. For those who might not know, John Astin was married to Patty Duke. Duke's son is Sean Astin, he was the main actor in the movie "Rudy." |
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Post by 1955nyyfan on Nov 21, 2024 16:34:05 GMT -5
I actually watched some clips from "I'm Dickens, He's Fenster" a few years ago and didn't find it very funny. John Astin made a pretty good living on television and was still working into the 2000s. Marty Ingels worked a lot during the 60's and 70's, then disappeared in the 80's, but came back in the 90's and worked here and there until his death in 2015. Ingels was married to Shirley Jones for almost 40 years, so I believe she was the primary bread winner. Emmaline Henry was also in "Rosemary's Baby" and was still appearing in many TV shows all through the 70's until her death in 1979 at the age of 50. For those who might not know, John Astin was married to Patty Duke. Duke's son is Sean Astin, he was the main actor in the movie "Rudy." The real Rudy is a motivational speaker. He came to where I used to work once and I thought he was an arrogant jerk. BTW, many of the storylines in the movie were made up and a buddy of mine who played at Purdue during Rudy's time with ND knew a couple players on ND and they told him Rudy was universally disliked. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Nov 21, 2024 18:37:15 GMT -5
I actually watched some clips from "I'm Dickens, He's Fenster" a few years ago and didn't find it very funny. John Astin made a pretty good living on television and was still working into the 2000s. Marty Ingels worked a lot during the 60's and 70's, then disappeared in the 80's, but came back in the 90's and worked here and there until his death in 2015. Ingels was married to Shirley Jones for almost 40 years, so I believe she was the primary bread winner. Emmaline Henry was also in "Rosemary's Baby" and was still appearing in many TV shows all through the 70's until her death in 1979 at the age of 50. For those who might not know, John Astin was married to Patty Duke. Duke's son is Sean Astin, he was the main actor in the movie "Rudy." John Astin is still alive at age 94. He is the last surviving cast member of "The Addams Family," outliving even Pugsley and Wednesday. Astin is a Baltimore boy who graduated from Johns Hopkins; he moved back to Baltimore many years ago and taught Theatre Arts at Hopkins for 20 years before retiring in 2021. And speaking of Patty Duke -- I thought it was interesting that both she and William Schallert, who played her father on "The Patty Duke Show," would both go on to be President of the Screen Actors Guild. |
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