flashback42 Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 Timely update: Confirmed by a poster from another movie-fan site: The canine performer here shares DNA with a bigscreen title role character. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 The guest: British, but with an Irish name, and often mistaken for Irish. Emigrated to the US just before WWII. Over 200 titles in Film and TV. Considerable work doing cartoon voices. Has worked with canine stars before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 This guest: He knew Spin. He knew Lassie. He knew Marty. He supplied voice for an elephant who was awarded the Victoria Cross. Edited by: flashback42 on Apr 16, 2011 10:44 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 The series was one of several, based on rural and small-town fictious locations (Hooterville, Pixley. Big Tussle), with occasional movement of characters from one series to the other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 Sometimes there were crossover characters from Beverly Hills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 Heck, sometimes even Zsa Zsa visited from her own series. And the canine in this episode has his own site on HMDb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesArcher Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 I'll help relieve your anxiety, flashback. You are referring to J. Pat O'Malley, who first appeared in "Lassie Come Home" as a dog trainer. He was Marty Markham's valet in "Spin And Marty' on "The Mickey Mouse Club", and he played a hobo on an episode of "Petticoat Junction" with the dog whose real name was Higgins. There is some question as to whether Higgins was the original Benji in the movies, or if it was one of his offspring. I hate to be a nitpicker, but it was Eva Gabor, not Zsa Zsa, who was on "Green Acres", and it was Bug Tussle, not Big Tussle, where Jed Clampett came from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 At 78 Views, wheeew! I was getting anxious. Correct on the ava/zsazsa mixup. The episode, first aired 9/27/69, was named as a Danny Thomas tribute: "Make Room For Baby" . Higgins' website claims that he worked the Petticoat Junction series, then the first *Benji* movie, but not the sequels. And the guest, just called "Hobo" was ,indeed, J. Pat. Miles' thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesArcher Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 Thanks. There's another actor who once shared the big screen with Lassie, or at least a descendant of lassie. He starred in a TV series in the fifties that may have been adapted from, or inspired by, the same source as a Montgomery Clift movie. Can you name the actor and the TV series? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cujas Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 Peter Lawford *The Thin Man*?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesArcher Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 Right actor, wrong series. The source material may have been a novel by Nathaniel West. Try again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 Uh, not quiet. West wrote a novel named Miss Lonelyhearts . Lawford worked in a series entitled *Dear Phoebe* . There is a similarity of themes. -- A man writing an advice column, using a woman's name. Clift did make the movie version of *LonelyHearts* ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesArcher Posted April 19, 2011 Share Posted April 19, 2011 Yes, "Dear Phoebe" was the series that Peter Lawford starred in. Cujas or Flash can have the thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted April 19, 2011 Share Posted April 19, 2011 Thanks, Miles, but Cujas did make the breakthrough. Cujas' thread, to either use or open. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cujas Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 Truth of the matter is that I spent much of the summer reading a bio on Peter Lawford. I should have have remembered "Phoebe". But what I did remember was that he appeared in a "Lassie" movie and hated the dog very much.--Seems he didn't care that much for Asta either. Next: Lucy in Hollywood--she breaks into this star's house and pretends to be a bear rug. Shouldn't be too hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LonesomePolecat Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 Ooooo I remember this one but not quite sure which star it was (since there were so many)... Cornel Wilde? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cujas Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 Lucy broke into Cornel Wilde's Hotel suite that was just above hers and Rickie's. The Movie Star in question owned a big mansion. Lucy went over his wall and broke into the house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 richard widmark ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cujas Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 Yes, and I can remember when I stayed home from high school to see in on reruns. All yours Skipper-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 During the first season of this science fiction TV series starring a critically acclaimed movie star, a soon-to-be-popular TV actor guest-starred as an old sailor who helped protect a young prince from assasins. This guest later on starred in at least three TV series in the 1970s and 80s... Name the science fiction series and the lead actor, the guest star and the episode, and at least two of the three series the guest later starred in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 60s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 I'm stumped by this one, and it seems others are also. Any othe clues? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 Clue...The science-fiction series was adapted from a popular movie with the same title....Of the three TV series the guest star later starred in, the most popular one was actually adapted from a British TV series. Another one was a spin off from this...and the last one was adapted from and has the same title as an Oscar-winning movie....(Note: No generic clues here...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashback42 Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 Ooh,kaaay, now it makes sense. *Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea* , the episode Long Live The King , aired 21 December 1966. Carroll O'Conner as "Old John". I scanned the whole decade in the "Complete Encyclopedia of Network etc etc. And *Voyage* was the only program that seemed to fit. All In The Family was first a Brit sitcom, and O'Conner also was in Archie Bunker's Place and In The Heat Of The Night ??? Edited by: flashback42 on Apr 27, 2011 2:53 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudskipper Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 I guess persistence pays off...Now, wasn't that fun ? Ok, Flash, your turn... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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