Yes! Congratulations, got it on the second try!
MR H: Mother warned me about you Vassar girls!
Her real name is Eunice, BTW, and her maiden name is Wentworth.
I remember the Wentworth. Some ep about her and Thurston weren’t really married or something
Yes, that’s right.
Yay! I can remember things. I feel accomplished. TY.
Didn’t Thurston go to Harvard? His greatest insult for someone he didn’t like was “Good heavens, a YALE man!”
I remember the episode were Gilligan won the lottery and had the ticket. So the Howells let him join the exclusive country club. He was giving G. the lecture on how to increase his wealth when they got rescued. He said he learned it from ??MU. I’m thinking it was GMU. Get Money University.
I’m pretty sure he was joking.
Did you know that Jim Backus was the only member of the cast ever allowed to ad lib?
I had heard that. He was really funny.
Him and Lovey are my favorite characters on the show. You can tell they have the chops to act.
Of course Gilligan tickles me. He’s just such a screw up.
In the series format, he’s described as “a walking disaster area.”
Hey, my Daddy called me that. Hence my nickname “beckdawrek”
His famous line was “Put beck in a empty room and she’ll break something”
He named his pet pigeon “Walter,” BTW. Not after the actor Walter Pidgeon, but after a guy he knew in school who was pigeon-toed.
Curious, what other sitcoms you into?
Dick van Dyke, for one. Hogan’s Heroes for another. Married … with Children from the '80s
Not sitcoms, but Star Trek TOS, Combat!, and The Rat Patrol.
Secret Agent/Danger Man, The Prisoner, and The Avengers. The first half season of Batman.
Yes, now it’s coming back. Eunice Wentworth, from Vassar.
I always like the inevitable comparisons: Ginger vs. Mary Ann, Bailey Quarters vs. Jennifer Marlowe, Betty Cooper vs. Veronica Lodge.
My selections? Mary Ann, Bailey, and Betty. Guess I like sensible, down-to-earth girls, though Jennifer was a lot smarter and had a lot more common sense than her looks would indicate.
Interesting shows, @terentii . I’m currently binging Married with Children. Oh, and The Prisoner, as I just saw that you posted. Maybe we could/should get threads going on these.
Oh I’ve watched some Hogan’s lately.
I watched these shows afternoons along with TOS when I was in school. I’ve lost some of those memories of being there with my sibs. After they drilled a hole in my head they vanished. The math I learned in school, what little I retained is completely gone. But I did cherish my other memories. I found watching those shows helps. Seriously.
The B&W episodes of Bewitched are really good, but the show started going downhill after the third season. It definitely should have been put to bed after Dick York was forced to leave.
One of my favorite lines of all time came when Endora stole a concept car and gave it to Darrin for his birthday:
DARRIN: Oh, wow! This makes the Batmobile look like a skateboard!
The original The Untouchables was a truly groundbreaking series. I can still watch it and get completely engrossed in the stories.
I’m watching Bewitched this very moment. It’s the color ones. I love Endora. She’s a kick in the head.
Another veteran actress.
Why did they get rid of York?
His back had been ruined while filming a movie, prior to being cast as Darrin IIRC. Most of the time he was on the show, he was in constant pain and (I suppose) had to wear some kind of brace. Finally, he just collapsed on the set one day in the fifth season and had to be taken away in an ambulance. He never returned to the set.
As I recall, his back was damaged while he was pumping the drive of an old-fashioned railroad hand car. He went one way and the pump went another, ripping the muscles and tendons in his back.
I believe he was confined to a wheelchair after that, and he died in 1992 from lung cancer. I saw him interviewed shortly before his death, and he looked in really bad shape. (That interview might actually be on YouTube.)