Apparently not. 
I’ve heard that the LiS cast practically rebelled when they were told they had to dress as vegetables.
IT IS BALLOON!
Chief Wild Eagle: (on how the Hekawi tribe got their name) “Many moons ago tribe move west because Pilgrims ruin neighborhood. Tribe travel west, over country and mountains and wild streams, then come big day… tribe fall over cliff, that when Hekawi get name. Medicine man say to my ancestor, ‘I think we lost. Where the heck are we?”
(The original joke was about a tribe of Indians called the Fukawi, but of course they couldn’t say, “Where the fuck are we?” on TV.)
How do you get to the Hekawi camp?
Make right turn at big rock that look like bear, then make left turn at big bear that look like rock.
And of course they used terrible native American stereotypes. 60s TV used a lot of bad ethnic stereotypes.
Not that that doesn’t still happen.
Going only on my recollection, ISTM that F Troop’s Hakawis tended to be smarter than the white folks, as a whole.
But otherwise you’re right; it was an era of widespread stereotypes for all ethnic groups.
The fun thing is that the natives were all Jewish. So Mel Brooks’ Indian Chief in Blazing Saddles wasn’t so off after all.
I was born in 1961, so I was 7 or 8 when most of these shows were at peak popularity and I watched and enjoyed them uncritically. (I didn’t care for Star Trek in its first run; it was too cerebral. Plus, I was a Lost in Space loyalist.)
I quite enjoyed The Beverly Hillbillies as a young child. It went off the air soon enough and I never gave it another thought. A decade later, in college, I was doing laundry at the local laundromat and the TV mounted to the wall was playing a Beverly Hillbillies rerun–I think it was the one where Mr. Drysdale orders his steno pool to participate in a “Roman orgy”–and it occurred to me for the first time ever that maybe all 60s television was this bad and I just wasn’t conscious of it.
If you’re really into 60s kitsch and are honest with yourself, you have to admit that you like crap.
Mr Ed was a show about a guy having an affair with his horse and trying to keep it secret from his wife, right?
I love the original premise of the series and the early episodes, but after nine years it all wore pretty thin. The Clampetts were just as clueless in the final episode as they were in the first. They were so freakin’ out of it, I find the series painful to watch nowadays.
I’m willing to bet one of the secretaries from the steno pool was none other than Sharon Tate, who had a recurring role as a bank employee in the series.
Willlllll-bur? :dubious:
Yes, and the humor was strictly Borscht Belt. 
They were actually satirizing Indians as they were traditionally portrayed in Hollywood Westerns, rather than the Native Americans themselves.
Yes, but Stanley “Cyrano Jones” Adams gave a memorable performance as “The Talking Carrot.”
It’s actually a very depressing show about a guy with undiagnosed mental illness. The horse (of course!) doesn’t talk. Everything is in his Wilbur’s head.
The show ended before Wilbur fully cracked and went on a shooting spree, killing everyone that doesn’t hear Ed talk.
So was Jerry Van Dyke hearing voices due to undiagnosed mental illness too, in “My Mother the Car”? Or was someone trying to drive him insane by broadcasting the voice of someone pretending to be his mom?
It could be both. In one episode he confessed to his wife that the car contained his dead mother’s spirit and she treated him as if he was possessed. He had to pretend he was joking all along before she had him committed.
Well, in the pilot episode, the only scenes that appear in the pilot are the hula dancer and Kono.
In Season 1, I forget which ep Danno is seen running, and notice we no longer see the hula dancer’s face, only her swiveling hips. But we still see the same scene with Kono.
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Excuse me? What about Tin’s girlfriend Nameless?
Which is the only episode of Gilligan’ Island in which you can see Mary Ann’s panties? Season 3, Episode 1, Up at Bat.
If I’m not mistaken, you can also see them in S2E30 “Vitamins,” where she’s dressed in the French maid’s outfit. :o
Sorry, “‘V’ for Vitamins.”