# Pat Harrington dead at 86. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 7, 2016, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-harrington-dead-at-86/742425 "2016-01-07T18:02:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-harrington-dead-at-86/742425/1 "2016-01-07T18:02:54Z")
[Link.](http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/07/entertainment/pat-harrington-obit-dead-feat/index.html) I miss “One Day At A Time.” ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-harrington-dead-at-86/742425/2 "2016-01-07T21:59:10Z")
[The Janitor](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPuDnQ6BZuk) at Sacred Heart Hospital will be inconsolable. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-harrington-dead-at-86/742425/3 "2016-01-07T22:02:33Z")
One of my favorite movies is “The President’s Analyst,” and Harrington was utterly convincing as a brilliant smooth-talker with a secret. (It takes a smart person to play ‘dumb’ with as much finesse as Harrington showed on “One Day at a Time.”) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-harrington-dead-at-86/742425/4 "2016-01-08T00:19:58Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > One of my favorite movies is “The President’s Analyst,” and Harrington was utterly convincing as a brilliant smooth-talker with a secret. . . . “He’s a recording!” ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-harrington-dead-at-86/742425/5 "2016-01-08T00:36:42Z")
When I saw this earlier, I thought ‘Didn’t he die years ago?’ Then I realised I was thinking of Pat Hingle, only I was thinking of Pat Buttram. (Both of them died years ago.) ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-harrington-dead-at-86/742425/6 "2016-01-08T16:23:39Z")
Harrington also did a huge amount of voice-over work, but mostly for cheap, forgettable animated shows of the 60s… ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-harrington-dead-at-86/742425/7 "2016-01-08T16:44:11Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > Harrington also did a huge amount of voice-over work, but mostly for cheap, forgettable animated shows of the 60s… I was very surprised, reading various obituaries and tributes, to learn that he voiced “The Inspector,” the Clouseau-like animated character in the old _Pink Panther_ cartoon series. I remember those segments well, but I never realized it was good old Schneider doing the voices! ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-harrington-dead-at-86/742425/8 "2016-01-08T17:03:18Z")
Did anyone else read the title as “Kit Harrington”? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-harrington-dead-at-86/742425/9 "2016-01-08T17:04:46Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > I miss “One Day At A Time.” This weekend, Me TV is running a marathon of the series in his memory. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-harrington-dead-at-86/742425/10 "2016-01-08T17:20:26Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > This weekend, Me TV is running a marathon of the series in his memory. Antenna TV. That’s the network that carries _One Day at A Time_ reruns. That’s how I learned of his death. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-harrington-dead-at-86/742425/11 "2016-01-08T17:41:46Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Antenna TV. That’s the network that carries _One Day at A Time_ reruns. Thanks. I keep getting the two confused. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-harrington-dead-at-86/742425/12 "2016-01-08T19:04:56Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > . . . “He’s a recording!” Heh. The concept of ‘a recording’ seemed to loom larger in the public consciousness back in the 1960s than it does now. But, wow, that movie certainly was prescient about the surveillance culture… ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-harrington-dead-at-86/742425/13 "2016-01-08T19:49:52Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Heh. The concept of ‘a recording’ seemed to loom larger in the public consciousness back in the 1960s than it does now. > > But, wow, that movie certainly was prescient about the surveillance culture… OTOH . . . [QUOTE=V.I. Kydor Kropotkin:] Logic is on our side: this isn’t a case of a world struggle between two divergent ideologies, of different economic systems. Every day your country becomes more socialistic, my country becomes more capitalistic. Pretty soon we will meet in the middle and join hands. No, my dear doctor; you’re going to defect because you want to live. [/QUOTE] Not so prescient. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-harrington-dead-at-86/742425/14 "2016-01-08T20:06:49Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > OTOH . . . > Not so prescient. Well, certainly there hasn’t been much joining of hands. But ‘my country becomes more capitalistic’ seems pretty much on the money (so to speak). Anyway, my mention of ‘the surveillance culture’ wasn’t to do with USA v. Russia–it was about the movie’s depiction of the characters being watched—not only by the FBR and CEA, but by the Canadians (!) and of course TPC. The modern-day analog of TPC would be Google and its closest competitors, I suppose, rather than any of the Baby Bells, but the idea remains the same. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-harrington-dead-at-86/742425/15 "2016-01-08T22:00:16Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > [Link.](http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/07/entertainment/pat-harrington-obit-dead-feat/index.html) > > I miss “One Day At A Time.” I thought he was already dead. Perhaps I somehow conflated him with Bonnie Franklin, though I find that hard to imagine. > [@Sherrerd](#): > > One of my favorite movies is “The President’s Analyst,” and Harrington was utterly convincing as a brilliant smooth-talker with a secret. (It takes a smart person to play ‘dumb’ with as much finesse as Harrington showed on “One Day at a Time.”) I never thought Schneider was supposed to be dumb the way, say, Joey Tribiani was. He was weird, like, say, Phoebe Buffay. ---
**Author:** ![kath94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/67e7ee/32.png) [@kath94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kath94)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-harrington-dead-at-86/742425/16 "2016-01-08T22:19:09Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > [The Janitor](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPuDnQ6BZuk) at Sacred Heart Hospital will be inconsolable. I just watched the link provided & noticed that the episode of Scrubs was directed by John Putsch, who played Barbara’s friend Bob (?) on One Day at a Time. > [@Skywatcher](#): > > This weekend, Me TV is running a marathon of the series in his memory. I’m going to have to try and catch some of this. I thought Schneider was the \*coolest \*guy back in the day. He was part of my childhood! (I’m only slightly younger than Valerie Bertinelli.) ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-harrington-dead-at-86/742425/17 "2016-01-08T23:52:37Z")
> [@kath94](#): > > I just watched the link provided & noticed that the episode of Scrubs was directed by John Putsch, who played Barbara’s friend Bob (?) on One Day at a Time. > > I’m going to have to try and catch some of this. I thought Schneider was the \*coolest \*guy back in the day. He was part of my childhood! (I’m only slightly younger than Valerie Bertinelli.) It’s on Antenna TV. If you tune in to MeTV, you’ll miss it. [http://affiliate.zap2it.com/tv/one-day-at-a-time/EP00003221?aid=antennatv](http://affiliate.zap2it.com/tv/one-day-at-a-time/EP00003221?aid=antennatv) ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2016, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-harrington-dead-at-86/742425/18 "2016-01-09T18:27:44Z")
My feelings toward Valerie Bertinelli were, shall we say uncomfortable in 1975, when she was 15 and I was 21. As time passed I got over it. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2016, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-harrington-dead-at-86/742425/19 "2016-01-09T19:57:35Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > My feelings toward Valerie Bertinelli were, shall we say uncomfortable in 1975, when she was 15 and I was 21. As time passed I got over it. Fortunately I am younger than she and had no such difficulty. Bonnie Franklin was hit as well. The girl who played Julie, not so much. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2016, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-harrington-dead-at-86/742425/20 "2016-01-10T20:09:35Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I never thought Schneider was supposed to be dumb the way, say, Joey Tribiani was. He was weird, like, say, Phoebe Buffay. A fair point. In any case, Harrington gave a skillful performance throughout the run of the show. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-harrington-dead-at-86/742425.md?page=2)