I absolutely loved that show! The only thing it didn’t have going for it was its Saturday evening time slot (on opposite Jackie Gleason, I think); Combat! was on Tuesday evenings, and was followed by McHale’s Navy.
One of my friends that I played Army with back then was a dead ringer for Pvt D’Angelo, and he had a younger brother who was the spitting image of Charles Bronson.
At that point, weren’t the sons Mike, Rob, and Chip, in that order? (Ernie was adopted later, after Mike had left and Chip was too big to be considered “cute” any longer.)
Yeah, he must have been thinking of Rob, who was played by Don Grady.
I may have mentioned this before (here or elsewhere), but Clint Howard (“Balok”) was also a regular on this show when he was about four years old:
In the one episode I watched when I was in fourth grade, Clint was catching more fish than anyone else in the marina, and nobody could figure out why. Turned out he was using peanut butter sandwiches as bait.As an aside, it’s interesting that John Dehner was “The Commodore” in that series. He’d also play a “Commodore” in the episode of ***Columbo ***where Robert Vaughn was **not **the murderer:
Yep, that’s it. Rob was played by Don Grady, who later composed the theme song for the Phil Donohue show (and is the only child actor on the show who died, unless you count Meredith McRae who played Sally, Mike’s wife).
Of course when they first introduced Ernie, he is a classmate of Chip. Later when he is adopted, he becomes a few years younger.
And George Takei was also in an episode of My Three Sons! Steve was working with a female aviator who was doing some kind of Amelia Earhart-like thing, and Takei was a radio operator helping keep in communication with her.
… And Jimmy Dean had Rowlf the Dog (Jim Henson and Frank Oz). Andy was on NBC and Jimmy was on ABC.
I remember seeing Louise Sorel (“Rayna” in “Requiem for Methuselah”) in a rerun of ***Rat Patrol *** many years ago. Looking at her filmography, I see she’s gotten around a lot over the years:
**Fun Fact: ** Pat Buttram was offered his choice of roles on Green Acres, and he chose that of Mr Haney (the huckster) hands down.
As was David Soul, who had a small role on Star Trek before going on to greater fame on Starsky & Hutch: David Soul | Memory Alpha | Fandom
Damn! I saw that too, but it just didn’t register. Crap! :smack:
Jonathan Goldsmith, the first redshirt to actually survive (“The Corbomite Maneuver”), became Dos Equis Beer’s Most Interesting Man in the World.
Stay thirsty, my friends.
Seen in this clip as a sweaty, shirtless Shatner walks past him:
Saw an episode of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” called "Memo from Purgatory " which has Walter Koenig and James Caan. Based on an autobiographical story by Harlan Ellison. I suppose if you want another "actors with bad career decisions " also has Tony Musante, who a decade later refused to have “Toma” last as a regular series (he wanted a series of tv movies like “Columbo”). The show was revamped as “Baretta” starring Robert Blake, who made a far worse career decision years later.
Marianna Hill, who played Dr. Helen Noel (mrowr) in ST:TOS “Dagger of the Mind,” was also in The Godfather: Part II and High Plains Drifter.
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As noted in an earlier post (ahem) she was the town floozy in HPD, and Billy Curtis (seen briefly in “Journey to Babel”) was the town dwarf.
Ah, missed that. Sorry.
Takei is also in an episode as the owner of a restaurant. Not Chinese food, but fried chicken and other Southern food. About once a year on “My Three Sons” there was an episode with one of Steve’s fellow engineers played by James Hong (“number three son in several Charlie Chan movies). They go a little heavy with the “honorable grandfather” type sayings. Takei is a 28 year old man expecting to marry Hong’s 17 year old cousin from Hong Kong whose previous 60 year old chosen-by-her-parents” fiance has died. Robbie gets the job of turning a shy, submissive girl into an American which she does causing Takei to say “I was expecting a Chinese Mona Lisa, not a bopper”.
Before becoming an actress in things like “Assignment Earth” Teri Garr was a dance in nine Elvis Presley movies and tv music shows like Shindig, Hullabaloo and Movin’ with Nancy Sinatra.
MeTV has finally gotten to the controversial 6th (and final) season of “77 Sunset Strip”. Facing declining ratings, Jack Webb was hired and he completely revamped the show. Turning an often lighthearted dtetective show into a film noirish and getting rid of every character except Efrem Zimbalist Jr, whose character changes. Not content with that, but in an era where few shows were two parters (and only “Lassie” ever had a three parter), Webb opened the season with a five part episode where William Shatner is one of a cast of thousands.
I will wait till all are broadcast before watching but I have to say the stand alone episode “White Lie” starring Elizabeth Montgomery as a biracial woman hiding this fact in wealthy Connecticut was quite good. But that may be due to Montgomery.
Jesus Christ. Surely you jest. I read that the show tanked when Kookie became a fellow PI instead of a beatnik and young ladies stopped watching.
Takei was also “Akira” at the Happy Sumo Restaurant in the ***Simpsons ***episode “One Fish, Two Fish, Blow Fish, Blue Fish.” He was the guy who almost poisoned Homer with fugu.