Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast - Mini-Ep #78: 1966 TV Premieres, Part 1

Episode Date: September 22, 2016

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Oh, yes. Fivish Finkel passed. He would have been a great guest. Yeah, we didn't get to him, sadly. And last time I was on here, I mentioned that I was looking for the Pontiac commercial. Oh, somebody found it. Yes. Yes. I got three names who had found it. Yes. Yes. I got three names who had found it.

Jason Abram, John E.L. Tenney, and Sarah Ryan. And I saw the commercial. I haven't seen it since I was- Is Leo Gorce in it? Yes. Yes. I know the one you mean. See, I remembered Elijah Cook Jr., Lon Chaney Jr., and Broderick Crawford.

But also in it is Mike Mazurski. Oh, Mazurki. Mazurki. And Richard Robert Strauss. Oh. And the last person you see there is Leo Garcia. Yeah, it's weird. It's very weird.

I think there's a whole series of those. I'll send you a website. There's a whole series of Pontiac commercials from that era. There was one with Louis Nye, Tom Poston, and Don Knotts. Oh, the Steve Allen crew. Yeah. It's fascinating. Oh, and one with Victor Borger.

Really? Yeah. We gotta dig those out. What was the era of these things? In the 60s. I would say early 60s, Gil? Yeah. Do got to dig those out. What was the era of these things? In the 60s. I would say early 60s, Gil. Yeah, yeah. Do we know who the creative force was behind the commercials? No, we do not. That's our researcher, Paul Rayburn, speaking, obviously.

Paul is here with us. Yeah, Five-ish Finkel would have been great, and he could have told us about the Yiddish Theater. Oh, yeah. We touched on it a little bit with Marilyn Michaels. Yeah. But, you know, as I always say when respective guests pass, we can't get to everybody.

But like I always say, hey, what's the rush? Exactly. Stop and smell the flowers. So here's – we're going to deviate here. We've been doing a lot of one-hit wonders, but we're going to do something different. We're going to do, we're going to talk about 1966, a year in television. Okay. Because it's interesting.

Batman, it's the anniversary, the 50th anniversary of Batman. The last two weeks was the 50th anniversary of both Star Trek and the Monkees. Yeah. Which a lot of people posted on social media. And the Green Hornet by the same company, Greenway, that made Batman. So I went to Wikipedia and I looked at what other shows debuted in 66, and it's quite a list. So I wanted to see how many of these you actually remember. Or might ring a bell. And Paul is here

with us. A couple of these. Do you remember Batfink? And Karate? I remember the title. It was a Batman knockoff. It was an animated, it was a spoof created by an animation director named Hal Seeger.

Batman, of course, is on the list. This is an alphabetical list, so I'm just going to go through these and see which you remember. Now, a previous guest, Chuck McCann, did voices for an animated series that premiered in 66. And that was Cool McCool. Very good. Cool McCool.

A pen I use for my secret messages. That's Frank dial Yes. Cool McCool. A pen I use for my secret messages. Here's Frank dialing up Cool McCool. Sorry, I guess some of my secrets leaked out. It does sound like Jack Benny. That's actually Bob McFadden, right? Bob McFadden. That's Cool McCool. So tell us about the voice, because I always thought it was Chuck McCann. So Chuck McCann did many of the characters, but Bob McFadden did McCool and I think one other.

And he did say right from the start that he was modeling them after Jack Benny. Interesting. And, of course, you knew this, Frank, but one of the creators of Cool McCool was Bob Kane, who was also one of the creators of Batman. Yep, and a guy named Al Brodax. There was an old cartoon. I remember just like one episode. It may have been a Warner Brothers, where it was a caveman and his pet dinosaur. And they modeled that after Jack Benny.

Really? And they had a guy doing a great Jack Benny imitation. You don't know the name of it? No, I don't. We will put that out to our listeners. Yeah. Maybe we can find something too. What do we know about it? I know it may have been Warner Brothers, but I'm not positive.

And it was a caveman who looked and talked like Jack Benny, and he had a pet dinosaur. It was just one episode. Speaking of Jack Benny, did you know our guest tonight, Bob Einstein, his dad, Parkia Karkas, Harry Einstein, did a series called Meet Me at Parky's, and it co-starred Frank Nelson. Oh my God. And we didn't ask.

We neglected to ask Bob about that. Let's go through some of these other shows from 66 and we'll see what Paul has on them and we'll see what you remember. A show called Doctari D-A-T D-A-K-T-A-R-I by Ivan Tors, the guy that did all the animal shows, General Ben, and he did Flipper.

Yeah. Now, wasn't there a movie, Doctari, or something like that? I don't know that there was a movie. It was about a doctor in Africa saving animals, protecting animals from poachers. For some reason, I'm thinking Doaktari movie and Henry Mancini. Is that... Look it up, my friend. I could be mistaken. You're thinking of Mondo Connie.

I'm staying in the D's here, and here's a favorite of yours, Gil Darkshadows, from 1966. Anything to do with monsters, I would like, I would watch. Anything to do with horror. Even though it was a soap, yes. That was one of anything to do with monsters. I would like I would watch anything to do with horror. Even though it was a soap. Oh, yes. It was an afternoon soap.

And even as a kid, though, I remember watching it going, you know, this is really shit. Well, with soap opera budget, right? It was turn them out. Zero. Yeah. Zero budget. Yeah. With Jonathan Frid as Barnabas Collins. And Jerry Lacey, who would later on play Humphrey Bogart.

Oh, my God. With Woody Allen. That's right. And play it again. There is one, I remember watching this on TV. He's playing like a high priest, and he's doing this, you know, chant over a grave. And a fly is buzzing around his face and crawling on his nose. And it's like, you know, he can't interrupt the scene and slap the fly away.

So he's trying to be dramatic, and the fly is like walking into his nostril. The stuff you remember. And David Selby, right, we talked about before. That's right. Was Quentin the werewolf. Who would later be in that cop one. Yeah, the super cops. Yes.

With Ron Liebman, who's coming up on the show. And one thing I have in common with David Selby, both of us played Abraham Lincoln. That's right. You played him in A Million Ways to Die in the West. Yes, and he did it in some musical, TV musical about the life story. Fascinating. What do you got, Paul? So, Doctari, what I was thinking of was Hotari.

Hotari. Hotari. I think that's a Howard Hawks movie. Well, I'm not sure, but that's a baby elephant walk. That gave us baby elephant walk. That was Mancini. And has absolutely nothing to do with Doctari. Right. Nothing at all.

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She couldn't make a fried egg. Is that true, Dara? So I'm here to tell everyone, our listeners, that Gilbert is telling the truth. He is. I cannot cook at all. Until now. Okay. Until now.

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I thought you might be unhappy with that. All right, let's see if we can stump Gilbert with this one. How about The Double Life of Henry Fife with red buttons? Oh, God. Mean anything? Yes, I do remember the title, and I remember him being in it, but, boy, I don't remember anything else. Sort of a Get Smart knockoff kind of a thing.

Only went 17 episodes. A game show called I Guess EYE, hosted by Bill Cullen. Does that mean anything to you? Mel Brooks. I saw Mel Brooks recently at Radio City, by the way. He had a great Bill Cullen story. Oh, yes. Which I'll tell you off the air.

I heard that one. You've heard that one. Here's a family affair we all know. Oh, yeah. With Sebastian Cabot and Brian Keith, also debuted in 1966. How about this cartoon, Frankenstein Jr. and the Impossibles? Does that mean anything to you? Frankenstein Jr.?

He was a big robot, and there was a kid named Buzz Conroy. And his father was the inventor of a Frankenstein robot. See, now what I- Ted Cassidy was the voice of the- Oh, wow. Of the Frankenstein. See, what I remember as a kid was the Milton the Monster Show. Oh, my God. That has to be even older than 66.

And yeah, and it was like, that was like a goofy looking Frankenstein. And the guy doing the voice was obviously imitating Jim Neighbors. Of course, as you would. Yeah, and I think the theme song was something like, it's creepy, it's spooky, it's altogether kooky, the Milton the Monster Show. Now let's take a trip upon the hill and get to the

beware of the troubles upon the way or you may take a spill. Wow. The Milton the monster show. What do you got on that, Paul? Check it out. Let me see what I can find. Go on to the next one. Oh, and he goes two drops of essence of terror,

three drops of sinister sauce. When the stirring's done, can I lick the spoon? Ha ha, of course. Now, you probably haven't seen that in 45 years. Yes, and I remember the words. I remember the lyrics. Gilbert is pretty close on the timing. That debuted on ABC in 1965.

Wow. So that's close. Ran through 68. Produced and directed by Hal Seeger. Hal Seeger, same guy who was behind Batfink. Wow. So that's close. Ran through 68. Produced and directed by Hal Seeger. Hal Seeger. Same guy who was behind Batfink.

Right. Yeah. Okay, we're going to move on since Gilbert doesn't remember Ted Cassidy. Bob McFadden was in the cast.

Bob McFadden. Oh, gee. Let's get the Bob McFadden thing out of the way. I've got to tell you, what's amazing about Bob McFadden... Go ahead.

Go, Frank. His son Brian has the identical voice. And Brian's a great stand-up comedian. Okay. He's here a lot doing commercials. He was the Serta Sleep Sheep in that campaign. I think that might even still be running.

But it's the spinning image of his father's voice. It's absolutely amazing. And his father was the voice of Kool McCool, was not Chuck McCann, which I thought all these years. Was the voice of Kool McCool. Was not Chuck McCann, which I thought all these years. And another son who's big in voiceovers is the son of Art Carney. Oh, yeah, Brian. Brian's great. Oh, Brian Carney.

Yeah. He's very big in voiceover. Yeah, he does tons of voiceover, and he also does on camera. Do you remember the Tide to Go commercial where there's a talking stain on a guy's shirt when he's trying to do a job interview? The boss in that oh yes it's brian carney and i i actually can say i worked with art carney in a commercial even though we never actually were together there were these series of commercials from espn where they they reenacted the talking dogs. And I mean the card-playing dogs.

Oh, okay. And they had it set up with these actual dogs that look like the ones, but real dogs and dressed up. Like from the bad paintings. And it was me, Art Carney, and, oh, Jesus, someone we're talking about getting on. What was he in? The Gary Shandling Show.

Oh, Jeffrey Tambor. Jeffrey Tambor. Yeah, Jeffrey Tambor, Art Carney, and me in a commercial. But you recorded separately. Yes. Oh, too bad. Great to meet Art Carney. Brian Carney still has the raccoon hat.

Oh, wow. That's also great trivia. Oh, wow. That's also great trivia. Oh, wow. He's a great guy. Great guy. All right, I'm going to jump ahead to the Gs. Anybody remember The Girl from Uncle, which was a spinoff of The Man from Uncle? I do remember that.

I don't think I ever watched it. Stephanie Powers. Yes. Stephanie Powers. I remember that, but I don't think I've ever seen it. 29 episodes and a great theme song by the legendary Jerry Goldsmith. Or the girl from Uncle. The girl from Uncle.

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Oh, was he a detective? He was a detective who was a genuine Iroquois. Oh. Because I think the real Burt Reynolds has some Indian heritage. So that was a series. It co-starred an actor, Bruce Glover. You know Bruce Glover? He's Christian Glover's dad.

Oh, my God. Yeah, and he's one of the two hitmen in Diamonds Are Forever. Oh, jeez. You'd recognize him if you saw him, and he's still around. I got a couple of other cast members from that show. Robert Duvall. Wow. Was on Hawk?

On Hawk and Martin Sheen. Were they guest stars or regulars? No cast. They list Burt, Robert, Martin, and then Bruce Glover. Wow. One of those pretty high-powered guests. That was before he did Dan August with your favorite, Norman Fell. Oh, that's right.

Here's one. Hey, Landlord. Does that mean anything? Oh, God. This is Gary Marshall's first show. The first sitcom that Garyary marshall i guess created starring will hutchins of sugarfoot fame who's still with us yeah and sand the late sandy baron a comic i always liked from brockley danny rose there was now i'm all of a sudden remembering Remembering a TV show starring Richard Castellano.

Oh, God. Yeah. Was it The Dumplings? Maybe. They were like an Italian family. Well, there was the Montefuscos that Bill Persky created. Yeah. Is that the one you're thinking of?

I don't know. I just remember. Richard Castellano was the one. Richard Castellano I don't know. I just remember. Paul's Richard Castellano. Yeah. Richard Castellano did a show called Joe and Sons, I think, unless I'm having a brain episode. We'll come back to it. Let's jump. So Hollywood Squares, hosted by our friend Peter Marshall, one of my favorite episodes that we've done of this show, premiered in 1966.

And here's one that I know you know because we've talked about it a lot. In fact, Steve Binder, who is another upcoming guest, directed an episode of this. It's in the eyes, Frankie. Oh, you mean It's About Time? Yeah. Here we go. It's about time. It's about space.

About two guys in the craziest place. It's about time. It's about space. About two guys in the craziest place. It's about time. It's about flight. Traveling faster than the speed of light. Here is their tale of the brave crew. I posted this on Facebook. It's so much fun. It's clearly the same people that sang the Gilligan's Island.

Oh, yes. Because it's Sherwood Schwartz. I've got the Richard Castellano reference, I think. Oh, I was just going to say in the writing, the song, too, also sounds a lot like F-Droop. A little bit. Yeah. And if I know Sherwood Schwartz, he composed the song, too, because he thought that's where the money was. Oh, yes, yes.

Joey Ross and Imogene Coca. It's about time. One of the strangest sitcom premises in history. Astronauts land on a planet of... Well, they go back in time. Oh, they go back in time. That's right. Prehistoric times. And Imogene Coca is a cavewoman.

That's a long story. What do you got? Richard S. Castellano. Yeah. The super. The super. The super. That's it. The landlord, the super. That's a long story. What do you got? Richard S. Castellano. Yeah. The super. The super. The super. That's it.

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We've taken a strong Italian turn. My wife makes me say that to her. Is that too much information? He also portrayed the lead Joe Vitale in Joe and Sons. There we go. Congratulations. All right. Geez. All right, Gottfried.

Yes. Give me a run for your money. Here we go. Oh, Mr. Gallagher. So we're going to jump around. We did It's About Time in the Eyes. Just stopping in the J's briefly, 1966 was the first year of something near and dear to your heart,

the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon. Oh, my God. Yes, at 50 years old. Now, but wasn't it originally Martin and Lewis did it? Well, I have here, and again, Wikipedia, not always totally reliable, but the Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon, by that name, probably was just Jerry as a solo, premiered in 66, so 50 years ago this year. And they got rid of him.

They got rid of Jerry Lewis. Yeah. And it's like, but the thing is when you think about the telethon no one says the muscular dystrophy you say the jerry lewis that's right that's right okay here's did you see the uh big interview with jerry in the times oh yeah oh the la times yeah yeah new york time was it new york i think it was new york and he brought up day the clown cried, or the interviewer did. Right, right.

Yeah. Interesting thing that he would, first time I think in a long time, he's given that kind of interview. You would certainly know you guys better than I would. Gilbert knows him. I never met the man. Yeah. Let's do the Ks. Here's a cartoon that I remember, and I be the only one But Frankie, hit the theme song

King Kong You know the name of King Kong You know the fame of King Kong Ten times as big as your land All right, when was the last time you heard that? That, I must have been one when I heard that. Not chronologically possible, but the King Kong show. Yes. From 1966. Yes. Wow. King Kong show from 1966.

Yes. Wow. King Kong getting into adventure. I think it was Rankin Bass. You know, you can take a look at that one. But as memory serves, and I knew, I thought, well, I'm either the only idiot who remembers this or Gilbert. But, yep, Rankin Bass, 25 episodes.

Wow. Yeah. But, yep, Rankin-Bass, 25 episodes. Wow. Yeah. From a company called Videocraft, I guess, Toy Animation, which is probably Japanese. It was a Japanese-English co-production. Speaking of Japanese-American co-productions, remember the movie The Manster? Yes, I gave it to you.

Yes. It's on that collection I just gave you the manster i love the title oh i remember that's where he looks at he opens his shirt in the mirror and he has an eye on his shoulder oh that's right yes i've seen clips of it i've never seen it all the way through. Who's in it? An eyeball, you mean. Oh, yeah. An eyeball.

The letter I. Yeah, the letter I. His name was Irving, so he had a cheap tattoo. I'm going to jump around to it in the interest of time. There was an animated Laurel and Hardy series that debuted in 1966, which I don't remember. We'll come back to that in a future episode. They had a bunch of those celebrity cartoon things. Like they had the Three Stooges cartoons.

It was the one David Lander did with Jerry Lewis. Oh, yes. The one Drew always talks about. Yes. What's that called? Will the real Jerry Lewis please sit down? Oh, I think so. Yeah. With Squiggy. There, of course? Will the real Jerry Lewis please sit down? Oh, man. I think so. Yeah.

And then there. With Squiggy. There, of course, was the Beatles cartoon. Yep. Yep. And then, of course, the Abbott and Costello one after Lou had died. Oh, that's right. With Stan Irwin.

Was it Stan Irwin or Stu Irwin? Stan Irwin, I think, doing the voice of Lou Costello. And what I remember with the Beatles one is they didn't even bother. Maybe they didn't even know that at that point what the Beatles sounded like. So they were just doing like typical English accents. Right. Yeah. So John Lennon sounded like, oh, what's his name?

That actor talks like that. James Mason? No, no. Oh, Ronald Coleman. Ronald Coleman. Yes, yes. Yeah, John Lennon's voice is like, Ah, yes, boys.

Let's go and play our next song. Ringo sounds like Robert Morley. Yeah. I remember being a kid and being so disappointed to find out that wasn't the actual Beatles. Yeah, especially in Yellow Submarine. And Yellow Submarine, too. Yeah.

Because there I was convinced it was them. Do you remember a show called Love on a Rooftop with Judy Karn and the late Pete Duhl? Oh, my God. I remember the show. I don't remember watching it. I remember the show. I remember the title. I remember the title. Pete Duhl, he was also in Alien Smith.

Alien Smith and Jones, yeah. And he commits suicide. I think on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, I think he shot himself. South Korean. That's a South Korean show. Which is? Love on a Rooftop. Oh, no, I'm sorry.

Love on a Rooftop. That was South Korean? Not that one. There was another Love on a Rooftop in 2015, a South Korean television drama. No, Love on a Rooftop, I think, and I don't know if I have the years right. It almost sounds like it was a knockoff of Barefoot in the Park. Oh, yeah. I think Nipsey Russell was in Love on a Rooftop.

I think he was the wacky neighbor. You want to dig into that one, Paul? And I'll jump around here. The Marvel Super Heroes cartoon debuted in 66. All I remember of that is the Marvel Super Heroes have arrived. A transistor superhero. Yeah, that was the theme song. The theme song kicks ass, but the animation was from Hunger.

I remember, too, they used to have that daily show of Marvel heroes. That's the show. Yeah. The Marvel superheroes. I remember. Was Captain America on a Monday? Yes, yes. Was Iron Man on a Tuesday?

No, I think the Hulk and then Iron Man. He's Bruce Banner, turns into the Hulk. Something, something, ain't he glamorous? And what they would do there. People will send us the lyrics now. They would show, they would have a still, a drawing of Spider-Man, and start shaking the picture up and down.

Really cheap animation. And it's like, you'd have like, what's his name, throw his. When Captain America throws his mighty shield. All who chose to oppose his shield must yield. So when he would throw the shield, you'd have a picture of a shield, and the camera would go by rather than animation. Right, right.

Those were so fucking hard. Well, they were stills. They were basically comic strip panels, cheaply animated. Yeah, and you'd shake the pictures or zoom in and out if that was a fight scene. They'd zoom in and out. Frankie, can you find the Marvel superheroes theme from 66? Maybe we'll go out on that one.

Let me check it out. What did you want to know about Love on a Rooftop? Now I got a little bit here. Yeah. Peter Duhl. Peter Duhl, who committed suicide. Okay, Judy Kern. Yeah.

And- Please tell me it was Nipsey Russell. One of the- Was, let's see, which I don't see him in. Damn it. Maybe Nipsey was in the Barefoot in the Park spin-off. One of the composers was Mundell Lowe. Why do I know that name?

We don't know. Wasn't there a black Barefoot in the Park? I know there was a black Lowe. Why do I know that name? We don't know. Wasn't there a black barefoot in the park? I know there was a black odd couple. Well, maybe. There was something. Maybe you're thinking the one with Scully Mitchell? Maybe. I'm pretty sure there was a black barefoot in the park.

We'll put that out there. Going quickly through the M's, the Mighty Heroes, which is another cartoon that we'll talk about on a future show. Mission Impossible debuted in 1966. Wow. Yeah. And I've got a connection there because the music was done by, well, what the fuck's his name? Oh, God.

Lalo Schifrin. Lalo Schifrin. Very good, God. Lalo Schifrin. Lalo Schifrin. Very good, Frank. And Lalo Schifrin also did the music for Bad Medicine. Which you were in. Yes, yes. Was Richard Pryor in that? No, no.

That was another you. Oh, that was Critical Condition. This may be the, this is arguably the best TV theme song of all time. Oh, yeah. This may be the, this is arguably the best TV theme song of all time. Oh, yeah. And how many times, for the music fans, this is in the time signature of 5-4, which is very unusual. And how many times have, like, comedy shows and movies as a joke put in the Mission Impossible? Lots of them.

I'm sure the Schifrin family was collecting, hopefully. So we'll stop at the M's because there's so many shows here. We'll do a second episode, and we'll go from N to the N. What do you got, Paul? Leonard Nimoy was also, I had forgotten his name. He was Paris. He made some appearances in Mission Impossible. He was a regular.

That's right. He was Paris. That's right. Yeah. Stephen Hill was the original. I also like the Hawaii Five-0 theme, but the Mission Impossible theme is pretty fucking cool. That's really a classic. It really is.

So let's stop at the, and then the Monkees and a show called the Monroe's. Do you remember the Monroe's? Oh, wait. Was that Monkees? No, no, no. The Monkees debuted 50 years ago this month. But there was a show with Monkees. Oh, with Monkees? 50 years ago this month. But there was a show with Monkees. Oh, with Monkees?

Yes. The Monroes. I don't think so. I think it was a family. I think it was a period show about a family. Take us out on the Monroes, Paul, and then we'll come back and we'll do another episode. We'll do N through Z in celebrating 1966. Monroes is a tough one because there's like

a million Monroe's in here. All right, we'll come back to it. We'll start the next episode with it. So, that wraps up 1966, A through M, a great year in television. Oh, yeah. You know, and we haven't even

gotten to some of these yet. Frankie? Overpump me, find a hunky superhero. Hot to fit this candy, hot to fit this candy, super hero. Frankie? Frankie? This has been Gilbert and Frank's Amazing Colossal Podcast. No, no, obsessions. Oh, God!

Oh, fuck. This has been Gilbert and Frank's amazing, colossal obsessions, and I'm going to go home and watch Lon Chaney, Burgess Meredith, Elijah Cook Jr., Mike Mazurky. And the Manster. Mike Mazurky and the Manster Robert Strauss and

Leo Garcia in the Pontiac commercial I'm jealous yeah we'll see you guys next time in part two

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