Sunday, May 22, 2016

Litte Orphan Raquel


The country's reigning sex symbol, Raquel Welch, spoofed comic strip characters including Brenda Starr and Little Orphan Annie (seen here with Archie Bunker himself, Carroll O'Conner, as Daddy Warbucks) in an early 1970s CBS TV special called THE FUNNY PAPERS. 


Monday, May 9, 2016

William Schallert R.I.P.


The very definition of "that guy," when I was growing up, my parents could never remember William Schallert's name. It was always, "Hey, it's Patty Duke's daddy." That's pretty much what so many obits are calling him today, too, but he was also Nancy Drew's father, Dobie Gillis's teacher, and if he missed appearing at least once on any classic sixties series, I don't know what it would have been. STAR TREK, THAT GIRL, BEWITCHED, MARCUS WELBY, MD. While his output slowed down as he approached the age of 90, he never stopped working, appearing memorably in TRUE BLOOD in the past decade and a classic, surprisingly blue, performance on STU'S SHOW!
R.I.P.