John O'Creagh has offered up another of his Facebook poems to deal with the world of the Toob..... Have you had a look of late at talk shows? Blather, bellow, bull and squawk shows They’re married to a single point of view Whether they are left or right On at daytime or at night Here is what they usually do Set up foemen made of straw Berate abuse and over-awe Soundly tan the foemen’s hides And claim to represent both sides And in closing then lay down the law
Let a talk show host begin The objective is to “win” Never to explore a point of view Though it makes for good TV This fondness for a “victory” Doesn’t help us learn what might be true
At a charity boxing match between Benny Brenoff and Leland Lamont, Callahan served as the referee.
From Wikipedia: Mushy Callahan was the ring name of Vincent Morris Scheer, a boxer and a champion in the light welterweight division.
Callahan was born on November 3, 1905, in New York City. He took the ring name of Mushy Callahan and began boxing in 1924.
On September 21, 1926, Callahan fought Pinky Mitchell for Mitchell's light welterweight championship. Mitchell was the first champion of this weight class, which had been created in 1922. At the time, not many people recognized the championship of this weight class as a legitimate title. Nevertheless, Callahan beat Mitchell over ten rounds and won the title.
Callahan defended his title twice in 1927 and fought a variety of non-title fights from 1927 to 1929.
In 1930 he put his title on the line against Jack Kid Berg on February 18 in London, England. Berg knocked him out in ten rounds to win the title. There is some dispute about the title being on the line in this fight. The National Boxing Association (NBA) had stripped Callahan of its version of the title before the Berg fight. Furthermore, at the time of the Berg fight, Britain did not recognize the light welterweight division. The New York State Athletic Commission recognized the Berg-Callahan fight as being for the title, however, and Berg won NBA recognition in 1931.
JIMMY LENNON
AS SEEN IN:
'Mr. Lucky'
"The Gladiators"
SYNOPIS:
For that charity boxing match at the Valley Garden, Jimmy Lennon served as the ring announcer.
From Wikipedia:
Jimmy Lennon Sr. (April 13, 1913 - April 20, 1992) was one of the top announcers of the boxing and wrestling world.
Known as "The Voice of the Olympic" Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, as well as "The Irishman With the Spanish Accent." For over 40 years, Lennon's unique professional ring eloquence and dapper style of fight announcing and tuxedo attire, along with innovated showmanship and the singing of the United States National Anthem could be seen live at The Grand Olympic Auditorium or over the television networks.
Lennon first became a ring announcer in Santa Monica, California, at the Ocean Park Arena, while working there as the regular patriotic singer of the National Anthem. The regular ring announcer at the time was unavailable so the event coordinator asked Lennon if he would fill in as ring announcer. At the time Lennon was wearing a tuxedo to sing in, and also wore the tuxedo during that first announcing job. His boss liked Lennon's performance so well, he hired Lennon as the regular fight announcer, tuxedo and all. Lennon started the "Tux Announcer" style that night.
Lennon appeared in 75 productions, including "Raging Bull", "Rocky III", "Main Event", "California Split", "Tough Guys", "Kid Galahad", 'The Munsters', and 'The Monkees'. Lennon was the character of a Jakks Pacific action figure released in 2007, depicting his "Rocky III" appearance. He was the uncle of the Lennon Sisters vocal group on 'The Lawrence Welk Show'.
'McHale's Navy' is a good example of a TV show from the Trueniverse also being a TV show in Earth Prime-Time. In a recent episode of 'Mad Men', Bobby Draper was watching an episode of the Navy sitcom set in WWII (even though he was being punished with a TV ban for ripping the wallpaper.)
But it's an even better example of how those shows within shows are not the exact same ones as seen in the real world.
This is because of the casting. In the original 'McHale's Navy', the stars were Ernest Borgnine as McHale, Joe Flynn as Captain Binghamton, and Tim Conway as Ensign Parker.
But not so in Toobworld! The televersions of Borgnine and Flynn are still playing their roles, but it's Bucky Bright playing Charles Parker instead of Conway. We learned this as Kenneth the Page gave Bucky a tour of the '30 Rock' hallways. (We also learned that in Toobworld, 'McHale's Navy' was an NBC show and not an ABC show as it is in the real world.)
Tim Conway played the role of Bucky Bright, which is why Ensign Parker looked the same in both versions of the show. The comic actor ended up winning the Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for playing Bucky.
Before the series ended earlier this year, we never got a chance to see Bucky Bright again on '30 Rock'. And in the general scheme of things in world of television production, we'll probably never see him pop up again in some other show. As funny as Conway was in the role, Bucky isn't exactly the type of character who would get called upon to reprise the role elsewhere, like Detective Munch, Jose Jiminez, and Larry, Darryl, and Darryl....
But then... we do things differently at Toobworld Central!
In the "School Recital" episode of 'Mike & Molly', Mike and his partner Carl arrested a serial nudist named Brian. And he was played by Tim Conway.
I'm making the claim that Brian was Bucky Bright.
"Bucky" is not a name you give to a baby at his christening. It's a name you give to a cartoon rabbit. So "Bucky" was the elderly comic's nickname - and it's pozz'ble, just pozz'ble, that his true first name was "Brian".
And this would disable the Zonk in 'Mike & Molly' Conway's character calls Mike "Captain Binghamton". Brian "Bucky" Bright was making a reference to the character in a TV show in which he once starred.
I feel that's a pretty solid "Game Of The Name" and I'm sticking to it.
Should Tim Conway show up again in some TV show in which his character's name doesn't contradict either of these two appearances, he'd be in the running for the Birthday Honors List for inclusion in the TV Crossover Hall Of Fame!
The Remington Steele Agency was hired by three celebrities from Hollywood's Golden Age to find out who was sending them threatening letters. Virginia Mayo was one of the clients while the other two were Lloyd Nolan and Dorothy Lamour.
From Wikipedia:
Virginia Mayo (November 30, 1920 – January 17, 2005) was an American film actress.
Born Virginia Clara Jones, she began her career in vaudeville. She progressed to films and during the 1940s established herself as a supporting player in such films as "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946) and "White Heat" (1949).
Jerry and Kramer are going to the Tony Awards, Jerry as an invited guest, Kramer as a seat filler. While filling a seat for a nominee who has stepped away, Kramer is accidentally whisked to the stage by excited Tony winners moving through his row. As a result, he receives a Tony Award for the fictional musical Scarsdale Surprise (based on the killing of Dr. Herman Tarnower), in which Raquel Welch is the star.
Kramer uses his Tony as a ticket into Sardi's, where the producers of Scarsdale Surprise have a proposition for him - he can only keep his Tony award if he fires Raquel Welch, who like Sam, also doesn't swing her arms when she moves; the reason the producers ask Kramer to fire Welch is because they are terrified of her ("I heard from someone that when they cut one of her lines, she climbed up the rope on side of the stage and started dropping lights on peoples heads." as Kramer quotes).
Kramer does fire her and she responds by attacking him and destroying his Tony as well. While walking down the street afterwards, Raquel sees Elaine describing Sam's walk to the police; thinking that Elaine is mocking her, Raquel attacks her, too.
This is the 'Sherlock Holmes' episode that can be considered linked to the 'Doctor Who' episode "The Crimson Horror". Technically the connection can only be found in BookWorld, when Dr. Watson mentions the repulsive red leech as a story not yet shared with the world. But the TV episode not only omits that, but Dr. Watson is missing as well (because Edward Hardwicke was busy on another film project.) So Charles Grey stepped in as Mycroft Holmes.
Here's an episode of 'Dream On' in which Dr. Brothers made a cameo appearance. The series was a favorite of mine - I felt a kindred spirit in Martin Tupper (sadly, not in the ladies' department). But if you don't feel the same, then you just have to watch the first few minutes in order to see the late pop psychologist.
As the Trickster once said, "Reality is boring, that's why I change it whenever I can."
I'm just "The Man Who Viewed Too Much", and "Inner Toob" is a blog exploring and celebrating the 'reality' of an alternate universe in which everything that ever happened on TV actually takes place.
Most of my theories about the TV Universe come from thinking inside the box and thus can't be proven. But I've never been one to shy away from a tall tale.....
Remember: "The more you watch, the more you've seen!"
