Just wanted to share one more picture of E.J. Peaker as Natalie Schaefer as Lovey Howell in "Surviving Gilligan's Island". She's pictured here with Steve Vinovich, who played Jim Backus (who played Thurston Howell on 'Gilligan's Island'.)
In the 'Cheyenne' episode of "War Party", Cheyenne Bodie found himself attracted to the wife of a 
man he had shot in self-defense. Her name was Jeannie, and she felt the pull as well, offering herself to him willingly.
and Jeannie did succumb to their passion during the night. (At one point we see Willis Peake - played by James Garner - watching the cabin window.... But what can he hear from there as well?) 
After dealing with a monster like Hitler for Friday the Thirteenth, I thought something different was in order, to cleanse the palate for the "As Seen On TV" feature. And for Valentine's Day, I thought I'd 'fess up to a teen-age crush (one of many)......
BCnU!
As Adolph Hitler is in the spotlight today for our "As Seen On TV" feature, I thought we'd take a look at the man in Toobworld, specifically the reason why his appearance kept changing......
This is why "The Man In The Bottle" is part of the Toobworld Essentials collection. It provides the splainin as to why Hitler's appearance kept changing in Toobworld - that genie (or another one from a different bottle) kept replacing the Fuhrer with men who wished to be a man of power in the world. Really, look at the "Hitler" with Tony and Doug from 'The Time Tunnel'; that's got to be a wannabe! And the same goes for that "Hitler" who survived the explosion in 'Highlander'. (As for that scene in 'Red Dwarf', that's stock footage into which Dave was inserted. However, Kenneth Hadley did portray Hitler in an episode.)
My blogging buddy Mercurie, who runs "A Shroud Of Thoughts" (Look to the left for the link!), clued me in to a campaign being run by Pillsbury - "Home Is Calling". In the commercial, people are clicking their heels and thinking there's no place like home - for fresh out of the oven biscuits.
Thanks, Merc!
Michael Sheard's portrayal of Hitler stands as the official one for Toobworld. He played the role of the Fuhrer in the TV movies "Rogue Male", "Hitler Of The Andes", and "The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission", and in two episodes of the series 'The Tomorrow People'.
Top left - as a young man, pondering his future in his father's study
In August later this year, we'll be celebrating the 70th anniversary of the movie version of 'The Wizard Of Oz'. And as far as commercial tie-ins go, the celebration has begun a little bit early.
* I thought Orange was a cinema chain; the commercial still doesn't make it clear for those out of the loop, like me. But thanks to Medium Rob for alerting me to my mistake!
Phil Carey has passed away at the age of 83. Most of the obituaries I've seen have focused on his role as Asa Buchanan, the transplanted Texan whose family eventually took over most of the major venues in Llanview, Pennsylvania. (It amazes me how many women fell under Asa's spell over the years, all the while his first wife was locked away in the attic, I think. But it's Victor Newman on my Mom's favorite soap, 'The Young & The Restless', who really surprises me with the number of women who are caught up in whatever machismo he's peddling.)
Some of my blogging buddies also remembered Carey as Captain Parmalee in 'Laredo', but that show never crossed my radar, much as I love TV Westerns. (I'll have to check to see if they have any episodes at the Paley Center.) Carey shows up in one of my TV history books with a picture from his 1950's series 'Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers'. That one was before my time and not something that would have been widely available in syndication even back in the 1960's.
But on a personal level, my first introduction to Philip Carey was in February of 1971. At the time, I was big into a show called 'Room 222' and it was one of the many shows for which I monopolized the family TV.
I think my Dad regretted introducing me to the show, but it was too late for all of us; 'All In The Family' became a staple in the household after that. I think I gave up 'Room 222' for good soon after as well; the allure of sitcoms changed with 'All In The Family'. (Philip Carey showed up in an episode of 'Room 222', coincidentally.)
Beth's sister Mary was saddled with entertaining me at their mother's condo while Beth was at work; so while she worked on some photo albums, she explained to me about all of the characters and plotlines on 'One Life To Live' (still one of her favorite shows). I still remember to this day that most of that hour concerned Dorian Lord and her husband and Cassie, but that oilcat billionaire Asa showed up during the episode and I remembered him from 'All In The Family' episode from nearly a decade before.
Here are Mr. Carey's television credits:
The year is still young and I think we've already got a lock for the 2009 Toobits Award winner for Biggest Zonk. Actress Summer Glau, who plays Cameron the Terminator protecting John Conner in 'The Sarah Conner Chronicles' will play herself in the March 9th episode of 'The Big Bang Theory'.
BCnU!
So we're back in the Tooniverse, and this time it's the 31st Century, in which the hologram of Evil Lincoln is running amok on an episode of 'Futurama'!
I'm really late with this, but then my reluctance to do obit posts has been known around here at Toobworld Central for some time......
But as this is a blog about the universe of television, his TV credits are what's important here.....
I'll have more on certain characters played by James Whitmore to come.
Back in the mid-1980's, five friends met regularly in New Jersey to play poker. They were Pete, Jake, Marty, Tony, and Norman; all but Norman as seen in "Dealer's Choice", an episode of 'The New Twilight Zone'. We don't know their last names, but we can make a guess as to who Marty was... and what other TV show he came from. 
With the first theory, Marty is actually Morty Seinfeld, Jerry's dad on 'Seinfeld'. Although everybody called him Marty in the 'T-Zone' episode, it was just a play on his name Morty. There may have been some private joke between the friends that served as the reason for the name change, but to everybody else in his life, he was still Morty.
With the similar names of "Marty" and "Morty", and the fact that both characters were played by Barney Martin, the twin brother theory has more heft. Even though making Marty into Morty creates a stronger link to 'Seinfeld', the twin brother theory is simpler to present. (Occam's Razor: "When multiple competing hypotheses are equal in other respects, the principle recommends selecting the hypothesis that introduces the fewest assumptions and postulates the fewest entities.")
Oh, yeah. The Devil. Didn't I mention the Devil? Well, it had to have some kind of 'T-Zone' twist, right? Otherwise, it would be just an 'Odd Couple' poker game.....
'American Masters' on PBS looked at the life and work of silent movie-maker DW Griffith and has this to say about him on their website: 
I'm wondering if 'Law & Order' will be ripping from the headlines to do a story that's loosely based on the crash of the USAir flight into the Hudson. Because of all the media coverage and fighting over who got the first interview, I'd have the crash be part of the background; the real story would kick off when somebody gets murdered while trying to nail down the rights to the first interview.
We're back in the live-action TV universe for the "As Seen On TV" feature, but we're in the sketch comedy dimension known as Skitlandia.
"I don't know who that owl is,
In my open letter contribution, in case the print is too small for you to read, I wrote: "Even though your show boasted over 280 murders in 12 years, it was always a gentle, classy puzzler that never stooped to using shock instead of suspense. But even so, if I was at a party and you showed up, I'd get out before I ended up as the corpse of the week!"
Here is her younger self, and the mode of transport that catapulted her to fame.
We've got an early contender for "Best Crossover From Another Medium" with the introduction of the Legion of Superheroes in 'Smallville'. However, they weren't identified as Cosmic Boy, Lightning Lad, and Saturn Girl; instead they gave Clark Kent their given names of Rokk Krinn, Garth Ranzz, and Irma Ardeen, respectively.
This is one of the numbers in the sequence from 'Lost' which has had so much significance in the lives of the Oceanic 815 survivors.
When 'Fringe' premiered last fall, one of its signature features were the giant block letters that appeared at the beginning of each scene to establish the location. But these weren't just graphics that were super-imposed on the scene. They were an actual presence within the shot. From the ground in Iraq, one could have looked up at the underside of the letters to spell out "Baghdad"; "Middletown, Ct." had rain bouncing off of it.
It's certainly happened in TV commercials, that I know. In a recent Volkswagen blipvert, a new VW model drove through a series of words floating in the air. Some fluttered due to the car's air-stream; others separated to let the car through. And finally, the car just burst right through them, much to the amazement of the sentient VW bug that was observing.
To mark February as Black History Month during our tenth anniversary celebration of Toobworld's TV Crossover Hall of Fame, this week we're inducting Rosa Parks as our historical figure.
I've come to the realization that high-definition television is going to ruin a lot of childhood memories of old shows.
