AS SEEN ON TV: BUTCH CASSIDY (& THE SMILING KID)

AS SEEN ON:
'Stories Of The Century'

AS PLAYED BY:
Joe Sawyer

Butch Cassidy (13 April 1866 – circa 7 November 1908), born Robert LeRoy Parker, was a notorious American train robber, bank robber and leader of the Hole in the Wall Gang.
(from Wikipedia) Here he's seen with "The Smiling Kid", with whom he escaped down to Uruguay, where of course Matt Clark once again caught up with them. The Smiling Kid should be recognizable as the great Slim Pickens.

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AS SEEN ON TV: GERONIMO

AS SEEN ON:
'Stories Of The Century'

AS PLAYED BY:
Chief Yowtachie

Geronimo ("one who yawns" in English) (June 16, 1829 – February 17, 1909) was a prominent Native American leader of the Chiricahua Apache who fought against Mexico and the United States and their expansion into Apache tribal lands for several decades.
(from Wikipedia)

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AS SEEN ON TV: HENRY PLUMMER

AS SEEN ON:
'Stories Of The Century'

AS PLAYED BY:
John Dehner

Henry Plummer (1832 – 1864) served as sheriff of Bannack, Montana, from May 24, 1863 until January 10, 1864, when he was hanged without trial by the controversial Montana Vigilantes. Some believe him to have been the head of a gang that was responsible for nearly a hundred deaths; he was hanged along with twenty-two others for their presumed crimes.
(from Wikipedia)

AS SEEN ON TV: JOHNNY RINGO

AS SEEN ON:
'Stories Of The Century'

AS PLAYED BY:
Donald Curtis

John Peters Ringo (May 3, 1850 – July 13, 1882), better known as Johnny Ringo, was a cowboy who became a legend of the American Old West because of, among other things, his affiliation with the Clanton Gang in the era of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, in Tombstone, Arizona. That group of outlaws was known commonly as "the cow-boys" around Tombstone, and Ringo himself was called "the King of the Cowboys". However, beyond verbal confrontations, he took no part in those events.

Ringo was occasionally erroneously referred to as "Ringgold" by the newspapers of the day, but this was not his name, and there is no evidence that he ever deliberately used it.

Ironically, despite his fame and notoriety, there are no records that he ever actually had a single classic gunfight, shooting unarmed men not counting. Even his violent death may have been at his own hand. By comparison, companions such as former Texas Ranger turned outlaw Scott Cooley, who is little known today, better fit the title of "gunfighter" than did Ringo.
(from Wikipedia)

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AS SEEN ON TV: JOHN WESLEY HARDIN

JOHN WESLEY HARDIN

AS SEEN ON:
'Stories Of The Century'

PLAYED BY:
Richard Webb

From Wikipedia:
John Wesley Hardin (May 26, 1853—August 19, 1895) was an outlaw and gunfighter of the American Old West. He was born in Bonham, Fannin County, Texas. When Hardin went to prison in 1878, he claimed to have killed 44 men. Hardin's criminal career resulted not only in the deaths of his victims but also in the deaths of his brother Joe and seven cousins who were hanged by Texas Rangers seeking revenge.

And since it's Tuesday, here's a second, more recent, portrayal of John Wesley Hardin:
AS SEEN IN:
"The Streets Of Laredo"

AS PLAYED BY:
Randy Quaid

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Toby O'B

TVXOHOF, 08/2009-C: HUCKLEBERRY HOUND

Mickey Mouse serves as the "face" of Disney animation; the same is true for Bugs Bunny and Warner Bros., Tom and Jerry at MGM, Woody Woodpecker for Walter Lantz, and Rocky and Bullwinkle for Jay Ward.

But what about at Hanna-Barbera? They've created so many different types of styles - from funny animals to cartoonish humans ('Fintstones', 'Jetsons', 'Wacky Races') to "realistic" characters like 'Jonny Quest' - that no one character could probably sum up the studio's oeuvre.

If we focus only on the funny animals, even then who could be the official face among the many characters they created? Some might argue for Yogi Bear, but I'm throwing my support behind Huckleberry Hound.

Huckleberry Hound is the calm center in the maelstrom of Hanna-Barbera, and although he may not play as big a role anymore when it comes to their animation projects, the easy-going blue canine is still honored by other animators. And this is why Huckleberry Hound is the Tooniverse candidate for induction into the TV Crossover Hall of Fame during the dog days of August.



Here are a list of the major projects which qualify him for entry: Greg Berg
. . . "Yo Yogi!" (1991)

Daws Butler
. . . "Galaxy Goof-Ups" (1978)
. . . "Scooby's All Star Laff-A-Lympics" (1977) TV Series
. . . "The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie" (1972) {Yogi's Ark Lark}
. . . "The Huckleberry Hound Show" (1958)
. . . "Yogi's Gang" (1973)
. . . "Yogi's Space Race" (1978)
. . . Casper's First Christmas (1979)
. . . The Flintstones' 25th Anniversary Celebration (1986)
. . . The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound (1988)
. . . Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose (1987)
. . . Yogi Bear's All-Star Comedy Christmas Caper (1982)
. . . Yogi's First Christmas (1980)

Tom Kenny
. . . "Evil Con Carne" (2004)
{Jealousy, Jealous Do/Hector, King of the Britons (#2.4)}

Mark Schiff
. . . "Wake, Rattle & Roll" (1990)

Karl Wiedergott
. . . "The Simpsons" (1989)
{Behind the Laughter (#11.22)}

Ol' Huck even appeared in TV commercials, mostly for Kellogg's cereals. The show and the commercials were blended together in the credit sequences with more of an accent on the sponsor, to the point where you hardly even saw that oh so merry chuckleberry......



Here's Huckleberry Hound as he appeared on 'The Simpsons', proving why he belongs in the TV Crossover Hall of Fame:


Welcome to the club, Huck!



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AS SEEN ON TV: TOM HORN

TOM HORN

AS SEEN IN:
'Stories Of The Century'

AS PLAYED BY:
Louis Jean Heydt

Tom Horn (November 21, 1860 – November 20, 1903) was an American Old West lawman, scout, soldier, hired gunman, detective, outlaw and assassin. On the day before his 43rd birthday, he was hanged in Cheyenne, Wyoming for murder.

Although Horn's exploits as an assassin far overshadowed any other accomplishments he made during his lifetime, during his time as a Pinkerton Detective he killed seventeen men in regular shootouts during his four years of employment with them, between the years of 1890 and 1894. Of the Old West gunmen, with known confirmation of their shootout exploits, only Wild Bill Hickok, John Wesley Hardin and James "Killer" Miller would be close to that number.

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Toby O'B

AS SEEN ON TV: WILLIAM QUANTRILL

WILLIAM QUANTRILL

AS SEEN IN:
'Stories Of The Century'

AS PLAYED BY:
Bruce Bennett

William Clarke Quantrill (July 31, 1837 – June 6, 1864), was a Confederate guerrilla leader during the American Civil War. After leading a Confederate bushwhacker unit along the Missouri-Kansas border in the early 1860s, which included the infamous raid and sacking of Lawrence, Kansas in 1863, Quantrill eventually ended up in Kentucky where he was killed in a Union ambush in 1864, aged 27.

No matter the production or fictional universe, every portrayal I've ever seen of Quantrill is played by a much older actor. In Toobworld, that includes Broderick Crawford, Forrest Tucker, and in this case, Bruce Bennett. Only Robin Wilcox in an episode of 'The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne' came close to being the same age.

A pozz'ble recastaway solution? The TV West was full of posers, who wanted the glory gained by others, and were willing to claim they were the legend themselves - even to the death. Many of these "Quantrills" were probably bitter ex-Confederate soldiers who had nothing to show for their lives, so they decided to usurp one that promised revenge for the South.....

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Toby O'B

IT'S CREAM OF MUSHROOM SOUP TIME!

While I'm off on vacation again at The Lake, I'll be running a theme for the Daily "As Seen On TV" feature, just as I did back in May. At that time, I featured most of the Presidents and their First Ladies from the mini-series 'Backstairs At The White House'.

Since this is all happening in August, a month in which I traditionally salute the American TV Western (historical edition), every day you'll see an historical figure as portrayed on the 1950's series 'Stories Of The Century'. (On the Tuesdays, you'll get a double shot of one of them as seen in another series or TV movie as well.)

'Stories Of The Century' was a highly fictionalized account of the lives of these Western desperadoes. Somehow Matt Clark, who worked as a detective for the railroad, tracked them all down himself. (Matt Clark was played by Jim Davis, whose greatest claim to fame would be as Jock Ewing on 'Dallas' two decades later.)

It just may be that 'Stories Of The Century' will turn out to be the visualized boasts of Matt Clark, in much the same way that 'Jack Of All Trades' is considered at Toobworld Central to be the ravings of a syphilitic Jack Styles looking back on his life.....

There will also be the weekly inductions into the TV Crossover Hall Of Fame, which if I'm not mistaken will be of a character from the Tooniverse and of a Toobworld location.

At any rate, I hope you'll enjoy these pre-plotted postings to Inner Toob and I'll see you in September!

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THUS CROONETH THE PENGUIN

Before I leave on vacation, I thought I'd leave you with the musical stylings of The Penguin, here voiced by Burgess Meredith who portrayed the arch-fiend on 'Batman'.......



BCnU in 2 weeks!

PS:
The Penguin was inducted into the TV Crossover Hall Of Fame in December of 2005.