tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060041.post6229995131000467672..comments2024-02-25T11:00:47.125-05:00Comments on INNER TOOB: "THE RIFLEMAN" - DABBLING IN QUANTUM LEAPSToby O'Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06999037844031101965noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060041.post-67652971837242400962011-09-02T02:20:29.706-04:002011-09-02T02:20:29.706-04:00Very cool, as always.
Are any other Dabbs Greer c...Very cool, as always.<br /><br />Are any other Dabbs Greer characters likely to be earlier versions of his leaper? I don't think he could be Rev. Alden on Little House (which was roughly contempary to The Rifleman, in the 1870s and 1880s), but according to his wiki article, he appeared three times on the classic syndicated Adventures of Superman---all of which are highly likely to be visits by his leaper! However, this requires Toobworld to have a Superman, and I don't know if it does.<br /><br />In the 1952 episode, Superman on Earth, he was the first person ever to be saved by Superman. Hmm, sounds like a legitimate role to leap into, since originally he was a tourist of sorts.<br /><br />In the 1954 episode, Five Minutes to Doom, he was a man framed for capital murder. That could have been an early, random leap.<br /><br />Finally in the 1958 episode, The Superman Silver Mine, he was an eccentric millionaire. Sounds like another leap, perhaps another early and random leap. Sam frequently sounded like he was nuts, between his reactions to his sudden appearances and his apparently one-side conversations with Al.<br /><br />Greer had two roles as prison guard on death row, but because the second one is the older version of Tom Hanks' character in The Green Mile, I think this one is an obvious pass.<br /><br />However, he did have three priestly roles beyond Little House, which might have amused the leaper. He married Rob and Laura Petrie on the Dick Van Dyke show, married Mike and Carol Brady on the Brady Bunch, and a recurring role on Picket Fences. Skipping the Picket Fences part because I don't know the show, he might have married the Petries and the Bradys partly because the men were somewhat famous in their field--Rob Petrie as the head writer of a comedy variety show filmed in New York, Mike Brady a successful Los Angeles architect--but also because Rob Petrie's boss and the star of the show he wrote for...was a man named Alan Brady, a probable distant cousin or uncle to Mike. (We got to meet Mike's grandfather once, Hank Brady, in a 4th season episode.) Both Hank and Alan could be described as sticks-in-the-mud. Greer had four appearances on the Dick Van Dyke Show and it is barely possible they were all the leaper---a Mr. Berger who was on a grand jury with Rob, Chaplain Berger, an episode where Rob was out of work with a new house and no furniture and a pregnant wife, and the episode that related whene Rob was a radio DJ on a marathon and suddenly had to get to his job interview with Alan Brady in another city---to the reporter played by Greer's character. All key points in his life and it looks like the leaper took an interest in Rob, then Alan's cousin or nephew Mike.<br /><br />Then there was an episode of LA Law, where his character liked to get high off toad-licking. That might partially splain his interest in Lucas, if he was busy getting high just before he first encountered Lucas on his own timeline.<br /><br />Gordon LongPDXWizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10884427889989897626noreply@blogger.com