MARTIN MULL'S MONDAY MEMORIAL TVXOHOF TRIBUTE

From Wikipedia:

Martin Eugene Mull (August 18, 1943 – June 27, 2024) was an American comic actor whose career included contributions as a musician and painter. Mull gained visibility on screen for ‘Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman’ and its spin-off ‘Fernwood 2 Night’.

His other notable roles include Colonel Mustard in the 1985 film “Clue”, Leon Carp on ‘Roseanne’, Willard Kraft on ‘Sabrina the Teenage Witch’, Vlad Masters / Vlad Plasmius on ‘Danny Phantom’, and Gene Parmesan on ‘Arrested Development’. He had a recurring role on ‘Two and a Half Men’ as Russell, the drug-using, humorous pharmacist.

From The Hollywood Reporter:

Martin Mull, the droll comedian, actor, singer-songwriter and painter who found fame on the soap opera satire ‘Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman’ and its spinoff ‘Fernwood 2 Night’, has died. He was 80.

Mull died Thursday at home after a “valiant fight against a long illness,” his daughter, Maggie Mull, shared on her Instagram.  

“He was known for excelling at every creative discipline imaginable and also for doing Red Roof Inn commercials,” she wrote. “He would find that joke funny. He was never not funny. My dad will be deeply missed by his wife and daughter, by his friends and coworkers, by fellow artists and comedians and musicians, and — the sign of a truly exceptional person — by many, many dogs. I loved him tremendously.”

I say this every year, and usually around this time – the year is shaping up to be a bad one for losing our pop culture icons.  And 2024 looks like it wants to be really bad!  William Russell, David Soul, Charles Osgood, Glynis Johns, Joyce Randolph, Chita Rivera, Gary Graham, Donald Sutherland, M. Emmett Walsh, Dabney Coleman, Richard Lewis, Terry Carter, Barbara Rush….  Damn.  I had to stop.

The news about Martin Mull hit very hard.  His records and his work on ‘Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman’ rocketed him to the top of my fan interests back in the 70s.  And he was always a dependable presence with every co-star or guest star role he took on.

His character of Barth Gimble is already a member of the Television Crossover Hall of Fame.  But we’re back again to induct him as a member of the League of Themselves….

MARTIN MULL

But first, here’s more from Chris Koseluk’s tribute in The Hollywood Reporter:

More recently, he was one of the old guys on the Fox sitcom ‘The Cool Kid’s and an acid-tripping attorney on Netflix’s ‘The Ranch’ and recurred on ABC’s ‘Not Dead Yet’.

However, it was as Garth and Barth Gimble, the very different identical twins from Fernwood, Ohio, — the mythical setting for the Norman Lear-produced ‘Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman’ — that placed Mull in the national spotlight.

Designed to poke fun at America’s obsession with consumerism and pop culture, ‘Mary Hartman’ starred Louise Lasser as an unassuming housewife trying not to lose her mind in the banal hell known as suburbia. Mull joined the syndicated series in 1976 for its second season and quickly became one of its most despised characters — the wife-abusing Garth.

“I thought they hired me because I was a comedian,” Mull said in a 2014 interview. “I was kind of surprised when all of a sudden we got all this Virginia Woolf-ish high drama. I didn’t like the character at all. I don’t care for violence, and wife-beating is particularly repugnant to me, so it was quite hard.”

Despite Mull’s reservations, his razor-sharp comic timing and sly, off-center approach made Garth work. Audiences cringed but laughed when Gimble locked his wife in the closet and then kissed the closet door as he left for work.

Al Burton, the series’ creative supervisor who hired Mull, figured he would be perfect for the controversial character. “Martin is one of a kind,” he said. “He has this unique hateful quality while still being an appealing performer.”

Though Garth appeared in only a handful of the show’s 325 episodes, he went out with a bang. In one of the most macabre plot twists in TV history, he met his end by being impaled on the star atop an aluminum Christmas tree in his closet.

But Mull’s stay in Fernwood was just getting started. In the last month of the series’ run, he reappeared as Barth Gimble, a smarmy type who had trouble adjusting to small-time life. For reasons never quite revealed (it was hinted his situation involved an underage girl in Miami), Barth decided it best to lay low in Fernwood.

When ‘Mary Hartman’ ended in 1977, Lear created the spinoff ‘Fernwood 2 Night’. Produced by Alan Thicke, it featured Barth as a leisure suit-wearing talk show host whose insufferable ego had him believing he was the Tri-County’s answer to Johnny Carson.

Joining the show was Gimble’s sidekick, Jerry Hubbard (Willard). Much to Gimble’s constant annoyance, Hubbard was the epitome of cluelessness. When a female guest brought the discussion around to gynecology, Hubbard innocently asked if a cure had been found for that.

“Barth would host the town’s premiere talk show, bringing on guests to recall their UFO sightings and anchoring segments such as ‘Talk to a Jew,'” Rolling Stone wrote in 2015. “Martin Mull and Fred Willard don’t get nearly enough credit as a crack comic duo, and the show’s skewering of the format’s cliches — made to seem even cheesier by the public-access production values — set the pace for the faux-sincere showbiz parodies and fake late-night programming (see Larry Sanders) that would become a comedy staple in the years to come.”

‘Fernwood 2 Night’ became a cult hit, and many of Lear’s friends asked to be on it. The producers couldn’t figure out a way to make sense of all these famous folks showing up in a small Ohio town, so they moved the show to the fictitious Alta Coma, California, the “unfinished furniture capital of the world.” Renamed ‘America 2-Night’, the show now had Gimble and Hubbard interviewing Burt Lancaster, Carol Burnett, Charlton Heston and Jim Nabors.

He created (with Steve Martin and Craig Kellem) and starred as a Seattle television commentator on the CBS sitcom ‘Domestic Life’, but it lasted just 10 episodes in 1984. He lasted longer on ‘Roseanne’, on which Leon in 1995 married a character played by Willard in one of TV’s first gay weddings.

Mull also had recurring roles on ‘The Jackie Thomas Show’, ‘The Ellen Show’, ‘Dads’, ‘Life in Pieces’ and ‘American Dad!’, among other shows.

He earned his only Emmy nomination in 2016 for his performance as political operative Bob Bradley on ‘Veep’.

Here are the appearances Martin Mull made as himself which have earned him another trip to the Hall:

D.C. FOLLIES

REAGAN PARACHUTES INTO D.C. FOLLIES (1987)

Ronald Reagan parachutes into D.C. Follies to hear Woody Allen's paranoia about becoming a father. Martin Mull has trouble getting a drink while Nixon, Ford, and Carter badger him for campaign contributions. 

IT'S GARRY SHANDLING'S SHOW

1] SAVE MR. PECK'S (1989)

When Garry finds out that Mr. Peck's club is closing so a mall can be built, he decides to seek some help from some celebrity friends to save the club where he got his start in stand-up.

2] GARRY GOES GOLFING (1989)

Martin Mull asks Garry to participate in a charity golf event. He agrees to play, despite not being a good golfer.

3] BOYSVILLE (1989)

4] SHANDLING VS. MULL (1990)

When Martin Mull thinks Phoebe overcharged for her interior design services, a feud begins between the Shandlings and the Mulls. It may take God Himself to settle this argument.

THE LARRY SANDERS SHOW
1] THE PARTY (1992)

An innocent invitation to Arthur and his wife for dinner turns into a full-blown staff party

2] THE GRAND OPENING (1993)
Hank struggles to open the Look-A-Round Café.

[Hank talking about Martin Mull: "He was fine on that make-believe talk show, that ‘Fernwood’ thing.”]

O'Bservation:
I know it's a discrepancy and it should be de-Zonked, but I don't have it in me just now....

THE DREW CAREY SHOW
DREWSTOCK (1997)

After realizing there is no way to profit from Buzz Beer, the gang decides to shut down the brewery and throw a party with free beer to get rid of their supply. Drew meets a woman at the Warsaw and invites her to the party but can't remember her name or number. Mimi puts a flier about Drew's party in the Winfred-Louder newspaper as revenge for an earlier prank.

Drew's hopes of finding his mystery woman dwindle when everyone in the city of Cleveland (including the mayor, Browns quarterback Bernie Kosar, Little Richard, and Joe Walsh) shows up at his house for the party.

O'Bservation:
Martin Mull makes an uncredited cameo, probably at the party.

THE NANNY
MAKING WHOOPI (1998)

Maxwell is the Upper Left Square.
Martin is the Bottom Center.

Fran is depressed over her inability to conceive. She finds out that she is ovulating just as they are making an appearance on ‘Hollywood Squares’.

Maxwell learns that he's been approached to be a celebrity panelist on ‘Hollywood Squares’ (1998) (they couldn't get Andrew Lloyd Webber), so he, Fran, Sylvia, Yetta and Val traipse off to California. Regardless if Maxwell is having a good time on the show (he isn't – Mull commandeered his punchline), Fran drags him off the set during the middle of the show for more important matters: she's ovulating.

O'Bservations:
1] The 'Hollywood Squares' sequence was taped during the marathon taping sequence for the actual game show.  Maxwell was occupying the square Fran Drescher had for that week, but she was in the audience as Fran Fine.

2] The other Celebrity Squares were Rita Rudner, Howie Mandel, Caroline Rhea, Coolio, Estelle Getty, Bruce Vlanch, and Whoopi Goldberg as the Center Square. 

The plot summaries are from the IMDb (with some slight editing.)

Welcome to the TVXOHOF, Mr. Mull.  Again….  But this time as your glorious self.

KAMEKONA TUPUOLA - A MONDAY MEMORIAL TVXOHOF TRIBUTE

 

From KTLA:

Actor Taylor Wily, best known for his role as Kamekona Tupuola on “Hawaii Five-0,” has passed away. He was 56 years old.

Lana Girl Langi, a Hawaiian personality and musician, announced his death on the local lifestyle show ‘’Island Life Live’ on June 20.

He’s appeared in Jason Segel’s film “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” and the modern reboots of “Hawaii Five-0,” “Magnum P.I.” and “MacGyver.”

As something of a confidential informant, Kamekona Tupuola proved useful to the Five-0 squad, Angus MacGyver, and Thomas Magnum.  And he was always around if you craved some flavored shaved ice, various shrimp dishes, or a sight-seeing tour in a helicopter.

Of course, it was his interactions with those other characters on their TV shows which get him into the Television Crossover Hall of Fame as one of the representatives for the Toobworld of TV Show Remakes – Toobworld-Toobworld or Toobworld2….

KAMEKONA TUPUOLA

From the 'Hawaii Five-0" Wiki:
Kamekona Tupuola is a confidential informant for the Hawaii Five-0 team and entrepreneur who runs Wailoa Shave Ice, The Shrimp Truck and a Hawaiian tour helicopter company.

And there’s more information from another wiki….

From Five-0 Pedia:

Kamekona is an ex-criminal informant who has ties to the underworld of Hawai'i. He is first introduced in “Pilot” when Chin Ho joins the Five-0 task force; Kamekona aids them in their search for Victor Hesse. Kamekona owns his own shave ice business named, Waiola Ice.

Kamekona frequently helps Five-0 in certain cases due to his former years in that type of work.

After the “Pilot”, he later appears in other episodes.  Among them:

• “Lankila” to which Steve McGarrett has tasked Kamekona to "babysit" his little sister, later on though Steve's sister, Mary Anne manipulates Kamekona into letting her go, he tells Steve she used a "Jedi mind trick".
• He appears briefly in “Ho'apono” when Kono is out with Lily asking her questions about the incident in that episode.
• In “Mana'o” it appears that he now has moved his franchise to be a mobile one instead the original one, declaring it "old school."
• He appears again in “Heihei” watching McGarrett repairing his house from the events of the previous “Po'ipu”.
• In “Hana 'a'a Makehewa”, he brings Danny an oversized Santa suit which Danno wears annually as a tradition for his daughter.

Here are the shows which qualified Kamekona for membership in the Hall.  (All summaries are from the IMDb unless otherwise stated.)

HAWAII FIVE-0

171 Episodes (2010–2020)

Again, from the ‘Hawaii Five-0 Wiki’:

In the “Pilot” episode, Lieutenant Chin Ho Kelly recruited Kamekona for information into the death of Lieutenant Commander Steve McGarrett's father, John McGarrett.  (In exchange for information, Kamekona charged money for a 'Wailoa Shave Ice' t-shirt.)

In many episodes, he is seen bringing food to the Five-0 team or assisting them in their investigations and is considered a close friend.

MacGYVER

FLASHLIGHT (2017)

In their trivia section for this episode, the IMDb posted this:

By crossing over with 'Hawaii Five-0', 'MacGyver' is now firmly placed in the same TV Universe as 'JAG', all three 'NCIS' series, and 'Scorpion'.

O’Bservation:

This is only partially true.  ‘MacGyver’ is in the same TV DIMENSION as the other two remakes - ‘Hawaii Five-0’ and ‘Magnum P.I.’.  Technically, they are in the same TV dimension as an alternate version of ‘NCIS: LA,’ which was only seen in that one episode of ‘Hawaii Five-0’.  All of the other ‘NCIS’ shows, plus their mothership of ‘JAG’ and ‘Scorpion’ as well, all exist in the main Toobworld, Earth Prime-Time.

As for the other half of the crossover....

HAWAII FIVE-0
PUKA 'ANA (2017)

The events of the ‘MacGyver’ cross-over episode are talked about.

MAGNUM P.I.

7 Episodes (2018-2020)

(The pictures all come from the same episode - "A World Of Trouble".)

1] FROM THE HEAD DOWN (2018)

A] Taylor Wily plays his character Kamekona from the remake of ‘Hawaii 5-0’. One scene is filmed at the restaurant that Steve McGarrett and Danny Williams were planning to open. This crossover from ‘Hawaii 5-0 follows’ on from the appearance of Kimee Balmilero (Dr. Noelani Cunha) in the first episode of the remake of ‘Magnum P.I.’

B] In the early restaurant scene, Kamekona (Taylor Wily) jokingly calls Magnum "Rockford", in reference to James Garner's character in ‘The Rockford Files’ (1974).

O’Bservation:
This not a Zonk, not a “Darrin Discrepancy”.  There has never been a remake of ‘The Rockford Files’, and the Good jakLord willing, there never will be one.  In Toobworld-Toobworld, ‘The Rockford Files’ is just a fictional TV series.  We have no clue if it even resembled the TV series from our world.  For alls I know, "Jim Rockford" was "just this guy, you know?" 

Had this been a reference from a TV series set in Earth Prime-Time, as was the case with Big Pussy’s mention of it in an early episode of ‘The Sopranos’, than he would have either been referring to the actual detective (who did work on some publicity-generating cases), or a TV show made about his life, as often happens to people in the main Toobworld.

2] DAY OF THE VIPER (2019)

3] LIE, CHEAT, STEAL, KILL (2019)
Three "Hawaii Five-O" characters - Noelani, Kamekona and Flippa - make crossover appearances in this episode.
Kamekona's line to TC about coming to him with a favor some time, and TC not saying no, is taken from “The Godfather” (1972).

4] DESPERATE MEASURES (2020)

5] MONDAYS ARE FOR MURDER (2020)

6] A GAME OF CAT AND MOUSE (2020)

7) A WORLD OF TROUBLE (2020)

But wait!  There’s more!

With those three series, Kamekona easily qualifies for membership in the TVXOHOF as a citizen of Toobworld2.  But what if I told you that he appeared even earlier in that particular TV dimension?

NORTH SHORE

TIES THAT BIND (2004)

O’Bservation:

Wiley’s character was unnamed, but his occupation was as a "Bartender" at the Sugar Bar & Grill.  He was O’Bviously deep into his mob connections, as evidenced by the way he threatened Jason and Frankie who were hoping to get some info.  

Frankie relieved him of his baseball bat and might have done some serious damage.  But luckily for Kamekona, Jason spotted the low-life they were seeking and they gave chase.

That was the last we saw of the bartender, but if we accept now that he was Kamekona, then this turn of events was probably his “Road to Damascus” moment.  Over the next six years, before we would see him again in the pilot episode of ‘Hawaii Five-0’ in 2010, he must have worked to better himself spiritually and probably found inner peace in shaved ice.

Welcome to the TV Crossover Hall, Kamekona.  I’m sorry Taylor Wiley has joined the Choir Invisible, but there’s nothing to prevent us from claiming that you still live on in Earth Prime-Time Redux.  In fact, I won’t be around someday to say so, but you could still be going strong by 2054, well into your eighties, enjoying the riches from the financial empire you built.

Raising a cup of shaved ice in memory of Taylor Wiley....

WILLIE “A-MAYS-IN” – A TVXOHOF MEMBER REMEMBRANCE OF A GIANT

 

From CNN:

Willie Mays, the dynamic baseball Hall of Famer who shined in all facets of the game and made a dramatic catch in the 1954 World Series, died Tuesday at the age of 93, the San Francisco Giants announced.

Mays passed away “peacefully and among loved ones,” his son, Michael Mays, said in a release from the Giants, the Major League Baseball franchise with which Mays was most associated.

“I want to thank you all from the bottom of my broken heart for the unwavering love you have shown him over the years. You have been his life’s blood,” Michael Mays said.

On May 6, 2016, the televersion of Willie Mays from Earth Prime-Time was inducted into the Television Crossover Hall of Fame on the occasion of his 85th birthday.  (I always feel good when the TVXOHOF gets a new member while the Earth Prime person responsible is still living to enjoy it… not that I have any delusions that they ever actually see it.)

So this is just a recap with some added appearances which I now think deserve to be included in his tally.  (And yeah… there are also a few I forgot eight years ago.)

WILLIE MAYS

Here are the shows and their episode which were cited in the original post.  Most of the summaries and other points of interest are from the IMDb.  (O'Bservations are all mine.)

THE DONNA REED SHOW

1] MY SON THE CATCHER (1964)

Jeff plays an outstanding baseball game and is soon approached by scouts. The family advises him on how to respond to the pressure.

2] PLAY BALL (1964)

Alex helps to organize a charity baseball game to benefit the hospital. When Willie Mays, Don Drysdale, and Leo Durocher show up it's no longer a game involving amateurs.

3] CALLING WILLIE MAYS (1966)

Being baseball fans the Stone family are excited when Willie Mays leaves four tickets to one of his games. The problem arises when Alex, Jeff, and Donna all invite a guest to join them.

TRIVIA
Per the title, Willie Mays played baseball with New York/San Francisco Giants and the New York Mets. Nicknamed The Say Hey Kid, Mays was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1979 and ended his career with 660 career home runs making him one of the greatest players of all time.

GOOFS
When Jeff and Donna first see Willie Mays he is taking batting practice in the cage. Jeff then calls Willie over and he is seen trotting in from the outfield with his mitt during an obvious game.

Now you see him...

Now you don't!

BEWITCHED

TWITCH OR TREAT (1966)
Endora throws a Halloween party at Darrin and Samantha's house, but Uncle Arthur causes havoc.

O'Bservation:
With this appearance, we learn that Willie Mays' televersion was actually a warlock.  It's the reason why he was such a great ballplayer.  (Personally, that claim bothers me now.  I realize it was in jest, but he should have been acknowledged for having done it all on his own, despite being a warlock.)  

One difference in my considerations for membership is that there is a distinct difference between the real people of Earth Prime and their doppelgangers in Earth Prime-Time.  And that’s a good reason why Willie Mays’ televersion is a cut above most others.

MR. BELVEDERE

THE FIELD (1989)
It's George's birthday. He's been pushing Wesley to excel at baseball and when Wesley decides to cheat, George is upset at him and Wesley says he did it for him. They throw him a party, and help George relive some of life's greatest moments but that only shows him at how he has done nothing he set out to do, like play baseball with some greats. So Belvedere decides to give George a different present. The next day at Wesley's game, he arranges for some great players like Hank Aaron, Willy Mays, Reggie Jackson, Johnny Bench, and Ernie Banks to be there. (Along with George and Robert Goulet playing against Wesley's team.)

And now… here are the new inclusions:

TONIGHT STARRING STEVE ALLEN
THE VERY FIRST SHOW!
(SEPTEMBER 27, 1954)

Apparently, only the first half hour survives.  As the opening montage plays out, Gene Rayburn announces that among the guests for the premiere will be "New York’s greatest Giant, Willie Mays." 

Later, Rayburn does a news segment - real news - and a photo is shown of Willie Mays as the Giants are honored with a ticker-tape parade leading to City Hall.  (It all looks so crude.  Usually that happens because it's a washed-out copy of a copy, ad infinitum.  But this was from the primordial days of early television and recorded as a "kinetoscope", so....)

WHAT'S MY LINE?

1] WILLIE MAYS (1954)

The mystery guest was Willie Mays. Mr. Mays' appearance is what dates the show specifically. During his segment, Arlene mentions that he hit his 31st home run that Sunday, and Mr. Daly mentions that the Baseball All Star Game will be played in Cleveland in 2 days.

2] WILLIE MAYS & PAUL ANKA (1962)

San Francisco Giants player Willie Mays led the National League (NL) in home runs in 1962 as his team won the NL pennant and faced the New York Yankees in the World Series, which the Giants lost in seven games.

3] WILLIE MAYS (1968)

O’Bservation:
With each appearance as the Mystery Guest, it was always Arlene Francis who figured out that it was Willie Mays.  She was a die-hard Giants fan with a special fondness for Willie.

IRONSIDE

1] THE RETURN OF THE HERO (1968)

At the end of the episode, Ironside's team was buttering him up with gifts and praise, but he could tell they were up to something......

CHIEF ROBERT T. IRONSIDE

It wouldn't have anything to do with the Dodger-Giant game, would it?

SGT. ED BROWN

You mean the final game of the three-game series?

Playing today?

MARK SANGER

Marichal versus Drysdale?

DETECTIVE EVE WHITFIELD

We haven't even thought about it.  

IRONSIDE

Good!  Because we have a robbery to cover; let's go!

EVE

Robbery? Where?  

IRONSIDE

The park! Candlestick Park.  

Willie Mays told me he's going to steal second,
third and home.

This episode aired on April 4, 1968, and it was historical due to outside forces at work - it was during the broadcast of this episode on the East Coast that NBC broke in with the news that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had been assassinated.

O’Bservation:
I wrote about this episode back in 2017 after the World Series ended.  (“O’Bligatory Post World Series Post”)   You don’t have to check it out; the basics are here.  But if you'd like.... 

IRONSIDE

1] THE LAYING ON OF HANDS (1970)

Robert T. Ironside:

I don't think it was the jumbo hotdog that upset my stomach,

or the popcorn, or the peanuts, or the ice cream cone.

I think it was the triple cheeseburgers and milkshakes we had after the game.

Mark Sanger:

You are losing your cool.

Robert T. Ironside:

If you don't hurry up and give me something
to relax my stomach,

I'm going to lose more than that.

O’Bservations:
Willie Mays was only a reference in that first episode, which I discounted as solid proof at the time.  But in the years since, I’ve decided that if somebody is mentioned, they must exist in that world.

With the second ‘Ironside’ episode, IMDb says he does appear.  But I’ve never seen it.  It was probably one of the scenes which preceded Ironside’s need for a seltzer.

DEAN MARTIN CELEBRITY ROAST:
JOE GARAGIOLA (1976)

MY TWO DADS

YOU LOVE ME, RIGHT? (1989)
Michael's uncle shows up and he's not exactly pleased to see him. It seems he has a habit of making promises that he doesn't keep. And he's making some to Nicole.

O’Bservation:
I can’t find this streaming anywhere.  I am not surprised.

Like several other sports figures, the Say Hey Kid was multi-dimensional.  The guest star on ‘The Hollywood Palace’ might be the televersion, but once he started doing a sketch, another version of Willie Mays showed up in Skitlandia.  The same held true in The Tooniverse.

SKITLANDIA

HOLLYWOOD PALACE

S2 E6

The host is "Beverly Hillbilly" Buddy Ebsen, who does a comedy baseball sketch with San Francisco Giants' center fielder Willie Mays and comedian Jack Carter.

O'Bservation:
I wish I found a picture which included Jack Carter, since he's also a member of the TVXOHOF.  I don't know if it counts as irony or just coincidence, but Carter was also 93 when he died.  (Buddy Ebsen's televersion is not, but Jed Clampett and Barnaby Jones are.)

THE TOONIVERSE

WILLIE MAYS AND THE SAY-HEY KID (1972)

Fantasy cartoon story revolving around New York Giants outfielder Willie Mays, who is promised by an unconventional angel the chance to make his famed miracle catch, if he agrees to become the godfather of an orphan girl.

O’Bservation:
“Unconventional Angel”?  Sounds like one of the Fallen Angels to me….

Here's a listed Tooniverse mention of Willie Mays which has to be invalidated....

SUPER-FRIENDS

PROFESSOR GOODFELLOW’S G.E.E.C. (1973)
From the SuperFriends wiki:
Ironsides tries to use the phone, but instead finds himself listening to a baseball game with Willie Mays at bat.

O’Bservation:
That is the synopsis in a wiki for ‘SuperFriends’.  But I’ve seen the clip cited, and in the play-by-play which the robot “Ironsides” heard on the telephone, it was Bud Harrelson who hit right to the third baseman, giving the Mets two outs.  So it’s not Willie Mays who was at bat.  

And it can’t be Mays at third base because by September of 1973 when this episode aired, Willie Mays had joined Harrelson on the Mets team.

Oh well.  At least I have a future profile picture out of it.

Here are a few other members of the Television Crossover Hall of Fame who have appeared with Willie Mays over the years....

With Vin Scully

With Burt Reynolds

With Dean Martin

With John F. Kennedy Jr.

With Bing Crosby & Bob Hope

With Ed Sullivan

With Hank Aaron & Mickey Mantle

With Mr. Television himself, Milton Berle
(also Maury Wills)

All in all, when it comes down to it, I don’t mind that Willie Mays’ televersion in Earth Prime-Time was a warlock.  But screwing around with his MLB history, even in the cartoon world?  That ain’t right.

Here's to the Say-Hey Kid.  I’m glad I was able to give you that 85th birthday present of TVXOHOF membership several years ago.  And also to add to your roster of shows with a few new examples.  I’m just sorry circumstances called for it now.

Glad for your presence in the Hall these last eight years, Mr. Mays.  Even among all the other “Boys of Summer” in the TVXOHOF, you were out standing in the field….

Sorry.  I won't repeat that joke....