Monday, February 22, 2016

BY ANY OTHER NAME - RUSTY FRIENDS


'MAKE ROOM FOR DADDY'
"THE BOWLING PARTNERS"
Danny is hopeful that Rusty will ask him to be his partner at an upcoming Father and Son bowling tournament.

In the guest cast:
Michael Winkelman...
Dale 

Craig Marshall...
Jimmy

Always watching TV shows with an eye to how to use it in my Earth Prime-Time "work", I decided to check out the careers of Rusty's two friends at Herky's bowling alley.  And this just jumped out at me:

'THE JOEY BISHOP SHOW'
"JOEY ENTERTAINS RUSTY'S FRATERNITY"
Rusty Hamer, who played Rusty Williams on Make Room for Daddy (1953) (AKA "The Danny Thomas Show"), plays the same character who is now a college student and comes to stay with the Barnes family for a while in the second of three guest appearances. Joey and three of his no-good pals help Rusty and his fellow pledges carry out a most unusual fraternity initiation stunt.

And in that guest cast:
Craig Marshall...
Pledge

Michael Winkelman...
Pledge

As far as I''m concerned, those two pledges were Dale & Jimmy, bringing the two sitcoms even closer together.  The three friends must have enrolled in the same NYC college* and then pledged to the same fraternity.

BCnU!

* Was the name of Rusty's college ever mentioned on 'The Joey Bishop Show'?  If not, I would fill in the blanks by making it be Hudson University in order to expand the Great Mosaic of Toobworld........

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