A HAT SQUAD THEORY OF "BORN TO RERUN" - BUDDY & SALLY IN THE 1830s

In Toobworld, reincarnation exists.  It’s stated plainly in the lyrics for the theme song of ‘My Mother The Car’:

Everybody knows in a second life,
we all come back sooner or later.

As anything from a pussycat
to a man-eating alligator.

But sometimes the Powers That Be like to not only bring back one soul into another life, but also to bring back another soul who had been closely linked with the first one.  It is as though the destinies of those two souls would be forever entwined.

We may have the same situation here.  Sally Rogers and Buddy Sorrell had been partners long before they worked together as the writers for ‘The Alan Brady Show’ (the beans and sauerkraut to Rob Petrie’s frankfurter).  They had a musical comedy stage act together under the name “Gilbert & Solomon”. 

And they were so good at their jobs that they became well-known to the general public (probably to the chagrin of their former boss Alan Brady who never liked to share the spotlight.)  This was proven by their manifestation in the mind of a young man named Herman Brooks.

But what if they had been partnered earlier… in previous lives?

‘THE ADVENTURES OF JIM BOWIE’
“CHOCTAW HONOR”

From the Classic TV Archives:
Adventures of Jim Bowie: CHOCTAW HONOR
production B-23
03Jan58
Guest Cast:
Morey Amsterdam ............... Pinky
Robert Warwick ................ Chief Minko
Stewart Bradley ............... Whiskey Jack
Rose Marie .................... Honey Chile
Alex Stagg .................... Pat Crow

From the IMDb:
Bowie helps a Choctaw Indian who has been accused by the Choctaw tribe of the murder and robbery of a tribal member.

From tv.com:
When Jim Bowie is robbed, he learns that the man who robbed him is also wanted by an Indian tribe for murder.

From TV Guide:
Bowie (Scott Forbes) opposes a murderous robber. Crow: Alex Stagg. Honey Chile: Rose Marie. Chief Minko: Robert Warwick.

SAM HOUSTON & JIM BOWIE

‘The Adventures Of Jim Bowie’ took place in Louisiana during the 1830s and was loosely based on the life of the frontiersman and politician who died at the Alamo.  Played by Scott Forbes, Bowie met a lot of historical figures, like Sam Houston, and other characters who only existed in Toobworld.

Among these were Pinky and Honey Chile In the episode described above.  Unfortunately, I’ve never seen it and aside from their listing in the credits, I know nothing more about their involvement.  Based on their names and the personalities of Amsterdam and Ms. Marie, I would think Pinky and Honey Chile were traveling performers, perhaps with a medicine wagon.  They may have run a saloon in area where Bowie was attacked.  But one thing I would hope is that it didn’t turn out that they were the ones responsible for the death of that Choctaw Indian, blaming it on the Indian suspected by the tribe.  (Because there are characters in the episode with scurvy names like “Whiskey Jack”, I’m hoping that is not the case.)

But even if they were the villains of the piece, that doesn’t detract from this “Born To Rerun” theory in which Pinky would be reincarnated one day as Maurice Sorrell and Honey Chile would return as Sally Rogers.  The whole point of reincarnation, the way I understand it, is that the soul continues to the next life on a quest of spiritual improvement.  And so if Pinky and Honey Chile were the bad guys, they could have had a second chance as the much more welcomed Buddy and Sally.  And if they were a couple of itinerant performers, then in their next life they became much more successful in that pursuit.

Hopefully one day I’ll see that episode.  (Bugs me that of all the episodes I found online, ‘Choctaw Honor’ was not one of them.)

If anybody in Team Toobworld has seen it, or even better, own a copy, get in touch with me.  I'd love to get a screencap of Pinky and Honey Chile, but at the very least I would like to know how their particular storyline played out.

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