"Last night I overheard Rhiannon playing with Eli and she says to him, "Want to play a game?"
A long-forgotten photograph of Helen Keller and her teacher Annie Sullivan has surfaced. Although there are many pictures of the advocate for the deaf and blind (since she lived into her eighties, dying in 1968), this 120 year old photo is rare because it shows the eight-year-old with not only Sullivan but perhaps with the doll for which she asked for with her first spoken word.
'Ben Casey' was a medical drama from the early 1960s, one with an earnest and dedicated young doctor who often found himself at odds with the system or even with the patient. ('Dr. Kildare' starring Richard Chamberlain was comparable.)
Some other shows who made mention of 'Ben Casey' were 'The Monkees' (in which Peter once invoked the famous opening phrase of "Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity"), 'The Nanny' (a character was compared to Dr. Casey), and the aforementioned 'Burke's Law'.
I would have liked to posit the theory that the televersion of the 'Ben Casey' TV show was a reality show in which Dr. Ben Casey actually appeared as himself. However, it was an episode of 'Nurses' from 1993 that puts the kibosh to that idea. In "No, But I Played One On TV", Vince Edwards (who played Casey in the original show) appeared as himself, along with Larry Linville (Dr. Frank Burns on 'M*A*S*H') and Chad Everett (Dr. Gannon on 'Medical Center'). And during that episode, there were several mentions of Edwards as having played Casey.
(And it would be typical of Toobworld to insert a fictional character into an historical event. In this case, if Casey had been involved with the medical needs of the President, it probably happened while Dwight Eisenhower was the POTUS. He ended up in the hospital while he was in office at least three times: with a heart attack in 1955, an abdominal operation to remove 16 gall bladder stones in 1956, and for a 1957 stroke.)It doesn't have to be involvement in the medical history of President Eisenhower, of course. Any headline-grabbing medical emergency would do......
Meanwhile, no matter what was happening to the TV-TV version of Ben Casey, the "real" Dr. Casey (as seen in the real world TV show) continued his medical practice, ignoring the national attention he was getting. This is O'Bvious since it's never mentioned within the real TV series, which is "real life" for Toobworld, that his life had been fictionalized for TV.
Incredibly True Story Of The Longest Three Hour Tour In History".
While investigating the site of a vicious rape attack (from which the victim eventually died), NYPD Detective John Amsterdam noted that there had been an order of Ursuline nuns from Ireland cloistered nearby about one hundred years before. (The victim turned out to be a member of that order.)
And why New York City... again? Why not Detroit or Chicago or Atlanta or Philadelphia? The City of Angels would be too obvious, of course.
I watched an episode of 'The Lucy Show' ("Lucy Meets Robert Goulet") at LikeTV, and Mammoth Studios was holding a Robert Goulet look-a-like contest to promote a movie he was in. Lucy found a look-alike and tried to help him win.
In fact, its most famous appearance may well be in a television show. On 'The Beverly Hillbillies', during the 1964-1965 season, banker Milton Drysdale obtained controlling insterest in Mammoth Studios for hillbilly multi-millionaire Jed Clampett. For the next few seasons Mammoth Studios head Lawrence Chapman's life would never be the same. Drysdale tried tearing down the studio to make way for a new development. The Clampetts tried opening a general store on the studio lot. They even made a silent movie featuring legendary star Gloria Swanson. Regardless, Lawrence Chapman had to be thankful for the Clampetts. His studio on the decline and Milburn Drysdale wanting it torn down, it was only the Clampetts which kept the studio running!
referenced on another sitcom, 'The Monkees'. Curiously, on 'The Monkees' Mammoth Studios seems to have been in worse straits than it was on 'The Beverly Hillbillies'. It appears in the first season episode "I've Got a Little Song Here" as a thriving studio where the latest movie featuring starlet Joanie Janz is being made. It is only nine episodes later, however, in The Monkees at the Movies, that a comment is made that Mammoth went out of business years ago! Indeed, in the second season episode The Picture Frame, Mammoth Studios appears as being totally abandoned. The final reference to Mammoth Studios is in the final episode of 'The Monkees', "Mijacogeo" (AKA "The Frodus Caper"). Although they are at TV station KXIW, Peter tells the police on the phone that they are being held captive behind Mammoth Studios! I can only guess that maybe the studio was back in business and had bought KXIW-TV. Or maybe KXIW-TV had bought Mammoth Studios....
This website had a lot of great trivia information about Sergeant Kinchloe from 'Hogan's Heroes'. (Actually it has pages for all of the characters on the show.)
But one would be wrong, Buffalo Breath! There's always the conjecture of a Toobworld Theory of Relateeveety!
I may be wrong on this, but the one thing that kept Colonel Wilhelm Klink from getting sent to the Russian Front was the claim that there never was any escape from Stalag 13. To his superiors, who didn't know any better, it meant that as stupid as they may have thought of him, Klink was obviously doing something right.
Because of the Kinchloe situation, I think the correct claim to fame would be that there never was a successful escape from the camp.
It saddens me to think so, but it seems to me that Kinchloe may have been killed while on a mission for the Allies outside of Stalag 13. The SS never figured out the true reason he was outside the fence (or else Hogan's operation would have been shut down), so they assumed that he was trying to escape when he was gunned down.
Seeing the dedication put into this 'Hogan's Heroes' website, I'm certain that everything we may have known about Kinch can be found above and that it is 100% factual. So Ivan James Kinchloe was a Detroit native, born and bred.
However, from that point on in his personal life, we can play with a bit of speculation.
It's possible that Kinch had a family started before he was sent overseas to fight in World War II. And what if he had a daughter who grew up, got married, and moved away from Detroit with her husband to New York City?
It's possible that his daughter married a man named Dawson, and if so, in 1963 she gave birth to a son named Michael.
All supposition, of course, but I don't think 'Lost' is ever going to delve that deeply into Michael's background to find out if he had a grandfather who died trying to escape a prisoner of war camp in World War II. It will be the Toobworld premise that Michael never got to know his grandfather, and Kinchloe never got to meet his great-grandson, Waaaaaaaaaalt!
BCnU!
Toby OB
Originally I was just going to use a standard picture of a Baldwin piano to illustrate this post. But instead I decided to go with the actual Toobworld screengrab I have in my files. However, the picture does contain something of a graphic display of male sexuality. Personally, I think it's somewhat mild, no more than an an old "R" rating, or in TV terms today: "TV-14 DSL". (But you should have seen what I could have used from one minute later!)
This could come in handy when dealing with the Chuck Cunningham question from 'Happy Days'. I still like the idea that crazy-eyed Joanie killed her older brother because his incessant basketball dribbling pushed her over the edge and then she disposed of the body. But now I can add that she used her novice skills in Tresum to make the rest of her family forget that Chuck ever existed in the first place. (This would splain why Howard Cunningham once mentioned that he only had two children while saying grace at the dinner table: Joanie caused him to forget about Chuck.)
Last night in the UK, Stephen Waddington appeared in 'Richard The Lionheart' on BBC2. This docu-drama follows King Richard through the explosive battles during his third Crusade to the Holy Land.
Although many believe that Robin Hood was a man out of Legend, still there are an equal number who believe he actually lived. So could all of those closing scenes in the various Robin Hood movies have actually happened; did Robin of Locksley meet King Richard I?
(In regard to that first requirement, Robin met King Richard in the Holy Land in the last episode of Season Two.)
