what was your favorate tv show when you were small?

Shag,
Who played the Robot? I think the jams between Robot and Dr Smith were as funny as any Laurel and Hardy routine. Mad Magazine did a parody I think about '69 and there's a part where Zorro (Mr Robinson once played Zorro) is saying something like "that's the third time he's tried killing us this week!" It shows that Jonathon Harris had A LOT OF FUN with the part. I do believe the man really enjoyed lampooning certain human foibles.
TH4

 

I saw the person who did the voice of the robot on TV in the late 90s. Dick Tufeld is his name. His voice still sounded exactly like the robot. He was waving his arms and saying "Warning! Warning!" He has a voice that sounds like a radio.

The robot was just a costume. Someone named Bob May wore the costume. The original costume used to be on display at science fiction festivals around the country. It looked pretty beat up the last time I saw it on the web.

http://www.lostinspacetv.com/bio/index.html

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Here's a pic of the original costume:

 

Dick Tufeld, robot's voice:

http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/PersonDetail/personid-3656

If you are really into Warner Brothers cartoons, there's an episode of the Road Runner where there's a 'commercial' for ACME Batman Outfits. The Coyote tries one and flies into the side of a cliff. The voice of that commercial is the same guy as the Lost In Space robot, Dick Tufeld.

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Shaggie,
THANKS! So Dick Tufeld was "the ultimate straight man." Gotta say I was pretty dissappointed in the movie-it totally flunked out on the main point of the series-which was COMEDY! Back in the seventies June Lockhart did a parody of "Father Knows Best" type sitcoms and I think it was on "Love American Style"? Well the cast was a bunch of rotters when the camera went off and the skit was HILARIOUS. June was satirizing herself and she was quite the comedienne. I wonder if that "Meet the Mercers" parody is still out here somewhere.
You just made my day,
Tundrahopper4

 

Lockhart always had that motherly image. She did a parody on The Gary Shandling's Show in the 80s. I think that one was a spoof on her motherly role in the Lassie series. I remember her playing a doctor on Petticoat Junction. She was often a commentator for those Rose Bowl parades in the 70s.

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Shag,
The "Leave it to Beaver" episodes with Eddie Haskell. There were a couple "Eddie scams the Squirt" episodes that were particularly hilarious. Now picking on the dim witted is not the Christian thing to do but Eddie was anything but that. So the Beav went to a hypnotist show and tried to hypnotize Eddie? Well Eddie turned into a Frankenstein zombie and followed the Beav around for a few days proclaiming "MASTER! I STEAL FOR YOU I KILL FOR YOU!!" Wally straightened things out in the end. Then there was the time that the Beav got a nasty letter from the library for some overdue books? Well Eddie tells him that he's going to jail. The Beav protests that it was on Ward's library card? "Well then yer OK Squirt!" Beav breathes a sigh of relief...."THEY'LL THROW YER OLE MAN IN JAIL!!!"
Everybody knew a few Eddies....
Tundrahopper4

 

met eddie from eddie's father on Avila Beach.He had green hair way back when.Maybe he was looking for a part on the Hulk.

 

Gate,
Tim something or another? Wasn't that same guy on "My Favorite Martian"? At any rate Eddie Haskell; http://www.leaveittobeaver.org/gang/gang_eddie.htm
http://www.tvland.com/shows/litbeaver/character5.jhtml
http://www.litb.com/eddie.htm
http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/PersonDetail/personid-12481

There was a "Leave it to Beaver reunion" made for TV movie about twenty years back and drunken old Ward was of course long gone(Second City Television did a parody in the early 80s with John Candy as the Beaver). The show featured Wally hunting down Eddie for to kick his ass for some transgression or another long after they had all become adults. Beav was of course still stupid as a stump. It is interesting that the real Eddie became a police officer and retired after being shot a few times. He really should have considered comedy but child actors tend to suffer burnout early on.
TUndrahopper4

 

The father was Bill Bixby from MFM.

Ward..,"You sure were hard on the ol' beaver last night"
"Sorry June"

 

You remember that, huh?

I remember Wally was gay in that sketch, and the father was pouring bourbon on his corn flakes. The sketch ended with someone committing suicide. Beavers say, "Life stinks, Wally." To which Wally replied, "Yeah, but then again, so do you Beaver."

I still like the SCTV sketch where they spoofed Fantasy Island.

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Shaggie,
John Candy as Tatoo going horndog when the women get off the plane? I picked up some discs from the 81-82 season but have been waiting for a special event to play them. http://sctv.org/cast.htm Maybe when we go out West to see the grandchild this month.
Then John Candy as "Captain Acid" going into a paranoid funk about something or another. I guess I don't think that the cast was into psychedelics though-just a wild guess but the humor seems more marijuanish. Then there was CCCP TV and if that wasn't the funniest thing I have ever seen in my life! Then the irrepressible Catherine O'Hara played a straight role in "Wyatt Earp" (which gets my vote as the greatest movie of all time)? Well I kept expecting her to crack a joke or two-and she kind of did here and there. All within an 1880s context of course.
Great stuff the old SCTVs,
Tundrahopper4

 

Gate,
Then who was "Uncle Martin" in the "My Favorite Martian" series? Like I remember one episode where he is picking molecules out the room and it's totally believable? Like it really was possible for any sentient being to have vision down to the molecular level? A ridiculous proposition but they somehow pulled it off.
Tundrahopper4

 

Great thread. Tundrahopper4, Ray Walston was Uncle Martin in 'My Favorite Martian'. You're right, he was a highly underrated actor. Bill Bixby was also in that show as Tim.
Gotta mention 'Star Trek' and 'The Wild, Wild West'. William Shatner and Robert Conrad will be charter members in the Campy Actor Hall of Fame! What Emotion! What Overacting!

Saw Patrick McGoohan mentioned in 'Secret Agent'. What about Patrick McGoohan in 'The Prisoner'? Talk about a show with a 60's sensibilites. One episode they wouldn't air in the U.S. concerned the use of mind-altering drugs. Timothy Leary you aren't dead.

Anyone living in the Cleveland, Ohio area during the 60's remembers Ernie Anderson as Ghoulardi. Ernie later moved to Hollywood and became maybe the greatest all-time voiceover man. But he was a local legend as Ghoulardi. He did like an Elvira schtick, only 1000 times better. He put on a fright wig, lab coat, one-eyed sunglasses and played horror movies making all sorts of wild funny comments and blew things up with firecrackers. The neighborhood kids and I were inspired to take an 8mm camera, take all kinds of car, ship models and take films of blowing them up. Not PC now but those times were different. He was forced to stop the boom boom when he almost blew the tv studio up. The urban legend was he was forced to stop because he blew up a hamster on the air. Seems like a number of urban legends have come up concerning hamsters. Strange.

 

Dark,
And who could forget "All Star Wrestling"? Some folks in my hometown thought it all was real.
Then there were "The Munsters"; ever catch that episode where Herman is walking down the street and there is this guy working under the hood of his car? Well Herman (he was such a good joe!) walks up and the guy takes a look, screams, dives into the engine compartment, and pulls the hood down on top of himself. Great schtick!
Overacting? I theorize came when too many in Hollywood thought that stage acting could be transposed to the small screen. Now it worked on "The Honeymooners", and "Jack Benny" and all, but NOT in the dramas. The corniest thing ever made was "Branded" with Chuck Conners suckered into the starring role. This Western morality tale did NOT make it into syndication. But you can see James Kirk doing big rambling dramatic stump speeches all over the TV unto this day. And the more serious the subject the funnier the speeches get...
haha
Tundrahopper4

 

I've seen a few of them molecules.Shows like that and they wonder why we did drugs.

 

Ghoulardi was really far out. He's the one who talked Big Chuck into doing comedy sketches on camera. I loved the way the Ghoul would poke fun at journalist Dorothy Fuldheim and the way he was alway sarcastically say, PARMA?!?. He did a reunion show with Big Chuck and Little John a couple years before his death.

Hoolihan was a goofy character too.

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mission impossible


black & white

 

Cannibus Sativa,
It was great drama when "The frontperson" in the mission would tear off his/her rubber countenace and go from "El Supremo" or whatever badguy/badgal; into Martin Landau or Barbara Bain, and the final cards would fall down. Then there was Barney always working the technical end...
Tundrahopper (Indica)4

 

OK, this dude pretty much said it all for me.