Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast - Mini #168: TV Debuts of 1968: Part Two

Episode Date: June 14, 2018

This week: Remembering Nick Meglin! "It Takes a Thief"! The ballad of Barney Fife! Tom Jones does Jessel! And the fantastic world of Irwin Allen! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/a...dchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:53 To hear them in person, plan your trip at tnvacation.com. Tennessee sounds perfect. hi this is gilbert godfrey and i'm here with my co-host Frank Santopadre and this is Gilbert and Frank's Amazing Colossal Obsessions and we have with us old blues singer from Alabama, Black Toothless shoeless Raybone. When did this turn into the Howard Stern Show and people getting their own musical cues? I got some very bad news for you. We were out on tour with the Raybone band,
Starting point is 00:01:54 and the van was stolen. But that's not the bad news. The bad news is it was full of Gilbert Gottfried merch. It's gone. It's gone. Now he can't sell it at the shows at Caroline's. He can't sell it in the lobby. It was a tragedy.
Starting point is 00:02:07 Yes. So let me get this right. He's black, he's blind, and he's shoeless. And toothless. And toothless. That limits it to just a handful of really dedicated. Who was that black actress? You should know the blues.
Starting point is 00:02:24 That black, was it Mabel Waters or something? Who? Ethel Waters? No, there was a black actress who had her legs removed. Oh, my God. You mean Mabel King from The Wiz? It may have been Mabel King. I'm just guessing.
Starting point is 00:02:40 I don't know. I remember she was going blind, and she had her legs amputated. Well, you pick up the show every week. And I remember her saying, the quote from her was, I'm blessed. Last week, you brought us down with Gene Tierney's kid having rubella. And this week, it's a legless actress. I'm Googling senior lost legs. It might have been Mabel King.
Starting point is 00:03:06 I have to get some business out of the way. Go ahead. I was looking at my Twitter account, and one guy, I forget his name, and so if he's out there listening, he said, if I want some old copies of Monster Times. Oh, he's going to send you. Oh, I saw that tweet. Yeah. He's going to send you. Oh, I saw that tweet. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:03:26 He's going to send you the Monster Times. So I don't know your name or anything. Maybe you could send them to Nutmeg. Sure. Make Frank take your mail. Yeah. In care of me. Okay.
Starting point is 00:03:38 You want old copies of the Monster Times from the 70s. Yes. And if anyone's got those craft, pat craft. The chick tracks? Yes. Oh, yeah. Those are everywhere. You'll be inundated.
Starting point is 00:03:51 You'll be sorry. So those and monster times, I guess send it to Nutmeg. Also, if anybody wants to send $20 bills, because I'm a collector. Yeah. Anyone that wants to send those to me. Send Verterosa. Soupy Sales got fired for that I'm a collector. Yeah. Anyone that wants to send those to me. Send Verterosa. Soupy Sales got fired for that, didn't he? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:04:08 Go in your father's wallet and get the. Yeah, but it's 2018. Nothing matters anymore. We could just do this. True. Yeah. That's true. Soupy Sales, yeah, he asked for kids to take that green paper.
Starting point is 00:04:21 And he goes, and you send that to me, and you know what I'll send back to you? A postcard from Puerto Rico. Soupy got in a little hot water. Soupy will be mentioned in a forthcoming episode that we've already taped. Yes, any Soupy reference. I just want to say two things quick
Starting point is 00:04:44 in housekeeping. Thanks again to Steve Hanna, the artist who always does wonderful photoshops. Oh, yeah. He did one of us for the Christmas story. He did that wonderful Thanksgiving Day table, the Norman Rockwell spoof, the zombies for Halloween. He has one on Twitter now, Willie and Gilly, with our guest, Willie Tyler. Look at the way he turns you into a puppet. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:05:06 With a fave and a movable mouth. Yeah. This guy has endless ability. Willie Tyler with a Gilbert ventriloquist dummy. Did you see this on Twitter?
Starting point is 00:05:14 No, I didn't see it. So thank you, Steve Hanna. You are brilliant. And I wanted to say a farewell, too, to Nick Meglin, the Mad Magazine editor,
Starting point is 00:05:24 passed away. Did you know nick i know you you would go up there and steal free mads i probably have met him and don't remember the name because i i would go up there a lot yeah oh they talked about it believe me nick nick was a nick was at mad for decades of 40 something years and he and he was a very, very important part of the magazine. And a great guy, a funny guy, meant a lot to a lot of comedy writers, meant a lot to comedy, and passed away suddenly. And our condolences. He was good to me personally as well. So the great Nick Meglin.
Starting point is 00:06:03 Look up his work. personally, as well. So, the great Nick Meglin. Look up his work. Shall we? Shall we pick up where we left off last time? 1968? That's our show.
Starting point is 00:06:15 Lost in the past. We were talking about TV debuts from 1968, and we were stumping you. But But in inimitable Gilbert Gottfried fashion, you pulled out of your arse Journey to the Unknown. Yes. The creepy anthology show with the roller coaster. Yes. Yeah, which was nothing short of amazing.
Starting point is 00:06:37 Twilight Zone type show out of England. Yes, indeed. Produced by Norman Lloyd, who is still with us. It's like 102, 103. Wouldn't do this show. That's why he lived that long. We give him a shout out. And then some guy died recently, and the name didn't ring a bell with me, but he was on Benson. Oh, no. Robert Mandan died from soap.
Starting point is 00:07:05 Yes, from soap. Yeah, or Mandan Mandan died. From Soap. Yes. From Soap. Yeah. Or Mandan. I don't know how he pronounced it. He played the cad. The one that was married to Catherine Hellman. Okay. And now I'm forgetting his name. One of the Tates, I guess. Yeah. Not one of the Campbells.
Starting point is 00:07:21 Boy, that was a show ahead of its time. Yeah. If you had asked Billy Crystal when you hung out with him to do the podcast, we'd be sitting here talking about soap with him. Well, why would that happen? We're going to try to stump you with some of these shows from 1968 because you actually did better than I expected last time. Two of these shows involve, uh, former podcast guests. How about that? So we have a theme song queued up for some of them and not for others.
Starting point is 00:07:51 But, Frank, I believe you have the first one here. Let's see if Gilbert knows this theme from 1968. Our listeners are screaming into their devices. I know it. It's so familiar because it has... There were about 50 shows that had practically identical... It's all the same studio musicians? Yes, yes. Dave Bruzen, Billy Goldenberg,
Starting point is 00:08:31 a lot of these guys. What do you think? You guessed name of the game last week. Will you surprise me? Yeah. When I gave you some hints. And, uh... What if I told you
Starting point is 00:08:43 this was an action adventure series? Ed on ABC. It starred Malachi Throne. You know that actor? Oh, Malachi Throne. Ed Binns. You like Ed Binns.
Starting point is 00:08:57 Ed Binns, yes. Fred Astaire. Is this It Takes a Thief? It Takes a Thief. Yeah. And Robert Wagner. Yeah. Pretty good. And Robert Wagner. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:09:05 Pretty good. And in the movie, was it Cary Grant? It was inspired by, though not based upon, Cary Grant and Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief. Yes. So there you go. Alexander Mundy. But boy, they all had, that sounds like I Spy and a bunch of other of those shows. They all had that.
Starting point is 00:09:30 Yeah. I love the sound of it. We have Mike Giacchino coming in, the Oscar-winning composer of The Incredibles. Oh, yeah. And Ratatouille and other movies. And we're going to talk about a lot of these guys. We're going to talk about John Williams ands and and jerry goldsmith and neil hefty and and how um uh what oh henry mance and henry mance peter gunn crappy sci-fi picture i mean he's he's got
Starting point is 00:09:55 i think more grammys than anybody's got 50 or 60 grammys every time he did a movie he'd get a Grammy again. And of course, my favorite music is still, and Frank, if you're ready, the Hello There song. Oh my God. Yeah, he just happens to have it queued up. It's his ringtone. Hello there, hello there, hello there. This should have been a 68 theme. Yeah. This is one of those moments that I cherish when we can look at each other right in the eye and say, on what other podcast are you going to share?
Starting point is 00:10:49 The kids love Marty Allen. There is no podcast in the world, not only not talking about Marty Allen, but it takes a thief. Yes. An Alexander Mundy, created by television writer Roland Kibbe. created by television writer Roland Kibbe. It featured the adventures of a cat burglar and thief named Alexander Mundy who steals to finance his life as a playboy and a sophisticate. Did you mention Joseph Cotton? Joseph Cotton was also in that.
Starting point is 00:11:16 Joseph Cotton was in It Takes a Thief? Yeah. In what sense? I think, well, I got a list of cast. Here's the cast I've got. Robert Wagner, Alexander Mundy, Malachi Throne, you mentioned. Yeah. Joseph Cotton.
Starting point is 00:11:29 Susan, this is, I don't know, Susan St. James as Charlie Brown. Really? Well, who did Joseph Cotton play? I don't know. Fernando Lamas. Oh, you're reading a guest cast. Oh, that must be. These are not regulars.
Starting point is 00:11:43 Joseph Scott reading names of people that run episodes i joseph it's impressive though isn't it is there anything more paul than that that would no that was perfect joseph cotton said in an interview when he was old uh and why he doesn't work as much now he says that the only parts he gets offered are old rich guys who are impotent and hire a young guy to impregnate her wife god yeah yeah i'm so sick of that scenario great great in the abominable dr fives oh yeah personally sick of it or just the concept okay here's one that I don't have music for, Gil.
Starting point is 00:12:27 But let's see if you can guess this show. It was a live-action adventure serial produced by Hanna-Barbera. Hanna-Barbera, not Hanna. Hanna-Barbera.
Starting point is 00:12:36 Filmed in Mexico. I bring it up because it was directed by future podcast guest Richard Donner. It starred Frank Aletter or Aliter from It's About Time. He was one of the astronauts.
Starting point is 00:12:52 He was married to Lee Merriweather. It also starred Jan Michael Vincent and someone named Rockne Tarkington. It was a show called Danger Island. Do you know this show? No. Yep. Danger Island. Do you know this show? No. Yep.
Starting point is 00:13:06 Danger Island. All right. You know what this reminds me of, though? Leslie, the professor's daughter, is one of the characters. Remember in those, like, 1950s black and white sci-fi films? Oh, yeah. There was always the old professor and his daughter. The pretty daughter.
Starting point is 00:13:22 The pretty daughter. Always the pretty daughter. Who's interested in the detective who's coming to town to try to get the money. Sure. There's a lot of that. There's a lot of that. Superman did a lot of those old professors that were kidnapped by the syndicate because they had to reveal
Starting point is 00:13:35 the formula. Yeah, exactly. The Superman had to. Professor Pepperwinkle. Oh, yeah. Or Periwinkle. There's indeed a live-action version of the animated Hanna-Barberi series Johnny Quest. It was intended as a live-action version of Johnny Quest. Depicted the adventures of a trio of explorers in an unnamed tropical island group with Professor Irwin Hayden, Lincoln Link Simmons,
Starting point is 00:13:58 and they were joined on their quest by a sidekick, Chongo, who speaks only in a series of monkey-like chatters and bird calls. And that sounds great. That would have been your part. Yes! Another one that would get
Starting point is 00:14:12 a fairly different reception now than it might have gotten in 1968. Speaking of podcasts, do you know this show, a Western series from 1968? It lasted one year
Starting point is 00:14:21 and it starred Otis Young, the black actor from The Last Detail. Oh, okay. A movie you like. Okay. And a former podcast guest, actually a future podcast guest, Don Murray. Wow.
Starting point is 00:14:35 Was called The Outcasts. Oh, geez. It was sort of like The Defiant Ones. Yeah. Like a teaming a black guy and a white guy in the West, or I spy in the West. Now, Don Gordon, he went. This is Don Murray.
Starting point is 00:14:51 Don Murray. Oh, Don Murray. Don Murray. We didn't have Don Gordon on the show. We should have. We should have. He's gone. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:14:58 No, we did have Don Murray. Don Murray was great on the show. Great. You didn't know this show? The Outcast. I got something on this. Oh, well, he was talking about that. Yes, he was a bounty hunter.
Starting point is 00:15:10 I should really pay attention to him. You really should. It's about a bounty hunter who teams up with a slave, and they have a love-hate relationship. What do you got, Ray? Well, in 2016, there was a campaign to try to get it out on DVD. I don't know whether that was successful. But in Berkeley in 2014,
Starting point is 00:15:27 somebody put together a weekend film festival of Don Murray, who in the 50s, they say, was as big a star as Paul Newman. I don't know. Well, I don't know about that. He starred alongside the likes of James Cagney, Eva Marie Saint, Henry Fonda, Charles Lawton, James Earl Jones. He wasn't
Starting point is 00:15:41 in Funky Monkey, was he? No. No. He was talking about that because he said he wanted to make like a statement. Yeah, they gave him a choice. They gave Don Murray, and you'll hear this on a future episode. They gave Don Murray a choice of three series, ABC, and he picked the one. He was very responsible of them, very kind of him. He wanted black kids to have a cowboy hero on television. And so
Starting point is 00:16:07 that was the one he wanted to do, socially conscious Don Murray. A good man. Here you go, Gil. This one has music, Mr. Verderosa, and it's a comedy, that's all I'll tell you. It debuted in 1968. See if you can get it. Oh! Oh! Oh! I think this would have to be Mayberry. Yeah, Mayberry what?
Starting point is 00:16:34 RFD. You got it! Yay! Because I remember that music. They used to use that as interstitial music. Yes. Very good. In the original Andy Griffith show.
Starting point is 00:16:48 Very good. And when the scene would start, you know. Not to be confused with the serious crime music that they played when Barney was on a case. We don't need an orchestra. No. Yes, it was a spinoff of The Andy Griffith Show, which when star Andy Griffith decided to leave the series, most of the supporting characters returned for the retitled program.
Starting point is 00:17:18 Frances Bavier came back. Oh, wow. Before she was eaten by her cats. I would assume. Well, to a correction. Which we never confirmed. She was eaten by her neighbor Morris cats. Really?
Starting point is 00:17:33 That's unfortunate. It was a misunderstanding. Oh. Was she displeased about this? It starred Ken Berry, former podcast guest. Yes. Ken Berry. He was great with us.
Starting point is 00:17:48 Francis Bavier. Yes. George Goober Lindsey. Oh, Goober. Yeah, Goober. Yeah. Goober. Theme song composed by Earl Hagen, who did a lot of television themes.
Starting point is 00:17:58 And I remember for a while when Don Knotts left, they got Jack Burns as the deputy. Yeah, and as much as I love Jack Burns, those were impossible shoes to fill. Yeah, it didn't work. Warren, I believe, was his character. This show lasted until 1971. Now, I'm not familiar with this, but you guys probably are.
Starting point is 00:18:19 The infamous rural purge in 1971, along with the Beverly Hillbillies, Hee Haw, Green Acres. I think Fred Silverman was behind that. And for some reason, the Ed Sullivan Show was listed here. Was Fred Silverman the one behind the Arab War? CBS executive Fred Silverman thought they appealed only to people who lived in rural areas and to older people. Right.
Starting point is 00:18:40 So he decided to cancel them even though they were still hugely popular. He got rid of all the corn pone shows, the Hillbillies and Green Acres. It's so funny, though. When I used to watch those shows, I thought I was getting a peek into this middle America, southern old America. Boy from Coney Island. Yeah. And, you know. Don't don the lot.
Starting point is 00:19:00 Yeah. There'd be Andy Griffith and Hee Haw and Mama mama's family and then you realize it's old jews i didn't know andy griffith was jewish yeah but i mean it's it's jews the people behind them yeah yeah they'd be like typing out a script. Sure. Doing stuff that sounded like the way Gentiles would talk. Well, Sheldon Leonard was behind the Andy Griffith show. And a gentleman named Aaron Rubin, who I knew, who also created Gomer Pyle. Did this ever make you yearn to go out and explore the heart of the country? Yeah, no.
Starting point is 00:19:42 No, I never thought that. But I thought I understood it. But then, you know, it's just, you know, Jews writing all those shows. I'm still trying to get off of Morris Katz. What is that? Dara just came up with the idea of just whenever Gilbert goes on a Jewish bend, we could just bring up Yiddish Amama. Oh, you guys have a great idea.
Starting point is 00:20:03 Thank you, Dara. The Yiddish Mama. Oh, you guys have a great idea. Thank you, Dara. La Yiddish Mama. Who is that, Victor Mohn? Hilarious. They have a version. NSYNC does a great version of this. There's a version of My Yiddish Mama by Tom Jones. Oh, my God. He's not a Jew, but he sang My Yiddish Mama by Tom Jones. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:20:25 He's not a Jew, but he sang My Yiddish Mama. Find that, Frank. He can find it. Oh, did he find it? Already found it. Well, here's a song that I learned from my father. His father was Welsh. One entitled My Yiddish Mama.
Starting point is 00:20:47 You should sing it to the tune of Delilah. Yeah, sure. My Yiddish Mum. Oh, my God. I miss her more than ever now That's great. My edgy shaman I long to kiss her wrinkled brow
Starting point is 00:21:19 Now what guest killed this? Do you remember? Oh, the guy from The Sopranos. Yeah. Yeah. Dominic Chianese. Billy Holiday sang my Yiddish Shemama. Why don't we do a future episode about Yiddish Shemama?
Starting point is 00:21:36 Yiddish Shemama. Dara, Gilbert has a Patreon request. He would like an episode About Yiddishamama I think that Times Square 2 May have recorded By the way Someone told me that
Starting point is 00:21:51 Georgie Jessel was a lech Do you know about this? This wouldn't surprise me You might want to do a little You might want to do a bit of research Or we'll put Raybone on the job But I have some information Once I find the van
Starting point is 00:22:01 I can get back to it Some information has come to light That Georgie Jessel Might not have survived the Me Too era. Yeah. This doesn't surprise me in the least. All right. See if you can get this one, Smarty Pants. This is a crime drama that ran on ABC.
Starting point is 00:22:17 It debuted in 1968, and it ran all the way to 1973. Our fans will get it instantly. Oh, fuck! The Big Show. I know. Oh. This wasn't a superhero, was it? No. This is killing me. It was produced? No. This is killing me. It was produced by Danny Thomas and Eric Spelling.
Starting point is 00:23:10 That's neither here nor there. Was it the glass coffee table? Yes, that's it. You know what's fascinating about that theme? Also composed by Earl Hagen, who composed the Mayberry RFD theme. With all the same musicians on the back. Completely a world apart from the Mayberry RFD theme. I know it was put out by Windex.
Starting point is 00:23:32 There's a Quincy Jones connection because his ex-wife was in it. That, that. Peggy Lipton. Oh, the Monsquad. Very good. Oh my God. And was it Ty Gandruz? Ty Gandruz.
Starting point is 00:23:45 Very good Look at you Michael Cole Peggy Lipton And Clarence Williams III What's Peggy Lipton Doing now Well she
Starting point is 00:23:51 We know what she was doing About Singing the national anthem Of cock fights Why do you ask me She was in Twin Peaks She was in Twin Peaks She was
Starting point is 00:23:58 She was also in the She was Norma The recent one The reboot Oh She was Norma Norma the diner the double R diner. I was waiting for Paul to talk about her tea business.
Starting point is 00:24:09 Yes. And what about, was it Dennis Cole? Michael Cole. Michael Cole. Yeah, Michael Cole. Dennis Cole was a different guy. Dennis Cole was in the something else. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:24:20 Yeah, Dennis Cole. What's Michael Cole doing now? We could find him. It's like whenever someone hasn't been around for a while, you know they've done a Law & Order. Didn't you do Law & Order? I twice. Twice. That says it.
Starting point is 00:24:40 Now, here's the question. What do you got on the mod squad? Why did these cool mod people decide to go after crooks? They were hip kids. And they were like criminals themselves. Pete stole a car. Yeah, they were JVs. Link was arrested during the Watts riots.
Starting point is 00:24:56 And Julie ran away from her San Francisco prostitute mother. That might have been a better show, actually. By the way, Clarence Williams III also showed up on Twin Peaks. That's right. As an FBI agent. Yeah, that's right. One of Dale Cooper's bosses. That's right.
Starting point is 00:25:11 We will return to Gilbert Gottfried's amazing, colossal podcast after this. Here you go, Gilly. This one co-starred two people you're fond of. Okay. And a former podcast guest. Okay. Podcast guests are everywhere. I do not have music for this because the name of the show is In the Theme Song and you would get it. But it was a sitcom.
Starting point is 00:25:36 It aired on CBS from September 68 to January of 1970. And this came from Talent Associates, the company that made Get Smart. Let's see. Well, you know, you'll get it. It starred Bob Denver, Herb Edelman, and our friend Joyce Van Patten.
Starting point is 00:25:58 Oh. Was it? They ran a diner. It was called The Good Guys. Yeah. Was it? They ran a diner. It was called the Good Guys.
Starting point is 00:26:05 Do you know? I was just about to say, is the word guys in it? You got it. I didn't remember Good Guys, but I remembered guys popped into my mind. Bob Denver was Rufus Butterworth, the driver of a customized 1924 Lincoln Turned Taxi. Rufus Butterworth. And Herb Edelman was Bert Grammus. There was a guest star who played a health inspector. Do we know who that was?
Starting point is 00:26:31 Was it somebody who's been on the show? Vincent Price. Oh, great. Very good. See, now those two. There you go, Vincent Price and Bob Denver. Oh, those two, Denver and Edelman, would have been like ideal podcast guests. I know, I know. The closest we could get was Don Wells and Joyce Van Patten.
Starting point is 00:26:54 Yes. But they added Alan Hale Jr. to the cast, I believe in the second season when the ratings were skidding. Somebody at the network or one of the showrunners said, well, we'll just put the Skipper and Gilligan together again, and that'll be ratings gold. Yep, the good guys. I remember when they re-teamed Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner for an episode of T.J. Hooker. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:29 Where they're both cops. Yeah, I remember that. That was a big thing, taking people who were stars and reteaming them under other circumstances. And it never quite worked most of the time. It was a disappointment. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I remember Shatner and Adam West. Maybe I dreamt this.
Starting point is 00:27:45 Maybe our listeners will know. In an Alexander the Great movie for TV. Does that ring any bells? No. They sound like that. I could have dreamt it. I'd love to see the two of them together. You'd put Shatner in a period piece, wouldn't you?
Starting point is 00:27:57 Oh, yeah. But I remember, I mean, the T.J. Hooker one was kind of fun to see them both together, Leonard Nimoy and him. Yeah. Speaking of TJ Hooker, we should get James Darren in here. Wow. Yeah. I met him at some event. You met him at Chiller.
Starting point is 00:28:13 I was there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Still a handsome guy. Yes, he is. And he was one of those Philly teen idols. Okay.
Starting point is 00:28:20 So here's our last one, Verteroso. Last song, last theme song, and the last one that is going to stump Gil. I like to stump you again. I have stumped you once before when Richard Kind was here on this theme. This was on ABC, released through 20th Century Fox Television. It lasted 51 episodes, but it made its debut in 1968, September to be exact. Frank?
Starting point is 00:28:52 One of your favorite composers. Oh, that would be Neil Hefty? Nope. No. Listen to those horns. Oh. Listen to those horns. Ugh.
Starting point is 00:29:15 This wouldn't be Time Tunnel. No, you're close, because it's the same creator. Oh. Irwin Allen. Ah! The composer is John Williams. Oh, my God. Oh.
Starting point is 00:29:35 It's a show I loved as a kid. It wasn't Journey, a million miles under the sea, or any of the scooter in the ballpark. Land of the Giants. Oh, okay. An hour-long sci-fi series lasted two seasons, created and produced by Irwin Allen. And I think at one point I even had a Land of the Giants Aurora model. You did?
Starting point is 00:30:04 Yeah. Wow. But you didn't set fire to it like model. You did? Yeah. Wow. But you didn't set fire to it like Kirk Hammond did. No. It was a big snake and, like, the little characters around it. Starred Gary Conway, who's still with us. We should find some of these people. Don Matheson, the late Kurt Kasnar.
Starting point is 00:30:19 Don Marshall and Deanna Lund, who was easy on the eyes. And Heather Young. The great John Williams composed that score, as he did for Lost in Space. I think he was smart to get away from horns and move to strings. I love that one. I did some research. Paul, John Williams did Star Wars. He's mocking you, Paul.
Starting point is 00:30:41 He's mocking you, Chain. What he doesn't know is John Williams Was a member of our first band Really? Yeah and that's not well known But that's where he learned Oh the first what was the name Of that blues band? It was called the Raybone First Band The Raybone The electric Raybone
Starting point is 00:30:57 The electric Raybone You know a lot of white men Was very progressive. We went strictly on musical ability. Irwin Allen would have been an ideal guest for this show, boy, to tell you. Not only the time tunnel and Lost in Space and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
Starting point is 00:31:17 All those disaster movies. But all those disaster movies. He would have been a dream guest for us. I got a couple of good tidbits on Land of the Giants. Quick, because we got to go home. They set a new record for expense, $250,000 per episode. Yeah, because they had all this. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:31:32 And they had all kinds of guest stars were people that were in Star Trek and Twilight Zone. I'm just going to read you quickly a list of names and see who you know. Was Joseph Cotton in it? Joseph? No, he was in the other one. He's tied off. Oh, sorry. Jack Albertson.
Starting point is 00:31:45 Ah. Chris Alcade. Michael Ansara. Oh, we love Michael Ansara. He's married to Barbara Eaton. John Carradine. Did we have a Carradine? Yeah, John Carradine.
Starting point is 00:31:54 Yvonne Craig. Charles Drake. Alan Hale Jr. Again with Alan Hale Jr. Jonathan Harris. David Opatoshu. Sure. Larry Pinnell and Warren Stevens.
Starting point is 00:32:06 Oh, somebody sent me because I knew like you know Martin Sheen and Jack Albertson they were in The Incident? No no they were in the subject was Roses and then later
Starting point is 00:32:22 on they re-teamed for Bracken's World and the subject was roses, yeah. And then later on, they re-teamed for Bracken's World. Very good. And the episode was called My Father Never Spanked Me. Very good. And so one of our listeners sent me a copy of this TV show. I think it was called Insights. Basically taught you about God.
Starting point is 00:32:44 And it starred like an old Jewish man who's given up on life, Jack Albertson, and God in a white suit, Martin Sheen. I used to confuse Jack Albertson with Arthur O'Connell. Oh, absolutely. And they're both in the Poseidon Adventure, speaking of Erwin Allen. Well, I always confused Arthur O'Connell with Frank Ferguson. Interesting. I always confused Gene Stapleton and Roscoe Lee Brown. Why?
Starting point is 00:33:14 Couldn't tell you. Must be time to go. Paul, is there anything you've confused? No, I'm not confused. I just don't know much. He's the sharpest one in the room. I always confuse Charlize Theron and Lionel Atwell Jr. Right, and Rodney Allen Rippey. Yes.
Starting point is 00:33:32 All right, guys. More fun I could not have. Take us out, Gil. This has been Gilbert and Frank's Amazing Colossal Obsessions. This, you're hearing the Raybone Band. The things I should be thankful for, I've had a goodly share. And as I sit in the comfort of a cozy chair, my fancy takes me to a humble east side tenement
Starting point is 00:34:05 Three flights in the rear to where My childhood days were spent It wasn't much like paradise But amid the dirt and all There sat the sweetest angel One that I fondly call My edition of you Is that Marlena Dietrich?
Starting point is 00:34:46 Sophie Tucker. Sophie Tucker, of course. Sophie Tucker. My Yiddish mama We'll see you next week. Okay. I'd love to kiss that wrinkled brow I long to hold her hands once more
Starting point is 00:35:07 As in days gone by

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