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@edgarblythe,

Calling the dog whisperer!!!

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@edgarblythe,

I read Thurber early.

This may haven't been useful, but got me going.

@ossobuco,

There was once a TV series based on his work: My World and Welcome to IT. William Windom played a Thurber-like character. The episodes were drawn on his work in large part. Thurber purists screamed for blood, but I enjoyed watching it.

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@edgarblythe,

That rings a bell.

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@Ragman,

Rocky took us by surprise, because he has never tried to get out of the gate, prior. We were lucky the loose dogs that prowl the neighborhood were not out just then, or he would certainly have joined the pack. If he ever learned enough to make roaming the streets a habit I could not break I would return him to the SPCA.

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@edgarblythe,

I recall that in the early-'60s. I actually learned who Thurber was due to that show. I even had a small collection of his short stories published somewhere in '80-'83-ish

I really liked William Windom. Wasn't he also in a series with Inger Stevens where he was a bachelor or something..or she was a nanny...sort of recalling that without going to IMDB.

[edit: I just looked it up. That show was The farmer's Daughter. he was the widowed congressmen and she was the gorgeous housekeeper]

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@Ragman,

I saw him through the years on various shows. Don't recall the one you are remembering. He was a likable guy and a good actor.

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@edgarblythe,

I was surprised to find out his earlier acting resume .... the dramatic movies he was in:

Windom's first motion picture role was as Mr. Gilmer, the prosecutor of Tom Robinson in the 1962 Academy Award-winning To Kill a Mockingbird. In 1968, he starred with Frank Sinatra in The Detective, having played a homophobic killer. The role received great reviews from The New York Times.

From September 1963 to April 1966, he co-starred in the television version of the previous film, The Farmer's Daughter, a series about a young Minnesota woman who becomes the housekeeper for a widowed congressman. In the 1969–1970 NBC series My World and Welcome to It, Windom played the James Thurberesque lead and received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Comedy Series. After the cancellation of the series, Windom toured the country for a time in a one-man Thurber show.

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@edgarblythe,

Tnx for including the clip...cool..and episode to look into.

When it aired, the show preceded Laugh-In. This is probably why originally I caught it.

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Laugh In was a show that I would tell myself, before every season started, "It isn't funny enough to watch a whole hour every week. But I watched every episode and laughed along anyway - Even at Uncle Al, the kiddie's pal.

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@edgarblythe,

Being a little younger than you..I watched with a bit more HS fever/fervor...still in high school and more impressionable. Plus it was required reading for high school rehash and in my freshman college year.

I was in awe and disbelief when I saw evil Trick-Dick, RMN himself, say the catch-phrase "Sock It To Me".

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@edgarblythe,

Oooh ... ooh! William Windom also played in at least one Star Trek episode. He plays the unshaven temporary captain in episode, "The Doomsday Machine", where he endangers the crew of Enterprise as he attempts to steer it directly into a giant maw of this doomsday chew-up-everything-in-sight destruction machine.

"In this episode, the starship Enterprise comes into contact with its sister ship, the USS Constellation which has been heavily damaged by a huge fortified planet-killing machine from another galaxy. Kirk and his crew must find a means to stop the device heading for heavily populated areas of our galaxy, and deal with the heavily traumatized Commodore Decker, the Constellation's only survivor."

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I didn't watch Star Trek as faithfully as some people I know, but I think I remember that episode. Good to recall these things. TV is a little short on good entertainment these days.

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@edgarblythe,

Amen to that. Of course, with the summer reruns ... this adds to the lack of quality.

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@Ragman,

The cast of Big Bang are asking for a million an episode. I have watched it a few times, but I consider it second rate.

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@edgarblythe,

We will agree to disagree on that one. They've been on for 7 seasons now and CBS president has got them contracted out to 2017 season - a 3-yr-renwal. Chuck Lorre has been top dog producer of comedies since the 90s. Shows like 'Dharma and Gregg, and the like.

They deserve the money (if any TV actors do). It's been the number one comedy show for over 5 yrs. However, it is starting to vary in quality a bit..even though I'm a HUGE fan. I can be objective. They tickle my funny bone.

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@edgarblythe,

I don't think too way out of line, because the people in the Seinfeld show got $1 million bucks, and that was a few years ago.

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@cicerone imposter,

I remember when Friends TV show actors all stuck up for one another and extorted that kind of money from the producer of the show back 15 yrs ago! Feh!

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