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Here's a topic about Mr. Peepers, and I haven't said a peep up to now, so here goes....
I saw some episodes of Mr. Peepers that were filmed in front of a live studio audience -- and not just off the studio cameras! 2 or 3 episodes aired back to back. I don't remember what cable channel they turned up on, although it might have been TV Land.
Tony Randall was OK in his first series as a co-star, but it certainly wasn't Felix Unger.... Marion Lorne was light years away from becoming Aunt Clara on Bewitched. This was basically a low-key vehicle for a low-key comedian: Wally Cox.
I just want to say a few things about Wally. I've always wanted to see his filmed sitcom The Adventures of Hiram Holiday. Since it takes place all over the world, Hiram the reporter must have been a more fascinating concept than Robinson Peepers, the schoolteacher. Has this 1950s comedy ever turned up in reruns or it is as lost and rare as Carol Burnett's first series Stanley, in which she played Buddy Hackett's girlfriend?
In the 1960s, Cox was amusing in a silly episode of The Twilight Zone entitled "From Agnes, with Love" in which he plays a computer programmer whose mainframe falls in love with him!
His guest shots on other shows such as It Takes a Thief were memorable too. In the early 1970s, he and Bob Crane appeared in Disney comedies on the big screen.
But let's face it: It was in the last years of his life on The Hollywood Squares in which Wally was most at ease...even if he seemed to be aloof and bewildered at times. But his unassuming one-liners were very much his own, and that was just a small part of the earliest years of a classic game show!
I saw some episodes of Mr. Peepers that were filmed in front of a live studio audience -- and not just off the studio cameras! 2 or 3 episodes aired back to back. I don't remember what cable channel they turned up on, although it might have been TV Land.
Tony Randall was OK in his first series as a co-star, but it certainly wasn't Felix Unger.... Marion Lorne was light years away from becoming Aunt Clara on Bewitched. This was basically a low-key vehicle for a low-key comedian: Wally Cox.
I just want to say a few things about Wally. I've always wanted to see his filmed sitcom The Adventures of Hiram Holiday. Since it takes place all over the world, Hiram the reporter must have been a more fascinating concept than Robinson Peepers, the schoolteacher. Has this 1950s comedy ever turned up in reruns or it is as lost and rare as Carol Burnett's first series Stanley, in which she played Buddy Hackett's girlfriend?
In the 1960s, Cox was amusing in a silly episode of The Twilight Zone entitled "From Agnes, with Love" in which he plays a computer programmer whose mainframe falls in love with him!
His guest shots on other shows such as It Takes a Thief were memorable too. In the early 1970s, he and Bob Crane appeared in Disney comedies on the big screen. But let's face it: It was in the last years of his life on The Hollywood Squares in which Wally was most at ease...even if he seemed to be aloof and bewildered at times. But his unassuming one-liners were very much his own, and that was just a small part of the earliest years of a classic game show!
