MUIR couldn't stand his affectations and arrogance(which is to say, like Jonathan Harris of LOST IN SPACE, he played his role to perfection and exactly as the producers wished, though the credibility of both series fatally suffered as a result).
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I remember him from the TV version of THE GHOST & MRS. The now very aged-looking CNR would sit for a moment, then stammered, "THIS WAS SO MUCH EASIER IN THE OLD DAYS!" The last time I saw him was a special episode of Hollywood Squares, the last version, where duos were sitting in the squares.Īnd so were Charles Nelson Reilly and Brett Somers. "YAY!" - Dom was a major star at that time. It does get tiresome after a while), Rose would read out celebrity names at a banquet, as Dorothy and Blanche cheered. On an episode of Golden Girls (often targeted for having gay innuendoes itself. Saw him on an episode of The Love Boat, - paired up with Charlotte Rae, of all people. Then he faded from tv, and later I learned he was filing a lawsuit for appearing at a circus and he stepped in elephant dung and slipped, causing injury to himself. He followed up with a totally forgettable Saturday morning show, Uncle Croc's Block, where he wore a really bad crocodile costume. "I spilt some sesame seeds into the boiler and am straining them out now," he quietly says. He got the strainer and began removing the scalded bugs, only to have a little moppet enter the kitchen and he imitated her. He was talking about preparing a meal, poured in the race. I would see him on the Dinah Shore show in the 1970s and I did notice his gesturing which would become known as flaming, was a bit much. I remember the Ben Gay/ Ben Hur joke.Įverything on game shows in the 1970s was an innuendo, a childish, juvenile innuendo, and CNR was the leader of the pack. He's just an eccentric like Vito Scotti or Marty Engel. Eh, I did the same thing with Paul Lynde, something I still don't see when I watch Bewitched reruns. Maybe it was a child who wasn't so overtly aware as to what feminism was, but I didn't know the man was gay. Wearing green makeup and white gloves, yet caucasian wrists were plainly visible.įor starters, everybody grab yer jaws. For a generation, CNR was the great Hoodoo on the Krofft Saturday morning show, Lidsville, with Butch Patrick of the Munsters.
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