[78-L] George Cleveland

[David Lennick]

DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
> It seems as if they started easing Timmy into the 4th season because Jan 
> Clayton wanted out and Tommy Rettig was getting too old, then they fired just 
> about everybody when Cleveland died in July 1957.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lassie_(1954_TV_series)
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> I know I wasn't curious at the time but looking back on it now, it's surprising that they were still shooting the season in the summer.  If my memory serves me, (and I haven't thought about this since then), it was in mid-season when Cleveland died and they had to scramble to set up a post-gramps episode.  I'm sure you're aware that Tommy Rettig, (who was a year older than me), has also died.  I met him once at the CNE grandstand when he, Lassie and the other boy on the series then, (an overweight kid whose name I've forgotten - the name "Porky" comes to mind but I don't think they would have used such a politically improper name even in the 50s), were performing at the CNE.
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Definitely Porky..political correctness didn't rear its ugly head till much later.

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