[78-L] I'm Dickens, He's Fenster

[Cary Ginell]

No wonder I enjoyed this show. I was only 6 at the time. Producer Leonard Stern and composer Irving Szathmary went on to create a more successful show: "Get Smart," a few years later. Szathmary, incidentally is the real surname of comedian Bill Dana ("My name...Jose Jiminez"), who is Irving Szathmary's brother. 

It's interesting how much commercials have matured since then. The hard sell was the only way they were presented, and the writing was stilted, obvious, and sometimes stupid ("El Productor cigars are processed with natural heat...")

Cary Ginell

> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:55:52 -0500
> From: dlennick at sympatico.ca
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] I'm Dickens, He's Fenster
> 
> The theme was memorable enough at the time to be included on one of that year's 
> "Hit TV Themes" albums, possibly Nelson Riddle. Great title.."The I'm Dickens, 
> He's Fenster March". No I don't remember it.
> 
> Like most things 50 years later, you view it with a different perspective or 
> come to it wondering "Whaaaa..?" if you hadn't seen it before. I remember the 
> show as very funny then. On another list I've recently seen fond memories 
> expressed for "He and She", which I have filed in my "Couldn't care less" 
> memory bank but that's because I couldn't stand Richard Benjamin then and can't 
> stand him now..I also thought it aired later than 1967, and I didn't own a TV 
> in 1967, so now I'm wondering when or if I actually did see it.
> 
> dl
> 
> On 2/15/2011 12:59 AM, . wrote:
> >   Watching the El Producto commercials, now ( 2 for 25 cents! El Stinko
> > Deluxe Fold-a-Pak, 5 for a Buck! )
> >
> >   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPa_HJVncRE
> >
> >   That theme music is trying WAY too hard to be funny;  did the show stink
> > like the El Productos ?
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "David Lennick"<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> > To: "78L"<78-L at 78online.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 12:24 AM
> > Subject: [78-L] I'm Dickens, He's Fenster
> >
> >
> >> Okay, so there are probably 3 of us who saw this originally..raise your
> >> hands,
> >> or have the nice nurse do it for you.
> >>
> >> At last, on DVD!
> >> http://www.tvtimemachine.com/productions/im-dickens-hes-fenster/
> >>
> >> dl
> >
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