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

[Dan Van Landingham]

I 

I vaguely remember the series.As a rule,I ignored sitcoms as I found them 
anything but funny.The reason I remember the series because we had just one 
channel to watch growing up here in Sothwestern Oregon.The one sitcom that 
didn't insult my intelligence was M*A*S*H.Al Hendrickson once told me 

that he was on "Bonanza","Little House on The Prairie" and several others.


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From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Tue, February 15, 2011 8:04:48 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] I'm Dickens, He's Fenster

V-Discs as well..by a strange coincidence, my book just happened to open at 
Szath-Myri. Didn't know he arranged for Jack Teagarden.

dl

On 2/15/2011 11:01 AM, Cary Ginell wrote:
>
> One and the same.
>
> CG
>
>> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:52:46 -0500
>> From: dlennick at sympatico.ca
>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] I'm Dickens, He's Fenster
>>
>> Is Irving Szathmary the same Szath-Miri who was on LangWorth transcriptions 
in
>> the 40s and 50s?
>>
>> And for more television memories (and finer smoking pleasure), look you here:
>>
>> TV4U.com
>>
>> dl
>>
>> On 2/15/2011 10:43 AM, Cary Ginell wrote:
>>>
>>> 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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