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

[DanKj]

 Watched a complete episode via yootoob, last night.  It wasn't awful, but I was mostly struck by 2 things: John Astin took 
an awful pratfall, which I understand he did more than once during this series, and it's a wonder he didn't kill his spine 
the way Jerry Lewis did. Other ting:  Marty Ingels is only a couple months older than my Dad, but he sure looked older than 
26 in this program.  Maybe it was the cigars.

 ps - I may have heard some of this program, as I was in my first months of life - which I understand almost began during 
the first "76 Trombones" number in The Music Man movie, which my parents were attending at Shea's Buffalo when I decided to 
stir & come see what the fuss was about.  A quick trip to Kenmore Mercy Hospital & 24 hours of painful (guilt-trip) labor 
later, there was another confused Kjeldgaard in the world ...




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 8:55 AM
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/