tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post1176600623431979991..comments2024-03-28T11:45:24.378-07:00Comments on Tralfaz: Before She Was AliceYowphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-86110115917662290792014-06-03T07:09:34.927-07:002014-06-03T07:09:34.927-07:00I never thought of the parallels, J.L., but I'...I never thought of the parallels, J.L., but I'd agree, though I admit I never sat through an entire episode (when it was syndicated as "Love that Bob"). It doesn't have a lot that would have appealed to a six-year-old, not like talking horses (and cars), genies, housewife witches and castaways. (The same local channel broadcast reruns of "Topper," which was equally unappealing and suffered from laughtrack-itis).<br />I don't know if Henning cast his shows but the casting was perfect (except maybe for the revolving daughter door at "Petticoat Junction").Yowphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-67719591728814371132014-06-02T20:24:47.035-07:002014-06-02T20:24:47.035-07:00Ann's original role was kind of an early model...Ann's original role was kind of an early model for the Jane Hathaway character that Paul Henning later created for Nancy Kulp on "The Beverly Hillbillies" in term of being the boss' sane assistant ,,, except that Davis wasn't enough of a contrast to Joi Lansing and the other hot female models on the show, so Hennnig went out and got Nancy Kulp to play the role of the woman men ran from. Combined with Cummings' desire to insert some of his real-life interests into the show, and it made things aside from Bob's sex drive a little too unfocused to make the show really memorable, though the basic personality of Schultzy was transferred over to Alice pretty much intact a decade later.J Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15175515543694122729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-64655183990435145042014-06-02T07:49:41.419-07:002014-06-02T07:49:41.419-07:00Wow...Brady Bunch deaths are pretty scarce (Robert...Wow...Brady Bunch deaths are pretty scarce (Robert Reed died back in 1992)...RIP Alice..."Those kids (the first ones) are now grown"(including 80s-90s gerntions) and the later ones in later years after 1999 are teenagers or younger watching on Disney or Nick at Nite.....I presume she didn't make it big in the radio....related to another interest here, animation, even uncredited theatricals woulda been a good vehicle, but then there's the case of Joe Barbera in 1971 casting (for "Hair Bear") Joe Flynn and it turned out with him,that HE couldn't pla the irritable zookeeper Peevely on "Help! It's the Hair Bear Bunch",so John Stephenson was hired to do te more "animated" Joe Flynn.<br /><br />On that same note, withh Ann B.Davis, if Joe Barbera or anyone based a character on her voice on persona it was beter to hire a mimic as there's no cartoons (at least outsaide "Simpsons" :)) with her doing a voice (again if "Love that Bob" or "Brady" had been 1930s-1940s radio shows I'd think Ann B.Davi would b a shoo in, even appearing on Jack Benny or Bing Crosby but as we know as it turned out in real life, that's not the case at all..). (There's not even a mention o any character being "a spoof of Schultzy" or later "Alice"...) RIP..I'll post this to my face book (The Partridges only lost Rueben Kincaid..) so thankfully most of both unusual 1970s ABC light comedy TV families' casts are still alive..The Bradys were lucky after Robert Reed not to lose another till today..:) Steve Pokeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15936757752447320636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-11457522628068865482014-06-02T07:41:22.179-07:002014-06-02T07:41:22.179-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Pokeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15936757752447320636noreply@blogger.com