Hello...I'm Mr. Ed

Random Trivia- Mister Ed's real name was Bamboo Harvester.

 

Wilbur, was a lucky man.

 

There were a few episodes where it was clear she thought Wilbur was eccentric, even borderline crazy as it was.

Not exactly. Producer Arthur Lubin produced all the Francis the Talking Mule movies and also did the Mr. Ed TV show, and it's fair to say the idea of a talking horse isn't something you can copyright per se. I'm positive Universal was pissed-off about it -- mainly that they hadn't thought about it and done it first -- but they couldn't sue or even call it a rip-off. There had been talking animals on film for years before that.

 

I love Francis! Chill Wills...

 

Indubitably...

 

Ed takes Sandy Koufax deep and John Roseboro wants no part of the slide.

 

Hubba Hubba!

 

If I was the baseball player I'd be pretty scared having to work with a horse, even if he was trained!

 

Because you can't just replace an actor in the middle of a show



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Bob Hope in bed with Trigger.

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Hope did not want to do this scene, fearing that if his co-star rolled over, it would be Hope at his flattest. Director Frank Tashlin assured him, "But Bob, this is Trigger -- the smartest horse in the movies!"

Eventually Hope relented, but warned Tashlin, "If you don't get in on the first take -- that's all brother."

 

There's a Farmers Only commercial with a couple of talking malicious horses. And Bojack Horseman was a right bastard.

 

Don't you tell me you don't know!

 

I hadn't seen it since I was a kid until my wife starting watching them on METV . ( I think)

Before I watched a couple of them again I thought to myself now that I'm not a kid, wow how did they stretch basically a one joke gag into a series?

But to my surprise they were really funny. The lines they gave Ed were hilarious much of the time.

Allan Lane had the perfect voice for Ed.

And, reading online, I think it was cool that Alan Young would visit Bamboo Harvester ( Mr.Ed) after the series ended.

 

Unlike Juan Marichal, Ed dropped his bat.

 

yes, that was in his autobiography...

 

that pic is just too freaky!

 

OMG! that was great!

 

So is the show! It's a mean, nasty, awful look at the sad fate of quite a few Hollywood actors. (And Hollywoo as well.)

 

6:11 minutes in......

 

Connie Hines, nice errrr... tail fin on that car.

love those barn doors too!

 

I'm confused?

 

Bojack Horseman. A different show about a talking horse in Hollywood.

 

O' OK...thanks.

 

Hello Horse lovers,
I was about to share a link to the 'Mister Ed' YouTube channel, to which they uploaded the complete episodes of Mr Ed Seasons 1 - 5.
As of writing this, the channel has gone again.
I say that in the respect, some of these episodes were made available before, but now like then, have disappeared.
It was short lived, I'm not sure why, but I was enjoying them once again and wanted to share to others.
I thought some of you might have got a kick out of seeing some of these old early 60's shows.

 

After Larry Keating died, there was a brief period where Jack Albertsons was on the show as Kay Addison’s brother, essentially delivering Keating’s lines. Edna Skinner said she was let go in a particularly unfeeling way - she was summoned to the producers’ office and told, “Edna, you’re out!” Nice, huh? Leon Ames and Florence MacMichael, as the second neighbors, weren’t in the last season because the producers knew their characters didn’t work.