>>>>>Don't know why - I haven't thought of this for donkeys' years, but it just popped into my head:
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>>>>>Anyone remember that USAF comedy series, set in days of conscription, "No Time for Sergeants"? The hero was a big southern galoot, Will Stockdale, who took delight in the fact that he was "Permanent Latrine Orderly".
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>>>>>Used to love that prog.
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>>>>>Incidentally, they've NEVER repeated Gilligan's Isle over here, as far as I know, except maybe for satellite.
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>>>>Andy Griffith played the part in the original movie, then went on to play Sheriff Andy Taylor in The Andy Griffith Show.
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>>>Never heard of that this side of the Pond
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>>It probably wouldn't travel very well. There was something about Andy's folksy, easygoing ways that epitomized the innocence of America in the 1950s. Andy's memorable sidekick was his perpetually alarmed deputy, Barney Fife, played by Don Knotts. Barney was so jittery Andy only let him carry one bullet, and that one he had to keep in his shirt pocket. He was always reaching for it in response to minor small-town rumpuses. (Those must have been some of his spiritual descendents down in Florida on Friday, but never mind). Another of the principals was Andy's son Opie, who grew up to be the movie director Ron Howard. Among the other characters were Aunt Bea, Floyd the barber, Gomer, and Goober. It was an innocent time here, the end of our innocence really.
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>Like I said to John - never heard of these guys. Talking of household names - whatever happened to Jethroe Bodine and Ely May Clamppet (Jethroe's catch-phrase, like Will Stockdale's "permanent latrine orderly" was "I got a sixth-grade education!" :-) ?


Or "I'm what you call a junior ex-ecutive!"

Lord, that was a dumb show. My childhood was littered with dumb shows like "Beverly Hillbillies", "Run, Buddy, Run", "Bewitched", "F Troop", "The Flying Nun", "Gomer Pyle", "Gilligan's Island", and (forgive me) "My Mother the Car". Honestly, the classiest show I can remember watching before becoming a teenager was "The Man From Uncle", and that was a pretty dumb show, too. Newton Minow did have a point.