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Mister Ed - The Ventriloquist
episode 1.2
USA 1961
produced by Arthur Lubin, Al Simon (executive) for Filmways/CBS
directed by Rod Amateau
starring Alan Young, Connie Hines, Larry Keating, Edna Skinner, Peter Leeds, Allan Lane (voice)
written by Phil Davis, Lou Derman, created by Walter R. Brooks, theme music by Ray Evans, Jay Livingston
TV series Mister Ed
review by Mike Haberfelner
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To afford his wife Carol (Connie Hines) a second television set for the
bedroom (and with remote control, too), Wilbur (Alan Young) tries to sell
a clubhouse design to his neighbour Mr Addison (Larry Keating) - whose
opinion of Wilbur is not the highest to begin with, but when Wilbur
splashes half a bottle of ketchup onto his shirt during a meeting in
public, the opinion drops to zero ... until he witnesses Wilbur talking to
his horse Ed (voiced by Allan Lane). Now not believing that there is such
a thing as a talking horse, he believes Wilbur is a ventriloquist ... and
before you know it, Addison has placed a bet with Robbins (Peter Leeds), a
show-off who has beat him in every cardgame imaginable, that Wilbur is
indeed a ventriloquist - which puts Wilbur in a rather tough spot ...
until Ed sneaks onto the scene to help out. The whole set-up of
this episode above all else proves its age, and several of the situations
involved would have deserved better gags as well as the episode as such a
better pay-off - but there are some genuinely funny bits in this one, so
it's definitely not a waste of time. Just prepare yourself to be wading
knee-deep in 1950's values (and YES, I do know this was made in 1961).
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