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Post by carol on Apr 23, 2018 23:44:13 GMT -5
I'm sure I could think of some others, but as I'm watching "The Song" right now, in which Erin Moran is a guest who Ben gets to sing a duet with Jason, the character of Betsy Morgan completely creeps me out. She was played by Doney Oatman, who had a short career in the 70s and did a very good job in this episode of "The Waltons", but it's her character and the way she acts that I very much don't like. Loud, obnoxious... very unfeminine. I would bet money Doney had a great time playing Betsy in the two episodes in which she appeared. While I'm at it, one of the sweetest guest characters was the lady who lived by herself in a neat cabin. John Boy borrowed her mule (and ended up with it when she died) when he was taking care of Sissy Spacek's character as she was having her baby. That lady had the sweetest smile and demeanor, I'd bet there wasn't much acting going on there. BTW, I read once that Earl Hamner said his grandmother was more like this lady than the crusty Grandma in the series, as played by Ellen Corby. Still, I like Grandma. She's the perfect match for Will Geer's Grandpa. The old lady was Granny Ketchum. The episode was The Odyssey.
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Post by carol on Apr 23, 2018 23:47:10 GMT -5
I just thought of two more
Ada Corley - The Ordeal. Cassie - The Grandchild
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Post by goldfinch1 on Apr 24, 2018 6:36:22 GMT -5
I just thought of two more Ada Corley - The Ordeal. Cassie - The Grandchild My list is still growing!!!!
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Post by JeriJet on Apr 24, 2018 9:21:58 GMT -5
Can't let this thread go by without mentioning Eddie Haskell on "Leave It To Beaver" !!!!!
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Post by e knight on Apr 24, 2018 21:31:38 GMT -5
Can't let this thread go by without mentioning Eddie Haskell on "Leave It To Beaver" !!!!! Hey, that's a thought: Eddie Haskell shows up on Walton's Mountain! "Why good afternoon, Mrs. Walton. What a lovely dress, a classic! I was just telling John-Junior and young Beaver ... er, young Jim-Bob, about Mister Roosevelt's speech last night, and ..." "You'll have to excuse me, Eddie," says Olivia as she leaves the kitchen, "Alright, Eddie, we know you're here to cause trouble -- and don't you call me 'Beaver' no more." 'Buzz off, Squirt." "Yeah, Eddie ... you may be my best friend and all, but you're a creep!' "Ease off, Shakespeare ,... I was just tryin' to help you two losers catch onto some excitement. Now, when your old man gets back, we'll just tell him that... uhhh, why hello, Mister Walton! My that's a sharp-looking saw you've got there."
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Post by sandra09 on Apr 25, 2018 1:16:36 GMT -5
I am hopeless at remembering the names of particular episodes but here goes. I'm thinking of the one where the family go off to the beach for a holiday, and they meet a strange English girl. The actress who played that girl irritated me to distraction. It wasn't how she looked or what she said, it was more the way she said it. She had the worst English accent I have ever heard, and I really thought that she was perhaps an American who was playing the part. I was so surprised when I read that she was actually an English actress. It didn't make any difference tho' she still irritates me. I will add that I was sad to read that she had died.
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Post by pabby6060 on Apr 25, 2018 5:35:46 GMT -5
I am hopeless at remembering the names of particular episodes but here goes. I'm thinking of the one where the family go off to the beach for a holiday, and they meet a strange English girl . . . That would be "The Seashore" (Season 6, Episode 5). Vickery Turner played the English girl, Lisa Cooper, and, as you mentioned, was actually born in England herself. But, would you be shocked to learn that she was 37 years old at the time that episode aired in 1977? That made her 16 years older than Jon Walmsley in real life, although she was playing a 21-year-old girl in the episode. Her first marriage was to actor Warren Oates, who was 12 years older (it was his 3rd marriage). She was married to actor Michael Shannon at the time of her death in 2006 ... on the day after her 66th birthday. At the end of the episode, her character reveals that she is actually Austrian, not English. I couldn't say, but maybe she was trying to play the role as such ... someone with an Austrian accent who is trying to sound English.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2023 21:00:45 GMT -5
Ugh, Corabeth Walton I LOATHE this character. I hate how she treats Ike. They should have never gotten married. Then she was driven to drink...pathetic human being. But there are people out there just like this.
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Post by runhard on Jul 10, 2023 4:04:46 GMT -5
Jon Denby from The Dust Bowl Cousins Gino from The Boy in the C.C.C.
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Post by carol on Jul 10, 2023 23:27:14 GMT -5
Ugh, Corabeth Walton I LOATHE this character. I hate how she treats Ike. They should have never gotten married. Then she was driven to drink...pathetic human being. But there are people out there just like this. Alcoholics aren't pathetic human beings. Alcoholism is an illness. There wasn't much known or understood about alcoholism or addiction back in the 1940's. AA was started by Bill W and Dr. Bob in 1935 and was still in it's infancy in the early 40's when the episode The Captive took place and Al Anon for families of alcoholics didn't start up until 1951.
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Post by Easton on Jul 11, 2023 8:28:53 GMT -5
^ Indeed. It was directed by Ralph Waite who was, himself, a recovering alcoholic who quit drinking when he started the show. In his eyes, an alcoholic was not a good role model for all the Walton children. If anyone could understand the episode and get a realistic and believable performance out of Ronnie Claire Edwards, it was Ralph. He didn't have to imagine it. He had lived it.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2023 19:49:31 GMT -5
Ugh, Corabeth Walton I LOATHE this character. I hate how she treats Ike. They should have never gotten married. Then she was driven to drink...pathetic human being. But there are people out there just like this. Alcoholics aren't pathetic human beings. Alcoholism is an illness. There wasn't much known or understood about alcoholism or addiction back in the 1940's. AA was started by Bill W and Dr. Bob in 1935 and was still in it's infancy in the early 40's when the episode The Captive took place and Al Anon for families of alcoholics didn't start up until 1951. I don't loathe Corabeth because she is an alcoholic, I just hate how poorly she treats Ike for pretty much the entire series. There is a huge amount of low self esteem as well whenever she puts on heirs.
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Post by bluesmyboy on Jul 16, 2023 17:50:49 GMT -5
Corabeth by a mile. The ignorance that she displays time and time again is enough not to like her. She is so quick to judge people and has to make everything about her.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2023 0:06:00 GMT -5
Corabeth by a mile. The ignorance that she displays time and time again is enough not to like her. She is so quick to judge people and has to make everything about her. Geez exactly, thank you
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Post by Brenda on Jul 17, 2023 13:47:14 GMT -5
I’m watching “The Fawn” right now. The subplot is John Boy’s job as a rent collector. Graham Foster should be on any list of least favorite characters.
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