Horace Rumpole (Leo McKern) is married to Hilda Rum-pole (Peggy Thorpe-Bates, Marion Mathie) on the TV show “Rumpole of the Bailey”
(Thames, 1978-88).
He usually refers to her as “She Who Must Be Obeyed.”
The series has appeared on PBS’s “Mystery!” (1981).
The animated ad featuring a cartoon child crying, “I want my Maypo” first aired in 1956. Maypo is a maple-flavored oatmeal, new at the time.
Larry Hagman was offered “The Waverly Wonders” (NBC, 1978), a sitcom about a high school basketball coach (starring Joe Namath) the same year he was offered “Dallas” (CBS, 1978-91). Hagman favored this series, which lasted one month; but his wife advised him to take “Dallas.”
Stalag 13. The PT boat number on “McHale’s Navy” (ABC 1962-66) was PT 73.
Alf, Uncle Martin, and Mork’s home planets on the TV series Mork and Mindy are as follows: Alf (voice by Paul Fusco) Melmac Uncle Martin (Ray Walston) Mars Mork (Robin Williams) Ork
The “ten-minute ticker” is a rule devised by Michael Weisman, NBC Sports producer, requiring production assistants covering a game to update the scores for other games every ten minutes.
April Dancer, played by Stefanie Powers, in this short-lived TV spoof of NBC’s popular “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” (1964-68).