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  • @gspencerful -- Sadly this show bombed in the ratings. A shame since Paul Lynde was a really funny guy.

  • He was one of the funniest comedic actors ever .His timing in delivering a killer line-second to none. Love the man.

  • @rickw1100 -- Paul Lynde in the center square saved Hollywood Squares from cancellation.

  • I could not remember this at all, until his briefcase OPENED up and that trademark smirk Paul has on his face, that's when I remembered the show :-}

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    How sad he died alone, he played so many good parts, wish I could have met him. I lived next to Salem when they did the Bewitched segments in 1970 but Paul didn't come to Salem, I would have gone to see.

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    Oh well life goes on, at least we have TV and YouTube and DVD's to remember.

  • Oh, for the days of Mr. Lynde, Charles Nelson Riley and Rip Taylor - comedians of a "different persuasion" who nonetheless didn't feel the need to champion their lifestyles. It's too bad Hollywood stars - both hetero- and homosexual - have to make their sex lives part of their public personas.

  • @65kowalski -- True! Back then gay and lesbian actors never felt the need to be "in your face" about their personal lifestyles.

  • @65kowalski -- And don't 4get the inimitable Alan Sues!

  • It's funny how you remember little blips of tv from childhood, I have a memory of this show and an aluminum breifcase that maybe he threw in the water, and thats it. The memory maybe isn't even real but it sticks so it must be at least part of one of the only season it ran. Anyone remember anything like that?

  • @darrylhaynes - Thats a great story on how you got on the show, thanks for sharing, I hope it was worth it, ya know cash wise.

  • heh - would love to have that Caprice convertible Paul's driving...

  • I want Sony TV to release this on DVD!

  • I actually remember laughing out loud at this show. Does anyone remember after this, there was a rumor Paul Lynde was going to be the replacement for McLean Stevenson on MASH?

  • The main problem with this show is that Paul Lynde delivered every line as if it were a Hollywood Squares punch line. The nasally voice worked all right on Bewitched in small doses but here he had to carry the entire show. If he had been allowed to use his normal voice the show would have worked a lot better. Also, Paul Lynde wasn't a physical comedian, something like the Bob Newhart show would have worked better for him.

  • One of my favorite comedians of all time , I did not care about his sexual preferences , also loved his show .

  • I was 9 when i saw that show and it was one of my faves. One of my favorite episodes was when Paul and the others got wasted. It was funny and unforgettable. Thank you for bringing this intro.

  • I remember watching this show. It wasn't side-splittingly funny, but it had it's moments.

  • I did see the series and did enjoy it.I remember one scene where Paul was sleeping in the living room in a cot,noticed a matress-tag saying,"This tag not to be removed under penalty of law,"and Paul tearing off the tag yelling,"Come and get me!"

  • I think Dana Carvey was spoofing this show when he did the effimative hetersexual on sat nite live

  • @mrdoyle71 typical RePUKElican can't even spell and makes up words  omg omg You really ARE the Maestro of the Malaprop

    GOTCHA!!!

  • Wow I never even knew Paul had his own show. Good for him!

  • @screenjims2006 He died in '82. Lots of celebrities are like that. Take Bob Barker. Probably nicest guy in the world on-camera, but off..... forget it!

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  • if i had a choice in gay dads paul lynde be the top of that very small list

  • I like his car.

  • I think Wayland and Maddam would have made a good wife for Paul.

  • THANK YOU very much for sharing this rarely seen footage. I recall seeing one or two episodes of this rather run of the mill sitcom as a teen in the early 70's....you can tell it's from the 70's just by the brassy theme song! Being a huge fan of Paul Lynde, I was willing to watch him in anything. His talent & perfect comic timing rose the level of anything he appeared in, that's for sure. He was one of the comedy giants...and is sorely missed today. THANK YOU again for posting this! :)

  • Great line from the late, lamented "Jumping the Shark" site: "I'd like to meet the network suits who tried to pass Paul Lynde off as a family man."

  • I want this show in my life.

  • Paul Lynde playing a straight guy. What was this sci-fi?

  • I am 39 - I could swear I have seen this as a child, but of course it would have had to have been a re-run. Man this guy was hilarious! I loved his remarks on Hollywood Squares - I was totally clueless about the euphemisms, sexual innuendo and double entente - or even what the hell gay was for that matter, but I still laughed along. I must have come up with my own reasons for why it was funny...

  • I adore him. One of the great Comedic actors. Peerless.

  • As much as my whole family loved Paul Lynde, I have to admit that this show just wasn't very good. We watched a lot of episodes, but it just didn't click. I think he's funnier in supporting roles.

  • @odantoro Paul Lynde and his "mother-in-law" made the best TV on the Paul Lynde Show. The one liners about her wrinkle cream was the best in the business even for today's standards. Gotta love it!!!

  • I didn't now he had his own show, Thanks for posting.

  • paul lyne was as gay as a pink shirt

  • Does anyone know Robert Reed's favourite verse from the 'Brady Bunch" theme? There were four men living all together.

  • lmao

  • If it had been me, I would have cast Charles Nelson Reilly as Paul's wife.

  • or Liberace.

  • or Liberace.

  • I remember watching this and it wasn't too funny. He wasn't thought as 'gay' back then, more like 'high camp' like him, Tony Randall, Jonathan Harris (Dr. Smith in Lost in Space TV series). Even Jerry Lewis(who is NOT gay). High Camp..

    They still got the straight roles.....

  • Tony Randall and Jonathan Harris weren't gay either

  • um.....hello....they were gay...!

    them like other hollywood agents had publicity managers that kept their personal life out of the public tabloids. Rock Hudson is one major example. No one knew publicly until he was diagnosed. if he never was ill, he would have kept it a secret still. sad to say...

  • I was just going to type that about Tony Randall and Jonathan Harris not being gay either! : )

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  • I saw an episode of this my sophomore year of H.S....probably one of the worst shows of all-time.

  • Wonderful exchange from this show:

    Martha Simms: How's the rat race honey?

    Paul Simms: The rats are winning!

  • @gilgamess My thoughts (or memory!) exactly!

  • From the same producers who brought us "Bewitched."

  • The 1972 Chevrolet Impala convertible looks like the car from "Bewitched"

  • Chevrolet was the host, of both shows. It got there cars free TV time. Great marketing, What happened to GM? They made good cars and they were good looking.

  • @mikey42 And "I Dream of Jeannie".

  • This is one of the funniest openings for a show I have ever seen and Paul Lynde was a master of comedy. I was 8 when this was on and remember this vagly on ABC. Sure Paul was gay but so what-that does not take away how much people loved him as I do and still do. He was absolutely wonderful on Hollywood Squares and the show won many emmys. Paul is dead-leave him alone.

  • I knew two things when this show first aired-and I was 10-The two things were that I only began to understand the concept a man being gay but I knew Paul Lynde had to be one and the other thing even this 10 year old knew was that this was one of the worst tv shows he'd ever seen. Apparently,I wasn't alone with that sentiment.

  • Did this show rerun anywhere? I loved Paul on Bewitched and Hollywood Squares, so naturally I'd love to see some of this show too.

  • somehow Paul Lynde married with kids just doen't seem right...

  • Quote from the late, great JTS site: "I'd like to meet the suits who cast Paul Lynde as a family man."

  • Great show!

    George Vreeland Hill

  • I loved Pam Ferdin as a kid.

  • So do I, she was and probably, still is a hottie!

  • Didn't we all?

  • I only saw the pilot episode of this show did it air long.

  • Thanks for this post. There is no one that was funnier than Paul Lynde and who cares if he was gay. He had talent and warmth and that is what made people love him.

  • This show looks BRILLIANT!!

  • It does - it looks FAB even... liked your comment.

  • No, looking again it looks like Northern Ca.

  • It looked like Long Beach in the briefcase scene and Palos Verdes in the other. Living in that area I watched alot of filming of T.V. shows as a kid in the 70's. The kid from Sigmund the Sea Monster lived behind me. A BIG star in my hood.

  • Actually all the scenery in the opening is Santa Barbara. He walks out of the Santa Barbara County Couthouse. The car is parked near West Beach. He drives along into the entrance of the Santa Barbara Biltmore. It's all a subtle parody of Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law which was also running on ABC at the time and shot in Santa Barbara.

  • The scenery and the theme are just great. The program lasted only one season, and the joke that I had for that is because the cars were furnished by Chevrolet (which I do not care for, and that likewise goes for Ford).

  • give me book, chapter & verse.

  • What's your point? Someone posts a bit of TV nostalgia and some of us recall the personalities fondly. Who gives a shit about your religious views as it pertains here?

  • Here's one for ya: "And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brothers eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? 5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the..." Matthew 7: 3-5 In other words, stop telling us what's happening to everyone else's souls and start worrying about your own. How arrogant are you to think you know the mind of God?

  • Man, that is some lame-ass witnessing if I ever saw any. A snarky comment about hell? Way to win souls, brother. Or perhaps you supposed you were preaching to the choir, in which case the comment is even less appropriate.

  • I recall this show may have been on during the summer (in 1972). In watching the opening sequence, wasn't that the same kitchen set they used for Bewitched?

  • It's hard to cast a gay man in a straight man's role. Funny dude, but this show was too rigid for his flamboyant humor.

  • I beg to differ. Look at all the gay stars who played straight roles before we knew they were gay. Rock Hudson & Dick Sargent for example.

  • For that matter, Robert Reed on "The Brady Bunch"...but trying to sell Lynde in that role was asking for a lot.

  • O.k. I'll give you that.

  • It wasn't very good. Not many laughs.

  • I had a crush on Pam Ferdyn back in the day.

    She was such a cutie!

  • I didn't know what "camp" or "gay" were when I saw this first-run. I thought Paul was perfectly cast as a high-strung father and husband! I'm smiling at the memory! We miss you Mr. Lynde...

  • Paul Lynde was more a one line delivery comedian than a stand up type, but his timing and delivery was amazing. He was so good that he could make a cookie recipe sound like high comedy.

  • This show was kinda cute but unfortunately Paul just wasn't convincing as the husband/father/head of the household role. At least in my personal opinion.

  • He was probably Jim McGreevy's inspiration.

  • Didn't you see "Bye Bye Birdie"?

  • I think I was busy watching "Big Trouble in Little China."

  • "Oh, my good-ne-hessssss!"

  • fun stuff..a classy, fun guy...jack english.bev hills..

  • i like it when his briefcase opens and his secret pamphlets from queer nation fly all over the place.

  • This is inexplicable, and probably the funniest thing i've seen in days. The take @ 22 is priceless.

  • 1983, of course, would have been after Lynde died.

  • This may have been a decent show (I barely remember it). But this is an awful theme song. It's not catchy at all -- and there's nothing remotely funny or interesting about the visuals that go with it. It's poorly directed and produced. The actors' names don't match what we're seeing on screen. It just looks and sounds sloppy and haphazard.

  • Ugh, looks awful.

  • i remember this show from when i was in high school, weren't there two shows like this he did? and whatever happened to john calvin, the son in law? i remember him being on lots of shows, especially a few mod squads, he played an old boyfriend of julie's i think.

  • Bill Asher was determined to sell the "HOWIE" idea with Lynde...finally, when he and Liz Montgomery formed "Ashmont Productions" to produce the final season of "BEWITCHED", he got a firm commitment from Screen Gems/Columbia and ABC to "revive" the format in 1972, with Lynde as the star.

  • The genesis of this series goes all the way back to 1962, when William Asher {with writer Sidney Sheldon} and United Artists tried to sell CBS a series called "HOWIE", co-starring Will Hutchins and Paul Lynde.

  • I vaguely remember this show when I was a kid.. The opening scene where all the stuff flies out of his briefcase is the only part that I remembered. I see where it aired in 72. So, I havent' see this in 35 years!!Wow. I feel so old :(

  • So, Paul worked in an office under a bridge?

  • This was a train wreck of a show, it never had a chance. I remember as a kid loving to watch Paul Lynde as Uncle Arthur on 'Bewitched' and enjoying his many other guest appearances on other shows. I was even glad to see that this show was premiering. Then, I watched it and was totally bummed... it stunk, even stank. Maybe it was also because that his daughter (played by Pamelyn Ferdin) was running around in hot pants. Why her?!

  • I am 47 and do not remember this show. When did it air?

  • 1972 on ABC.

  • I was just a kid when this show was on, but I remember the opening was him in his driveway, when briefcase opened up and the papers blew away. Is my memory imperfect or was there two different opening sequences? Also, the casting of Paul Lynde as a family man was a stretch, even the America of the time had to be wise enough not to see the irony.

  • I would doubt there were multiple opens seeing the show lasted only one season.

  • the whole idea of Paul Lynde having a wife and kids was funny enough. However this was the early 70's and Norman Lear's gang couldn't be topped.

  • It's sad that in those days, Paul had to play it straight. If he was around today, he would have been great in a sitcom like "my two dads" or some role where he could be out. He was so funny.

  • This is probably one of the greatest lost series ever made. It should be on DVD, but I won't hold my breath waiting for Sony to release it ;(

  • That is a brutal fall at the end.

  • LOL I noticed that too!!!!

  • John Calvin portrayed his son-in-law this was a cute show. 24 of the 26 episodes are readily available on the tv trading circuit.

  • I wonder if he personally "approved" John Calvin to play his son?

  • John Calvin played his son-in-law,married to his oldest daughter,played by Jane Actman.

  • duh...?

  • To clarify, the "duh" was my response to the reply to my old post, where the poster told us who played his son and daughter.

    That information is in this clip, in the credits! Sheesh. :)

  • Duh! It was his son-IN-LAW,not his son.Sheesh!

  • Sorry, thanks for that important clarification. Now I can sleep tonight.

  • Elizabeth Allen died recently.

  • miss girl poor guy

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