Who remembers this one, lol (Herbie Rides Again)? I even ordered the novel based on the movie through the Scholastic Book Club at school.
Posted on 12/01/2018 9:39:54 PM PST by massmike
Ken Berry, the rubber-legged actor who delighted TV viewers as the blundering Capt. Wilton Parmenter on F Troop and as the accident-prone Vinton Harper on Mama's Family, has died. He was 85.
Berry, an agile song-and-dance man who was encouraged in show business by his U.S. Army sergeant, future Star Trek legend Leonard Nimoy, died Saturday, his ex-wife, Jackie Joseph-Lawrence, reported.
The amiable Berry also was known for starring as town councilor Sam Jones on Mayberry R.F.D., the spinoff of The Andy Griffith Show that was created by CBS after Griffith exited the series — then the No. 1 show in the ratings — after its eighth and final season.
Berry came to fame for portraying the greenhorn Captain Parmenter on ABC's F Troop, which aired for only two seasons (65 episodes from September 1965 through April 1967) but lived on in syndication for decades.
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Oh, Wilton!
He was in the awkward Brady Bunch episode as Ken Kelly who adopted 3 boys White, AA & Asian
Episode used as the pilot for Kelly’s Kids (which went unsold) . In real life he adopted 2 kids. One child died at 51 of brain cancer.
Herbie Rides Again he was Willoughby Whitfield
Who remembers this one, lol (Herbie Rides Again)? I even ordered the novel based on the movie through the Scholastic Book Club at school.
The first one or two seasons of "Mama's Family" was the better era for that show.
Life seemed so much more sane and wholesome then. Our culture has lost so much in the past 50 years. Our decline is horrendous.
RIP sir, and thanks for your service.
Frazier was the exception...””
Ah, the Scholastic Book Club. I got a lot of good reading out of that, and would have bought a lot more if my parents had let me.
First George H.W., and now Ken Berry. Who will be the third? My money is on Keith Richards. Wait, what am I saying? That’s impossible.
RIP Ken and prayers to his family. He seemed to be a good guy.
RIP Ken.
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F Troop was one of my all-time favorites as a kid. It was only later I found out what a great dancer he was. Same with Buddy Ebsen.
Thats not the version I heard.LOL
LOL
Good stuff
Yes, Bob Newhart , 89, says Tim is getting best care but his daughter is concerned according to a story.
Tim voiced Barnacle Boy on SpongeBob SquarePants ( Cartoon creator died of ALS at 57)
Agreed
Did you run into Kelly Bundy there?
Golden Age of television!
Wrangler Jane: “Right after dinner Randolph’s taking me to pick wildflowers”
Captain Parmenter: “You’re going to pick wildflowers...at night?”
Agarn: “Yes, that’s what makes it....so wild”
We’re the Hekawi.
I don’t know. ;o)
(Cousins to the Fagawi tribe.)
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