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Just some Tony Randall tom foolery. No blood no sex just funny.
1 posted on 12/13/2025 3:46:45 PM PST by BFW
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Oh yes that's a good one! Thanks for the heads up!

2 posted on 12/13/2025 3:53:57 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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Danged good movie!!


3 posted on 12/13/2025 4:02:10 PM PST by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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Love it.


4 posted on 12/13/2025 4:05:17 PM PST by BipolarBob (These violent delights have violent ends.)
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It was moronic, even for t.v.


5 posted on 12/13/2025 4:09:03 PM PST by CharlesOConnell (Kucy)
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Great movie!!


6 posted on 12/13/2025 4:24:10 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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I was quite taken by this movie when I saw it on TV, back in the 1970s.

My children didn’t like it that much though.


7 posted on 12/13/2025 4:30:56 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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Enjoyed this as a kid. Good clean fun.


8 posted on 12/13/2025 5:12:32 PM PST by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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I haven’t seen it for 15-20 years, but I thought it was a very good movie, and was amazed at Tony Randall’s ‘range’.

Anyone else see parallels to “Something Wicked, This Way Comes”? ... Something Wicked may be a little darker, but some of the ‘lessons’ are quite similar.


9 posted on 12/13/2025 5:17:15 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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Now that I see it has both Barbara Eden and Frank Cady (Sam Drucker), I may have to give it a chance.


10 posted on 12/13/2025 5:36:08 PM PST by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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That scene where the seer tells the old woman she’ll get older but no wiser, stiffer but not more dignified...one of the saddest things I ever heard!
The rest of the film...was just weird. I was very young, maybe it just went over my head?


12 posted on 12/13/2025 8:46:25 PM PST by Buttons12 ( )
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Yeah, I remember that one. It’s okay if you’re 9 yrs old.


14 posted on 12/13/2025 9:54:44 PM PST by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's okay... I wasn't married to it.)
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Tony Randall was one strange individual. Being a notorious neat freak was probably the most normal thing about him.

In one Tonight Show appearance, Johnny Carson was asking about his amazing memory and Randall told him he could remember being in the womb. At that time I don’t think the condition had ever been categorized (or taken seriously) but there since have been studies of something called “highly superior autobiographical memory” which enables people to remember events from their own life in extraordinary detail.

There since have been found other people claiming to be able to remember events in the womb. Marilu Henner (of “Taxi” TV show fame) can remember an event from every day in her life since age 11. She’s been tested by asking her what day of the week a certain date in that timeframe was on and she’s always 100% right. According to Wikipedia, there have been six peer-reviewed studies of people with the condition.

If Randall was pulling Carson’s leg, he never let on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperthymesia


15 posted on 12/14/2025 7:07:51 AM PST by Paal Gulli
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