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Mister Ed is an American television situation comedy that first aired as a syndicated program on January 5, 1961 to July 2, 1961 and then on CBS from October 1, 1961 to February 6, 1966. Mister Ed was the first series ever to debut as a midseason replacement, occurring before the premiere of Batman, five years later. Image File history File links MrEd. ...
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A midseason replacement is a television show that premieres in the second half of a television season usually between January and April. ...
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The stars of the show are Mister Ed, an intelligent talking palomino American Saddlebred ("played" by gelding Bamboo Harvester), and his owner, architect Wilbur Post (played by Alan Young). Much of the program's humor stemmed from the fact Mister Ed would speak only to Wilbur. According to the show's producer, Arthur Lubin, Young was chosen because "he seemed like a guy a horse would talk to." Lubin, a personal friend of Mae West, scored a coup and persuaded the legendary screen icon to guest star in one episode. Palomino is a coat color in horses, consisting of a gold coat and white or flaxen mane and tail. ...
The American Saddlebred, formerly known as the American Saddle Horse, is a breed of horse that was developed in Kentucky by plantation owners. ...
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Bamboo Harvester was the name of the Palomino horse which portrayed Mr. ...
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Arthur Lubin (July 25, 1898 - May 12, 1995) was a film producer and director who directed many Abbott & Costello films. ...
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Beginnings
The concept of the show was similar to Francis the Talking Mule, with the equine normally talking only to one person (Wilbur), and thus both helping and frustrating its owner. Francis the Talking Mule was a mule celebrity, featured in seven movie comedies in the 1950s. ...
Ed Mister Ed (a.k.a Matt Orange) was voiced by character actor Allan "Rocky" Lane (speaking) and Sheldon Allman (singing, except his line in the theme song, which was sung by its composer, Jay Livingston). Garrison Keillor was seriously considered for the speaking role. [1] Jay Livingston (March 28, 1915 - October 17, 2001) was a partner in the composing and songwriter duo with Ray Evans, best known for the songs they composed for films. ...
Ed was trained for the show by Les Hilton. Lane remained anonymous as the voice of Mister Ed, and the show's producers would refer to him only as "an actor who prefers to remain nameless". The credits listed Mister Ed as playing "Himself."
Death By the time Mister Ed reached the age of 19 he was suffering from a broken leg and a variety of health problems, and in 1970 he was quietly put to death with no publicity. However, in an interview on Los Angeles station KECT's program "Life and Times", Alan Young stated that Mr. Ed died from an inadvertent tranqualizer administered while he was "in retirement" in a stable in Burbank, California.He was then sent to the glue factory. Year 1970 ([[Rf 1970 == January 1 - The Unix epoch begins at 00:00:00 UTC January 2 - The last studio performance of The Beatles oman numerals|MCMLXX]]) was a common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
A horse that died in Oklahoma in 1979 (widely reported to have been Mister Ed, including sardonic comments on Saturday Night Live's faux news segment) was in fact an animal that once posed as Ed for publicity photos used by the production company. Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ...
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Other characters The other main characters in the show were Wilbur's tolerant wife Carol (Connie Hines) and their neighbors the Addisons (Larry Keating and Edna Skinner) until 1963 (upon Larry Keating's death that year) and then the Kirkwoods (Leon Ames and Florence MacMichael). Connie Hines (b. ...
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For the final season, the show focused strictly on the home life of the Posts, which was made a little more interesting with Carol's father moving in at the beginning of the season.
Theme song The theme song was written by the songwriting team of Jay Livingston and Ray Evans and sung, for the show, by Livingston. According to an urban legend when the theme song for Mister Ed was played backwards the words "Someone sung the song for Satan" and "the source is the devil" are clearly heard. This can only be the direct work of Satan himself. These phrases are heard by some listeners due to the phenomenon called phonetic reversal.[2] An urban legend or urban myth is similar to a modern folklore consisting of stories often thought to be factual by those circulating them. ...
Backmasking (also known incorrectly as backward masking)[1] is a recording technique in which a sound or message is recorded backwards onto a track that is meant to be played forwards. ...
Phonetic reversal is the process of reversing the phonemes of a word or phrase. ...
Sponsorship The series was sponsored from 1961 to 1963 by Studebaker-Packard Corporation/Studebaker Corporation, a now-defunct American car manufacturer. Studebakers were featured prominently in the show during this period. The Posts are shown owning a 1962 Lark convertible, and the company used publicity shots featuring the Posts and Mister Ed with their product. The Addisons are shown owning a 1963 Avanti.All because of Chief. Year 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Studebaker Corporation, or simply Studebaker, was a United States wagon and automobile manufacturer based in South Bend, Indiana. ...
Studebaker Corporation, or simply Studebaker, was a United States wagon and automobile manufacturer based in South Bend, Indiana. ...
Year 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1960 Studebaker Lark convertible was advertised extensivly; the airborne womens handkerchiefs mimicked the cars stylized lark in flight insignia. ...
Year 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Studebaker Avanti The Studebaker Avanti was a sports coupe originally built by the Studebaker Corporation of South Bend, Indiana, USA between June of 1962 and December of 1963. ...
Remake In 2004, a remake was planned for the FOX network, with Sherman Hemsley as the voice of Mister Ed, David Alan Basche as Wilbur, and Sherilyn Fenn as Carol. The pilot was filmed, but was not picked up by FOX. The show's writer and producer, Drake Sather, had committed suicide shortly before the pilot's completion. This article is about the animal. ...
Sherman Hemsley (born February 1, 1938 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an Emmy Award nominated and Image Award winning African American character actor most famous for his roles as George Jefferson, on the television shows All in the Family and The Jeffersons and as Deacon Ernest Frye on Amen. ...
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The peanut butter legend It is often said the crew was able to get Mister Ed to move his mouth by applying peanut butter to his gums in order for him to try to remove it by moving his lips. However, Alan Young admitted in 2004 that he had started that story himself, and explaining the actual method used.[3] Alan Young, in an interview 7th April 2007 on radio station 3AW, Melbourne, Australia, again admitted that a loose piece of Nylon was inserted under Mr. Ed's lip which the horse attempted to remove on his trainers cue. Mr. Ed was so well trained that the insert would be ignored until the required cue.
Careful examination of Mister Ed footage shows indisputable evidence that he was gay. the "marionette theory" (i.e., Ed's handler pulled strings to make him talk) was at work at least some of the time. Excerpts exist from a few episodes where the lighting and camera angle reveal a visible nylon "bit" being pulled for each word Ed spoke.[citation needed] Alan Young denied this occurred in the radio interview mentioned in the above paragraph. Some may claim a nylon bit was needed in order to have Ed turn his head or perform some other movement without his trainer having to be in the camera shot, but the evidence is clear that the bit was also used when Ed was standing still and merely had to talk.
Another version was offered by the comedian George Burns, who was involved in Mister Ed on a production basis. He stated in an interview that the horse's lips were made to move by electric current; according to him, Mr. Ed's mouth muscles were wired in such a way that a series of small shocks at the appropriate moments would cause him to appear to mimic speech movements.
"Mister Ed was a zebra" hoax In the 1990s, a parody of typical urban legends, created on purpose by the specialized site Snopes.com, said Mr. Ed was actually a zebra, not a horse, and was either painted a solid color for the series or else looked like a horse because of shortcomings of early black-and-white television.[4] The story frequently pops up as a "little-known fact," but is not true. Snopes had created the story as part of an exercise meant to encourage skepticism of "respected" sources.[5] Mister Ed was a breed of horse called Palomino. The Urban Legends Reference Pages (also known as snopes. ...
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Trivia - Alan Young, Connie Hines & Mr. Ed are the only actors to appear in every episode of the series.
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Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed. | Recent work has been done by a master builder in Oklahoma to create a community built around the supposed final resting place (although that fact is disputable) of Mr. Ed. It is intended to be themed to the style of the show and its period. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ...
Appearances in other media - In the American version of Tekkaman Blade, superhero Blade gets a flying, talking robot ultimately named Pegas--short for Pegasus. Blade says, "Its a good thing you fly as well as you talk. They could have called you Mr. Ed."
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DVD Releases MGM Home Video has released two Best-of collections of Mister Ed on DVD in Region 1. Volume 1 (released January 13, 2004) contains 21 episodes and Volume 2 (released March 8, 2005 contains 20 episodes. Due to poor sales, it is unknown if any more volumes will be released. For alternate meanings of MGM, see MGM (disambiguation). ...
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MGM also released a single-disc released entitled Mister Ed's Barnyard Favorites on July 26, 2005 which contains the first eight episodes featured on Volume One. is the 207th day of the year (208th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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References - ^ [http://www.prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/20020105/celebrities.shtml
- ^ Miller, Rex: "Stone Shadow", page 57. New American Library, 1989
- ^ Interview with Alan Young
- ^ Horse of a Different Color — Snopes.com — "Claim: Mister Ed, the talking equine of television fame, was a horse."
- ^ False Authority - Snopes.com
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