tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post9140296336356035454..comments2024-03-29T11:16:07.637-04:00Comments on It's About TV: Around the DialMitchell Hadleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08695771505209080030noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-17598448772956507502019-02-20T20:11:41.906-05:002019-02-20T20:11:41.906-05:00What I do when I'm having a slow day …
I'...What I do when I'm having a slow day …<br /><br />I'm going over some of your old posts, looking for things I might have missed back in the days, and I happen on this one, five years after the fact.<br /> Specifically, the item about Richard Nixon and Buddy Ebsen.<br />And your passing mention of The Most Interesting Man In The World.<br /><br />I suppose you might be aware that TMIMITW was an actor named Jonathan Goldsmith.<br />Mr. Goldsmith had a considerable career in the mid-to-late '70s; for some of this period he used the professional name 'Jonathan Lippe'.<br />And during this period, Jonathan Goldsmith/Lippe appeared at least five times on <i>Barnaby Jones</i>.<br />And got Guest Star billing <i>all five times</i>.<br />This was the '70s, when the gentleman was in his thirties; his hair was jet black, no beard (mustache once), slightly skeevy demeanor, and some of the worst men's wear of those years.<br />I spent some of this morning (2/20/19) checking IMDb against my complete DVD set of <i>Barnaby Jones</i> as part of my due diligence:<br />From Season 1: "Sing A Song Of Murder", episode 8.<br />Season 2: "Death Leap", episode 2.<br />Season 3: "Poisoned Pigeon", episode 18.<br />Season 5: "Sister Of Death", episode 11.<br />Season 7: "Temptation", episode 25.<br />Between seasons 5 and 7, Jonathan Lippe reverted to Goldsmith, his real name.<br />All five times, there he was in the QM opening titles, name-checked by Hank Simms - as Lippe in the first four shows, and finally as Goldsmith in the last one.<br /><br />So The Most Interesting Man In The World might not have been <i>watching Barnaby Jones</i> - <br />- if he was too busy being <i>on it</i>.<br />Mike Doranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14427528138598549103noreply@blogger.com