I’ll Dick your York … !
William Asher was a controlling so and so and didn’t like how friendly Dick York and Elizabeth Montgomery were getting so they brought in Dick Sargeant because he was gay and William wouldn’t have to worry about anyone messing with Elizabeth on the set. Unfortunately for Asher, Montgomery found out he was having an affair and quit the show and the relationship with another two years left on the contract. To the rescue is Uncle Arthur, Paul Lynde, to make the Paul Lynde Show to fulfill the final years of the contract. This is what I refer to as the apology.
Great theme BTW https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tJjL4d42wX0&pp=ygUaUGF1bCBseW5kZSBzaG93IHRoZW1lIHNvbmc%3D
You should never change Dicks halfway through
I actually think it might cause some kinda infection
I’m surprised by, but happy to see, random posts about old TV shows.
York was the better of the two Dicks. :)
Any I definitely should look into?
Bewitched was solid.
You gotta throw me a bone here Mickey, what am I even looking at?
Dick York (left), and Dick Sargent (right) both as the character Darren Stephens on the old American sitcom Bewitched.
Sargent replaced York late in the series and fans then and now widely agree that York played the part much better.
Elizabeth Montgomery just loved wiggling her nose at a couple of Dicks.
That retrousse nose!
I always got weird vibes from the bewitched guy. Like maybe he was a bad dude.
Anyone else ?
As an actor or the role?
I recently watched some of a random episode on YouTube and it happened to be about how he and Samantha first met, literally the night before he was gonna marry someone else, and he throws it away because he’s infatuated with her after she barely speaks to him. Is this what passed for romance in the 60s? Fuck.
Maybe both. I can’t quite put my finger on it. But he seemed sketchy. Maybe the actor. Because it was consistent.
I never knew the backstory. Yikes.
I some times watch old retro shows on the free channels on TV. Put them on when I’m cleaning or something.
Caught a few episodes that way.
The thing about old TV shows is this. 1. They were presented as promoting morals and the better social norms.
I rember an episode of Dick van dike where his secretary argued she didn’t need to be paid as much as a man because she was just waiting to get married.
The episode was dick and some other guy doing secretary work for the day and messing it all up.
I guess showing it’s hard work. But at the end the woman was like. “But I don’t need paid better”.
And presented as totally respectful. So bizzare. The blatant sexism and toxic relationships always catches me off guard.
I think it was considered normal for couples to argue pretty much daily.
How many people grew up thinking that marriage is supposed to look like that ? My gawd. People must have been miserable.
I think it was considered normal for couples to argue pretty much daily.
How many people grew up thinking that marriage is supposed to look like that ? My gawd. People must have been miserable.
Probably likely for a lot of folks. It took so. damn. long. for divorce to be made legal across the western world, and even longer than that to get to the point where the burden of an unhappy marriage was no longer outweighed by the scandal of divorce.
Before no-fault divorces became common, unhappy couples would sometimes even voluntarily fake an affair just to act as “proof” of adultery for a divorce.
Dick York actually had some very serious health issues and that is the reason he was replaced
I looked up his wiki. Now I feel bad saying he was sketchy. Maybe he was always just jittery from all the smoking. 3 packs a day, apparently.
And chronic pain from a serious back injury.
He founded a charity for the homeless.
Sounds like a decent person.
Dick Sargent, of Parts: The Clonus Horror fame.
