I love that the commercials were kept in. Betty Crocker was a hoot! Plus Willie Best acted like his natural self rather than a frightened caricature. It was an amusing episode...thanks a million for posting!

Loved all the shows Willie Best starred in. He was a great comedy actor.

Stu's tv wife, played by June Collyer, was his real-life wife. They were married in 1931. June' was a sister to Bud Collyer, who hosted "To Tell the Truth". Stu passed away in 1967; June died the following year.

couldnt help looking at "willieBest" how different his character is than in the past.now he gets a chance to talk and act as "himself"!

I wish that todays' sitcoms were as wholesome as this.

@20alphabet

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed

The woman gives in to her husband. What a life for women.

Golly, that would be super! -- That's really some ancient dialogue. So "corny" considering what comes out of the mouth of children nowadays. It sure brings back memories. I remember watching so many of these sitcoms as a youngster. So many I've forgotten and now have a chance to see again. Ain't youtube a grand place to relive memories?

@nealward9646

8 жыл бұрын

+Douglas Keith I watch a lot of old shows and our gang episodes just to go back in time. They are like seeing old friends.

@WytZox1

7 жыл бұрын

This was 1st sitcom filmed for TV before I Love Lucy! ☺

@kaybutcher5719

Жыл бұрын

“Corny?” Then give us some good old time corn in place of expletives and the gutter ‘humor’ of today.

General Mills {Betty Crocker cake mixes, Gold Medal flour, Bisquick, cereals, etc.} sponsored "TROUBLE WITH FATHER" on ABC from 1950 through '54 [Adelaide Hawley portrayed "Betty Crocker" in their commercials, and on their weekly "Betty Crocker" radio and TV shows from 1949 through '64]. This episode, "Hate That Love Seat" (filmed WITHOUT a laugh track, at Hal Roach Studios), originally aired on October 19, 1951.

@manofmanyinterests

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Mr. Know-It-All.

Watched an episode of this show on a film projector. Friend found a film version at a collectors store.

That commercial with an actress as Betty Crocker led to urban legend that Betty Crocker was a real person. She was merely a character created for ads by General Mills. ☺

@gcfifthgear

8 ай бұрын

Just after World War II, surveys said that Betty Crocker was the second best-known woman in America...second only to Eleanor Roosevelt. However, the filmed version of Betty Crocker soon faded away for the picture portrayed in cookbooks and on Bisquick boxes...

Jackie is Zelda from dobie gillys

Tonight is the first time watching this show and it doesn't seem too bad I might see if there are other episodes

@20alphabet

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed

Sheila James Kuehl, here billed as Sheila James, went on to greater fame as teenaged genius Zelda Gilroy in “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.” Later she had guest appearances on other shows. In 1978, Kuehl received a Doctor of Laws degree from Harvard Law School. In 1989, she and two other women founded the California Women’s Law Center. In 1994, Kuehl became the first openly gay person elected to the California State Senate. Since 2014, she has served as the first LGBT person on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.

@nealward9646

8 жыл бұрын

+vexer I always liked her. She had a strange kind of beauty. Actually had a crush on her.

@vexer2942

8 жыл бұрын

+Neal Ward Interesting. Thanks for your feedback.

@WytZox1

7 жыл бұрын

I also thought Zelda was cute and wished I'd had a friend like Jackie. ☺

@daniellack3559

7 жыл бұрын

hey vexer...excellent summary of Sheila James...she was an important part of the success of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, and I didn't know about her role as a youngster in this early sitcom...thanks for posting your info..

@vexer2942

7 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome. :)

....and Verne Smith is the show's announcer.

It shows things have not changed much. Her dad thought it was ok for Jackie was ok to learn to play golf which was considered a mans sport but when she was 13 her dad said Jackie couldn't play basketball on the school team. Its funny in a sad way times dont seem to change. Stu gets rid of what he thought was her Love Seat back then. In the year 2016 my husband has gotten rid of things that belong to me when i am not home and have no idea he is going to do. He also see nothing wrong because even after talking about it he has done it many times. Thanks for letting me vent about my feelings.

Still fun today.

$425 in 1950 is $5,000 in 2022. That's how they consider buying a car ! Incredible !

Willie Best known more professionally as StepNFetchit was a millionaire. He never married. He made wise decisions on investments and stocks. I really like him. He was so funny

@20alphabet

2 жыл бұрын

Very unappreciated by the black community due to his circumspect character and virtue.

@robertdesantis6205

2 жыл бұрын

@@20alphabet I guess they would rather have seen him on welfare. 🙄

@20alphabet

2 жыл бұрын

@@robertdesantis6205 Would seem so.

Darn! I was SOOOO hoping for Suzy Homemaker.

@andrearichardson4374

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you 26

Love this

love it

For context, $425 in 1950 is equal to about $5020 in 2022

what is with eating the cake with hands? didn't betty crocker ever hear of forks?

@chadkincham

5 жыл бұрын

Rich Farmerdo you eat fried chicken with a fork?

@greatbyrondo

4 жыл бұрын

@@chadkincham......Or how about eating pizza with a fork...???

@TheBluesnbob

3 жыл бұрын

@@greatbyrondo And potato salad!

Wow Betty Crockett was not a real person 😲😮😕l didn't know that before😂 Stuart was a fun character on all the movies he did

can you post "SomeTimes It Happens" from the Ford TeleVision Theatre?

Yiiikesss....pretty obvious...the producers of this “White Bread” tripe were old time radio men....could barely listen to this with my eyes closed..no wonder “I Love Lucy” was number one for 6 years... sheesh

Back when America was great, and black folks were courteous !

Had I been alive back then, I would've been hard pressed to watch a show this bland and generally humorless regularly when there already programs with Jack Benny and Burns and Allen on TV at this time. I mean, if you're going to watch the antics of a stereotypical black servant and his hapless employer, why watch Willie Best and Stu Erwin when Eddie "Rochester" Anderson and Jack Benny are actually funny together?

@20alphabet

2 жыл бұрын

Get outta here with your woke nonsense

@julianhermanubis6800

2 жыл бұрын

@@20alphabet WIllie Best's character wasn't even the main point. This show is very bland and not very funny in comparison to other shows on the air at the time, and, yes, I have seen them in reruns. And I actually think "Amos 'n' Andy," the TV version, is funny, so, yeah, wokeness had nothing to do with my judgment.

@20alphabet

2 жыл бұрын

@@julianhermanubis6800 Sorry, itchy trigger finger.

@terryowensby5690

2 жыл бұрын

I'm sure they would have missed your presence in their audience....LOL.....omg. some people.

@julianhermanubis6800

2 жыл бұрын

@@terryowensby5690 They're all long gone most likely, so it's completely irrelevant.