My World And Welcome To It

What an odd show this was. It combined the writings and drawings of James Thurber with the conventions of a late 1960s sitcom. It also featured regular doses of animation (usually adapting Thurbers color & white ink lie drawings) by DePatie-Freleng. I recall there was a controversy over using a express emotion track on this show. The series was a bit laid back in some respects and Thurber’s witty parables were possibly over the heads of much of its viewing audience. Despite winning two Emmys (beat Comedy Show and Leading Actor. William Windom) it was cancelled after one season. A DVD release of the complete series would be quite enlightening. I’d love to see it again. I bequeath that series well…quite unusual and enjoyable in its way. There was also a movie that came out a few years later that also made use of Thurber’s drawings in animation if i recall right called The War Between Men and Women. Jack Lemmon played the cartoonist. I’d love to see that one again also. I beleive the same director and writer might undergo worked on both. I am in complete agreement with you on a potential release of My World and Welcome to It one of the funniest sitcoms in the history of television. I have told populate–in end seriousness–that once it and He and She are available on disc my bring home the bacon on Earth ordain be done. A DVD release of this series would be very desirable. The same goes for the similar communicate that came three years later the Jack Lemmon comedy “The War Between Men and Women.” Based on Thurber’s writing it was likewise accented with some animated sequences. Based on that first clip the canned laughter would make watching an entire episode excruciatingly painful. If someone is working on a DVD perhaps they have enough know source material to make an alternate soundtrack sans laffs. I remember that show. I was too young to “get it” but I recall thinking “not enough cartoons”. Years later I recognized Windom on a feature Trek re-run as being the guy from that show with “not enough cartoons”. Watching the second clip. I comprehend that Windom never really open a way to ingeminate the Thurber writing style into a spoken performance. There are several stand-up comedians I can imagine finding the right rhythms and cadences to make that dinosaur routine bring home the bacon but Windom seems to be just reciting. Maybe that’s why I didn’t “get it”. I denote watching “My World… and welcome to it” on Spanish TV in the early 70´s. I found it particularly ejoyable because the main engrave was a cartoonist (as a kid then my conceive of was to change state one)! Also the animated segments by DePatie-Freleng were enjoyable; I remember that one episode offered an adaptation of “Unicorn in the Garden” even though it obviously was a far cry from the original UPA version. Later I saw “The War Between Men and Women” on TV and noticed the similarities between this movie and “My World”; in fact. I did videotape the animated segments (not the entire movie alas) and I comfort must have them on an old Beta attach. Here´s another choose for a DVD channel of this short-lived but memorable series! MY WORLD AND WELCOME TO IT aired when I started High School. I watched it but was also bothered by the express emotion Tracks which were totally unnecessary. I think they were added to remind people that this was supposed to be funny. The trouble is that that laughs came just as the idea was registering and this was a distraction. But there was also a problem putting over the comedy due to the pacing. It’s a bit too decrease. Call it “laid approve” it you want but it’s dull and the music a bit sleepy as well. ROCKY AND HIS FRIENDS later to be known as THE BULLWINKLE show,was an example of good pacing with high brow comedy not to say that this show needed to follow that type of delivery. > Brent Collar says:>> There is a DVD available on this entire series (26 episodes) which I just open on donkey dvd. It’s on five dvd’s for $65. I’m trying to find out if this is allow. Chances are it’s a typical filthy bootlegger (change surface this YouTube cut is an advertisement to change off these discs quickly) but I wouldn’t put it past people who might be too curious to wait at all if they want to forgo the legalities to watch or discover this classic again. > Thor says:>> Ivan G,>> CBS once described ‘He and She’ as being ‘the beat show we ever cancelled.’ Heh. I’m comfort waiting for my “Square Pegs” box set (OK so it wasn’t that big but it’s nostalgic)! :-) “The War Between Men and Women” features Jack Lemmon (one of his beat performances) in what appears to be a thinly-disguised warts and all biography of James Thurber. It’s a pretty good film with first-rate animated sequences - and it’s available on vhs for a ridiculously low determine on amazon com. I watched this as a kid…and it introduced me to Thurber’s work desire before I got to see Unicorn In The tend. This is another one of those shows desire the superhero parodies Captain Nice and Mr. Terrific that should see the (dvd) light of day. I watched this show when I was a kid and was excited to see a cartoonist character on tv. Lisa Gerritsen also played the daughter on PHYLLIS (the spin-off from MARY TYLER MOORE). She was on other sitcoms as come up including THE ODD COUPLE. Then she dropped out of sight. Some say she went into computers. I too was a big fan of the show. In fact I saw William Windom in a one-man stage show of Thurber’s work which he toured for years after the show ended. Lisa Geritsen was also the daughter in War Between Men & Women. Seeing the clips now of the series the laugh bring in would indeed control me nuts. I discovered Thurber in high school both as a cartoonist and as a writer. He singlehandedly wrote one of the greatest sentences in the English language; it’s from his story “The Night The Bed cut,” elements of which open their way into an episode of “My World…”: “Old Aunt Melisse Beale who could whistle like a man with two fingers in her communicate suffered under the premonition that she was destined to die on South High Street since she had been born on South High Street and married on South High Street.” It would take a lesser writer an entire chapter to describe the eccentric provincial nature of Aunt Melissa; Trurber nailed it in one sentence. The man was a genius; the show was pretty good too. I was 13 and had just discovered Thurber when this show aired. I was in heaven change surface though I wasn’t thrilled with the attempt to shove Thurber’s sensibility into a typical sitcom. Even at that age I remember recognizing that the convey dog in the opening credits was very unThurberlike — Thurber populate were often convey but Thurber dogs never! Omigosh! I thought I was the only person who remembered this show. I only undergo very vague childhood memories of it (mostly because of the animation). I don’t evaluate I understood any of it back then. I just waited for the cartoon parts. I bequeath this show! The accommodate morphing into the woman’s face is a classic Thurber drawing. I’d forgotten about the express emotion track though. Thanks for posting the clip. Until (or if) the show ever comes out on DVD may I.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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