Does anyone out there know how to get in touch with Marjorie Lord?A friend told me that she has the rights "tied up" to the final 2 seasons of "Danny Thomas"that has NOT been broadcast since 1965!!!Every syndication package of the show ALWAYS ends on the last episode of the 1961-1962 season.I know even though it's in B&W 10 years ago NICK dug up the FIRST 2 B&W seasons of "Bewitched" and ran it for 5 years!Thanx 4 listening and let me know!
shareI hear ya brother. I sure wish they'd get a hold of the last two years of Make Room For Daddy and show them. I can't explain why Majorie Lord would want to prevent people from seeing the final 2 seasons of such a great show.
shareI am pretty sure Lord has been dead for years
shareI really don't believe she's dead. If so, there's some pretty creepy people maintaining this site: http://www.marjorielord.com/current_events.htm
shareTruth be told, the later episodes don't match up with earlier ones. The 1962-63 season was wierd, since Danny and Kathy were off touring Europe for the entire season, leaving the kids with Charlie and Bunny, so the whole parent/child dynamic was missing.
shareI heard it was kind of a test to see if the show could survive without Danny in the show. Obviously they came to the conclusion that it couldn't.
shareThere is an episode from 1963 on one of the DVDs from the Dick Van Dyke Show. It has Morey Amsterdam on it as Buddy Sorrell. The episode is kind of odd, in the context of the Van Dyke show, because the plot is almost identical to one of the DVD shows. Both concern the wives getting angry for being made fun of by their husbands in their work. Danny makes fun of Kathy in his nightclub act and she decides to get even by going on the air and talking about how awful Danny is (Buddy writes the jokes for her). Of course, the Van Dyke episode is the famous one with Laura and the inflating rubber raft.
I think the same guy wrote both episodes, so they were recycling material, which I guess makes sense if Thomas was winding down his show. It's fun to watch, mainly to watch Thomas do his patented "loud mouth Lebanese" shtick. I never get tired of that. It's funny to contrast the two episodes and the two actors using the same story. Van Dyke is notably low key in his comedic style, while Thomas was definitely of the old, loud school of comedy.
Well hopefully we'll see the last two seasons of MRFD soon!
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The two shows were both produced by the same company so retreading scripts was fair game.
The Andy Griffith show was also part of this company. There's a late episode of AG where Aunt Bee can't hold a baby without it crying, which is pretty much an exact retread of an earlier MRFD episode, where this happened to Charlie.
So were there episodes that season where neither Danny Thomas nor Marjorie Lord appeared at all? I would think a phone call from Europe to check on the kids would be a reasonable thing for them to do.
The devil turns away from a closed door.