From the NYT:
William Windom, TV Everyman, Dies at 88
Published: August 19, 2012
William Windom, who won an Emmy Award playing an Everyman drawn from the pages of James Thurber but who may be best remembered for his roles on “Star Trek” and “Murder, She Wrote,” died on Thursday at his home in Woodacre, Calif., north of San Francisco. He was 88.
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Oh how I loved My World and Welcome to it. RIP Mr Windom.
Ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa goes the great anesthetizer, and another artist slips away.
I watched "My World and Welcome To It" every week in its only season. Sadly, "you go to print with the author you have, not the author you might want or wish to have at a later time." For a half hour, Windom gave me the Thurber I wished to have.
Sorry to hear this. A terrific actor. I remember him from the Night Gallery episode "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar". He was even in the pilot episode of The A-Team!
Thanks for the memory. I wasn't sure anyone else remembered "My world and Welcome to It". Fine show, fine sardonic attitude, perfect for those times and these. (No wonder it was cut, and disappeared without a trace.)
Anyone know if there are any DVDs of it on Netflix? (They no longer let non-members (or at least former members) browse their collection...)
Don't think it ever made it to DVD, Anon. AFAIK, it was only released in VHS, meaning it's not on Netflix. (If you're interested in forking over $60 plus shipping, the four tapes seem to be available on eBay.)
What I wouldn't do to Mrs. Skidmore.
Wasn't he in Hazel too? I didn't like that show. But I liked him. I didn't like the wife or the kid, and Shirley Booth annoyed me. But, what did I know? I was just a kid.
"Mornin' Mr. B!" Ugh.
Commodore Decker, you drove a mean Cornucopia! Farewell, Sir!
I loved his Thurber (and the way his personal humility and intelligence informed the role), and way back then I had a fiance who did too and we watched every episode together.
He'll never be gone from my mind.
Long live Bill Windom!
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