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March 8, 2008

It's About Men in the Strangest Place

it's+about+time+comic.jpg It's About Time was a '60s television comedy I would've rather left in a pile of forgotten memories from my youth, but Classic Television Showbiz yanked it out of my subconscious, and embedded its ear-wormy theme song in my brain. Now, I feel as if I must pollute the minds of my collective readership as well (it's only fair that you all suffer with me).

IAT had an incredibly thin premise: 2 astronauts stranded in time with a bunch of cavemen who talk like this:

"What Gronk say?"
"Him say, 'If Gronk become chief, nobody hunt sabertooth tiger."

As you can imagine, a half-hour of this is about 29 1/2 minutes too much. Nevertheless, I felt compelled to watch a couple of episodes due to the talented cast who were caught slumming in this Sherwood Schwartz steamer: Bob Denver, Joe E. Ross, and Imogene Coca, among others.

[Link: It's About Time]