I'm very sorry to hear that. Diabetes is a very nasty disease. If you're pre-diabetic, please change your diet and monitor your blood sugar very, very closely. It's literally a matter of life and death.
Quick Al Lewis story: My ex wife's parents lived in the same building as Al. The building adopted a no smoking policy, but Al was "Grandfathered" in, so he was the ONLY person allowed to smoke. One time in 2000, we were getting into the elevator to go down and it REEKED of cigar. My then mother in law said, "Oh no, we just missed Grandpa Al Lewis!" I was SO bummed! So close, yet so far. RIP Grandpa Al, Jonathan Harris, and the man inside the robot suit, Bob May.
The number of excellent character actors on TV in the 1960's is huge. Jonathan Harris & Al Lewis are just the tip of the iceberg. Well worth watching vintage TV to see simply incredible performers almost everywhere.
Indeed. Since the pandemic, we keep zoom watching going and have watched The Man From Uncle, The Wild Wild West, Mission Impossible and more. So many great actors
I (also) just watched an interview with Al Lewis describing his vaudeville experience coming to bear in stretching this scene . . . but it appears to be nothing like what he described in the interview ... perhaps it was the interview that he was padding minutes to ? I also recently saw a clip of Norm MacDonald on his improve stretching a moth joke when Conan needed him to fill a 2nd spot... Hollywood ! B-)
@@solarnaut I'll bet by the time that interview aired the guys were so old the story simply didn't jive. They were actors. I'm sure the stories were embellished.
I just watched the interview with Al Lewis here at YT where he was told they were 4 min short & he came up with this schtick to wrap up the episode. All those years in vaudville & burlesque paid off !
I was visiting Manhattan from Australia in 1989 when me and my friends decided to dine at Al's Italian restaurant Grandpa's, not only to enjoy the fine cuisine but to meet the man himself. We thoroughly enjoyed our meals but were disappointed that Al was not in residence that night. We then moved on to a nightclub, King Tut's Wah Wah Hut a short distance away. We were very excited to see, on stage, Al Lewis. On his way out I approached him and mentioned that I was from Australia and that I was a big fan. Rather than brush me off he took the time to engage in conversation. It was a night I will always remember.
I thought King Tut’s was on St Vincent Street, in Glasgow? Must be more than one of them. Did Al Lewis play the grandfather of Billy Mumy’s character? I barely remember this show… I know Al Lewis was a campaigner and social justice activist… that’s all I know!!
Lewis used to hang out in front of Grandpa's in the Village regularly. You'd often see him smoking a cigar. He always seemed to enjoy being recognized.
King Tut's Wah Wah Hut in Manhattan was in the East Village. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Tut%27s_Wah_Wah_Hut_(New_York_City) Al Lewis is most famous for playing Bill Mumy's grandfather in The Munsters.
They improvised the scene because there wasn’t enough time for the show. Irwin Allen was too cheap to hire writers to fill out the needed time so Al Louis help coach Jonathan Harris in improvising the scene
Im guessing Harris didn’t need much help improvising. All those alliterative insults of the robot were ad libbed by Harris-he transformed the character through his line additions and Allen was like “keep doing it!”
The Munsters were no longer being produced when Lost in Space switched to color. Jonathan Harris later plays a Pied Piper on Land of the giants and voice of a robot on Battle Star Galactica Bill Mumy and the guy that played Chekof on Star Trek each appear on some episodes of Babylon 5. Before there was a Lost in Space; Bill Mumy appeared on the Twilight Zone a similar but older character was called Charlie X on Star Trek. Will Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and Deforest Kelly all appeared in different episodes of Bonanza and Leonard Nimoy mentioned the Enterprise and Deforest Kelly said he was not a Doctor. William Shatner was on The outer limits in an episode called Project Vulcan and Leonard Nimoy appeared in an episode about a robot put on trial as a journalist and in a remake of it as an attorney. In one robot destroyed saving little girl from a truck in remake robot saves prosecuting attorney from a truck.
The story I head from Al Lewis when he was in WBAI radio in NYC was the script could not be finished due to a writer's strike so he used a technique called "the hesitation waltz" from burlesque when the "dancers" would need extra time ti fix their costumes.
Al Lewis appeared in a Gomer Pyle episode in 1968. He played a high strung husband who had a wife that damaged their new car and Sgt. Carter was blamed for it. Gomer solved the problem, as usual.
Two of my favorite actors when I was a kid. I wonder if Jonathan had been asked about this scene, would he have said that it was he who created the improvised scene and not Al Lewis? Jonathan Harris admitted that he actually rewrote many of his own lines in the show. He also created all the colorful nicknames for the "Bubble headed booby".
Actually it was Al Lewis who, realising that the show needed extra dialogue, reheated one of his old vaudeville routines and him and Jonathan Harris went for it
@@tombstoneharrystudios584 Yes, Irwin Allen told them the show was something like 3 minutes short and think something up. Harris often rewrote his dialogue, but this is 100% Al Lewis.
In an interview, Al Lewis stated that producer Don Richardson informed him that the show was 3 minutes short and could HE come up with an idea?....Lewis suggested bringing in another writer but Richardson protested; stating it would cost another $5000....so Lewis developed this idea and shared it with Richardson, Jonathan Harris, Billy Mumy, and Bob May (The Robot)...Mumy confirmed in another interview that it DID IN FACT happen that way...
Al Lewis Himself told me this story years ago. He said it was a routine they did way back in burlesque when running short. This particular episode was running short so they devised this routine. By the way Al Lewis was a major prick
I actually met Al Lewis years ago at his restaurant in NYC Grandpas!! While I was in NYC I had purchased a Lost In Space robot. He spotted it in my bad and He told me the actual story how the episode ran short and they had to extend it by doing that whole routine with Jonathan Harris! On another note Al Lewis was not a nice man and thats all im going to say
The scene as described by Al isn't anywhere to be found in the final cut. Maybe it did happen and they decided to edit it out because it wasn't good enough or maybe Al has a rich imagination and didn't think anyone would look up the scene.
Jonathan Harris (nacido Jonathan Daniel Charasuchin; en hebreo: ג'ונתן האריס; Nueva York, 6 de noviembre de 1914-Encino, 3 de noviembre de 2002) fue un actor estadounidense.
Albert Meister (Nueva York, 30 de abril de 1910-Nueva York, 03 de febrero de 2006), conocido en los medios artísticos como Al Lewis, fue un actor estadounidense, inmortalizado en televisión como el Abuelo Munster. 114 AÑOS 095 AÑOS 019 AÑOS.
Lost in space on Me TV 1 am eastern time as part of scifi saturday which runs from 8 pm with Svengoolie which has old science fiction horror and monster movies and other Science fiction shows until 7 am Sunday Morning.
Not many people know this, but Al Lewis hosted a Creature Feature style show in the mid eighties out of Detroit. It aired Saturday afternoons and featured everything from Godzilla movies to Frankenstein. Does anyone remember this and know the title of the show?
@Un Believer Yeah, Al Lewis explained it differently as if Harris put his hand by his head and hesitated then came down a long way to ask simple a question, got reassured, and then walked back. Lewis acted like he invented penicillin, but this scene padding is easy. Jackie Gleason did shit like this all the time and didn't ask for praise.
Growing up on the Upper west side of Manhattan, I once met Al Lewis walking down my block. I was maybe nine years old. I had no paper, so he signed my arm in ball point pen. I didn't wash that arm for a week.
"I'm the greatest magician in the whole galaxy!" "And I conveniently speak English." Yeah. Thanks for reminding me how much I despised watching this show, which I did, occasionally, at the time, because nothing better was on. (3 channels and PBS.)
I had Al Lewis as a patient. He was going to a nursing home. Missing a leg from diabetes..still had his sense of humor!
:))))) ❤❤❤❤
I'm very sorry to hear that. Diabetes is a very nasty disease. If you're pre-diabetic, please change your diet and monitor your blood sugar very, very closely. It's literally a matter of life and death.
@@maskedmarvyl4774 and exercise, walk much everyday.
Quick Al Lewis story: My ex wife's parents lived in the same building as Al. The building adopted a no smoking policy, but Al was "Grandfathered" in, so he was the ONLY person allowed to smoke. One time in 2000, we were getting into the elevator to go down and it REEKED of cigar. My then mother in law said, "Oh no, we just missed Grandpa Al Lewis!" I was SO bummed! So close, yet so far. RIP Grandpa Al, Jonathan Harris, and the man inside the robot suit, Bob May.
That was on Roosevelt Island nyc where Al Lewis lived in that building where my brother worked as a porter.
I miss seeing him on the East Side walking up and down Second Avenue.
Funny. Grandpa was grandpaed in.
Loooool :)
@@Robert_Presto it was great occasionally seeing him on the street there. He loved to say hi!
The number of excellent character actors on TV in the 1960's is huge. Jonathan Harris & Al Lewis are just the tip of the iceberg. Well worth watching vintage TV to see simply incredible performers almost everywhere.
Well said and well put !
I agree.Been watching the old TWIGHLIGHT ZONE episodes,and the quality of acting talent is amazing!
Indeed. Since the pandemic, we keep zoom watching going and have watched The Man From Uncle, The Wild Wild West, Mission Impossible and more. So many great actors
🎶 Car 54 where are you?🎵
Met Al Lewis many years ago at his NYC restaurant, Grandpa’s. He came to our table and was very charming.
I heard him talk about this. They needed to add a few minutes to the episode but didn't want to pay writers to come back. Good stuff.
I (also) just watched an interview with Al Lewis describing his vaudeville experience coming to bear in stretching this scene . . . but it appears to be nothing like what he described in the interview ... perhaps it was the interview that he was padding minutes to ? I also recently saw a clip of Norm MacDonald on his improve stretching a moth joke when Conan needed him to fill a 2nd spot... Hollywood ! B-)
@@solarnaut I'll bet by the time that interview aired the guys were so old the story simply didn't jive. They were actors. I'm sure the stories were embellished.
Two of my all time favorite character actors alongside my favorite Robot. And Billy Mumy is one of the greatest child stars of all time as well.
I just watched the interview with Al Lewis here at YT where he was told they were 4 min short & he came up with this schtick to wrap up the episode. All those years in vaudville & burlesque paid off !
Yes indeed, all true!
I was visiting Manhattan from Australia in 1989 when me and my friends decided to dine at Al's Italian restaurant Grandpa's, not only to enjoy the fine cuisine but to meet the man himself. We thoroughly enjoyed our meals but were disappointed that Al was not in residence that night. We then moved on to a nightclub, King Tut's Wah Wah Hut a short distance away. We were very excited to see, on stage, Al Lewis. On his way out I approached him and mentioned that I was from Australia and that I was a big fan. Rather than brush me off he took the time to engage in conversation. It was a night I will always remember.
King Tut's Wah Wah Hut! We used to have the best names for things. 🤣🤣🤣
I thought King Tut’s was on St Vincent Street, in Glasgow? Must be more than one of them. Did Al Lewis play the grandfather of Billy Mumy’s character? I barely remember this show… I know Al Lewis was a campaigner and social justice activist… that’s all I know!!
Lewis used to hang out in front of Grandpa's in the Village regularly. You'd often see him smoking a cigar. He always seemed to enjoy being recognized.
King Tut's Wah Wah Hut in Manhattan was in the East Village. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Tut%27s_Wah_Wah_Hut_(New_York_City)
Al Lewis is most famous for playing Bill Mumy's grandfather in The Munsters.
Mr Harris was my childhood hero , still is tbh :) OH THE PAIN !!!
Mine too ❤️
Grandpa with the greatest laugh
BIG TIME
I love Al Lewis’s remark about Harris. ‘Everyone thinks he’s British, but he’s a Brooklyn Jew. ‘
Except that Harris was a "Bronx Jew" !
And Al Lewis was a Manhattan Jew.
He hated the Bronx accent so copied the British accent
... and educated by Jesuits (Fordham). Lots of Bronx jews were
ALL THESE YEARS...I ASSUMED HE WAS DEFINITELY PROPER BRITISH...HE REALLY PLAYED IT...ABSOLUTE GENIUS!❤🙏🪷😌😱👍💯
They improvised the scene because there wasn’t enough time for the show. Irwin Allen was too cheap to hire writers to fill out the needed time so Al Louis help coach Jonathan Harris in improvising the scene
Yup! This little bit saved old Allen more or less five grand.
Im guessing Harris didn’t need much help improvising. All those alliterative insults of the robot were ad libbed by Harris-he transformed the character through his line additions and Allen was like “keep doing it!”
I met Al Lewis on the street in New York City many years ago. He was a scout for the NBA!
Great! 😅
About two years earlier Billy Mumy appeared on an episode of the Munsters.
I loved that episode! Al Lewis is such a wonderful actor.❤️
Back in the 80's, Al Lewis ran for NYC mayor, as a goof. I wish we had him as a mayor in 2024.
Al Lewis was also in Car 54
He played a hobo in the second "Kolchak" tv movie.
He also had a brief role as the owner of a small drug store in the 1964 feature film comedy "The World of Henry Orient".
Also Gomer Pyle
Most famously Grampa from The Munsters.
Grandpa.......... You're on the wrong set. Darn Darn Darn Darn..........
Ooh...Ooh!
The Munsters were no longer being produced when Lost in Space switched to color. Jonathan Harris later plays a Pied Piper on Land of the giants and voice of a robot on Battle Star Galactica Bill Mumy and the guy that played Chekof on Star Trek each appear on some episodes of Babylon 5. Before there was a Lost in Space; Bill Mumy appeared on the Twilight Zone a similar but older character was called Charlie X on Star Trek. Will Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and Deforest Kelly all appeared in different episodes of Bonanza and Leonard Nimoy mentioned the Enterprise and Deforest Kelly said he was not a Doctor. William Shatner was on The outer limits in an episode called Project Vulcan and Leonard Nimoy appeared in an episode about a robot put on trial as a journalist and in a remake of it as an attorney. In one robot destroyed saving little girl from a truck in remake robot saves prosecuting attorney from a truck.
I expected him to say "Hoimann.." any second.
The story I head from Al Lewis when he was in WBAI radio in NYC was the script could not be finished due to a writer's strike so he used a technique called "the hesitation waltz" from burlesque when the "dancers" would need extra time ti fix their costumes.
Jonathan Harris was hardly a slouch at improvisation, given that he pretty much re-wrote all his dialogue.
Al Lewis. A gem. He lived and loved life. watch the comedy movie Used Cars. He was the judge.
Al Lewis is the man
He ROCKED !
Grandpa Munster without makeup!!! And the laugh. Awesome!!!
I've seen him in plenty of other movies and TV shows before.
It's Grandpa Dracula.
So weird seeing Al Lewis playing a character other than Grandpa Munster - and in color! 😉
He was in "Taxi" as a Security Guard real briefly in the 2 part episode when Sunshine Cab is broke
Also a few years before he co-starred with Fred Gwynn on “Car 54, where are you?” on NBC
@@willdrucker4291 as Leo Schnauzer. What a guy.
Al Lewis and Fred Gwynne each played police men on Car 54 where are you? Fred Gwynne was a judge in movie My cousin Vinny.
Al Lewis appeared in a Gomer Pyle episode in 1968. He played a high strung husband who had a wife that damaged their new car and Sgt. Carter was blamed for it. Gomer solved the problem, as usual.
My dad got me Al Lewis' autograph as a kid in the 70's .He met him in NY.Al had a restaurant around then I think
Al Lewis Classic.
Two of my favorite actors when I was a kid. I wonder if Jonathan had been asked about this scene, would he have said that it was he who created the improvised scene and not Al Lewis? Jonathan Harris admitted that he actually rewrote many of his own lines in the show. He also created all the colorful nicknames for the "Bubble headed booby".
He might have been a great riddler in Batman
Actually it was Al Lewis who, realising that the show needed extra dialogue, reheated one of his old vaudeville routines and him and Jonathan Harris went for it
@@tombstoneharrystudios584 Yes, Irwin Allen told them the show was something like 3 minutes short and think something up. Harris often rewrote his dialogue, but this is 100% Al Lewis.
I think both Al and Harris were bullshitters
And don't forget "Neanderthal Ninny!"
Al Lewis? On Lost in Space?? My mind is b-l-o-w-i-n-g!!
Me too ! I never saw this episode on TV & was flagergasted to find out here at YT that he had guest starred on this 60s sci fi series !
i never knew al lewis appeared on lost in space hahahahaha , harris and lewis , the greatest LOLOL
New to me too ! He & Dr Smith made a great team !
Lost In Space Season 2 (episode title "Rocket To Earth 🚀 ")
Grandpa is Grandpa is Grandpa.
In an interview, Al Lewis stated that producer Don Richardson informed him that the show was 3 minutes short and could HE come up with an idea?....Lewis suggested bringing in another writer but Richardson protested; stating it would cost another $5000....so Lewis developed this idea and shared it with Richardson, Jonathan Harris, Billy Mumy, and Bob May (The Robot)...Mumy confirmed in another interview that it DID IN FACT happen that way...
Except it isn't three minutes
They filled the remaining time with 2 30 second commercials and a 15 second network promo....potayto/potahto
@@willdrucker4291 Richardson also said that if they did find a writer he'd probably be in a bar and if he was drunk, he'd probably cost $10,000.
Al Lewis Himself told me this story years ago. He said it was a routine they did way back in burlesque when running short. This particular episode was running short so they devised this routine. By the way Al Lewis was a major prick
Here is the Al Lewis interview:
ua-cam.com/video/RaljmzklkZI/v-deo.html
I actually met Al Lewis years ago at his restaurant in NYC Grandpas!! While I was in NYC I had purchased a Lost In Space robot. He spotted it in my bad and He told me the actual story how the episode ran short and they had to extend it by doing that whole routine with Jonathan Harris! On another note Al Lewis was not a nice man and thats all im going to say
Thanks for sharing. What a disappointment to find out that Lewis wasn't a nice fellow. Bummer.
Nobody has such an evil laugh at Al Lewis! He really belts it out!
Between this and H.R Pufnstuf good times 😵💫
When I was a kid my folks took us on a tour of Universal Studios and we saw Al in full Grandpa makeup during a lunch break.
He. Ha. He. Ha. This is just what I needed at this very moment..
Me too!!!❤
Grandpa Munster and the Queen of the Galaxy. That's entertainment!
The pain, the pain
Grandpa Munster where are you Car 54.?
He had a restaurant in nyc and was on liberal talk radio 8n nyc.
Gawd I loved that show when I was a kid ...... :)
Here is Al Lewis telling the story behind this scene:
ua-cam.com/video/RaljmzklkZI/v-deo.html
I can't quite read the text there...too tiny. Does it say IMRPOV?
Another classic 60’s TV series.
Loved that man--BOTH OF THEM!
Both from New York
Lewis joked; Harris plays like he's British and he's a Jew from Brooklyn. He meant it as a compliment.
Greatest magician in the galaxy. Like anyone could know that!
The scene as described by Al isn't anywhere to be found in the final cut. Maybe it did happen and they decided to edit it out because it wasn't good enough or maybe Al has a rich imagination and didn't think anyone would look up the scene.
Jonathan Harris (nacido Jonathan Daniel Charasuchin; en hebreo: ג'ונתן האריס; Nueva York, 6 de noviembre de 1914-Encino, 3 de noviembre de 2002) fue un actor estadounidense.
Grampa's Bella Gente restaurant at 252 Bleecker St. in Manhattan... Used to eat there on a regular basis...
Al would be at the door of his restaurant on Bleeker St. in the village during afternoon dressed as grandpa and would chat with anybody.
The door on my washing machine locks when you shut it, but a spaceship door doesn’t?
On your thumbnail, you spelled IMPROV really badly.
that was pretty wild!
Al Lewis aka Corey Feldman, Sr.
This is The Scene Al Lewis Always Talked About. Improv
Tomorrow.November 6 would be Jonathan Harris' 110 Birthday
He would be the world's oldest flaming gay guy.
@@TontoEpstein Harris was married to his high school sweetheart, Gertrude Bregman, from 1938 until his death. They had one child.
@@realrocksavage Yeah, you keep on believing whatever Wikipedia tosses at ya.
@@TontoEpstein Check more than one source, if you can read!!
@@realrocksavage Buddy, the guy was fruitier than an orange grove. June Lockhart knew it and she said it. It was freakin' obvious.
I really like the giant lab Pez dispensers.
What's an IMPORV? 😏
Albert Meister (Nueva York, 30 de abril de 1910-Nueva York, 03 de febrero de 2006), conocido en los medios artísticos como Al Lewis, fue un actor estadounidense, inmortalizado en televisión como el Abuelo Munster.
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Al Lewis should have been a Batman Gillian
My favorites
Hmmm... never knew Grandpa was in color :)
The pilot for The Munsters was made in colour, it's on YT.
This is where Tucker Carlson stole his cartoon villain laugh.
Everything appears and disappears with an explosion on this show. Often many times an episode. It literally gives me a headache.
Lost in space on Me TV 1 am eastern time as part of scifi saturday which runs from 8 pm with Svengoolie which has old science fiction horror and monster movies and other Science fiction shows until 7 am Sunday Morning.
Happy flight pattern!
that's what i thought
:))))))))))
RIP to them all. Thanks for making us laugh
Can you imagine Dr. Smith on the Munsters?
Grandpa Munster wasn't on "Lost In Space". Al Lewis was.
AL Lewis still seems like Grandpa Munster no matter who he plays hilarious
IMRPOV???? You mean IMPROV ?
Not many people know this, but Al Lewis hosted a Creature Feature style show in the mid eighties out of Detroit. It aired Saturday afternoons and featured everything from Godzilla movies to Frankenstein. Does anyone remember this and know the title of the show?
It was called Super Scary Saturday.
@@thomasredmond3365 Oh man, thanks for that! I knew I didn't imagine that show!!
Al Lewis was a BIG BIG fan of john gotti. take that to the bank.
Al claims they did this to fill "three or four minutes" of extra time. It's not even 2 minutes.
This is the part they used. Probably slipped in another commercial used the shortest version to tickle a sponsor.
I saw the interview, I think he was full of shit and himself. Strange guy.
@Un Believer That's why I wouldn't trust a vainglorious vampire or blatherskite bat any more than I would trust a tin plated traitor.
@Un Believer Yeah, Al Lewis explained it differently as if Harris put his hand by his head and hesitated then came down a long way to ask simple a question, got reassured, and then walked back. Lewis acted like he invented penicillin, but this scene padding is easy. Jackie Gleason did shit like this all the time and didn't ask for praise.
Growing up on the Upper west side of Manhattan, I once met Al Lewis walking down my block.
I was maybe nine years old.
I had no paper, so he signed my arm in ball point pen. I didn't wash that arm for a week.
They both knew each other and lived in the same part of NYC. Jonathan doesn't normally talk like that accent according to Al. Lol.
Imagine being in outer space and seeing aliens like this series...
Yeah, julie newmar floating in space outside the window,calling.
@@EmeraldHill-vo1cs That was a different actress named Vitina Marcus, not Julie Newmar.
@@Antares007 My mistake, its been decades.
Love those zany machines
They needed to fill about 200 seconds and Al Lewis gave em the 200 seconds.
According to this clip, they only added another 105 seconds.
@@gc4644 potato, potahto...
@@antonewilson4310 tomato, tomahto....
Wanderful Dr.Smith 😁
What episode is this
IMRPOV? Great job on the thumbnail title.
Herman!
Al talks about it here: ua-cam.com/video/RaljmzklkZI/v-deo.htmlsi=9iPuiH6oZo1-wVlI
Flip flip, dr smith!
Al
Lewis!! Grandpa Munster!!!
what's an "imrpov"?
I think they do it deliberately to get your attention. But I never subscribe to channels that have contempt for correct spelling.
Grandpa and Dr Smith...oh the pain
Which one was this?
I sure as hell wouldn't want to be a child, trapped in a small space with Jonathan Harris of all people! 😮
Grandpa's gone bats......
Imrpov?
"I'm the greatest magician in the whole galaxy!" "And I conveniently speak English."
Yeah. Thanks for reminding me how much I despised watching this show, which I did, occasionally, at the time, because nothing better was on. (3 channels and PBS.)
That thumbnail with IMRPOV is so annoying
No shortage of shtick here.
WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT
Great spelling job there on the lead panel
Exactly. Not an impressive start right off the bat, eh?
Um, that was improvised? Big whoop. I watched some of the first season, but even as a kid, the color seasons were just dumb and silly.
I M *R P* O V
funny 😂😂😂