Old King Cole, Insight
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- Mr. Cole lures a band of losers - a junkie poet, a little person, a faded husband and wife comedy team, and a stripper - into his bar. He promises to fulfill their dreams if they will abdicate their dignity and do his bidding. They agree, until a little blind girl, in love with life, wanders into the bar and confronts its owner.
WRITTEN BY
Jack Hanrahan
DIRECTED BY
Ralph Senensky
PRODUCED BY
John Furia, Jr.
Robert Emhardt | Martin Sheen | Steve Franken | Joyce Jameson | Nichelle Nichols | Billy Barty | Lisa Gerristen
ABOUT US
Insight is an American religious-themed weekly anthology series that aired in syndication from October 1960 to 1983. Produced by Paulist Productions in Los Angeles, the series presented half-hour dramas illuminating the contemporary search for meaning, freedom, and love. Insight was an anthology series, using an eclectic set of story telling forms including comedy, melodrama, and fantasy to explore moral dilemmas. The series was created by Fr. Ellwood E. "Bud" Kieser, the founder of Paulist Productions.
The anthology format and the religious nature of the program attracted a wide variety of actors, including Ed Asner, Jack Albertson, Beau Bridges, Carol Burnett, Ron Howard, Cindy Williams, Patty Duke, Ann Jillian, Cicely Tyson, James Doohan, Jack Klugman, Walter Matthau, Bob Newhart, Bill Bixby, John Ritter, Mark Hamill, Laura Dern, Barbara Hershey, Flip Wilson, and Martin Sheen.
Really an exceptional show with fine performances by all, especially Nichelle Nichols
The beautiful Nichelle Nichols! ❤️
Bravo to all the performers who understood reality and walk away from temptation and fantasy.
The best insight episode I've ever seen.
Check out the one with Bill Shatner getting locked up
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Billy Barty = legend
The '70s especially, it seemed like he was everywhere. Very prolific.
Yeah, he seemed like a likeable guy.
Yes, he was in everything.
Only second to Angelo Rosetto (the OTHER busiest little guy in Hollywood) . Not sure if I spelled his name wrong.
Ah, Nichelle Nichols (original Star Trek series as Uhura) as the pianist. She passed away last month, July 30, 2022.
Thank you for answering my requests for "Old King Cole", a surreal, thought-provoking and unsettling allegory about the extremes that people will go to in order to achieve what they think they want out of life. Thematically, I consider the episode to be something of a companion piece to "'All Out". At any rate, thank you again for posting what may be one of the few remaining episodes that are unaccounted for on this channel. The only other classic episode that is conspicuous by its absence is "The Greatest Madness of Them All". And since you've kindly responded to my other requests...
Awesome!
My favorite Insight intro animation/music.
Mine, too. Dramatic and perfect for that era.
I had never seen this episode. Strong. Great performances all around. Thank you!
Robert Emhardt was one of the great character actors of the 50’s and 60’s. He appeared in so many tv shows and movies and he was great in all of them. If you’ve never seen his work on Hitchcock’s tv series it’s definetly worth seeing. He’s in one called “road hog” where he’s an absolute bastard. He plays a lecherous,weasely traveling salesman who deliberately blocks a truck on the road from passing,resulting in the drivers injured son dying.
I would say his best role,and the one he’s likely most remembered for these days,was that of Malcolm Tucker,the harried businessman with the shiny new Lincoln Continental,who has car trouble in Mayberry on Sunday. It was nice to see him in a role where he could display some kindness and humanity at the end.
There are a lot of great episodes of “The Andy Griffith Show”,but that’s Definitely one of my all time favorites.
P.S. Joyce Jameson also appeared as one of the “fun girls” on Andy Griffith.
Yeah, I was going to say that I recognized him from "Alfred Hitchcock". The "Andy Griffith" episode you reference, "Man in a Hurry" is widely lauded as the best episode. It is a classic. I also love the Christmas episode..... it's up there.
thank you for uploading this wonderful series more please thank you GOD LOVE YOU
Interesting episode. I love Martin Sheen in the 70s. Nichelle Nichols just passed this week. The young blind girl played Phyiliis' daughter on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show". I also recognize the man from the comedy team-- from Bewitched, Love American Style, Barney Miller, etc.
Lisa Gerritsen
I could never remember her name... I always wanted to call her Lisa Elibacher, or Elsabacher or something like that.
She was all over the place back then too, just like Pam Ferdin.
I never really thought about how hard those little girls worked. It had to be tough.
I used to be so jealous because I heard how most of those kids didn't have to sit in a classroom for their lessons like I did, feeling like a caged animal most of the time.
@@kidmack3556 You are right that Lisa Eilbacher was another young actress -- she appeared on "Brady Bunch", "Hardy Boys", "Hawaii 5-0", "The Waltons", and the movies "Bad Ronald" and 'This House Possessed" -amongst others. Fun fact: Rita Wilson had her tv debut as a cheerleader on "Brady Bunch".
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Or "Sugar Pants" Seegar from "Officer and a Gentleman" (1983)
Somehow I just saw the name Lisa Elibacher in the credits, and forever associated that name to Lisa Gerritsen's face.
I remember Lisa Gerritsen on the TV series "My World and Welcome To It" with William Windom.
I'll forever have that theme song in my mind.
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That show is uploaded on UA-cam!!!!
@@kidmack3556 I love William Windom. An interesting connection -- Eilbacher starred in "The War between Men and Women" which was also by James Thurber (same as My World). Eilbacher also had a younger sister Cindy, who was also a young actress in the 70's.
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EILBACHER, Thank you!
I watched an episode of MWAWTI last night right after I found them uploaded, and remembered that I couldn't understand the subtlety of the humor at 7 and 8 years of age, but as someone else mentioned in the comments; really loved the animation (Roto-scope, I think) used in the screenplay. So I will enjoy watching them even more now.
Just goes to show one how a series from our youth, that went into obscurity long ago, has more entertainment value than anything the networks (and pay TV) have produced in over 25 years...
What a wacky wacky cast on the set of what looks like Archie Bunker's Place. I am really enjoying watching these . Both Insight and This is the Life were on very early Sunday mornings. So if you were a college student in the early 1970s - you'd come home all blitzed out drunk and fall on the bed and hit the remote -- and one of these shows would be on....
I’d come back from an all-nighter and consider watching Insight to be a form of penance!
He was much nicer when he was in Mayberry after Goober fixed his car. Also the "Star Trek" / "West Wing" cross-over we've been waiting on.
Oh yeah... The "apple paring" episode.
Funny, because no matter how many other things that I have seen him in, that Andy Griffith episode is what comes to mind.
@@kidmack3556 Wondered if anybody would get that reference.
Great to see you back!
This episode was a walk through O’Neil such as the Iceman Cometh.
The INSIGHT TV series were shown from the early 1970s to the late 1980s. Is Reverend Kiefer still around. I always look forward to the INSIiGHT episodes.
Thank You Kindly.
Sadly, Fr. Kieser passed away in 2000. But we have a documentary coming out about his life soon!
That should be really interesting. I’ve seen old interviews with Jerry’s lewis talking about attending mass with his wife who was Catholic and he mentioned “Bud” Kieser repeatedly.
Will the documentary be posted here or will it be a dvd for sale?
@@InsightPaulistProductions in so very interested in the documentary. When is it expexted???
I'll take any episode from 1966-1972 anytime!