Richard Benjamin, Paula Prentiss, Jack Cassidy and Hamilton Camp made He And She one of the best sitcoms of all time. That it only lasted a single season staggers the imagination.
I was listening to Gilbert Gottfried's podcast this wk. Guests were Paula P & Richard B. They asked them why the show was canceled --it got great reviews. Richard B said that He & She 's lead in on CBS was Beverly Hillbillies & Green Acres. Those shows had very good ratings. But, the audience for He & She would be totally different. Their show was urban & different kind of humor. He also said someone from CBS called them & said--Your show is the best thing on the network--but it's canceled. BTW, the podcast was delightful and part 2 is next wk.
Star Trek only lasted 3 seasons, and was often (though not always--just look at the 3rd season) brilliant. But remember that the first Star Trek pilot, "The Cage," was rejected by NBC for being 'too cerebral.' I suspect the same thing happened here. Coincidentally, the pilots for Star Trek and He and She were shot at Desilu, Lucille Ball's studio.
Paula Prentiss is soooooooooooooo underclebrated as the diva she is (in persona, not personality; there's probably nobody nicer. An edgy dramatic actress ('The Parallax View") to a camp heroine "The Stepford Wives") we have been blessed with her presence all this half century...and happily married for all of that - can one believe in such things anymore?
I was listening to Gilbert Gottfried's podcast this wk. Guests were Paula P & Richard B. They asked them why the show was canceled --it got great reviews. Richard B said that He & She 's lead in on CBS was Beverly Hillbillies & Green Acres. Those shows had very good ratings. But, the audience for He & She would be totally different. Their show was urban & different kind of humor. He also said someone from CBS called them & said--Your show is the best thing on the network--but it's canceled. BTW, the podcast was delightful and part 2 is next wk.
This was a groundbreaking show that is underappreciated. He and She combined the sophistication of the Bob Newhart-Suzanne Pleshette relationship with the physical comedy of I Love Lucy. Paula Prentiss opened the way for the strong, self-reliant woman in sitcoms.
The show was ahead of its time. It also won an Emmy in 1968. It had a combination of sophisticated humor and slapstick humor. Remember how Kenneth Mars’ character who was a fireman who lived at the fire station next door would visit them by ladder between his window and theirs? Why was the series cancelled?
I wished it did continue I always feel it was a hard act to follow after the dick van dyke show. However I always wanted to have happy marriage like that and I got it 🙂🙂
It was on the CBS schedule right after Green Acres and The Beverly Hillbillies. The audience that loved those shows would have been bewildered and put-off by He and She.
Oh my gosh you're kidding I can't imagine such a beautiful woman marrying such a short-haired squirrel like him even back then she's foxy and he looks so Sissy
Great show, ahead of its time no question. Such a late-'60's feel, and all the tragedies of '68 had not yet scarred the country. RFK was still alive and serving as Senator from New York where this show was set.
Is this an unedited version of the pilot? Notice that it runs more than 30 minutes, and there are NO commercials here. Granted, there were fewer commercials on TV then, but there were at least two or three minutes per half hour. I can't see how it could be more than 27 or 28 minutes long, while still fitting in some commercials.
An interview with Allan Burns brought me here. You can see similarities to Mary Tyler Moore. The Jack Cassidy character very similar to Ted Baxter. This pilot was written by Arne Sultan and Leonard Stern from Get Smart. Allan Burns and Chris Hayward were brought on as writers and they won an Emmy which burns felt should have gone to Sultan and Stern.
MTM was a total ripoff of He & She and the cast was furious when Tinker axed it despite great ratings to revamp it for his wife "Mary". They even wanted Jack Cassidy to play Ted Baxter and Cassidy told them to f off. Tragic. This is one of the best sitcoms ever made.
I remember watching this show when I was in high school, and loved it. I couldn't figure out why most other TV shows weren't as funny and enjoyable as He & She. There were only a handful of television series back then that were really entertaining and actually had something to say, with great writing and skilled actors who were as watchable and appealing as Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss. God bless 'em. This suffered the same fate as Firefly-- a truly great show that was cancelled after only one season. Sad. And to quote several other commentators here-- highly underappreciated and underrated.
This show HE & SHE imprinted on my 9 going on 10 year old mind! I Loved the two lead actors (they were married to each other then). The opening credits visual montage takes me back to that kid who wanted to be an actor then! I became a dancer instead, No Regrets!
This show was a comeback of sorts for Paula Prentiss. In 1965 she suffered a "nervous breakdown" while filming "What's New Pussycat?" in Paris that kept her out of movies for 5 years.
Boy, that takes me back. I remember watching that show and other sitcoms like LOVE ON A ROOFTOP about young married couples. Always loved Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss.
The funniest part for me, knowing a little Greek, is when Paula tells Mr. Panopolis "ne ne no no" she is actually saying yes in Greek, ne is Greek for yes, haha.
I am shocked to hear anyone else remembers My World and Welcome to It. As a second-grader, this show disturbed me. It was a comedy, but there was no laugh track. I wasn't sure what to make of it.
I always had a woody for Paula Prentiss. Always liked Richard Benjamin, too, but not in the same way. The show had a live audience instead of an annoying, insipid laugh track. That was a big plus.
I was 4 when it aired. But thanks to Harlan Ellison raving about it in his TV column The Glass Teat, I searched it out. So glad I did. Then I told two friends about it. And they told two friends. And so on, and so on, and so on...
"He & She" won an Emmy in 1968 for best comedy writing. Allan Burns, according to Wikipedia, worked as a story editor for the series. He later do-created the "Mary Tyler Moore Show".
Wonderful show that should NEVER had gotten cancelled!!!! 3 seasons, at least, of this would've been great! Those network heads canned a lot of good shows!
Amazing. I vaguely think I may have heard of this show and seen it when I was about 8. I read where the Jack Cassidy character, Oscar, was used, with permission, as the basis for Ted Baxter on the Mary Tyler Moore show.
@@TinLeadHammer It's one of my favorite shows. It has a very sly sense of humor, particularly in Seasons 2-3 when it was helmed by Jay Sommars who went on to create "Green Acres". They, along with "Beverly Hillbillies", affectionately highlighted the absurdity of us humans. May not be your cup of tea.
@@AstralPixie "You got a telephone? You talk into it, and they hear you in Tulsa." - "How big a rock did you beat him with?" As Gilbert Seldes wrote in 1962: "The whole notion on which The Beverly Hillbillies is founded is an encouragement to ignorance." James T. Aubrey Jr., who was president of the CBS television network from 1959 to 1965, proclaimed: "Feed the public little more than rural comedies, fast-moving detective dramas, and later, sexy dolls. No old people; the emphasis must be on youth. No domestic servants, the mass audience wouldn't identify with maids. No serious problems to cope with," or a more succinct version of it, "broads, bosoms, and fun."
@@TinLeadHammer First off, it's OK that we have different perspectives. In hindsight, I think that the rural purge was a horrible step. As a society, we chose to marginalize an important part of the country, chasing after the dollars of demographics. It hasn't gone well. Again, I think that Beverley Hillbillies is very sly and clever. The "Giant Jackrabbit" is one of the most watched tv episodes of all time (and always will be). It's hilarious.
TRIVIA QUESTION: Was the program, "He & She" the first to feature a MARRIED COUPLE sleeping in their own FULL SIZE BED? Back in the dawn of TV, no network censors would allow and man and a woman ever sharing the SAME BED together. Remember how the all-time classic TV sitcom, I LOVE LUCY, always featured Lucy and Ricky sleeping in separate beds? I don't think Bewitched ever showed Darrin and Samantha sleeping in a full size bed, nor can I recall anything before 1967 showing couples in anything other-than twin beds. MORE TV Trivia. I was the Deejay who played at their daughter, Prentiss Benjamin's wedding reception. It was such a charming and groovy night. I was also the Deejay who played at a movie wrap party that KEVIN BACON had attended (He was one of the stars of the movie). Now you have some great info for the next time you decide to play "SIX DEGREES of Kevin Bacon".
Thank you for your memories of the Benjamins and for the Kevin Bacon link. :) As for the bed discussion, Herman and Lily Munster were definitely shown sharing the same bed, and "The Munsters" debuted in 1964. This predates both "He & She" (which started in 1967) and "The Brady Bunch" (which started in 1969).
the show that changed television. return of live audience, one camera live filming, principle characters and many many secondaries of different type and personalities. And they took the Andy Griffin Show rule of No one is smarter than the hero, no one is better looking than the heroine, and the auxiliary characters are hilarious due to their quirkiness.
The tv network DECADES had a He & She marathon scheduled for today, then (apparently?) replaced it with a Fish marathon...yuck. When I was a kid I thought Paula and her sister were such knockouts, but I did have trouble remembering which was which. (Prefer Paula.)
Unbelievably, Paula’s sister Ann was convicted of attempting to hire someone to murder Richard Benjamin and members of her own family. She was sentenced to 19 years in prison! Wow.
You know what-- Richard probably would have upstaged Elizabeth Montgomery in Bewitched. He would have been a great Darrin, but I think the producers wanted the focus to be on Montgomery. She was super cute and kind of funny, but not a great actress or a skilled comic like Benjamin.
He was actually the inspiration for Ted Baxter. When The Mary Tyler Moore Show was created, Leonard Stern knew they got Baxter from this show, but he didn't mind.
Often described as "unde-rappreciated," this series is appraciated just as much as it needs to be, The 1960s had a strange fascination for faux sophistrication. The Dick Van Dyke Show was called sohpisticated...remember the Twizzle? Then the Twazzle?
Yes, just for starters, Ted Knight was friendly with Jack Cassidy in real life and the Ted Baxter character was patterned after Oscar North. And boy are the apartments similar.
Paula is sort of a married Mary Richards. The look, the dialogue, the delivery. A career woman. You can see the influence on the Mary Tyler Moore Show. I understand they wrote the Ted Baxter character for Jack Cassidy, but he felt it was too close to what he did here. You can see the resemblance.
Lot of pretentious comments here saying this show was "ahead of its time". Let it go. Sitcoms are supposed to be funny and wacky, not pretentious and serious.
Hey! I imagine this is a shot in the dark but I'm curious where this version comes from? I've seen a different version that is shorter in length although still covers everything (maybe it was sped up), but then has totally different credits.
In 1970 my high school class was in NYC on a field trip near the theatre district and Richard and Paula crossed the street in front of us like they were floating on a cloud. We all gasped.
True-- think about the theme song from the Mary Tyler Moore show; so many of us can sing a lot of it. It's such an iconic tune from a great series. The people who made He & She later created the MTM show (and spin-offs) with a lot of the same wit, style and terrific writing. And excellent cast.
Oh my gosh, I became a fan of Richard Benjamin in 1978 with his short lived series Quark. (So sue me, I was 14.) Paula P. - I don't think I have ever seen her in anything until. I had never heard of this show until 30 minutes ago - if the quality of the writing and acting are as fresh as this pilot, I will remain A FAN! Oh, and Jack Cassidy is a scream. I think this is the first time I have ever seen him acting. I've only seen him on game and talk shows. Wish I could have seen him on broadway!!
Paula was a Southern gal, hot as hell, she was good as a hassled stewardess in the original Out of Towners with Jack Lemmon....one of the best movies ever made.
@@historyofnetworktv What to elaborate? Do you see combing? This is caused by schlepping two fields into one frame. Garbage. For display on UA-cam each field must be converted into a separate frame, producing 59.94p. Search for "deinterlacing".
funny, this statement is based on a report on a fake story. of course, the story was run by fox news and other ultra conservative fake news agencies. as usual, fox news and their ilk don't bother with checking facts.
An underrated and overlooked classic sitcom.
Agreed. I was 13 in 1967 and in love with Paula.
Richard Benjamin, Paula Prentiss, Jack Cassidy and Hamilton Camp made He And She one of the best sitcoms of all time. That it only lasted a single season staggers the imagination.
I was listening to Gilbert Gottfried's podcast this wk. Guests were Paula P & Richard B. They asked them why the show was canceled --it got great reviews. Richard B said that He & She 's lead in on CBS was Beverly Hillbillies & Green Acres. Those shows had very good ratings. But, the audience for He & She would be totally different. Their show was urban & different kind of humor. He also said someone from CBS called them & said--Your show is the best thing on the network--but it's canceled. BTW, the podcast was delightful and part 2 is next wk.
And Kenneth Mars as Harry the fireman!
Star Trek only lasted 3 seasons, and was often (though not always--just look at the 3rd season) brilliant. But remember that the first Star Trek pilot, "The Cage," was rejected by NBC for being 'too cerebral.' I suspect the same thing happened here. Coincidentally, the pilots for Star Trek and He and She were shot at Desilu, Lucille Ball's studio.
Paula Prentiss is soooooooooooooo underclebrated as the diva she is (in persona, not personality; there's probably nobody nicer. An edgy dramatic actress ('The Parallax View") to a camp heroine "The Stepford Wives") we have been blessed with her presence all this half century...and happily married for all of that - can one believe in such things anymore?
Everyone is happily married except for me.
A few years ahead of its time; TV was still in its "hayseed/dopey sitcom" period. But they're still together, I believe. Good for them!
I was listening to Gilbert Gottfried's podcast this wk. Guests were Paula P & Richard B. They asked them why the show was canceled --it got great reviews. Richard B said that He & She 's lead in on CBS was Beverly Hillbillies & Green Acres. Those shows had very good ratings. But, the audience for He & She would be totally different. Their show was urban & different kind of humor. He also said someone from CBS called them & said--Your show is the best thing on the network--but it's canceled. BTW, the podcast was delightful and part 2 is next wk.
too bad the lead-in wasn't Seinfeld.
Good grief, all these old TV shows is like using a time machine and skipping through the depths of my childhood and teen years! Awesome!
We were distracted by that war thingie, that's why we missed so much stuff.
This was a groundbreaking show that is underappreciated. He and She combined the sophistication of the Bob Newhart-Suzanne Pleshette relationship with the physical comedy of I Love Lucy. Paula Prentiss opened the way for the strong, self-reliant woman in sitcoms.
The show was ahead of its time. It also won an Emmy in 1968. It had a combination of sophisticated humor and slapstick humor. Remember how Kenneth Mars’ character who was a fireman who lived at the fire station next door would visit them by ladder between his window and theirs? Why was the series cancelled?
I wished it did continue I always feel it was a hard act to follow after the dick van dyke show. However I always wanted to have happy marriage like that and I got it 🙂🙂
I was 14 when this episode aired. I remember some of the punchlines. I had a big crush on Paula!
@@raymondhorton9668 I was just 9 then, but in retrospect I have a crush on her too. 💓
Based on his performance on this show Jack Cassidy was asked to play Ted Baxter. He turned it down but would play Ted's brother in one episode.
Wow, I don't even remember this one, and I was a teenager, quite a TV watcher back then.
I was 10 years old in 1967, but I remember I loved this show & also "Love on a Rooftop".
This show set the template for all the MTM shows that premiered several years later. So surprised this show wasn't a hit.
It was before its time.
@@innervisions1828 No. It was just right for its time, just underappreciated and undervalued by the stupid network.
It was on the CBS schedule right after Green Acres and The Beverly Hillbillies. The audience that loved those shows would have been bewildered and put-off by He and She.
Yes! I noticed Jay Sandrich name in the credits. He was the most prolific director of MTM.
Richard and Paula have been married 54 years.
Bob Sewvello are they STILL alive?
Probably a good that the show didn't last longer than it did. They probably would have ended up getting divorced.
Oh my gosh you're kidding I can't imagine such a beautiful woman marrying such a short-haired squirrel like him even back then she's foxy and he looks so Sissy
ce christine Yes, they are still alive and married 57 years in October.
@@craigsmith157 Make that 60 years in 2021! Bless their hearts!
This show is still fabulous fifty years later. Dick Benjamin made every line hilarious and Jack Cassidy was obnoxious but loveable.
Great show, ahead of its time no question. Such a late-'60's feel, and all the tragedies of '68 had not yet scarred the country. RFK was still alive and serving as Senator from New York where this show was set.
An obvious inspiration for The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Paula Prentiss sounds and looks similar to Mary.
Is this an unedited version of the pilot? Notice that it runs more than 30 minutes, and there are NO commercials here.
Granted, there were fewer commercials on TV then, but there were at least two or three minutes per half hour. I can't see how it could be more than 27 or 28 minutes long, while still fitting in some commercials.
what difference does it make? This is YT, be thankful there aren't 500 ads stopping the show every 15 seconds!
An interview with Allan Burns brought me here. You can see similarities to Mary Tyler Moore. The Jack Cassidy character very similar to Ted Baxter. This pilot was written by Arne Sultan and Leonard Stern from Get Smart. Allan Burns and Chris Hayward were brought on as writers and they won an Emmy which burns felt should have gone to Sultan and Stern.
It looks like the MTM apartment set...sort of
And the office set looks like the WJM newsroom.
MTM was a total ripoff of He & She and the cast was furious when Tinker axed it despite great ratings to revamp it for his wife "Mary". They even wanted Jack Cassidy to play Ted Baxter and Cassidy told them to f off. Tragic. This is one of the best sitcoms ever made.
And they're still married, folks.
57 years later and Dick and Paula are still together. Amazing and wonderful.
Totally
They were married in 1961. Still together and alive. 63 years.
THANK YOU for this collection. A brilliant series I haven't seen since it first aired.
I remember watching this show when I was in high school, and loved it. I couldn't figure out why most other TV shows weren't as funny and enjoyable as He & She. There were only a handful of television series back then that were really entertaining and actually had something to say, with great writing and skilled actors who were as watchable and appealing as Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss. God bless 'em. This suffered the same fate as Firefly-- a truly great show that was cancelled after only one season. Sad. And to quote several other commentators here-- highly underappreciated and underrated.
Thanks for posting this. I watched this series back in the day. Loved Paula Prentiss, Richard Benjamin, Jack Cassidy.
This show HE & SHE imprinted on my 9 going on 10 year old mind! I Loved the two lead actors (they were married to each other then). The opening credits visual montage takes me back to that kid who wanted to be an actor then! I became a dancer instead, No Regrets!
same here, only I was 8
They're still married as of 2023. How about that!?
This show was a comeback of sorts for Paula Prentiss. In 1965 she suffered a "nervous breakdown" while filming "What's New Pussycat?" in Paris that kept her out of movies for 5 years.
If this is true, how is this show just a mere two years later in 1967?...just curious..
Boy, that takes me back. I remember watching that show and other sitcoms like LOVE ON A ROOFTOP about young married couples. Always loved Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss.
The funniest part for me, knowing a little Greek, is when Paula tells Mr. Panopolis "ne ne no no" she is actually saying yes in Greek, ne is Greek for yes, haha.
Only surpassed by My World And Welcome To It as the most under-rated sitcom of them all.
I loved my world and welcome to it!!! Lisa Gerritsen was my crush back then!
I am shocked to hear anyone else remembers My World and Welcome to It. As a second-grader, this show disturbed me. It was a comedy, but there was no laugh track. I wasn't sure what to make of it.
"He's a shepherd." A sweet little show ahead of its time.
I always had a woody for Paula Prentiss. Always liked Richard Benjamin, too, but not in the same way. The show had a live audience instead of an annoying, insipid laugh track. That was a big plus.
Almost No one ever close to my age seems to Remember This Short Lived TV Series,Unfortunately!
I was 4 when it aired. But thanks to Harlan Ellison raving about it in his TV column The Glass Teat, I searched it out. So glad I did. Then I told two friends about it. And they told two friends. And so on, and so on, and so on...
Charles Lane must have been on just about every show in the 1960's.
Pretty much. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lane_(actor)
What a career!
I vaguely remember this, when I was too young to appreciate Paula Prentiss, lol😍
"He & She" won an Emmy in 1968 for best comedy writing. Allan Burns, according to Wikipedia, worked as a story editor for the series. He later do-created the "Mary Tyler Moore Show".
And Leonard Stern, one of the creative brains behind “Get Smart”!
Kenneth Mars from The Producers!
Such a lovely opening theme. Back then they wrote REAL music for TV themes!
Jerry Fielding wrote the theme (and virtually all of the scores).
@@fromthesidelines Thank you. I was wondering who wrote it.
You're welcome!
i remember the title, but {@ age 9} think it was on past my early bedtime. 😹 what a cute show!
Very funny show and way ahead of it's time.
Wonderful show that should NEVER had gotten cancelled!!!!
3 seasons, at least, of this would've been great!
Those network heads canned a lot of good shows!
"Never mind what I'm saying; just listen to me." 20 YEARS LATER: "Listen to me now and hear me later."
Originally telecast on September 6, 1967. After this pilot episode, production shifted from Desilu to CBS' "Studio Center" facilities.
CBS Studio Center is the same studio where Mary Tyler Moore, Gunsmoke and Seinfeld were filmed.
Desilu is where the first 2 pilots for Star Trek were filmed.
Amazing. I vaguely think I may have heard of this show and seen it when I was about 8. I read where the Jack Cassidy character, Oscar, was used, with permission, as the basis for Ted Baxter on the Mary Tyler Moore show.
Haven't seen this in 50 years ,but still remember the air freshener gag. Paula was such a babe.
She still is. The very definition of "foxy grandma."
Ditto. I remembered ‘he was a shepherd!’
I never saw this show but it’s very good. Pretty sad that it did not make it and yet so much other junk survived.
What lovely nostalgia, I was in high school when this was on TV...
Paula's hairstyle is back in style.
Another show around this time about a young couple living in the city, Love on a Rooftop with Judy Carne and Pete Duel. He committed suicide.
Notice how HE occasionally looks at the camera.
That's called "Breaking the fourth wall" --effective aint it?
Mr. Simpson (Charles Lane) lived to be 102. He died in 2007.
He was terrific on "Petticoat Junction" as the nemesis of Kate. You should check it out.
@@AstralPixie "Petticoat Junction" is a garbage show.
@@TinLeadHammer It's one of my favorite shows. It has a very sly sense of humor, particularly in Seasons 2-3 when it was helmed by Jay Sommars who went on to create "Green Acres". They, along with "Beverly Hillbillies", affectionately highlighted the absurdity of us humans. May not be your cup of tea.
@@AstralPixie "You got a telephone? You talk into it, and they hear you in Tulsa." - "How big a rock did you beat him with?" As Gilbert Seldes wrote in 1962: "The whole notion on which The Beverly Hillbillies is founded is an encouragement to ignorance." James T. Aubrey Jr., who was president of the CBS television network from 1959 to 1965, proclaimed: "Feed the public little more than rural comedies, fast-moving detective dramas, and later, sexy dolls. No old people; the emphasis must be on youth. No domestic servants, the mass audience wouldn't identify with maids. No serious problems to cope with," or a more succinct version of it, "broads, bosoms, and fun."
@@TinLeadHammer First off, it's OK that we have different perspectives. In hindsight, I think that the rural purge was a horrible step. As a society, we chose to marginalize an important part of the country, chasing after the dollars of demographics. It hasn't gone well. Again, I think that Beverley Hillbillies is very sly and clever. The "Giant Jackrabbit" is one of the most watched tv episodes of all time (and always will be). It's hilarious.
This show changed my life FOREVER!
How?
Brings back a lot of memories
"What if I open the door and it isn't you?" "Then I won't come in."
It's so wonderful to see these shows again. How the world has changed.
Paula's such a treasure. Absolutely one of a kind.
TRIVIA QUESTION: Was the program, "He & She" the first to feature a MARRIED COUPLE sleeping in their own FULL SIZE BED? Back in the dawn of TV, no network censors would allow and man and a woman ever sharing the SAME BED together. Remember how the all-time classic TV sitcom, I LOVE LUCY, always featured Lucy and Ricky sleeping in separate beds? I don't think Bewitched ever showed Darrin and Samantha sleeping in a full size bed, nor can I recall anything before 1967 showing couples in anything other-than twin beds.
MORE TV Trivia. I was the Deejay who played at their daughter, Prentiss Benjamin's wedding reception. It was such a charming and groovy night. I was also the Deejay who played at a movie wrap party that KEVIN BACON had attended (He was one of the stars of the movie). Now you have some great info for the next time you decide to play "SIX DEGREES of Kevin Bacon".
I saw a quiz show a few years ago that said the first couple to be in the same bed were Herman and Lily Munster. I never would have guessed that.
Hmmm…. I thought it was Carol and Mike Brady.
The Hays Code had just been repealed. Also, love those unisex pajamas. ;)
Thank you for your memories of the Benjamins and for the Kevin Bacon link. :) As for the bed discussion, Herman and Lily Munster were definitely shown sharing the same bed, and "The Munsters" debuted in 1964. This predates both "He & She" (which started in 1967) and "The Brady Bunch" (which started in 1969).
the show that changed television. return of live audience, one camera live filming, principle characters and many many secondaries of different type and personalities. And they took the Andy Griffin Show rule of No one is smarter than the hero, no one is better looking than the heroine, and the auxiliary characters are hilarious due to their quirkiness.
see All in the Family, Cheers, Bob Newhart Show, Barney Miller, Night Court, Welcome Back Kotter and The Mary Tyler Moore Show..
The tv network DECADES had a He & She marathon scheduled for today, then (apparently?) replaced it with a Fish marathon...yuck.
When I was a kid I thought Paula and her sister were such knockouts, but I did have trouble remembering which was which. (Prefer Paula.)
Unbelievably, Paula’s sister Ann was convicted of attempting to hire someone to murder Richard Benjamin and members of her own family. She was sentenced to 19 years in prison! Wow.
Opening theme music and visuals different for this pilot than rest of episodes.
Something about Paula Prentiss was mesmerizing to a pubescent me.
This reminds me of _Newhart_ and _The Bob Newhart Show_
same guys wrote both shows, they all went over to mtm.same building three floors up
Also the beginnings of that girl....
Dick VanDyke too. Both lead characters are writers for TV shows with narcissistic actors.
Here 2019..am in my early twenties but i get excited about this back in the days movies
Richard Benjamin would have made an excellent Darrin Stephens on Bewitched.
You know what-- Richard probably would have upstaged Elizabeth Montgomery in Bewitched. He would have been a great Darrin, but I think the producers wanted the focus to be on Montgomery. She was super cute and kind of funny, but not a great actress or a skilled comic like Benjamin.
DAMN, Paula is gorgeous
Jack Cassidy's character seems as though it's an early prerequisite of Mork & Mindy.
Precursor but we know what you meant.
He was actually the inspiration for Ted Baxter. When The Mary Tyler Moore Show was created, Leonard Stern knew they got Baxter from this show, but he didn't mind.
@@Rocketjay12 -- I didn't. Thanks for clearing that up.
"I have been drawing for FOUR HOURS. NOW COMES POUNDING!!!"
Harlan Ellison brought me here. He raved about He and She in his TV column for the LA Free Press, "The Glass Teat."
Homer Bedloe
Petticoat Junction
He and She en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_%26_She
Often described as "unde-rappreciated," this series is appraciated just as much as it needs to be, The 1960s had a strange fascination for faux sophistrication. The Dick Van Dyke Show was called sohpisticated...remember the Twizzle? Then the Twazzle?
This series influenced the MTM Show.
Yes, just for starters, Ted Knight was friendly with Jack Cassidy in real life and the Ted Baxter character was patterned after Oscar North. And boy are the apartments similar.
& jack cassidy played ted baxter's bro in one episode of mtm.
Paula is sort of a married Mary Richards. The look, the dialogue, the delivery. A career woman. You can see the influence on the Mary Tyler Moore Show. I understand they wrote the Ted Baxter character for Jack Cassidy, but he felt it was too close to what he did here. You can see the resemblance.
If this show was made today, it would be called "Non-Binary Person and Non-Binary Person".
Lot of pretentious comments here saying this show was "ahead of its time". Let it go. Sitcoms are supposed to be funny and wacky, not pretentious and serious.
That was pretty good. Kenneth Mars, the fireman, was on Fernwood Tonight, WD Bud Price.
I love the moment at 18:09 - 18:11 where Dick turns to the camera and mouths, "Are you hearing this?"
How attractive they were!
Benjamin was Jeff Goldblum before Jeff Goldblum.
So ahead of its time 😊
Thank you.
Cross-reference this episode with the "Einstein visa."
The old guy reminds me of a slightly older Donald Sutherland.
Hey, Mr Edward, I see it too. Of course today with Donald older, the old guy looks like a short Donald Southerland... smile.
Edward Vogel OMG!! That's exactly what I thought! hahahaha
cbs really pushed the sophisticated bit then
Hey! I imagine this is a shot in the dark but I'm curious where this version comes from? I've seen a different version that is shorter in length although still covers everything (maybe it was sped up), but then has totally different credits.
Aired September 6th,1967
In 1970 my high school class was in NYC on a field trip near the theatre district and Richard and Paula crossed the street in front of us like they were floating on a cloud. We all gasped.
"So if your house catches fire, we'll just drive slow"......Still ROTFL
Is the old Greek man, Jerry Collona?
No, Collona had big bulging eyes didn’t he?
Woow
While I think the theme tune is nice, it's not something that grabs you. I think with a better theme, this show might have done a little better.
True-- think about the theme song from the Mary Tyler Moore show; so many of us can sing a lot of it. It's such an iconic tune from a great series. The people who made He & She later created the MTM show (and spin-offs) with a lot of the
same wit, style and terrific writing. And excellent cast.
Oh my gosh, I became a fan of Richard Benjamin in 1978 with his short lived series Quark. (So sue me, I was 14.) Paula P. - I don't think I have ever seen her in anything until. I had never heard of this show until 30 minutes ago - if the quality of the writing and acting are as fresh as this pilot, I will remain A FAN!
Oh, and Jack Cassidy is a scream. I think this is the first time I have ever seen him acting. I've only seen him on game and talk shows. Wish I could have seen him on broadway!!
Paula was a Southern gal, hot as hell, she was good as a hassled stewardess in the original Out of Towners with Jack Lemmon....one of the best movies ever made.
Never saw "Where the Boys Are"? It's dated but has a great cast, including PP.
I think I remember Paula most for the 1975 film, "The Stepford Wives"...She was phenomenal!📺📼📺📼📺📼
I loved Quark. I was pissed when it went off the air after only 1 season.
Charles Lane was in the TV movie “Sybil”.
Too woke for 1967.
Stop will ya ?
The final line had me cackling.
Great show!
they need to redo this in 2023 - call it "He or She"
Gilbert Gottfried sent me here........
Now be a good boy, deinterlace it into 60p and re-upload, because these combing artifacts are UNBEARABLE.
Can you further elaborate? I am interested in digital media conservation.
@@historyofnetworktv What to elaborate? Do you see combing? This is caused by schlepping two fields into one frame. Garbage. For display on UA-cam each field must be converted into a separate frame, producing 59.94p. Search for "deinterlacing".
@@TinLeadHammer Thank you.
Some universities are banning the use of the terms he and she.Where have you gone,George Lincoln Rockwell?
+Tom Dockery I don't usually take sides in those political correctness arguments, but yes, that's pretty ridiculous.
funny, this statement is based on a report on a fake story. of course, the story was run by fox news and other ultra conservative fake news agencies. as usual, fox news and their ilk don't bother with checking facts.
My mother used to say that lesbians were heshes
You're mother sounds like a typical "good Christian woman" with all the idiotic prejudices that come with it.
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The guy Reminds me of Mr. Bean RIP
Brandon Hilton I was thinking the same thing. They look alike. Why the RIP? They're both still alive.
Never seen this show and won't see 2nd show
Actually the Holisters look Greek, especially Mr. Hollister.