Heard, But Never Seen

[mleach]

Knight Rider, KIT. Voice only.

I know this is going to be considered nitpicking but does kitt really count for this. We saw KITT hundreds of times on knight rider "he" was one of the central characters in the show after all, and besides if we see the person who does the voice of KITT, it totally blows the concept doesn't it?

Donny G ;D

Kinda reminds me of that old kids show from the late 70s with Laurie Faso ( a man not a woman LOL ) called "Marlo and the Magic Movie Machine".
That "magic movie machine" was this huge computer and while one did see that..computer..nobody did who did the voice...Mert Koplin.

 

[firepoint525]

Knight Rider, KIT. Voice only.

I know this is going to be considered nitpicking but does kitt really count for this. We saw KITT hundreds of times on knight rider "he" was one of the central characters in the show after all, and besides if we see the person who does the voice of KITT, it totally blows the concept doesn't it?
Donny G ;D

If you ever watched St. Elsewhere or Boy Meets World, you not only heard but also saw the voice of KITT: William Daniels. He was Dr. Mark Craig on St. Elsewhere and went on to play a teacher or principal or something on Boy Meets World. (I don't know for certain because I never watched Boy Meets World.)

 

[bpatrick]

On Boy Meets World, William Daniels
was Ben Savage's teacher (and next-door
neighbor) Mr. Feeny. Does anyone remember
that Daniels played the title character on a show
that is either--depending on your point of view--
a cult classic or one of the worst shows ever devised,
Captain Nice?

Someone mentioned Mert Koplin. I wonder if that's
the same Mert Koplin who produced The $64,000
Question and was implicated in the scandals, not
because he gave the answers to contestants but
because he knew their strengths and weaknesses in
their categories from extensive pre-testing, and had
question writer Bergen Evans devise questions according
to the contestant's popularity: the more popular contestants
(like Gino Prato, the opera buff) got questions they could
answer and win a lot of money; less popular contestants
were given questions designed to knock them off (Dr. Joyce
Brothers was one of these, but she outsmarted them all and
won $64,000 in the category of boxing).

 

[KeithE4]

Knight Rider, KIT. Voice only.

I know this is going to be considered nitpicking but does kitt really count for this. We saw KITT hundreds of times on knight rider "he" was one of the central characters in the show after all, and besides if we see the person who does the voice of KITT, it totally blows the concept doesn't it?

If William Daniels as KITT is included, we should also include Mel Blanc as Jack Benny's Maxwell and Ann Sothern as the title "character" in My Mother The Car.

 

[WMC2006]

Knight Rider, KIT. Voice only.

I know this is going to be considered nitpicking but does kitt really count for this. We saw KITT hundreds of times on knight rider "he" was one of the central characters in the show after all, and besides if we see the person who does the voice of KITT, it totally blows the concept doesn't it?

If William Daniels as KITT is included, we should also include Mel Blanc as Jack Benny's Maxwell and Ann Sothern as the title "character" in My Mother The Car.

Well, hell, let's just include whomever does the voice of the Aflac duck. ;D

 

[RicoGregg]

Well, hell, let's just include whomever does the voice of the Aflac duck. ;D

The voice of the Aflac Duck is comedian Gilbert Gottfried.

 

[gr8oldies]

The adult Kevin on the Wonder Years?

 

[WMC2006]

The adult Kevin on the Wonder Years?

That would be Daniel Stern.


What about the various network television voice-over announcers such as the one who passed away fairly recently whose name I can't recall?

Even some game show announcers would fit this subject although the likes of Johnny Olsen, Gene Wood, Rod Roddy and others were seen with some regularity, depending on the show.

 

[biggguy]

My Mother The Car, Never saw Jerry Van Dykes MOM!

Yes you did...she was red with a black convertible top, hokey wire wheels, and got drunk if you used alcohol based coolant!

Although if the show had survived long enough to make video "flashbacks" necessary, Ann Sothern still looked good enough to make them happen- if you remember the original concept- Mom died in 1948....- I remember seeing her on a couple of episodes of Lucy at about that time....

 

[bpatrick]

Ann and Lucy did several appearances together; Ann
played Lucy's friend the Countess on "The Lucy Show"
in the '60s; before that, Ann was on the first "Lucy-Desi
Comedy Hour," a flashback to how Lucy and Ricky met
while she was on a cruise to Havana in 1940. Lucy also
appeared on Ann's show, where Ann played Katy O'Connor,
assistant manager of a New York hotel.

Some of the game-show announcers did appear on camera:
Bob Barker put Johnny Olsen and Rod Roddy on at least once
a show on "The Price Is Right," and Richard Dawson sometimes
put Gene Wood on camera on "Family Feud" (Wood had hosted
"Beat The Clock" and its Canadian ripoff, "Anything You Can Do,"
before "Feud"). The ones you didn't see were the soap-opera
announcers, such as Dan McCullough and Dan Region ("ATWT"),
Allan Berns ("Guiding Light"), Ken Roberts ("Love Of Life" and
"The Secret Storm"), Mel Brandt ("The Doctors"), Bill Wolf (sp?)
("Another World"), Ed Chandler ("General Hospital"), Bern Bennett
("Young And The Restless" and "Bold And The Beautiful"), or the one
and only Hal Simms ("The EDDDGGGGE Of Night").

 

[wbhist]

The ones you didn't see were the soap-opera announcers, such as Dan McCullough and Dan Region ("ATWT"), Allan Berns ("Guiding Light"), Ken Roberts ("Love Of Life" and "The Secret Storm"), Mel Brandt ("The Doctors"), Bill Wolf (sp?) ("Another World"), Ed Chandler ("General Hospital"), Bern Bennett ("Young And The Restless" and "Bold And The Beautiful"), or the one and only Hal Simms ("The EDDDGGGGE Of Night").

First up, the spelling of the AW announcer's surname is Wolff, but other than that you're on the money. There is a clip on YouTube of Mr. Wolff handling the pre-sign-off news summary on WNBC-TV in New York in the early morning hours of June 23, 1986 (a year prior to his retirement):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfKu1JWiot0

And it wasn't just Mr. Simms you didn't see; his Edge predecessor, Harry Kramer, wasn't seen either. Nor was Bob Lloyd on Dark Shadows or One Life to Live.

 

[bpatrick]

Thanks for the correction on Bill Wolff; I never
knew how to spell his name, just remember that
he sounded a bit like Chris Schenkel. I associate
"Edge" with Hal Simms, but I do remember Harry
Kramer. The ABC guy you mentioned, I remember
his voice from "Dark Shadows," but I never knew his
name.

I mentioned Bern Bennett; I know of only three
appearances he ever made on-camera: the first,
on "Beat The Clock" in 1957, was to appear with
the winner of the "Draw the Masked Announcer"
contest. Viewers were asked to send in a drawing
of what they thought Bennett looked like with the
prize being a chance to be a contestant on the show.
The second was an appearance on "Facts Of Life" in
the '80s; the third was on "To Tell The Truth" in 1991.
He was "TTTT"'s original announcer, and I wish I'd
seen that show to see if any of the panelists recognized
him alongside the two impostors.

 

[wbhist]

I associate "Edge" with Hal Simms, but I do remember Harry Kramer.

Probably from the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite (where announcers were likewise never seen)?

 

[Corky Marlowe]

Bob Barker put Johnny Olsen and Rod Roddy on at least once
a show on "The Price Is Right,"

Johnny Olsen was a mystery guest at least once on "What's My Line?"...I'm thinking it was near the end when they were phoning it in with mystery guests like the hosts of all the other Goodson-Todman shows, the "To Tell The Truth" panel, etc.

Ken Roberts...Tony Roberts' father and the guy who told us to "Now sing a song with the Dutch Masters!"

There was one other long-time booth announcer who got to be on camera once...Don Roberts, who was the voice of CBS Sports for years, was shown on his last "NFL Today" before retiring.

 

[WMC2006]

Bob Barker put Johnny Olsen and Rod Roddy on at least once
a show on "The Price Is Right,"

Johnny Olsen was a mystery guest at least once on "What's My Line?"...I'm thinking it was near the end when they were phoning it in with mystery guests like the hosts of all the other Goodson-Todman shows, the "To Tell The Truth" panel, etc.

Johnny filled in on the panel for a taping of Match Game in 1975 when Chuck Reilly forget to reset his clock for daylight savings:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbNf_cgy2II

Actor Leslie Nielsen made his Match Game debut on this week as well.

 

[bpatrick]

Johnny also appeared on the last network telecast
of "What's My Line?" in 1967, the night host John Daly
was the Mystery Guest. He, Mark Goodson, and Bill
Todman came out near the end of the show to join in
the goodbyes.

As for Harry Kramer, yes I remember him from the
Cronkite newscast, but I also remember him on "Edge
Of Night" when I was quite young. Back when it came
on at 4:30 (ET), it would be about time for my dad to
come home, and he likes anything with cops and lawyers.
Then my mother's parents were a retired cop and--a rarity
in the 1920s--a woman who studied law, although she
never practiced. So there were plenty of "Edge" fans in
my family.

I keep thinking that in the Dan Rather era
Allan Berns ("Guiding Light") announced the "CBS Evening
News." I do know that he was the announcer on "GE College
Bowl" when it was on CBS and after Don Morrow left to
do ABC's "Camouflage" in 1961. Mel Brandt became "College
Bowl" announcer when it moved to NBC in 1963.

 

[radioman148]

>>Johnny also appeared on the last network telecast
of "What's My Line?" in 1967, the night host John Daly
was the Mystery Guest. He, Mark Goodson, and Bill
Todman came out near the end of the show to join in
the goodbyes>>

Thanks for jogging my memory. I had forgotten about that episode.

 

[nightfly61]

Surprised no one mentioned this one:
Spot the pet (dragon?) on the Munsters. All you saw was flames from his breath & his huge shadow sometimes.

Sybil Gooley was never seen OR heard on All In The Family.
I always thought that was Radar on the camp mic. Sometimes Col. Potter got on there.
Gooch on Different Strokes never seen or heard.


The viewer was supposed to think that was KITT's voice-not a tape (or microchip) of a human's voice.
That would be like saying you never see Mr. Ed's voice.

 

[anotherguyTN]

I always thought that was Radar on the camp mic. Sometimes Col. Potter got on there.

I thought there were some episodes where the PA announcer sounded like Klinger, even before he replaced Radar as company clerk. I had seen somewhere that the unseen PA announcer was Sal Viscuso, but in looking up the information on this I discovered that it was also done by Todd Susman.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sal_Viscuso
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Susman

 

[RicoGregg]

Also on M*A*S*H*U*G*A:

Former regular characters (Radar, Frank Burns) being talked to on the phone, but not shown, or for that matter, heard. You just see & hear the other side of the conversation.