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People frequently mentioned but never seen

Yes if we count cartoons---

"Number 1", Cool McCool's boss....similar to Dr. Claw.

Also I think that as much as he was talked about, Alan Brady (Dick Van Dyke Show) didn't show his face until the final season, correct?

cd
 
notalkallstatic said:
Gilligan's Island - The radio announcer... you always heard him, never saw him.
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Amazing how that radio announcer knew to stop talking until the professor could get all the other castaways around the table to listen to him! ;D

The castaways could get radio announcers hundreds of miles away to have dead air, yet they couldn't get rescued from that island! :eek:
 
In addition to Sarah, the Mayberry telephone operator, we never saw Juanita, the waitress at the diner.

Gilligan's Island castaways picked up different "announcers," often newscasters or other personalities at then-CBS owned stations.
 
BobSacamano said:
There was some guy that Kramer used to talk about on Seinfeld....can't remember his name..
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Hilarious. You got me because I just Googled "Bob Sacamano" since I knew that's who you were talking about. Didn't notice your name until I came back to post it.

Good job.
 
Was "The Secretary" ever seen on "Mission: Impossible"? "In the event that you are captured or killed, The Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your mission..."

Also, I don't think we ever got to see Johnny Carson's old high school sweetheart, "Babe Vigoda", or the chef at the NBC Comissary, "Bebe Regurgo". Or, for that matter, Rodney Dangerfield's doctor, "Dr. Vinnie Boom Botz".
 
On the Mary Tyler Moore show, her landlord Phyllis, is always referring to her husband Lars and I don't believe that Lars was ever shown on the show.

drt
st. petersburg,fl
 
Speaking of Johnny Carson, we never got to meet either of his "doctors" referred to in his monologues, 'Dr. Mandrake Curvy' or 'Eminent Proctologist Dr. Stanley Flyburn.'
 
KyDXIn said:
How bout the PA announcer from M*A*S*H?
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And don't forget Sparky, whom Radar always had help him with a phone connection.

Col. Potter's wife Mildred was finally seen in AfterMASH. I don't think we ever saw Peg Hunnicutt nor Honoria.
 
The never-seen (or heard) son, "Sheridan" on the BBC/PBS series "Keeping Up Appearences" was only spoken to on the phone by Hyacinth Bucket.
Also, I believe we never saw "Mick Belker's" ma on "Hill Street Blues" although he'd wind up talking to her on the phone usually while booking some recently arrested wrong-doer.
 
Dave Andrews said:
KyDXIn said:
How bout the PA announcer from M*A*S*H?
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And don't forget Sparky, whom Radar always had help him with a phone connection.

Col. Potter's wife Mildred was finally seen in AfterMASH. I don't think we ever saw Peg Hunnicutt nor Honoria.
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The PA announcer was usually unknown (and played by either Sal Viscuso or Todd Susman, both of who also played patients), but sometimes it was either Radar or Klinger.

There was one episode where Sparky was shown talking to Radar for a minute while he was transferring a phone call. Peg Hunnicutt was shown once in a film that she did for BJ (along with their daughter Erin) since he couldn't be home for their wedding anniversary. There was also the dream episode where BJ was dancing with who could be assumed to be Peg, only to have to leave to operate on a patient. There was also an episode showing Winchester listening to a tape if his sister Honoria where she was stuttering after him helping a patient with the same problem.
 
There were several characters in The Red Green Show that were never seen, including Red's wife Berniece, Buster Hatfield, Stinky Peterson, and Old Man Sedgwick.
 
Speaking of "Hill Street Blues," did we ever see Frank Furillo's son Frank Jr? I can recall Frank and his ex-wife talking about Junior, but I don't recall having actually seen him. Correct me if I'm wrong.
 
...there's also the case of Lt. Frank Columbo's wife. She's repeatedly brought up on the original run of Columbo, but never seen. Then Universal and NBC (Fred Silverman?) get the not-so-bright idea of getting Kate Mulgrew to play her in something titled Mrs. Columbo in 1979. Of course, Mulgrew was way too young to be that Mrs. Columbo -- Mulgrew was 24 years old in '79, which meant that she was 5 years old when Bert Freed first played Lt. Columbo on The Chevy Mystery Show and 13 years old when Peter Falk made the pilot for the series. Mrs. Columbo was trashed by critics, viewers, Richard Levinson and Peter Falk alike, and Universal and NBC scramble to salvage the thing. The series gets renamed Kate Columbo, then Kate the Detective, and finally Kate Loves a Mystery (apparently trying to glom onto the memory of the old radio show I Love a Mystery). Kate Columbo magically gets renamed Kate Callahan, and the good lieutenant's beat-up car disappears from the opening sequences of the episodes. So, was she actually Mrs. Columbo, or merely a nightmare on Silverman's part that everybody else wanted to forget? ;D ...
 
Another unseen Johnny Carson character: Bombastic Bushkin, but I can't remember if he was supposed to be either Carson's lawyer or agent.
 
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