...that the delightful Hy Averback, cute, sexy Charlie Abbleby, only appeared ONCE. He was so much more effective than that craggy dude who played him in the Superman ep.
Averback played Ricky's Hollywood press agent in "The Hedda Hopper Story" a larger, flashier role, yet I prefer him in "Baby Pictures."
Averback was a very successful producer and director.
The craggy dude was actually George O'Hanlon, best known today as the voice of George Jetson. He didn't even try slightly to disguise his voice for the role, so you can clearly tell it's him on Lucy.
Incidentally, I was positive that Hy Averback also played Eddie Grant in Lucy is a Matchmaker from season 2, but it was actually Hal March. Interesting how similar to the two of them were. March could have easily taken over the Charlie Appleby role in Lucy and Superman, and it would have been far less noticeable.
Wow, I haven't watched "The Jetsons" since I was kid. Never knew that.
Desilu was loyal (though painfully frugal) and always tried to use the same actors. I'm sure they wanted Averback to repeat the character of Charlie, but he must've been unavailable.
There's nothing wrong with O'Hanlon, it's just that Averback was FUNNY and had much better chemistry with Doris Singleton.
I agree that Hy Averback was the better choice for Charlie Appleby.
He was funny as Ricky's agent in "The Hedda Hopper Story". I love their exchange concerning building up Ricky as a romantic leading man. Ricky says that he's married and the agent is disappointed. "Oh why did you have to go and do that for?"
George O'Hanlon was fine. But it's just that his voice is so immediately recognizable to me as George Jetson that it takes me out of the episode.
That's happened with other shows. There's a very funny Dick van Dyke episode when the gang goes to an auction to do research for a sketch on The Alan Brady Show. The auctioneer is played by the actor who voiced Fred Flintstone. That's all I can think about when he's speaking.
I don't even recall the voices for "The Jetsons", so my ho-hum attitude towards O'Hanlon is based merely on preferring Averback, who does so much in his little scene in "Baby Pictures."
Alan Reed (voice of Fred Flinstone) also plays gangsters in the 1946 classic "The Postman Always Rings Twice" and 1961's "Breakfast at Tiffany's." This doesn't distract me, as I haven't watched "The Flintstones" since childhood.
Whenever I watch one of your favorites "The Young Fans", I always think of Judy Jetson. Janet Waldo did her voice.
It's an odd thing. I can't sing and I'm tone deaf. But I have a memory for voices. I've seen actors who wore heavy prosthetics to play aliens on various Star Trek episodes. They are unrecognizable. But if I see them in something else, I remember them from their voices. Sometimes it takes me a while to place them. But I usually do.
I haven't watched The Flintstones or Jetson for years, but the voices remain in my head. Some actors have done a lot of voice work in cartoons. Whenever I hear Barney Hefner (Allan Melvin) on All in the Family, I start to think of all the cartoon characters he gave a voice to.