Sunday, March 4, 2018

You Know The Voice: Olan Soule (1961)

Howdy, pardners. Seems that Olan Soule feller got around Hollywood pretty good in the 60's. Folks saw him on Dennis The Menace, The Andy Griffith Show, Dragnet, and even in a 2-part Batman before he was cast in the first animated series for the Caped Crusader. Back in '61 he got to work with no less a Hollywood legend than Henry Fonda in an episode of The Deputy.

Ok, let me get out of character. Olan plays a traveling dentist who gets shanghaied in his own hotel room by a couple of outlaws, one of whom wants to spring his wacky bro out of the slammer before a hanging.

Co-creators Roland Kibbee and Norman Lear went on to bigger things (i.e. It Takes a Thief, All In The Family, etc.), albeit separately, after The Deputy was sent off to boot hill.

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