Klarinet Archive - Posting 000519.txt from 1997/11

From: Fred <fsheim@-----.com>
Subj: Re: publisher problems
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 13:30:35 -0500

Yes indeed- Jim Backus WAS the voice of Mr. Magoo!

Fred (fsheim@-----.com)

At 04:37 PM 11/13/97 +0000, you wrote:
>I think both have been seen here, but I don't think they were ever very
>popular.
>I think Gilligan's Island has been here too, though I never saw it.
>Fortunately, I no longer have a television. This makes me a continual
>target for the licensing authority, whose letters I am now refusing to
>answer at all.
>There was a TV actor called *Jim* Backus, but I don't associate him with
>Mr Magoo.
>
>Roger Shilcock
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>On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Neil Leupold wrote:
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>> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 09:10:53 -0600 (CST)
>> From: Neil Leupold <nleupold@-----.edu>
>> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.us
>> To: klarinet@-----.us
>> Subject: Re: publisher problems
>>
>> On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Roger Shilcock wrote:
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>> > music like Mr Magoo (remember him?).
>>
>> You had Mr. Magoo in England? Did you also have Gilligan's
>> Island? I wonder which show came first -- the cartoon, or
>> the sitcom. What was the actor's first name? His last name
>> was (is?) Backus (or Bacchus, maybe). Was his first name
>> Richard?
>>
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