Laugh-In Across America
Sunday, November 14th, 2010
It’s been quite a while since I’ve enjoyed an episode of Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, but I used to really dig the zany blackout humor of the show when it was being broadcast on Nick at Nite during the last few years of the 1980’s. I didn’t really start my collection of autographs related to the show until I ran into Gary Owens at a Hollywood Collectors Show in 1995. I only had him sign a couple of notecards and finally got my chance to get a picture with him in 2007 – as seen here. Read the rest of this entry »
Calling Dr. Bombay! Emergency! Come right away! I need a picture with you! It’s hard to believe that I had been in the presence of Bernard Fox twice already, but had never gotten a photo with him. It is also a bit ironic that of the three signed photos that I have of Bernard Fox, none of them are of him in what was possibly his most famous role, the warlock physician Dr. Bombay on Bewitched. He appeared in 18 episodes in this role (plus once in another part), later reprising it for the short-lived spin-off series Tabitha. The fact that I don’t own a signed photo from this series might give you some indication of how many important roles Bernard Fox has played. 
Since the Summer of 1997, I had been making some sort of initiative every day to attempt to secure one autograph or another. As we began to sink into the heart of December, Christmas preparations no doubt deterred me from continuing this effort. And then as we got into 1998, my efforts began to falter, so it wasn’t until around April of that year that I resumed. The initiative that had been going on from July thru December 1997 came to it’s climax and close with my last successful effort being Bettie Page.