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"Great, we'll be known throughout history as the two wisemen and the idiot who brought Myrrh." - Norman Lamb, "It's Your Move"

backus2.jpgDuring the midst of my autograph collection spree in the Summer of 1985, I went through a phase of trying my hand at stars of It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World – no doubt inspired by a recent viewing of the film. Milton Berle and Jim Backus were my first attempts at collecting the co-stars. I sent them each a letter on August 12 along with an S.A.S.E. and two notecards. Milton Berle never sent me anything, but Jim Backus – best known, of course, for his role in Gilligan’s Island as millionaire Thurston Howell III – answered my letter with the swell, signed and inscribed 8×10 below.

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More autographs from 1985 to come…

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