"Love And The Private Eye" - Hanna Barbera cartoon from 1972

[grundle]

There's a new national TV network called RTN, which stands for "Retro Television Network." It's a lot like TV Land used to before they started showing junk like "Just Shoot Me" and "Designing Women." They show "I Love Lucy," "Get Smart," "Hawaii Five-O," etc.

One program they show is a sketch comedy show from the early 70s called "Love, American Style." On Monday, the Pittsburgh affiliate (each city's affiliate has its own schedule) played an episode which was a cartoon. Not counting commericals, it was about 25 minutes long. It was called "Love And The Private Eye," and the lead character was named "Melvin Danger." It was directed by Hanna-Barbera, with music by Hoyt Curtain.

It was planned to be the pilot for a new spinoff series, but the spinoff series was cancelled, so it actually ended up being the only episode that was ever made.

I didn't like the cartoon, but I thought it was worth mentioning.

[Leviathan]

The Pilot of Wait Until Your Father Get's Home was also aired as part of Love, American Style, right?

[Dell Comics Fan]

Comedian/actor Richard Dawson (Hogan's Heroes, Laugh-In, Family Feud) was

the voice of Melvin Danger. I haven't seen it in about thirty years, but I seem
to recall he used a Humphrey Bogart impression for Danger's voice.

[grundle]

The Pilot of Wait Until Your Father Get's Home was also aired as part of Love, American Style, right?


Yes. I found that out after I googled after I watched the show on Monday.

[grundle]

Comedian/actor Richard Dawson (Hogan's Heroes, Laugh-In, Family Feud) was

the voice of Melvin Danger. I haven't seen it in about thirty years, but I seem
to recall he used a Humphrey Bogart impression for Danger's voice.


Yes, he did use a Bogart impression for the voice.

[Studio Toledo]

Shame if I missed out on that. RTN (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retro_Television_Network) is a special digital channel that is being offered to stations to add as a subchannel on their DT signals. Many cable companies may also opt to carry RTN through their local station's signals. In my town, it's on WNWO-TV Toledo. It pretty much replaced TV Land or American Life as my dad's new boob-tube hangout.

List of Retro Television Network affiliates (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Retro_Television_Network_affiliates)

[AnthroCoon]

I vaguely remember Melvin Danger from "Love and the Private Eye". Love
American Style used to air in reruns on weekday afternoons (probably from
ABC, but could have been syndicated). Dawson definitely had a
Bogart-like voice in it, and there was a joke about a "cop gone bad". The theme
song said "Melvin, Melvin....Danger is his name."