[Swprograms] I wan' three points from a long dead BBC panel show

[Joel Rubin <jmrubin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On the rerun of "Many A Slip" heard today on BBC7, one of the
corrections was that Topper wasn't a TV series but a series of films.

But, of course, it WAS an early American TV series, with Leo G.
Carroll playing Thorne Smith's uptight banker haunted by the
fun-loving ghosts of the Kirby's and their alcoholic spectral dog.

(According to

http://www.tutorgig.com/encyclopedia/getdefn.jsp?keywords=Thorne_Smith

the pilot and some of the early episodes were written by Sondheim.)

I wonder if either the film or the TV series could be made today. The
humor of the accident which created the ghosts would undoubtedly
attract the attention of Mothers Against Drunk Driving and the story
of the dog who was not only addicted but, ultimately, killed by its
owner would draw the protests of People for the Ethical Treatment of
Animals.


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