Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It wasn’t an unreasonable question considering that was the central gamble behind Mister Ed, a sitcom built around a simple but ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What might surprise people is that there was a lot more to Alan Young than Mister Ed, his career having begun (quite successfully) ...

'Mister Ed' made a horse talk without special effects. The animal actor, Bamboo Harvester, did the act all on his own. The chatty horse was played by a golden palomino called Bamboo Harvester. The ...

The legend goes like this: to make a horse talk on television, the crew smeared peanut butter on his gums and waited for the magic. It is a story so sticky that it has clung to Mister Ed for ...

“The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” has been off the last couple of weeks, so Colbert didn’t get to comment on one of the biggest and saddest/most enraging stories of the last few weeks: People who ...

He loved theater, but Mister Ed didn’t put on an act. Ed Gotwalt really did live each day doing whatever he could to make both friends and strangers happy. He really was, as many people have put it, ...

Television in the 1960s had an unusually high tolerance for strange ideas. Audiences happily followed suburban witches (Bewitched), bumbling secret agents (Get Smart), astronauts from deep space (My ...