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MISTER
ED NEWS
MISTER
ED ON DVD AT LAST!
MGM Entertainment has released The Best of Mr. Ed DVD Collection
Volume 1 featuring 21 episodes from Seasons 1-3 spread across two discs.
Click
here to buy it from Amazon.com. Episodes include:
DVD
Disc One:
• Episode 1: "Ed, The First Meeting"
• Episode 15: "Ed, the Songwriter"
• Episode 17: "Psychoanalyst Show"
• Episode 24: "Wilbur Sells Ed"
• Episode 28: "The Horsetronaut"
• Episode 31: "Ed’s Ancestors"
• Episode 35: "Mister Ed’s Blues"
• Episode 38: "Zsa Zsa"
• Episode 39: "Ed, the Beneficiary"
• Episode 40: "Ed’s Bed"
• Episode 43: "Horse Wash"
• Episode 45: "Ed, the Beachcomber"
• Episode 46: "George Burns Meets Mister Ed"
DVD
Disc Two:
• Episode 51: "Clint Eastwood Meets Mister Ed"
• Episode 61: "Horse Sense"
• Episode 63: "Wilbur, the Masher"
• Episode 75: "Ed, the Emancipator"
• Episode 76: "The Price of Apples"
• Episode 77: "Doctor Ed"
• Episode 78: "Ed, the Zebra"
• Episode 79: "Wilbur Post, Honorary Horse"
ED
IS READY TO SADDLE UP AGAIN!
The Fox network has given the green light to a Mister Ed pilot,
an update of the classic show. Twentieth Century Fox TV and Original
TV will produce the pilot. Original's Marty Adelstein, Dawn Parouse
and Neal Moritz will executive produce the pilot. Writer Jack Handey
(Saturday Night Live) is behind the Mister Ed update and will also executive
produce.
CBS
EARLY SHOW REMEMBERS MISTER ED
Alan
Young and Connie Hines - Wilbur and Carol in the TV show - were interviewed
in a special segment on the CBS breakfast program The Early Show
on February 5, 2002 to discuss their roles in the TV show. You can view
the interview here!
ALAN
YOUNG
STARS IN 'THE TIME MACHINE'
Alan
Young, who played Wilbur Post in Mister Ed, starred in the excellent
2002 version of the movie The
Time Machine. Alan
played a florist. You can read more about the film here.
Alan had
a busy few months running up to the release, playing roles in the TV
shows Party of Five, Wayan Bros., ER, Promised
Land, and Next Time.
 MISTER ED
ONLINE
IN TOP 100 TV WEB SITES
This Web site, Mister-Ed.com, has been named as one of the Web's
top 100 TV sites in a UK book called TV: The 100 Best Websites. The
paperback says "there's plenty for fans here." How true! Read
more about the book here.
ED'S
SHOES SOLD AT AUCTION!
A Michigan ventriloquist who works with animals in a stage act has
bought a set of the original horseshoes worn by Mister Ed. Debbie Dacoba
paid $8,600 for the four shoes at a Sotheby's auction in Beverly Hills.
Fans will be reassured to hear that the shoes will be looked after.
She said afterwards: "We love Mister Ed so much." Aww!
MISTER
ED MOVIE STEPS CLOSER
The
chances of a Mister Ed movie being produced during the next few years
have been boosted after Disney was reported to have bought the movie
rights to the show.
MISTER
ED EPISODE APPEARS IN TV GUIDE'S TOP 100
A classic 1963 episode of Mister Ed which starred sportsman
Leo Durocher has been named as the 73rd best TV episode of all time
by American listings magazine TV Guide. The episode called 'Leo
Durocher Meets Mister Ed' beat off some stiff competition to land the
spot. According to Steven Reddicliffe, TV Guide's editor in chief,
"choosing the top episodes involved lots of arguing among the magazine's
editors, which we're still doing". A complete list of all 100 episodes
can be checked out at: http://gabrielmedia.org/news/100list.html
YOUNG
HITS OUT OVER ANIMAL CRITICISM
Actor Alan Young (who played Wilbur in Mister Ed) has hit
out at criticism over the use of animals onscreen during an interview
with the Los Angeles magazine Mother Jones. He is quoted as saying:
"You've got people in this town, such as Bob Barker, who don't
know a bloody thing about animals. Yet they get their gun off by calling
themselves animal protective people." Young himself comes under
fire in the article for starring alongside Mister Ed. The article
reads: 'Even the death of Young's co-star in the early '70s left activists
skeptical. "For a horse to die at 19, you're talking middle age,"
said Barbara Eustiss-Cross, director of the Life Foundation, an environmental
group. "I would certainly question it."' Read the whole controversial
article at: http://mojones.com/mother_jones/JF97/rothman.html
STUDY
CALLS MISTER ED 'WAS A SEXIST PIG'
The Journal Of Popular Culture has published a study by Ann Shillinglaw
entitled 'Mister Ed Was A Sexist Pig.' It suggests that
women watching the show were 'faced with unsympathetic female characters
juxtaposed against likeable, funny, even magical, males.' Sheesh...
what rubbish!
ACTOR
SPEAKS AT ARTS FESTIVAL
Alan Young spoke at the 13th Annual Donna Reed Festival for the
Performing Arts in Denison, Iowa, USA. He also participated at the event
last year. More details on Alan at: http://www.frii.com/~fujii/html/people/young.html
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