RIP Mike Douglas

Dies on his 81st birthday.

 

I wonder if he ever got his set back from Kramer?

 

Wasn't that Merv?

 

Sirs, Madames,

Wasn't that Merv Griffin's set?

I remember when Moe Howard was on and broke a bottle over MD's head (and his hairpiece moved).

My favorite guy on the show was Sandy Barron, a comic who never broke out but was a freakin' riot in Broadway Danny Rose.

Totie Fields -- oy gevalt, stump and all.

YHS, etc

 

Don't remember Sandy Barron but i recall Totie Fields and Moms Mabley too.

Mike was a fixture of my after-school TV viewing.....

 

I thought it was Mike Douglas, too. But it was Merv.

 

I thought it was Mike Douglas as well but I could be wrong.

 

What are you saying, they're not the same person?

 

It was cool when he did he show at the KYW studio on 5th and Market in Philadelphia, we used to watch every day to see if we knew anybody in the audience. It was a sad day when the show moved to the west coast.

 

Mike Douglas and Dark Shadows after school.

RIP Mike.

 

Always liked Mike better than Merv anyway.

 

I always enjoyed his show. He came across as an honest, straight-forward guy. He told a funny story in his book where Rush Limbaugh during the Clinton impeachment nonsense was talking about Michael Douglas, saying Michael Douglas admitted he was a sex addict and got treatment. Only Rush, being loose with facts and stuff coming out of his mouth, says "Mike Douglas". So Mike Douglas, not Michael, walks into the grill of his country club and, as Mike Douglas described it, gets all kinds of strange looks. Eventually, he figured it out.

And Kramer got Merv Griffin's old set.