Soupy Sales...what more do I need to say!

         

Here's Soupy supposedly showing me how to throw a cream pie at "Famous Fred Famey from Fostoria" (the now deceased Johnny Walker).  Soupy was famous for his cream pie throwing.

 This next photo is my friend the late Bill Bixby.  Bill starred on television in My Favorite Martian, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, and The Hulk.  Bill also directed numerous television shows including several episodes of Room 222.  The second picture is of Bill's wife the beautiful actress Brenda Bennet.   I took this picture at Bill and Brenda's beach house in Malibu, California. 

      

Next is Karen Valentine.  Karen followed Sally Field in the sequal to the movie Gidget.  Karen played Gidget in Gidget Grows Up.  Karen also starred in the television show Room 222. 
          

These are the Oakwood High School Majorettes, including Drum Majorette Sue Stratis and Majorettes Sandy Brown, Pam Dornbush, Melody Wisher, Barb Mate and Kathy Huntsburger.  As a local TV personality I did lots of personal appearances...tough job as you can see!   
                                        

                                                                                                                                 
This next guy is pretty obvious.  I was very involved in the Muscular Dystrophy Drive back in those days and Jerry Lewis is still very involved to this day with the MDA (Muscular Dystrophy Association).  The second photo is the late Austrian actor John Banner who played Sgt. Schultz on Hogan's Heroes.  John emigrated to the United States during WWII as a  political refugee.

      
  
               
I need to tell a short story here.  These next two photos are of a lovely woman named Laura Liss.  Laura drove about 50 miles from her home to visit me and ask if I would take the time to meet a student from her dance school.  This dancer was a young boy who had cancer and wanted very much to meet me.  The boy's name was David Flory, and I not only met David, but I became good friends with David and his parents.  I also emceed Laura's dance school annual recital. 

  

 That's a picture below of David and me on stage at the recital.  David was one terrific and brave young man who I never once heard complain about his cancer; he was also a pretty good dancer.  The last photo is of David and me in my office.  David died not to long after this photo was taken.

  

I used to shoot film of my "extracurricular activities" and show them on my television show.  The kids loved watching the amazing exploits of  Malcolm.  I jumped out of airplanes, became a pilot and flew airplanes, raced cars, and in the photo below flew in an F-4 Phantom Jet with Air Force test pilot Major Robert Ettinger.  This flight was particularly significant to me because the F-4 was the key jet fighter in the Vietnam War.  And I am a proud Vietnam Veteran.


                    






    My first race car...oops!                  My last race car...better!

 Next is actor/director Richard Benjamin.  Richard starred in numerous movies, including Goodbye Columbus, Westworld, Catch-22 and The Sunshine Boys.  Richard also stared along with the Barnstable twins in the short-lived tv series Quark.  Quark was a show about a garbage collecting space ship.  Pretty funny premise.

          

Many of you probably remember Gary Puckett and the Union Gap.  That's Gary on the left next to my puppet "Stan the Man."  Gary and his band had a slew of hit songs, including Young Girl, Woman, Over You, and This Girl is a Woman Now.   Gary is still very active in the music industry and lives in Clearwater, Florida.

         

The puppet character "Stan the Man" was the creation of the talented Kurt McGlocklin.  The dog character, better known as "Duffy the Dog," was "played" by my number one right hand man and producer John Norris.  Much of the success of Clubhouse 22 was due to the efforts of John and Kurt. 

 As mentioned above, we did all kinds of unique, crazy and different things on Clubhouse 22.  In the photo below I am giving blood live on television to
demonstrate to kids the importance of giving blood and how easy it is to do.

 This is a photo of a very young Johnny Whitaker.  Johnny starred as the character "Jody" on the television series Family Affiar.  Starring along with Johnny were Annisa Jones as "Jody's" sister "Buffy," the wonderful Brian Keith as their bachelor father, and Sebastian Cabot as their butler. 

I put this photo in just for fun.  The really cute twin girls were the daughters of the photographer, Pat Easterling.  This photo was taken for a TV Guide ad.  I wonder where the twins are now.

            

Here's another fun photo for me.  We were teaching kids all about artichokes... where they come from...how you cook them...how to eat them.   This is a photo of my good friend David Hulme, owner of the best steak house in America, the Pine Club, next door to the University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio.  Did I say that right Dave?  You owe me a beer!  By the way, what was her name?
                 

As I wind down this photo essay I thought you might enjoy another great photo of the young Cassius Clay.  What a great guest!


                       
I hope you enjoyed this short trip down memory lane.  This is the first web-site I built myself, so if it looks more like a home movie than a big screen production I hope you'll understand.  By the way, for those of you who hung around to the end, it's been 34 years since I left Clubhouse 22, and 29 years since the talk show photos.  So if you visit my web-site and wonder who that old guy is in the photo...now you know!

 ~ I invite you to visit my Palm Beach, Florida real estate web-site at
    palmbeach-malcolm.com

~ I also invite you to take a photo tour of beautiful Palm Beach at
   palmbeachphototour.com