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Mister Ed - Mae West Meets Mister Ed
episode 4.21
USA 1964
produced by
Arthur Lubin, Al Simon (executive) for Filmways/CBS
directed by Arthur Lubin
starring Alan Young, Connie Hines, Leon Ames, Mae West, Florence MacMichael, Jacque Shelton, Roger Torrey, Nick Stewart, Allan Lane (voice)
written by Bill Davenport, Lou Derman, created by Walter R. Brooks, theme music by Ray Evans, Jay Livingston
TV series
Mister Ed
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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Yesteryear's sex bomb and movie star Mae West (playing herself) hires
Wilbur (Alan Young) to build stables for the horses she bought in France.
This gets his wife (Connie Hines) and his neighbours excited (Leon Ames,
Florence MacMichael) excited, and they all want to get a piece of Mae -
with moderate success. When Wilbur's talking horse Mister Ed (voiced by
Allan Lane) hears about her ideas for the stables, he feels his own being
much too modest, and when Wilbur tells him to clean up his stable, Ed runs
away and seeks abode with Mae West - who immediately has him cleaned and
perfumed, and has his mane and tail done in a very girly fashion by her
stable boys (Jacque Shelton, Roger Torrey), which Ed can barely tolerate,
but when she insists on giving him vitamin shots, he hightails it back to
Wilbur's ... Frankly, when it comes to inherent humour, Mister
Ed was a bit of a one-trick-pony, if you excuse the pun, as
horse-centric humour is pretty limited and limiting, so by the tail-end of
season 4, the comedy has run a little stale. So hiring raunchy comedienne
Mae West as a guest star was pretty much a heaven's sent (also in terms of
ratings, as this episode was the highest rated of the series in quite some
time), who brought her own style of humour filled with innuendo and double
entendres only just safe enough for 1960s TV to the episode - and frankly,
her style of comedy carried over from the 1930s seems much fresher than
the rest of the jokes in the episode, and though she has grown
increasingly rare on the big and small screen by 1964, she was still on
top of her game, and despite being already 72 at the time, came across as
raunchy and alluring as ever - so much so that she outshines the rest of
the cast, who're really just going through the motions.
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