My childhood included TV shows with premises that, even to my jejune sensibilities, seemed wildly improbable or just plain stupid. I mean, who gets shipwrecked on a deserted island during a three-hour tour?*
You have to admit, though, that some of the characters and the actors who played them were fun,even lovable. They included Grandpa Munster, portrayed by future Green Party gubernatorial candidate (in New York) Al Lewis.
I mean, how can you not love a guy who wears his normal work clothes while riding a bike?
No Lycra for him!
*—There was a show about a recently-departed woman who’s reincarnated as an antique car her son buys. She talks to him, and only him, through the car’s radio. One of my uncles told me, years later, that I squealed, “A grown-up thought of this?” during the one episode we watched.
