Can we talk about Mr. Belvedere?

Let me know if you get a satisfactory answer to your last question. I assume time travel would be involved.

Belvedere chose them. After working for famous, significant people and royalty for decades, he wanted to travel the world to write his memoirs, and as part of that, help people. He chose the Owens family upon seeing their ad for a part time housekeeper, sensing they needed help. He inflicted himself on them, ostensibly as an experiment.

Kevin was hot from the chin down...that face was tragic.

The movies about Belvedere from the 40s were great fun

It escaped cancellation the first time around. Cancelled in 1987, Mr. Belvedere was rushed back into production in September 1987 after its replacement show flopped (Max Headroom)

Mr. Belvedere was an intensely subversive show. I thought it was comedy gold.

In one episode Wesley and Mr. Belvedere make a comment about eating a bowl of intestinal polyps! Reagan's latest colonoscopy was in the news. Sick and HILARIOUS!

Christopher Hewitt was also Roger DeBris in the original version of Mel Brooks' The Producers.

It was pretty bold to have a pedophile living within striking distance of Wesley.

Yes, R7, especially considering what a tramp and a flirt that young Wesley was.

They actually were the first sitcom to address pretty controversial topics. The sister was almost date raped, and Wesley had a friend who had Aids. Heady stuff for such a conventional sitcom. Not gonna lie though, I loved it.

In all seriousness, I loved the show. Especially the bitchy repartee between Mr. Belvedere and Wesley.

Wesley! Wesley! Wesley! Doesn't anybody want to talk about me?

Yeah, I had a serious crush on Rob Stone. So dorky-hot. Did he ever take his shirt off? You could tell he had a smokin bod. And he spent a lot of time making sure his package was nestled just-so in those jeans.

There was a rumor that Marilyn Manson/Brian Warner played Kevin on that show. I loved sharing that rumor and then counting how many coworkers believed me and repeated it.

When I was in high school, I wore the exact same style of rock mullet that Kevin had.

The most laughable thing about this show is where it took place. Beaver Falls is a blue collar dump that died along with the steel industry in the Pittsburgh region. There are very few people in that town that could even afford to have Merry Maids in for a couple of hours a week - much less a full time servant.

That show also had the youngest boy molested by a camp counselor -- not almost molested, as is usual for sitcoms...

[quote]Those mattresses smelled like goats!

One of the funniest lines ever said on TV.

I remember that very-special-episode, r16. Not nearly as traumatic as the bike shop episode of "Diff'rent Strokes." And the guy who molested Wesley was actually cute. Same actor who played Grady on "Murder She Wrote."

They didn't choose the town of Beaver Falls for the show because of its demographics, R15.

I remember watching this show so I was inspired to read the book. The book HAS NOTHING to do with the show. The butler in the book is horrible. That Mr Belvedere was a total jackass and douche bag. He hated kids and it was the wife that was the actual protagonist in the book. I can't believe how they had to change everything around for the Belvedere movies and tv show.

[quote]Did he ever take his shirt off? You could tell he had a smokin bod.

There was an episode where he was dating a girl who was a nude model for an art class. He ended up doing the same, once. It's as close as you'll get to seeing him naked, AFAIK. The episode is tedious, but you can see him toward the end.

Brice Beckham was a pretty talented actor as far as children go, he was easily the best part of the show, but he wasn't ridiculously over the top ala Urkel or Gary Coleman.

Are you privy to the reason R19? If you're going to make a series about a butler and the family he works for - why would you set it in an economically depressed shithole where nobody could possibly afford one? It's not like the name is funny or anything. Why not set it 15 miles up river in Sewickley - where there are loads of 1 percenters?

In 2012, Beckham was one of several former child actors who appeared in a Funny or Die video called "CCOKC", which stood for Child Celebrities Opposing Kirk Cameron.[11] A counterpoint to Cameron's stance on homosexuality, the humorous video aimed to spread the message that gay individuals are not a threat to anyone.[12] Keith Coogan, Josie Davis, Jeremy Licht, Kenn Michael, Christine Lakin, and Maureen Flannigan also appeared in the video.[12]

I read that Mr. Belvedere's balls hung down so low that he often crushed them when sitting down, letting out the loudest and angriest yelps you ever heard.

I always found the dad, Bob Uecker (sp?) weirdly, sexually compelling.

Am I alone in this?

Yes, R26. Back to Rob Stone.

My Mom likes him. r26, but I suspect that is not what you had in mind.

Awww Mr. Belvedere. Responsible for the worst sitcom joke ever.

That AIDS joke was hilarious.

Rob Stone was so fuckable.

Rob was hot. I'm a Boner fan from whatever show he was on though.

Remember when Kevin was a rentboy for older women?

I thought he was a rentboy for everyone!

It was funny. I loved the sister's ditzy friend Angela who never got Mr. Belvedere's name right. And Mr. Belvedere and Wesley were perfect foes.

I liked the whole show. I thought the daughter was funny as shit to. Then the paired Kevin with the gimp.

I laughed more at this than Family Ties. Now that it's on Antenna TV I still laugh just as much.

I was around Wesley's age when the show aired...he was one of my first crushes. Just looked him up today & was disappointed.

The pilot episode is on Antenna tomorrow afternoon.

I used to love how Mr. Belvedere would sit in the chair in the dark downstairs. Wesley would be up to some mischief and Mr. Belvedere would say his name in a really low voice and scare him. Wesley....

The only Mr Belvedere I know is Clifton Webb (ideal casting) in the 1940s movies - he is terrific in SITTING PRETTY in 1948 with Maureen O'Hara and prissy fusspot and surely gay Richard Haydn as the nosy neighbour. He and Clifton are like two cats hissing at each other every time they meet ...

117 laugh free episodes. Watched on Antenna TV. One episode had the kids bringing a homeless woman back from the mall. The daughter tells Bevedere she lives in a box to which he retorts ... "A split level or Colonial?" It was meant to politically incorrect but it was just mean. Wesley was a terrible character and the kid actor wasn't talented enough to make him endearing. If he had been hit by a bus anytime in the series run, no one would have cared. There's a reason it's relegated to Antenna TV and not national syndication where the big money is.

Sitting Pretty is hilarious! I never saw the sequels though. Are they as good?

Holy shit! If you go to 4:25 in the clip posted by R21 you will see a very young and hairy Willie Garson!

Here's the CCOKC video:

Don't you mean Brocktoon?

[quote] There's a reason it's relegated to Antenna TV and not national syndication where the big money is.

Oh please, All in the Family, Three's Company, Family Ties were all major hits (and btw AITF still holds up incredibly) and they're all on Antenna TV. What television show from before 1990 is on national syndication and not Antenna TV or MeTV (which are essentially the same)

Goodness, Rob Stone was highly fuckable.

Is Rob Stone still acting?

Bucolic Beaver Falls, PA

[quote]Is Rob Stone still acting?

No IMDB credits since 1993.

Christopher Hewitt replaced George Rose as Captain Hook in Sandy Duncan's Peter Pan on Broadway. Rose was OK but subdued, obviously not wanting to play Hook as the flaming queen he is written as in the musical (Rose was still closeted at the time). Hewett embraced the queeniness and played it to the hilt. Saw both, Duncan was always brilliant as Pan but the production soared with Hewett, a great, great evening in the theater.

Love the scene from the first episode where the family is sort of a mess, and they open the door to reveal Mr. Belvedere, with the suburban, American winter scene of snow in the background.

In the book Belvedere the setting is outside of Louisville, but the author was from Kentucky and her other books had Kentucky settings. So I am not sure why they changed it to Beaver Falls.

[quote]When I was in high school, I wore the exact same style of rock mullet that Kevin had.

You forgot to add, you were in high school in 1954

Why ?

Loved it as a kid, love it now. It was definitely edgy and Belvedere was savage. Check out the scene at 22.09.

The episode where Heather gets a job at a record store and the "hot" jock starts dating her so he can steal records and on the day they have a two for one sale, Angela says, "Now he's can steal twice as much!" or something to that effect. Love this show still, Wesley and Belvedere are great!

Rob Stone was butt ugly only his butt was better looking than his face.

Never watched it. You eldergays sure know your old tv.