Eldergays, tell me about Donald from That Girl.

Oh the burnt oranges, harvest golds and hunter greens that man wore, I assume he’s the one who inspired home interiors in the 70s.

I’m watching That Girl right now on Antenna TV. He deserved much better than Marlo.

I always thought it was hilarious that they pretended that she wasn't all over that cock.

Ted was one of the kindest men who ever lived.

He was considered very attractive in an Ivy League way.

My first crush. Handsome and slightly goofy. Same him on broadway back in the 70s and he was just as cute in person.

Ted Bessell was very fuckable in a straight laced, adorkable kind of way while on "That Girl". I was born well after the show aired but, when I saw it decades later, I developed a lowkey crush on Ted.

Every time I watched that show I thought they were brother and sister. Their relationship seemed so sexless.

"OH, ZDONALD!"

He was cute as MTM's boyfriend in a few episodes.

If you watch ever so closely, you can see that Donald and Ann's father are hot for each other and probably having sex on the side.

I hated everything about him on MTM, R10. Hideous, with a ridiculous toupee. Mary deserved better than that, especially since he was two-timing her.

No one his age wore hair that short during that time.

Guys wore their hair that short. I knew guys who would ask barbers to style their hair just like Donald's.

As a gayling I never felt any sort of attraction or crush on Donald. He struck me as an asexual nerdy type - probably just right for Marlo.

[quote]No one his age wore hair that short during that time.

Men who worked in offices did. Look at the majority of male hairstyles on Mad Men. All very cleancut and short. It wasn't until the 1970s that men got away with longer hair.

I recently read a bio about him, and he was in two failed tv series before That Girl. One of them was "It's a Man's World." In the other one he was the father of a chimpanzee.

His O face as he gets off!

At the age of seven, I wanted to see him naked. I don't know if I was more infatuated with cock or bush, but I wanted to see both.

R17: get your glasses checked. He appeared in "Me and the Chimp" after "That Girl". "It's a Man's World" was about 5 years before and a much better show than "That Girl".

I watched the show when it was a network staple and thought he was very handsome. But I was too young at the time to understand what drew me to him.

He also was on "Gomer Pyle" on a number of episodes as one of marines and he's in "Captain Newman, MD" in the mental ward, starring Gregory Peck as the eponymous doctor and Bobby Darin in an amazing Oscar-nominated performance.

He was never considered anything special at the time, no. Ironically he seems more appealing now than he did then.

For a 1970's or 1960's guy Ted Bessell was handsome enough, yes that includes his short hair cut.

No he wasn't some sort of Adonis that stopped traffic, but just an attractive (in his sort of way) steady sort of decent guy any girl (or gay guy) of the time would be happy to have.

OTOH have always felt Marlo Thomas was lucky to nab Donald. More so that he remained with her crazy behind and constantly putting off getting married.