This poll isn't necessarily meant to be "all-inclusive". But, just from the list provided, who did the best/funniest job in their TDVDS guest role?

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My vote -- Ed Begley, as the Judge in "The Case Of The Pillow".

"Mr. Petrie, is it your intention to go through the entire alphabet?"

Runner-up -- Jerry Van Dyke in the sleepwalking two-part episode. :)

If I may, I'd like to include one more "guest star" name on the list....Jay C. Flippen, who played Rob's first writing boss "Happy Spangler" in the first season's "The Return Of Happy Spangler" episode.

Mr. Flippen was a veteran of vaudeville and played numerous comedy and dramatic roles in plays, films and television. I thought that he did an excellent acting job as Happy Spangler, and that episode, although maybe not the FUNNIEST of the series, rates as one of my personal favorites.

This is a very difficult choice. I finally chose Billy DeWolfe in "The Ugliest Dog in the World." I love his performance and his deadpan delivery of his lines ( A shot would be the humane thing to do!:lol: ) (Boy, boy, it's tea time!) It was a tough choice, but I love this episode.

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I liked Sheldon Leonard playing his gangster persona. It was fun to have the shows producer doing a guest shot and I love the way he plays that type of part--and I just love that episode period.

Don Rickles, by far!

I liked Jerry Van Dyke and Don Rickles performances the best. :)

Boy that was tougher than I thought, I debated between Vic Damone " Ive been drinking since I was 16 and I know my casapity" " & Ed Platt "cheating, in the suburbs"

I finally went with Vic Damone
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That was really tough, but I have to go with Jerry Van Dyke. I've always loved him as Stacie!

Can't forget Jacques Bergerac in "The Square Triangle (episode #56), Lola Albright in How to Spank a Star" (episode #86) or Chad & Jeremy in "The Redcoats are Coming (episode #114).

Not far behind would be pre-Mission:Impossible Barbara ("Cinammon") Bain in "Will You Two Be My Wife? (#47). Speaking of pre-Mission:Impossible Greg ("Barney") Morris was in two episodes, "Bupkis" and "That's My Boy???". Remember Wally Cox in "the Making of a Councilman" and Room 222's Michael Constantine as the director in "You Ought to Be in Pictures". Honorable Mention to Paul Winchell in "Talk to the Snail"

And while they don't qualify as guest stars numerous early appearances of M*A*S*H's Jamie Farr and a the singular one of Love Boat's Gavin MacLeod as the jewelry salesman in "Empress Carlotta's Necklace" are fun to watch in retrospect. Pre-"F-Troop" Ken Berry was in several shows. A pre-"Hogan's Heros"'s Bob Crane really wanted to play opposite Cleopatra.

For classic Star Trek fans, Michael "Joe Coogan" Forest starred in the episode "Who Mourns For Adonis?". Classic Star Trek fans will also remember Roger C. Carmel, the tight-fisted accountant in "It Wouldn't Hurt Them to Give Us A Raise" , as Harcourt Fenton Mudd. Other cameos include character actor Bernard Fox in several episodes (e.g., "Teacher's Petrie") before Dr. Bombay in "Bewitched" and most recently in "the Mummy".

Quite a few other "before they were stars" which are fun to watch knowing what we know now.

Yes, Wannabe.

I considered all those you mentioned...plus Allan Melvin in "Harrison B. Harding" (which was a good & meaty guest role for Allan, who also doubled as Army buddy, Sol on occasion). But my final list is derived more from what I'd call a "Major Guest Star" listing. Whereas, Ken Berry, Sandy Kenyon, Gavin MacLeod, and Jamie Farr, etc., are more in the bit-part realm.

Yes, I could have added "Jacques" and Wally Cox and a few others, but the list was getting long as it was. :)

Gavin's appearance as "Maxwell" IS hilarious, I'll admit. His "shoehorn" belly-laugh is highly rib-tickling.

Mel -- "You see, Maxwell doesn't have any overhead."
Buddy -- "Kind of runs in the family, don't it?" :lol:

I voted for Ed Begley, since his appearance as the judge was hysterical, and I never knew of him as a comedic actor. He reminded me a bit of the exasperated judge at the end of the film What's Up, Doc? Barbara Bain was hilarious in her appearance too. I loved her gleeful hysteria as she clobbered Rob w/ her shoes and everything else she could find.

Originally posted by jehobden
He reminded me a bit of the exasperated judge at the end of the film What's Up, Doc?

"What's Up Doc?" is one of my all-time favorite movies!

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Me too! The chase scene gets me laughing hysterically every time I see it! :D