So, teenage heart throb and top eliminator Duke Hathaway makes Wally the president of the Blind Date Committee, sporting a role call of just one member. Did I catch it correctly that the Duke stripped all other viable candidates from the list himself, before passing along the sole remaining undesirable?

The Duke character sure seems to have no shortage of self confidence and poise. Do these sort of people become popular because they possess those traits, or do they acquire those traits only because they have become so popular?

Hard to know!

Duke shows up in a later episode also, when Wally is in a play and has to dress up in drag. Same "unassuming" character. (Ward: Do you think Mayfield will have a good team next year? Duke: No, sir, I'm graduating this year.)

Tommy Ivo (now 84) was a pretty versatile actor. He played a low key role in a Father Knows Best. Polar opposite of Duke.

Hard to know!

Duke shows up in a later episode also, when Wally is in a play and has to dress up in drag. Same "unassuming" character. (Ward: Do you think Mayfield will have a good team next year? Duke: No, sir, I'm graduating this year.)


It seems they missed an ideal plot device having an episode plotting Duke and Eddie as rivals contending with one another, for instance a "canned food drive" for charity, or similar.:)

Tommy Ivo (now 84) was a pretty versatile actor. He played a low key role in a Father Knows Best. Polar opposite of Duke.

He was also a prolific figure in drag racing during that period. Maybe not as big as Don Garlits, but a major player.

Here he is, pictured with his four engined, four wheel drive dragster called "Showboat".

Dragstrips across America paid him money just to show up and run the dragster, he didn't even have to win.

https://i.imgur.com/lhSRJVS.jpg

Awesome rail. The engines look like Buick "nailheads". 4-wheel drive to boot, but I'd say you'd need it to get all that power to the ground.

Duke Hathaway / Tommy Ivo

wow child actor extraordinaire

he was born in 1936 so he was 23 there playing a high school-er

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0412443/?ref_=tt_cl_t7

I remember seeing him on Petticoat Junction too...

I thought "Blind Date Committee" was a rough start to season 3. Jill Bartlett (Beverly Washburn) stole the show. Duke Hathaway (Tommy Ivo) I thought was miscast as a heart-throb in a series that's brilliant in casting. It was really low to call Jill a gopher. Then Wally, and even Beaver piling on mocking her. Beaver then said she's not homely or pretty. She's very pretty, playing a unpopular girl. Ward & June should of been sterner correcting Beaver and Wally.

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Well, I just thought it was a crock the way Wally got snookered by the Duke. Here Cleaver, we're gonna make you the HEAD of the blind date committee, And, I've already done all the hard work for you, getting dates for all but one...so "don't let us down" etc etc..

What a con job, What a pant lode.....Wally got pwned!

I think that the actress playing the role was intentionally blanded-down in the makeup department, to accentuate the "ugly duckling" aspect.

I believe that gal might have been a good candidate for a Lisa Rinna type lip job.

Tommy Ivo might have been mis-cast, but he pulled it off. He had a great line with Ward in his later episode. The casting was worse in his Father Knows Best role, in the Duke Snider episode.

Tommy Ivo shows up has himself in the 1959 movie Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow.

I thought "Blind Date Committee" was a rough start to season 3. Jill Bartlett (Beverly Washburn) stole the show. Duke Hathaway (Tommy Ivo) I thought was miscast as a heart-throb in a series that's brilliant in casting. It was really low to call Jill a gopher. Then Wally, and even Beaver piling on mocking her. Beaver then said she's not homely or pretty. She's very pretty, playing a unpopular girl. Ward & June should of been sterner correcting Beaver and Wally.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTg1NDM3MDk2NF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMzU0MTE1MDE@._V1_UY1200_CR483,0,630,1200_AL_.jpg

Coincidentally she was in last night's episode of Star Trek, The Deadly Years.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708459/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_22

I never really paid much attention to her before.

Thanks for putting a name with the face.

She was also the neighbor girl in Old Yeller.

She looked pretty to my eyes in LITB. The short hair detracts from her appearance on that Star Trek screenshot: she looks kinda' like Ron Howard. Either 'Opie' at age 18 or 'Richie Cunningham' from Happy Days.

She looked pretty to my eyes in LITB. The short hair detracts from her appearance on that Star Trek screenshot: she looks kinda' like Ron Howard. Either 'Opie' at age 18 or 'Richie Cunningham' from Happy Days.

You seriously couldn't tell that beautiful creature from Opie?

You seriously couldn't tell that beautiful creature from Opie?

OFFS, humor me will ya? Yes, I can tell her from Opie. Yes, that short hair de-feminizes her and yes, she kind of looks like Opie in that photo.

She looked pretty to my eyes in LITB.

I suspect she was picked for the role because she did not possess hallmark beauty, and was further "blanded-down" with makeup.

I'm not trying to sound cruel, but lets face it, there are certain traits that are commonly associated with good looks, and some people are served bigger portions than others.

It's kinda interesting when you think about it. Start at the ear canal, draw one line up to the eyebrows, and another down through the jaw line, in between is the one area of our bodies that outwardly distinguishes us as unique. despite the skull underneath being essentially the same.

You could walk up to a barrel full of severed arms, or legs, or even torsos....and lacking tattoos or other forms of disfigurement, you'd be hard pressed to identify even your own mother.

But the face, probably not more than a few dozen at any given time throughout the entire human race, similar enough to your own, that the act of distinguishing one from another is at all challenging.

I know, "off topic", but since you folks were busy glorifying "gophers", I just had to take a shot.

It's kinda interesting when you think about it. Start at the ear canal, draw one line up to the eyebrows, and another down through the jaw line, in between is the one area of our bodies that outwardly distinguishes us as unique. despite the skull underneath being essentially the same.

You could walk up to a barrel full of severed arms, or legs, or even torsos....and lacking tattoos or other forms of disfigurement, you'd be hard pressed to identify even your own mother.

But the face, probably not more than a few dozen at any given time throughout the entire human race, similar enough to your own, that the act of distinguishing one from another is at all challenging.

I know, "off topic", but since you folks were busy glorifying "gophers", I just had to take a shot.
A macabre tangent on a feel good sitcom message board?

A macabre tangent on a feel good sitcom message board?

I admit that the "barrels of body parts" might have been a bit graphic, but I could find no means to express the idea in a more concise manner. Perhaps I went overboard for the sake of brevity?

But it does fascinate me the way our faces so uniquely identify us, more so than any other (visible) part of our body. Only the brain more distinguishes us as individuals.

Wonder if there is a correlation? Might we perhaps "will" our facial characteristics without even knowing it?

(lots of people post things which I likewise consider "unnecessary" prattle. I just try to chalk it up to a "free" internet)

In college psych 101 +- some scientist pointed out that humans are very different than most of the animal kingdom that most have very similar appearances. He went on to say for the most part humans are quit scary looking animals ... but we humans have grown accustomed to the "very odd" face variations ! He also mentioned the head located on a skinny neck and the extra long arms with intricate finger moments can appear weird to one that never saw those aspects ...

I guess I was pondering the possibility, in a sort of "invasion of the body snatchers" sort of way, that our bodies might be hosts to an alien intelligence that invades and seizes control at about 4-6 months of age, and corrupts our existence thereafter, until death. And in so going it would be that being that manufactures our personality, and contorts our faces for it's own benefit?
Sort of like L.Ron Hubbard's "Thetans" but without the volcanoes and hydrogen bombs, and their inherent melodrama.

I thought Jill was made to be cute, but not knock-down gorgeous. I agree with Jim that her character wore makeup to make her less attractive than what she was.