I'm Dickens, He's Fenster

[cd637299]

Originally Posted by Hazel Anyday

Here's another show I remember watching when I was just 4 or 5. It was about 2 carpenters, the "leader" was played by John (Gomez Addams) Astin and the other who was the bumbler was played by Marty Ingels. They'd show them at home with the wives and also on the job. I enjoyed it as a kid. Though the show didn't last long, forever more anytime I saw Marty Ingels in anything else I always thought of him in Dickens & Fenster (as I called it). A show I hadn't seen in decades till I saw some DVDs of it not too long ago. It was amusing but not as funny as I remember it as a kid. I must have been easily amused. Then again, I can say the same thing about Gilligan's Island, a show I thought really funny as a kid but now it just seems stupid.

I feel the same way, being grown up now, about “The Lucy Show” and “Here’s Lucy.” I guess, as a child, I thought, the louder, the better. I couldn’t sit thru 30 minutes of either show now.

“I’m Dickens…” has stayed alive, via reruns of “Leave It to Beaver” season 6, where Eddie Haskell asks (maybe?) Wally, “Which one are you, Dickens or Fenster?”

Seriously, as great as Stern was later on, developing “Get Smart,” I say to myself, how much humor can be squeezed out of two carpenters on the job? I mean, can more’n 26 episodes be put out with this plot?

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[SarahBellum]

Originally Posted by cd637299

Seriously, as great as Stern was later on, developing “Get Smart,” I say to myself, how much humor can be squeezed out of two carpenters on the job?

How much humor can be squeezed out of a family arguing in the living room? Ask Norman Lear.