Where are they now?

[stevea]

This is a long look at where all (and I do mean almost all) the adult cast members are now. It has several errors; the most glaring one to me was subbing a then-current picture of Alice Pearce, calling her Mary Wickes (Miss Cathcart). You can guess the whereabouts of all the adult cast, since DTM ran from 1959-1963 (as is made clear countless times). In the descriptions of the actors, we learn virtually all were troubled people.

Oh, and about Alice Pearce, she did appear in the series twice in season 4, as Miss Lucy Tarbell, but was not profiled.

The three principal child actors, Jay North (Dennis), Jeannie Russell (Margaret), and Billy Booth (Tommy) were profiled, also. Since they seemed to find every adult (I just thought of two others they missed, Mel Blanc and Sandy Koufax) who appeared in the cast, you'd think they might have profiled a couple of other child actors, such as Ronny Howard (Stuart), Gregory Irvin (Johnny Brady), and Robert John Pittman (Seymour). Of the child actors mentioned here, Billy Booth and Robert John Pittman are no longe with us. If I recall correctly, Gregory Irvin has posted on this board before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS9QhWDQF_0

[Duster76]

Originally Posted by stevea

This is a long look at where all (and I do mean almost all) the adult cast members are now. It has several errors; the most glaring one to me was subbing a then-current picture of Alice Pearce, calling her Mary Wickes (Miss Cathcart). You can guess the whereabouts of all the adult cast, since DTM ran from 1959-1963 (as is made clear countless times). In the descriptions of the actors, we learn virtually all were troubled people.

Oh, and about Alice Pearce, she did appear in the series twice in season 4, as Miss Lucy Tarbell, but was not profiled.

The three principal child actors, Jay North (Dennis), Jeannie Russell (Margaret), and Billy Booth (Tommy) were profiled, also. Since they seemed to find every adult (I just thought of two others they missed, Mel Blanc and Sandy Koufax) who appeared in the cast, you'd think they might have profiled a couple of other child actors, such as Ronny Howard (Stuart), Gregory Irvin (Johnny Brady), and Robert John Pittman (Seymour). Of the child actors mentioned here, Billy Booth and Robert John Pittman are no longe with us. If I recall correctly, Gregory Irvin has posted on this board before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS9QhWDQF_0

This YouTube piece is long coming in at 34 plus minutes, I wouldn't recommend it. It's an A.I. narrative which means there is an enormous amount of repetition (how many times do we need to hear the show was on 1959-1963!). My main concern relates to some of the information given about the stars, I question the accuracy. Statements like so and so had a troubled personal life, or so and so was married twice, or so and so had financial troubles or so and so was lonely at the end of their lives. How does the content creator know this? I read the bio of Mary Wickes, to the best of my memory she was never married, yet it was indicated she was married twice. Alan Hewitt played two characters on the show (with three names) Dr. Alfred Johnson, Dr. Alfred Simpson and Alistair St. Clair (but that was just one episode), yet St. Clair is the character identified in the presentation. Nothing I have read suggested Hewitt was ever married and had two children (let alone married twice), his obituary indicated he was survived by a mother and brother (the obit that appeared in the NY Times was pretty specific). The personal details on Charles Lane and Hasting are not supported by their bios, so again where is the information provided coming from.

[stevea]

I never thought of it being AI generated--with all the publicity about AI I should have thought of it. The voice is about as monotonous as I've ever heard.