One of my earliest and happiest memories of television is persuading my father into letting me stay up to watch this series at around 9pm on a weekday school night in 1969/70 - what convinced him was me laughing at stuff I thought was funny - before, years later, knowing how funny it really was: the delicious family triangle (whatever happened to that cute Lisa Gerritson? Windom's monologues to the camera (borrowed from Alistair Sim in the finale of School For Scoundrels; and to be borrowed by Woody Allen in Annie Hall). It's impossible to imagine a nation such as America would allow a masterpiece of entertainment, social commentary and acting on this scale to be reconciled to what you call a garbage pail; why we celebrate and enervate derivative and overrated offerings like Monty Python's Flying Circus to the highest echelons of comedy and humorous invention. Someone - and more than one person - in your country MUST hold copies of this magnificent series on ancient videotape recordings - you must release these to the world for we need that pleasing.

This show has been in the back of my mind for years.... 35 years I guess. I was in high school when it aired and it is one of the few shows that I remember so well considering it aired for such a short time. It truly was not what the average American TV watcher could appreciate and so is really no surprise that it didn't last. It's short run is a sad, all be it realistic commentary on American taste in art.It was my introduction to James Thurber (some good things do come from television) and William Windom. His brilliance as an actor was at its zenith with this show. It's the kind of stuff that William Windom was supposed to do. Many times over the years I have found myself, when someone comments on the odd circumstance that I've somehow found myself in, uttering the phrase "my world... and welcome to it".I would give anything to see one of those shows again - PBS would be the perfect place for it. Todd Victor Leone's description and commentary is absolutely right on and brought back so many memories and reminded me of details I had long forgotten - thank you!

I was only 3 when I watched this according to the air date...wow! I remember it fondly and for a long time wondered if it was a product of my imagination. Mostly I remembered William Windom and the interspersed drawn segments, then the girl who played his daughter (I think....memory is funny that way, and I was only 3). Can anyone tell me if this show is available on DVD or anything? I would LOVE to see it again.I really hope it is. So rarely these days do I remember a show so fondly. From what I do remember, this is/was a definite one of a kind show. William Windom was also an excellent actor in this show too, he has to have been...since he was burned into my memory at such a young age. Thankfully it was his appearance as Woody on a rerun of Mama's Family that jogged my mind and made me rush to IMDb to see if he was listed. Thanks to this wonderful site I now know I didn't make it all up...and my memory isn't THAT bad.

I, like Joe, was very young when this show was on (5), but it stuck in my mind too. It was an "introduction" to Thurber before I even knew who Thurber was. Seeing William Windom, Lisa Geritsen (in "Phyllis"), or any Thurber cartoon reminded me of the show for years afterward.Kudos to IMDB for providing so many trips down memory lane.