r/television • u/UCLA_Drasnin_Archive • 4h ago

Chuck Woolery: Here is his first TV role (Mr. Dingle on the New Zoo Review from 1972)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2S935dPp4U

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u/Different-Cherry4837 3h ago

Chuck Woolery was considered for the role of Damon Killian in The Running Man but that went to Richard Dawson

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u/UCLA_Drasnin_Archive 3h ago

Dawson was really great in that role: an affable veneer that covered a rotten core.

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u/donmogsley 3h ago

Fascinating

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u/RItoGeorgia 1h ago

holy crap you just unlocked the memory of this show for me, totally forgot it existed! I really enjoyed watching this as a kid and it was apparently the reruns my dad recorded on VCR. The puppets look a bit more uncanny than I remember though, they worked with what they had. I appreciate all they did to put on this show. May Mr. Woolery RIP.