Word: scrapyards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Queen being an ocean liner headed for mothballs. Keeping it afloat is a moronic purser (Larry Storch), whose schemes, like catering bar mitzvahs in port, are always being thwarted by the prissy first officer (Billy De Wolfe). The boat is shipshape; the gags are strictly for the scrapyard. Sheldon Leonard, a producer with, as they say, a good track record (The Dick Van Dyke Show, I Spy), has brought in a very usual and savorless crime series called My Friend Tony (NBC). He may have undone himself in attempting to reduce the violence. The hero is a stodgy professor...
...sliced his annual privy purse from $667,000 to $266,000, and inheritance taxes have cut into his estate. But life does have a bright side. The new Nizam is an auto buff, and in the royal garage are 56 cars, only four of which work. "I inherited a scrapyard," the princely grease monkey says happily. "I have a lifetime's work before...