KID BARNEY COSTUME SERIES
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The supporting cast includes the great character actors Mary Wickes, Hans Conried, Sid Melton and Jesse White big stars, among them Milton Berle, Bob Hope, Tony Bennett and Jimmy Durante, drop by as themselves. Possibly the first Arab American TV star, Thomas (born Amos Muzyad Yaqoob Kairouz) integrates his Lebanese roots into the series. (She and TV brother Rusty Hamer are among my favorite television tykes, mouthy without being cute.) Thomas’ character is quick-tempered, sentimental, and never quite in charge if there’s a lesson to be learned, it’s Daddy who learns it. The series ran long enough, from 1953 to 1963, to field two different titles (it was “Make Room for Daddy” for the first three seasons) and two different wives for Danny, Jean Hagen and Marjorie Lord, the latter bringing little Angela Cartwright (later of “Lost in Space”) into the mix. When we look back on great comic performers of the official Golden Age of Television, the names Lucy and Jackie and Phil and Milton and Sid spring quickly to mind less well remembered is Danny Thomas, a highly successful nightclub comedian and singer, who in the very funny “The Danny Thomas Show,” now streaming on Prime Video, plays highly successful nightclub comedian and singer Danny Williams. As with most contemporary cartoons not strictly aimed at preschoolers, the humor can be sophisticated, and the series, which plays with horror tropes, can be genuinely scary - so consider your child’s, or your own, tolerance before opening.
They are joined by Courtney, a little red demon who is unhappily stranded among humans and variously proves an enemy and an ally. (Earth, the “neutral plane,” is known to demons as “the realm of memes.”) Steele’s quirky hand has been neatened for big-time streaming, but the characters, hired as park security guards, now have character: Barney is a trans teen who wants to get out of his parents’ house Norma, who knows every detail about the park and its history, suffers from social anxiety and Pugsley, looking more pug-like, winds up partially possessed, giving him the ability to talk. That lively five-minute short featured Norma, Barney and a fez-wearing pug in a house with haunted internet Steele subsequently expanded the premise through a pair of young adult graphic novels that in turn have provided the basis for “Dead End: Paranormal Park” (Netflix), set in a theme park where the “haunted house” is actually haunted: a portal to a demonic world, arranged in levels like in Dante.
Here it is: I have been waiting since 2014, when it was released on the web, for Hamish Steele’s “Dead End” to become a full-fledged series.
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