This clearly was to be a spin off for William Bendix, but when I first viewed it, I thought it was the Life of Riley characters crossing over. Turns out they're not, but not that it matters; Riley was nothing but Bendix anyway.
Bendix, as Parker, is apparently supposed to be headstrong and a real go-getter, which seems to be a strange contradiction for hair-brained schemes of trespassing and thievery.
Bendix persuades Wilbur of Mr. Ed fame to assist him in sawing down a tree on a rich man's property. Bendix had volunteered to raise $350 dollars for a playground or something for kids (doesn't matter) So the tree was either to be the lumber he would then have sawed up into the tables and benches for the kids, or he was going to sell the tree to the lumberyard.
Either way, it doesn't matter. It wasn't his tree.
Because the old town tightwad wouldn't donate any money for the kids, Bendix opted to take the tree himself, because . . . . "His intentions were PURE!" Yes, its hokum, always has been.
When the old man (a familiar face from somewhere, Andy Griffith? Beverly Hillbillies? Doesn't matter) finds out what the tree (a tree? a tree?) was to be used for, he donated the money himself and told Bendix to next time ask.
An odd setup with characters, I must say, and not at all surprising that a possible series didn't get picked up.
Well, if it had, we would have missed out on Nancy Kulp (here as a maid) on Beverly Hillbillies as well as Alvia Allman on Hillbillies and Petticoat Junction, tho Allman was a master at guesting when needed, second only to Mary Wickes and possibly Kathleen Freeman.
For a similarly themed episode, check out the What's Happening episode in which the gang promised an appearance of Sammy Davis Jr at a concert and he never turned up. Dee gave a guilt trip to the crowd who wasn't given what they were promised.
Bendix, as Parker, is apparently supposed to be headstrong and a real go-getter, which seems to be a strange contradiction for hair-brained schemes of trespassing and thievery.
Bendix persuades Wilbur of Mr. Ed fame to assist him in sawing down a tree on a rich man's property. Bendix had volunteered to raise $350 dollars for a playground or something for kids (doesn't matter) So the tree was either to be the lumber he would then have sawed up into the tables and benches for the kids, or he was going to sell the tree to the lumberyard.
Either way, it doesn't matter. It wasn't his tree.
Because the old town tightwad wouldn't donate any money for the kids, Bendix opted to take the tree himself, because . . . . "His intentions were PURE!" Yes, its hokum, always has been.
When the old man (a familiar face from somewhere, Andy Griffith? Beverly Hillbillies? Doesn't matter) finds out what the tree (a tree? a tree?) was to be used for, he donated the money himself and told Bendix to next time ask.
An odd setup with characters, I must say, and not at all surprising that a possible series didn't get picked up.
Well, if it had, we would have missed out on Nancy Kulp (here as a maid) on Beverly Hillbillies as well as Alvia Allman on Hillbillies and Petticoat Junction, tho Allman was a master at guesting when needed, second only to Mary Wickes and possibly Kathleen Freeman.
For a similarly themed episode, check out the What's Happening episode in which the gang promised an appearance of Sammy Davis Jr at a concert and he never turned up. Dee gave a guilt trip to the crowd who wasn't given what they were promised.
