In this episode we welcome Adam Klugman to talk about his father’s legendary career in depth – for more than two hours. Among the many topics we cover are: Jack’s childhood in Philadelphia and a shocking story about his mother; how he discovered acting; his early working days in theater and live television; The Twilight Zone; performing in The Odd Couple the play; of course playing Oscar on the series; Adam’s two appearances on the show; Quincy; Jack’s marriage to Brett Somers; her role on The Match Game; Jack’s throat cancer and his final days. Adam was a delightful guest and storyteller with great vocal impressions of many of the people involved in Jack’s life. We hope the fans find this a great celebration of Jack Klugman’s life and career.

In this episode we analyze the differences in “final” scripts vs the filmed episode for Win One For Felix and Oscar In Love.

The script for Win One For Felix is called Little League Football and is lacking four pages so we spend less time on this one. Also, it is not dramatically different than the filmed episode but it is missing the emotional motivations behind Felix’s actions as we discuss.

The script for Oscar In Love, here called Oscar Remarries, is quite different from the filmed episode in many ways – narrative flow, story devices, motivations for actions and the lack of Speed’s reappearance. We get a little lost as we try to break down the differences but ultimately get back on track.

If you want access to all the PDFs for the scripts we have acquired please email us at 1049pod@gmail.com and ask for the dropbox link.

We welcome back Marty Nadler to discuss his TV writing career after The Odd Couple including his work on Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Chico & The Man, The Last Resort (not a well-known show), and Perfect Strangers. Marty shares some get great inside stories about such topics as 1) ABC wanting to rename Happy Days "Fonzie's Happy Days", 2) the toxic environment of Laverne & Shirley, 3) his theory on Freddie Prinze's tragic, early death, 4) a very funny story about the late, great Richard Lewis, 5) and the original casting of Perfect Strangers. Marty also worked on nine Garry Marshall movies including Pretty Woman which we only briefly touched on as there was just not enough time.