"Angel" - Episode 19: "The French Lesson" (James Garner)
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- Episode 19 of "Angel" (CBS-TV 1960-61), created by Jess Oppenheimer (creator-producer-head writer of "I Love Lucy").
Original Air Date: 2-23-1961
Teleplay by Bill Davenport.
Story by Robert Fisher, Alan Lipscott and Bill Davenport
Executive Producer: Jess Oppenheimer
Produced by Edward H. Feldman
Directed by Ezra Stone.
Starring Annie Fargé and Marshall Thompson, with Doris Singleton and Don Keefer.
Guest cast: Ray Walker.
Special Guest Star James Garner. - Komedie
I’m here for James Garner!
One of Hollywood's good guys, maybe the best 👌
Never seen or heard of this show but to see James Garner in his prime is great not to say he wasn't good later on but The Garner of Maverick and the Great Escape and other great movie is so good he one of a few actors who could do both the big screen and TV and nobody did it better.
Thanx again for another visit to Angel-land, Gregg!
I'm loving this!
A nostalgia trip, and Jim Garner.
Great show!
love the commercials
When I think of James Garner, I think of a different "Angel."
😇😂
A rare look at this lesser known tv series.🤠👍
"....the authority of a husband...". My jaw dropped. I wouldn't have survived back then.
Susie the neighbor lives in Lucy and Ricky's Connecticut house!
Yes, Caroline Appleby!
THE GOOD OL DAYS
Yuban Coffee!!!
Very Good coffee,Yuban.
Doris Singleton breaks the fourth wall at the end!
THAT is a commercial, NOT part of the show, even though the performers are in wardrobe on their set.
For those who saw "Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood" and STAYED for the end credits it's clear the performer (Rick Dalton as played by Leonardo DiCaprio) isn't breaking the fourth wall because the bit, using the star(s), is indeed a commercial, a spot, within the half hour or hour of the show. It's not something that's vital in any way, shape, or form to the development of the show's storyline. It's a COMMERCIAL with the product being pitched taking advantage of the star(s)'s appeal to hustle said item.
So, don't single out Doris Singleton. Other "Angel" cast members will do that every week, every episode, just like cast members of "My Three Sons" hyped Heinz ketchup, Rory Calhoun hustled Viceroy brand cigarettes -- in wardrobe and on the set of "The Texan", Lucy and Desi pitched Chesterfields on "I Love Lucy", the men of "Bonanza", all attired as Cartwrights, drove new Chevrolets down the studio street standing in for 1860s Virginia City.
Breaking the fourth wall is like when Tom Selleck, in character as Thomas Magnum, looks at the camera on "Magnum, p.i." Or, for extended fourth wall breaking, two champs are comedians George Burns and Garry Shandling, on their respective half hours.
@@scvandy3129 The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
Never have heard of this show…
james garner is so fine omg -
That living room looks suspiciously like the living room the Ricardos had when they moved to Connecticut
The man from Daktari
Looks like the Mr. Ed set
I thought that too!
At 15:44 James Garner and the husband both call Angel by her real name...Annie
It's not an error. Johnny calls her both Angel and Annie in the show. Both are nickname derivatives from the character's actual name, Angelique. Watch the pilot episode to see it even in the same sentence.
I thought Miss Farge was cute.
This is cute.
No body shine shoes anymore.
so basically a french mary tyler moore
I tried, really tried, to like this episode, my introduction to "Angel", and warm up to her, Annie Farge, but it and she both just kind of fell flat.
The sitcom's premise has promise -- the French woman married to an American. Similarly, look how Eva Gabor "pulled off" playing her Hungarian ethnicity while happily married to a very traditional American as played by Eddie Albert in "Green Acres". Unlike Gabor, Annie Farge left me cold.
BTW the script's premise, while not original, had potential, but its development "needed a few more turns through the typewriter," i.e., it could have been improved substantially.
I come away feeling Annie Farge was trying too hard to play cute and, sorry to be candidly blunt, but she wasn't that attractive. NOT that that's a prerequisite for landing in the starring position of a network show, but a half century ago the executives at the network, studio and ad agencies had mind sets that think that way. FYI, that was my (same) reaction to "Love On a Rooftop" (1966) where Pete Duel's married to "cute" Judy Carne. In Carne's case she was okay for brief bits a couple years later on "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In", but IMO not appealing enough to hold the attraction / attention of millions of viewers necessary for a second season renewal.
. . . "Angel" being a Desilu Production, from the mind and typewriter of Lucy's brilliant writer Jess Oppenheimer, I could just see Lucy walking through the door transitioned into wearing sun glasses indoors, a fashionable, expensive fur and sporting an entirely new accent and persona, reactions to her seduction by the aura of the Hollywood image -- and Desi (Desi Arnaz) with his mouth agape.
Look how producer Ivan Tors ("Flipper," "Gentle Ben") made Marshall Thompson a semi-household name via his action/adventure drama, hour series "Daktari" a few years later. "Angel" was not Thompson's finest hour, or half hour.
What we did see was guest player James Garner, who's known for easy-going "Maverick" and "Rockford" plus dramatic film roles, here is tailor made for light comedy. Garner was blessed with a persona suited for both drama and comedy, enough so that the audience will "buy it." Thompson I don't think so, base on "Angel".
A huge, sincere "Bravo" and "Thank You" and, appropriately "Merci!" to Gregg Oppenheimer for posting this sparkling, fresh-from-the-vault print of 'The French Lesson' looking just as CBS aired it on February 23, 1961. "Oh for the days" when a half hour comedy had 26 minutes of content and the commercial load was limited to three one-minute ads. Tastefully done. I remember, without cheating (i.e., looking back): shoe polish, coffee, Post Cereals being the products. Try doing that today when 30 spots or more of varying length spread throughout 8 1/2 minutes (approximate) of clutter bombard your senses and DESTROY the flow and retention of the program. Advertisers should understand NO ONE can recall their product surrounded by so many other spots. Writers must cringe how their work is positioned more like annoying, necessary material to be presented between blocks of ads lasting up to six minutes.
TMI. I'm afraid I've "worn out my welcome."
I never heard of this program giving it a chance. She is hard to listen to.
I can't believe four people liked this comment. Your entitled to your opinions, but they're overly critical. I personally think Miss Fargé was as attractive or more attractive than the stars of that day, so I don't know what you don't see in her.
I think her character would be very popular in a contemporary market, but the strong accent, and over the top foreign character didn't start to become a thing until later, so apparently it was not received well in 1960. A recent example of another real accent was Raj in The Big Bang Theory. Examples of similar foreign characters that were popular are Manuel in Fawlty Towers, Serge in Beverly Hills Cop, and Fez in That 70s Show.
Also, competition is a big factor when it comes to advertisers deciding to back a show's time slot. At it's premiere they unfortunately had to compete with My Three Sons, and then CBS tried to put it up against Donna Reed, so timing may have been a factor.
Annie Farge is actually quite beautiful, which is the reason she was given the role. It's true that she's not a DD, which I guess is your criteria for a woman's beauty. You obviously are okay with the fact that the actor who plays her husband is not only "not that attractive" but homely. I guess if you have a penis, it doesn't matter. By the way, she was expected to "play cute" - French and cute was the role assigned to her by the men running the show.
You are obviously well versed in TV history but. Didn't you ever see Judy Carne in a
bikini? Wow! No wonder Burt Reynolds married her.
And Annie Farge is attractive, down right cute.
Let me second your thanks to Greg Oppenheimer.
As regards the behind the scenes TV genius Desi, it's terrible that The Virginian episode
he appeared on in the late 1960's is still being shown.
He was drunk off his rear, slurring his speech, an embarrassment.
For all his contributions to TV, the producers should have had the decency to recast the
part or junk the entire episode. It was a mess. And it was wrong to ever let it see the light
of day. This really angers me.
@@roseslillieslilacs Myra, you make some good points. TV historically would cast
homely men and then using the old double standard cast much better looking women
as the wife.
However, Marshall Thompson had a nice movie career as a leading man, though
usually in B pictures.
So aren't you guilty of the same thing you attack SC Vandy for?
Plus you paint all men as jerks with your "penis" remark.