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Arthur, King of Time and Space

2/11/06

One of the regular - or, more accurately in tv writer talk, recurring - posters on alt.tv.mash for the past ten years (besides me) is Larry Gelbart. You know, the guy in the show's credits under developed for television by and, if it's an episode from the first four years, story editor (or something like that).

I once responded to a query what he looks like by stating he looks like a cross between Woody Allen and Larry King. Before I posted this, however, I began to wonder if it was quite a polite thing to say, particularly in front of him. So I emailed him first for his reaction to the statement. He wrote back a polite but vehement denial of having any desire or right to censor what anyone else writes. Now I wonder whether I offended him with my attempt not to offend him.

People have asked him a few times what he'd've done for a series finale if he'd been with the show all eleven years. Larry's never responded definitively enough for me to recall now what he's written about it, but I always like to suggest, "Well, look at the last episode he did do." ... which was The Interview.

Thursday, in response to a request from another poster, Larry posted what he might have written for Henry Blake had McLean Stevenson still been with the show to appear in The Interview. It's at the top of this page. It was weird and a little spooky to see new material, from the creator, featuring the character from all fiction who at 14 I thought was most like me, from a tv series that's been off the air for thirteen twenty-three years come the 28th.

Webcomics I read mornings: Peanuts, General Protection Fault, Achewood, Newshounds, Scary Go Round, Tux & Bunny, College Roommates from Hell!!!, Kevin & Kell, Real Life Webcomics I read M-W-F mornings: El Goonish Shive, Theater Hopper, Nukees, Tweep, Pibgorn, Ctrl+Alt+Del Webcomics I read Tu-Th-Sa mornings: Digger, Crap I Drew On My Lunch Break, AppleGeeks, Orneryboy, Striptease, Penny Arcade
Webcomics I read middays: Calvin & Hobbes, Least I Could Do, User Friendly, Questionable Content, Starslip Crisis, Biggest Webcomic Loser, Narbonic
Webcomics I read evenings: LuAnn, Count Your Sheep, Goats, Pearls Before Swine, For Better Or For Worse, Help Desk, American Elf, Schlock Mercenary, Sinfest, Anywhere But Here, Irregular Comic, Bruno, Boxjam's Doodle, Sluggy Freelance Webcomics I read M-W-F evenings: Reasoned Cognition, Two Lumps, Shortpacked, Girl Genius, Order of the Stick, Gossamer Commons Webcomics I read Tu-Th-Sa evenings: Casey & Andy, Girls With Slingshots, The Green Avenger, Get Out of My Head, Megatokyo
Webcomics I read bedtimes: B.C., Something Positive, Queen of Wands, The Angriest Rice Cooker In The World, Medium Large, Dinosaur Comics, Wapsi Square, Little Dee, PvP
Webcomics I read Sundays: The Daily Grind Iron Man Challenge, Butternut Squash, Dr. Devious vs Lincoln High, Syntax Errors, Alice!, Checkerboard Nightmare, Nemesis, Journey Into History, Tailsteak, Her: Girl Vs Pig, Smithson, Loserz, Ctrl+Alt+Del, No Room for Magic, 13 Seconds, The Whovian Observer, Perry Bible Fellowship See also Talk About Comics, The Belfry Comics Index, The Webcomic List, Nth Degree, 100% Originality Theatre, Comixpedia, The Living Comic and Websnark.

Arthuriana sources I use or recommend:
Arthurian Legend
Arthuriana - the Journal of Arthurian Studies; the website of the quarterly journal of the North American Branch of the International Arthurian Society.
The Camelot Project at the University of Rochester.
Camelot In Four Colors: A Survey of the Arthurian Legend in Comics
Mystical-WWW - The Arthurian A2Z knowledge Bank which has encyclopedically-arranged entries on the characters of the Arthurian legends.
Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 1 and Volume 2.

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