The Paul Winchell Show [SEP] original network
The Paul Winchell Show
The Paul Winchell Show, or The Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney Show, or The Spiedel Show, was a variety program which aired on NBC prime time from 1950 to 1954, starring ventriloquist Paul Winchell and his dummy, Jerry Mahoney.
Series premise.
The program had comedy and dramatic skits, quiz questions, and a section called "What's My Name?", in which contestants sought to guess the identity of a celebrity based on a few clues. "What's My Name
Paul Winchell as Dick Dastardly and the indistinctly heard General, and Don Messick as all of the other characters. Each 22-minute show was broadcast over half an hour on the network, including network breaks, and contained: two "Dastardly & Muttley" stories, one "Magnificent Muttley" story (Muttley's Walter Mitty-style daydreams), and two or three short "Wing Dings" (brief gags to break up the longer stories).
Plot.
Dick Dastardly and Muttley, the villains from "Wacky Races