Dick York actually had some very serious health issues and that is the reason he was replaced
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daannii@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I always got weird vibes from the bewitched guy. Like maybe he was a bad dude.
Anyone else ?
Mickey7@lemmy.world 3 days ago
daannii@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I looked up his wiki. Now I feel bad saying he was sketchy. Maybe he was always just jittery from all the smoking. 3 packs a day, apparently.
He founded a charity for the homeless.
Sounds like a decent person.
proudblond@lemmy.world 4 days ago
As an actor or the role?
I recently watched some of a random episode on YouTube and it happened to be about how he and Samantha first met, literally the night before he was gonna marry someone else, and he throws it away because he’s infatuated with her after she barely speaks to him. Is this what passed for romance in the 60s? Fuck.
daannii@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Maybe both. I can’t quite put my finger on it. But he seemed sketchy. Maybe the actor. Because it was consistent.
I never knew the backstory. Yikes.
I some times watch old retro shows on the free channels on TV. Put them on when I’m cleaning or something.
Caught a few episodes that way.
The thing about old TV shows is this. 1. They were presented as promoting morals and the better social norms.
I rember an episode of Dick van dike where his secretary argued she didn’t need to be paid as much as a man because she was just waiting to get married.
The episode was dick and some other guy doing secretary work for the day and messing it all up.
I guess showing it’s hard work. But at the end the woman was like. “But I don’t need paid better”.
And presented as totally respectful. So bizzare. The blatant sexism and toxic relationships always catches me off guard.
I think it was considered normal for couples to argue pretty much daily.
How many people grew up thinking that marriage is supposed to look like that ? My gawd. People must have been miserable.
zikzak025@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Probably likely for a lot of folks. It took so. damn. long. for divorce to be made legal across the western world, and even longer than that to get to the point where the burden of an unhappy marriage was no longer outweighed by the scandal of divorce.
Before no-fault divorces became common, unhappy couples would sometimes even voluntarily fake an affair just to act as “proof” of adultery for a divorce.