In some ways, this is as much a treasure find as the video I posted the other day here of Boris Karloff performing the song, "It Was a Very Good Year" on The Jonathan Winters Show. Not quite, but close. But it's a huge treat enough to include it as a way to wrap-up our Boris Karloff Trilogy. (I use "wrap up" in a flexible way, since I'm sure there will be some others down the line. As it happened, in 1967, the year before Karloff appeared on The Jonathan Winters Show -- and a year after he narrated How the Grinch Stole Christmas -- he appeared on an episode of the TV series I Spy. And the episode was SO wonderful that it’s the only one I remember. He played a brilliant scientist in Spain who was a great aficionado of the novel Don Quixote. They have to have to protect him from being kidnapped – and as the story goes on, he becomes more and more befuddled and ultimately delusional and begins to think he is Don Quixote, which makes their efforts keeping track of him more difficult. It's just great, and Karloff is superb. And good news! The full episode is available on YouTube. And I'm embedding it below. Here’s a tip about it though for anyone who is not interested in watching the show because one of the two stars was Bill Cosby. I'll just mention that the opening scene is between Karloff and the other star, Robert Culp only, which then leads into the opening credits. So, you can safely watch the first couple minutes without any fear of “spillover.” And Karloff is charming in it.
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