Any of you old groovers watch Mack & Myer for Hire after school on the old Astor, Pye or HMV Black & White TV when growing up in the 1960s & 1970s?. I certainty did after the old TV bulbs warmed up & banged the side of the TV a few times after Benny the TV repair man was supposed to have fixed it!! Mack & Myer for Hire is an American sitcom that aired in syndication from 1963 to 1964. The show starred Mickey Deems and Joey Faye, and was produced by Trans-Lux Television in New York. Each episode was approximately 12 minutes long, and the show was filmed using a two-camera layout. Over 100 episodes were produced during its only year in production, and these were re-run well into the 1970s. Mack and Myer are two handymen, doing jobs for hire. In one episode, they are seen doing things like building a fence. However, their attempts at getting rich quick usually backfired, resulting in comedy. Sometimes the situations revolved around a common everyday problem (i.e. getting a good nights sleep). Since each episode was approximately 12 minutes long, it was usually shown as part of a longer program. This was common at the time, as many stations across the United States would have shows, often hosted by clowns, which consisted of shorts like Mack & Myer, Clutch Cargo and The Three Stooges combined with station-produced host segments. Like many sitcoms of the time, it featured a laugh track. Although the production values were lacking compared with some other shows of the time, it proved popular with children, which kept the show repeated well-into the 1970s. It was also exported around the world, to countries like West Germany and Australia. https://youtube/watch?v=XDizX8UHMLo&feature=youtu.be
Posted on: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 11:32:19 +0000