As with the above, it’s a knowing spoof of a superhero show - and the camp-filled Batman, specifically.
Terrific and on another network, Captain Nice was conceived by Get Smart co-creator Buck Henry, who left the latter during its second season to helm this series. Thoughts: Airing a half hour later than Mr. Premise: A police chemist mama’s boy drinks a secret formula that turns him into a superhero.Ĭast: William Daniels, Alice Ghostley, Ann Prentiss, Liam Dunn, Bill Zuckert, Byron FoulgerĬreator/Writers: Buck Henry, Peter Meyerson & Treva Silverman, Peggy Elliott & Ed Scharlach, Arne Sultan, Mike Marmer & Stan Burns, David Ketchum It’s “One Rotten Apple” - directed by Gary Nelson, written by Peter Meyerson & Treva Silverman (the latter eventually of Mary Tyler Moore), and broadcast as the series’ 14th on April 24, 1967. I’ve reprinted below what I wrote about the show a few months ago, followed, for the first time, by the episode itself. Transcript Episode One: The Book of Statuses A group of parents takes one big step together.Welcome to a new Wildcard Wednesday! This weekend saw the 92nd birthday of show biz veteran Bob Newhart, the one-of-a-kind comic legend who starred in, among other things, two classics that we’ve previously featured on Sitcom Tuesdays - The Bob Newhart Show and Newhart! This year, in honor of this great man and his indelible work, I want to share something rarer: a forgotten credit from Newhart’s catalogue - his 1967 guest appearance on a short-lived Buck Henry comedy called Captain Nice, which I spotlighted in a recent “ potpourri” piece, singling out his segment as one of the best. “Nice White Parents” is brought to you by Serial Productions, a New York Times Company. I started reporting this story at the very same moment as I was trying to figure out my own relationship to the subject of this story, white parents in New York City public schools. When my kid was old enough, I started learning about my options.
There was our zoned public school in Brooklyn, or I could apply to a handful of specialty programs - a gifted program, or a magnet school, or a language program. This was five years ago now, but I vividly remember these tours. I’d show up in the lobby of the school at the time listed on the website, look around, and notice that all or almost all of the other parents who’d shown up for the 11:00 AM, middle-of-the-workday, early-in-the-shopping-season school tour were other white parents. As a group, we’d walk the halls, following a school administrator - almost always a man or woman of color - through a school full of black and brown kids. We’d peer into classroom windows, watch the kids sit in a circle on the rug, ask questions about the lunch menu, homework policy, discipline. We have a partnership with Lincoln Center.
They were pleading with us to please take part in this public school.
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