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   Message 26,757 of 28,343   
   Madlove to J. Clarke   
   Re: "My Living Doll" on Hulu   
   03 Oct 13 22:13:36   
   
   From: madlove@arkham.dc   
      
   J. Clarke wrote:   
   > I found out today that Hulu has the 10 surviving episodes of the early   
   > '60s sitcom "My Living Doll". I remember watching it when it first   
   > aired on CBS, so I couldn't resist checking it out to see how bad it   
   > really was. I watched the first two and found it to be as much fun as I   
   > remembered, and Julie Newmar even more stunning (any way you cut it, she   
   > is one _fine_ looking woman). I find Bob Cummings as the psychiatrist   
   > trying to deal with a machine in the form of a beautiful woman to be   
   > hilarious. The culture is different--worrying about what people are   
   > going to think if you have a woman staying in your apartment, the whole   
   > vision of a perfect woman as one who is obedient and keeps her mouth   
   > shut (which the show pokes fun at while it's expressing it--Rhoda _is_   
   > obedient and Hilarity Ensues) and so on.   
   >   
   > I think it's a shame that more than half of the episodes that were made   
   > have been lost.   
      
   It's outdated, and it's crap. JN was better as "Catwoman."   
   It's also on the Bittorrent sites, if anyone cares to sit thru it.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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