Below are two excerpts from an unsold pilot for a 1966 live-action Li’l Abner television show. The show was produced by Gilligan’s Island’s and Brady Bunch producer Sherwood Schwartz and starred Gilligan Island’s Bob Denver.
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Video: Li’l Abner unaired live-action TV pilot
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That’s Robert Reed, not Bob Denver.
According to IMDB, there was a one-shot TV show in 1967 with the cast shown (Robert Reed, Judy Canova, Jeannine Riley). Apparently Sherwood Schwartz had nothing to do with it; he isn’t in Li’l Abner’s IMDB credits, nor is Li’l Abner on Sherwood’s IMDB page.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0451794/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm
If you were Sherwood Schwartz, would you put YOUR name on it? Of course not! No law says a producer/writer has to claim credit, esp on a one-time failure.
Well, this gave Robert Reed TWO reasons to hate Sherwood Schwartz…
I clicked on them and got a message on both saying “Video is private”. Maybe for good reason.