Monster-of-the-Week: Only one possible choice this week.
Tomorrow marks the fiftieth anniversary of The Milton the Monster Show on ABC,
so the nod goes to the title character…
…undoubtedly the sweetest-natured and least rancorous of all
monsters—he didn’t even have Herman Munster’s tendency to throw tantrums. While
his open-topped skull out of which he vented steam may have helped his
disposition, Milton’s sweetness really derived from an excess of “Tincture of
Tenderness” accidentally added to his essence by mad scientist Professor Weirdo
during his creation.
The show also included such supporting acts as Fearless Fly,
who would revert to his mild-mannered alter ego Hirem when he removed his glasses—my
bespectacled brother used to do an imitation of him that I regarded as pretty
sophisticated comedy when I was six—and Flukey Luke, a cowboy in the big city
long before McCloud.
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