Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marc Berman is a New York-based reporter who covers media. LOS ANGELES - JUNE 6: MISTER ED (MR. ED) cast members: Alan Young (as ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Actor-comedian Alan Young, who played the amiable straight man to a talking horse in the 1960s sitcom “Mister Ed,” has died, a spokeswoman for the Motion Picture and Television Home ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It wasn’t an unreasonable question considering that was the central gamble behind Mister Ed, a sitcom built around a simple but ...

There were a lot of odd TV shows in the 1960s, but one of the most unique had to be Mister Ed, about a guy named Wilbur Post who discovers that his horse can actually talk — which he did between 1961 ...

Television in the 1960s had an unusually high tolerance for strange ideas. Audiences happily followed suburban witches (Bewitched), bumbling secret agents (Get Smart), astronauts from deep space (My ...

LOS ANGELES — Actor-comedian Alan Young, who played the amiable straight man to a talking horse in the 1960s sitcom "Mister Ed," has died, a spokeswoman for the Motion Picture and Television Home said ...