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Larry Keating + Allan Lane


I love this show. However, hearing how the producers treated Keating's death on the show (wholly ignoring it) and the way they refused to list Lane in the credits, is completely ignorant.
Seriously, if those decisions were made because of children watching and believing the show was "reality" and not wanting to ruin that dream with the realities of death and the fact that Ed could not talk and was in fact voiced by a human being, then who were they fooling?
At the same time, not giving credit for work done on Lane's part (whether it was actually agreed to or not) and not having any sort of memorial for Keating after his death (since he was a huge part of the show's success), really lacks etiquette and taste IMHO.
Arthur Lubin was an odd duck, but also apparently, kind of an idiot.
Probably his latent (hidden) life, played a part in those ridiculous secrets.
But to deny actors their credit due to a silly reason that children actually believed this show was real, is utter stupidity.
Ask around. What kid believed Ed could really talk.
After all, he was a TV horse. NOT Santa Claus or the tooth fairy!

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On Dennis the Menace it was the same. The first Mister Wilson died and there was no tribute. They made his character move away. Also the first Mrs Kravits on Bewitched died. I think it was too morbid for a comedy to deal with, at least back then.

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Have you gotten that out of your system? Seriously, though, it was a different time, etc., etc...and why not keep some mystery about Ed's voice...?

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