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"Now You See Him..." episode with Jack Cassidy which aired in 1976

posted 6 years ago by [deleted]
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One of my favorites but I just realized that Jack Cassidy was born in 1927. He would have been a bit young for a Nazi SS prison guard. Possible but they should have gone with a older actor now upon further review. Cassidy was great however.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

He was great in that one and the Mrs thingy episode too.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

I agree based on Cassidy's age, but he did look older than he was - especially in this episode.

[–] mrwitticism (160) 4 years ago

In the reviews for this episode on IMDB, some people commented that Cassidy always played characters that were older because he looked older than he actually was (49 when this episode aired).

[–] mrwitticism (160) 4 years ago

I just re-watched that episode last night on ME-TV (they air episodes Sunday nights at 8pm P.S.T.), and had an interesting realization about it this morning: The real reason Cassidy's character hated his daughter's singer-boyfriend was because he was Jewish - his name was Danny GREEN. If this subtext was purposely inserted by the episode's writer, Michael Sloan, it was well-done, very subtle. I wouldn't have picked up on it at all but for Santini calling Danny "boy" in a rather derogatory tone.

[–] davebuffalo (3442) 4 years ago

An actor can play someone older. Look at the hotties in Mean Girls. All of them were mid-20s playing High School girls.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

i like to pick out things like this.

[–] DoctorThirteen (13920) 3 years ago

Likewise the supposedly '6th form' girls in the St Trinian's films.