June Lockhart

North by Northwest, Raintree Country, Exodus, other things.

Uh, June Lockhart, she was born in 1925.

Dick Van Dyke, born in, uh, da, da, da, da, da, da, da...

What does it say? Oh, d- 1925.

Let's see.

Her name, June Lockhart.

I don't know if she was in anything else, but she was kinda like the I Dream of Jeannie actress.

She was just absolutely magical-looking.

It was called Loused Up in Space.

And June Lockhart was on Match Game, and she was in Lost in Space.

And I said, June, I bought you a copy of Mad because my satire of your show is in it.

She said, oh, I'm reading it on my lunch hour.

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June Lockhart, AKA the mom from Leave it to Beaver

Leave it to Beaver.

I did recognize her

Yeah.

'Cause they forgot this wasn't Return of the Living Dead

[laughs] So they eat Norman Fell and June Lockhart's bird in front of them [laughs]

Yeah, they do

Oh, absolutely, yes.

Not the June Lockhart role.

You want to play Lassie.

No, Lassie's the star of the show.

I can't remember.

Did June Lockhart's character curse him? She's not the one who cursed him, is she? I don't remember.

I don't know.

My favorite thing is, I know that there's a witch.

She's a witch.

She's got a mushroom creature that talks to her.

And then in the end of the movie, in the last act of the movie, June Lockhart, who plays the older witch, she walks in front of a mirror, she pulls out her hair, she turns around, and it's Anne Lockhart, her daughter, who continues the rest of the movie.

And I think it's one of my favorite things in any movie.

Yeah, that was a tearjerker.

But Lassie, with June Lockhart as Lassie's mom, in black and white.

Lassie, she'd be on the top of a mountain.

Somebody would whistle, she'd come a-running.

They got me the part on Family Affair, Death Valley Days.

So I did an episode of Death Valley Days with June Lockhart, and I played Isadora Duncan as a child.

I was 18 playing a 12-year-old.

But it was her thing to be free and to dance freely and to let the spirit go.

Folks, we're here, we're talking about the Emmys, the Emmys 2026 as hosted by Law & SVU star Mariska Hargitay, Emmy winner I believe herself for that very show.

Wow, there's a lot to say, but I wanna start everything off by saying that I didn't realize that June Lockhart, star of Lassie, mom on lassie died i don't know that i knew she was alive still which i think like i was just saying to ann before recording i'm certain we would have been trying to get her if i knew that i think there's something about like the 90s that i guess it's like what we're experiencing now with like the y2k nostalgia but there was something about like the 90s where like we as young people were like really indoctrinated with certain culture that was not ours.

So I feel like, like the Brady Bunch was an example of that, whether it was the Brady movies or whether it was like the reunion shows that I was like into the Christmas special.

And it's like, why did I care about a show that was from like the early seventies? Or why did I watch like repeats of the Brady Bunch? Anyway, June Lockhart was in my pop culture consciousness.

So pouring one out for June Lockhart, because I didn't know she was alive, and I didn't know she died.

But all due respect, I looked her up last night.

I said, dang, we should have been trying to get her in these late years.