Liberty

It was directed by Robert Stevenson with screenplay by Bill Walsh, cinematography by Edward Coleman, edited by Cotton Warburton, and music by George Bruns.

It's based on Samuel W. Taylor's short story, A Situation of Gravity, which was printed in the May 22, 1943 issue of Liberty Magazine.

Liberty Magazine was an American weekly general interest magazine based in New York City that had publishings running from May 10, 1924 until its final issue sometime in 1950.

So in this 1961 Disney science fiction comedy, the absent-minded professor, a bumbling chemistry teacher, Professor Ned Brainerd, played by Fred McMurray, is so consumed with his scientific reach for it at Medfield College that he accidentally misses his own wedding to his fiancee, Betsy Carlyle, for the third time.

Hmm.

Yeah.

Um, but how it came about, the Mr. Ed show concept was derived from a series of short stories by the author Walter Orbr- R. Brooks, which began with The Talking Horse in September of 1937 in an issue of Liberty Magazine.

He is also best known for Freddy the Pig series of children's novels, which features talking animals.

So we sensing a pattern here with Mr. Walter R. Brooks.