William Windom

I have to credit somebody else for this besides my dad.

My first experience hearing Thurber recited, because it was done in his case because he was better at it than I am, recited from memory by the great actor William Windom, who is in many halls of fame for various parts of his entertainment career, including the Trekkies.

The Star Trek people adore him as a role as a troubled and indecisive, uh, commander of some kind or commodore in the Starfleet.

And he was a brilliant actor who played a thousand different characters throughout history.

I think he's in, I think he's in Inherit the Wind, too.

It, it, just an extraordinary career, but he did something that I saw on PBS, the William Windom review of Thurber and the stories of Thurber, dressed in an editor's little visor, green visor.

He told some of the stories and showed Thurber's drawings, and this was a PBS special that I thought was absolutely outstanding.

And he had done a series that NBC actually put on the air in, in this timeline, in nineteen sixty-nine, called My World and Welcome to It, that was a kind of interpretation of Thurber's stories into a sitcom, which lasted only half a year because it was, um, ten to fifteen times smarter than the average sitcom viewer, even in nineteen sixty-nine.