Regional or at least only stocked by certain chains. The two that CausticAvenger mentioned are both stocked at Fred Meyer (the Pacific Northwest division of Kroger) but nowhere else where I live.

Worked in real life for James "Scotty" Doohan as well (though it was a cigarette case in his instance.)

That's perilously close to most of the recipes in several 1950s-60s cookbooks my Mom handed on to me.

In the pre-Domino's 1970s, living 10 miles from the nearest pizza joint, when delivery was strictly a big-city thing - pizza night as a kid meant a 2-pack of Oh Boy! frozen pepperoni pizzas, "doctored" with half a can of Brandywine (Stems & Pieces) mushrooms each. I don't think either brand still exists, but I can…

Ah. "Here's the Governor of Arkansas playing the saxophone" would indeed be a good fit for The Tonight Show.

I think Bill Clinton playing the sax was on Arsenio Hall rather than Carson. Otherwise, agree totally.

If the M*A*S*H producers were surprised, they were pretty clueless. Morgan's first big success (after playing lots of mugs and thugs in B-movies) was in the sitcom December Bride…successful enough to be one of TV's earlier spinoffs into his own show, Pete & Gladys.

And one that's generally lost in the snark but terribly germane these days, with Joe Friday giving the word to a past classmate who's tied up with an ultra-right "militia" and trying to recruit him too:

I watched several Dragnet and Adam-12 episodes with my Dad (who grew up in Van Nuys and LA proper) a few years ago, and was amazed that he could identify practically every street in the driving scenes.

Frank Smith was even more mild-mannered than Gannon, and just about as eccentric. (Same penchants for cooking and weird cures for ailments, too.) Ben Alexander was on another show when they shot the Dragnet '66 movie, and died shortly before production started on the '67 series; he was originally going to come back as…

Now…have a good lunch.

And subsequently married to a model, then to the first Miss Universe…and finally to the widow of the guy who'd built Hi-Fi and stereo systems for him for years.

And Gannon isn't exaggerating - he stuffs the bag of pot into Joe's hand and runs out of the room covering his mouth.

That and maybe that he had two teenage daughters at the time.

The show overdoes it in later episodes dealing with race relations, but some of the earlier ones have surprisingly subtle touches. (One has an entirely black cast except for Webb and Morgan - victim, witnesses and suspects - and it's handled no differently from any other case.)

Friday still smokes heavily on-screen in '67, and there's one or two scenes with Gannon smoking as well. In the following seasons, Gannon never smokes; Friday still does, but a lot less often.

They still got along, she had custody of their two daughters, and her husband Bobby Troup was a long-time friend of Webb's.

That one's been well contradicted by numerous people - who were quite honest that Webb was a very heavy drinker, just not during working hours.

I don't know if PRIVATE EYE magazine looks at websites other than UK TV and newspapers' for its "Pseud's Corner" feature…but if it does, this one's a lock.

*rainbow/star whoosh*