Television in the 1960s had an unusually high tolerance for strange ideas. Audiences happily followed suburban witches (Bewitched), bumbling secret agents (Get Smart), astronauts from deep space (My ...

The legend goes like this: to make a horse talk on television, the crew smeared peanut butter on his gums and waited for the magic. It is a story so sticky that it has clung to Mister Ed for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It wasn’t an unreasonable question considering that was the central gamble behind Mister Ed, a sitcom built around a simple but ...