Character History
Bronson Pinchot was first approached by producers Tom Miller and Robert Boyett to play the role of an immigrant to the United States, in a show tentatively titled "The Greenhorn"; he refused, not wanting to play another character similar to "Serge"—his role in Beverly Hills Cop, who also has an unusual accent. He reconsidered after returning from a trip to Greece, and decided to base the character and the fictional island of Mypos on the people he had encountered in the villages of Greece. Pinchot came up with the name Balki, after his sister's dog; she had named the dog "Balcony" and ended up calling him "Balcy" for short.
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