TV Appearances
Besides being the host of Fractured Flickers, Conried was a regular panelist on CBS's Stump the Stars, and a semi-regular guest on the Ernie Kovacs inspired game show Take A Good Look. His many guest appearances included Davy Crockett, Meet McGraw, Hey, Jeannie!, The Donna Reed Show, The Ray Milland Show, The DuPont Show with June Allyson, The Monkees, I Love Lucy (where he played English tutor Percy Livermore and used furniture merchant Dan Jenkins), The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Mister Ed, Ben Casey, Dr. Kildare, Lost in Space, Daniel Boone,The Beverly Hillbillies, The Lucy Show, Gilligan's Island (as Wrongway Feldman), Have Gun – Will Travel, Love, American Style, Kolchak, Alice, Laverne & Shirley, The Love Boat, Hogan's Heroes, Match Game, Maverick, What's It For, Fantasy Island, and Quark (as the voice of "The Source"). From 1956 until 1963 Conried made frequent guest appearances as Danny Thomas' eccentric Lebanese "Uncle Tonoose" in Make Room for Daddy. In real life, Thomas was Lebanese, Conried was not.
Conried also appeared in the 1958 episode "What Makes Opera Grand?", on the famous anthology series Omnibus. The episode, an analysis by Leonard Bernstein showing the powerful effect of music in opera, featured Conried as Marcello in a spoken dramatization of Act III of Puccini's La Bohème. The program demonstrated the effect of the music in La Bohème by having actors speak portions of the libretto in English, followed by opera singers singing exactly the same lines in the original Italian.
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