Complete and utter fluff here this week: those expecting to learn something had best immediately click off to the Library of Congress or Arts and Letters Daily.
As per usual policy, stay away from Google and IMDB before guessing, please.
Dennis Dugan was the star of a short-lived 1978 Rockford Files spinoff called Richie Brockelman, Private Eye. In what Disney movie (the ads for which stick maddeningly in the memory of your faithful scribe) did he play an astronaut who journeys back to Camelot, a la the Connecticut Yankee?
(A hint: the title is a play on a well-known acronym).
First correct post to comments wins, as usual, a prize of worth precisely calculated to match the value of the knowledge expressed.
Posted by BT at March 01, 2002 12:34 AMIs this one too out there? If I don't see any answers by this time tomorrow I'll have to start dropping hints.
Posted by: BT on March 1, 2002 02:32 PMH.O.T.S.
That's probably not it, is it?
I always get Dennis Dugan confused with the "Simon and Simon" guy. And which one was on the A-Team?
Posted by: boxjam on March 1, 2002 03:15 PMThe Man from U.N.C.L.E.? NASA? TGIF? USA USA USA?
Posted by: bootsy on March 1, 2002 03:23 PMThis rings no bell at all with me, so:
Nearly A Space Astronaut?
(Bill, I think we're going to have to conclude that this information is lodged in only your brain. Even those who made the movie have long forgotten it.)
Posted by: on March 1, 2002 03:30 PMWhoops, that anonymous post was by me.
Posted by: Gavin on March 1, 2002 03:30 PMAll right, one more hint: the acronym in question was "UFO."
My apologies for having dragged us down this road -- but I feel the need to extend one more opportunity for someone to recall this truly insignificant factoid.
Posted by: BT on March 2, 2002 12:39 PMBy the way, re Simon and Simon: Gerald McRaney (who later went on to inspire a nation as the world's most huggable Marine) went to my high school in Long Beach, Mississippi. Well before I was there, of course.
Posted by: BT on March 2, 2002 12:41 PMI went and looked this up, and I can't help but note that the name of the movie has since been changed! It's a conspiracy, I tell you.
Posted by: Gavin on March 3, 2002 12:50 PMUndulating Fictional Oblong?
Uncle/Father/Other?
Umlauts, Friends, Oboes?
Unbelievably Fake Otters?
Posted by: Gavin on March 3, 2002 12:53 PMIt's true -- Disney tried various titles for its dreadful Unidentified Flying Oddball; but A Spaceman in King Arthur's Court, despite its nod to Twain, didn't apparently help move video sales; bizarrely, that was later emended to The Spaceman and King Arthur, which can't have been any better.
I hereby apologize for dragging us all down this road. The thing is that the TV ad jingle, of all things, is stuck in my head. Aren't you glad that I don't have the technological means to hum it over the Web to you?
We'll do better next week, I promise.
Posted by: BT on March 4, 2002 12:28 AMStumpers should not be apologized for. I *remember* that damn movie being out now, but I'll still need the BT hum job later.