Word: sidekick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time of World War II, Crosby and his perennial sidekick Bob Hope were barnstorming the country on golf exhibitions with professionals such as Byron Nelson and Harold McSpaden. "Lord" Byron, the leading money-winner of 1945, and "Childe" Harold were then known as "The Gold Dust Twins." Crosby teamed up with woman professional and former Olympian Mildred "Babe" Didrickson in a series of War Bond exhibitions on the Coast. By the end of the war, over $600 million worth of War Bonds had been sold through golf tournaments and exhibitions...
...Fleegle and his triple whammy. Joe Btfsplk and his perpetual cloud rained down bad luck on almost everyone, and the unluckiest ended up in the hands of Freddie the undertaker. The shmoos rolled over dead and oven ready for hungry hoomins. Hulking Hairless Joe and his faithful Indian sidekick, Lonesome Polecat, dispensed hair-curling batches of Kickapoo Joy Juice. Dogpatchers went calling on the snowbound citizens of Lower Slobbovia, home of Lena the Hyena, world's ugliest woman. Moonbeam McSwine wallowed happily in the mud and tried unsuccessfully to ensnare Abner with her buxom charms. As Capp once said...
...show. (The cops are known as Chippies to California motorists, but NBC quickly saw the problem with that title.) Daniel Boone is back, or rather Young Dan'l Boone. This time he is 25 years old and accompanied by a runaway slave and preteen sidekick on his wilderness walks for CBS. For long-neglected horse opera fans, Rod Taylor will bit The Oregon Trail as a pioneer plodding west for NBC, Big Hawaii will go even farther west on NBC-to Paradise Ranch, where a cantankerous family of cattle ranchers haggle over their island Ponderosa...
Earth Gimble, the host, is a preternatural populist. Under a blond tuft of mustache, he sports the same smug smile for everyone, turning it off only when his sidekick, Jerry Hubbard, ventures beyond the bounds of propriety, Fern-wood-style. Gimble, played by Martin Mull, 33, is the best Lear character since Archie Bunker, and Hubbard (Fred Willard, 33), the dumber-than-dumb Edith Bunker of this most odd couple, is not far behind. Any comparison to Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon is, of course, purely intentional...
WIDERBERG provides two compelling portraits of men of flawed character behind the socially acceptable role of public servant. One is Lt. Hult, the victim's sidekick, a vicious bully who proudly wears his uniform on his day off. The other is the Commissioner, who presents a slick media image but is completely ineffective when presented with the crisis that ends the film. Both are scoundrels, but they are also cops, which blinds most people to their failings. Widerberg will have no such nonsense, and therein lies the strength of Man on the Roof...