This part of the Prattfall universe will be dedicated to people that have been an influence on my life, and are now deceased.
I can remember watching Flip Wilson on Laugh-In, and later his variety show, always wildly funny. I was probably about 6 or 7, and my best friend at the time was Carlene Prince, and we would drive my mom crazy re-enacting the skits from the night before, in the back seat of the Fairlane on the way to St. Dominic's. Now that I think of it, the Pythons were also spending a lot of time in drag at about the same time...
Actor of many heavy parts (usually a bad guy in TV & B-movie westerns of the 1950's & 1960's, he landed the role that was to make him immortal, that of Dr. Leonard McCoy, a "simple country doctor" in the service of the United Federation of Planets, serving many years aboard the Federation flagship USS Enterprise. He replaced the Doctor/Bartender that served under Captain Pike (see the epsode "The Cage" or the Star Trek pilot with Jeffery Hunter as Captain Pike).
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