For the general public, knowledge of Patty Maloney’s show business career is limited to Far Out Space Nuts and perhaps a couple of her movies. Did you know that Patty was also in these television projects? I have not actually seen any of these programs, so photographs, screen captures or video clips (QuickTime or RealVideo) would be appreciated.
- It Takes All Kinds: All I know about this program is that Patty was one of the hosts, according to her résumé, which I received from Hanna-Barbera in 1985. Presumably it was a local show in either Chicago or Los Angeles, similar to NBC’s Real People.
- The Brady Bunch Hour: Patty made frequent guest appearances on this short-lived ABC variety show, which featured the sitcom cast still in character.
- The Star Wars Holiday Special: In this much-reviled CBS program from 1978, Patty played Lumpy, the son(!) of Chewbacca. Patty is listed in Leah Mangue’s Star Wars Actors Database.
- Dumbo’s Circus: Patty worked on this Disney Channel series based on the animated feature about a flying elephant. According to IMDB, she played Dink the koala.
- Short Ribbs: This was a sketch comedy series, broadcast in the late 1980s. There were only four people in the cast: Patty herself, Billy Barty and two other male dwarfs. I have searched vainly for trade ads in back issues of Broadcasting & Cable magazine. Patty has told me that she has copies of all 13 episodes of the series, which she doubts was broadcast outside Los Angeles.
- Monopoly: Before Michael Reilly became the host of this 12 weeks’ wonder on ABC, Peter Tomarken was the host of the Monopoly pilot. In the pilot, Patty walked around the board in the costume of Rich Uncle Pennybags, the Monopoly mascot. She did not make it to the series.
- A.J.’s Time Travelers: This 1995 series on Fox featured Patty as a robotic character named B.I.T., the first such character she played since her 1979 appearance on Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.
- Cafe DuArt: Although Louise DuArt, host of the Lifetime game show Rodeo Drive, was the star of this series on Goodlife Television, I understand that Patty played a truck driver turned bartender. Can you imagine our favorite 60-pound sexpot driving an 18-wheeler? I thought not.
- Tales from the Crypt: In this HBO series based on a comic book, Patty was one of two Cryptkeeper puppet operators.
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