bkoganbing
Military service comedies never seem to run out of style and in the late Eisenhower, early Kennedy years a good one was on CBS in Hennesey. Jackie Cooper starred as the doctor in the naval service. It was like MASH a bit except that MASH was during a war and had as many serious shows as comic ones. And the stories were both military and medical. Jackie Cooper played Chick Hennesey, naval doctor who reported to his Sherman Potter, Admiral Roscoe Karns. Playing the sex symbol of the show was Abby Dalton who was Cooper's nurse and girl Friday. It took three seasons for Cooper to slowly realize that Abby thought he was hot stuff. In matters of the heart Dr. Hennesey was a bit dense. Dalton could have given Hot Lips Houlihan a run for her money.It was a nice show and one of the first to have a climax of sort. At least we know Cooper got the girl who was chasing him.
davidalbertrathbone
Thanks to the kind folk at knickerbockervillage (http://www.youtube.com/user/knickerbockervillage) we now have a crystal clear hi-fi copy of the soundtrack along with a slide show of stills from the series posted on You Tube at:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLdNnMqIMZAThere's also a plug for Hennesey on the CBS Fall Preview posted at:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlxdaTrQya0"If you ever go looking for gloomy thoughts, you're not likely to find them on Hennesey"But still, no whole episodes...
splhcb-1
I share the positive opinions already mentioned.HENNESEY was one of my favorite TV shows from that time period ... even though I was only 6 or 7 years old at that time! I can still whistle the refrain from the show's tune.The episode I remember (and I can't recall all the details) is the one that featured Bobby Darin. I just recently re-discovered that it was titled "Hennesey Meets Honeboy Jones". What I recall from that episode is Bobby Darin singing MACK THE KNIFE ... just great! I wish I had a copy of that episode on DVD.Does anyone have a copy? Please contact me at
[email protected] if you do.
stedder
DVDs of Hennesey are available on the semi-bootleg market. I will just say one word..."ioffer.com". You track them down from there. I believe the show was rebroadcast on a limited basis in the 80s and these recordings seem to date from then. I say that because you can see a snippet of a commercial in one show, and it's in color, for CDs of Christmas music. One commenter says there was no laugh track in the original show. I have no memory of that at all, but I've watched the pilot and the first two regular episodes, and they have laugh tracks. In principle they could have been overdubbed for rebroadcast, of course. Or it may have been dropped in later episodes.The DVDs are acceptable in quality for bootlegs. Nobody's ever going to restore this stuff like it was Citizen Kane, you know. They're a little contrasty at times, the audio level can be low, but it's the same show you remember.
