The Flying Machine
- Studio
- Total Television Productions, Leonardo Televison Productions
Synopsis
The Commander recalls the time when he invented the first airplane and lost credit to the Wright Brothers.
Characters
Commander McBragg, Stanley Livingston
Credits
Producing
- Producer
- Joe Harris, Treadwell Covington, Buck Biggers, Chet Stover
Voices
- Voice
- Kenny Delmar (Commander McBragg), Delo States (Stanley Livingston)
Production notes
Commander McBragg, a retired British naval officer, self-proclaimed adventurer and world traveler, spins pathetically far-fetched Baron Munchausen-style ramblings from his trophy-laden library ("There I was, surrounded by cannibals when...") McBragg uses extraordinary means to extract himself from inescapable situations, so extraordinary, in fact, that even his animated listeners find him hard to believe. When his veracity is questioned, McBragg is unfazed. He simply clears his throat and mutters, "Quite."
br />Commander McBragg was modeled after Sir C. Aubrey Smith, fine old English actor from the 1930s and 1940s, always to be seen in the club, sipping brandy by the fire, talking about his days battling savages for The Empire. He was a member of the "Hollywood Raj," a group of English actors living in self-imposed exile among the palm trees and Spanish Mission architecture of 1930s Hollywood. Ronald Colman, David Niven, George Sanders, Boris Karloff and others convened regularly for gin and tonics on the lawn and polo, presided over imperiously by Smith, character actor and legendary cricketer of an earlier generation.
br />Commander McBragg was modeled after Sir C. Aubrey Smith, fine old English actor from the 1930s and 1940s, always to be seen in the club, sipping brandy by the fire, talking about his days battling savages for The Empire. He was a member of the "Hollywood Raj," a group of English actors living in self-imposed exile among the palm trees and Spanish Mission architecture of 1930s Hollywood. Ronald Colman, David Niven, George Sanders, Boris Karloff and others convened regularly for gin and tonics on the lawn and polo, presided over imperiously by Smith, character actor and legendary cricketer of an earlier generation.
