Television in the 1960s had an unusually high tolerance for strange ideas. Audiences happily followed suburban witches (Bewitched), bumbling secret agents (Get Smart), astronauts from deep space (My ...

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Mister Ed (Himself) is a horse who is owned by Wilbur Post (Alan Young). Mister Ed is not just any horse, he talks to Wilbur. But this gets Wilbur in all kinds of trouble because Mister Ed won't talk ...

Wilbur is overwhelmed when he goes into his barn and his horse starts talking to him. Wilbur's wife and neigbors think he's crazy when he tries to tell them. Ed says that he will only talk to Wilbur ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Actor-comedian Alan Young, who played the amiable straight man to a talking horse in the 1960s sitcom “Mister Ed,” has died, a spokeswoman for the Motion Picture and Television Home ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It wasn't an unreasonable question considering that was the central gamble behind Mister Ed, a sitcom built around a simple but ...