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If the creators of Mister Ed could only have realized just what they were prophesying in this episode, they'd have gotten in on the ground floor of Malpaso films. When Clint Eastwood was just known as the star of Rawhide, in fact at the height of that series run, he made a guest appearance on Mister Ed.

It was a rocky road for Mister Ed and Clint. Clint moves into the neighborhood where the Posts and Addisons are and he's got a horse that Mister Ed doesn't get along with. Ed's campaign to get rid of Eastwood and the horse nearly gets Alan Young a beating.

But later on Eastwood gets a young filly instead and Mister Ed of course now is all in favor of him. By that time though Eastwood has been in the spirit of good neighborliness, inveigled into directing a western sketch of his own creation starring the Mister Ed regulars. We never did see the finished product just the rehearsals with Alan Young, Larry Keating, Connie Hines and Edna Skinner in western attire.

Almost fifty years and two Oscars later for Best Director, can we say that Clint Eastwood's career as a director started with this? An interesting thing to turn over in your mind.

This is a very good episode of a series I really liked back in the day and I'm glad the THIS network has picked up these shows.

This is an unusually good episode of the weird and popular TV show about a talking horse and his incredibly patient owner. In those days some of the burden of analog transmission by telephone wire was sometimes lightened by using "party lines", so you sometimes shared wire space with the neighbors. In the 70s teenagers had a lot of fun with this, but I digress. Mr. Ed the talking horse knows how to get into his owner's architect studio which is also in the stable building and he messes with somebody on the party line to try and free up the line for his own private use. Mr. Eastwood, playing a cliché Hollywood version of himself, is infuriated and comes around with the assumption in mind that the owner is to blame. They end up working it out somehow and Eastwood gets to do some unusual physical comedy turns with the horse. Young Eastwood looks splendid in black and white and I'm pretty sure his fans and anyone interested in television comedy of the period would enjoy this. I was born in 1958 and I can tell you for sure this was not the worst show on at the time.