Way before Samuel L. Jackson tried to make a catchphrase out of snakes and a mutha f****n' plane, David Janssen had already tried to get them out of his mutha f****n' submarine. No. joke. Fer-De-Lance aired on this day back in 1974 on CBS. Frank Bonner who played Herb Tarlek on WKRP is the stooge who thinks bringing poisonous snakes on a plane is a good idea. Well, the sub gets into some technical trouble and now those snakes are loose and looking for blood! Yikes! This movie is actually available on a DVD collection called Killer Snakes!
I love Frank Bonner... I must see this ASAP! Didn't Edie McGlurg play his wife on WKRP?
ReplyDeleteI think you're right, he was married to Edie on WKRP. Are you thinking of that brilliant episode where that TV showed followed them around for a day? Love that one!
ReplyDeleteYep, that's the episode I was thinking of -- I remember they showed the closet in their bedroom and how Herb had a very particular way of hanging the hangers. Strange what tidbits get stuck in the long-term memory...
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