I memory serves from seeing GIRL ON THE RUN many years ago,
Edd's character was so volatile and slippery that it would
have been difficult to rehab him as the affable Kooky in the
series -- altho' in a pinch, the scripters might have made
them twin brothers with different personalities.
I'd like to see someone reprint the Roy Huggins novel and
novellas.
Fred B.
Jeff Vorzimmer wrote:
> > Interestingly, in that 90-minute debut episode,
Byrnes
> > played a jive-talking, incessantly
hair-combing,
> > psychopathic hit man, referred to in the script
as
> > only "the Kook." In previews, reaction to
that
> > character was so positive that the producers
to
> > decided to create a similar, good-guy character
around
> > the same actor.
>
> Yeah, I always thought it was strange that they
never tried to explain
> Kookie being a parking lot attendant after being
sent away for murder
> in the pilot. They could have done a whole episode
around Stu Bailey
> working out a deal to get Kookie out on parole and
into his custody
> and then getting him the job at Dino's parking
cars.
>
> Jeff
>
>
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