Nuts and Bolts

I remember Nuts and Bolts. It was a great concept I really wanted to see go to series. First of all it was a chance to be around one of my TV heroines Eve Arden! Rich Little was absolutely amazing, and I was thrilled to be on a show with William Daniels from Broadway's 1776 fame. He played a life-size curmudgeonly manservant type robot. Another robot was a little person in a costume and then there was a third robot that was like a remote controlled Roomba vacuum cleaner or something. I was the sound mixer on that pilot, It was taped at the Sunset Gower Studios for ABC on the same stage that we did Soap on, and I would love to see it again.

I seem to be the only person on Planet Earth who remembers this movie and the pilot that resulted from it. I remember being impressed by the writing, despite the outlandish premise. I also remember that it had my childhood favorite Eve Arden in it, and that was enough to carry the day for me. I had first met Eve in the late 60s NBC TV show The Mothers-in-Law, co-starring Kaye Ballard, a show that ended prematurely when its producer Desi Arnaz refused to come to terms with Roger C. Carmel, who left the show causing ratings to decline. His replacement in season 2 was Richard Deacon, who was great in his element, but this was not his element.

As to Nuts and Bolts, it seems to have vanished without a trace.