Margie

I had a minor crush on Margie when I was 12. I couldn't get enough of the roaring 20's at the time, the Untouchables had triggered that. I remember the boy (Jim Hawkins) who played "The Shiek"-a Valentino wannabe. He had been Annie Oakley's kid brother. That was another good show that didn't get re-run. We could use a 1950's TV station. Maybe three stations. Will there ever be a TV land for these cute but short lived series? My brothers and I got a kick out of the 1920's cars and costumes they had. Not to mention the hairstyles. Maybe there will be DVD compilations soon of shows. like Margie that were only broadcast a few times.

I saw this show when it was first on and I loved it, as did my family, and we were disappointed when it went off the air. I was eleven years old and I still remember those characters. Dave Willock would always be, "Harvey," to us and we always shouted that name, enthusiastically whenever we saw him anywhere else. He was Harvey to us despite the fact that we also liked him in, "Queen of Out Space," and many other shows. Like Cynthia Pepper, the search for whom led to finding this site, I miss Penny Parker and wonder what became of her. I recall her every time I see Sherilyn Fenn. To this day, I have never seen the Twentieth Century Fox logo without automatically going to the "Margie," version of the musical introduction that was the lead-in for the, "Margie," theme, which I still recall word for word. At home (I grew up in Manhattan)when I was a kid, I was pretty gangly and accident prone. Every time I tripped or knocked something over the family would shout, in unison, "Mamma, Cornell did it again!" This was based on Margie's loud whine, at the end of one episode in which her brother had been particularly troublesome to her in her attempts to secure a date with a boy. It's the only episode I recall, thanks to that family joke. It's a fond memory.

There are a lot of sitcoms out there and none of them as far as I am concerned are much worth watching. You have to go back many years to find really good sitcoms and this one set in the Roaring Twenties was one of them. I used to love watching it and only after two seasons, it was gone! I thought It might have been some mistake taking this show off the air. But it wasn't. I wish they would show this again as re-runs just to show how to make a good sitcom.

A few weeks ago, for some reason, I started thinking about this show and couldn't remember the name of it. Without the power of the internet, I wouldn't have found it. But now that I have, I want everyone to know what a great show it was. The show is too far in the past to ever bring back the original actors, some of whom have passed on, but maybe it would be possible to recreate the show from the formula of the original. Hopefully, the old shows are still around in some vault.

Cynthia Pepper was also in some early episodes of "My Three Sons" but I remember her best in "Margie." When the show went off the air I couldn't understand why.

I also have wondered over the years why Cynthia Pepper dropped out of show biz. Perhaps she got married, settled down, had kids.

It seems to me I remember she was a relative to someone else in "show biz. Does anyone know about that?

I last saw it 37 years ago (!) but I still remember it as a funny and pleasant comedy with a delightful star. Maybe it didn't catch on due to it being set in the 1920's - fewer years removed from 1961 than 1999! Too bad it was never rerun. Wish it was on video.