“New Neighbors”, Season 1, Episode 21, Filmed 1/25/52, Aired 3/3/52

One of my favorite, maybe my favorite, director of all time is Tim Burton. Matt and I were lucky enough to go to MOMA (Museum of Modern Art) and see the Tim Burton exhibit, let me just say, if you live in New York City, RUN DON’T WALK TO THE SHOW! It is BEYOND amazing. His mind is so unique and creative. I just want to crawl in his brain and live in his worlds. All his movies seem to have a heart to them, maybe not an obvious, sweet sappy heart, but a heart non the less. “Nightmare Before Christmas” is one of my favorite movies, I love the story, I love the world and I LOVE the music. Something about being around creativeness, starts my juices flowing and gets my creative gears running. Let’s have a little therapy.
622 E. 68TH Street is getting some new neighbors and Lucy and Ethel are being their nosey selves by looking out the window. Ricky makes Lucy promise not to step foot in the new neighbors, the O’Brians, apartment, however he didn’t say anything about knees. Lucy on her knees and Ethel on her feet sneak into the O’Brians apartment when they leave. Lucy ends up getting stuck in the O’Brians apartment and hears them talking about a plot to kill the “couple that lives upstairs”. Lucy finally is able to sneak out by dressing like a high back arm chair. Little does Lucy know, the O’Brians are actors. After Lucy calls the police and convinces the other three that the O’Brians are plotting to kill them, the four set up fort. When the police come by to check on them, the four shoot their guns thinking it’s the O’Brians. The four are put in jail for the night, find out the O’Brians are actors and Fred is told the O’Brians are moving out.
The man that played Mr. O’Brian was Hayden Rorke (I don’t think any relation to Mickey). Hayden Rorke is best known for as Dr. Alfred E. Bellows on the 1960s TV series, “I Dream of Jeannie”. He was always questioning the “strange things” happening to Major Anthony Nelson. He’s a fellow Brooklyn guy, HEY! Maybe New York was different in the 50’s, but New York today, we don’t know our neighbors very well, or at all. It is a strange situation, I live in a Brownstone, probably similar to the Mertzes building, and I very rarely see the other people and I barely know their names! However that is New York living!