Tony Award-winning actress Alice Ghostley, well-known to TV viewers for
playing confused sidekicks on Bewitched and Designing Women took
her Final Taxi at 81.
From 1966 through 1972, she made regular appearances on the sitcom Bewitched
as shy, bumbling witch Esmeralda From 1986 through 1993, Ghostley portrayed oddball neighbor Bernice Clifton on
the hit series Designing Women. She earned an Emmy nomination for the
role in 1992. 
Over a six-decade career, she made more than 90 TV appearances in such shows as
Evening Shade, Love, American Style and Mayberry R.F.D.
Ghostley appeared in 30 films, including To Kill a Mockingbird , The
Graduate, Gator and Two on a
Bench.
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During the '70s, there was a cohort of actresses who were, at the time, best known as game show panelists. There was Kitty Carlisle Hart on To Tell the Truth, Jaye P. Morgan on The Gong Show, Patty Deutsch on Tattletales and my favorite, Brett Somers on The Match Game. As a child of the 70's I thought she was awesome. 
Unfortunately, Brett Somers has taken her Final Taxi. During Match Game's run in the 70's it featured regulars like Somers, Betty White,Richard Dawson and Charles Nelson Reilly.
She played in movies and television shows like"The Love Boat,’ ‘Barney Miller,’ and ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show.’ She also acted in Broadway along side Alice Ghostley.
She was 83.
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 Percy Rodriguez did several voice overs, including the one for the trailer to Jaws. He was seen in TV in the 60's, 70's and 80's and will be well known by Star Trek fans.
Charlotte Zucker was the mom of directors Jerry and David Zucker but was an actress herself, appearing in several of their films including "The Naked Gun" and in "Airplane" as the lipstick lady. 
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 This week the Final Taxi talks about Max Hodge who took an unknown comic villain and turn him into on of Batman's most remembered rouges, Mr. Freeze.
Also we follow the life of Tony Caras who after working in horror films with Rodger Corman and made film history in the 60s with 'beach party' movies.
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Warren Batchelder,
 animator
of well over 200 Warner Bros. and Pink Panther cartoons. Though
uncredited, he was an animator for the main titles of the 1963
feature film The Pink Panther -- which led to doing the
cartoons. He was an animator for such TV series as Super
President (1967), Here Comes the Grump (1969) and much more. For Marvel he was a
sequence director for Transformers (1984) and G.I. Joe (1985).
James T. "Jimmy" Callahan, was an actor best known for playing the cranky grandfather on television's "Charles in Charge,"Between 1959 and 2007, he appeared in more than 120 films and TV shows. He was featured in several episodes of "Dr. Kildare" on NBC in the early 1960s and played a press secretary on "The Governor & J.J.," which aired on CBS from 1969 to 1972.
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