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... More...

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 ru... More...

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. More...

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. More...

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.... More...