Who would you have liked to be a guest on TMS?

[Emosewa]

*waves a hand8 I vote for Bill Murray, then again I just love that guy, he's so funny. ^_^

 

[bazooka_beak]

I agree with many of these!

Bill Cosby
Bill Murray (or maybe the whole Ghostbusters team! That would've been so great! I can just imagine them running around backstage trying to catch ghosts)
Michael J. Fox
Cyndi Lauper

If they let kid stars come on:

One of the Goonies kids
The girl who played Punky Brewster

 

[superfan]

Definately John Ritter...
and along the same lines as Alice Cooper, the lead singer for Twisted Sister would have been pretty funny

Also:
Hulk Hogan
Sting (because of his work with Spitting Image's Peter and the Wolf)
Farrah Fawcett
Gene Wilder
Barbara Streisand
Goldie Hawn

 

[jrhzoot]

Some other choices-

Paul McCartney
Carly Simon (surprised she wasn't on it)
Angela Lansbury
Andy Griffith
Ella Fitzgerald
Johnny Carson

 

[MrsPepper]

One of the Goonies kids

Corey Feldman Corey Feldman Corey Feldman Corey FELDMAAAAAN!
Wonder what that would have been like...

 

[That Announcer]

Well, I've got a few I'd have liked to be on there:

• Billy Joel
• Rob Reiner
• Don Adams
• Casey Kasem
• Stevie Wonder
• Wendy Carlos
• Davy Jones
• Mike Nesmith
• Micky Dolenz
• Peter Tork
• Jim Henson (now that would have been interesting)
• Robin Williams
• Henry Winkler
• Penny Marshall
• Gary Burghoff
• David Ogden Stiers

... actually, I oughta start a new thread about that new Muppet Show deal...

 

[D'Snowth]

Gary Burghoff, now that would've been a good one. If you hadn't heard before, the guy can sing! And not just as Radar either, I mean he used to have his own band! Anyway, here's my list...

• Elizabeth Montgomery
• Barbara Eden
• Eva Gabor
• Eddie Albert
• Frank Oz (you mentioned Jim)
• Alan Alda (in fact, I'd like to see him on Sesame Street with Ernie)
• David Ogden Stiers
• Dick York

 

[MrsPepper]

... actually, I oughta start a new thread about that new Muppet Show deal...

CLARIFYYYYY.... **gives evil eye**

 

[Gonzo14]

has Andy Griffith been named? and I still think The Fonz (Henry Winkler) would have been great, I love Happy Days

 

[Gorgon Heap]

I've done some outlines with some of these folks already- Billy Joel, Sammy Davis Jr., David Ogden Stiers, with several more in the pike- Alan Alda, Rodney Dangerfield, Gene Wilder, and John Ritter. I agree that Suzanne Somers would've been a good choice, and of course Gary Burghoff, Weird Al Yankovic (he didn't come to prominance until post-TMS, I think), Bill Cosby and Bob Newhart.

Some additions:
-Mel Brooks (TravellingMatt wrote an outline, Philip Kippel and I are working on another one)
-Sid Caesar (Princeton and I are working on this one)
-Henny Youngman
-Buddy Hackett (if I ever finish this one)
-Mickey Rooney
-Walter Matthau
-Jack Albertson (Grandpa Joe from the original "Willy Wonka", Oscar and Tony-winner as the dominating father in "The Subject was Roses")
-Larry Linville (I think it'd be interesting to see him being himself and not Major Frank Burns; in real life Linville was considered a great guy by those who knew him)
-Carole King (TravellingMatt wrote an outline featuring her)
-Rod Stewart (TravellingMatt wrote him into an outline as well)
-Mick Jagger (I'm taking this one)
-Dan Fogelberg (I grew up on this guy- I'll do an outline with him eventually)
-Gordon Lightfoot (got an outline started but it's a long way from completion)
-Cat Stevens (started an outline, a long way from finishing it)
-Jim Croce (if only he hadn't died so suddenly; I'm just starting to develop ideas for this outline)
-Spike Jones (again, died years before TMS)
-Cass Elliott (died in '74; working on this outline)
-Jack Benny (died in '74- Princeton did a nice outline guest starring him)
-Art Carney (he worked with them twice; if he had done TMS, he would've been their only guest star to win the Best Actor Oscar)

Cher and Robin Williams were supposedly booked on the show- in one of the Season Four editions of the Muppet Show magazine they were actually listed as upcoming guest stars, along with Senor Wences- but then they ended up not appearing, and Senor Wences ended up appearing the following season. I have also heard it said that Cher was booked (or re-booked, I guess) on the show in late Season Five, but once again dropped out and was replaced by Debbie Harry.

I think most of you know who I would've liked to see on TMS judging by my outlines. I just came up with another idea only yesterday, which I hope to work on during my vacation this week (I'm in Cincinnati visiting my grandparents). For now I'm going to keep it a secret, suffice it to say it's another Halloween episode, and a celeb who died years before TMS began.

David "Gorgon Heap" Ebersole