Doc Corkle
Encyclopedia
Doc Corkle is an American Television sitcom that was broadcast on NBC
on Sunday nights for three weeks from October 5 to October 19, 1952. The show's sponsor, Reynolds Metals
, was so disappointed with the program that it was canceled and replaced by Mr. Peepers
.
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
on Sunday nights for three weeks from October 5 to October 19, 1952. The show's sponsor, Reynolds Metals
Reynolds Metals
Reynolds Group Holdings is an American packaging company with its roots in the Reynolds Metals Company, was the second largest aluminum company in the United States, and the third largest in the world...
, was so disappointed with the program that it was canceled and replaced by Mr. Peepers
Mr. Peepers
Mr. Peepers is an American television sitcom that aired on NBC from July 3, 1952 to June 12, 1955.-Overview:Mr. Peepers starred Wally Cox as Jefferson City's junior high school science teacher Robinson J. Peepers...
.
Premise
The series focused on Doc Corkle, a neighborhood dentist beset by money problems and eccentric relatives.Cast
- Eddie MayehoffEddie MayehoffEddie Mayehoff was an American actor.Probably his best known role was as Harold Lampson, the henpecked husband and incompetent lawyer in the 1965 comedy movie How to Murder Your Wife....
as Doc Corkle - Billie BurkeBillie BurkeMary William Ethelbert Appleton "Billie" Burke was an American actress. She is primarily known to modern audiences as Glinda the Good Witch of the North in the musical film The Wizard of Oz. She was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance as Emily Kilbourne in Merrily We Live...
as Melinda - Arnold StangArnold StangArnold Stang was an American comic actor who played a small and bespectacled, yet brash and knowing big-city type.-Career:...
as Winfield Dill - Hope EmersonHope Emerson-Early life:Emerson was born in Hawarden, Iowa. Following her graduation from West High School in Des Moines in 1916, she moved to New York City where she performed in vaudeville.-Career:...
as Nellie Corkle - Connie Marshall as Laurie Corkle