Saturday, February 8, 2025

A gangster running for Mayor? Well, maybe..... (Chicago Teddy Bears, 1971)

 5 years after Batman offered a story arc that suggested a criminal like the Penguin could run for Mayor, only to discover that he couldn't, we offer another example of how this can or can't work.

In this lone online-available episode of The Chicago Teddy Bears, Nick (Art Metrano) decides to run for Mayor, but there are complications.


Some of the supporting cast would later resurface elsewhere. Some, you know (Marvin Kaplan on Alice, Jamie Farr on M*A*S*H & The Gong Show), and some, you might forget (Huntz Hall would move to The Corner Bar, then do some Saturday morning work (i.e. Ghost Busters). Of course, we have since lost John Banner (not long after the series ended) and Mike Mazurki. Metrano would later turn up on Joanie Loves Chachi.

Rating: B.

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