Insofar as I know, Jackie Joseph had a brief cartoon career, all with Hanna-Barbera. As most of you know, she voiced dim-witted Melody on Josie & The Pussycats and its subsequent sequel between 1970-3, and returned to work on the Dinky Dog backup feature on The All-New Popeye Hour.
Before that, Jackie had racked up an impressive resume as a "face actress", working in front of the camera. While I'm not sure if she ever worked with her husband, F-Troop's Ken Berry, Jackie did turn up in a season 1 episode of Hogan's Heroes.
In "I Look Better in Basic Black", Jackie plays one of three female prisoners who are at Stalag 13 on a temporary basis before the Gestapo sends them to Berlin, unless Hogan and his team can do something about it. Unsurprisingly, LeBeau (Robert Clary) & Newkirk (Richard Dawson) fall for the ladies, and ultimately must go undercover........!
Edit, 3/31/20: The video's been deleted. In its place is a 3, nearly 4 minute excerpt. Luckily, Jackie's included:
Quick note. One role Jackie might've missed out on went to soundalike Didi Conn in 1980, that of Cupcake on Fonz & the Happy Days Gang. If you can watch an episode of Josie and one of Fonz back to back, you'll know what I mean.
2 comments:
It seems her character here isn't too far off the Melody character - although she doesn't have that cute giggle Melody was known for.
I wonder if this was common for her other on camera appearances?
Never knew she was once married to Berry!
I've known about the Berry-Joseph link for years. Have to see if they did the game show Tattletales.
I have to look up IMDB or Wikipedia for a full list of Jackie's on-camera work. I know she wound up on Run, Buddy, Run the next season, but aside from that.....!
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