Howard Morris returns to Filmation, and, predictably, turns up on Ghost Busters. Morris is cast as the ghost of the Red Baron. This episode, "Only Ghosts Have Wings", reunited Morris with Larry Storch (Spencer), who had worked with Morris on Groovie Goolies five years earlier.
I think Morris recycled the voice he used for the Baron from one of the many characters he had played on Will The Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down?, also in 1970. Seems to me that Robert Easton (Sparks), who has no other known credits to my knowledge, was a stand-in for Daws Butler, since his Southern drawl is pretty close to Huckleberry Hound, in this writer's opinion.
Rating: C. Not one of the better entries, and, as before, the audio is ahead of the video.
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Robert Easton "has no other known credits"?
Ever hear of IMDb?
Easton's screen appearances go clear back to the early '50s, and extend almost to his passing in 2011 - IMDb's list has 151 titles, and that might be a shortfall.
And all that is mainly on-camera acting; Bob Easton was one of Hollywood's most visible hillbillies, in movies and TV.
Easton also had a sideline as on of Hollywood's leading teachers of dialects and accents; he made many talk show appearances demonstrating this skill.
Easton was a favorite of Johnny Carson in this regard; you can find one of his appearances from the '70s on YouTube.
Just so you know …
I qualified that statement with "to my knowledge", Mike, for a reason. I didn't know who he was. Up until this episode of Ghost Busters, I had never heard of him, nor would see him again. I'd have to look up IMDB for his, ah, "resume".
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