I am not entirely sure of when this Texaco commercial was made, be it 1964 or '65, but this one's a pip and a half.
A frantic Texaco attendant (Bill Hinnant), tells his supervisor (Don Adams) that there's a chimp in the driver's seat. As it turns out, that chimp is just a seat warmer.......
Edit, 2/9/19: Frequent contributor Mike Doran tells us that, contrary to what YouTube commentators believed, that is not Wally Cox (Underdog) as the car owner. Also, as now denoted above, Bill Hinnant, brother of future Electric Company cast member Skip Hinnant, is the attendant, not Gary Burghoff.
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To begin with, the squeaky-voiced attendant is an actor named Bill Hinnant, who was all over TV in the early '60s.
Meanwhile, I'm going nuts trying to remember the guy with the glasses - who is not Wally Cox.
This guy is too tall, his voice is too deep, and his hair is wrong.
Check your archive for the Salvo commercial Wally Cox did around the same time.
The gas station guy is not Cox.
I'll fix it, Mike, thanks. Bill Hinnant mostly did commercials, didn't he, unlike his brother, Skip (Electric Company)?
Thanx for the acknowledgement.
The Hinnant brothers were based in New York, as was everybody else in these ads, Don Adams included (there are several others in this campaign that can be found on YouTube; one includes Sid Raymond, mentioned elsewhere here).
Bill Hinnant passed on in the mid-'60s, very young; brother Skip continued in NY-based TV (not limited to Electric Company) for many years thereafter.
Still no luck on not-Wally Cox; he looks and sounds vaguely familiar …
I have seen that Don Adams-Sid Raymond spot, and that'll probably turn up here soon, too, since Sid was the voice of Baby Huey & Katnip, among others.
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