In addition to putting Pink Panther on NBC's Saturday morning slate, starting a 9 year run, DePatie-Freleng, which produced the animated opening to I Dream of Jeannie, did the same for Sheldon Leonard's adaptation of the works of James Thurber, My World..... And Welcome to it, a one season wonder.
William Windom (ex-The Farmer's Daughter) was the star, playing cartoonist John Monroe, prone to Walter Mitty-esque fantasies, such as the one in the opener, in which he sees himself as General Ulysses S. Grant.
That's where Marvin Kaplan (ex-Top Cat) comes in, around the 12 1/2 minute mark, as an assistant to Grant.
Co-star Lisa Gerritsen would move over to The Mary Tyler Moore Show in a recurring role the next year.
We've got a review of My World over at The Land of Whatever, but we'll also take a deeper dive since there is the animation factor, adapting the line drawings of Thurber, down the line.
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