Tom Bosely

            On Sunday morning I searched for the chords for “Amours des feintes” (Feinting Romance) by Serge Gainsbourg and found a set on La bôite à chansons (Song Box). I transcribed them and looked for more but no more were posted. Tomorrow I’ll start working them out. 

            I played my Martin acoustic guitar during song practice for the second of four sessions. 

            I weighed 86.85 kilos before breakfast. 

            Around midday I sanded the rest of the northern wall in my bathroom. All that’s left to sand is the lower left corner of the southern wall and the door and the frame. 

            I weighed 87.5 kilos before lunch. I had Triscuits with five-year-old cheddar and a glass of raspberry iced tea. 

            In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back. 

            I weighed 87 kilos at 17:30. 

            I was caught up on my journal at 18:55. 

            In the Movie Maker project to create a video for the studio recording of my song “The Next State of Grace” I needed a clip of my line “like a scavenger looking for parts”. I selected a clip from the video I shot of myself singing on the street two months ago and pasted it into the main timeline, then synchronized it. Then I synchronized the old concert video with the studio audio for the line “and it lives in a mansion”. After that I took another clip from the recent video of me singing “that’s built from the sweat”. I inserted that into the main video and I’ll edit it tomorrow. 

            I made pizza on a slice of multigrain bread with Basilica sauce and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a beer while watching season 7, episodes 25 and 26 of Bewitched. 

            In the first story Darrin catches Samantha using witchcraft just as he is about to give her a beautiful bracelet as a reward for not having used magic in a while. He insists that she take it anyway but she feels guilty. After she puts it on she gets the hiccups and every time she does it a different cycle vehicle appears starting with a bicycle. Other than what pops up from the hiccups her powers are not working. Then Darrin’s mother Phyllis visits and wonders about all the bikes. Samantha says they are on an exercise kick. Phyllis asks what kind of exercise one can get from a motorcycle. Samantha says if one joins a bike gang it can be quite strenuous. Samantha summons Dr. Bombay. He is dressed something like Liberace and his diagnostic computer is like a small piano on top of which he places a candelabra. The readout shows that her promising not to do witchcraft is unnatural and creates an inner conflict. When she broke her promise her guilt feeling precipitated a crisis causing her subconscious to produce bikes. He gives her a pranquilizer treatment with his giant tuning fork and says, “Now her strength shall be rebuilt and eliminate all guilt”. All the bikes disappear and then Samantha leaves to go shopping with Phyllis. But on the way out the door she hiccups and the gilded mirror in the foyer disappears. Serena arrives to babysit and Darrin gets her to call for Bombay again. Bombay determines that his word choice was wrong when he reversed the spell because he said “remove all gilt” so now gilded things within range will disappear. Since they don’t know where Samantha went Bombay conjures an omnidirectional three dimensional vectoring cadmium shielded computer for location analysis. Meanwhile Samantha and Phyllis are in a department store and visit the jewellery department. Samantha passes a golden emerald necklace and hiccups, causing it to disappear. The store detective confronts them because he saw that the necklace was gone after they passed it. He takes them to a locked office and interrogates them. Then he takes Phyllis into another room, leaving Samantha alone. Just then Darrin and Bombay appear. Bombay says he can fix the problem but she must stop feeling guilty about using witchcraft. He cures her with the tuning fork and another spell. The necklace returns to it’s display. As Serena is about to leave Darrin says his favourite thing about her is when she says goodbye so she turns him into a baby goat and disappears. 

            In the second story Esmerelda is depressed about her love life. Her old boyfriend Ferdy wants to see her again. She’s worried because it’s been over 400 years since she dated him and she’s aged. Samantha gives Esmerelda a makeover and puts a spell on the mirrors to make her see a younger and prettier version of herself. It definitely boosts her confidence and she becomes very flirtatious. Ferdy comes and meets her at Samantha’s house. Esmerelda offers him a drink and he asks for scotch on the rocks. Esmerelda conjures a Scotsman playing bagpipes on some rocks. While she is out of the room we see that Ferdy has been getting help with his magic from his nephew who is watching through the window. It turns out that Ferdy’s powers are as undependable as Esmerelda’s so they bond over their mutual malfunctioning and become engaged. 

            Ferdy was played by Tom Bosely, who trained at the Radio Institute of Chicago and his first parts were in that medium. He made his television debut in a 1955 production of Alice in Wonderland. He won a Tony Award in 1960 for his starring role in Fiorello. He originated the part of Maurice in Beauty and Beast on Broadway. He co-starred in all 255 episodes of Happy Days. He starred in the TV series Father Dowling investigates and the animated series Wait Till Your Father Gets Home. He played Sheriff Amos Tupper on Murder She Wrote. He co-starred in the movies The World of Henry Orient, Mixed Company, and Bang Bang Kid. It felt like I was either coming down with a cold or having a strong reaction to pollen.