Dean Martin and Buddy Ebsen

Like Dean Martin, Buddy Ebsen was a song and dance man. Ever since Davy Crokett's sidekick days, he's been a hero to my generation. Buddy did a guest appearance on the Dean Martin Show, and both he and Dino "wowed" the audience with their singing and dancing. A few years later, after NBC, I attended a business meeting in Long Beach, and Buddy was the guest speaker. We sat at the same table and we

talked about his old day's working for Disney, then the Beverly Hillbillies. and his appearance on Dino's Show. He laughed when I told him he and Fess Parker had to be the inspiration for Don "Sonny" Crockett and Michael "Rico" Tubbs, the detectives on Miami Vice. "Beautiful Downtown Burbank," and NBC were very good to me.