1049 Park Avenue: An Odd Couple Podcast

The Original Edna Unger!: An Interview With Pamelyn Ferdin

It's A Biggie!  Ted and Garrett are delighted to welcome Pamelyn Ferdin to the podcast. We discuss her incredible television career before The Odd Couple; her path to bec

SCRIPTS: The Hideaway and Hospital Mates

In this episode, we compared a final draft script of S1's The Hideaway and a first draft script of the first episode filmed for S2 Hospital Mates to the filmed versions. 

OLD FLAMES NEVER DIE SCRIPT

In this new episode, we discuss the differences between the filmed episode and the "Revised Final Draft" script for the third-to-last episode aired Old Flames Never Die. 

Garry Marshall Archives - Memo and Testing

In this episode we discuss a trove of documents from the Garry Marshall archives at Northwestern University.  Topic covered are - Testing of the episodes Hospital Mates

Unproduced Script: "Decision Of Judges Is Final"

In this episode we discuss a script we have obtained for an unproduced episode for S4 of The Odd Couple entitled The Decision Of The Judge Is Final in which Oscar judges

Original Odd Couple Pilot Testing Results and "Rain In Spain" Script

In this episode of 1049 Park Avenue we review two very important documents: 1) Courtesy of the Garry Marshall archives at Northwestern University is the actual pilot tes

Scott Marshall Interview P2

Scott Marshall returns for part two of our interview with him to celebrate his father’s legacy.  In this second installment we discuss Laverne and Shirley, Mork & Mindy,

Scott Marshall Interview P1.

In this episode we are joined by Scott Marshall, Garry Marshall’s son, who provides us an inside, charming and humorous look at his father’s legendary career and his expo

Lowell Ganz Interview P2

This week we welcome Lowell Ganz back for part two of our interview.  In these two hours we cover: The trouble with The Odyssey Couple The furniture in Take My Furniture

Lowell Ganz Interview P1

In this episode we are honored to be joined by Lowell Ganz who, with his partner at the time Mark Rothman, wrote more episodes of The Odd Couple than anyone else - 12.  T

The Bigger They Are Script

In this episode we review an original "pre-production" script for S5E13  The Bigger They Are.  Among the topics covered are 1) how John Byner's casting, which was clearly

TV Writer Dave Mandel & Unproduced Episode "Thanks For The Giving"

This week we are joined by one of television's best comedy writers Dave Mandel (SNL, Seinfeld, Veep) to discuss an unproduced episode of The Odd Couple for which we have

Adam Klugman Interview

In this episode we welcome Adam Klugman to talk about his father’s legendary career in depth – for more than two hours.  Among the many topics we cover are:  Jack’s child

SCRIPTS - WIN ONE FOR FELIX & OSCAR IN LOVE

In this episode we analyze the differences in “final” scripts vs the filmed episode for Win One For Felix and Oscar In Love.  The script for Win One For Felix is called

Marty Nadler Interview Part 2

We welcome back Marty Nadler to discuss his TV writing career after The Odd Couple including his work on Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Chico & The Man, The Last Resort

Marty Nadler - Odd Couple Writer - Interview

In this episode we interview TV writer Marty Nadler who worked for Garry Marshall for 40 years. As one of his first jobs Marty punched up scripts and wrote jokes for S5 o

Heather Randall Interview

We are honored and delighted to welcome Heather Randall to the podcast.  Heather was married to Tony Randall from 1995 until his passing in 2004 and they had two children

Guest: Peter K Ackerman - Son of Elinor Donahue and Harry Ackerman

This week we welcome a special guest – Peter K Ackerman who is the son of Elinor Donahue and legendary TV producer Harry Ackerman.  He has written a new book called Mom,

SCRIPTS - FELIX THE HORSEPLAYER & TWO ON THE AISLE

In this episode we discuss the differences between original production scripts for Felix The Horseplayer (known as The Stung on the script) and Two On The Aisle.  Both s

SCRIPTS - MY STRIFE IN COURT & TAKE MY FURNITURE PLEASE

In this episode we review two early drafts of these classic episodes and how different they are from the actual filmed episodes.  Among the topics covered are: 1) Whethe