• Air date: 12 Sep '65 13 episodes
      Mister Ed is an American television situation comedy produced by Filmways that first aired in syndication from January 5 to July 2, 1961, and then on CBS from October 1, 1961, to February 6, 1966. The show's title character is a fictional talking horse, originally appearing in short stories by Walter R. Brooks. The stars of the show were Mister Ed, a palomino horse who could "talk", played by gelding Bamboo Harvester and voiced by former Western star Allan Lane, and his owner, an eccentric and enormously klutzy, yet friendly, architect named Wilbur Post. Much of the program's humor stemmed from the fact Mister Ed would speak only to Wilbur, as well as Ed's notoriety as a troublemaker. Other running jokes centered on Wilbur's character being a huge klutz and inadvertently causing harm to himself or others. According to the show's producer, Arthur Lubin, Young was chosen as the lead character because he "just seemed like the sort of guy a horse would talk to". Lubin, a friend of Mae West, scored...
  • List of Episodes (13)
    • 1. Ed the Counterspy

      12 Sep '65
      Ed discovers that some spies are using the park to drop secret messages. When Wilbur then finds some microfilm, his imagination starts to fly.
    • 2. Ed-a-Go-Go

      19 Sep '65
      A neighbor who happens to be a builder needs an architect. Ed comes up with an idea that go-go music might just help Wilbur get that job.
    • 3. Ed Sniffs Out a Cold Clue

      26 Sep '65
      The Chief of the Secret Intelligence Agency calls on Wilbur to find a tiny secret radio that has disappeared. Ed finds the only clue to it.
    • 4. Spies Strike Back

      03 Oct '65
      When Ed and Wilbur recover a mini radio for the Secret Intelligence Agency, the two are threatened by spies.
    • 5. Love and the Single Horse

      10 Oct '65
      Carol attemps to publish Ed's memoirs.
    • 6. Anybody Got a Zebra?

      17 Oct '65
      The Secret Intelligence Agency calls on Wilbur to try and find out who exactly has been stealing papers from the agency.
    • 7. TV or Not TV

      24 Oct '65
      Ed answers a hard question regarding chess on a radio game show and ends up winning Wilbur a new color TV set.
    • 8. The Horse and the Pussycat

      31 Oct '65
      Carol offers to look after a friends cat, but Wilbur ends up doing most of the work, making him busy. Ed then starts then feeling neglected.
    • 9. Don't Skin That Bear

      07 Nov '65
      Ed is opposed to a gift that Wilbur received. It is a bearskin rug and Wilbur refuses to get rid of it until is gets up to chase him.
    • 10. Ed the Bridegroom

      26 Dec '65
      Ed begs Wilbur to find him a Justice of the Peace so that Ed can marry his favorite filly.
    • 11. Ed and the Motorcycle

      02 Jan '66
      Ed decides that he only wants to be ridden bareback and does not want Wilbur to use a saddle on him, so Wilbur then goes and rents a motorcycle.
    • 12. Cherokee Ed

      09 Jan '66
      Ed discovers that he's part Indian steed and refuses association with a parrot descended from General Custer's parrot.
    • 13. Ed Goes to College

      06 Feb '66
      Wilbur pleas with Ed to stick to being a horse, espcially when Ed wants to go to college to become a Doctor.