We Got Sgt Bilko down under and it was very popular. To me the best Memorial to Bilko is the Top Cat cartoons and comic books. Top Cat was done on a level that was as much for adults as for Children.
The Steve Martin Bilko Remake I have seen small bits of, and that's all I really want to see.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idhkRJdrJcI
The Voices and the timing were right on the money.
List of Voice actors.
https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/tv-shows/Top-Cat/
Interestingly, Benny was voiced by the original 'Maurice Gosfield'
Back to Hoagy's Alley The making of Top Cat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvASzpZ05-IHaving grown up with Disney, WB, MGM, Lantz, and the best of Fleischer/Famous full animation, I never could stand watching Hanna-Barbera limited animation. I also wasn't watching much TV by the early-mid 1960s. I only looked at Top Cat for about 30 seconds. Yes, I can see how they patterned him after Sgt. Bilko. And it's interesting that they got the original TV show actor who played "Doberman" to play the voice of the smallest cat, who played the analogous part. To me, animation is like still cartoon art. I can't look at inferior art, no matter how good the story might be, and therefore, can't look at limited animation, no matter how good the script writing is.
Actually, when I look back on old Bilko shows, I realise that many of the shows have only a few really funny lines, and so, are not all that funny by today's more sophisticated standards. But, during the 1950s, there were a LOT less TV shows to watch, so we were happy to get any shows that were reasonably, or somewhat funny. Usually, I am VERY nostalgic, and things from the 1940s and 1950s are almost always better to me. But, I think a lot of people will agree with me that some of the humour from back then seems "corny" now, after our having experienced more modern standup comedy acts.
