The professor (Richard Long) is putting inside with his lucky "Old Hickory" putter. Nanny (Juliet Mills) informs him that Professor Englund (Jon Cypher) called to say he is delighted to accept the professor's application to attend his lecture on ESP. His boys are wanting to play bicycle polo and Butch (Trent Lehman) takes his father's lucky putter and accidentally breaks it. Nanny takes the broken putter and kids to Mr. MacDonald's (Patrick O'Moore) shop to replace. He tells them how nice it was and that they haven't made clubs like that in 20 years. At the conference Professor Englund tells the professor that his club is broken, and he returns home to find it is so. Nanny talks him out of punishing the children. At a faculty golf tournament, Professor Englund and Nanny tries to out-ESP one another. When they get to the last hole, the professor must put his trust into a new putter.
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Lessons in ESP and superstition
mlbroberts30 November 2020
A new professor is teaching a course in ESP, which the Professor attends. The ESP man predicts that he and the Professor will be partnered in the faculty golf tournament the next day, and he (the ESP man) will win. The Professor proposes a bet which the ESP man accepts before announcing that the Professor's kids have broken his lucky putter.
Nanny and the kids try to repair the putter before the Professor gets home, but he is suspicious the moment he comes in the door and hits the roof when he finds his putter is broken. The kids run for cover while Nanny tries to calm the Professor down, and he finally calms, forgives his sons, and plays the tournament with the new perfect putter Nanny had already bought for him.
The most interesting part of the episode is the Professor's fit when he finds his putter broken. This episode was directed by Ralph Senensky, who has a blog in which he discusses a lot of TV projects he directed including this one. He notes how difficult it is for an actor to play believable anger comedically, rather than seriously. Richard Long pulls it off beautifully, and Juliet Mills pulls off calming him down perfectly.
Nanny and the kids try to repair the putter before the Professor gets home, but he is suspicious the moment he comes in the door and hits the roof when he finds his putter is broken. The kids run for cover while Nanny tries to calm the Professor down, and he finally calms, forgives his sons, and plays the tournament with the new perfect putter Nanny had already bought for him.
The most interesting part of the episode is the Professor's fit when he finds his putter broken. This episode was directed by Ralph Senensky, who has a blog in which he discusses a lot of TV projects he directed including this one. He notes how difficult it is for an actor to play believable anger comedically, rather than seriously. Richard Long pulls it off beautifully, and Juliet Mills pulls off calming him down perfectly.
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