On this day in 1961, Mr. Ed debuted on television.

From stables to breeches, Mr. Ed was an awesome show (of course I saw it in reruns).

The stars of the show are Mister Ed, an intelligent palomino American Saddlebred who could talk (“played” by gelding Bamboo Harvester and voiced by Allan Lane), and his owner, an eccentric and enormously klutzy architect named Wilbur Post (portrayed by Alan Young). 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. 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 a coup by persuading the screen icon to guest star in one episode.

Find out more about Mr. Ed at wikipedia.

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