Jeanskynebu
the audience applauded
Claysaba
Excellent, Without a doubt!!
InformationRap
This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
Roxie
The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;
Jordan Hall
"My World and Welcome to It" was created for television by former Bob Hope joke writer and noted director Melville Shavelson. He shared a love of the works of James Thurber with producers Danny Arnold ("Bewitched", "Barney Miller") and Sheldon Leonard ("The Danny Thomas Show", "The Andy Griffith Show", "The Dick Van Dyke Show") who began adapting the idea for television. The series would be based on works by famed American cartoonist/writer/humorist James Thurber, and named for his 1942 book "My World - And Welcome to It". The series would follow Thurber character John Monroe, played by Thurber buff William Windom who in part resembled the humorist. Monroe was a little-understood and oft-frustrated Manhattanite (based on "The New Yorker") magazine writer whose slightly-eccentric imagination played at odds with his wife and daughter. At work, John is at odds with his editor Hamilton Greeley (familiar no nonsense character actor Harold J. Stone). His co-worker Philip Jensen was played by humorist Henry Morgan and based upon humorist/actor Robert Benchley (Robert Benchley Shorts: i.e. "How to Sleep"). Each episode is highlighted by Thurber-inspired animation by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises ("The Pink Panther") with fantasy sequences featuring a mix with live action. The series offered great story lines interwoven with dry humor. "My World and Welcome to It" was lightly critically-acclaimed, but produced middling Nielsen ratings and was canceled by NBC after just the 26-epiosde first season run. It went on to win the 1970 Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Comedy Series.Reflections on the series after watching every episode: "My World and Welcome to It" featured a strong James Thurber-like performance by William Windom. I felt the talented Joan Hotchkis was too intelligent to be cast as the wife, based on the kooky, dingbat-type featured in Thurber cartoons. Personally, I think a Jean Stapleton's Edith Bunker-type would have been the right intended chemistry and kept the show on the air longer than 26 episodes. When the show tackled a serious issue it seemed to go at it in-between. It wasn't the tremendous moving drama on "M*A*S*H", nor the way another Sheldon Leonard produced show "The Dick Van Dyke Show" addressed serious issues with a parade of laughs that still sent the message home (i.e. "That's My Boy???"). "My World and Welcome to It" did so merely with dry humor in a matter-of-fact way. The best episodes seem to be the ones where the writers used clever comedic dialogue in a not-so-dry manner. Some shows were very well-written, being both clever and comical. After all, the series won Emmy Awards for Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Comedy Series (William Windom) in its lone season. But perhaps the humor was too dry at times for sitcom audiences.
mirok
My World and Welcome to it was a cult classic of the late 1960's, at a time when home computers and the Internet were still things of the future. Videos and DVD's, likewise, were still distant dreams. And you would have thought that, when these formats became available on a mass scale, shows such as this would inevitably become available to the general public. However, My World and Welcome to it remained overlooked for a long time and, as several reviewers have noted, it just wasn't available on DVD.Until now, that is. I was writing to some friends about this series and decided to check something at the Internet Movie Database (IMDb.com), which always shows the availability (or lack thereof) of movies, TV shows and the like on DVD, VHS and CD (soundtracks). Lo and behold, Amazon.com is now carrying the short-lived My World and Welcome to it on DVD. Thurber fans, rejoice.
DKosty123
This series to me represents the talent of William Windom who often played supporting roles in many many programs in his career. In this one he is the star, & plays the role perfectly.My World & Welcome To It is the world of author James Thurber. While most people today don't really know who he was, I as a child growing up read his books from the school library. When I saw this show, I couldn't believe how accurately they portrayed Thurber through William Windom.Much more than just a New Yorker cartoonist, Thurber has a unique sense of humor about a difficult life that he led being blinded as he went though life. His eye sight was never perfect which is why his cartoons often look like they were drawn askew to reality. This program created an atmosphere much like Thurbers life as it combined his drawings with his reality.I only wish it could have lasted longer. NBC gave this show a decent time slot but then moved it trying to find ratings. In effect, they killed a fine program but not before it enhanced my feelings for Thurber. One of the finer shows Sheldon Leonard got involved with in the 1960's, this show has class all the way.I still remember fondly reading a Thurber short story where he is having problems with a publisher sending him the wrong book, & a series of hilarious happenings in the process. If this show had lasted, it would have made a good episode. The book the publisher kept sending him copies of was "Grandma Was A Nudist" by Peg Peckham. Just the title alone speaks volumes about Thurbers unique humor, & this program is packed with it.
cooty
The scene where his wife falls apart has stuck in my mind all these years. I was only 6 when this was on, but it is one of the few short lived series from childhood that I remember. Ditto all that has been said and I too would love to see PBS rerun this show. Thanks for taking me down memory lane.
