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There's something very cool for Credits Readers (like myself) about Season 6 of Ironside. Besides the great Raymond Burr (who is in the cast of ALL of them, seeing as how HE'S "Ironside"), the ones from around this season have some pretty good songs in them. Songs, whether good or bad, don't just come out of nowhere. Someone has to write them! And if you ever noticed the writers of the songs in Season 6 (or even if you haven't) they were mostly written by Marty Paich and David Paich. "So what?" You say. Well, if you pay attention to stuff like that, you'd know that the Paich Brothers were the major creative force behind the band "Toto"! Ever hear "Hold The Line" or "Roseanna" or "Africa" for example? Those were major HITS, recorded by the Toto! In the 1980's and 1990's, Toto came up with a string of hit records, and Radio played them. A LOT! I should know, since I was a Radio. Personality when those songs came out, and at the stations where I worked, we got TONS of requests for Toto's songs. And if YOU were one of those people who paid attention to where the folks who made the tunes they really liked came from, you already knew that Toto was formed from several Studio Musicians who just happened to write GREAT songs - including the Paich Brothers!

Yes, fans of Hanna-Barbera's ORIGINAL ANIMATED ACTION-ADVENTURE SERIES, "Jonny Quest"! The one and only voice of the guy that ALWAYS SAVED THE DAY for Dr. Quest, Jonny, Hadji and Bandit, RACE BANNON, actor Mike Road plays a Fed on 77 Sunset Strip! He has a good deal of screen time in this one, too. I've seen shows in which he was on camera for YEARS, but never knew it until the end credits. This time, though, Mr. Road was actually listed in the cast on the Dish Network program listing! I don't know about you, but I'd always wondered what the guy looked like, after hearing that powerful voice of his on so many animated shows as a kid. Road was a good-looking actor, and in fact, could have easily played Paul Drake on the "Perry Mason" series - he was working at the time it was made, and at least in this "77SS" show, in which Road plays a Federal Agent, he looks a bit like William Hopper on "Mason", although Road looks to be a bit shorter than Hopper. But there's sure no mistaking that voice! Especially in one of the final scenes. This was a good 77 Sunset Strip outing, but having Mike Road in it is just the icing on the cake.

I remember "Off To See The Wizard" - not because of ANY of the stories in ANY of the episodes - but because of the voice talent in the animated segments. After all, Daws Butler was in EVERY "Fractured Fairy Tale" that was part of "Rocky And His Friends" and "The Bullwinkle Show", and even "Cap'n Crunch" for Jay Ward Productions. And Daws played everyone from Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear, Quick Draw McGraw, Super Snooper and Blabber Mouse the detectives, to the ever-popular Snagglepuss for Hanna-Barbera Productions. The forever wonderful June Foray was the voice of Rocky the Flying Squirrel" himself on "Rocky And His Friends" and was in all but one of the "Fractured Fairy Tales" for Jay Ward, and Tweety's "Granny" and many others for Warner's, and "Witch Hazel" for BOTH Warner Brothers AND Walt Disney Productions! Anything those two were in would forever stick in my memory, regardless of whatever else was around what they did in any particular program.