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Lynde's career almost hit the skids at that point. He was a big drinker and one evening in 1965, a young actor he was partying with in San Francisco fell from the comedian’s hotel room to his death eight floors below. The story would have been live on CNN today, but at that time you could still hush things up in the press.
Like Bewitched, the Lynde show had an unbelievable fantasy concept: Paul playing a straight guy living in the suburbs with a wife and two kids dealing with the everyday frustrations of life.
The Paul Lynde Show was axed after only one season. ABC still had faith in Paul Lynde's drawing power so the next fall he was wedged into the cast of The New Temperature’s Rising. That sitcom went belly-up as well.
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Peter Marshall:
In television, who lived in Doodyville? Peter Marshall:
According to the old song, "At night, when you're asleep, into
your tent I'll creep." Who am I?
Here's a possibly intoxicated Paul Lynde doing the weather on the former WSPD, Ch. 13, in Toledo, OH, around 1978 or '79.
But Lynde was starting to unravel. In 1978, he was arrested in Salt Lake City outside a gay bar resulting in his being dropped as a regular guest on the Donny & Marie show; it was his second arrest.
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LYNDE CARTOON VOICES:Lynde contributed a number of memorable characters for Hanna-Barbera cartoons - including Claude Pertwee of Where's Huddles (1970) and Sylvester Sneekly, a.k.a. 'The Hooded Claw' in Perils of Penelope Pitstop (1969). Peter Marshall:
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Paul
Lynde had a solid career in television all throughout the 1960s and
1970s, appearing in a handful of memorable Bewitched episodes
as a semi-regular character (kooky Uncle Arthur). He was the center
square and comedy star of the long-running daytime game show Hollywood
Squares, made multiple guest appearances on the Dean Martin
Show, Donny & Marie and other variety programs, and had a one-year
stint as the lead in his own sitcom, 
He
first came to prominence on Broadway and in motion pictures, his big
successes were Bye, Bye Birdie (both play and film) and Under
the Yum Yum Tree. He became a popular guest star on dozens of sitcoms
in the early-'60s, landing his recurring role on the hit show Bewitched
in 1965.
When
Bewitched was cancelled in 1972, most of the writers and crew
moved over to producer William Asher’s next project for ABC, 
This
preposterous premise proved to be too much of a stretch even for people
who watched TV on a regular basis. Besides, the premise was a rip-off
of All in the Family, with Paul (and his wife) cohabitating
with their daughter and her lazy, long-haired hippy husband that he
can't stand.
Occupying
the center square on 
By
the mid-'70s Paul Lynde was feeling boxed in, so to speak, and frustrated.
He was still a hot property, voted America’s favorite comedian
in a 1974 poll and highly sought out for every manner of TV game and
variety show.
He
even hosted his own hour on ABC in 1977, the 
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