>>Lately, I've taken to watching David Gorcey (Chuck) and Bennie Bartlett (Butch) fill in the backgrounds.   Never characters, they were somewhere between glorified extras and wallpaper.>> Aside from a paycheck, what an unrewarding job>>

No fooling.  To add insult to indignity, check out the opening credits of HOLD THAT LINE.  Poor Bennie Bartlett is misbilled as David Bartlett.  

>> Were they ever actually necessary to the story?>>

In JAIL BUSTERS, the story actually revolves around Chuck, who has somehow landed a gig as a crime-busting reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper (!)  When Chuck gets beaten unconscious by thugs, the Boys set out to track down the guilty parties. 

Not to be missed is Slip's misty-eyed visit to Chuck's hospital sick bed.  It isn't often you see a grown man get choked up over damaged wallpaper.


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