When Ed Asner was not presiding as president of the SAG or drunkenly patting Mary Tyler Moore on her fanny, he was saving the world from The Satan Bug!
Cheez Whiz, look at that cast! Richard Basehart! Anne Francis (who brought instant puberty to all those boys who watched Forbidden Planet at a formative age)! James Hong! Good lord.
Of course, while I love Lou Grant with all my flinty little heart, I still think that Ed Asner’s finest moments were on Freakazoid! ("I want a can of hash and some coffee.")
I know! Wasn’t Richard Basehart on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea with Efram Zimbalist Jr?