I hate, yet am always fascinated by, the times I catch a glance of a field of text, and swear I saw a particular word or phrase, then have to go back and either find the word, or figure out which words I might have seen that led me to believe I saw the word in question.

Anyway, yesterday I glanced at this page, and could have sworn I saw the name “Ilene Graff”. Though I was pretty sure I would remember writing about the actress that played the mom on “Mr. Belvedere”, I had to try to figure out where I saw that. (Okay, so I originally wasn’t going to pass this story along, but I figure now, anyone that does a web search for “Ilene Graff” is going to hit my page, most likely. Why anyone would do that, I don’t know. Of course, now that I’ve used the name “Ilene Graff” two no, make that three times now, I’m sure to be climbing up the Google list. For searches on “Ilene Graff”, of course. Not David Graf of the Police Academy series of increasingly awful movies, or Steffi Graf, the former tennis star and pretty damn hot man-half of the Agassi-Graf marriage. But Ilene Graff. And its eating me up inside.. MARSHA! Okay, now its no longer eating me up inside that I can’t think of her first name on the show. George (Bob Uecker) and Marsha Owens, with children Kevin (Rob Stone), Heather (damn, I’ll get back to her…) and of course Wesley (Brice Beckham, child prodigy and current star of a series of porn flicks, entitled, obviously “Bent Like Beckham, Volumes 1-12”. And of course, the loveable, yet currently deceased butler played by Christopher Hewitt, Lyn Belvedere.

My brother and likely Tom will kill me, but I can’t think for a second who the actress that played Heather. (I found out, with some help, and I’m still kicking myself. But I’ll let the other’s flex their ’80s TV muscle before giving this one away.)

So any-hoo, I think I had more to say in this post, but now that its the perfect google-able shrine to one of the best shows the 80’s had to offer, I’ll leave it alone.