Suddenly he disappears from the future and is replaced by Edward St. John V, a more formal project observer, played by Roddy McDowall.
He had a long standing feud with Lyle Odelein, Matt infamously referred to his longtime rival as "Cornelius," a reference to the Roddy McDowall character in Planet of the Apes.
For most of its run, the late-night program opened with a shot of a mist-shrouded castle (in actuality, a touched-up Addams Family Haunted House Aurora model kit), accompanied by sound effects borrowed from Walt Disney's Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of the Haunted House and music pilfered from Neal Hefti's score for the 1966 Roddy McDowall film Lord Love a Duck.
Roddy Piper | Roddy McDowall | Roddy McCorley | Roddy Doyle | Drew McDowall | Derek Roddy | Rose McDowall | Roddy Lumsden | McDowall | Jai McDowall | Rod Roddy | Roddy McLeod | Roddy Estwick | Roddy Connolly | Ian McDowall |
Lassie Come Home is a 1943 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Technicolor film starring Roddy McDowall and canine actor, Pal, in a story about the profound bond between Yorkshire boy Joe Carraclough and his rough collie, Lassie.
The story is set during the reign of King George III, in Bristol, England, where young Benjamin Blake (Roddy McDowall), son of the deceased Baronet of Breetholm is taken from his commoner grandfather, gunsmith Amos Kidder (Harry Davenport), and forced to serve his vengeful uncle, Sir Arthur Blake (George Sanders).