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I was 11 years old when I saw this show and I remember that it was very funny. I could not wait to see the next episode with guest star Jerry Lewis! I would love to see that but we are all still waiting.

I thought is was a very good show. Dick Shawn was great. I would love to see this show again and see how my memory and the show hold up.

As I remember the show had a bit of a Mel Brooks feel about it. Since I was a kid at the time I could relate it to F Troop and Get Smart in terms of the kind of humor presented.

The lines I still remember as the last lines of the episode goes something like this:

Town folk- Sheriff where are the bad guys?

Dick Shawn- I appliquéd them to the wall.

(Cut to the bad guys stuck up on the wall.)

The show ended with a preview of next weeks show and there was a clip with Jerry Lewis as the new Sheriff. Looked pretty funny to me. I think he pulls his gun from the holster and his pants or belt fall down. John Aston was great.

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I have been looking for this movie for decades. I remember some scenes and as a kid I remember laughing so hard I almost peed my pants. I saw this movie once and it still sticks in my mind.

I wish I could remember more but my mom had to take me somewhere and it's been a thorn in my craw for 50 years. LOl

Now I see it was a TV movie and I'm doomed to never see it again. Maybe that is a good thing.

Anyway. Step one has been accomplished. It's Slade. Not Sledge with James Garner which is a completely different movie and the reason I found THIS title.

Maybe someday step,two,will happen.

Sheriff Who? (1967) -- The rather whacked-out premise was -- get this: Evil Roy Slade, the meanest outlaw in the west, rules over a small western town. Every week some passerby gets suckered into taming the town and bringing Roy to justice -- and every week Roy runs him out of town.

This is what I call a "3 AM idea" -- it sounds brilliant after a long night of writing, but when you wake up the next day you realize it's unworkable.

It's hard to believe this premise even got to the writing-the-pilot stage. Even in a zany sitcom, I can't see it working. It's a bit like making Siegfried the star of a sitcom called "KAOS!" and having him kill a new Control agent every week.

The closest equivalent I can think of in a series would be Police Squad always killing off their "Special Guest Star" in the credits. But that was irrelevant to the plot, and we all know how long PS lasted anyway.

The thing is, those fortunate few who saw Sheriff Who? in its only airing on September 5, 1967 claim it is one of the funniest half-hours of all time. Dick Shawn plays Crawford Offwhite, "The fastest interior decorator in the West", who is conned into becoming sheriff. John Astin is Evil Roy Slade and the script is by Garry Marshall and Jerry Belson.

Marshall and Belson would try again a few years later, making two hour long pilots with Astin as Evil Roy Slade. Shawn is back but plays a different character, sort of a combination of Roy Rogers and Paladin. These pilots were edited into a two hour movie and aired in 1972. This version is now available on DVD. It has some classic gags and Shawn is hilarious.

There are some slow spots (inevitable given its editing) and frankly, I would've preferred casting a real western villain as Slade rather than Astin. Perhaps Neville Brand. Still, there are enough great moments to make it must viewing for comedy fans.

And maybe, just maybe, we will someday get the chance to see "Sheriff Who?"

I was about 10 years old and saw this show also but my comments are the same as those above me. Amazing we all thought it was great and wanted the next episode. I had been left home alone for a short time and told the family about it when they returned but they seemed to think I imagined the show and I have never found proof it existed till now.

I can still hear the theme song for some reason. Must have been something special about it.

The lead actors were great and it was amazingly funny to my younger self but has me wondering what I would think of it today.

This goes into the Dark Shadows category of shows that leave an impression of the times back then.

Like others here, I was about 11 when I saw the pilot in 1967. I don't remember a lot of detail, but I remember the show was hilarious, it starred John Astin whom I knew from Addams Family, and I eagerly awaited the next episode, which....never came. I was so disappointed. The premise of a recurring bad guy and revolving good guys was novel to me, and the show made a big enough impression on me in 30 minutes that I still remember the title, lead actor, and general demeanor 54 years later. I would love to see it again and see how well the humor survives half a century.

What are the chances somebody has a copy of this pilot.

I remember there was an old prospector or cowpoke narrating as he sits on a porch whittling. Scene after scene, each time we cut to him the shavings are piling up. By the end of the show he's neck-deep in wood shavings. Very MAD magazine!

When I was 9 years old my family went to live in England for a year. The night before we left we saw an episode of Sheriff Who? I was really excited because it had Dick Shawn (from It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World) and John Astin (The Adams Family) in it. It was hilarious. The following week promised Bob Denver (Gilligan's Island). The fact is at that time, at that age, the idea that there would be different TV shows with the same actors was beyond my imagination and I was thrilled to see them. I looked forward to coming back home a year later and watching the show for the next couple of years. Of course it only aired briefly and disappeared. Big shame. If you can see it, I highly recommend it.