Connie Hines

On Mister Ed, Connie Hines is Carol Post, the wife in a 1960s talking-horse sitcom that should have died as a one-joke and ran for years. Young's Wilbur is the only human who must manage equine gossip; the palomino, voiced by Allan Lane, steals scenes. Hines plays Carol as a woman living next to a secret she is not in on. High-concept silliness executed with vaudeville craft.

TV Flash files her as the reason the hour still photographs as a marriage, not only a gimmick. The horse owns the bit; Carol owns the household the bit endangers. On this desk Hines is 1960s sitcom craft — a Post who makes a talking palomino feel like a neighbor problem, and a one-joke premise feel like a home.

Mister Ed ran 1961–1966 on CBS, 1960s nights that still have a listed on-ramp. The desk's first hour is s01e01. The First Meeting is the one-joke contract that didn't collapse: Alan Young's Wilbur, a palomino who talks, vaudeville timing as the save. The job is Carol Post. She does not decorate Mister Ed; she gives it a human clock. The other early-to-mid stake is s04e01. Leo Durocher Meets Mister Ed — guest-star sport colliding with talking-horse farce, high-concept silliness executed clean. The dek's charge still holds: the talking-horse sitcom that should have been a one-joke disaster and instead.

Skip the urge to make her a mascot for the 1960s. Mister Ed is smaller and sharper, and Carol Post is the reason. s03e01 still shows why Carol Post mattered. Ed Gets Amnesia opens season three still milking the premise: equine gossip as the only plot the horse will allow. Watch the listed hours. Let the performance do the gossip. A second essential, not a recap: s04e01. Leo Durocher Meets Mister Ed — guest-star sport colliding with talking-horse farce, high-concept silliness executed clean.