Too Close for Comfort - "Briefly at the Counter" - 4:30 pm Monday, February 9 on WJBF Antenna TV

Deborah Van Valkenburgh (Actor) .. Jackie Rush

Born: August 29, 1952
Birthplace: Schenectady, New York, United States

Trivia: Lead actress, onscreen from the early '80s.

Lydia Cornell (Actor) .. Sara Rush

Born: July 23, 1962
Birthplace: El Paso, Texas

Audrey Meadows (Actor) .. Iris Martin

Born: February 08, 1922
Died: February 03, 1996
Birthplace: Wuchang, China

Trivia: Audrey Meadows will be forever immortalized as Alice Kramden ("Alice, you're the greatest!"), wife of bus-driver Ralph Kramden on The Honeymooners (irregularly from 1951-1971). Despite its later popularity, The Honeymooners actually began as a series of sketches, just one part of The Jackie Gleason Show (1952-1970). The show had only one real season of 39 shows, in 1955, and it wasn't a success. Later, the original sketches were re-edited into episodes in the '80s, which is when the show finally became a success. Born in China, the red-haired actress is the older sister of Steve Allen's wife Jayne Meadows. She also appeared on Bob and Ray (1951-53), Club Embassy (1952-53), Too Close for Comfort (1980-83), and several game shows. She won an Emmy Award for The Jackie Gleason Show in 1955. Her film appearances include Lady in the Lake (1946). Meadow's feature film credits include character roles in That Touch of Mink (1962) and Rosie! (1967). In 1995, Meadows was diagnosed with cancer, but she told no one, not even her sister, until she was admitted to the hospital on January 24, 1996. Meadows passed away on February 3, 1996.

Lou Jacobi (Actor) .. Paul

Born: December 28, 1913
Died: October 23, 2009

Trivia: Bald-pated, mustachioed Canadian character actor Lou Jacobi began entertaining theatre audiences as a child. Though many of his characterizations were urban-American ethnic types, Jacobi was well into his career before ever setting foot on an American stage. Among his more memorable screen roles were the explosive Mr. Van Daan in The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and the philosophical Parisian bartender Moustache in Irma La Douce (1963). After his cameo as a middle-aged transvestite in Woody Allen's Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, But Were Afraid to Ask (1972), the hapless Mr. Jacobi found himself called upon to don women's garb on a nearly-weekly basis for the various TV variety series of the early 1970s. Lou Jacobi's other television work included supporting parts on The Dean Martin Show, Somerset and Melba, and the lead in the 1976 sitcom Ivan the Terrible.

Too Close for Comfort: Briefly at the Counter

4:30 pm - 5:00 pm, Today on WJBF Antenna TV (6.3)

Briefly at the Counter

Season 3, Episode 13