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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crimson" data-source="post: 400017" data-attributes="member: 5079"><p>True.  Cassidy played a similar part in the single season sitcom HE & SHE (1967-68).   I've never seen it, but from what I've read about it it seems to have been a failed attempt at what MTM later succeeded at -- continuing the spirit of THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW.  Cassidy was offered the role of Ted, but turned it down as being repetitious.   When he turned up in the first season of MTM as Ted's brother, he proved why Knight was the better choice; he was funny enough playing dumb and egotistical, but had none of Knight's vulnerability that made Ted endearing.</p></blockquote><p></p>