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Oh, yes indeed, Mary Hart played a better-looking Ed McMahon to Danny Williams in his noontime show "Dannysday". And yes, Danny Williams played a role on the "Foreman Scotty" children's show at 4:00 pm on channel 4 as 3-D Danny (Dan D Dynamo), the spaceship captain who got into all kinds of adventures and time travels. (Remember those evil, sinister, dog-man robots?) And they worked it all into a 30-minute kiddie show where they had birthday parties and stuff for kids! I just found out lately that 3-D's sidekick "Cannonball" was played by Bob Barry!

Plus Danny had the DJ gig on WKY radio playing motown tunes and stuff in the morning. Marrying into the Gaylord family did well for ol' Danny, didn't it?

He was at his very fun-loving best, though, IMO, as the host and co-announcer of "Championship Wrestling".

Oh, yeah, one other thing: Freestyle wrestling is the sport/martial art called "wrestling", the theatric art of Pro wrestling is "Rassling", or "Rasslin'", which in Danny Hodge's case was an example of a hooligan sport played by a gentleman.

Plus Danny had the DJ gig on WKY radio playing motown tunes and stuff in the morning.

Ah yes. That was a great time. I'll never forget my folks springing the bucks for a
technologically advanced combination cassette recorder and AM-FM receiver.
I spent plenty of time tuned into that great mix of rock/MoTown on WKY with
Danny Williams, Ron Kaye and the other cool DJs of the day.

And occassionally being able to (at night) pick up John "Records" Lansdecker (sp?)
doing his DJ gig at WLS in Chicago. I might as well have been picking up
chatter from another planet!

Marrying into the Gaylord family did well for ol' Danny, didn't it?
In retrospect I did think of Danny Williams as a bit "too hip for the room"
given the conservative flavor of Oklahoma. Marrying into the Gaylords does explain
how he got his gig!
But in many ways I liked Williams...he was hip enough to give me a bit of
a subversive buzz even while being what would be called a fly-over country redneck conservative
by anyone else on the coasts!
In some ways he gave us Okies a media star that had the comic edge of say, a Richard Belzer,
without being a social anarchist from Hollywood.