Re: An Observation About The Lucy Show

> Who was the writer on the Dennis show in question? It may simply be he 
> just
> decided to re-use the name.
>
> I can't see someone deliberately using the name of an incidental
character 
> on another show as a tribute, especially if the character was played by 
> someone else. It strikes me more as coincidence.
>
> The writers on Dennis The Menace were listed as Peggy Chantler Dick and 
> William Cowley.  I don't know if they wrote any of the early Lucy shows
or 
> not.  Maybe there was a brainstorming session with the Lucy actors when 
> Gale Gordon was hired.  I'm wondering if the name Theodore J. Mooney was

> stuck in Gale's mind and he suggested it without remembering where it 
> orignally came from.