Episode 11: Pamelyn Ferdin

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A child star of the television and movies in the 60s and 70s,
Pamelyn Ferdin appeared in such classic series as Star Trek,
The Odd Couple, and Bewitched.  She also appeared as
Lynn Colby in the first season Shazam! episode, "Thou
Shalt Not Kill".  Pamelyn joins John and Richard to discuss
her career, her animal activism, and her time on the set
of Shazam!


 


Pamelyn Ferdin (born February 4, 1959) is an
American former television and film child actor who grew up in
Glendale, California, where she attended Herbert Hoover High
School, graduating in 1977. She was mainly active both in live
action and as a voice actress in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, but
has since appeared more sporadically in recent films,
concentrating more on animal rights activism than acting.


 


Ferdin played the Bumsteads' daughter Cookie in the 1968–1969 CBS
revival series Blondie. She played Felix Unger's daughter Edna in
the 1970s ABC series version of The Odd Couple and Paul Lynde's
daughter Sally on the short-lived The Paul Lynde Show.


 


She appeared on the original Star Trek in 1968 as one of a group
of orphaned children led by an alien with sinister motives in the
episode "And the Children Shall Lead", and in the 1977 series
Space Academy as Laura Gentry.[1]


 


Ferdin provided the voice of Lucy van Pelt in three Peanuts
cartoons: the 1969 TV special It Was a Short Summer, Charlie
Brown, a 1969 feature film A Boy Named Charlie Brown and the 1971
TV special Play It Again, Charlie Brown.


 


She appeared as Mary Constable in the supernatural thriller
Daughter of the Mind and as Abby Clarkson in The Mephisto Waltz
(1971). Other films include The Reluctant Astronaut, The One and
Only, Genuine, Original Family Band, The Christine Jorgensen
Story, Happy Birthday Wanda June, and The Toolbox Murders.
Pamelyn was a frequent guest star on episodic television in the
1960s and 1970s, with appearances on Bewitched, Green Acres, The
Andy Griffith Show, Branded, Daniel Boone, Custer, The Monkees,
The Flying Nun, Gunsmoke, Shazam!, The High Chaparral, Mannix,
The Brady Bunch, Family Affair, Love, American Style, Marcus
Welby, M.D., Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, Apple's Way, The
Streets of San Francisco, Baretta, CHiPS, and 240-Robert.


 


Her character "Amy" in The Beguiled (1971) turns against the
Clint Eastwood character after he kills her pet turtle.[citation
needed]


 


She voiced Fern Arable, the little girl who works to save the
life of Wilbur the pig, in the 1973 film version of Charlotte's
Web. [2][3][4][citation needed]


 


She has been married to Dr. Jerry William Vlasak Jr. since Oct.
12th, 1986.


 


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