Was Bill Bixby A Gay?

When he would talk to Eddie he oozed homosexuality, but not so much on Hulk or Martian. Maybe he was a pedo?

Are you female? Only a woman would see gay in that father-son relationship.

Maybe you're the pedo, looking for pedo subcontext in a wholesome family sitcom. Normal non-pedo people don't do that.

I grew up in a home with a single mother and two siblings. My father was either absent or distant on the occasions he did visit us. I watched "The Courtship of Eddie's Father" and I would always imagine that Bill Bixby was my father in real life. Gee, that sounds pathetic and sad now that I'm an adult but I guess I knew deep down that I was missing something. I don't know if he was gay or not but I did have a childhood fondness for the gentle father in the TV show. I thought the kid was adorable too.

He married at least one crazy woman. His son died at age 6 and his crazy ex wife eventually killed herself. He married a few more times and his last wife was the widow of the guy who drew cats that were really popular in the 80s. Kliban. Kliban cats.

Here's Kliban cats. I had one of his shirts, Fat Cat. A fat cat with a cigar, if I remember correctly. And a comforter with a cat wearing sneakers pattern. Bill seemed like a good egg to me and most people. Bloom fell off the rose pretty quickly, and he was ultimately a lightweight actor, but gone too soon. I would say straight with all the marriages. I know they could have all been beards, but straight people do exist you know. Thankfully, they make everybody.

I was in love with him in My Favorite Martian reruns.

When I used to watch Bill Bixby as Eddie's Father back in the day I used to wish he WERE a pedo!

He almost always showed a nice full basket. Most straight men are more self conscious about that.

Brenda Benet wasn't crazy. She fell into a deep depression when their only child died which led to her suicide. She was previously married to Paul Peterson of "The Donna Reed Show"

I do believe he took part in the homo love...

I dunno if he was a homo, but he had a very nice, round butt.

Disney paired him with Susan Clark. What does that tell you, other than that and that Helen Reddy musical meant that someone there must have really liked [italic]Airport 1975[/italic]?

Oh! I had such a crush on in back in the day!!!

Evidently Jack Chertok, who was the producer of Bixby's first TV series My Favorite Martian back in 1966, was an infamous chicken hawk who used the casting couch to drill rising young actors. Bixby took the bait and according to biographer Eleanor Raswick, got his first role after sharing a weekend rendezvous in Palm Desert with the producer in the summer of 65. Like many straight actors who offer themselves sexually to other males to further their careers, Bixby was haunted by this experience for the rest of his life. He was also a functional alcoholic and manic depressive.

Back in the 1970s. I worked for warners. He was on projects there. He seem nice enough. There was no gay vibe about him either.

R17 Thanks. Could you please share some stories about your time working at Warners in the 1970s. Thanks.

Brenda Benet was cuckoo before her son died. It's why they were divorced.

His hand and footprints and autograph are to be found in the sidewalk outside the studios of Denver's PBS station. It was formerly the studios of Denver's ABC affiliate and I guess back in the 60s and 70s the stars of that network visited affiliate stations around the country to promote the new season's shows.

It's Denver's own mini-Grauman's. Other stars featured include. Linda Evans and Peter Breck from "The Big Valley", Jackie Coogan from "The Addams Family", Chuck Connors from "The Rifleman", Nick Adams from "The Rebel", Gardner McKay from "Adventures in Paradise", Charlton Heston, Anthony Eisley from "Hawaiian Eye". Oh and E.J. Peaker from "That's Life"!

Some of the slabs have become indecipherable due to weather and foot traffic Someone (I think an intern at Rocky Mountain PBS)tried to secure historic landmark status and preservation funding. Their request was DENIED! DENIED!

I need to learn how to make rubbings of these so there can be some sort of record.

Bill Bixby's reads "Bill Bixby, Eddie's Father, 1969"

Anyone involved with rightwing lesbian Tammy Bruce was cuckoo.

Anyone who uses ableist slurs like "cuckoo" is part of the problem.

Oh, stop being so fucking politically correct, R22. The bitch was as crazy as a shithouse rat.

And you just proved my point, R23. And funny how you complain about political correctness after years of enforcing it on us.

Why, then, do you offend your delicate sensibilities by reading Datalounge, of all things? You sound as fucked up as Bill Bixby's nutcase wife.

r22 r24 His shit's fucked up.

I'm starting to think you're the one who has problems and you're just projecting them onto others, R25.

R27 – Your doctor just called with your colonoscopy results. Good news–they found your head!

R25 is right though. Why read DL if you're that easily offended?

Here's a homosexualist picture of Eddie's dad

[quote]their only child died which led to her suicide. She was previously married to Paul Peterson of "The Donna Reed Show"

Well that would explain the suicide, anyone married to Peterson and have to put up with his bitching about how his life was ruined by being a child star. Yeah, you know what, Shelly Fabares's life wasn't ruined, maybe you just didn't have what it takes to make it as an actor.

On second though no maybe about it.

R3, it's not pathetic; we all have stuff. My dad died when I was very very young and it never goes away.

Of course, it's only natural to see dads on TV shows and in movies and think and wish and wonder what if?

I still do it and I'm old; it'll never go away.

I don't think it's supposed to.

he was thrice married so i doubt he was gay. i liked him in the andy griffith show.

[quote]he was thrice married

So intrauterine, but it doesn't belong in this sentence.

"Anyone involved with rightwing lesbian Tammy Bruce was cuckoo. "

Looking it up I see Brenda was 36 when she killed herself, and Tammy Bruce was 20. I'd say it appears Tammy would have been fairly left wing at this time. In the years after the suicide Tammy was part of the Bill Clinton presidential campaign and of course president of the Los Angles chapter of the National Organization of Women. So maybe it was shacking up with a liberal that drove Brenda cuckoo?

Brenda Benet was also the best part of the original Walking Tall movie.

Clearly a pedohomo, clearly too happy with Brandon "I was a kid, I said what they wanted" Cruz

I got the same vibe when Andy Griffith looked at Opie.

I thought he always sounded deeply sad inside because of his wife's death but holding it together for Eddie's sake. I wish they'd rerun that show, you can't find it anywhere.

OP, he wasn't "a gay", but THE gay.

[quote]Charlton Heston, Anthony Eisley from "Hawaiian Eye".

Do you seriously believe that Charlton Heston appeared on some crappy Warner Brothers TV series at the height of his movie stardom?

I just saw Bill Bixby and Brenda Benet on a crappy "Love Boat" episode.

OP likes to fantasize oozing.

She's disgusting.

Brandon Cruz, the actor who played Eddie on the show claimed that Bixby would take him on long drives after the day's shooting was done for the show. The drives usually ended at a rented bungalow Ingelwood where he was given alcohol and sometimes pills. He said didn't remember much, but Bixby would may him lay face down on a bed and fuck him up his tender asshole for hours. Not sure if I buy his story considering he only came out with it a couple of years ago, long after Bixby had died.

Charlton Heston's signature appears there but with no indication of any ABC show that he appeared in. He has a square with nothing but his signature.

I KNOW that he wasn't on "Hawaiian Eye"!

First all the 16th St muggings and now this...

Bixby was the male Liz Montgomery. He was straight and every other cast member from Uncle Martin, to Eddie to Hulk and yes even Mrs Livingston was a gay.

[italic]Silver Spoons[/italic] and [italic]Small Wonder[/italic] take the cake for inappropriate father-son subtexts.

I agree he had a weird unnerving sexual feeling with Eddie that he didn't have in the other shows. I wouldn't be surprised if Brandon Cruz says he was molested by him. I guess Joey Lawrence was too old for him by Blossom time. Ray Walston always looked like a gay, and Bixby had a huge head too.

R41, ALL episodes of the Love Boat were crappy, but I loved watching them anyway.

I saw Bixby on an Andy Griffith rerun. He played an entitled son of a big lawyer or senator or something and he broke a law.

By the end of the episode, Andy's love caused Bill's character to become a non-douche bag.

R43 Can you provide any links to your claim?

I thought Bill Bixby was sexy so I was frustrated when his Hulk character morphed into Dr. Bannnen his clothes were intact - I watched to see shredded cloth and lots of bare skin. It never happened.

He was always grabbing my penor and I was always fighting him off

Bumping for more Bill Bixby gossip.

Have been watching him lately on "Martian" reruns at 4 in the morning on COZI-TV. He was a real cutie then.

R15, My Favorite Martian premiered in 1963, not 1966, and Bixby was already 29 years old – a bit old for a “chicken hawk”, although certainly not too old for the casting couch. He was already a well-known actor at the time, though; MFM was not his first (or second or third) break.

How sad some here want to portray this relationship as pedo, or Bixby as gay.

I agree, R57, especially since Bixby is no longer here to defend himself (but then, I think it's only something being said here on DL, nowhere else).

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