Original title
Mister Ed
Released
1/5/1961
Origin country
US
Genre
Comedy, Family
Production companies
Filmways Television, The Mister Ed Company
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
6
Number of episodes
143
Wilbur Post and his wife Carol move into a beautiful new home. When Wilbur takes a look in his new barn, he finds that the former owner left his horse behind. This horse is no ordinary horse . . . he can talk, but only to Wilbur, which leads to all sorts of misadventures for Wilbur and his trouble-making sidekick Mister Ed.
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A Horse Tale: Interviews is about Mr Ed and the making of it and other.
Alan Young discusses the Studebaker Lark Fact Book available at your local Studebaker Dealers. It was a very good analysis of Studebaker vs. all Competitors. It's actually a very good read.
Wilbur is overwhelmed when he goes into his barn and his horse starts talking to him. Wilbur's wife and neigbors think he's crazy when he tries to tell them. Ed says that he will only talk to Wilbur and nobody else.
Wilbur is trying to win a contract to build a clubhouse, but Ed gets him into trouble and botches the idea.
Carol gets wrapped up in a woman's club and completely ignores Wilbur. It's up to Ed to try and help her overcome the obsession.
Wilbur and Carol plan a trip to go to a park and Ed's feelings are hurt because he feels left out. Ed then runs away to start a new life.
Ed becomes trouble when he knocks over a barbecue and then eats Carol's planted vegetables. After all this, Wilbur and Addison both end up having to sleep in the barn.
Ed is used as a team mascot and Wilbur must come to his rescue when Ed is stolen by a rival team.
Ed thinks it's silly to play in a Western play. But Wilbur persuades him to act when he tells Ed that a philly horse has fallen in love with Ed. Wilbur then talks Ed into returning back to the set.
Wilbur makes Ed angry when he takes the phone extension out of the barn. Ed reacts by playing tricks on Wilbur and Carol.
Wilbur's well deserving vacation plans come to a close when an annoying aunt with her talking parrot comes to visit for the duration.
Carol wants an antique statue and Wilbur won't let her buy one. She then tells him that she will go on a fish diet if she can't get the statue. She then buys it anyway and Wilbur finds it and takes it back. Finally Wilbur changes his mind and buys it for her anyway. She then takes it back. Then everyone it comes in contact to takes it back and when Wilbur comes to buy it for the last time, the store owner is bout to go crazy.
When Wilbur ends up in a Mexican jail after refusing to pay a repair bill to a mechanic to damaged his trailer, Ed comes to the rescue.
Ed bids for his mother at an auction when he finds out that his mother is used on a farm as a plow horse.
With the help of Ed, Wilbur picks a winning racehorse for Carol and his neigbors. Unfortunatelly they end up betting on a horse that Wilbur has mistakenly circled.
Through a musical experience, Wilbur has a music publisher record a song written, composed, and sung by Ed.
Wilbur and Carol adopt a puppy for an extra pet and Ed gets so jealous that he tries to get the pup in trouble so that Ed can get all the attention.
Ed is afraid of heights and Wilbur gets help from a psychiatrist to help Ed, unfortunately everyone around Wilbur think that the psychiatric help is for him.
Addison and Kate hire a 4 star cook who threatens to quit because there are no eligible men around the property.
A handman hired by Wilbur creates a problem when he squirts water on a photographer for a fancy magazine.
A new boy enters the neigborhood and none of the kids like him. To try and get the kid together with the other kids, Carol throws a party. Ed then hatches a scheme to show that the boy is brave by riding the ""Mean"" Ed.
Ed gets angry at Carol and thinks she is mistreating him because she has Ed hitched to a surrey when Wilbur refuses to buy her a new car.
Addison convinces Wilbur to grow a mustache to look older, so that he can land a promising architectual job he's been wanting.
To Carol's shock, Wilbur whispers the name of another woman in his sleep. After being mad and upset, she is relieved to learn that the name he mentioned was a female horse that Ed wanted him to buy for the barn..........and him Grrrrrr.
Ed manipulates Wilbur to try and get him to play chess with him, but Wilbur doesn't believe him when Ed tells him that there is a burglar loose in the house.
Ed toutors Wilbur on everything from reference books to foreign languages to win a contest that awards $5,000.00.
Ed protests when Wilbur and Carol go to Pine Lake Lodge for vacation. Despite his protests, they leave him behind this time anyway.
Ed falls in love with a filly owned by an important builder and convinces Wilbur to sell him. The man gets so mad that it almost ruins Wilbur's contract.
After finding a grey hair on his tail, Ed is convinced that he is getting old and wants a boy of his own to carry Ed's name.
Business makes Wibur take an office down town. Ed feels unwanted and decides to get out of Wilbur's way for good.
Ed is used as a model for a park statue glorifying the American Palimino, but Ed refuses to go any further when he finds out something about his ancestry.
Carol wants the house redecorated and Ed thinks that the barn should be redecorated first.
An old college buddy of Wilbur taunts him into entering Ed in a jumping contest against his own racing horse.
Ed tells Wilbur that he objects Carol's idea for the barn to be used as a voter's polling booth.
When Ed fids out that the Posts and Addisons use their weeekend to hunt for sport, Ed is against it and tries to stop it.
Roger's brother-in-law is begging Wilbur to write a follow-up hit song to "Pretty Little Filly". He wants it to be a blues number, so Wilbur does his best to get Ed in a depressed mood.
After Ed saves the life of a small girl in the park, a greatful Grandfather invites Ed and the Posts to his estate in Catalina and Ed doesn't want to go.
On their first anniversay together, Ed expects a present from Wilbur......like a color tv set. When Ed brings up the idea, Wilbur refuses and Ed takes it upon himself to come up with an idea.
Wilbur takes in a magician's elephant in the barn and Jumbo drives Ed crazy with his antics.
Wilbur and Addison go half and half into taking care of a wrestler who eats them out of house and home, and takes ballet lessons with the girls.
Carol is jealous and wants to leave Wilbur because he is spending most of his time with Ed, trying to help him cure his cold.
Ed reads in the paper about a cat who is willed a great deal of money, and Ed wants to know if he is in Wilbur's will.
Zsa Zsa Gabor has to make a western movie but is uncomfortable with horses. Eventually Wilbur lends Ed to Zsa Zsa to overcome her fear.
Ed diets to impress a filly, while at the same time, Wilbur's father-in-law decides to drop by and visit.
Addison buys a racehorse that shows success until she comes down with an unknown illness. Ed then comes to her rescue.
George Burns stops by and offers $25,000 to make a Las Vegas appearance with Ed. Wilbur then realizes that Ed is worth a diamond mine.
Ed's word of honor is at stake when Addison and Wilbur have a big argument over a birthday gift from the Posts.
Wilbur tries to have a petition eliminating horses from the neigborhood recalled after Carol unwittingly signs a petition to get rid of them.
Ed thinks he's going bald and gets Wilbur to go out and get a bunch of treatments and remedies. Ed then realizes the real reason why the hair was disappearing.
The Addisons inherit a large estate in the east and prepare to move there. After seeing the new neigbors arrive, Ed starts to miss the Addisons. But the Adissons do not end up moving up there after all.
Addison's beach property is in trouble by a buch of beatnicks, but when Wilbur tries to help with Addison's problem, then Wibbur devolopes his own beatnick problem.
Addison asks Wilbur to help him finance a lie detector machine, causing fights, arguments, and chaos in the Posts' home.
A temporary party line on the barn phone allows Ed to court Clint Eastwood's horse. However, Ed's ways to arrange thing wreak havok between Clint and Wilbur.
The teen daughter of the Posts' new neigbors gets Wilbur and Carol ivolved in her romantic problems.
Ed gets accidentally hit in the head with a bucket of carrots and he can't remember Wilbur or who he is.
When Ed causes a newsboy to lose his job, Wilbur and Addison each suspect each other of being the one who did it.
While Wilbur is working on nice living quarters for an elephant, Ed is taking apples from Addison's apple tree.
Wilbur thinks that Ed looks ungroomed and needs a good haircut, so he gets a hairdresser to do the job.
Wilbur has promised to take Ed camping, but the visit of Addison's mother spoils that from happening.
Addison's letter to the editor fails when he wants the bridle path removed so that they can use the space to add on to the golf course.
Feeling afraid of what Carol and the neigbors might think, Wilbur tries to talk Ed out of it when Ed asks Wilbur to take him kite flying.
Ed realizes that it's his birthday and tries to persuade Wilbur to throw a Birthday party.
Ed tells how a horse was involved in the true story of Thanksgiving, in the hopes that Wilbur will consider giving him some of the Thanksgiving dinner.
Ed hesitates to participate in Wilbur's stage magic act.
Addison, being the Chairman and a distant relative from Paul Revere, hires a sculptor to create an image of Paul. Ed also thinks it's fair to have him on his ancestor also......a horse of course of course.
Wilbur gets into trouble with a married woman in the park as he is riding Ed. Ed also has the hots for a filly that this married woman is riding also.
The circus comes to town, and they intend to place it on the Addisons' property.
Ed's feeling are hurt when Wilbur begins to ride a bike daily. Wilbur then realizes that he can't talk to a bike and that a bike cannot care for him the way Ed does.
Wilbur constructs a rocking chair out of Ed's old shoes. Everyone thinks that Wilbur's chair ir ridiculous until an antique buyer is willing to pay some cash for it.
The Posts, Addisons, and Ed all go to a ski lodge. During the trip they fall victim to card sharks. That is until they use Ed to try and help them out.
Ed becomes unemployed when Wilbur works him in the stable. After that happens, Ed feels that he is entitled to unemployment insurance.
Wilbur and Ed help an old handyman who was wrongfully accused of drugging a horse before a big race.
Carol and Kay try to persuade their husbands to join the hunt club to emulate the First Lady. Wilbur agrees to join, but Edwon't let Wilbur ride him in the hunt.
After cutting the budget on their wives spending, it's up to Wilbur and Addison to keep house while the women work and make the money.
Ed has an uncontrollable urge for Addison's apples and takes them constantly from Addison's apple tree. Addison in return gets upset at the idea and threatens that if Ed takes another one, trouble will follow.
Ed has an uncotrollable urge for Addison's apples and constantly takes them from Addison's apple tree. Addison gets very angy at Ed and threatens Wilbur to stop Ed, or there will be trouble.
Ed wants a picture of Ed to enter into a contest, and Ed does not want to participate. Feeling that the contest is undignified, Ed runs away to a zoo as a zebra.
The Posts buy Kay a cockatoo bird for her birthday. Addison is disappointed in the gift and Ed is pleased with the gift.
Addison's TV set stops working and Wilbur lends him his. Ed gets upset because he won't be able to watch his favorite doctor show.
Joy hits Ed when he learns that he is about to become an Uncle. When he hears of this news, he goes straight to the typewriter and starts to list a bunch of names suitable to fit the little guy.
Ed, who is a die-hard Dogers fan, notices some weaknesses from the line-up while watching a televised game. Ed then takes it to the field when he himself bats a few and slides onto bases himself at the L.A. Dodgers Stadium.
Addison gets Wilbur to come up with a design for a building that Addison wants to build. Ed then distracts Wilbur with ideas for a horse book.
The city's American History Museum offers Wilbur a task to build a monument. The best part is that they offer Wilbur a commision, but he doesn't know what he should create.
Ed enters Wilbur in a newspaper puzzle contest and Wilbur ends up winning a little horse whis Ed adopts as his own son.
Wilbur and Ed get lost while they were riding out. As they got lost, they met a few bums and while Wilbur's attention was caught by something else, Ed invites them to stay at the Posts' home.
Wilbur is offended by Kay's brother, who dresses up as a horse for a costume ball.
Ed has adopted a wild goat and decides to give it to Wilbur as a birthday present.
Wilbur is paid to build a brand new beach house for a popular female columnist.
Ed falls madly in love with a French female horse, but is turned off a little when he realizes that she is taller than him.
Wilbur's former Air Force commander, Gordon Kirkwood and his wife Winnie come to town and park their trailer in the Post's back yard. As the trailer is sitting there, Ed feels that his territory is being invaded.
Kirkwood officially buys the house next door, which causes Wilbur to go back to his old behavior of when Kirkwood commanded Post in the Air Force. This causes Wilbur to become overly helpful and just a pain in Gordon's neck.
Christmastime comes around the Post household and this year, Wilbur decides to be a little bit more frugal in buying gifts..... that is until he gets Ed's Christmas list.
The Posts and Kirkwoods look after a neighbor's baby, which in turn makes Ed feel neglected, which in return causes him to get the mumps.
Ed constantly is complaining about a toothache. Wilbur tries to fix it by hiring the vet to come and take a look at Ed. When Ed sees the needle from the shot he is about to get, Ed disappears from the scene.
Wilbur is invited to attend a convention held by a bunch of magicians (The Great Blackstones), and decides to take Carol and Ed along also.
Ed is frustrated when Wilbur hires a secretary who happens to be a Japenese exchange student. The reason Ed is so angry is because she is always there and Ed can't speak to Wilbur which causes him to get frustrated.
After a fight with Wilbur, Ed heads for all open land which in turn takes him to the desert which he falls victim to all types of misadventures.
Ed is offended when he is constantly called a jackass all the time, so Ed insists that Wilbur take him to the vet to make sure that Ed is still a horse.
Ed wants Wilbur to take him to a Gypsy to get his hoof read on account of if he will get with a Spirited Philly who he is in love with.
Ed becomes friends with an old swayback horse, who everyone riducules, and convnces Wilbur to let the horse stay with them.
Ed overhears Mae West commisioning Wilbur on creating ultra deluxe stables for her horses. When Ed ovehears the conversation, he starts to get discontented with his own surroundings.
Ed tells Wilbur that there is nothing to driving a car. Wilbur scoffs at the idea and Ed must show up Wilbur.
Everyone gets involved in a local variety show, which makes Ed feel left out. Ed then concocts a plan which he can be a one-horse band and starts to practice in the barn after midnight.
While a prowler is loose in the neighborhood, Wilbur plays detective while Ed is holding the prowler.
Wilbur refuses to buy Ed a new saddle and Carol a new dress.
Kirkwood plans a party for his straight-laced, former Commanding General. Problems hit when a little Martian changes the whole thing around.
Wilbur buys a stereo for him and Carol's anniversary, but Carol complains that it isn't a very personal gift.
Kirkwood goes over the line in playing with pool sharks so Ed comes to his rescue.
Ed writes to Dear Abby on account of getting a bachelor stall.
To teach Ed a lesson, Wilbur locks him in his stall so he can' steal any more brownies and warm baking pies out from the kitchen window.
After a recommendation for Wilbur's architectural abilities, Wilbur's next job is to design a shopping mall. When the really heavy investor wants to ride Ed around, Wilbur doesn't see a problem......but Ed does.
This was the funniest episode that I have ever seen! GREAT work!
Wilbur's visiting aunt stops by with her pet parrot. The bird ends up at the pet store and Ed must convince Wilbur that a cat drove the parrot there.
Carol's father stops by to visit, which gives Ed the idea to search for his father.
Kirkwood starts taking up horseback riding and his new horse is really fast, so he challenges Wilbur and Ed in a race.
Kirkwood is trying to find a small business to invest in while Ed opens a juice stand.
Ed tries to pull a prank on Kirkwood but the joke is on him.
The Posts and the Kirkwoods are on their way to a vacation together, and while they left Ed behind, Ed decides to track them down.
Carol's father visits again and Ed decides that people should not ride horses.
Carol all of a sudden starts developing an allergy to horses. On account of that Ed decides to become a volunteer for Air Force sentry duty.
Wilbur accidentally ends up pulling the stuffing out of a toy horse. When Ed overhears Wilbur talking about ""Stuffing the horse"", Ed goes into shock.
Ed becomes a Godfather when a filly has her baby horse when her owner is away.
Ed decides to get contact lenses when he is spotted in public wearing glasses.
A collection of items are gathered for an auction and are stored in Ed's barn. The collection of objects reveal a fierce looking creature.....a dragon horse.
Ed wants a heater for the barn and Carol needs a new refrigerator. What is Wilbur going to decide to do?
Ed accidentally becomes the ""drop"" for stolen money, taken from a bank where Wilbur was making a deposit.
When Wilbur designs a post office with a Pony Express statue, Ed becomes amazed at the thought that his ancestors used to deliver mail.
Ed is paranoid over a new neighbor who happens to be an archeology professor and who has a mustache and a beard.
A movie producer is looking for a fresh face to play Robin Hood in his new film and Carol convinces Wilbur to try out, but he keeps flubbing his cues.
Ed takes up painting as a hobby and comes up with an ugly portrait of Carol which to some may make him famous.
John Provost stars as the pitcher for Wilbur's little league game, but almost misses Wilbur's baseball game.
Carol prepares a ranger outing for girls. Wilbur is asked to do the same type of things for the boys also. Ed is interested in participating, so will he do it?
Ed discovers that some spies are using the park to drop secret messages. When Wilbur then finds some microfilm, his imagination starts to fly.
A neighbor who happens to be a builder needs an architect. Ed comes up with an idea that go-go music might just help Wilbur get that job.
The Chief of the Secret Intelligence Agency calls on Wilbur to find a tiny secret radio that has disappeared. Ed finds the only clue to it.
When Ed and Wilbur recover a mini radio for the Secret Intelligence Agency, the two are threatened by spies.
Carol attemps to publish Ed's memoirs.
The Secret Intelligence Agency calls on Wilbur to try and find out who exactly has been stealing papers from the agency.
Ed answers a hard question regarding chess on a radio game show and ends up winning Wilbur a new color TV set.
Carol offers to look after a friends cat, but Wilbur ends up doing most of the work, making him busy. Ed then starts then feeling neglected.
Ed is opposed to a gift that Wilbur received. It is a bearskin rug and Wilbur refuses to get rid of it until is gets up to chase him.
Ed begs Wilbur to find him a Justice of the Peace so that Ed can marry his favorite filly.
Ed decides that he only wants to be ridden bareback and does not want Wilbur to use a saddle on him, so Wilbur then goes and rents a motorcycle.
Ed discovers that he's part Indian steed and refuses association with a parrot descended from General Custer's parrot.
Wilbur pleads with Ed to stick to being a horse, especially when Ed wants to go to college to become a Doctor.
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