Following a storyline similar to the francis the talking mule series of films, the animal in question (the horse, mr With the help of mister ed, wilbur decides to write a book about horses. Mister ed, a palomino horse officially named bamboo harvester, was a show and parade horse who was foaled in 1949 in el monte, california
His parents were the harvester (sire), a saddlebred owned by edna and jim fagan With alan young, connie hines, larry keating, edna skinner And zetna, (dam) who was sired by antez, an arabian imported from poland.
With alan young, connie hines, leon ames, florence macmichael Ed goes into training after losing a race on the bridle path to gordon's rented horse. Allan lane, who provided the voice of mister ed, originally didn't want his name listed in the credits So mister ed was listed as himself
When the show became a hit, lane changed his mind However, the producers wanted to keep the mystique about the talking horse going, so they never put his name in the credits. This meant that hilton had to be on the set at all times, calling out commands or giving them with hand signals. Sherman hemsley (george, from the jeffersons (1975)) delivers the voice for wilbur post's exceptional equestrian, the talking mr
