We Bet You Didn’t Know Some of These Things about the Life and Career of Don Knotts

Here’s Lucy

In 1973, Don Knotts made a guest appearance on the TV show “Here’s Lucy” starring Lucille Ball. The series also had her long-time partner Gale Gordon, as well as her real-life children, Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz, Jr. The 1970s were a really great decade for Don Knotts. It was a time when his film career was steady and he had many television roles. The episode that Knotts featured in brought in great ratings and was definitely one of the highlights of the season.

Fantasy Island

Don Knotts had quite a number of guest appearance roles on mainstream popular TV shows of the 70s, making multiple appearances on “Fantasy Island” in 1978 and 1979. The show was notorious for having the most popular celebrities of the time as guest stars on the show. Due to the shows phenomenal popularity, a decade after the orginal show ended, the network created a revival series, although it was definitely not as succesful as the original.