I, too, remember 'Happy'--although I only saw it once or twice. I seem to recall that it was set in a resort hotel somewhere, and I don't think at age ten it registered to me whose son Ronnie Burns might be. For that matter, the 'actor' who played Happy would now be close to 50 years old; I wonder if he continued in show biz or is now in real estate in Southern California? Anyway, I would argue that its premise was no more surreal (or original, for that matter) than a popular network predecessor called 'The People's Choice'--starring Jackie Cooper of 'Our Gang' fame--which featured the audible thoughts of the family basset hound, Cleo. The path from there to 'Misted Ed' and 'My Mother the Car' was clear and unimpeded.
