Meeting Davy Crockett

Peter Adamakos was invited to be the animation guest of honor at the
Atlanta Fantasy Fair. There were other guests including actors,
writers and comics people. The invited guests had a number of
opportunities to get to meet each other as they appeared together on
panels and other activities. We often had lunch together and it was a
great three day event.

At the convention an actor guest of honor was Tim Dunigan, who was the
star of the popular science fiction series CAPTAIN POWER AND THE
SOLDIERS OF THE FUTURE. The cinematographer on the series was a
longtime friend of mine starting way back when Disada was an amateur
film group opf college students. One day at lunch Tim seemed
introspective and explained why, saying he had received a call from
his agent that morning telling him that he got a coveted role he had
auditioned for. He was to be Disney's new Davy Crockett in a new
series of shows for the weekly Disney anthology series. It was just
dawning on him that there would be much expected and whatever he did,
he and the series itself would be compared to the famous old Disney
Davy Crockett series. He had never seen the old series (probably a
good thing) and so he welcomed my telling him about it in detail. When
the three (I think) shows aired, I thought they were well done as was
his portrayal. It was impossible to watch the new shows without
thinking of the original ones, unfair but inevitable I suppose.