What I Tell You Three Times Is False

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Sometimes I think I can fly a plane.

Which is silly, of course, but I’m reminded of it every time I’m aboard a small aircraft, some six- or eight-seat puddle jumper. On jumbo jets I mind my own business, consider myself just as much a parcel as anybody else, and have no fantasies about sitting up front among all the dials and switches. But when I find myself in a small plane, I invariably get into this completely inaccurate sense of myself as being a pilot.

It’s because I played a pilot, of course; Jack Packard had his own single engine Beechcraft. On PACKARD, the highly successful television series that made me rich and then typecast me so thoroughly that I haven’t found work since, I played a fellow of many parts. Jack Packard, criminologist, college professor, karate black belt, and amateur detective, had lots of skills and talents that I shared with him only through the camera’s connivance.

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