who comes into the room through the window to ask for Milton Berle's autograph for his children. He starred in another episode in which he plays a bellboy for a hotel in Nome, Alaska that Lucy and the gang are staying at. He played Captain Midnight's sidekick, Ichabod "Icky" Mudd ("That's Mudd, with two D's"), in Captain Midnight, an early 1950s Saturday morning children's show. Until the end of his life, old fans would greet him on the street with his signature introductory gag line, "Mudd with two D's." Other television credits include Dragnet, The Silent Service, and M Squad. He appeared in four episodes of the final two seasons of Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. as Friendly Freddy, an unsuccessful con-artist who bilks Gomer and Sgt. Carter, among others, but always gets caught, sometimes several times in the same episode. He had guest roles on Adventures of Superman, I Dream of Jeannie and The Dick Van Dyke Show; in the last he played deli owner Bert Monker, who is in love with Sally Rogers (played by Rose Marie). In 1956 Melton appeared in an uncredited role as Shorty on the TV western Cheyenne in the episode "The Last Train West." Melton appeared in a humorous 1966 television commercial as a truck driver carrying new American Motors automobiles. Personal life and death Melton was married in the 1940s, but the marriage was annulled. In 2005, he attended Eddie Albert's funeral along with Green Acres co-stars Mary Grace Canfield and Frank Cady. Melton died from pneumonia on November 2, 2011, aged 94, at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California. He was interred at Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. Selected filmography Blondie Goes to College (1942) Close-Up (1948) Lady at Midnight (1948) Knock on Any Door (1949) as "Squint" Zinsky (uncredited) Tough Assignment (1949) Radar Secret Service (1950) Lost Continent (1951) The Steel Helmet (1951) Mask of the Dragon (1951) Savage Drums (1951) Under Fire (1957) - GI #1 (uncredited) The Joker Is Wild (1957) - Racetrack Runner (uncredited) Thundering Jets (1958) - Sgt. Eddie Stone The Tunnel of Love (1958) - Truck Driver (uncredited) The Buccaneer (1958) - Kentuckian (uncredited) The Geisha Boy (1958) - Taxi Driver (uncredited) Lone Texan (1959) - Gus Pringle - the barber Alias Jesse James (1959) - New York Bar Fight Fan (uncredited) The Beat Generation (1959) - Police Detective Carlotti (uncredited) The