Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marc Berman is a New York-based reporter who covers media. LOS ANGELES - JUNE 6: MISTER ED (MR. ED) cast members: Alan Young (as ...

'Mister Ed' made a horse talk without special effects. The animal actor, Bamboo Harvester, did the act all on his own. The chatty horse was played by a golden palomino called Bamboo Harvester. The ...

There were a lot of odd TV shows in the 1960s, but one of the most unique had to be Mister Ed, about a guy named Wilbur Post who discovers that his horse can actually talk — which he did between 1961 ...

One of America's best-known horses is buried under a wild cherry tree near Tahlequah. Maybe. The horse, of course, of course, was Mister Ed, who talked to his owner, architect Wilbur Post, through 143 ...