Ohmygosh!!!!!1111

So recently I was looking up Hedley Mattingly out of curiosity, seeing his other roles and such. I saw he'd been in an episode of Death Valley Days called An Organ for Brother Brigham. I thought, "Oh cool. Must be Mormon pioneer stuff."

I don't know why it didn't dawn on me right then and there. Tonight I was laying on the couch watching Mannix and for some reason I thought about it again and suddenly I realized "... Um, wait a minute. Organ? Oh my gosh, could it really be my ancestor who built organs, including the huge organ that the Mormon Tabernacle Choir still uses today?"

I just went and found the episode on YouTube and watched it. And it was! It really was! I don't know how accurate the episode really was to the real-life event of bringing an organ he'd built from Australia all the way over the desert to Utah; it's been quite a while since I read my uncle's book about our ancestor's life. I know that event happened, just not if the details of the trouble he encountered were accurate (people being annoyed to be bringing an organ, getting stuck in thick sand for days, etc.). I'll have to re-read the book now. But just ... oh my gosh, an actor I'm coming to like played an ancestor of mine!

**runs around squeeing!**

OhmygoshSQUEE!

And the YouTubing this morning just kept being awesome. I found an episode of The Law and Mr. Jones with Simon, saw Wesley's and Richard's scenes in The Ride to Hangman's Tree, Joseph's scenes in The Father Kino Story, and then dug up a 1980s kids' show called Whiz Kids because Luke was listed in an episode. For once they used him a lot and it was awesome and fun as it was and then ... ohmygosh, Jimmy appeared! In the same scene with Luke! And they stood together! Interaction ... kind of!

Of course I immediately added Jimmy's name to the episode's credits on IMDB. Years ago I added a lot of Jimmy's credits to the IMDB page when I was able to dig up a lot of them that they didn't list. It was so awesome to be able to add another, after stumbling on him completely by surprise! Yay, two darlings in the same episode!

That happened one other time, too. I wandered into an episode of Suspense to see Joseph and found a surprise Wesley! And Wesley was actually the most important character in the episode (aside from the main stars)! I don't know why Wesley wasn't credited on IMDB for that, given all his screentime in it. Of course I rectified that, too.