Col. Sherman Potter…

is 89 today. That’s Harry Morgan. He’s been in a lot of movies, but is best known for TV.

NewMexiKen remembers Morgan as Pete Porter in the TV sitcom December Bride 50 (egad!) years ago. Pete always made cracks about his wife Gladys, who never appeared on the show. (Today Gladys would be on the show making cracks about her spouse.)

Then Morgan was Jack Webb’s partner in the second incarnation on television of Dragnet — Officer Frank Gannon.

But best of all, was as bird-colonel Sherman T. Potter on M*A*S*H. Happy birthday, Colonel.