Mount Idy - The fictional Ohio hometown of cute, old storyteller Uncle Charlie Weaver (Cliff Arguette) who appeared on a number of radio & television programs in the 1950s and 1960s. During his comedy program HOBBY LOBBY/ABC/1959-60 Charlie Weaver would tell folksy stories about his rural hometown (population 308) and the hobbies of such inhabitants as Grandpa Ogg and Grandma Ogg, Byran Ogg, Goo Goo Schultz, Gomar Cool, Widow Darby, Grandma Heise (the richest woman in town), Clara Kimball Moots, Elsie Krack, Wallace Swine, and the twins Fred and Gladys Swine, Grandpa Snider, Dr. Beemish, Melvin and Leonard Box, Ludlow Bean, Birdie Rodd, Joe Cutter and Irma Clodd. An earlier version of the Charley Weaver character first appeared on a comedy entitled "Uncle Charlie" on the anthology DRAMA AT EIGHT/DUM/1953. Uncle Charlie Weaver, who sported a mustache, squashed hat, and glasses, continued to spin yarns about his hometown of Mount Idy when he appeared on DO IT YOURSELF/NBC/1955 (Fix-It Show); THE RCA VICTOR SHOW/NBC/1951-54 (anthology); THE ROY ROGERS & DALE EVANS SHOW/ABC/1962 (Musical Variety); THE JACK PAAR SHOW/NBC/1957-62 (Late Night Talk Show); the nighttime version of HOLLYWOOD SQUARES/NBC/1968 (Quiz Show); and THE JONATHAN WINTERS SHOW/CBS/1967-69 (Comedy Variety). Cliff Arquette (who was born in Toledo, Ohio) once reported that his Charlie Weaver character was inspired by a friend of his mother, who wrote letters from Mount Ida, Arkansas which were lovingly read to her whole family.