Mount Idy - The fictional Ohio hometown of cute, old storyteller Uncle Charley 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 Charley 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. In the 1960s, Cliff Arquette revealed  to talk show host Merv Griffin that his Charley Weaver character was inspired by a friend of his grandmother: “Yes, as a kid in Ohio I would visit my Grandmothers house and listen as she read letters from a friend of hers who had moved to Mount Ida, Arkansas. Those letters were fascinating. My Grandmother would cluck and make comments after each sentence. We grandkids loved them, although we weren’t real sure what they were about."

Uncle Charley Weaver had also spun his yarns about his hometown of Mount Idy when he appeared on:

• DAVE AND CHARLEY/1952 (Comedy)

• DO IT YOURSELF/NBC/1955 (Fix-It Show)

• THE RCA VICTOR SHOW/NBC/1951-54 (Variety)

• THE TENNESSEE ERNIE FORD SHOW/NBC/ABC/1955-65 (Musical Variety)

• THE ROY ROGERS & DALE EVANS SHOW/ABC/1962 (Musical Variety)

• THE JACK PAAR SHOW/NBC/1957-62 (Talk Show)

• THE CHARLIE WEAVER SHOW/1962 (Comedy)

• HOLLYWOOD SQUARES/NBC/1966-74 (Quiz Show)

• THE JONATHAN WINTERS SHOW/CBS/1967-69 (Variety) 

Charley's Mt. Idy characters also appeared in his popular-songbook Charlie Weaver's' Songs for His People which featured 12 comedy songs written and recorded by Cliff Arquette (Leeds Music Corporation Songbook). The songs include "Fight For Sub-Normal U.", "Gomar Come Out Of That Sewer," "It's Xmas in Mount Idy" "Just Got a Letter from Mamma"; "On the Boardwalk at Snider's Swamp"; and "Who'll Sign the Pardon for Wallace Swine?" among others. These songs can be heard on his album Charlie Weaver Sings for His People / 1959 / Columbia CL 1345 mono.