Editing Ted Knight (section)

===Early roles===
During the postwar years, Knight studied acting in [[Hartford, Connecticut]]. He became proficient with puppets and ventriloquism, which led to steady work as a television children's show host at [[WJAR|WJAR-TV]] in [[Providence, Rhode Island]] from 1950 to 1955.<ref>{{Cite news| url=http://www.pbn.com/WJAR-TV-marks-60th-birthday-tonight,43515| title=WJAR Turns 60| last=Nesi| first=Ted| newspaper=[[American City Business Journals|Providence Business News]]| date=July 10, 2009| access-date= September 14, 2018|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.billjerome.com/tedknight/misc/pj_550223_we.html |title=WJAR's Ted Knight |newspaper=[[The Providence Journal]]| date=February 23, 1955 |access-date=September 14, 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070205113512/http://www.billjerome.com/tedknight/misc/pj_550223_we.html |archive-date=February 5, 2007}}</ref> In 1955, he left Providence for [[Albany, New York]], where he landed a job at station WROW-TV (now [[WTEN]]), hosting ''The Early Show,'' featuring MGM movies, and a children's variety show, playing a [[George "Gabby" Hayes|Gabby Hayes]]-type character named "Windy Knight".<ref>{{Cite web| title=WTEN| url=http://www.ted-knight.com/wten/| website=Ted Knight: Actor, war hero, and friend to my family| access-date=September 17, 2018}}</ref> He was also a radio announcer for sister station [[WROW]] radio and briefly for WFNS in [[Burlington, North Carolina]]. He left the station in 1957 after receiving advice from station manager (and future [[Capital Cities/ABC Inc.|Capital Cities]] chairman) [[Thomas Murphy (broadcasting)|Thomas Murphy]] that he should take his talents to [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]].

[[File:Ted and georgette Mary Tyler Moore Show.JPG|thumb|left|Ted Knight and [[Georgia Engel]] on ''[[The Mary Tyler Moore Show]]'']]
Knight spent most of the 1950s and 1960s creating commercial voiceovers and playing minor television and film roles. He had a small part playing a police officer guarding the room where Norman Bates sat wrapped in a blanket at the end of [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s ''[[Psycho (1960 film)|Psycho]]'' (1960).<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kehr |first=Dave |author-link=Dave Kehr |date=December 1, 2008 |title=Movies: About Ted Knight |work=[[The New York Times]] |department=Movies & TV Dept. |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/person/38822/Ted-Knight/biography |url-status=dead |access-date=May 25, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201162121/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/38822/Ted-Knight/biography |archive-date=December 1, 2008}}</ref> He played Phil Buckley on the [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] soap opera ''[[The Young Marrieds]]'' in the early 1960s.<ref>{{Cite book| title='TV Guide' Guide to TV| year=2004| publisher=Barnes and Noble| isbn=978-0760756348| page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780760756348/page/716 716]| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780760756348/page/716}}</ref> He also made guest appearances in numerous series, including ''[[How to Marry a Millionaire (TV series)|How to Marry a Millionaire]]'', ''[[Highway Patrol (U.S. TV series)|Highway Patrol]]'', ''[[Lassie (1954 TV series)|Lassie]]'', ''[[The Donna Reed Show]]'', ''[[Peter Gunn]]'', ''[[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]'' (in the episode "[[The Lonely (The Twilight Zone)|The Lonely]]"), ''[[Bourbon Street Beat]]'', ''[[Death Valley Days]]'', ''[[The Man and the Challenge]]'', ''[[Alfred Hitchcock Presents]]'', ''[[Mr. Lucky (TV series)|Mr. Lucky]]'', ''[[Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond|One Step Beyond]]'', ''[[Pete and Gladys]]'', ''[[Surfside 6]]'', ''[[Sea Hunt]]'', ''[[The Asphalt Jungle (TV series)|The Asphalt Jungle]]'', ''[[Dr. Kildare (TV series)|Dr. Kildare]]'', ''[[General Electric Theatre]]'', ''[[Manhunt (1959 TV series)|Manhunt]]'', ''[[Cain's Hundred]]'', ''[[The New Loretta Young Show]]'', ''[[The Eleventh Hour (1962 TV series)|The Eleventh Hour]]'', ''[[The Untouchables (1959 TV series)|The Untouchables]]'', ''[[Sam Benedict]]'', ''[[The Virginian (TV series)|The Virginian]]'', ''[[Arrest and Trial]]'', ''[[Ripcord (TV series)|Ripcord]]'', ''[[The Lieutenant]]'', ''[[The Outer Limits (1963 TV series)|The Outer Limits]]'' (in the episode "[[The Invisible Enemy (The Outer Limits)|The Invisible Enemy]]"), ''[[McHale's Navy]]'', ''[[Gunsmoke]],'' ''[[Kraft Suspense Theatre]]'', ''[[Run for Your Life (TV series)|Run for Your Life]]'', ''[[12 O'Clock High (TV series)|12 O'Clock High]]'', ''[[Bonanza]]'', ''[[Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.]]'', ''[[Combat!]]'', ''[[T.H.E. Cat]]'',  ''[[The Fugitive (1963 TV series)|The Fugitive]]'', ''[[The F.B.I. (TV series)|The F.B.I.]]'', ''[[Get Smart]]'', ''[[The Invaders]]'', ''[[Judd, for the Defense]]'', ''[[Garrison's Gorillas]]'', ''[[The Wild Wild West]]'', ''[[The Outsider (1968 TV series)|The Outsider]]'' and ''[[The Immortal (1970 TV series)|The Immortal]]''.

Knight's speaking voice also brought him work as a voice artist for various animated series produced by [[Filmation]] and [[Hanna-Barbera]], including ''[[Star Trek: The Animated Series]]'', ''[[The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure]]'', ''[[The Batman/Superman Hour]]'', ''[[Journey to the Center of the Earth (TV series)|Journey to the Center of the Earth]]'', ''[[Fantastic Voyage (TV series)|Fantastic Voyage]]'', ''[[The New Scooby-Doo Movies]]'', ''[[Super Friends]]'' and ''[[Lassie's Rescue Rangers]]''.