Paul Lynde “I shot three people, drowned one, and stabbed another. It was so much fun,” Paul told a Lakeland Ledger reporter. He had finally been cast in a serious role. He said not one comical line nor did he make any of his amusing facial gestures in the black-and-white detective television show, Burke’s Law. Paul played Arthur Clark, a man who kills his own brother in “Who Killed Cable Roberts?” The episode aired on October 4, 1963. The producers were pleased with his performance, and he was a guest star two more times — each time playing a cold killer. (In one of those episodes , the detective finds a feather at the crime scene and wonders if the murderer is a chicken plucker. By the end of that show, it is the feathered pillow that Paul used to silence his gun that gets him caught.) He told his good friend Kaye Ballard, that he was planning to pursue more serious roles as that was his original intent from age five. According to Kaye, she watched Paul in those episodes of Burke’s Law and just couldn’t see him serious.
