This is another commercial for Mattel's Tommy Burst. Yes, this is Bill Mumy of 'Lost in Space' fame. Freckled faced Bill Mumy was a very familiar face to us baby-boomers growing up. He's in almost all of the old television shows. Do you remember the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode "Bang! You''re Dead" where little Bill takes a real gun outside to play? Mumy was also in a Twilight Zone episode - heck - he was in everything. He is though most remembered for his roll as Will Robinson.
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I had two favorite weapons when playing "army": 1) my M1 carbine made with a real carbine stock, a cut off broomstick handle for a barrel, and a piece of 1/4 with tape around the top (to hold it in) for a clip; 2) the Mattel Tommy Burst. I got my first one with Top Value trading stamps. It was great because you'd pull back the bolt and you had exactly 20 shots. With some toy sub guns would shoot as long as you could jerk back the trigger. Not the Tommy Burst. You didn't make that dash across the back yard without checking to see if the lever was all the way back. Who knows, that habit may have saved the lives of some guys who went to Nam and cut their teeth on the Tommy Burst.
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