In a Sesame Street cartoon insert seen as early as 1973, Dodson lent his voice to a man discussing the uses of the letter U. (EKA: Episode 0494) A familiar television presence, especially in sitcoms, Dodson appeared on Car 54, Where Are You?, CPO Sharkey (with Don Rickles), The Fugitive, Room 222, Maude, Welcome Back, Kotter, Benson, Newhart, Growing Pains, and more. He made multiple guest appearances on Barney Miller (notably as a man who murders his barber), Happy Days (thrice as Ralph Malph's dad) and was a regular on the one-season All's Fair (1976-1977, as bungling Senator Joplin) and the even shorter-lived sitcoms In the Beginning (1978, as the monsignor) and Phyl and Mikhy (1980, as Truck Morley; the series focused on a Russian track star and was canceled due to the 1980 Olympics bo