Don Knotts shows such as "The Bill Cosby Show" and "Here's Lucy". In 1970, appeared as a Barney Fife-like police officer in the pilot of "The New Andy Griffith Show". In 1972, Knotts voiced an animated version of himself in two episodes of "The New Scooby Doo Movies": "The Spooky Fog of Juneberry", in which he played a lawman resembling Barney Fife, and "Guess Who's Knott Coming to Dinner". He also appeared as Felix Unger in a stage version of Neil Simon's "The Odd Couple", with Art Carney as Oscar Madison. Beginning in 1975, Knotts was teamed with Tim Conway in a
Madison Square and Madison Square Park at about the same location to honor the city's war dead. Thomas Hastings designed a triple arch which cost $80,000 and was modeled after the Arch of Constantine in Rome. Once again, a bid to make the arch permanent failed. The park was the site of an unusual public protest in 1901. Oscar Spate, a displaced Londoner, convinced the Parks Commissioner, George Clausen, to allow him to pay the city $500 a year to put 200 cushioned rocking chairs in Madison Square Park, Union Square, and Central Park and charge the public 5 cents for their use. Free benches were