LOL it's wonderful what a healthy imagination can come up with! Did any of you by any chance catch Gerry Parkes on "Today's Special"? He was a store photographer with a drinking problem. What a brilliant actor.
When I was seeing this show way back when, I always thought Doc and Sprocket lived in Winnipeg (that's not by any seashore though)... I don't know how I came up with that. They (Doc, Schimmelpfennig and Sprocket) just seem like someones from the Peg.