Teen Idols of the 50s and 60s (To listen to the music from these teen idols go to the link at the bottom of this page) The 50s and the 60s had its share of teen idols and teen queens. I have selected what I feel were not only. Don Stroud dans Un sh Dean Butler, Actor: Little House on the Prairie. Dean Butler was born on May 20, 1956 in Prince George, British Columbia, Canada. He is an actor and producer, known for Little House on the Prairie (1974), The New Gidget (1986. From these simple beginnings, the flow of scripts evolved, covering the relationship of fathers in the unusual (to. A point to ponder: most of the Single Dads around today grew up learning about the Single Dad experience from the fictional Dads on this page. Our point of reference for fathering isn't Ward Cleaver: it's Fred Mac. Murray and Bill Bixby. Author's Update: There's been a few suggestions for the 5. I am working on adding some of these shows. Please be patient while I collate the information. Thanks! First, the Questionable Shows of the 5. Make Room for Daddy / The Danny Thomas Show 1. Questionable Dad: Danny Williams (Danny Thomas) / Entertainer. Why It Doesn't Count: It's a toss- up between this show and Eight Is Enough as to which. Trump Sexual Assault Accuser Summer Zervos Tears Up During Press Conference: 'I Refuse to Be Intimidated Into Silence' WATCH: John Legend Releases Powerful 'Love Me Now' Video as He Addresses Trump Win. Opening titles to Gidget. Sally Field speaks about her gay son while accepting HRC's Ally for Equality Award - Duration: 3:22. To print correctly, please use the Print link. View Entire Week Jump to. Gidget graduates as a surfer and wins the approbation of her beach boy friends, featuring Sandra Dee, James Darren and Cliff Robertson, with Shary Layne, Job. During a contract dispute, Miss Hagen quit the show in 1. Danny without a TV wife. The writers skittered around this development by declaring Danny to be a widower, and a year of TV Single Dadness ensued. However, Danny was remarried on the show after less than a year of bachelorhood. As shown in The Rules, this fails the Mike Brady Clause, and is thus not a true TV Single Dad show. Too bad, Danny! The Tammy Grimes Show 1. Questionable Dad: Simon Ward (Hiram Sherman) / Uncle- Banker. Why It Doesn't Count: Tammy Grimes was an orphaned heiress to her parents' monstrous fortune. The case for this show is that Tammy doesn't control the purse strings - - it's really Uncle Simon who's in charge of the finances. However, Tammy and her twin brother Terrence (played by . Sorry, Tammy. Next, the Hall of Fame Shows of the 5. My Little Margie 1. DAD: Vernon Albright (Charles Farrell) / Widower. DAD'S JOB: Investment Banker. KIDS: Margie (Gale Storm), 1. WHERE'S MOM?: Dead a few years. Unknown cause. STAND- IN . Odetts (Gertrude Hoff)The granddaddy of them all, My Little Margie set the stage for most TV Single Dad sitcom plots: the child. Dad needs a new wife, and goes . Dad winds up meeting the child's . Dad winds up yelling at the child, and then apologizes. Everything is fine until the next exciting. Although it's the earliest known TV Single Dad show, My Little Margie was a radio cross- over from CBS. The television version of the radio series, produced by Desilu, made it to the screen as a summer replacement for I Love Lucy. Update: Alert Viewer Gord Bates reports that the company Vernon Albright worked for was . Thanks, Gord! Life with Luigi 1. DAD: Pasquale (Alan Reed) / Widower. DAD'S JOB: Restaurant owner. KIDS: Rosa Pasquale (Jody Gilbert), 1. WHERE'S MOM?: Dead. STAND- IN . Pasquale sponsored the title character's immigration in the hopes of having him marry his rather obese daughter. Wacky hijinks ensued, of course. Alan Reed is better known as another TV Dad: he was the voice of Fred Flintstone on The Flintstones ten years later. Bonino 1. 95. 3DAD: Babbo Bonino (Ezio Pinza) / Widower. DAD'S JOB: Basso Profundo operatic singer. KIDS: Doris(Lenka Peterson), Jerry(Chet Allen, then Donald Harris), Carlo(Oliver Andes), Francesca(Gaye Hudson), Andrew(Van Dyke Parks)WHERE'S MOM?: Dead, recently. STAND- IN . Bonino's wife died, leaving him with a . Coe and Swift previously worked with Ezio Pinza on The RCA Victor Show in 1. Pinza's vocal and dramatic talents. I imagine it must have been really interesting to watch a show where five kids had to hit their marks, live, every week. Very Kewl Update: Just got a cast correction in from none other than Carlo Bonino himself, Oliver Andes! I notice that several web sites have the same incorrect information. The part of Francesca was played by Gaye Huston. Keep up the good work. Oliver Andes (Carlo). Robert Allison (Jeffrey Lynn) / Widower. DAD'S JOB: M. D. Bixby (Leona Powers) / housekeeper. Another half- year wonder, this show was a precursor of Leave It to Beaver, but without June Cleaver. Jeep Allison got into the same kind of mishaps Beaver Cleaver would in the latter part of the decade, and Dr. Allison would have to sort out the mess when he got home from the office. The repetitive motif of the kids finding suitable . Jeep was always trying to get Dad to show some interest in his substitute teacher, Miss Miller (Anne Sargent). Wacky hijinks ensued. Wonderful John Acton NBC 1. DAD: John Acton (Harry Holcombe) / Widower. DAD'S JOB: Court clerk and owner of the general store. KIDS: Julia (Virginia Dwyer)(2. Kevin (Ronnie Walken)(1. WHERE'S MOM?: Dead. STAND- IN . Easily forgettable, it was on from July to October of 1. Update: Received a note from the son of the producer and director of Wonderful John Acton: . Prior to that, he was a producer and director in radio, his most famous show being . I met one of the cast, Ian Martin, some years later when I was 1. I have a claim to fame in that Christopher Walken's character, Kevin Acton, was named after me. It was probably mom's idea. Unlike his radio career, my dad's foray into television met with little success. Thanks, Jacqui! Sky King 1. DAD: Skyler . Sky had a niece named Penny and a nephew named Clipper. Penny and Clipper were constantly getting into trouble with the bad guys, and Uncle Sky typically had to rescue the kids from all sorts of perils. The echoes of Sky King ring through the decades, as shows such as Space Ghost, Flipper, and Jonny Quest toyed with the . Strange. Update: Alert viewer Ray Crenshaw (tbivins@greenwood. Sky's aircraft: . The first plane was a 'Bamboo Bomber', it had two big radial engines and looked roughly similar to the plane Amelia Earhart flew and was subsequently lost in. Bamboo Bombers are exceedingly rare I'm told, probably even in the 1. Cessna released the new twin- engine '3. I wonder if they donated the new 3. This was, after all, just after WWII.. For a while it looked like it may happen.. Thanks, Ray! An additional clang of the Hop Sing Memorial Dinner Triangle to Jim Hecht for the clarificaation of Skyler's full name. Thanks, Jim! I get more mail about Sky King than any other show in this entire website. What's really amazing is how many little boys were in love with Penny! The first, with the rotary engines, said to be similar to Emilia Eahrhart's plane, was a Cessna 3. B. It would take a Cessna Freak to tell you what the second one was- -- -also a Cessna 3. The C- 3. 10 was the base designation of the Cessna twin engine private plane. The letters designated the evolutionary incarnation, so to speak. Sky King's ranch was called the . He drove around in Chrysler autos/station wagons with the FC logo/brand on the door. Fury 1. 95. 5- 6. Syndicated. DAD: Jim Newton (Peter Graves) / Single (!)DAD'S JOB: Rancher. KIDS: Joey (Bobby Diamond)(1. WHERE'S MOM?: Dead. Joey names the horse Fury. Fury and Joey wind up having the same kinds of adventures that Timmy and Lassie would have on their show. Barry Williams, who would later portray the unforgettable Greg Brady on The Brady Bunch, once described this show as . I'm not sure if that's a good thing or.. A tip of the Sebastian Cabot Memorial Bowler to Robert Carson (narcars@webtv. Jim's last name and the Stand- in Mom details. Thanks, Robert!. and a clang on the Hop Sing Memorial Triangle for Norman Bensen (normand@webtv. Livington Memorial Feather Duster for . Here's a recent note from the Broken Wheel Ranch - . Nan Leslie played Packy's mother, she was not Jim's sister, or even his dead wife. If you are looking for a female for a stand in mother, then you would want it to be Ann Robinson, who was Joey's scool teacher Helen Watkins. She was always at the ranch, and was there for Joey every damn time he got hurt, which was every few episodes. If you would like to see more info on it, please visit our site at: http: //brokenwheelranch. Where's Dad, too? STAND- IN ? This show, produced by Gene Autry as a . Get this: out west, Ricky North lives on his uncle's ranch, and is the only person able to ride this black stallion named Champion. They have a bunch of adventures defeating bad guys and getting into all kinds of dangerous situations. I wonder who came up with the idea first. Tidbit: this show was the first 'spin- off' in the history of television (from The Gene Autry Show of 1. Just consider: Laverne & Shirley owes its pedigree to Gene's horse. Brave Eagle 1. 95. DAD: Brave Eagle (Keith Larsen) / Single. DAD'S JOB: Chief of the Cheyenne. KID: Keena (Keena Nomkeena) / Foster son. WHERE'S MOM?: Don't know. STAND- IN . Brave Eagle had to lead his tribe in simple survival and run- ins with the white man and other Indians. Kinda like Captain Kirk with teepees instead of starships. Here's how everything in television is related - via marriage. Keith Larsen was married to Vera Miles, who later appeared as Beth in the TV Single Dad show How the West Was Won. Thanks! The Great Gildersleeve 1. Syndicated. DAD: Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve (Willard Waterman) / Single. DAD'S JOB: Water Commissioner of Summerfield. KID: Marjorie Forrester(Stephanie Griffith), Leroy Forrester(Ronald Keith) / Niece & Nephew. WHERE'S MOM?: Dead. Gildersleeve was a spin- off character of the Fibber Mc. Gee & Molly radio show, and was originally portrayed by Harold Peary. The premise of the spin- off was that Gildersleeve's niece and nephew were orphaned, and needed their Uncle Throckmorton to move to Summerfield. In the early 5. 0's, Peary was replaced by Waterman in the title role. The series moved to television mid- decade, but suffered from being mostly radio scripts with insufficient on- screen action. Waterman later re- created the role for solo appearances on The Lucy Show. Big tip of the Porter Ricks Memorial Scuba Mask to Alert Viewer Gwnachman for the heads- up on this series. Thanks! Circus Boy 1. NBC)- 5. 7(ABC)DAD: Big Tim Champion (Robert Lowery) / Single (!)DAD'S JOB: Circus Owner. KIDS: Corky (Mickey Braddock . In this show, Corky the Circus Boy loses his acrobatic parents in a trapeze mishap, and winds up sharing adventures with Big Tim Champion. Bentley was Kelly's parents' attorney and executor - wound up with wardship! STAND- IN . Thanks, Ted! The Rifleman 1. 95. DAD: Lucas Mc. Cain (Chuck Connors) / Widower. DAD'S JOB: Rifleman / Homesteader.
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