First Shows to "feature" young female actress that are "eye candy"

[Markxxx]

First Shows to "feature" young female actress that are "eye candy"

Kind of a weird title but here's what I was thinking.

I was watching Petticoat Junction and it's obvious Paul Henning the creator wanted to "feature" three very pretty girls. Even in the early episodes we see the Bradley girls in bathing suits and I'm sure the references to "Hooterville" and "Lot's of curves you bet, even more when you get to the junction," are proof of this.

But even before that Henning's other show, certainly made the best of Ellie Mae in too tight blue jeans and shirts that showed her breasts to the best. Not to mention having Ellie hang by the "cement pond" a lot. Clearly Ellie was there for eye candy.

Later on you can throw in Gilligan's Island and Mary Ann and Ginger.

While these examples aren't exactly the same as Charlie's Angles or Three's Company what were some other shows that featured pretty girls for the sake of having them be pretty.

 

[anoldguy]

Re: First Shows to "feature" young female actress that are "eye candy"

Paul Henning's previous show Love That Bob (The Bob Cummings Show) had a lot of 50's babes in bathing suits. Cummings played a professional photographer. A lot of the cast memeber showed up in his (Hennings) later shows including the Beverly Hillbillies.

 

[Braves2005]

Re: First Shows to "feature" young female actress that are "eye candy"

One show that was a pretty good example was How To Marry A Millionaire from 1957 to 1959 which starred Barbara Eden and was about 3 roommates living together and looking for men. It was also the first show that delved in that more in depth than anything.

 

[Braves2005]

Re: First Shows to "feature" young female actress that are "eye candy"

Paul Henning's previous show Love That Bob (The Bob Cummings Show) had a lot of 50's babes in bathing suits. Cummings played a professional photographer. A lot of the cast memeber showed up in his (Hennings) later shows including the Beverly Hillbillies.

The Beverly Hillbillies' episode where they hold the Beverly Hills Beauty Pageant at the Clampetts' by the swimming pool was hosted by Bob Cummings and what I didn't know was that Nancy Kulp was a regular on his earlier show.

 

[retrothoughts]

Re: First Shows to "feature" young female actress that are "eye candy"

On The Bob Cummings Show, alternately titled Love That Bob, Nancy Kulp played Pam Livingstone, Bob's next-door neighbor and birdwatcher. This may explain some Beverly Hillbillies storylines during the color seasons in the mid-'60s in which Nancy's character, Miss Jane, was a member of a birdwatchers' society.

 

[bpatrick]

Re: First Shows to "feature" young female actress that are "eye candy"

The Warner Brothers private-eye shows on ABC in the late
'50s and early '60s were full of what Castleman and Podrazik
call "two parts private eye, one part cutie pie":

Connie Stevens (Hawaiian Eye)
Dorothy Provine (The Roaring '20s)
Margarita Sierra (Surfside 6)


When Charlie's Angels was riding high on ABC, CBS
founder and chair William Paley asked one of his
programmers where CBS's pretty girls were. In the
fall of '78 he got his wish:

The American Girls (TV newsmagazine reporters
played by Priscilla Barnes, later of Three's Company,
and Debra Clinger) Lasted from Sept. 23-Nov. 10.

Flying High (flight attendants played by Pat Klous and
Connie Sellecca, later of Hotel) Lasted from Sept. 29-
Jan. 23, 1979.

Here's an obscure one from 1963: Harry's Girls, with
Larry Blyden (What's My Line?) as manager of a three-
woman song-and-dance team touring Europe: Susan
Silo, Dawn Nickerson, and Diahn Williams (whatever
happened to any of them?). The show lasted from
Sept. 13, 1963-Jan. 3, 1964 and was replaced by
That Was The Week That Was, which had three
lookers who were more than "eye candy": Phyllis
Newman, Nancy Ames (who sang a song recapping
the week's events at the start of the show), and
Pat Englund.