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Obit: John Forsythe Dies at 92

...in addition to his television work, Forsythe played one of the slimiest cinema villains of all time, Judge Henry T. Fleming, in ...and justice for all...
 
Probably unrelated, but today RTV--at least as aired on KAZT-TV 7.2
Prescott/Phoenix--ran the same Bachelor Father episode as yesterday.
 
What was Bachelor Father? It seems to have had a good five year run from 1957 to 1962, but I've never heard or seen of it before. It also appears to have had at least a season on all three networks.
 
dustintv said:
What was Bachelor Father? It seems to have had a good five year run from 1957 to 1962, but I've never heard or seen of it before. It also appears to have had at least a season on all three networks.
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A simple internet search would get you multiple sources for your answer. As the show's title implies, Bachelor Father was a sitcom in which Forsythe played a suave and well-to-do bachelor who suddenly had custody of his teenage niece when her parents died in an accident. It was a clever show for the time and after its first run ended in 1962, it was around off an on for probably another decade in local TV rerun syndication.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049996/
 
Probably as good a place as any to discuss one aspect of
Bachelor Father...Bentley Gregg was supposed to be a
successful Beverly Hills lawyer who also lived in B.H.

In the first season (with the animation open), it sure didn't
look like a Beverly Hills residence. It seemed to have a rather
small interior, the front door opened right into the living room/
dining area, a small and rudimentary kitchen, and outside, a
one-car carport. (No multi-car garage.) The exterior looked
more like a tract home in the San Fernando Valley than one
in Beverly Hills.

By (I think) the second season (now with the "pick up Kelly
at school in the convertible and fake driving with the process
footage in the background" open), they had moved into what
finally looked like a "proper mansion."

Kind of wish the guy who did the book on sitcom interiors had
included these two "homes" as well.
 
Lkeller said:
A simple internet search would get you multiple sources for your answer. As the show's title implies, Bachelor Father was a sitcom in which Forsythe played a suave and well-to-do bachelor who suddenly had custody of his teenage niece when her parents died in an accident. It was a clever show for the time and after its first run ended in 1962, it was around off an on for probably another decade in local TV rerun syndication.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049996/
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Aha thanks, I was just way too lazy to wiki the show last night :p
 
That "fake driving" you mentioned was, I believe in a Chrysler convertable. Early "product placement?"
 
Prais said:
That "fake driving" you mentioned was, I believe in a Chrysler convertable. Early "product placement?"
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There was plenty of product placement in 50s and early 60s TV - especially cars. Watching early Quinn Martin shows (Fugitive, The FBI, etc.), you could always tell which scenes were shot on the back-lot because all the cars on the "street" would be Ford products.
 
Lkeller said:
dustintv said:
What was Bachelor Father? It seems to have had a good five year run from 1957 to 1962, but I've never heard or seen of it before. It also appears to have had at least a season on all three networks.
Click to expand...
A simple internet search would get you multiple sources for your answer. As the show's title implies, Bachelor Father was a sitcom in which Forsythe played a suave and well-to-do bachelor who suddenly had custody of his teenage niece when her parents died in an accident. It was a clever show for the time and after its first run ended in 1962, it was around off an on for probably another decade in local TV rerun syndication.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049996/
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...footnote to history: it was a Bachelor Father rerun that WNBC-TV/4 New York interrupted so that Don Pardo could voice the first NBC-TV bulletin announcing the shooting of President Kennedy and Governor Connally in Dallas on November 22, 1963...
 
Lkeller said:
Prais said:
That "fake driving" you mentioned was, I believe in a Chrysler convertable. Early "product placement?"
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There was plenty of product placement in 50s and early 60s TV - especially cars. Watching...The FBI...
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Don't forget Inspector Erskine got to park his Mustang convertible on the street
right in front of the FBI (in color) Building. Must have needed special permission
from the Hoove for that! ;D

Early Beav--Ford. Later Beav--Chrysler Corp. Ward originally drove a '57 Ford,
by the last season it was a "shrunken" 1962 Plymouth.

And as for Mayberry, the Linc-Merc dealer did OK. There were always a few
Comets around, mostly for the seedier characters.
 
As far as Mr. Forsythe, we can't forget his show "The World of..............................Survival." The pause was the way J.F. said it, and it sounded intentional.

cd
 
Ultimajock said:
...footnote to history: it was a Bachelor Father rerun that WNBC-TV/4 New York interrupted so that Don Pardo could voice the first NBC-TV bulletin announcing the shooting of President Kennedy and Governor Connally in Dallas on November 22, 1963...
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The episode being rerun, it was determined, was "Bentley and the Beach Bum."
 
wbhist said:
Ultimajock said:
...footnote to history: it was a Bachelor Father rerun that WNBC-TV/4 New York interrupted so that Don Pardo could voice the first NBC-TV bulletin announcing the shooting of President Kennedy and Governor Connally in Dallas on November 22, 1963...
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The episode being rerun, it was determined, was "Bentley and the Beach Bum."
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Pardo's JFK bulletins, BTW, were for decades assumed to be lost as NBC didn't start rolling videotape on their coverage for at least 11 minutes after the initial local WNBC-TV bulletin, and almost 4 minutes after the full network coverage (with McGee, Ryan, and Huntley) began. However, it turns out that there was a guy in the NYC area who, long before home VCRs were available, obsessively audio taped tons of TV shows (including many news and variety programs for which video has long since been wiped), and had caught the bulletins (and the audio of the first few "missing" minutes of full NBC network coverage) on tape. A copy was presented to Pardo on his 80th birthday, who was said to be stunned that the bulletins (at least the audio) had been preserved after all.

Much of the stuff this audiophile recorded is available (for legitimate research, and at a stiff price) from http://www.atvaudio.com/. The story of how the audio of the initial NBC coverage happened to be recorded by the guy can be found at http://www.atvaudio.com/jfk.php.
 
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