7.6 /10 1 Votes
Genre Sitcom Composer(s) Earle Hagen Final episode date 5 January 1968 Number of seasons 1 | 7.5/10 IMDb Created by Melville Shavelson First episode date 15 September 1967 Network NBC Number of episodes 16 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Written by Sam Bobrick
Bill Idelson
Harvey Miller
Peter Myerson
Bernie Orenstein
Mel Shavelson
Jack Sher
Treva Silverman
Saul Turtletaub
James L. Brooks Directed by Don Appell
Earl Bellamy
Sheldon Leonard
Bob Sweeney Starring Jerry Van Dyke
Lois Nettleton Cast Jerry Van Dyke, Lois Nettleton, Larry D Mann, Ben Blue Similar 13 Queens Boulevard, The Bill Dana Show, The Baileys of Balboa, The Danny Thomas Hour, My World and Welcome | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Accidental Family is an American sitcom broadcast on NBC during the first part of the 1967-68 U.S. television season.
Synopsis
The series stars Jerry Van Dyke as a widowed comedian, Jerry Webster, who bought a farm in the San Fernando Valley to serve as a place for him to raise his son, Sandy, when he was not touring. When he was on the road, Sandy was under the care of the farm's manager, divorcée Sue Kramer (Lois Nettleton), who had a daughter the same age as Webster's son.
The program consistently lost in the Nielsen ratings to both the CBS Friday Night Movies and the ABC Western The Guns of Will Sonnett and was cancelled at midseason as a result. It was initially replaced by the first prime-time run of the game show Hollywood Squares.
References
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