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7.4/10 TV Country of origin United States Final episode date 24 April 1963 Number of episodes 30 | 8.1/10 IMDb Genre Comedy-drama First episode date 3 October 1962 Number of seasons 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Written by Richard L. Bare
Joe Connelly
William Fay
Mark Weingart
Malcolm Stuart Boylan Directed by Fielder Cook
Robert Florey
Joseph Pevney Starring Gene Kelly
Leo G. Carroll
Dick York
Nydia Westman Theme music composer Jack Marshall
Cyril J. Mockridge Network American Broadcasting Company Cast Gene Kelly, Dick York, Leo G Carroll, Nydia Westman, Steve Terrell Similar Bewitched, Wagon Train, The Real McCoys, Bachelor Father, The Farmer's Daughter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Going My Way is an American comedy-drama series starring dancer and actor Gene Kelly. Based on the 1944 film of the same name starring Bing Crosby, the series aired on ABC with new episodes from October 3, 1962 to April 24, 1963. The program was Kelly's first and only attempt at a weekly television series. The series was canceled after one season of thirty episodes.
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The series was produced by Revue Studios (now Universal Television), as parent company MCA owned the rights to the original film through its subsidiary, EMKA, Ltd., which in 1957 bought Going My Way and many other pre-1950 sound feature films from Paramount Pictures.
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Synopsis
Kelly stars as Father Chuck O'Malley, a Roman Catholic priest who is sent to St. Dominic's Parish located in a lower-class section of New York City. Leo G. Carroll co-starred as the elderly pastor, Father Fitzgibbons, the Barry Fitzgerald role in the film. Dick York, later of Bewitched, portrayed Chuck's boyhood friend, Tom Colwell, the director of a secular neighborhood youth center. Nydia Westman played Mrs. Featherstone, the housekeeper of the rectory. Episodes focus on Father O'Malley's attempts to connect with the congregation and his relationship with the elderly Father Fitzgibbons.
The failure of the series to enter a second season is usually attributed to its competition, particularly The Beverly Hillbillies. Going My Way was also scheduled opposite the final season of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis on CBS and the last third of James Drury's 90-minute western, The Virginian, on NBC. Aired at 8:30 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesdays, Going My Way followed the western series Wagon Train on the ABC schedule. The program itself was followed on ABC by the sitcom, Our Man Higgins, starring Stanley Holloway, Frank Maxwell, and Audrey Totter.
DVD release
On December 6, 2011, Timeless Media Group released Going My Way: The Complete Series on DVD in Region 1 for the very first time.