Shark Bytes
This show deserves special recognition for managing to play on all three of the major networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) during its five year run.
This show never really JTS but it was incredibly unrealistic and only slightly amusing. Can ANYBODY really relate to a rich executive that is always wearing a tuxedo and has a huge home run by his "HOUSE BOY" who helps him raise his niece that is living with him in his swinging bachelor's pad? I think most of America was somewhat turned off by the kind of privileged people who populated such shows as "Bachelor Father", "Hazel" and "Family Affair". It seemed like my family was nowhere because we didn't even have a butler or a maid to consult or poke fun at. No wonder the folks in the Watts area of Los Angeles rioted in the 60's..they felt disenfranchised because it was obvious from these "comedy" shows that most typical White American households were affluent enough to live in huge homes with servants catering to their every whim and their most pressing concern might be which prom dress to wear for the big high school dance.
Never jumped. The best one on the show was the houseboy, Peter (Sammee Tong). He had the funniest lines
What was up with Kelly's best friend Ginger? She had three different last names (first Farrell, then Loomis, then Mitchell) and three different sets of parents during the run of the show! Was she an unwanted foster child or something?
Please. This was just an inferior knock-off of "The Bob Cummings Show". And Cummings was far funnier while trying to get laid and having his family interfere.
Man, it drove me nuts that those kids were always interfering with John Forsythe getting laid. Still, the prospect of him continually trying to score with some of the best looking middle-aged women on the planet at the time made this show mandatory viewing. Oh, and don't forget the coquettish Kelly Gregg.
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