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When I wrote segments for this show I had four young children and I felt like I was writing about my family. Great fun!
Joseph C. Cavella
HowToWriteComedy.com

It never JTS. It was a good show I watched in '70s reruns as a kid. Now it's part of the '60s mythos.

I loved the show because I liked trying to tell Tracy and Trevor apart. At the time Man From Uncle was hugely popular, and there was an episode where "Napolean" and "Illya" had cameo appearances as themselves; the boys got it into their heads that their father was a secret agent.
I wish they'd have that on TVland.
It didn't jump the shark, it never made it near the ocean, but hey, that's okay, I still liked it.

I really liked that show. The old mansion was fantastic! I always thought it was funny when it rained, the Nashes could never figure out how the roof leaked on the forth floor, missed the second and third floor with the water showing up on the first floor. It was a decent sit-com for that time.

I think it jumped the shark when the Nash's moved out of that fab mansion in Ridgemont into that ocean front condo in Maui and adpoted the little girl named Pepper from Laos.

Needs to be on tvland!!!!!!!!

SILL a great show!

Never jumped but I was about 7 years old when it was on. I also recall a nice warm family and the dog door for some reason. I really wanted to comment to the previous poster. I also did not have a lot of love when I was young and shows such as this gave me some faith it was out there. I made some very similar comments on the Leave it to Beaver board as yours. I now have 2 kids and they have made me feel love to a depth which I have never known or hoped. I think tv helped me through my youth, filling a void in the vacuum.

It didn't jts. I was a 5 year old boy who watched because the warmth of family was something I never felt too often. I also missed my dog, and wanted a dog like that one. No one else in my house watched this program. I have teasers now as I recall the loneliness and desire to feel loved then. I have 6 children now, and hope I show them the love I missed.

This was one of my favorites because we finally had a sitcom Mom (lovely Patricia Crowley) who could actually deliver a comedy line. Another favorite recurring bit was Herb, the next-door neighbor (played by King Donovan), who always wanted to see how fast he could make it from his house to the Nashes. He would time himself with a stop-watch, and instead of using their front door, he would jump in through the window into Jim's study (to Jim's constant annoyance). He would leave the same way, punching his stop-watch again before he started.

I don't think this show ever jumped the shark. It was (as at least one poster has put it) surprisingly modern, in that the mom was a writer who worked at home. Now THAT was atypical of shows of the 60's. The fact that the house was always being turned upside down; the kids were always getting into trouble; etc., etc., etc. Well, that sounds kinda like real honest-to-God family life to me!

I remember there was an episode where The Righteous Brothers showed up on a TV show and sang on song about Ladadog. All part of the silly '60s sitcom genre.

This show never had time to jump. It started out mediocre and ended up mediocre. Basically, it was yet another '60s suburban family sitcom (based on the 1960 movie of the same title) with the angle being that the mom (played by the lovely Patricia Crowley) works at home as a freelance writer a la Erma Bombeck. Dad (played by Marc Miller, father of Penolope Ann Miller) is a college professor and they have four kids -- Kyle, Joel, and the twins Trevor and Tracy -- and the ubiquitous dog, Laddadog. Not a badly done show but it came along kind of late, as the happy family genre that was the norm in the '50s and early '60s was giving way to more modern family structures like Julia, Brady Bunch and Eddie's Father, as well as fantastical concepts like Addams Family, the Munsters, I Dream of Jeannie, and Gilligan's Island. Although Crowley and Miller were excellent, the kids were pretty bland. (Whatever happened to those kids anyway?) The fact that they lived in a castle (in surburbia) on the combined income of a professor and a writer didn't help matters much.

I have to disagree with the first poster. PDETD did not JTS! Daisies was and still is a wonderfully warm, family sitcom (we have so few.) Daisies was never hokey. The show was real (well as real as a show could be for 1965 standards.) Hey, the parents, Joan and Jim Nash actually slept in the same bed (And at times their four boys and huge sheep dog, joined them.) Pretty racey for 1965 don't ya think? The kids fought, no blood, but a lot of yelling. And the mom had a career in writing (In addition to their husbands, I don't think many mom's worked for a living in 60's sitcoms?) Anyway, The house or castle (in this case)was never perfectly neat or organized, it looked like a real family was living there. And a family with four young boys and big ass sheep dog is going to have a pretty messy house. My only regret, PDETD should have lasted at least five years. Daisies shows up every now and then, but with only about 58 episodes, it isn't reran very often. It would be great to see the cast again (sans Ladadog. He's in doggie heaven with Tiger Brady and Simone Partridge and I'm pretty sure Lassie too!) To wrap this up, Please, please, what ever you do, don't eat those daisies, but do love the show when you can catch a rerun of it. You'll be glad you did.

I remember this show with the family and the big dog. I wonder how many others remember this show as well.