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If Ted McGinley is the king of Jump The Shark then Dawn Lyn should be The Queen. She has posts under Wonder Woman, The Streets Of San Fransisco, Marcus Welby, and Small Wonder too. This is the post under Small Wonder: I know how Tiffany Brissette learned how to play the robot vicki. She spent hours watching episodes of "My Three Sons" to study the acting technique of Dawn Lyn who played Dodie. It made it easy for her to recite flat lines in a monotone voice with a blank stare. Who could have been a better coach then Dawn Lyn The worst child actress of all time.
Dec 28, 2007 10:46 AM Guest
I have to agree that she has more votes then anyone on this entire website.

Dawn Lyn is also listed under "Gunsomke" Here's what Carol has to say "I agree that the show jumped when they hired Dawn Lyn that filthy Kool-aid stained little hillbilly girl as a guest star. How on earth did that kid ever get on TV? Every time we saw her we changed the channel so fast. Once we were too late and she cracked the screen on our old set. Don't walk out of the room if you see her on an old rerun or you'll be buying a new TV".
Sep 30, 2007 9:49 AM Carol

I forgot all about Dopey Dodie until I read this listed under the show "Cannon"
"What killed the show was a guest appearance by that awful Dawn Lyn. (Dodie from My Three Sons). That dirty child looked like a pug dog wearing a wig".
Jul 9, 2007 12:06 PM Carolyn

Over 12,000 people voted that Dawn Lyn drove the final coffin nail in "My Three Sons" and Dodie is not listed under "New Kid In Town"
She has more votes then all 100 kids combined under that catagory. "My Three Sons' Jumped The Shark due to the pint sized Queen Of Grunge Dawn Lyn.

That last one sounds like a rumor. All three of the childern on "Nanny And The Professor" were blonde haired blue eyed and cute.Not one dark haired homely little gnome among the entire cast. If there was any truth to it they obviously canned her. That show never jumped the shark because Dawn Lyn was never on it.

Dawn Lyn was cast as the original Prudence in the pilot for television series Nanny and the Professor. By the time the pilot sold at the last minute, Dawn had already been released from her contract and cast as Dodie in My Three Sons. The producers of Nanny and the Professor unsuccessfully sued in an attempt to get her back!

The casting director should have been fired for casting Talent-Free Dawn Lyn as Dodie. To this day there has never been a worse child actor on Television.

"Uncle Charley should have been fired for diapering the wrong end of Dodie" Well put she was Fugly.

Uncle Charley may have been a total Grough but at least he was nice enough to change Dodie's diaper.

I agree with Jo W about Uncle Charlie's curmudgeonly persona. He was always griping about somebody messing up HIS pots and pans in HIS kitchen and somehow managed to tie in some lame story about his days in the navy. And that horrible hairstyle - the straight square bangs on that square head! Seriously, who concocted this character?

That sour-arsed Uncle Charley - you just knew he'd be like that in real life, those pursed lips and that knitted brow didn't proclaim a kindly persona and didn't he start wearing a bad (well, there's no other kind really is there?) toupe towards the end. Oh the morals that were thrust down our your inquiring throats - however, just as in real life, everything was sorted out at the end of each episode. Whatever has happened to Tina Cole - she was gorgeous and embodied that era with that pale pink pearl lipstick the eyeliner the clothes and that gorgeous over-bleached hair with the side sweep curl..

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Actually, Brian Keith had a similar shooting arrangement on Family Affair. However, in his case, it wasn't out of arrogance or self-importance but rather because he had such a busy shooting schedule for outside projects that he had to have all of his work for the show out of the way as quickly as possible.

It's interesting that this kind of scheduling took place on two Don Fedderson productions. Was it maybe something more to do with the Fedderson productions than with the individual stars?

Every show whose ratings drop, bring in a new little kid. My God, has this stund EVER worked in recorded history? Why would they keep doing it? Brady Bunch, Married with Children, All in the Family, Bononza, Patridge Family, and many others. Another thing was Fred MacMurray. He refused to show up and act every week like everyone else. No, his Majesty demanded to have all his yearly shots done before all others. If you noticed, most of shis scenes were him alone making reaction shots, or phone calls home. It was rare to see him and Chip or Ernie in the same shot on screne. This type of thing must have been a logistics nightmare for the producers. It would disrupt shooting, continuity among actors, even morale. Here is how it was described by insiders; At Fred MacMurray's insistence, all episodes were filmed out of sequence during the show's entire run using a technique now known as the MacMurray method. MacMurray would do all of his scenes in 65 nonconsecutive days. The cast regulars got haircuts once a week in order to maintain continuity. Guest stars would have to return months later to complete an episode. All kitchen scenes would be done together, then all scenes in the upstairs hallway would be filmed together, etc. This fact was well concealed until Dawn Lyn joined the cast as Dodie. Her upper front teeth grew in irregularly during the entire 1969-70 season, from being barely visible in scenes with MacMurray to being plainly visible in scenes without him. William Frawley never felt comfortable with this method of filming, having grown accustomed to filming I Love Lucy in sequence during its entire run.


Well, the show sucked anyway, but it interesting trivia stuff.

I suspect the orphan girl "Anne-Marie" in the animated film, All Dogs Go to Heaven, was modeled after Dodie. Dodie looks a lot like the girl in the film. In this film, the girl is dressed in rags, lives in an old car, and plays a subservient role to the dogs who "own" her. She was hoping to be adopted into a family. I guess this was Dodie's life before the Douglas family adopted her.