Father Knows Best

Lauren Chapin age 73
Billy Gray age 80
Eleanor Donahue 81

I watched every single show more then once.
Seeing their ages is hard to get my mind around.
In fact I can't. lol

 

I wouldn't be able to sit through the T.V. show now, but I watched the Christmas reunion movie a few weeks back and I was very surprised with how good that was.

 

Well geez, the show was from the 50's...

 

great show, but they will never age and always entertain us on film...we all get old...: )

 

Where? I saw it when it aired originally, but have never seen it repeated anywhere.

 

I've been watching the show on Antenna TV and I've been enjoying it quite a bit. It's really the first of it I've ever seen.

 

yes, great show saw it when I was a kid...have the DVDs...

 

Then the Dad became Marcus Welby...great show as well.

 

And, in fact, Billy Gray was the kid in "Day The Earth Stood Still" way back in 1951.

 

I remember seeing an interview with Billy Gray not too long ago where he said he (surprisingly) still had his "Father's Know's Best" earnings, as he "squirreled them away" when he was making them.

 

It's on YouTube.

 

I always thought Andy Griffith should have hung onto Eleanor Donahue when he dated her in Mayberry. Helen Crump was a grouch.

 

I agree.

 

Billy Gray made a nice investment in his home he lives in.
When I use to go see speedway races he raced in a few back in the day.

 

I used to watch that show all the time on reruns in the early to mid 70s. Loved it, but even then I sensed something almost surreal about it. Husband and wife in different beds, lack of non-WASPs, no real strife, etc. Still, it was pretty good.

Happened upon an episode on Antenna this past weekend. Like finding an old friend.

 

GetTV will be showing a few times this month- we watched it this past Sunday afternoon. I think they have two or three more viewings scheduled before Christmas.

 

And Betty became Miriam Welby on "The Odd Couple".

 

Cool...thanks!

 

yes! she was great on the OC...

 

totally!

 

Ron Howard may be the last living left from Mayberry.

 

I think a perfect night of television (for me anyways) would be this line up...

Father Knows Best
Leave It To Beaver
The Donna Reed Show
My Three Sons

 

I can live with that. My Three Sons were never a big watch for me.
Ozzie and Harriet
Dobie Gillis-Maynard G. Krebs
Our Miss Brooks

 

Ok, I stand corrected. I'll swap out My Three Sons for Ozzie + Harriett!

 

Thelma Lou is still alive too.