Bachelor Father

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Bachelor Father is an American television sitcom from the late 1950s and early 1960s about a carefree bachelor who becomes the guardian of his orphaned niece.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf American television sitcom
audioFormat monophonic sound
basedOn A Day with Peter and Sharon NERFINISHED
character Bentley Gregg NERFINISHED
Kelly Gregg NERFINISHED
Peter Tong NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
creator Edmund L. Hartmann NERFINISHED
Everett Greenbaum NERFINISHED
James Fritzell NERFINISHED
Richard Baer NERFINISHED
distributor Universal Television NERFINISHED
endTime 1962
firstAired 1957-09-15
format black-and-white
genre family comedy
sitcom
hasEpisodeStructure self-contained episodic stories
hasTheme family life of a bachelor raising his niece
houseboyCharacterRole Sammee Tong as Peter Tong NERFINISHED
lastAired 1962-09-27
leadActorRole John Forsythe as Bentley Gregg
mainCharacterOccupation lawyer
mediaType television
nieceCharacterRole Noreen Corcoran as Kelly Gregg NERFINISHED
notableFor airing on all three major U.S. television networks during its original run
numberOfEpisodes 157
numberOfSeasons 5
originalChannelRunOrder CBS then NBC then ABC
originalLanguage English
originalNetwork ABC
CBS
NBC
pictureFormat NTSC color television standard
surface form: NTSC
plotSummary The series follows carefree bachelor lawyer Bentley Gregg who becomes guardian of his orphaned niece Kelly.
productionCompany Revue Studios NERFINISHED
runtimePerEpisode approximately 25 minutes
setting Los Angeles
starring Bernadette Withers NERFINISHED
Jimmy Boyd NERFINISHED
John Forsythe NERFINISHED
Noreen Corcoran NERFINISHED
Sammee Tong NERFINISHED
startTime 1957
targetAudience family audience
timePeriodDepicted late 1950s and early 1960s United States

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Rod Amateau notableWork Bachelor Father
Ernest Truex notableWork Bachelor Father
John Forsythe notableWork Bachelor Father