Bachelor Father

1957-1962

Bachelor Father follows the adventures of Bentley Gregg (John Forsythe), a wealthy bachelor attorney living in Beverly Hills who assumes the responsibility of raising his niece, Kelly (Noreen Corcoran), after her parents died in an automobile accident. Other members of the cast included houseboy Peter Tong (Sammee Tong), teenage neighbor and Kelly’s on and off boyfriend, Howard Meechum (Jimmy Boyd), Kelly’s best friend, Ginger Farrell (Bernadette Withers) and Jasper, the dog.

John Forsythe, Noreen Corcoran and Sammee Tong.

This sitcom premiered on CBS in 1957 before moving to NBC for the third season in 1959. The series’ fifth and final season aired in ABC in 1961/2. The series was based on “A New Girl in His Life,” which aired on General Electric Theater on May 26, 1957. It is the only primetime series ever to run in consecutive years on the three major television networks, ABC, CBS and NBC.

Episodes

S05 E22 – Summer Romance (1962)

While in Yellowstone both Bentley and Peter find themselves in the company of attractive and interesting women, Loretta Prentice, who manages the waitresses, and lepidopterist Lin Sing (Maria McClay).
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