Bringing Up Buddy is a 39-episode situation comedy television series which aired on CBS during the 1960–1961 season. A television program (US television programme (UK or television show (U CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network. In the story line, Frank Aletter, a native of Queens, New York, plays the orphaned Buddy Flower, a bachelor stockbroker, who is reared by his overprotective and meticulous aunts, Violet Flower and Iris Flower, played by Enid Markey (1896–1981) and Doro Merande (1892–1975), respectively. Frank Aletter (born January 14, 1926, in Queens, New York) is an American stage Film, and television Actor. An orphan (from the Greek ὀρφανός) is a child whose natural parents are absent or dead and who are not there to bring him up A bachelor is a man above the Age of majority who has never been married (see single) A stock broker or stockbroker is a qualified and regulated professional who buys and sells shares and other securities through Market makers or cousin in Kinship terminology is a relative with whom one shares a common Ancestor, but in modern usage the term is rarely used when referring to a Enid Markey (born February 22, 1894 in Dillon Colorado, died November 15, 1981 in Bayshore, Long Island, Doro Merande ( March 31, 1892 – November 1, 1975) was a Actress who appeared in Hollywood films on the Broadway The program debuted on October 10, 1960, and finished its original episodes on June 28, 1961. Events 680 - Battle of Karbala: Shia Imam Husayn bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, is decapitated Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1098 - Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul. Like the longer-runnng Leave It to Beaver on CBS and later ABC, the program was created by Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher. Leave It to Beaver is a 1950s and 1960s family-oriented American Television Situation comedy about an inquisitive The American Broadcasting Company ( ABC) is an American Television network. Robert "Bob" Mosher ( January 18, 1915 - December 15, 1972) was a Television and Radio scriptwriter born in ^[1]

Aletter was married from 1958-1974 to Miss America of 1955, Lee Meriwether, who guest starred in the April 17, 1961, episode as nurse Gloria Arnold. The Miss America pageant is a long-standing competition which awards scholarships to young women from the 50 states plus the District of Columbia and the US Virgin Islands Lee Ann Meriwether (born May 27, 1935 in Los Angeles California) is Miss America 1955 and an American actress, appearing Events 69 - After the First Battle of Bedriacum, Vitellius becomes Roman Emperor. The aunts insist that Buddy see the attractive young and single nurse for a checkup that he does not need. The two were then married to each other. ^[2]

Among guest stars was Edgar Buchanan, best known for his role as the eccentric Texas justice of the peace Roy Bean and as Uncle Joe Carson in CBS's Petticoat Junction. Edgar Buchanan ( March 20, 1903 – April 4, 1979) was an American Actor with a long career in both Film Texas ( is a state geographically located in the South Central United States and is also known as the Lone Star State. A Justice of the Peace ( JP) is a Puisne Judicial officer appointed by means of a commission to keep the peace Phantly Roy Bean (c 1825 &ndash March 16, 1903) was an eccentric U Petticoat Junction is an American Situation comedy produced by Filmways, which originally aired on the CBS network from 1963 In the episode Buchanan posed as a big-game hunter, but most of his adventures were figments of his vivid imagination. Hunting is the practice of pursuing Animals for Food, Recreation, or Trade. On April 10, 1961, the aunts arrange a date for Buddy's friend "Fennimore Cooper" played by Jimmy Hawkins, better known for his role as Scotty on ABC's The Donna Reed Show and as the five-year-old Tommy Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life. Events 879 - Louis III becomes King of the Western Franks. 1407 - the lama The Donna Reed Show is an American sitcom which aired on ABC from 1958 to 1966. It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American Film produced and directed by Frank Capra and based on the short story " The Greatest However, the aunts become concerned when a men's magazine is found in Fennimore's room. Magazines, periodicals or serials are Publications generally published on a regular schedule containing a variety of articles, generally In the episode which aired on May 8, 1961, the aunts again pressure Buddy, who plays a 34-year-old character, to marry, and then a woman leaves an unattended baby in the back seat of their convertible. Events 589 - Reccared summons the Third Council of Toledo 1450 - Jack Cade's Rebellion: Kentishmen Year 1961 ( MCMLXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. In the penultimate episode entitled "Buddy and the Teenager", the character agrees to teach a course at a junior college, only to find that a student played by Cheryl Holdridge develops a crush on him. The term junior college refers to different educational institutions in different countries Cheryl Holdridge (born June 20, 1944) is an American actress, best known for having been a cast member of the original Mickey Mouse Club ^[2]

The program is also remembered for its original theme song by George Tibbles, who also was a screenwriter for ABC's (later CBS) My Three Sons starring Fred MacMurray. George Tibbles ( June 7, 1913 - February 14, 1987) was a Screenwriter, contributing to TV series such as My Three The American Broadcasting Company ( ABC) is an American Television network. My Three Sons is a Situation comedy about a Scots/Irish-American family (Douglas/ O'Casey that ran from September 29, 1960, to August Frederick Martin MacMurray ( August 30, 1908 &ndash November 5, 1991) was an American Actor who appeared in over one ^[3]

The program aired at 8:30 Eastern on Mondays between Pete and Gladys starring Harry Morgan and Cara Williams and The Danny Thomas Show. Pete and Gladys is an American Situation comedy broadcast by CBS on Monday night at 800pm Eastern and Pacific time for two seasons Harry Morgan (born Harry Bratsburg on April 10, 1915 in Detroit Michigan) is an Emmy -winning American television Cara Williams (born June 29, 1925, in Brooklyn New York) is an American Film and Television actress. The Danny Thomas Show (known as Make Room for Daddy during the first four seasons is a Sitcom which ran from 1953 to 1957 Its competition was the new detective series Surfside 6 set in Miami on ABC and Dale Robertson's Tales of Wells Fargo Western series on NBC. Surfside 6 is an ABC Television Dale Robertson (born Dayle Lamoine Robertson on July 14, 1923) is an American actor best known for his starring roles on television Tales of Wells Fargo was a successful TV western series that ran from 1957 to 1962. The Western is a fiction Genre seen in Film, Television, Radio, Literature, Painting and other Visual arts. The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's ^[4] In the following season, CBS returned Robert Young to the 8:30 Monday time slot in his Window on Main Street nostalgia comedy, which also failed to develop an audience. Bob or Rob(ert Young may refer to many people Bob Young, Canadian founder and CEO of Red Hat Bob Young (American football (1942&ndash1995 Window on Main Street is a largely-forgotten Nostalgic Sitcom - Drama series starring Robert Young, which aired on The term nostalgia describes a longing for the past often in idealized form

Irene Ryan, who would be cast in 1962 as "Granny" Clampett on CBS's blockbuster The Beverly Hillbillies, starred in two episodes of Bringing Up Buddy in the role of Cynthia Boyle. Irene Ryan ( October 17, 1902 – April 26, 1973) was an Emmy - and Tony Award -nominated actress one of the few entertainers The Beverly Hillbillies is an American Television series about a Hillbilly family transplanted to Beverly Hills California after finding In 1964. Aletter co-starred as the husband of the fictional character played by Cara Williams on her own CBS series The Cara Williams Show. Cara Williams (born June 29, 1925, in Brooklyn New York) is an American Film and Television actress. ^[5]

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