(CBS Primetime, 1956;
ABC Primetime, 1957 -- re-runs;
CBS Primetime, 1960 -- re-runs)
[aka: "The Charles Farrell Show"]
Charlie Farrell was an athletic fun-loving blue-blood with
a perpetual tan who always seemed to be wearing a tennis
outfit; frequently a tennis racquet was in his hand; He
had also been a long-time Hollywood actor who had worked
in many pictures since the 1920s...
In real life, Charlie actually owned a Racquet Club in the
resort city of Palm Springs, 90 miles East of Los Angeles;
The plots of this sitcom were supposedly derived from events
that actually took place in and around the club and in and
around Palm Springs (talk about a pluggers dream :-); Whether
the events were real or not, they were certainly entertaining;
His dilemmas resembled those of Gale Storm in "My Little
Margie" -- perhaps because he had played her father in that
cheery sitcom which was also produced at Hal Roach studios
where his own was filmed; In his own sitcom, the role of
"Dad" Farrell who was sort of Charlie's sidekick/father was
played by character actor Charles Winninger;
This series began as a summer replacement for "I Love
Lucy" and was re-run twice -- the first time on ABC, and
again on CBS later...]
[a 1924 song dedicated to Charley Foy, of "the seven little
Foys", a family vaudeville team;
THEME title verified by TV theme collector Ray Clark]
Composers: Ted Fiorito (ASCAP) and
Gus Kahn (ASCAP)
1978 Publisher: The Bourne Co. (ASCAP)
2001 Publisher: The Bourne Co. (ASCAP)
of New York, NY
Composition Date: 1924
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