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{{Infobox television
{{Infobox television
| name = The Patty Duke Show
| image = Pattydukeshowintro.jpg
| image = Pattydukeshowintro.jpg
| caption = Season one opening
| caption = ''The Patty Duke Show'' season one opening
| genre = [[Sitcom]]
| genre = [[Sitcom]]
| creator = {{plainlist|
| creator = [[Sidney Sheldon]]<br/>[[William Asher]]
* [[Sidney Sheldon]]
* [[William Asher]]
| writer = Gary Abrams<br/>[[William Asher]]<br/>[[David Butler (director)|David Butler]]<br/>Arnold Horwitt<br/>Roy Kammerman<br/>[[Sidney Sheldon]]
}}
| director = [[Bruce Bilson]]<br/>[[Harry Falk (director)|Harry Falk]]<br/>[[Claudio Guzmán]]<br/>[[Stanley Prager]]<br/>[[Alan Rafkin]]<br/>[[James Sheldon]]<br/>[[Don Weis]]
| starring = [[Patty Duke]]<br/>[[William Schallert]]<br/>[[Jean Byron]]<br/>[[Paul O'Keefe]]<br/>[[Eddie Applegate]]
| starring = {{plainlist|
* [[Patty Duke]]
* [[William Schallert]]
* [[Jean Byron]]
* [[Paul O'Keefe]]
* [[Eddie Applegate]]
}}
| opentheme = "Cousins"<br>performed by The Skip-Jacks
| opentheme = "Cousins"<br/>performed by The Skip-Jacks
| theme_music_composer = [[Sid Ramin]]<br/>[[Robert Wells (songwriter)|Robert Wells]]
| theme_music_composer = {{plainlist|
| composer = [[Sid Ramin]]<br>Harry Geller
* [[Sid Ramin]]
| country = United States
* [[Robert Wells (songwriter)|Robert Wells]]
| language = English
}}
| num_seasons = 3
| num_episodes = 104
| composer = {{plainlist|
* Sid Ramin
| list_episodes = List of The Patty Duke Show episodes
* Harry Geller
| producer = William Asher<br/>Stanley Prager<br/>[[Bob Sweeney (TV director and producer)|Bob Sweeney]]
}}
| camera = [[Single-camera setup|Single-camera]]
| runtime = 22 mins
| country = United States
| language = English
| company = Chrislaw Productions<br>Cottage Industries, Inc.<br>(1965–1966)<br>(season 3)<br>[[United Artists Television]]
| distributor = [[MGM Television]]
| num_seasons = 3
| num_episodes = 104
| channel = [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]
| list_episodes = List of The Patty Duke Show episodes
| picture_format = [[Black-and-white]]
| audio_format = [[Monaural]]
| producer = {{plainlist|
* William Asher (episodes 1-10)
| first_aired = {{start date|1963|9|18}}
* [[Robert Costello]] (episodes 11-25)
| last_aired = {{end date|1966|4|27}}
* [[Stanley Prager]] (episodes 26-72)
| followed_by = ''The Patty Duke Show: Still Rockin' In Brooklyn Heights''
* [[Bob Sweeney (TV director and producer)|Bob Sweeney]] (season 3)
}}
| camera = [[Single-camera setup|Single-camera]]
| runtime = 22 mins
| company = {{plainlist|
* Chrislaw Productions
* Cottage Industries, Inc.<br>(1965–1966)
* [[United Artists Television]]
}}
| channel = [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]
| first_aired = {{start date|1963|9|18}}
| last_aired = {{end date|1966|4|27}}
| related = ''The Patty Duke Show: Still Rockin' In Brooklyn Heights''
}}
}}

[[File:Thelanes.jpg|right|thumb|The Lanes (clockwise from bottom left: Patty Duke as Patty Lane, [[Jean Byron]] as Natalie Lane, [[William Schallert]] as Martin Lane and [[Paul O'Keefe]] as Ross Lane)]]
'''''The Patty Duke Show''''' is an American [[sitcom]] that ran on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] from September 18, 1963, to April 27, 1966, with reruns airing through August 31. The show was created as a vehicle for rising star [[Patty Duke]]. A total of 105 black-and-white episodes were produced, 104 of them airing over three seasons. Most episodes were written by either [[Sidney Sheldon]] or [[William Asher]], the show's creators.
'''''The Patty Duke Show''''' is an American television [[sitcom]] created by [[Sidney Sheldon]] and [[William Asher]]. The series ran on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] from September 18, 1963, to April 27, 1966.

The series was developed as a vehicle for teenage star [[Patty Duke]], who had won an [[Academy Award]] the previous year. Duke starred in dual roles of "twin cousins" Patty and Cathy Lane. The series co-starred [[William Schallert]], [[Jean Byron]], [[Paul O'Keefe]], and [[Eddie Applegate]].

A total of 104 black-and-white episodes, plus an unaired pilot, were produced by [[United Artists Television]]. ABC abruptly cancelled the series after three seasons.


==Premise==
==Premise==
Patty Lane (Duke) is a normal, chatty, rambunctious teenager who (according to the theme song lyrics) lives in the [[Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn|Brooklyn Heights]] section of New York City. Her father, Martin Lane ([[William Schallert]]), is the managing editor of the ''New York Daily Chronicle''. Her "identical cousin," Cathy Lane (also played by Duke), is sophisticated, brainy and demure; her father, Kenneth (also played by Schallert), Martin's identical twin brother, works for the ''Chronicle'' as a foreign correspondent. Cathy moves to the United States from Scotland to live with Patty's family and attend Brooklyn Heights High School. The remarkable physical resemblance that Patty and Cathy share is explained by the fact that their fathers are identical twins. While the girls are physically identical, their style, tastes and attitudes are nearly opposite, which is responsible for some of the comedic situations on the show. Though the character of "Cathy" received first billing over the character of "Patty" in the show's opening credits, virtually all episodes centered around Patty's misadventures, with Cathy often only playing a minor supporting role.
Patty Lane (Duke) is a normal, chatty, rambunctious teenager who (according to the theme song lyrics) lives in the [[Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn|Brooklyn Heights]] section of New York City. Her father, Martin Lane ([[William Schallert]]), is the managing editor of the ''New York Daily Chronicle''; Patty affectionately addresses him as "Poppo." Her "identical paternal cousin," Cathy Lane (also played by Duke), is sophisticated, brainy and demure; her father Kenneth (also played by Schallert) is Martin's identical twin brother. Since the widowed Kenneth is often away as a foreign correspondent for the ''Chronicle'', Cathy moves to the United States to live with Patty's family – which also includes her mother Natalie ([[Jean Byron]]) and brother Ross ([[Paul O'Keefe]]) – and to attend Brooklyn Heights High School with Patty and her boyfriend Richard ([[Eddie Applegate]]).

While the girls are physically identical, their style, tastes and attitudes are nearly opposite, which is responsible for some of the comedic situations on the show. Though the character of "Cathy" received first billing over the character of "Patty" in the show's opening credits, virtually all episodes centered around Patty's misadventures, with Cathy often only playing a minor supporting role. The remarkable physical resemblance that Patty and Cathy share is explained by the fact that their fathers are identical twins. While Patty speaks with a typical American accent, Cathy speaks with a general European accent;<ref name="FoundationInterview">{{YouTube|NaACjKL9Zww|Patty Duke on the origins of "The Patty Duke Show"}}</ref> not surprisingly, however, both cousins are able to mimic each other's voice. Patty and Cathy have an additional identical cousin, [[Southern belle]] Betsy (also played by Duke), featured in the season two episode "The Perfect Hostess."<ref>{{YouTube|4CaoZFfiq_A|The Patty Duke Show S2E18 The Perfect Hostess}}</ref>


==Episodes==
==Episodes==
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==Cast==
==Cast==
[[File:Thelanes.jpg|right|thumb|The Lanes (clockwise from bottom left: Patty Duke as Patty Lane, [[Jean Byron]] as Natalie Lane, [[William Schallert]] as Martin Lane and [[Paul O'Keefe]] as Ross Lane)]]

* [[Patty Duke]] as Patty Lane and Cathy Lane
** Duke also "guest-starred" as Betsy Lane in the episode "The Perfect Hostess" (1965)
* [[William Schallert]] as Martin Lane
** Schallert also had a [[dual role]] as Kenneth Lane in three season one episodes, and as Uncle Jed in a season three episode
* [[Jean Byron]] as Natalie Lane, Patty's mother
* [[Paul O'Keefe]] as Ross Lane, Patty's brother
* [[Eddie Applegate]] as Richard Harrison, Patty's boyfriend


[[Rita McLaughlin]] served as a double for Duke in the third season, but was never credited. In the series' unaired pilot episode, [[Mark Miller (actor)|Mark Miller]] and [[Charles Herbert]] played Martin and Ross Lane, respectively.
===Main===
* [[Patty Duke]] – Patty Lane and Cathy Lane; Duke also "guest-starred" as Betsy Lane in the episode "The Perfect Hostess" (1965)
* [[William Schallert]] – Martin Lane; Schallert also had a [[dual role]] as Kenneth Lane in three season 1 episodes "The House Guest" (1963), "The Christmas Present" (1963) and "Auld Lang Syne" (1964) and as Uncle Jed in the season 3 episode "A Visit from Uncle Jed" (1966)
* [[Jean Byron]] – Natalie Lane, Patty's mother
* [[Paul O'Keefe]] – Ross Lane, Patty's brother
* [[Eddie Applegate]] – Richard Harrison, Patty's boyfriend
* [[Rita McLaughlin]] (uncredited) – Double for Patty or Cathy
In the series' unaired pilot episode, [[Mark Miller (actor)|Mark Miller]] played Martin Lane and [[Charles Herbert]] played Ross Lane.


===Recurring===
===Major recurring===
* Kitty Sullivan as "Sue Ellen" (14 episodes 1963–65)
* Kitty Sullivan as Sue Ellen Turner (seasons 1-2), Patty's frenemy. She was replaced by Roz and Monica Robinson in the third season.
** [[Cindy Williams]] portrayed Sue Ellen in ''Still Rockin' in Brooklyn Heights'' when Sullivan was unavailable.
* [[David Doyle (actor)|David Doyle]] as "Mr. Harrison" (3 episodes 1964–65)
* [[John McGiver]] as J.R. Castle (season 1), Martin's boss at the ''Chronicle''. He is not shown or mentioned after the first season.
* [[Kathy Garver]] as "Monica Robinson" (3 episodes 1966)
* [[David Doyle (actor)|David Doyle]] as Jonathan Harrison (seasons 1-2), Richard's father who is a construction engineer.
* [[John McGiver]] as "J.R. Castle" (5 episodes 1963–64)
* [[John Spencer (actor)|John Spencer]] as "Henry" (7 episodes 1963–64)
* [[John Spencer (actor)|John Spencer]] as Henry (seasons 1-2), one of Patty's classmates.
* Kelly Wood as Gloria (season 2), one of Patty's friends.
* [[Marcia Strassman]] as "Adeline" (3 episodes 1964–65)
* [[Marcia Strassman]] as Adeline (season 2), one of Patty's classmates.
* Robyn Millan as Roz (season 3), one of Patty's classmates.
* Laura Barton/[[Kathy Garver]] as Monica Robinson (season 3), Patty's rival. She replaces the Sue Ellen Turner character.


===Notable guest stars===
===Notable guest stars===
{{div col|colwidth=20em}}
* [[Jean-Pierre Aumont]] ("The French Teacher" 1963)
* [[Jean-Pierre Aumont]] ("The French Teacher" 1963)
* [[Ilka Chase]] ("The House Guest" 1963)
* [[Ilka Chase]] ("The House Guest" 1963)
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* [[Daniel J. Travanti]] ("Block That Statue" 1964)
* [[Daniel J. Travanti]] ("Block That Statue" 1964)
* [[Bobby Vinton]] ("Patty and The Newspaper Game" 1965)
* [[Bobby Vinton]] ("Patty and The Newspaper Game" 1965)
{{div col end}}


==Production==
==Production==

===Origins===
===Origins===
The ABC network was interested in producing a show with Duke as the star, but had no concept of what the show was to be about. Producer and writer Sidney Sheldon asked Duke to spend a week with his family at their home to generate ideas. During this time he noticed that Duke had two distinct sides to her personality (later in life she would be diagnosed as [[bipolar disorder|manic-depressive]]),<ref name=anna>{{cite book |last=Duke |first=Patty |date=April 13, 2011 |title=Call Me Anna: The Autobiography of Patty Duke |publisher=Random House Publishing Group |isbn=9780553272055}}</ref>{{rp|287}} and so came up with the concept of identical paternal cousins with contrasting personalities.<ref name=anna />{{rp|115}} According to Duke, he successfully captured her personality in the two characters.<ref>{{YouTube|NaACjKL9Zww|Patty Duke on the origins of "The Patty Duke Show"}}</ref>
Following her [[Academy Award]]-winning role in ''[[The Miracle Worker]]'', ABC became interested in developing a series starring Duke. The network enlisted writer [[Sidney Sheldon]] to develop a vehicle for Duke. Sheldon asked Duke to spend a week with his family at their home to generate ideas. During this time, he noticed that Duke had two distinct sides to her personality (later in life she would be diagnosed as [[bipolar disorder|manic-depressive]]),<ref name="anna">{{cite book |last=Duke |first=Patty |date=April 13, 2011 |title=Call Me Anna: The Autobiography of Patty Duke |publisher=Random House Publishing Group |isbn=9780553272055}}</ref>{{rp|287}} and so came up with the concept of identical paternal cousins with contrasting personalities.<ref name="anna" />{{rp|115}} According to Duke, he successfully captured her personality in the two characters.<ref name="FoundationInterview" />

In development, Cathy was initially from Scotland. Duke learned a true Scottish burr for the Cathy character. However, Duke's accent was done "so well they couldn't understand me",<ref name="FoundationInterview" /> concerning producers that the viewers would not like or understand her with such a profound accent. Upon going into production for the series, Cathy had a "general European" background and accent.<ref name="anna" />{{rp|120}}<ref name="FoundationInterview" />

The pilot episode was filmed on New Year's Day 1963 at the [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios]] in [[Culver City, California]]. Several differences in the pilot included the series being set in [[San Francisco]]; and [[Mark Miller (actor)|Mark Miller]] and [[Charles Herbert]] portraying Martin and Ross Lane, respectively.

===Seasons One and Two===
Even before ordering the series, it was understood that production would shift from Los Angeles to [[New York City]]. In the previous decade, New York had dominated national network production. By the early 1960s, new formats and innovations such as coaxial cable service, film and video tape allowed for the industry to move to the West coast with the film industry. By 1963, most scripted programming was based in Hollywood, while New York served production for game shows (''[[What's My Line]]''), soap operas (''[[As The World Turns]]''), and late night shows (''[[The Ed Sullivan Show]]''). However, at 16 years old, Duke fell under California's strict child labor laws (known informally as the [[California Child Actor's Bill|Coogan laws]] named after famed 1920s child actor [[Jackie Coogan]]), which curtailed the number of hours that child actors could work. Since New York did not have such stringent laws at the time, and Duke already resided in [[Manhattan, New York]], the network relocated production of the series to [[Chelsea Studios]] and moved the series location to [[Brooklyn Heights]].

Upon the series order, Miller declined to move on with the series. Schallert was hired after reading for producers, and reuniting him with his Byron, his co-star from ''[[The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis]]'' (which had ended the season before).<ref name="Schallert pt2">{{cite web|url=https://youtube.com/watch?v=xCPZoPzUce0&t=1985s |title=William Schallert Interview Part 2 of 4 - EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG |publisher=YouTube |date= |accessdate=2022-08-27}}</ref> Sheldon and Asher wrote and produced the series, with Duke's managers John and Ethel Ross also serving as associate producers. According to Duke and others, the cast and crew members were unaware of their abuse of her.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://youtube.com/watch?v=MYgW0BxkqW4&t=1137s |title=Patty Duke Interview Part 2 of 3 - EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG |publisher=YouTube |date= |accessdate=2022-08-27}}</ref>

William Asher initially served as producer. However, before going on the air, he had failed to finish a full-length episode.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://youtube.com/watch?v=xx7LVNYAf6o&t=1607s |title=Sidney Sheldon Interview 2 of 5 - EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG |publisher=YouTube |date= |accessdate=2022-08-27}}</ref> As a result, ABC assigned [[Robert Costello]] to produce, though he only remained until the twenty-fifth episode.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://youtube.com/watch?v=dOGqB5CZsdM&t=81s |title=Bob Costello Interview Part 6 of 8 - EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG |publisher=YouTube |date= |accessdate=2022-08-27}}</ref> Following his departure, frequent director Stanley Prager took over for the remainder of the first season, as well as the second season.


===Visual effects===
===Visual effects===
[[File: Patty Duke Show 1964.jpg|thumb|Duke as both Cathy (left) and Patty Lane.]]
[[File: Patty Duke Show 1964.jpg|thumb|Duke as both Cathy (left) and Patty Lane.]]

The [[dual role]] for Duke challenged [[special effects]] for its time, considering that television special effects were rare in the early 1960s, particularly for a sitcom. In all episodes, Duke appeared as both characters in the same frame through use of a [[Split screen (film)|split-screen]] effect. The technically ambitious [[traveling matte]] process was also used from time to time, particularly in the [[television pilot|pilot]]. To complement these effects, child actress [[Rita McLaughlin]] was used as Duke's double (almost always seen only from behind).<ref>{{cite web |last=MeTV Staff|title=10 fascinating factoids about 'The Patty Duke Show' |url=https://www.metv.com/lists/10-fascinating-factoids-about-the-patty-duke-showl |work=[[MeTV]] |access-date=February 9, 2020|date=December 15, 2015}}</ref> To differentiate the two characters to the viewing public, the character Patty wore a flip-fall hairpiece, while Cathy's character wore a more conservative turn-under hairstyle.
The [[dual role]] for Duke challenged [[special effects]] for its time, considering that television special effects were rare in the early 1960s, particularly for a sitcom. In all episodes, Duke appeared as both characters in the same frame through use of a [[Split screen (film)|split-screen]] effect. The technically ambitious [[traveling matte]] process was also used from time to time, particularly in the [[television pilot|pilot]]. To complement these effects, child actress [[Rita McLaughlin]] was used as Duke's double (almost always seen only from behind).<ref>{{cite web |last=MeTV Staff|title=10 fascinating factoids about 'The Patty Duke Show' |url=https://www.metv.com/lists/10-fascinating-factoids-about-the-patty-duke-showl |work=[[MeTV]] |access-date=February 9, 2020|date=December 15, 2015}}</ref> To differentiate the two characters to the viewing public, the character Patty wore a flip-fall hairpiece, while Cathy's character wore a more conservative turn-under hairstyle.


===Cathy Lane's accent===
===Season Three and cancellation===
Midway through the second season, Duke celebrated her eighteenth birthday and fired the Rosses as her managers.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://youtube.com/watch?v=MYgW0BxkqW4&t=1195s |title=Patty Duke Interview Part 2 of 3 - EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG |publisher=YouTube |date=2014-01-17 |accessdate=2022-08-27}}</ref> As Duke was now old enough to work longer hours, ABC wanted to shift the show's production to Los Angeles. Duke initially was against the idea, but eventually agreed. With the move came new sets and new exterior shots, the latter of which seemed to place the home in an unnamed suburban neighborhood instead of Brooklyn Heights.{{Citation needed |date=October 2022}}
During preproduction, Duke learned a true Scottish burr for the Cathy character. The producers became concerned that the viewers would not like or understand her with such a profound accent, so they decided on a general European “anyplace but America” accent that Duke would perform for Cathy henceforth.<ref name=anna />{{rp|120}}


During the second season, Duke had become romantically involved with assistant director [[Harry Falk (director)|Harry Falk]], and married him during the third season. He was able to direct one of the final season three episodes – in which Patty and Richard contemplate getting married – which Duke said in hindsight "was not a good idea."<ref name="Duke pt 2">{{cite web|url=https://youtube.com/watch?v=MYgW0BxkqW4&t=88s |title=Patty Duke Interview Part 2 of 3 - EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG |publisher=YouTube |date= |accessdate=2022-08-27}}</ref>
===Filming locations===

''The Patty Duke Show,'' filmed in New York rather than Los Angeles, was an exception to the trend of producing shows on the West Coast. Until the early 1960s, New York City had dominated national network production. New formats and innovations such as coast-to-coast coaxial cable service, film and video tape allowed for the move west. By 1963, most filmed television programing was produced in or around Hollywood. Game shows such as ''[[What's My Line]]'' and soap operas such as ''[[As The World Turns]]'' and ''[[The Ed Sullivan Show]]'' still originated from New York. When the series' unaired pilot episode was filmed on New Year's Day 1963 featuring Miller and Herbert in the roles of Martin and Ross Lane, respectively, the show was filmed at the [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios]] in [[Culver City, California]], with [[San Francisco]] as the setting for the series. When the series was picked up by ABC, with Duke at the age of 16, the possibility of a problem came into play if production remained on the west coast. California's strict child labor laws (known informally as the [[California Child Actor's Bill|Coogan laws]] named after famed 1920s child actor [[Jackie Coogan]]) curtailed the number of hours that child actors could work. It was thus decided that production would originate from New York, as it did not have such stringent laws. This would allow producers to devote more time to the production since not only did Duke effectively carry the show, but as a native of [[Manhattan, New York]], it made getting to the studio easier. With the switch to the East Coast, it was decided to reset the show in [[Brooklyn Heights]] with filming in the [[Chelsea Studios]].
The series was cancelled due to disagreements between ABC and [[United Artists Television]] (UATV) over filming the series in color. ABC wanted all of its shows for the upcoming 1966–67 season to be in color, while UATV claimed filming ''The Patty Duke Show'' in color would be too expensive.<ref name="anna" />{{rp|166}} The series continued airing reruns on ABC in primetime until August 31.


===Music===
===Music===
The show's theme song, "Cousins,"<ref>{{YouTube|dIzGzFmCVqM|Patty Duke Show, The (Intro) S1 (1963)}}</ref> which has since been parodied many times over in pop culture (including ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'' where it was parodied as the theme song to "The Bloaty and Squirmy Show"), illustrates the two girls' differences: "...where Cathy adores the [[minuet]], the [[Russian ballet|Ballet Russe]] and [[Crêpe Suzette|crêpes Suzette]], our Patty loves to [[rock 'n' roll]], a [[hot dog]] makes her lose control..." The song was performed by a five-voice [[vocal ensemble]] called "The Skip-Jacks," which featured actress and ''[[Playboy]]'' model [[Stella Stevens]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The Skip-Jacks|url=https://www.last.fm/music/The+Skip-Jacks|publisher=CBS Interactive, Last.fm Ltd.|access-date=2018-10-01}}</ref>
The show's theme song, "Cousins,"<ref>{{YouTube|dIzGzFmCVqM|Patty Duke Show, The (Intro) S1 (1963)}}</ref> which has since been parodied many times over in pop culture (including ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'' where it was parodied as the theme song to "The Bloaty and Squirmy Show"), illustrates the two girls' differences: "...where Cathy adores the [[minuet]], the [[Russian ballet|Ballet Russe]] and [[Crêpe Suzette|crêpes Suzette]], our Patty loves her [[rock 'n' roll]], a [[hot dog]] makes her lose control..." The song was performed by a five-voice [[vocal ensemble]] called "The Skip-Jacks," which featured actress and ''[[Playboy]]'' model [[Stella Stevens]].


===Cancellation===
==Reception==
Already a budding star in her own right, Duke was further thrust into the public consciousness through the show. As the series went on, her star power from the series allowed her to enter popular music, appearing on two episodes of ''[[Shindig!]]'' in 1965 to release a Top Ten single, "Don't Just Stand There," in one of her two appearances on the series.
{{unreferenced section|date=August 2020}}
Duke turned 18 midway through the [[1964–65 United States network television schedule|1964–65 television season]]. Consequently, with the series still popular and getting high Nielsen ratings, ABC wanted to shift the show's production to Los Angeles for the [[1965-1966 United States network television schedule|subsequent season]], as Duke was now old enough to work longer hours. Duke refused to make the move, as she did not want to fly 6,000 miles round-trip daily to film the series. At that time, she was in the midst of breaking off her relationship with her managers, who were insisting upon the move. Moreover, [[United Artists Television]] (UATV) was refusing the network's demand for a switch to color, with Duke suspecting that the studio executives said no as a negotiating ploy in the hope that the alphabet network would respond with an offer to pay more money for the series on the condition that it continue to film it in black-and-white. Although the 1965/66 season began in New York, some of the later episodes were filmed in California. Had the series continued, ''The Patty Duke Show'' would have remained in Los Angeles, but its cancellation made further discussion moot.


''[[PopMatters]]'' wrote that although the show's episodes are occasionally very predictable, "it's all in good fun".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.popmatters.com/111157-the-patty-duke-show-2496081793.html|title=The Patty Duke Show, PopMatters|date=28 September 2009}}</ref>
==Broadcast syndication==
Repeats of ''The Patty Duke Show'' entered local markets as early as September 1966, days after exiting ABC prime time. It remained a mainstay of daytime independent station programming well into the 1970s. A new generation of viewers was introduced to the series by [[Nick at Nite]] cable, broadcasting a lengthy five-year prime time run from September 19, 1988, to August 30, 1993. On June 30, 1995, Nick at Nite showed one episode of the series during their 10th anniversary celebration. In 2005, both Nick at Nite and [[TV Land]] aired another episode of the series in honor of Nick at Nite's 20th anniversary. As of November 1, 2008, ''The Patty Duke Show'' is being syndicated on [[This TV]] as part of an early morning classic TV block. Prior to this, the show had not appeared in national syndication since Nick at Nite dropped it from its lineup in 1993. As of March 2009, the show was being broadcast daily on World Harvest Television, the cable/satellite channel operated by televangelist [[Lester Sumrall]]'s LeSEA Broadcasting. Reruns of ''The Patty Duke Show'' were seen on [[Antenna TV]] from 2013 until 2015 as part of that channel's regular programming schedule. From November 4, 2013, to April 6, 2014, ''The Patty Duke Show'' aired back-to-back episodes every day from 1:00–2:00pm ET; from April 7, 2014, to August 29, 2014, ''The Patty Duke Show'' aired back-to-back episodes weekday afternoons from 2:00–3:00pm ET; from September 1, 2014, to April 3, 2015, the show aired back-to-back episodes weekday mornings from 6:00–7:00am ET; from April 6, 2015, to September 11, 2015, it aired back-to-back episodes Monday-Friday from 9:00–10:00am ET. From January 4, 2016, to September 2, 2016, the series aired weekday mornings at 6:00am–6:30am on [[MeTV]]. As of September 3, 2018, the series aired weekday afternoons from 4:00–5:00pm ET on [[Light TV]] until Light TV ended broadcast. In 2019, episodes aired on Saturday and Sunday on [[This TV]]. The show can currently be seen on [[Circle (TV network)|Circle]].


==Home video==
===Ratings===
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|-
! Season
! Timeslot ([[Eastern Time Zone|EDT]])
! Season Premiere
! Season Finale
! TV season
! style="background:#ffdead;"| Rank
! style="background:#ffdead;"| [[Nielsen ratings|Nielsen rating]]
! Ref
|-
! '''1'''
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="3"| Wednesday 8:00 pm
| {{Start date|1963|9|18}}
| {{End date|1964|5|20}}
| style="text-align:center;"| [[1963–64 United States network television schedule|1963–64]]
| style="background:#fc9; text-align:center;"| '''18'''
| style="background:#fc9; text-align:center;"| '''23.9'''
| style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.thetvratingsguide.com/1991/08/1963-64-ratings-history.html | title=The TV Ratings Guide: 1963-64 Ratings History }}</ref>
|-
! '''2'''
| {{Start date|1964|9|16}}
| {{End date|1965|5|19}}
| style="text-align:center;"| [[1964–65 United States network television schedule|1964–65]]
| style="background:#fc9; text-align:center;"| '''28'''
| style="background:#fc9; text-align:center;"| '''22.4'''
| style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.thetvratingsguide.com/1991/08/1964-65-tv-ratings.html | title=The TV Ratings Guide: 1964-65 TV Ratings }}</ref>
|-
! '''3'''
| {{Start date|1965|9|15}}
| {{End date|1966|4|27}}
| style="text-align:center;"| [[1965–66 United States network television schedule|1965–66]]
| style="background:#fc9; text-align:center;"| ?
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William Schallert later stated that, in the third season, the series ratings plummeted after being pitted against ''[[Lost in Space]]''.

===Syndication and home video===
Repeats of ''The Patty Duke Show'' entered local markets as early as September 1966, days after exiting ABC prime time. It remained a mainstay of daytime independent station programming well into the 1970s. A new generation of viewers was introduced to the series by [[Nick at Nite]] cable, broadcasting a lengthy five-year prime time run from September 19, 1988, to August 30, 1993. On June 30, 1995, Nick at Nite showed one episode of the series during their 10th anniversary celebration. In 2005, both Nick at Nite and [[TV Land]] aired another episode of the series in honor of Nick at Nite's 20th anniversary.

In 2008, [[This TV]] began airing ''The Patty Duke Show'' as part of an early morning classic TV block. Prior to this, the show had not appeared in national syndication since Nick at Nite dropped it from its lineup in 1993. As of 2019, episodes aired on Saturday and Sunday.

Reruns of ''The Patty Duke Show'' were seen on [[Antenna TV]] from 2013 until 2015 as part of that channel's regular programming schedule. From November 4, 2013, to April 6, 2014, ''The Patty Duke Show'' aired back-to-back episodes every day from 1:00–2:00pm ET; from April 7, 2014, to August 29, 2014, ''The Patty Duke Show'' aired back-to-back episodes weekday afternoons from 2:00–3:00pm ET; from September 1, 2014, to April 3, 2015, the show aired back-to-back episodes weekday mornings from 6:00–7:00am ET; from April 6, 2015, to September 11, 2015, it aired back-to-back episodes Monday-Friday from 9:00–10:00am ET. From January 4, 2016, to September 2, 2016, the series aired weekday mornings at 6:00am–6:30am on [[MeTV]].

The show can currently be seen on [[Circle (TV network)|Circle]].

==Reunions==
===The Patty Duke Show: Still Rockin' In Brooklyn Heights===
On April 27, 1999, the thirty-third anniversary of the ABC cancellation of ''The Patty Duke Show'', rival network [[CBS]] aired the television film '''''The Patty Duke Show: Still Rockin' In Brooklyn Heights''''', which reunited Duke, Schallert, Byron (in her final on-screen role before her death in February 2006), O'Keefe and Applegate. The film was meant to be a backdoor pilot to a revival of the series, though these plans never came to fruition.

In the film, Patty and Richard married after graduating high school, and had a son Michael (Alain Goulem) before an amicable divorce after nearly 27 years of marriage. Michael is married with a teenage daughter Molly ([[Jane McGregor]]). Patty works as the drama teacher at Brooklyn Heights High School. Cathy is widowed and living in Scotland with her teenage son Liam McAllister (Kent Riley). Martin and Natalie moved to Florida after Martin retired from ''The New York Daily Chronicle''.

The film revolves around a Lane family reunion, where the family bands together against the plans of Sue Ellen Caldwell (portrayed present-day by [[Cindy Williams]], since original portrayer Kitty Sullivan was unavailable) to tear down the high school for a shopping center. Patty and Richard also confront their continued feelings post-divorce, reconciling by the end of the film.

Several clips of the original series were shown as flashbacks. Kitty Sullivan is shown in one of these flashbacks.

===Social Security campaigns===
In 2009, Duke reprised her dual roles from the show in a [[public service announcement]] (PSA) for the [[Social Security Administration]], in which Patty asked Cathy about where she got her information about how to get Social Security benefits and other questions, such as how to apply online. The PSA was targeted toward [[baby boomers]] who were born or who grew up in the 1960s. In 2010, the surviving cast reprised their respective roles in a series of PSAs, again for the Social Security Administration.

===DVD releases===
[[Shout! Factory]] has released all three seasons of ''The Patty Duke Show'' on DVD in Region 1.
[[Shout! Factory]] has released all three seasons of ''The Patty Duke Show'' on DVD in Region 1.


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==Reception==
==See also ==
* ''[[The Parent Trap (1961 film)|The Parent Trap]]'' (1961 film starring [[Hayley Mills]], [[The Parent Trap (1998 film)|remade in 1998]] with [[Lindsay Lohan]]) — a film that where Mills, and later Lohan, also played double roles
Already a budding star in her own right, Duke was further thrust into the public consciousness through the show. As the series went on, her star power from the series allowed her to enter popular music, appearing on two episodes of ''[[Shindig!]]'' in 1965 to release a Top Ten single, "Don't Just Stand There," in one of her two appearances on the series.
* ''[[Liv and Maddie]]'' — [[Disney Channel]] sitcom starring [[Dove Cameron]] as twins. Duke made her final acting appearance in a season three episode playing the title characters' grandmother and great-aunt

''[[PopMatters]]'' wrote that although the show's episodes are occasionally very predictable, "it's all in good fun".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.popmatters.com/111157-the-patty-duke-show-2496081793.html|title=The Patty Duke Show, PopMatters|date=28 September 2009}}</ref>

==Reunion movie==
On April 27, 1999, the 33rd anniversary of the ABC cancellation of ''The Patty Duke Show'', rival network [[CBS]] aired the TV movie '''''The Patty Duke Show: Still Rockin' In Brooklyn Heights''''', which reunited Duke, Schallert, Byron (in her final on-screen role, as she died in February 2006 of complications following hip replacement surgery), O'Keefe and Applegate. In ''Still Rockin','' Patty and Richard married after high school, had a son, Michael (Alain Goulem), who in turn married (his wife Nancy is mentioned, but is not seen, as she is out of town on business), and had a daughter, Molly ([[Jane McGregor]]). Patty and Richard were amicably divorced after nearly 27 years of marriage, but towards the end of the movie, they reconcile. Cathy is a widow living in Scotland and has a teenage son, Liam McAllister (Kent Riley). Martin and Natalie moved to Florida after Martin retired from ''The New York Daily Chronicle''. Most of the plot revolves around Patty's old rival, Sue Ellen Caldwell (portrayed by [[Cindy Williams]] as Kitty Sullivan, who played Sue Ellen Turner in 14 episodes over the first two seasons, was unavailable to reprise her role for the movie, yet Sullivan ''does'' appear as Sue Ellen in one of the segments from the TV series), who is planning on buying Brooklyn Heights High School (where Patty works as a drama teacher), razing it and replacing it with a mall, which is opposed by Patty, Cathy and the rest of the Lane family.

==Social Security campaigns==
In 2009, Duke reprised her dual roles from the show in a [[public service announcement]] (PSA) for the [[Social Security Administration]], in which Patty asked Cathy about where she got her information about how to get Social Security benefits and other questions, such as how to apply online. The PSA was targeted toward [[baby boomers]] who were born or who grew up in the 1960s. In 2010, the main cast of ''The Patty Duke Show'' (except Byron, who, as stated above, died in February 2006 from complications from hip replacement surgery) reprised their respective roles in a series of PSAs, again for the Social Security Administration.

==See also: similar shows and films==
* ''[[Liv and Maddie]]'' (2013 American TV series starring [[Dove Cameron]]; Duke made her final TV appearance in the season three episode "Grandma-A-Rooney" playing the title characters' Grandma Janice and Great Aunt Hillary)
* ''[[It Takes Two (1995 film)|It Takes Two]]'' (1995 film starring twins [[Mary-Kate Olsen]] and [[Ashley Olsen]])
* ''[[Sister, Sister (TV series)|Sister, Sister]]'' (1994–'99 American TV series starring twins [[Tia Mowry]] and [[Tamera Mowry]])
* ''[[Double Trouble (U.S. TV series)|Double Trouble]]'' (1984–'85 American TV series starring twins [[Jean Sagal]] and [[Liz Sagal]])
* ''[[The Parent Trap (1961 film)|The Parent Trap]]'' (1961 film starring [[Hayley Mills]], [[The Parent Trap (1998 film)|remade in 1998]] with [[Lindsay Lohan]])


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The Patty Duke Show
Season one opening
GenreSitcom
Created by
Starring
Theme music composer
Opening theme"Cousins"
performed by The Skip-Jacks
Composers
  • Sid Ramin
  • Harry Geller
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons3
No. of episodes104 (list of episodes)
Production
Producers
Camera setupSingle-camera
Running time22 mins
Production companies
Original release
NetworkABC
ReleaseSeptember 18, 1963 (1963-09-18) –
April 27, 1966 (1966-04-27)
Related
The Patty Duke Show: Still Rockin' In Brooklyn Heights

The Patty Duke Show is an American television sitcom created by Sidney Sheldon and William Asher. The series ran on ABC from September 18, 1963, to April 27, 1966.

The series was developed as a vehicle for teenage star Patty Duke, who had won an Academy Award the previous year. Duke starred in dual roles of "twin cousins" Patty and Cathy Lane. The series co-starred William Schallert, Jean Byron, Paul O'Keefe, and Eddie Applegate.

A total of 104 black-and-white episodes, plus an unaired pilot, were produced by United Artists Television. ABC abruptly cancelled the series after three seasons.

Premise[edit]

Patty Lane (Duke) is a normal, chatty, rambunctious teenager who (according to the theme song lyrics) lives in the Brooklyn Heights section of New York City. Her father, Martin Lane (William Schallert), is the managing editor of the New York Daily Chronicle; Patty affectionately addresses him as "Poppo." Her "identical paternal cousin," Cathy Lane (also played by Duke), is sophisticated, brainy and demure; her father Kenneth (also played by Schallert) is Martin's identical twin brother. Since the widowed Kenneth is often away as a foreign correspondent for the Chronicle, Cathy moves to the United States to live with Patty's family – which also includes her mother Natalie (Jean Byron) and brother Ross (Paul O'Keefe) – and to attend Brooklyn Heights High School with Patty and her boyfriend Richard (Eddie Applegate).

While the girls are physically identical, their style, tastes and attitudes are nearly opposite, which is responsible for some of the comedic situations on the show. Though the character of "Cathy" received first billing over the character of "Patty" in the show's opening credits, virtually all episodes centered around Patty's misadventures, with Cathy often only playing a minor supporting role. The remarkable physical resemblance that Patty and Cathy share is explained by the fact that their fathers are identical twins. While Patty speaks with a typical American accent, Cathy speaks with a general European accent;[1] not surprisingly, however, both cousins are able to mimic each other's voice. Patty and Cathy have an additional identical cousin, Southern belle Betsy (also played by Duke), featured in the season two episode "The Perfect Hostess."[2]

Episodes[edit]

Main article: List of The Patty Duke Show episodes
SeasonEpisodesOriginally aired
First airedLast aired
136September 18, 1963May 20, 1964
236September 16, 1964May 19, 1965
332September 15, 1965April 27, 1966

Cast[edit]

The Lanes (clockwise from bottom left: Patty Duke as Patty Lane, Jean Byron as Natalie Lane, William Schallert as Martin Lane and Paul O'Keefe as Ross Lane)
  • Patty Duke as Patty Lane and Cathy Lane
    • Duke also "guest-starred" as Betsy Lane in the episode "The Perfect Hostess" (1965)
  • William Schallert as Martin Lane
    • Schallert also had a dual role as Kenneth Lane in three season one episodes, and as Uncle Jed in a season three episode
  • Jean Byron as Natalie Lane, Patty's mother
  • Paul O'Keefe as Ross Lane, Patty's brother
  • Eddie Applegate as Richard Harrison, Patty's boyfriend

Rita McLaughlin served as a double for Duke in the third season, but was never credited. In the series' unaired pilot episode, Mark Miller and Charles Herbert played Martin and Ross Lane, respectively.

Major recurring[edit]

  • Kitty Sullivan as Sue Ellen Turner (seasons 1-2), Patty's frenemy. She was replaced by Roz and Monica Robinson in the third season.
    • Cindy Williams portrayed Sue Ellen in Still Rockin' in Brooklyn Heights when Sullivan was unavailable.
  • John McGiver as J.R. Castle (season 1), Martin's boss at the Chronicle. He is not shown or mentioned after the first season.
  • David Doyle as Jonathan Harrison (seasons 1-2), Richard's father who is a construction engineer.
  • John Spencer as Henry (seasons 1-2), one of Patty's classmates.
  • Kelly Wood as Gloria (season 2), one of Patty's friends.
  • Marcia Strassman as Adeline (season 2), one of Patty's classmates.
  • Robyn Millan as Roz (season 3), one of Patty's classmates.
  • Laura Barton/Kathy Garver as Monica Robinson (season 3), Patty's rival. She replaces the Sue Ellen Turner character.

Notable guest stars[edit]

Production[edit]

Origins[edit]

Following her Academy Award-winning role in The Miracle Worker, ABC became interested in developing a series starring Duke. The network enlisted writer Sidney Sheldon to develop a vehicle for Duke. Sheldon asked Duke to spend a week with his family at their home to generate ideas. During this time, he noticed that Duke had two distinct sides to her personality (later in life she would be diagnosed as manic-depressive),[3]: 287  and so came up with the concept of identical paternal cousins with contrasting personalities.[3]: 115  According to Duke, he successfully captured her personality in the two characters.[1]

In development, Cathy was initially from Scotland. Duke learned a true Scottish burr for the Cathy character. However, Duke's accent was done "so well they couldn't understand me",[1] concerning producers that the viewers would not like or understand her with such a profound accent. Upon going into production for the series, Cathy had a "general European" background and accent.[3]: 120 [1]

The pilot episode was filmed on New Year's Day 1963 at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios in Culver City, California. Several differences in the pilot included the series being set in San Francisco; and Mark Miller and Charles Herbert portraying Martin and Ross Lane, respectively.

Seasons One and Two[edit]

Even before ordering the series, it was understood that production would shift from Los Angeles to New York City. In the previous decade, New York had dominated national network production. By the early 1960s, new formats and innovations such as coaxial cable service, film and video tape allowed for the industry to move to the West coast with the film industry. By 1963, most scripted programming was based in Hollywood, while New York served production for game shows (What's My Line), soap operas (As The World Turns), and late night shows (The Ed Sullivan Show). However, at 16 years old, Duke fell under California's strict child labor laws (known informally as the Coogan laws named after famed 1920s child actor Jackie Coogan), which curtailed the number of hours that child actors could work. Since New York did not have such stringent laws at the time, and Duke already resided in Manhattan, New York, the network relocated production of the series to Chelsea Studios and moved the series location to Brooklyn Heights.

Upon the series order, Miller declined to move on with the series. Schallert was hired after reading for producers, and reuniting him with his Byron, his co-star from The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (which had ended the season before).[4] Sheldon and Asher wrote and produced the series, with Duke's managers John and Ethel Ross also serving as associate producers. According to Duke and others, the cast and crew members were unaware of their abuse of her.[5]

William Asher initially served as producer. However, before going on the air, he had failed to finish a full-length episode.[6] As a result, ABC assigned Robert Costello to produce, though he only remained until the twenty-fifth episode.[7] Following his departure, frequent director Stanley Prager took over for the remainder of the first season, as well as the second season.

Visual effects[edit]

Duke as both Cathy (left) and Patty Lane.

The dual role for Duke challenged special effects for its time, considering that television special effects were rare in the early 1960s, particularly for a sitcom. In all episodes, Duke appeared as both characters in the same frame through use of a split-screen effect. The technically ambitious traveling matte process was also used from time to time, particularly in the pilot. To complement these effects, child actress Rita McLaughlin was used as Duke's double (almost always seen only from behind).[8] To differentiate the two characters to the viewing public, the character Patty wore a flip-fall hairpiece, while Cathy's character wore a more conservative turn-under hairstyle.

Season Three and cancellation[edit]

Midway through the second season, Duke celebrated her eighteenth birthday and fired the Rosses as her managers.[9] As Duke was now old enough to work longer hours, ABC wanted to shift the show's production to Los Angeles. Duke initially was against the idea, but eventually agreed. With the move came new sets and new exterior shots, the latter of which seemed to place the home in an unnamed suburban neighborhood instead of Brooklyn Heights.[citation needed]

During the second season, Duke had become romantically involved with assistant director Harry Falk, and married him during the third season. He was able to direct one of the final season three episodes – in which Patty and Richard contemplate getting married – which Duke said in hindsight "was not a good idea."[10]

The series was cancelled due to disagreements between ABC and United Artists Television (UATV) over filming the series in color. ABC wanted all of its shows for the upcoming 1966–67 season to be in color, while UATV claimed filming The Patty Duke Show in color would be too expensive.[3]: 166  The series continued airing reruns on ABC in primetime until August 31.

Music[edit]

The show's theme song, "Cousins,"[11] which has since been parodied many times over in pop culture (including Rocko's Modern Life where it was parodied as the theme song to "The Bloaty and Squirmy Show"), illustrates the two girls' differences: "...where Cathy adores the minuet, the Ballet Russe and crêpes Suzette, our Patty loves her rock 'n' roll, a hot dog makes her lose control..." The song was performed by a five-voice vocal ensemble called "The Skip-Jacks," which featured actress and Playboy model Stella Stevens.

Reception[edit]

Already a budding star in her own right, Duke was further thrust into the public consciousness through the show. As the series went on, her star power from the series allowed her to enter popular music, appearing on two episodes of Shindig! in 1965 to release a Top Ten single, "Don't Just Stand There," in one of her two appearances on the series.

PopMatters wrote that although the show's episodes are occasionally very predictable, "it's all in good fun".[12]

Ratings[edit]

Season Timeslot (EDT) Season Premiere Season Finale TV season Rank Nielsen rating Ref
1 Wednesday 8:00 pm September 18, 1963 (1963-09-18) May 20, 1964 (1964-05-20) 1963–64 18 23.9 [13]
2 September 16, 1964 (1964-09-16) May 19, 1965 (1965-05-19) 1964–65 28 22.4 [14]
3 September 15, 1965 (1965-09-15) April 27, 1966 (1966-04-27) 1965–66 ? ? [citation needed]

William Schallert later stated that, in the third season, the series ratings plummeted after being pitted against Lost in Space.

Syndication and home video[edit]

Repeats of The Patty Duke Show entered local markets as early as September 1966, days after exiting ABC prime time. It remained a mainstay of daytime independent station programming well into the 1970s. A new generation of viewers was introduced to the series by Nick at Nite cable, broadcasting a lengthy five-year prime time run from September 19, 1988, to August 30, 1993. On June 30, 1995, Nick at Nite showed one episode of the series during their 10th anniversary celebration. In 2005, both Nick at Nite and TV Land aired another episode of the series in honor of Nick at Nite's 20th anniversary.

In 2008, This TV began airing The Patty Duke Show as part of an early morning classic TV block. Prior to this, the show had not appeared in national syndication since Nick at Nite dropped it from its lineup in 1993. As of 2019, episodes aired on Saturday and Sunday.

Reruns of The Patty Duke Show were seen on Antenna TV from 2013 until 2015 as part of that channel's regular programming schedule. From November 4, 2013, to April 6, 2014, The Patty Duke Show aired back-to-back episodes every day from 1:00–2:00pm ET; from April 7, 2014, to August 29, 2014, The Patty Duke Show aired back-to-back episodes weekday afternoons from 2:00–3:00pm ET; from September 1, 2014, to April 3, 2015, the show aired back-to-back episodes weekday mornings from 6:00–7:00am ET; from April 6, 2015, to September 11, 2015, it aired back-to-back episodes Monday-Friday from 9:00–10:00am ET. From January 4, 2016, to September 2, 2016, the series aired weekday mornings at 6:00am–6:30am on MeTV.

The show can currently be seen on Circle.

Reunions[edit]

The Patty Duke Show: Still Rockin' In Brooklyn Heights[edit]

On April 27, 1999, the thirty-third anniversary of the ABC cancellation of The Patty Duke Show, rival network CBS aired the television film The Patty Duke Show: Still Rockin' In Brooklyn Heights, which reunited Duke, Schallert, Byron (in her final on-screen role before her death in February 2006), O'Keefe and Applegate. The film was meant to be a backdoor pilot to a revival of the series, though these plans never came to fruition.

In the film, Patty and Richard married after graduating high school, and had a son Michael (Alain Goulem) before an amicable divorce after nearly 27 years of marriage. Michael is married with a teenage daughter Molly (Jane McGregor). Patty works as the drama teacher at Brooklyn Heights High School. Cathy is widowed and living in Scotland with her teenage son Liam McAllister (Kent Riley). Martin and Natalie moved to Florida after Martin retired from The New York Daily Chronicle.

The film revolves around a Lane family reunion, where the family bands together against the plans of Sue Ellen Caldwell (portrayed present-day by Cindy Williams, since original portrayer Kitty Sullivan was unavailable) to tear down the high school for a shopping center. Patty and Richard also confront their continued feelings post-divorce, reconciling by the end of the film.

Several clips of the original series were shown as flashbacks. Kitty Sullivan is shown in one of these flashbacks.

Social Security campaigns[edit]

In 2009, Duke reprised her dual roles from the show in a public service announcement (PSA) for the Social Security Administration, in which Patty asked Cathy about where she got her information about how to get Social Security benefits and other questions, such as how to apply online. The PSA was targeted toward baby boomers who were born or who grew up in the 1960s. In 2010, the surviving cast reprised their respective roles in a series of PSAs, again for the Social Security Administration.

DVD releases[edit]

Shout! Factory has released all three seasons of The Patty Duke Show on DVD in Region 1.

DVD Name Ep # Release Date
The Complete First Season 37 September 29, 2009
The Complete Second Season 36 February 9, 2010
The Complete Third and Final Season 32 August 24, 2010

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d Patty Duke on the origins of "The Patty Duke Show" on YouTube
  2. ^ The Patty Duke Show S2E18 The Perfect Hostess on YouTube
  3. ^ a b c d Duke, Patty (April 13, 2011). Call Me Anna: The Autobiography of Patty Duke. Random House Publishing Group. ISBN 9780553272055.
  4. ^ "William Schallert Interview Part 2 of 4 - EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG". YouTube. Retrieved 2022-08-27.
  5. ^ "Patty Duke Interview Part 2 of 3 - EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG". YouTube. Retrieved 2022-08-27.
  6. ^ "Sidney Sheldon Interview 2 of 5 - EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG". YouTube. Retrieved 2022-08-27.
  7. ^ "Bob Costello Interview Part 6 of 8 - EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG". YouTube. Retrieved 2022-08-27.
  8. ^ MeTV Staff (December 15, 2015). "10 fascinating factoids about 'The Patty Duke Show'". MeTV. Retrieved February 9, 2020.
  9. ^ "Patty Duke Interview Part 2 of 3 - EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG". YouTube. 2014-01-17. Retrieved 2022-08-27.
  10. ^ "Patty Duke Interview Part 2 of 3 - EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG". YouTube. Retrieved 2022-08-27.
  11. ^ Patty Duke Show, The (Intro) S1 (1963) on YouTube
  12. ^ "The Patty Duke Show, PopMatters". 28 September 2009.
  13. ^ "The TV Ratings Guide: 1963-64 Ratings History".
  14. ^ "The TV Ratings Guide: 1964-65 TV Ratings".

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