Bringing Up Buddy

Bringing Up Buddy is an American sitcom which aired on CBS during the 1960–1961 season. On the air, the stars were billed in this order: Doro Merande, Enid Markey and Frank Aletter.

Synopsis
Frank Aletter plays the orphaned Buddy Flower, a bachelor stockbroker, who is reared by his overprotective and meticulous aunts, Violet Flower (Enid Markey) and Iris Flower (Doro Merande). 

Frank Albertson appeared in five episodes as Mr. Cooper; his real-life wife, Grace Gillern Albertson (born 1919), appeared twice as Mrs. Cooper. Irene Ryan, later of The Beverly Hillbillies, appeared three times as Cynthia Boyle. Jimmy Hawkins appeared twice as Fennimore, and Yvonne Lime Fedderson appeared twice as Penny. Frank Aletter's wife Lee Meriwether appeared as Gloria Arnold in the episode "Buddy and the Amazon."

Other guest stars

Merry Anders
William Bakewell
Joanna Barnes
Edgar Buchanan
George Chandler
Audrey Dalton
Douglass Dumbrille
Tommy Farrell
Cheryl Holdridge

Dennis Holmes
John Hoyt
Sherry Jackson
Arte Johnson
Joyce Meadows
Joan O'Brien
Joan Staley
Olive Sturgess 
Gloria Talbott

Broadcast history
The program debuted on October 10, 1960, and finished its original episodes on June 28, 1961. 
It aired at 8:30 pm Eastern on Mondays between Pete and Gladys (starring Harry Morgan and Cara Williams) and The Danny Thomas Show. Its competition was ABC's new detective series Surfside 6 set in Miami, and Dale Robertson's Tales of Wells Fargo Western series on NBC. In the following season, CBS returned Robert Young to the 8:30 Monday timeslot in his Window on Main Street nostalgia comedy, which also failed to develop an audience.

Production notes
Bringing Up Buddy was created by Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher.

The series' theme song was written by George Tibbles, who also was a screenwriter for ABC's (later CBS) My Three Sons starring Fred MacMurray.

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Category:1960 American television series debuts
Category:1961 American television series endings
Category:1960s American television series
Category:1960s American sitcoms
Category:Black-and-white American television programs
Category:CBS original programming
Category:English-language television programs
Category:Television series about families
Category:Television series by Universal Television