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Broadcast history:
First Telecast: September 15, 1957
Sep 1957-Jun 1959, CBS Sun 7:30-8:00 (OS)
Total number of episodes: 157
Cast:
John Forsythe as Bentley Gregg
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Series Summary:
Last Telecast: September 25, 1962
Jun 1959-Sep 1961, NBC Thu 9:00-9:30
Oct 1961-Sep 1962, ABC Thu 8:00-8:30
Noreen Corcoran as Kelly Gregg
Sammee Tong as Peter Tong
Bernadette Withers as Ginger Farrell/Loomis/Mitchell
Jimmy Boyd as Howard Meechim (1958-1961)
Joan Vohs as Elaine Meechim (1959)
Del Moore as Cal Mitchell (1960-1962)
Evelyn Scott as Adelaide Mitchell (1960-1962)
Victor Sen Yung as Cousin Charlie Fong (1961-1962)
Aron Kincaid as Warren Dawson (1962)
Alice Backus as Vickie (1957-1958)
Shirley Mitchell as Kitty Deveraux (1958-1959)
Sue Ane Langdon as Kitty Marsh (1959-1961)
Jeanne Bal as Suzanne Collins (1961)
Sally Mansfield as Connie (1961-1962)
Whit Bissell as Bert Loomis (1959-1961)
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Kelly was a typical teenager--exuberant and enthusiastic--who at times tried to find a wife for her uncle. During her high school years she had a regular boyfriend, lanky Howard Meechim. Her best friend was Ginger, whose parents and last name were changed twice during the five-year run of the show; only the last set of parents, Cal and Adelaide Mitchell, appeared often enough to be listed as regulars. At the end of the 1960-1961 season, in the last episode aired on NBC, Kelly graduated from high school. Two weeks later, when new episodes began on ABC, she had started college. The following spring brought her truelove, in the person of Warren Dawson, a young lawyer who became Bentley's junior partner and Kelly's fiance'. Bachelor Father concluded its network run at the end of that season, however, so that Kelly and Warren never did get married.
As for Bentley, he may have been an irresistible ladies' man, but he certainly had trouble holding on to a secretary. Five different actresses filled that role in succession: Alice Backus, Shirley Mitchell, Sue Ane Langdon, Jeanne Bal, and Sally Mansfield.
In what would alter become a bit of irony, actress Linda Evans appeared in one episode of Bachelor Father as a girlfriend of Bentley's niece Kelly. Two decades later, on the series Dynasty, she and John Forsythe, who had played Bentley, were man and wife.
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