I thought this would be a good place to post this, since its about Ozzie and Harriet. If its the wrong forum, sorry. Please move it to the right forum if this is the wrong one.

I was reading about Ozzie's Girls, the show Ozzie & Harriet Nelson made in the 70s after their first show ended. All I can find about the show was a brief description on several sites and the theme music on this site. I couldn't find any clips of the show on Youtube or any other site, just these pictures of the opening credits:

http://www.skaryguyvideo.com/og.htm

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I would like to know if anybody has seen an episode of this show. Was it just as good as Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet?

I have the pilot episode. I have actually never watched it though.

I remember seeing it when it was first on; and if I remember right; it wasn't very good. But, I haven't seen it in almost 30 years!!!

...was originally conceived in 1972 for NBC, who rejected the pilot and potential series. The pilot episode was shown in September of that year on the network, but there was interest from other quarters about a series. Ozzie decided to enter the lucrative field of syndication and produce the show for local stations in the fall of 1973. Viacom distributed it, and 24 episodes were taped in the 1973-'74 season. Unfortunately, the ratings were such a disappointment that "OZZIE'S GIRLS" ceased production after that season....and he died a year later.

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I remember watching it in 1973 because Dusty's Trail (another syndicated flop) was on about the same time. I was only 9 years old at the time and don't recall much. I can't even remember what the episodes were about that I did see. I do recall that Ozzie subscribed to Playboy and it seemed like he was always asking Harriet if she had seen his magazine or if the mailman had brought it. I thought this was a running gag on the show but it may have occurred in just one episode.

Since I was always such a huge fan of Ozzie and Harriet growing up, I remember watching "Ozzie's Girls" when it came out. I was really disappointed, it just wasn't the same without David and Ricky.

A couple of years ago, Johnny Legend came to Vancouver, and he presented us with a 16mm version of the pilot episode. It was quite fascinating to watch, as I had never seen a tv show on 16mm before.

As for the pilot, it could have worked, but faced with the All In The Family revolution, it didn't make the cut.

After well over thirty years I have almost no specific recollections about the show, except there was at least one episode with a brief black & white flashback featuring David & Ricky, prompting me to turn to my mom and ask her if there used to be a show with the Nelsons called "Ozzie's Boys." :p Beyond that I recall the girls going through some stuff in (I think) the attic and encountering the scent of mothballs, which was an objectionable odor to Susie but a pleasant one to Brenda. There was also an occasion when the girls got their own phone line and recorded the answering machine's outgoing announcement together. Not much I know, but I was not yet ten when it ran. But I do remember that I loved this show and that it was one of my favorites at the time. I'd love to have the chance to see it again.

I felt really bad when Ozzie died.

PS re: 16mm. I would have sworn this show was videotaped. If so, it really would be something if the episode you watched had been preserved on film...a latter-day kinescope!

I do remember this show from when I was about 14. But I didn't know at the time that Ozzie and Harriet was an old long-running show and this was something like a what-are-they-up-to-now sequel. But I think I gradually learned all that; my dad seemed to like the show and sometimes talked about the "old" show, and of course, TV itself taught about that, as the old show came up in quizzes or allusions occasionally. And when Ozzie died not long after this show, I guess I got the 'full' story about his earlier 16-year show with his real family.

As for what I remember about Ozzie's Girls,-- not very much. Once the girls were both trying to lose weight, so eating special diets; once there were mysterious distinct voices coming from a room, which spooked everybody, but it turned out to be a radio operator (who happens to come to the house) who explains there are some ways a radio can pick up certain transmissions even if it's turned off (I don't think so); one episode was about football, and at the end when all the cast 'took their bows' they were all wearing football uniforms [even Harriet :lol: ] and did a little play-action pass play in the living room.

There was a running gag about Ozzie being an ice cream lover, and several times when the freezer door was opened you could see about 15 containers of ice cream. It all looked like Baskin-Robbins, with the big colored dots-- were they the sponsor? There were definitely some things that wouldn't have been shown in their 'old' series, but now were a go on television because of All in the Family and how it changed TV comedy. Once when one of the girls wanted to move out, word went around that there was room for another boarder, and some hippie-looking guy came around checking into it. When he was told they were looking for a roommate for a young female, he said "I'll take it!" (or something like that), but here Ozzie put his foot down and said no such arrangement will take place in his house. And another time Ozzie needed to go wake up Susie, and she was lying face-down on the bed, with apparently nothing on (at least above her waist) and her bare back showing. Ozzie tried to wake her without startling her, saying aloud he can't make her suddenly jump up :lol: .

So it's just tidbits like that I recall about the show.

Some years before I had resumed the practice of keeping a diary, and one night I was writing down some thoughts about how empty our big house has seemed since David and Ricky grew up and moved out and how the rooms were filled with memories--thoughts that occur to just about everyone in our age group--and I began wondering what it would be like if we rented out one of the boys' old rooms to a college student.

I stayed up all night that night and wrote a script about it. The essence of the story was that we decide to advertise in the college newspaper that we have a room for rent. Two girls apply for it, a white girl and a black girl. Through a misunderstanding, each one thinks that she has the room, and we wind up with two girls sharing it. It was easy to write and I enjoyed doing it.

Before I realized what was happening, and while Harriet kept saying, "No, no, no," our good friend Al Simon, head of television for Filmways, set up an appointment for us to meet with Herb Schlosser, West Coast program director for NBC, who read the script, likd it, and made arrangement for us to make a pilot that NBC and Filmways would finance.

Herb said, "What are you going to call it?"

I said, "I don't have a name for it yet. At least not one that I'm happy with."

He said, "Why don't you call it 'Ozzie's Girls'?"

We filmed, "Ozzie's Girls" back at our "home away from from home" - General Service Studios.

It seemed like old times as we drove through the main gate and Ralph Wark waved hello just as he had for thirteen years, and when we walked onto the set and saw our old home reconstructed, exact in every detail, it was as if we were walking back into a dream.

When we had discussed rebuilding our old set, Harriet, who does not usually indulge in profanity, even of the mildest sort, had said, "There's just one request I'd like to make. Don't let them put that eagle over the fireplace. If there's one thing I got sick of looking at after fourteen years, it's that god**am eagle!"

When I came on the set that first day, the first one to greet me was Tony Montenero, who was supervising the props.

He said, "Oz I hate to tell you this, and I know how disappointed Harriet is going to be, but I looked all over town and I can't find that eagle that goes over the fireplace."

I said, "Don't worry about it, Tony. I'll explain it to Harriet and I'm sure she'll understand."

When we ran the show on television, at least fifty people wrote in asking, "What happened to the eagle over the fireplace?" I turned the letters over to Harriet. I wonder if she ever answered them?

We filmed the show in December of 1971. It was truly like old home week. We gathered around all the familiar faces who were available, and those who weren't stopped by to say hello.

We realized, of course, that the success or failure of the show could well depend upon selecting just the right girls to play the roles of the two co-eds. We interviewed more than a hundred young actresses and then narrowed it done to twelve --six white girls and six black girls, whom we screen-tested. We finally decided on Brenda Skyes and Susan Sennett, both of whom proved to be tremendously talented and a delight to work with. Susie has a rare, pixyish comedic quality with a great face and figure, and Brenda has great charm and warmth and is very beautiful.

There was one other character in the script, a nosey neighbor, who was played by our old friend Parley Baer. Parley gave his usual fine performance--but he thew our entire shooting schedule off balance by completing his complicated scene in one take!

NBC announced its fall schedule on March 30 and we weren't on it. It came as somewhat of a surprise, since there had been all sorts of rumors flying around. We had heard that we were on the schedule, then off it, and then back on again.

When I heard the news, I was lying in the sun on the front deck of our beach house at Laguna. It was one of those beautiful days that make you glad to be alive, and I must say that my reaction, which I had thought would be one of great disappointment, proved to be disappointing from an ego stanpoint but also to contain a certain measure of relief--relief that we wouldn't be jumping into the rat race again and facing those terrible pressures week after week.

NBC ran the show in September and it received excellent ratings, fine reviews, and more mail than we had received on any other show that we had ever done.

David Kaufman in Daily Variety started his most flattering review with, "An unsold pilot starring Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, 'Ozzie Girls,' was deserving of a better fate," and closed by saying, "This pilot should have sold."

Lately there has been a renewed interest in the show on the part of one of the other networks. I asked Harriet how she felt about it and she said, "I don't know. What do you think?" and I said, "I don't know. What do you think?" So who knows--maybe by the time you read this, we'll be back visiting you on television every week.

-- An excerpt from the book, Ozzie by Ozzie Nelson. Published in 1973.

Gidget thanks for this great article. Unf I've never seen Ozzie's Girls, but I think I'm going to take a trip to the Paley Center (formerly Museum of Radio and Televison) and see if they have it.

You're welcome Rich! :wave: I've never seen it either! I wish I could, it sounds like a fun show based on the descriptions here.

According to the book TV Guide Guide to TV: "David Nelson produced
the series, which lasted less than a year." I remember watching it a few times. David Doyle (later of Charlie's Angels) had a recurring role, as I recall.

I wonder if David Nelson owns the masters to the series. He could easily authorize a DVD set--since there is virtually no way this one will EVER be reran anywhere.

Someone commented at YouTube, that Ozzie's Girls was the first show to have a black person living with a white person. Is this true?

I noticed in watching a portion at the website that shall remain nameless, that they kept the same music cues and the same laughtrack!! :lol:

Probably. The Jeffersons, which had an interracial couple, didn't begin
until two years later. Diff'rent Strokes and Webster came along
five and ten years later, respectively. There was also the short-lived show
The Cop and the Kid, starring Charles Durning as a white cop who
became the guardian of a streetwise black orphan. which began the same
year as The Jeffersons. Ozzie's Girls preceeded all of them, so I
guess Ozzie Nelson was ahead of his time in this case.

Edited. Did not know it was against the rules to post links to that site. Sorry.

I posted those links snorlaxnut and jude86 said it was against the rules or something.

hello all,

there all actually 5 episodes of "Ozzie's Girls" floating around that are actually quite common in the serious collectors circuit, I have them unfortuantely 3 or so of the 5 are in black and white, but I do have a really nice color example which also has a different opening than the rest of the series...did they change opens in mid season?, hard to know since not much history re episode guides exsist for the series, etc.

I posted those links snorlaxnut and jude86 said it was against the rules or something.


Well, I'm just passing on helpful information. I didn't make the rules. TJ went on the Facts of Life board and sternly chatised those who were posting Ewe-Toob links to FOL episodes. Having complete FOL episodes on there is a copyright violation and we don't need anyone complaining about SO violating copyrights and shutting the site down. I wasn't trying to be mean or anything. :)

I remember this show. It seems like it ran on Saturdays, late afternoon, kinda erraticly, being preempted by ball games and stuff.

Seems like it had a shot on video look, like Sanford and Archie Bunker. Seems like the music had a synthesizer kind of sound; it was pretty different from the big band kind of music on the earlier show.

Re The Eagle: I recall Oz, maybe in the first episode I saw, claiming that maybe it flew away one night, and that's why it wasn't there.

I remember the whole thing had a really laid back approach, and looking back, I think they did use the same laugh track as on the "Adventures" show.

The episode that sticks in my mind, is one where one of the girls is bringing home to visit a guy from Nigeria. So Ozzie, trying to be a good guy, reads up on Nigeria, and tries to engage the guy on the subject, but it goes nowhere, because he turns out to be from Nigeria, Indiana! Everyone had a good laugh about it, eventually, and Ozzie learns not to assume too much about people.

Ok, maybe it's not an epic, but I liked it; I was about 10 at the time. I really liked Ozzie and Harriet; they just seemed so friendly, amusing, and laid back; they were just the kinds of people you wanted to have for neighbors, or friends.

Anyway, that's what I recall about Ozzie's Girls. After 35 years or so, I could easily have something wrong. But, you get what you pay for, right? Heh...

Obob

I saw the pilot episode of Ozzie's Girls and one thing bugged the heck out of me!

Parley Baer had a brief appearance as a friend of Oz's that he meets in a parking lot. Only thing is that he isn't Darby! He's someone else.

I just didn't understand why they couldn't have said it was Darby. Why make him some random old friend we never heard of before. For what like 10 years we knew him as Oz's pal Darb, why change? It'd be like Skip Young having come on as someone besides Wally.

Other than that, I enjoyed it.

I can't say I never watched the show when it aired, because in my baby book, my mother listed it as one of my favorite shows, even though I was only 1 or 2 when it aired. LOL So let's say I have no conscious recollection of watching it.

Funny to how that is listed in my baby book, and about 14 years later, I would discover O&H in reruns and fall in love with it.

I probably saw it, but don't remember it at all.

I saw the pilot episode of Ozzie's Girls and one thing bugged the heck out of me!

Parley Baer had a brief appearance as a friend of Oz's that he meets in a parking lot. Only thing is that he isn't Darby! He's someone else.

I just didn't understand why they couldn't have said it was Darby. Why make him some random old friend we never heard of before. For what like 10 years we knew him as Oz's pal Darb, why change? It'd be like Skip Young having come on as someone besides Wally.



The strangest occurence relating to the same subject happened on the short lived "New Andy Griffith Show" which I have from 1971.....Andy played another character who was married with a son, but his friends were George Lindsey, Don Knotts, and the actor who portrayed Emmett Clark, they all acted and dressed like their Mayberry characters but were not named, Goober might have been, its been a long time since I watched it...the absolutely oddest piece of television history ever!

One episode I remember is about Ozzie not being able to fit into his tuxedo and the girls altering it so he could fit into it. Ozzie was quite tired at the end of the season's shooting and that was an indication that he was very ill.

I was able to find the episode list for Ozzie's Girls. This may bring back some memories:

Episode List

Season: 1

No. Episode Air Date Prod # Reviews Score
1 Pilot 1/1/2008 Reviews 0.00
2 The Girl in the Red and White T-Shirt 0/0/0 Reviews 0.00
3 Life's Little Hangups 0/0/0 Reviews 0.00
4 Silver Threads Among the Swingers 0/0/0 Reviews 0.00
5 Harriet Leaves Home 0/0/0 Reviews 0.00
6 The Computer Brings in Jamie 0/0/0 Reviews 0.00
7 The Way to a Girl's Heart 0/0/0 Reviews 0.00
8 Stuff is for Using 0/0/0 Reviews 0.00
9 A Wedding to Remember 0/0/0 Reviews 0.00
10 Tuxedo Pants 0/0/0 Reviews 0.00
11 Brenda's Term Paper 0/0/0 Reviews 0.00
12 Best Laid Plans 0/0/0 Reviews 0.00
13 The Dropout 0/0/0 Reviews 0.00
14 The Roar of Silence 0/0/0 Reviews 0.00
15 The Thing's a Play 0/0/0 Reviews 0.00
16 Sorry, Right Number 1/6/1974 Reviews 0.00
17 Broken Bric-a-Brac 0/0/0 Reviews 0.00
18 I'm Harriet, Don't Fly Me 1/20/1974 Reviews 0.00
19 The Man from C.H.A.D. 0/0/0 Reviews 0.00
20 Ozzie Forgets to Remember 0/0/0 Reviews 0.00
21 Sensitivity 1/1/2008 Reviews 0.00
22 Voices in the Night 0/0/0 Reviews 0.00
23 The Murder-Mystery Mystery 0/0/0 Reviews 0.00
24 The Candidate

Didn't one of the girls get switched out in the middle of the run?

Only saw the pilot on You Tube. But from what I've gathered it wasn't O&H that's for sure. But I'd still like to have a sampling even if O.G.'s didn't have a lot of fizz.

I remember reading critics reviews and they were not kind. One critic said "Did Ozzie and Harriet have to resort to doing this kind of program to get back on TV?"

Yes, it may not have been great like Adv. of O&H but it was great seeing them back on TV - so as far as I'm concerned - phooey on the critics!!

I find that the critics are often wrong! They are most of the time with movies
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and Technically, Ozzie's Girls is simply a fifteenth season!

From watching the 5 episodes I have, I also watched it originally every Sunday or was it Saturday? night at 7PM on WABC/NY...anyway...the series is fun because we are again with our favorite "Mom & Dad" 7 or so years later....but the program sorely missed the boys, it centered too much on the girls (who were dreadful actresses and far from beautiful as I have read elsewhere, one looked like a cross between Cousin Oliver (from the Brady Bunch) & John Denver!.....hardly eye candy...lol......also Ozzie tried to 70's up the show too much, like suggestions he subscribed to Playboy. The endings also always had the cast come out and take a bow as if they were in a football game...some very painful but historic moments. Believe me I'm lobbying for a DVD release and have made a few calls, otherwise I'm seriously thinking of trying to start a DVD company of my own which would specialize in these type of forever forgotten series....Ozzie Girl's and The New Andy Griffith Show would be first on my release list, both have build-in audiences and were never broadcast more than their original airings.

Well, if you ever do, TeeVee, you know you would have an already loyal clientele over here!

Oh TeeVeeCloset, I hope you do! I bet thre'd be a good market for it. And if you do start a DVD company would you consider sets for The Patty Duke Show? Another show I adore in additon to the beloved Adv of O&H.

Well, another poster here is making his own sets of Patty Duke since MeTV/Mee Too in Chicago has been running them and unedited! We may be able later to make a deal with him, but I'm patient :)

Oh TeeVeeCloset, I hope you do! I bet thre'd be a good market for it. And if you do start a DVD company would you consider sets for The Patty Duke Show? Another show I adore in additon to the beloved Adv of O&H.

Thanks for the support everybody! Shows like "Patty Duke" would be cost prohibited for a start up company, license costs are unbearable and dealing with Sony, etc for properties that are still lucritive also would make it impossible. At The beginning I would still have to deal with the larger companies but I would be licensing shows that literally have never made a dime for them in syndication, the only revenue those type of shows make is an occasion fee for inclusion in documentaries, etc. Hopefully "Ozzie's Girls" is owned by The Nelson estate...I'm looking into it........

Thanks for the support everybody! Shows like "Patty Duke" would be cost prohibited for a start up company, license costs are unbearable and dealing with Sony, etc for properties that are still lucritive also would make it impossible. At The beginning I would still have to deal with the larger companies but I would be licensing shows that literally have never made a dime for them in syndication, the only revenue those type of shows make is an occasion fee for inclusion in documentaries, etc. Hopefully "Ozzie's Girls" is owned by The Nelson estate...I'm looking into it........

Oh, sorry, I wasn't aware of these details. I was just thinking out loud. Oh well, maybe one day. Like Jude86 I'll just be patient.

Found this on Youtube for those of us who haven't seen it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Nn9YvMV3Uw&feature=related


also Ozzie tried to 70's up the show too much,

I know! :lol: Bless his heart! Like that groovin' opening theme! It wasn't a cool :cool: groovy, either, like the O&H theme...no, it's very dated and "early 70's" but at the time, that was hip.

Well, most importantly, anytime I can see our beloved Ozzie and Harriet on anything, I'm watching it!

Mark Harmon's first acting job was on this show.

Goldilocks.... unfortunately, that youtube link was removed. Know of any others?

I knew the girl who played Ozzie's neighbor's daughter. I was 10 at the time, and she went to my school. I'd guess she was about 7ish, and her sister was in my class. She told us that when her character would be sitting at Ozzie's table eating "ice cream", that it was really mashed potatoes!!!

I hate that link was removed and I don't know where there would be any others. I don't think this is officially for sale on DVD anywhere. :(

This renewed interest in asking about Ozzie's Girls got me searching the internet again to see if I could find anything in way of Ozzie's Girls.

Luckily I saw the pilot ofn youtube before it was taken down.

But today I hit some gold!

I found this site http://www.ntvsitcom.net/tv.cfm Nostalgia Tv. They have quite a bit of old anre rare tv shows on there.

They have 3 partial episodes of Ozzie's Girls up. I had fun watching them earlier today.

I also watched an episode of Daddy O starring Don ''Thorny' Defore.
Enjoy! To bad they weren't whole, but a partial episode of something I've never seen and never thought I would is better than nothing.

This renewed interest in asking about Ozzie's Girls got me searching the internet again to see if I could find anything in way of Ozzie's Girls.

Luckily I saw the pilot ofn youtube before it was taken down.

But today I hit some gold!

I found this site http://www.ntvsitcom.net/tv.cfm Nostalgia Tv. They have quite a bit of old anre rare tv shows on there.

They have 3 partial episodes of Ozzie's Girls up. I had fun watching them earlier today.

I also watched an episode of Daddy O starring Don ''Thorny' Defore.
Enjoy! To bad they weren't whole, but a partial episode of something I've never seen and never thought I would is better than nothing.

There are 5 episodes of "Ozzie's Girls" in the collectors circuit, mine are in pretty good quality, most are in B&W though, but I do have one episode with a totally different opening from the series & pilot and in perfect color!....its been awhile since I watched them.....as for "Daddy O" I have that too in perfect quality and in excellent quality, it was never produced as a series because it was so far ahead of its time because it made fun of how fake family sitcoms were and CBS's President Paley didn't like the idea.

There are 5 episodes of "Ozzie's Girls" in the collectors circuit, mine are in pretty good quality, most are in B&W though, but I do have one episode with a totally different opening from the series & pilot and in perfect color!....its been awhile since I watched them.....as for "Daddy O" I have that too in perfect quality and in excellent quality, it was never produced as a series because it was so far ahead of its time because it made fun of how fake family sitcoms were and CBS's President Paley didn't like the idea.

Oh so Daddy O was just a pilot. I didn't know that. No wonder I had never heard of the show before.

I did think it was funny when they were showing the props and how they do the pratfalls.

How and when did you become a collector? And where did you find these old gems ?

Oh so Daddy O was just a pilot. I didn't know that. No wonder I had never heard of the show before.

I did think it was funny when they were showing the props and how they do the pratfalls.

How and when did you become a collector? And where did you find these old gems ?

Thanks for asking, I have worked in the television industry for 30 staight years and have been a television archivist since 1979 when I got my first VCR for $800 and VHS tapes were $20 a piece....lol....since then and being in the TV business I have been able to collect rare gems and some not so rare on many professiona TV station formats such as 3/4 inch and one inch videotape. I have television station masters dating back to the 1950's....I have no formal list, it's all in my head and someday I will watch it all as I actively pursue and enjoy the hobby.....my main interests are sitcoms, game shows, some crime shows and many types of movies, I have extremely eclectic tastes, meaning I enjoy Ma & Pa Kettle movies, as well as Sandra Dee, Debbie Reynolds, Ozzie & Harriet, Sonny & Cher Variety Shows to some oddball one season series like the 80's Ann Jillian sitcom "Jennifer Slept Here" to yes "Saved By the Bell", "Blossom", etc.... thank you again for asking and it was a pleasure to "Meet" you here on the boards.

PS....Yes I actually proudly have resided 5 minutes where Ozzie Nelson spent his childhood for most of my life, his house still stands to this day and "Ozzie Nelson Drive" is about a block away from it! I went to the dedication ceremony in the early 1990's when his brother, Matthew & Gunner attended.

...was produced on videotape for 26 episodes in the 1973-'74 season. After the original pilot aired on NBC in September 1972- and rejected the series for their fall schedule- there was enough interest in it for Ozzie to produce it for first-run syndication. But it wasn't successful enough to warrrant another season...

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...was produced on videotape for 26 episodes in the 1973-'74 season. After the original pilot aired on NBC in September 1972- and rejected the series for their fall schedule- there was enough interest in it for Ozzie to produce it for first-run syndication. But it wasn't successful enough to warrrant another season...

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Plus, sadly, by the time the show finished its one season of production, Ozzie was already ill with the liver cancer that claimed his life in 1975. I read in one of the bios on Rick that one day on the set of Ozzie's Girls, Ozzie was stricken with such horrible pain in his side that he had to be taken to an emergency room; and then later that year he was diagnosed with the cancer.

Plus, sadly, by the time the show finished its one season of production, Ozzie was already ill with the liver cancer that claimed his life in 1975. I read in one of the bios on Rick that one day on the set of Ozzie's Girls, Ozzie was stricken with such horrible pain in his side that he had to be taken to an emergency room; and then later that year he was diagnosed with the cancer.
Such a shame for a guy who always took care of himself - didn't smoke or drink and loved his ice cream. I don't think Harriet or Rick ever got over his death. "Ozzie's Girls" reminds me a bit of "The New Leave it to Beaver", with Wally and the Beav as grown ups. Beaver was divorced with two sons, Wally married Mary Ellen Rogers and had a daughter, Kelly, and a son. Eddie Haskell ran a crooked construction business and subscribed to Playboy. And Mrs. Cleaver still looked lovely carrying a plate of cookies for the boys.

Goldilocks.... unfortunately, that youtube link was removed. Know of any others?

I knew the girl who played Ozzie's neighbor's daughter. I was 10 at the time, and she went to my school. I'd guess she was about 7ish, and her sister was in my class. She told us that when her character would be sitting at Ozzie's table eating "ice cream", that it was really mashed potatoes!!!


Yipee! :dance: Just ran across this today. There's 3 episodes (other than the pilot.)

http://www.ntvsitcom.net/tv.cfm

I watched them again today, and I couldn't help but notice how Ozzie seemed to have lost quite a bit of weight from when the series went off the air in '66 til these episodes in '72. I know it's 6 years, and he was in his late 60's but Harriet looked and sounded exactly the same as she did in 1966. Ozzie's voice also didn't seem quite as strong in these episodes. It was all a little bitter sweet as I know Ozzie was having health issues around this time. :(

[QUOTE=Dan Tullis;4358044]Such a shame for a guy who always took care of himself - didn't smoke or drink and loved his ice cream. I don't think Harriet or Rick ever got over his death. "Ozzie's Girls" reminds me a bit of "The New Leave it to Beaver", with Wally and the Beav as grown ups. Beaver was divorced with two sons, Wally married Mary Ellen Rogers and had a daughter, Kelly, and a son. Eddie Haskell ran a crooked construction business and subscribed to Playboy. And Mrs. Cleaver still looked lovely carrying a plate of cookies for the boys.[/QUOTe

I am sure it hit David hard as well.

Yes, it may not have been great like Adv. of O&H but it was great seeing them back on TV - so as far as I'm concerned - phooey on the critics!!

I saw 1 episode, it was OK on Youtube. Never was a big Ozzie and Harriet fan anyway.

I remember watching this show when it was first on. I remember really only 2 things about the show today, 1 it was in color, so that impressed me and 2 it had some really hot girls in it. I remember also enjoying the show and was a bit sorry it was over so fast. I think it was one of those 7:30 pm shows that would be on before the network shows started, a syndicated thing like Match Game PM was on at 7:30 pm.

I watched most if not all of the episodes on YouTube some years back. It was okay.

I've seen a few episodes--it's been years--they're on some cheap, unofficial DVD. Some of the episodes are in color on it, some not.