Was The Patty Duke Similar to the Walt Disney movie the parent trap staring Haley Mills, in other words when Disney did the movie was iyt something like the patty duke show

I never thought so.

....and I woiuldn't say that Sidney Sheldon's previous attempt at creating a "identical twin" idea- for a projected Ginger Rogers TV sitcom in 1961- was similar. He was supposed to create an idea for a Patty Duke series after Peter Lawford's production company and United Artists had sold ABC the idea of a weekly series on Patty's name alone. Sidney initially didn't want to write for a weekly TV show, but changed his mind after meeting her, and then having dinner with her and his family. He decided she'd play identical twin sisters...but producer William Asher [who claimed a co-creator's credit] insisted they be cousins instead (perhaps he was aware of how close the "twin sisters" idea seemed to "The Parent Trap", and didn't want to take any chances in stirring up any legal obstacles in producing the show).

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I never thought so.



Me either

"The Parent Trap", released in 1961, had twin sisters who were working to reunite their divorced parents. "The Patty Duke Show" family was the archetypal husband-wife-daughter-son nuclear family circa 1963, but Martin Lane had an identical brother with a daughter who looked much like Patty, whom he sent to Brooklyn Heights for a more stable lifestyle--but as we remember, they were "one pair of matching bookends, different as night and day."

Speaking of William Asher, you may recall that he worked similar look-alike cousin magic on "Bewitched." Serena, in her earliest years, was a mod blonde hippie who looked like a psychedelic Samantha (think "Hippie, Hippie, Hooray!" and "The Iffin Song"), but in later years, she became a sultry-voiced. kooky brunette so they became less similar than Hayley Mills' characters, much less Patty and Cathy Lane.

....and I woiuldn't say that Sidney Sheldon's previous attempt at creating a "identical twin" idea- for a projected Ginger Rogers TV sitcom in 1961- was similar. He was supposed to create an idea for a Patty Duke series after Peter Lawford's production company and United Artists had sold ABC the idea of a weekly series on Patty's name alone. Sidney initially didn't want to write for a weekly TV show, but changed his mind after meeting her, and then having dinner with her and his family. He decided she'd play identical twin sisters...but producer William Asher [who claimed a co-creator's credit] insisted they be cousins instead (perhaps he was aware of how close the "twin sisters" idea seemed to "The Parent Trap", and didn't want to take any chances in stirring up any legal obstacles in producing the show).

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The talent of Patty Duke making Cathy/Patty Lane characters so different from each other in looks & personality was mind-boggling. Back then I always thought there were two actresses playing those roles.

The talent of Patty Duke making Cathy/Patty Lane characters so different from each other in looks & personality was mind-boggling. Back then I always thought there were two actresses playing those roles.



When I first saw this show, I thought the same thing.

When I first saw this show, I thought the same thing.

:lol: I was the Nick @ Nite generation of catching this show on cable and I find it now amusing to be honest.