Perhaps one of the most prominent examples of a classic TV show with a regular child character is The Munsters with "Eddie Munster" (Butch Patrick).

Another is Hazel with "Harold (Bobby Buntrock).

And Maude is another with "Patrick" (Brian Morrison/ Kraig Metzinger).

Alice with "Tommy" (Philip McKeon).

If anyone can think of others please post.

However when a TV show has one child actor while the rest of the cast are adults, and the TV show has become a classic and iconic and made it into trivia history, the last one who can tell about being a member of the cast is the youngest actor. Presumably so.
With The Munsters, Butch Patrick and Pat Priest are the the last remaining cast members but Butch Patrick's character "Eddie" was a more prominent character in the series than was Pat Priest's "Marilyn."

"The Andy Griffith Show" comes to mind. as does "All in the Family" though Gloria was, I believe, 21 when the show started.

This song stuck in my ears for years. I miss theme songs in shows.

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Also just one child actor in "Angie". Another song that stays with you.:wave:

I want to be Angie! She stole my life! :lol:

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Richie Petrie(Larry Mathews) Dick Van Dyke Show, Mark McCain(Johnny Crawford) The Rifleman.

David Brookes from The Ropers.

Maybe Circus Boy? Would that count?

The Courtship of Eddie's Father

Mayberry R.F.D.

Bachelor Father

The Dennis O'Keefe Show

Julia had one child although there was another kid on the show.
Little Ricky😊

Correction: the kid on Maude was named Philip.

Only kids: Lionel on The Jeffersons, Baby Stephanie on Newhart, Tiffany Thelma on Mama's Family (only child of Vint and Naomi)

This song stuck in my ears for years. I miss theme songs in shows.

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Also just one child actor in "Angie". Another song that stays with you.:wave:

I want to be Angie! She stole my life! :lol:

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where are they now?

The Courtship of Eddie's Father

Mayberry R.F.D.

Bachelor Father

The Dennis O'Keefe Show

You are right. How could I have forgotten "The Courtship Of Eddie's Father"?
I watched that as a kid. I am not sure if Brandon Cruz is the only living cast member of that show. I am not sure if "Ms Livingston" is still alive or if Eddie's "uncle" is still alive ( the actors who played those characters. I can't recall their names).

Also The Rifleman ( not a sitcom).



Didn't "Mayberry R.F.D. " have two kids in the cast? I might not remember exactly , but I recall an episode (I don't recall any of the characters' names) in which one boy kept arguing with another boy who was his neighbor, and the grownups (the male grownups) decided to take the boys out on an outing to learn to get along and the adults thought that the boys would watch the grown men cooperate in pitching a tent, starting a fire, fishing or finding food, and other things that you do in a camping trip to learn to survive, but the grown men started arguing with each other about how to do things, and who had which responsibilities, etc,. So what eventually happened is that the two boys did start talking to each other more amicably on their own and they did stop arguing and got to like each other but not because the grown men were an example to them, and when the group of men and the two boys came back home from the camping trip , the boys were friends but the grown men were arguing with each other like the two boys had been doing before the camping trip.

Anyone recall this episode? I might not have described the elements of the plot precisely but in general that is how the storyline went.

Mork & Mindy

This song stuck in my ears for years. I miss theme songs in shows.

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Also just one child actor in "Angie". Another song that stays with you.:wave:

I want to be Angie! She stole my life! :lol:

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These look like shows of long ago, but they could not have been from the 1960s or 1970s.
I have mentioned it before in different threads, but I mostly stopped watching TV after the 1970s, maybe very early 1980s , and I am not so familiar with the sitcoms or regular TV shows of the 1980s onward.
Strictly from looking at this video of the beginning credits and theme song, "Angie" does seem like it is trying to copy from "Alice" and "Bridget Loves Bernie" (I did not usually watch "Bridget Loves Bernie" either) and also copy a bit from "One Day At A Time."
But I guess practically all sitcoms, especially the ones depicting families with kids or teens tend to be rehashes of similar shows before it.

The Love Boat, with Vicki.

Correction: the kid on Maude was named Philip.

Only kids: Lionel on The Jeffersons, Baby Stephanie on Newhart, Tiffany Thelma on Mama's Family (only child of Vint and Naomi)


I don't mind a deviation from the actual topic. It is interesting to know about which TV families depicted only-children adult or not, but originally I meant
single children as children or teens.

Actually Maude herself had only one child, a daughter who was grown and had an only child of her own. (I don't think Maude had other children).

These look like shows of long ago, but they could not have been from the 1960s or 1970s.
I have mentioned it before in different threads, but I mostly stopped watching TV after the 1970s, maybe very early 1980s , and I am not so familiar with the sitcoms or regular TV shows of the 1980s onward.
Strictly from looking at this video of the beginning credits and theme song, "Angie" does seem like it is trying to copy from "Alice" and "Bridget Loves Bernie" (I did not usually watch "Bridget Loves Bernie" either) and also copy a bit from "One Day At A Time."
But I guess practically all sitcoms, especially the ones depicting families with kids or teens tend to be rehashes of similar shows before it.

Both shows were indeed from the seventies. :wave:

Both shows were indeed from the seventies. :wave:



It makes me realize that I was not aware of a lot of shows that were on at that time.
No wonder the video looks vintage like.

Both shows were indeed from the seventies. :wave:

I'm a Big Girl Now wasn't.

Dennis the Menace.

I'm a Big Girl Now wasn't.

You are correct, I just looked it up. :wave:

But it had that feel to it for me having been produced so early in the eighties.

Not sitcoms, but:

Land Of The Giants
Voyagers
Battlestar Galactica (original)

Not sitcoms, but:

Land Of The Giants
Voyagers
Battlestar Galactica (original)
I haven't seen Battlestar Galactica. Voyagers, is that the Meeno Peluco and Jon Eric Hexum show? As for Land of the Giants, do we know that Barry was an only child. Some of the show really aren't family, mother father type shows.

Throb with Diana Canova

court ship of eddies father
my two dads