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Father's Private Life

  • Episode aired Sep 7, 1955
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  • 30m
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Robert Young and Jane Wyatt in Father's Private Life (1955)
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Jim thinks the children ask him to solve their problems too much. He decides they need to start finding their own solutions.Jim thinks the children ask him to solve their problems too much. He decides they need to start finding their own solutions.Jim thinks the children ask him to solve their problems too much. He decides they need to start finding their own solutions.

  • Director
    • William D. Russell
  • Writers
    • Ed James
    • Roswell Rogers
  • Stars
    • Robert Young
    • Jane Wyatt
    • Elinor Donahue
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    • Director
      • William D. Russell
    • Writers
      • Ed James
      • Roswell Rogers
    • Stars
      • Robert Young
      • Jane Wyatt
      • Elinor Donahue
    • 1User review
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    Robert Young
    Robert Young
    • Jim Anderson
    Jane Wyatt
    Jane Wyatt
    • Margaret Anderson
    Elinor Donahue
    Elinor Donahue
    • Betty Anderson
    Billy Gray
    Billy Gray
    • Bud Anderson
    Lauren Chapin
    Lauren Chapin
    • Kathy Anderson
    Tina Thompson
    • Patty
    • Director
      • William D. Russell
    • Writers
      • Ed James
      • Roswell Rogers
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    Jimmy_the_Gent4

    Kathy's Friend Floyd

    Jim is tired of dealing with the kids' problems, Margaret tells them to leave him alone.

    Lots of laughs in this one. Jim tries to work on his Hi-Fi set but everybody looks over his shoulder. Then Kathy comes in with big cardboard cut out of a Zulu warrior, she names him Floyd. She doesn't tell anyone she and her friend Patty took it from the movie theater. Patty worries Kathy when she says that people think they are juvenile "delicatessens". Bud tries to help without snitching but Father soon finds out.

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    • Trivia
      Patty gets the legal term half right for the principle that proof must exist that a law has been broken before someone can be tried for the crime. She calls it 'corpus delicatessen'. The correct expression is 'corpus delicti'.
    • Connections
      References Dragnet (1951)

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      • September 7, 1955 (United States)
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      • English
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      • Rodney-Young Productions
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      • 30m
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      • Black and White
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      • 1.33 : 1

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