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The Baby Affair

  • Episode aired Nov 8, 1961
  • 30m
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Marion Ross, Leo Penn, and Vickie Vierra in The Baby Affair (1961)
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Mrs G discovers that when it comes to rearing children, the answers are not always found in a book.Mrs G discovers that when it comes to rearing children, the answers are not always found in a book.Mrs G discovers that when it comes to rearing children, the answers are not always found in a book.

  • Director
    • Richard Kinon
  • Writers
    • Cherney Berg
    • Howard Merrill
  • Stars
    • Gertrude Berg
    • Cedric Hardwicke
    • Mary Wickes
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.2/10
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    • Director
      • Richard Kinon
    • Writers
      • Cherney Berg
      • Howard Merrill
    • Stars
      • Gertrude Berg
      • Cedric Hardwicke
      • Mary Wickes
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    Gertrude Berg
    Gertrude Berg
    • Sarah Green
    Cedric Hardwicke
    Cedric Hardwicke
    • Professor Crayton
    Mary Wickes
    Mary Wickes
    • Maxfield
    Marion Ross
    Marion Ross
    • Susan
    Paul Smith
    Paul Smith
    • George Howell
    Aneta Corsaut
    Aneta Corsaut
    • Irma Howell
    Leo Penn
    • Jerry
    Mae Questel
    Mae Questel
    • Jenny
    Marc Goldstrom
    • Joey
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    Vickie Vierra
    • Annie
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      • Richard Kinon
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      • Howard Merrill
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    3Prismark10

    The Baby Affair

    With a grandson who is about two years old. Mrs Green wants to drop sociology and take up psychology instead.

    Professor Crayton is having none of that as the term has started and it is too late to switch courses.

    Mrs Green has read books on child rearing and taken up with new fangled psychological ideas. No dummy for the baby is the latest school of thought.

    Her daughter Susan is not enamoured with her mother's views on raising a child. Especially when it comes to chastising a difficult child.

    Maybe Mrs Green will learn a lesson that there is still some mileage in the tried and trusted ways.

    This is the first episode I have caught and even for its time, it really is not even mildly funny. Just too cosy and formularised.
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    "Child is father of the man"

    Mrs. G asks Professor Cryaton if she can switch her course from sociology to psychology after becoming fascinated reading a book on child psychology. She wants to better understand her two-year-old grandchild, but the professor says it's too in the semester to change. Mrs. G is lent more child psychology books from new parents George and Irma upstairs. When she visits her granddaughter Mrs. G comes at odds with Suzy, Jerry, and Jerry's mother Jenny (Mae Questel, the unforgettable elderly, ditzy Aunt Bethany in "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" and voice of Betty Boop) over child rearing. Jenny: "I don't have to read Freud to life a spoon of spinach." It culminates in an argument between Jerry and Suzy in which Suzy leaves. Mrs. G still doesn't relent in analyzing those around her, but begins questioning her actions.

    While the comedy is still light, it's perhaps a bit more than the other early episodes to this point. The gooey, sentimental warmth isn't here, but in it's place is what I found to be an unlikable turn by Mrs. G's character. While Shirley Booth's "Hazel" showed you can have a successful series around a budding-in wisecracker, here the character is developed without dramatic warmth or comedic flair; it just kind of plods along.

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      Closing credits: The characters and events depicted in this photoplay are fictional. Any similarity to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

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    • Release date
      • November 8, 1961 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Filming locations
      • Republic Studios - 4024 Radford Avenue, North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA(Studio)
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      • Four Star Productions
      • Jahfa
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      • 30m
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      • Black and White
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      • 1.33 : 1

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