Celebrations should be thrown at local `shake shops’ with rock ‘n roll blasting on the juke box for the first-ever DVD release of The Patty Duke Indicate!
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The series was one of the best and most beloved Classic TV comedies from the 1960’s. Roar!Factory is continuing its string of spacious Classic TV releases (including Father Knows Best, My Three Sons and The Donna Reed Note) by presenting the complete first season of this iconic series on DVD for the first time.
The Patty Duke Exhibit aired on ABC beginning Sept. 18, 1963. It lasted 105 episodes spanning three seasons - all in glowing shadowy and white!
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One year before, Ms. Duke had won an Academy Award® for her portrayal of the blind, deaf and calm Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker (at the time, she was the youngest person to have won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress) . As a result, she was chosen for her fill self-titled vehicle, which featured her in not one, but two prominent roles.
The series followed Patty Lane (Ms. Duke), a `normal’ 60’s teenager living in the Brooklyn Heights part of Original York City, who loves boys, ice cream, and sleep-overs. Her father is the managing editor of the Unique York Myth. In the unaired Pilot, her “identical cousin” Cathy Lane (also portrayed by Duke), whose father also works for the Memoir as a foreign correspondent, arrives in the U.S. from Scotland to live with Patty’s family and wait on secondary school.
The series was extremely approved with both teens and their parents, turning Ms. Duke into an early teenaged idol.
As an adult, Ms. Duke has documented her long struggle with mental illness. The quick-witted star sadly disclosed that she also suffered abuse during the years this series was produced. As a result, there is a ample darkness beneath the fictitious veneer of these sweetly, innocent episodes. It is a upright testament to her talent and very hard work that none of that was conveyed on shroud. In my notion, this series should tranquil be enjoyed to honor her performances, for which Ms. Duke rightly received an Emmy nomination. (She is also the frail wife of fantastic actor John Astin. The couple’s son, Sean Astin, is also an actor.)
All 36 half-hour episodes and the unaired pilot are expected to be included in this DVD boxed position, presented on six discs (to provide background material as needed, clips from the Pilot had been utilized through “flash-back” scenes describing Cathy’s arrival in the U.S.) .
Special features are expected to include interviews with cast members, plus a featurette on the series. The exhibit was created by William Asher, who also created and produced Bewitched; and Sidney Sheldon, who created a host of thrillers but also I Dream of Jeannie in the 1960’s and Hart to Hart in the 1990’s.
In addition to Ms. Duke, the core cast included William Schallert, who played Patty’s father, Martin Lane; Jean Byron as Patty’s mother, Natalie Lane; Paul O’Keefe portrayed Patty’s sister, Ross Lane; and Eddie Applegate, who portrayed Patty’s boyfriend, Richard Harrison in 70 episodes.
Schallert has one of the longest careers in TV and also film, and remains active in his 80’s. (Incredibly, there was almost no hit TV expose - in all genres - from the 60s through the 80s that he did not appear.)
The dual role played by Ms. Duke presented special effects challenges for the low-tech 60’s, as they were rarely ever former in sitcoms of the day. (A VERY considerable exception was the daytime gothic soap opera, Unlit Shadows.)
In each episode of this series, Ms. Duke appeared as both characters in the same frame through the expend of a split mask conclude. To complement these effects, child actress Rita McLaughlin was old-fashioned as Ms. Duke’s double (almost always seen only from tedious) .
First Season episodes are: The Pilot; The French Teacher; The Genius; The Elopement; House Guest; The Birds and the Bees Bit; The Slumber Party; The Babysitters; The Conquering Hero; The President; Double Date; The Actress; How to Be Popular; The Song Writers; The Princess Cathy; Christmas Present; Auld Lang Syne; Horoscope; The Tycoons; Author! Author!; The Continental; Let ‘Em Eat Cake; Going Steady; Are Mothers People? ; The Con Artist; The Perfect Teenager; Chip Off the Customary Block; The Wedding Anniversary Caper; Pen Pals; A Diminutive Case of Disaster; The Friendship Bit; Patty, the Foster Mother; Fall Out; Leave it to Patty; The Minute Dictator; The Working Girl; and The Cousins.
“Cousins,” was the unforgettable series theme. The music was aloof by Sid Ramin, while the lyrics that stayed in your head like a causality loop, was written by Robert Wells. For those not primitive enough to have the song tranquil playing in their archaic noggins, here it is:
Meet Cathy, who’s lived most everywhere,
From Zanzibar to Barclay Square.
But Patty’s only seen the sights
A girl can explore from Brooklyn Heights–
What a crazy pair!
But they’re cousins,
Identical cousins all the plan.
One pair of matching bookends,
Different as night and day.
Where Cathy adores a minuet,
The Ballet Ruses, and crepe Suzette,
Our Patty loves to rock and roll,
A hot dog makes her lose control–
What a wild duet!
Still, they’re cousins,
Identical cousins and you’ll get,
They laugh alike, they stir alike,
At times they even talk alike–
You can lose your mind,
When cousins - are two of a kind!
Here’s hoping the remaining two seasons are swiftly released.
What an improbable year 2009 has been for putting THE BEST 1960’s television shows on dvd sets, and now added to this list FINALLY is “The Patty Duke Present”! Previously this year, Weep!Factory released “Peyton Spot” and “Room 222″, and the quality of the film on these two sets is like night and day. I contacted Sob! to earn out if this “Patty Duke Demonstrate” dvd status will be beautifully restored and well-kept like “Peyton Dwelling” or if it will be fuzzy and grainy like “Room 222″. Bellow! said they are putting out a wonderful print of “The Patty Duke Demonstrate”, and I hope “first-rate” means really splendid like in Peyton Region well-behaved! They would not be more specific about the quality, so we will watch when it’s released on September 29, 2009.
“The Patty Duke Exhibit” was tailor made for oscar-winning Patty Duke to play two teenage identical cousins going through High School together in Brooklyn Heights, Novel York. Patty Duke plays Patty Lane, who lives with her newspaper editor father, Martin Lane (William Schallert), her mother Natalie Lane (Jean Byron) and her younger brother Ross Lane (Paul O’Keefe) . Patty has a loyal boyfriend Richard Harrison (Eddie Applegate) . Patty’s father Martin, has a brother Kenneth Lane, who is a globe-trotting journalist, who happens to have a daughter named Cathy Lane (Patty Duke) who not only looks exactly like Patty, but is Patty’s true age. Cathy comes from Scotland to live with her Uncle Martin’s family in Brooklyn Heights, Current York. Even though Cathy and Patty spy alike, sophisticated Cathy is nothing like her cousin Patty, who is the typical American teenager in 1963.
“The Patty Duke Explain” ran for only 3 seasons from 1963 to 1966. The reveal featured some stout guest stars over these years, some of my favorites being Frankie Avalon (in this first season), Chad and Jeremy, Sammy Davis Jr., Sal Mineo, Robert Goulet, Troy Donahue and Paul Lynde (also in this first season) . Patty Duke played both cousins Patty and Cathy Lane and the technology passe for Patty Duke to play 2 people on the veil at the same time, was quite broken-down in 1963. They would shoot in split cloak when the cousins were together facing the camera, and you can peek the “line” where the two films are spliced together in almost every shot like this. A double was worn when the cousins were talking face to face, so you would leer Patty Duke’s face and the double’s encourage of her head. In a few of these first seasons episodes, the face of the double was accidentally briefly glimpsed! Martin Lane, Patty’s father played by William Schallert, was such a well liked tv father, he was voted #39 in TV Guide’s 50 Greatest Dad’s of All Time. The show’s unaired Pilot premiered in 1963 and was situation in San Francisco, instead of Brooklyn Heights, Original York, and father Martin Lane and brother Ross Lane were played by different actors. In this unaired pilot, Notice Miller played Martin and Charles Herbert played Ross. Sadly, even though Wail!Factory advertised everywhere that this first season would include the rare Pilot, they did not include it, and I hope this was a unpleasant oversight and that they preserve to their word and include it in Season 2!
Here are the First Season’s Pilot and 36 Episodes:
0. (1963) PILOT-Cathy moves in with her Uncle’s family.
1. (9-18-1963) THE FRENCH TEACHER-Patty has a teacher crush.
2. (9-25-1963) THE GENIUS-Patty alters a test (Paul Lynde guest stars) .
3. (10-2-1963) THE ELOPEMENT-Martin thinks Patty is marrying Richard.
4. (10-9-1963) THE HOUSE GUEST-Aunt Pauline’s visit bothers Cathy.
5. (10-16-1963) THE BIRDS AND THE BEES BIT-Ross gets a girl’s invitation.
6. (10-23-1963) THE SLUMBER PARTY-Spy Ross tapes and blackmails Patty.
7. (10-30-1963) THE BABYSITTERS-Patty babysits to invent money.
8. (11-6-1963) THE CONQUERING HERO-Cathy tutors a basketball player (Charles Nelson Reilly guest stars) .
9. (11-13-1963) THE PRESIDENT-Patty and Cathy compete for President.
10.(11-20-1963) DOUBLE DATE-Patty doubles for Cathy (Margaret Hamilton guest stars) .
11.(11-27-1963) THE ACTRESS-Patty and Cathy both want to be Cleopatra.
12.(12-4-1963) HOW TO BE POPULAR-Cathy doesn’t want to be a wallflower (Frankie Avalon guest stars) .
13.(12-11-1963) THE SONGWRITERS-Patty plagiarizes a poem to Richard (Jimmy Dean guest stars) .
14.(12-18-1963) THE PRINCESS CATHY-Cathy gets a proposal.
15.(12-25-1963) THE CHRISTMAS PRESENT-Patty has a extraordinary surprise.
16.(1-1-1964) AULD LANG SYNE-Cathy’s father Kenneth Lane gets fired.
17.(1-8-1964) HOROSCOPE-Patty and Cathy gain double money in astrology.
18.(1-15-1964) THE TYCOONS-Patty and Cathy become dress makers.
19.(1-22-1964) AUTHOR!AUTHOR!-Patty gets a book published.
20.(1-29-1964) THE CONTINENTAL-Martin gets transferred to Paris.
21.(2-5-1964) LET ‘EM EAT CAKE-Patty and Cathy re-bake Natalie’s contest cake which they ate (Margaret Hamilton guest stars) .
22.(2-12-1964) GOING STEADY-Patty accepts Richard’s ring to go precise.
23.(2-19-1964) ARE MOTHER’S PEOPLE? -Natalie feels unappreciated.
24.(2-26-1964) THE CON ARTIST-Cathy purchases a vacuum cleaner (Estelle Parsons guest stars) .
25.(3-4-1964) THE PERFECT TEENAGER-Patty takes a modeling class (Kaye Ballard guest stars) .
26.(3-11-1964) CHIP OFF THE Traditional BLOCK-Patty’s editor job turns tabloid.
27.(3-18-1964) THE WEDDING ANNIVERSARY CAPER-Ross enters Patty in a Fair Teens Contest in order to score a prize for their parents anniversary.
28.(3-25-1964) PEN PALS-Patty’s penpal is trustworthy to Richard.
29.(4-1-1964) THE FRIENDSHIP BIT-Patty may be jealous of Cathy.
30.(4-8-1964) A Limited CASE OF DISASTER-Cathy borrows Patty’s dress.
31.(4-15-1964) PATTY,THE FOSTER MOTHER-Patty adopts a Korean boy.
32.(4-22-1964) THE Tumble OUT-Patty drops “dropout” Richard.
33.(4-29-1964) LEAVE IT TO PATTY-Patty poses as Cathy to earn Cathy’s pop star friend to invent at their dance.
34.(5-6-1964) THE Cramped DICTATOR-Cathy is student valuable and has to discipline Patty in class.
35.(5-13-1964) THE WORKING GIRL-Patty works at the Shake Shop.
36.(5-20-1964) THE COUSINS-Patty and Cathy reminisce.
BONUS MATERIAL INCLUDED:
Shout! Factory has confirmed that they are including a nice retrospective featurette on this First Season, which is based on the notice recent interviews they fair finished with the entire cast, all except for “Mom” Natalie Lane played by the slow Jean Byron.
Shout! Factory also confirmed that the episodes are not carve up or shortened, as they are running the current beefy 25 minutes per episode.
I originally watched “The Patty Duke Reveal” when it premiered in 1963, and I indulge in it unprejudiced as powerful now as I did abet then! Even with the weak 1963 special effects of seeing Patty’s double’s benefit of her head (and a examine of her face in this first season), and the splicing lines on the middle of the film, the prove quiet holds up today with it’s family warmth and charm. A sizable thank you Bawl!Factory for finally putting the long-awaited and improbable Patty Duke Demonstrate on dvd!
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