Ozzie and Harriett

One of the first TV shows--and one of the best. Still.

Don't call me Sis.

Yes, I grew up with it; what was kind of weird was it was on in reruns after dinner every weeknight (roughly when David and Rick were in high school and college), then one night a week there was a new episode on the network (ABC?) where the boys were married. I remember very well sitting on the couch in the den with my dad watching Ricky singing at the end of the show.

I don't think they showed the much older shows when David and Rickey were young kids.

)Good show with storylines that didn't seem like the usual sitcom stuff.)

The entire show has been remastered and is available on Tubi. It wasn't available except in bootlegged poor quality until the past 2 years. Rick's son played an active role in getting it done.

I think it was last shown on Disney in the 80s. It didn't have the same life as Leave it To Beaver and Lucy in syndication

There was something like a Shout Factory edition with about 20 episodes--but some of these were missing footage. Then there was a bigger bootleg box. I hope they're being shown in the original aspect ratio.

Original title- Here Come the Nelsons

I think Here Come The Nelsons was the 1950s movie based on the radio series, that preceded the TV show (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet).

The radio series preceded (1944) and then ran concurrently (1952-1954) with the TV series. Other actors played the sons for the first four seasons of the radio series.

But the show was never called Here Come the Nelsons.

It was a gentle, good-natured comedy and the main cast and the continuing characters were all good.

Value of the house today

In real life, easy going dad Ozzie was an insufferable task master and both Dave and Rick grew up to despise him.p

[quote]The radio series preceded (1944) and then ran concurrently (1952-1954) with the TV series. Other actors played the sons for the first four seasons of the radio series.

What crazy luck Ozzie and Harriet had in giving birth to a son who was movie star handsome and could sing.

Girls are so much easier.

[quote]What crazy luck Ozzie and Harriet had in giving birth to a son who was movie star handsome and could sing.

Ozzie was a bandleader and Harriet was a singer.

It was an era of no humor. See Red Skelton and Jackie Gleason. This show and "Father knows best" projected a norm of WASP family life that didn't exist for many people.

Yeah, shows like Ozzie & Harriet, Leave It to Beaver and Donna Reed gave a generation of Baby Boomers terrible inferiority complexes that their family life was nothing like what they watched on TV.

Ricky, birth name Eric, was born at Holy Name Hospital in Teaneck, New Jersey when Ozzie and Harriet lived in Ridgefield, next town to the south. My sister graduated from their Nursing School. Hospital still here. Harriet, then Hilliard, was a singer in Ozzie's band before they married.

"Yeah, shows like Ozzie & Harriet, Leave It to Beaver and Donna Reed gave a generation of Baby Boomers terrible inferiority complexes that their family life was nothing like what they watched on TV."

As if The Cosby Show never existed. How many black families are headed by a doctor and a lawyer? For that matter, how many white families are headed by a doctor and a lawyer.

Harriet Hilliard appears in the RKO Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers musical Follow the Fleet as Ginger's bff and Randy Scott's gf. Lucky girl!

r20, yeah, but the difference to my generation was that back then, there were NO realistic portrayals of suburban American families. Even on1950s sitcoms like The Life of Riley, the working class mom wore pearls and high heels as she vacuumed and ironed.

Well, I guess there was The Honeymooners but no one wanted to live in that hovel with Ralph Cramden.

In the 50s, there were ethnic shows: Amos N' Andy, The Goldbergs (Jewish) and Mama (Norwegian)

Ozzie once said the reason why they never mentioned his job on TV was because he owned an adult bookstore.