The Dennis O'Keefe Show is a 1959-1960 sitcom produced by United Artists Television

United Artists Television

-Background:UA purchased Associated Artists Productions in 1958, giving UA access to the pre-1950 Warner Bros. library and the Popeye cartoons made by Fleischer Studios and Famous Studios between 1933 and 1957....

 which aired on CBS

CBS

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 for sponsor General Motors

General Motors

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' Oldsmobile

Oldsmobile

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 division. It was not a ratings success during its original run, and was largely forgotten until a "Best Of" DVD release by Alpha Video

Alpha Video

Alpha Video is an entertainment company, based near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that specializes in the manufacturing and marketing of public domain movies and TV shows on DVD...

 during 2004. Certain episodes of the show can also be seen at the Internet Archive

Internet Archive

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. It appears the series has entered the public domain

Public domain

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Premise

Dennis O'Keefe

Dennis O'Keefe

Dennis O'Keefe was an American actor. Born as Edward Vance Flanagan he was the son of Irish vaudevillians working in the United States...

 portrays Hal Towne, a widower who is trying to balance his career as a newspaper columnist {"All Around Towne"} and rear his young son, Randy, in a big-city apartment in New York, with the help of a tough but lovable female housekeeper, Amelia Sargent, better known as "Sarge", played by Hope Emerson

Hope Emerson

-Early life:Emerson was born in Hawarden, Iowa. Following her graduation from West High School in Des Moines in 1916, she moved to New York City where she performed in vaudeville.-Career:...

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The series aired at 8 p.m. Eastern on Tuesdays, with competition from the last half of two hour-long western

Western (genre)

The Western is a genre of various visual arts, such as film, television, radio, literature, painting and others. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, hence the name. Some Westerns are set as early as the Battle of...

 series, Laramie

Laramie (TV series)

Laramie is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from 1959 to 1963. Laramie was a Revue Studios production which originally starred John Smith as Slim Sherman, Robert Fuller as Jess Harper, Hoagy Carmichael as Jonesy and Robert Crawford, Jr...

on NBC

NBC

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 and Sugarfoot

Sugarfoot

Sugarfoot is the title of a TV western that aired from 1957 to 1961. The series featured Will Hutchins as fledgling frontier lawyer Tom Brewster and Jack Elam as sidekick Toothy Thompson...

and Bronco

Bronco (TV series)

Bronco is a Western series on ABC from 1958 through 1962. It was shown by the BBC in the United Kingdom. The program starred Ty Hardin as Bronco Layne, a former Confederate officer who wandered the Old West, meeting such well-known individuals as Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, Jesse James,...

, alternating on ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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DVD release

Alpha Video

Alpha Video

Alpha Video is an entertainment company, based near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that specializes in the manufacturing and marketing of public domain movies and TV shows on DVD...

 released a budget DVD with 4 episodes on November 23, 2004. They have yet to release more volumes.

Cast

• Dennis O'Keefe
  Dennis O'Keefe
  Dennis O'Keefe was an American actor. Born as Edward Vance Flanagan he was the son of Irish vaudevillians working in the United States...
  
   as Hal Towne
• Hope Emerson
  Hope Emerson
  -Early life:Emerson was born in Hawarden, Iowa. Following her graduation from West High School in Des Moines in 1916, she moved to New York City where she performed in vaudeville.-Career:...
  
   as Amelia "Sarge" Sargent
• Ricky Kelman as Randy Towne
• Eloise Hardt as Karen Hadley
• Eddie Ryder
  Eddie Ryder
  Eddie Ryder was an American television and film actor as well as writer, and television director. Ryder was born in New York City, New York, United States.-Career:He was a veteran of 92 movies and television programs...
  
  as Eliot

External links

• The Dennis O'Keefe Show at IMDb