The Smith Family is an American

United States

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 comedy-drama

Comedy-drama

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 television series produced by Don Fedderson Productions. The series aired on ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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 from October 20, 1971 to June 7, 1972, for 39 episodes.

Cast

• Henry Fonda
  Henry Fonda
  Henry Jaynes Fonda was an American film and stage actor.Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor. He also appeared in 1938 in plays performed in White Plains, New York, with Joan Tompkins...
  
   - Detective Sergeant Chad Smith, the father of the Smith family
• Janet Blair - Betty Smith, Chad's wife
• Darleen Carr
  Darleen Carr
  Darleen Carr is an American actress best known for a recurring role in the 1981–82 television series Bret Maverick opposite James Garner...
  
   - Cindy Smith, the eldest daughter
• John Carter
  John Carter
  -Politicians:*John Carter , New Zealand politician*John Carter , U.S. Representative from Texas*John Carter , U.S. Representative from South Carolina...
  
   - Sergeant Ray Martin
• Ron Howard
  Ron Howard
  Ronald William "Ron" Howard is an American actor, director, and producer. He came to prominence as a child actor, playing Opie Taylor in the sitcom The Andy Griffith Show for eight years, and later the teenaged Richie Cunningham in the sitcom Happy Days for six years...
  
   - Bob Smith, the elder son
• Michael-James Wixted - Brian Smith, the youngest son

Recurring cast

• Richard O'Brien
  Richard O'Brien
  Richard Timothy Smith , better known under his stage name Richard O'Brien, is an English writer, actor, television presenter and theatre performer. He is perhaps best known for writing the cult musical The Rocky Horror Show and for his role in presenting the popular TV show The Crystal Maze...
  
   - Captain O'Farrell
• Vince Howard
  Vince Howard
  Vince Howard is an American actor who has made many guest appearances on television.-Television appearances:* General Hospital * Dallas * Murder, She Wrote * Hill Street Blues...
  
   - Ed Thomas
• Florence Lake
  Florence Lake
  For the reservoir in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, see Florence Lake .Florence Lake was an American actress best known as the leading lady in most of the Edgar Kennedy comedy shorts.-Early life:In the early 1900s, her father and uncle toured with a circus in an aerial act known as...
  
  
• Richard Webb
  Richard Webb (actor)
  Richard Webb was a film, television and radio actor. He was born in Bloomington, Illinois.He appeared in more than fifty films, including many westerns and films noir including Out of the Past , Night Has a Thousand Eyes , I Was a Communist for the FBI and Carson City...
  
   - police sergeant
• Patience Cleveland
  Patience Cleveland
  Patience Cleveland was an American film and television actress.-Personal life:Patience Cleveland was born, the youngest of six siblings, to an old established New Hampshire family, to Dr. Mather Cleveland, M.D. and Susan Colgate Cleveland. Her father authored New Hampshire and the Civil War and...
  
   - Martha
• Tim Graham - Steve
• Butch Patrick
  Butch Patrick
  Butch Patrick is a former American child actor. He is widely known for his role on the TV show The Munsters where he played Eddie Munster, the son of Herman and Lily Munster...
  
   - Gary

Synopsis

Chad Smith is a police detective. The show covered the exploits of Sergeant Smith and his relationships with his wife Betty and their three children Cindy, Bob and Brian.

The theme song was Primrose Lane, composed by G Callendar and W Shanklin.