Window on Main Street is an American

United States

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 comedy-drama

Comedy-drama

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 series starring Robert Young

Robert Young (actor)

Robert George Young was an American television, film, and radio actor, best known for his leading roles as Jim Anderson, the father of Father Knows Best and as physician Marcus Welby in Marcus Welby, M.D. .-Early life:Born in Chicago, Illinois, Young was the son of an Irish immigrant father...

, which aired on CBS

CBS

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 during the 1961-1962 season. The series was created by Roswell Rogers and produced by series star Robert Young.

Synopsis

Young, who had left Father Knows Best

Father Knows Best

Father Knows Best is an American radio and television comedy series which portrayed a middle class family life in the Midwest. It was created by writer Ed James in the 1940s.-Radio:...

a year earlier, was cast as Cameron "Cam" Garrett Brooks, a widower-author

Author

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, who returns to his hometown of fictional Millsburg (possibly in New England

New England

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) to renew his friendship with Lloyd Ramsey, the editor of the local newspaper

Newspaper

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, portrayed by Ford Rainey

Ford Rainey

Ford Rainey was an American film, stage and television actor.-Early life:Rainey was born in Mountain Home, Idaho, the son of Vyrna , a teacher, and Archie Coleman Rainey. Rainey graduated from Centralia Junior College in Washington state and the Cornish Drama School in Seattle. He first acted on...

. The people of Millsburg become the subjects of Cam's stories. Tim Matheson

Tim Matheson

Tim Matheson is an American actor, director and producer. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of the smooth-talking Eric 'Otter' Stratton in the 1978 comedy National Lampoon's Animal House and has had a variety of other well-known roles, including providing the voice of the lead character...

 starred as 13-year-old Roddy Miller. Constance Moore

Constance Moore

Constance Moore was a singer and actress. Her most noted work was in wartime musicals such as Show Business and Atlantic City and the classic 1939 movie serial Buck Rogers, in which she played Wilma Deering, the only female character in the serial.-Life and career:Moore was born in Sioux...

 appeared as Cam's blonde female friend Christina "Chris" Logan, who had remained behind years earlier, when she was known as "Tina", and he left Millsburg for points undisclosed.

The series premiered on Monday, October 2, 1961, following the second and final season of Pete and Gladys

Pete and Gladys

Pete and Gladys is an American situation comedy broadcast by CBS on Monday night at 8:00pm Eastern and Pacific time for two seasons, beginning on September 19, 1960...

and preceding The Danny Thomas Show

The Danny Thomas Show

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. The program took over the time slot vacated the previous season by the unsuccessful Bringing Up Buddy

Bringing Up Buddy

Bringing Up Buddy is a 39-episode situation comedy television series which aired on CBS during the 1960–1961 season. In the story line, Frank Aletter, a native of Queens, New York, plays the orphaned Buddy Flower, a bachelor stockbroker, who is reared by his overprotective and meticulous aunts,...

comedy series starring Frank Aletter

Frank Aletter

Frank Aletter was an American stage, film, and television actor.During the 1950s Aletter appeared on Broadway in Bells Are Ringing, Time Limit, and Wish You Were Here. He soon moved on to a prolific television career, appearing as a guest on numerous shows between 1956 and 1988.Aletter starred in...

. Window on Main Street was paired opposite The Price Is Right

The Price Is Right

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starring Bill Cullen

Bill Cullen

William Lawrence Francis "Bill" Cullen was an American radio and television personality whose career spanned five decades...

 on NBC and Chuck Connors

Chuck Connors

Chuck Connors was an American actor, writer, and professional basketball and baseball player. His best known role from his forty-year film career was Lucas McCain in the 1960s ABC hit Western series The Rifleman....

 in The Rifleman

The Rifleman

The Rifleman is an American Western television program that starred Chuck Connors as homesteader Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son, Mark McCain. It was set in the 1880s in the town of North Fork, New Mexico Territory. The show, filmed in black-and-white with a half hour running time, ran...

on ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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.

Father Knows Best was still on the CBS schedule on Wednesdays in prime time repeats during the 1961-1962 season; so Young was featured in two network comedies the same season.

Production notes

Young, along with the Father Knows Best producer Eugene B. Rodney, worked in the writing and production of some of the episodes of Window on Main Street.

DVD releases

Every DVD boxed sets of Young's previous series Father Knows Best

Father Knows Best

Father Knows Best is an American radio and television comedy series which portrayed a middle class family life in the Midwest. It was created by writer Ed James in the 1940s.-Radio:...

contains one episode of Window on Main Street. Also, one episode was included in Shouts! Merry Sitcom Christmas Classics from TV's Golden Age.