Accidental Family is an American

United States

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 sitcom

Situation comedy

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 broadcast on NBC

NBC

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 during the first part of the 1967-68 U.S. television season

1967-68 United States network television schedule

This was the television schedule on all three networks for the fall season beginning in September 1967. All times are Eastern and Pacific.New fall series are highlighted in bold....

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Synopsis

The series stars Jerry Van Dyke

Jerry Van Dyke

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 as a widowed comedian

Comedian

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, Jerry Webster, who bought a farm in the San Fernando Valley

San Fernando Valley

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 to serve as a place for him to raise his son, Sandy, when he was not touring. When he was on the road, Sandy was under the care of the farm's manager, divorceé Sue Kramer (Lois Nettleton

Lois Nettleton

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), who had a daughter the same age as Webster's son.

The program consistently lost in the Nielsen ratings

Nielsen Ratings

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 to both the CBS

CBS

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 Friday Night Movies and the ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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 Western

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 The Guns of Will Sonnett

The Guns of Will Sonnett

The Guns of Will Sonnett is a Western television series set in the 1870s which ran on the ABC television network from 1967 to 1969. The series was the first production collaboration between Aaron Spelling and Danny Thomas, who would later go on to produce one of ABC's most-memorable hits, The Mod...

and was cancelled at midseason as a result. It was initially replaced by the first prime-time run of the game show

Game show

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 Hollywood Squares

Hollywood Squares

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Cast

Actor	Role
Jerry Van Dyke	Jerry Webster
Lois Nettleton	Sue Kramer
Teddy Quinn	Sandy Webster
Susan Benjamin	Tracy Kramer
Larry D. Mann Larry D. Mann Larry D. Mann is a Canadian actor. Prior to his acting career, he was a disk jockey on CHUM 1050 radio in Toronto in 1949. His best-known Canadian television exposure was in a Bell Canada series of commercials called "The Boss" in which he played the title role for ten years beginning in 1981...	Marty Warren
Ben Blue Ben Blue Ben Blue , born Benjamin Bernstein, was a Canadian-American actor and comedian.Born to a Jewish family in Montreal, Quebec, at the age of nine, Blue emigrated to Baltimore in the United States where he won a contest for the best impersonation of Charlie Chaplin...	Ben McGrath

Episodes

Ep #	Title	Airdate
1	"Everywhere a Chick Chick"	September 15, 1967
2	"Hot Kid in a Cold Town"	September 22, 1967
3	"If You Knew Martha"	October 6, 1967
4	"Minnesota Tracey"	October 13, 1967
5	"It Hurts Me More Than It Hurts You"	October 20, 1967
6	"Halloween's on Us"	October 27, 1967
7	"The Making of a Vegetarian"	November 3, 1967
8	"The Secret Life of Jerry Webster"	November 10, 1967
9	"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Playground"	November 17, 1967
10	"What is This-Thanksgiving or a Nightmare?"	November 24, 1967
11	"The Woodsman"	December 1, 1967
12	"The Return of Mr. Ex"	December 8, 1967
13	"The Lush Life"	December 15, 1967
14	"The Treasure of San Fernando Valley"	December 22, 1967
15	"Sandy Gets Tough"	December 29, 1967
16	"Who's Been Sleeping in Daddy's Bed?"	January 5, 1968