Question: Maybe 40 or so years ago, wasn't there a television show called Karen? For some reason I'm thinking it starred a young actress who turned out to be a big actress. Or perhaps it's only wishful thinking. Thanks!
Answer: Well, there was a sitcom called Karen that ran on NBC for a year beginning in October 1964, but none of the ladies in the cast went on to make a huge impact. (And I can't imagine what your interest in such a show would be... Karen.)
Debbie Watson starred as a wayward teen on the show, which was part of the 90-minute, three-part 90 Bristol Court, a series made up of three comedies taking place in the same apartment building. Others in the cast included Richard Denning, Mary LaRoche, Gina Gillespie, Bernadette Withers, Trudi Ames, Teddy Quinn, Murray MacLeod and a man who's probably the only one on the whole show to
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He's lived the life aquatic, come back from the dead on Dallas and worked with Suzanne Somers without ever tripping over a ThighMaster. But can Patrick Duffy keep his TV-movie wife, Patty Duke, from throttling Shelley Long in Hallmark Channel's Falling in Love with the Girl Next Door (premiering Feb. 4 at 9 pm/ET)? TVGuide.com traded Qs and As with ol' Bobby Ewing. (Or was it all just a dream?)
TVGuide.com: I see that Patty Duke has been robbing the cradle a little bit....Patrick Duffy: With whom? [Laughs] With me? Nooooo.... we're sort of contemporaries.
TVGuide.com: Are you OK these days playing the father of the hot young chick instead of getting the hot young chick?Duffy: Well, it'd be ludicrous if I was getting the hot young chic
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Question: I need you to settle an argument between my sister and me. My sister says that the only TV shows after Patty Duke that had twins were Full House and Sister, Sister. Who's right? A new outfit is riding on this.
Answer: Get ready to pick out something darling, Denice. Your sis is wrong.
I have to assume you mean shows with twin characters rather than actors, since Ms. Duke played both Patty and Cathy on her show (identical cousins rather than twins, actually). I'll also assume you mean identical twins, which rules out, say, Willie and Mark on The Hogan Family or Brenda and Brandon Walsh on Beverly Hills, 90210. But even ruling those others out, you still win this
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TV veteran Patty Duke (aka Anna Marie Duke) was America's Sweetheart in the mid-1960s, playing identical cousins Cathy and Patty Lane on The Patty Duke Show. She also made camp-film history as pill-popper Neely "I Need My Dolls!" O'Hara in 1967's Valley of the Dolls. For years, Duke has also reigned as the drama queen of TV tearjerkers, including The Miracle Worker, Please Don't Hit Me, Mom and Call Me Anna, in which she played out her real-life battle with manic depression. Next up, she's a crime-fighting nun (yes, really) in Hallmark Channel's Murder Without Conviction (Sunday at 8 pm/ET). Here, Duke graciously answers our prayers by sitting down for an exclusive Q&A...
TV Guide Online: You recently got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Congrats!Patty Duke: It's great! My son Mackenzie Astin, (Facts of Life) was there with his fiancée — hel-lo! — Samantha Sinclair
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