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The Patty Duke Show is an American television sitcom created by Sidney Sheldon and William Asher. The series ran on ABC from September 18, 1963, to April 27, 1966. The series was developed as a vehicle for teenage star Patty Duke, who had won an Academy Award the previous year. Duke starred in dual roles of "twin cousins" Patty and Cathy Lane.
Patty Duke was born Anna Marie Duke on December 14, 1946 at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan [2] to Frances Margaret (née McMahon) (1913–1993), a cashier, and John Patrick Duke (1913–1964), a handyman and cab driver, [3] who was of Irish descent. [4]
Originally credited by her maiden name, Rita McLaughlin, she made her acting debut in the 1960s on The Patty Duke Show, in the uncredited role of Patty Duke's double. [1] Prior to that, she was also one of Don Herbert's child assistants in the Watch Mr. Wizard television series and was featured in a TV commercial for Phillips Milk of Magnesia ...
The unaired pilot episode was filmed at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios in Culver City, California, with San Francisco as the setting for the series. Mark Miller played Martin Lane and Charles Herbert played Ross Lane, but in the episode "The Cousins," William Schallert and Paul O'Keefe played their respective roles; this is also the first of John McGiver's five appearances in the series, guest ...
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Promotional photo of Clyde with Patty Duke (1965) During the mid-1960s, Chad & Jeremy made several television guest appearances. They portrayed a fictional singing duo called "The Redcoats" (Freddy and Ernie) on the 10 February 1965 episode of the sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show that satirised Beatlemania .
Patty Duke through the years: Duke died at the age of 69 at a hospital in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho. She was perhaps best known for portraying Helen Keller in 1962's The Miracle Worker, a role that ...
Sean Astin said that Patty Duke was 'surrounded by her family' prior to her death, after relatives traveled to her hospital bedside in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho.