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    Comedy TV Shows - 1960s 2 Mins Read

    Farmer’s Daughter, The

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    Based on a popular 1947 film that won Loretta Young an Academy Award, The Farmer’s Daughter was a 30-minute situation comedy about a naive, sexy Swedish-American farm girl named Katrin ‘Katy’ Holstrum, who goes to Washington to seek the help of her congressman, Glen Morley, to keep her family’s farm.

    She winds up remaining in Washington as the governess of Morley’s two motherless sons.

    Katy was played by Inger Stevens, Morley by William Windom, and Morley’s young sons, Steve (aged 4) and Danny (8) by Mickey Sholdar and Rory O’Brien.

    Also seen regularly was Morley’s mother, Agatha, played by Cathleen Nesbitt, and the Morley’s butler, Cooper, played by Philip Coolidge.

    Appearing occasionally were Alice Frost and Walter Sande as Katy’s parents, Mama and Papa Holstrum, and Nancy DeCarl as Katy’s girlfriend, Pam.

    Predictably, Katy and Morley fell in love, and in one of the most viewed telecasts of the time, they were married on 5 November 1965.

    The event was heavily publicised and the famous Washington hostess and former ambassador to Luxembourg, Pearl Mesta, even threw a party to commemorate the event. It was attended by members of the cast and over 300 Washington DC notables.

    In spite of the popularity of the marriage episode, The Farmer’s Daughter failed to retain the audiences it needed to keep it on the air, and in 1966 – after three seasons (the first two in black & white and the third in colour) – the show was cancelled.

    Katrin ‘Katy’ Holstrum
    Inger Stevens
    Congressman Glen Morley
    William Windom
    Steven Morley
    Mickey Sholdar
    Danny Morley
    Rory O’Brien
    Agatha Morley
    Cathleen Nesbitt
    Chester Cooper
    Philip Coolidge
    Papa Holstrum
    Walter Sande
    Mama Holstrum
    Alice Frost
    Pam
    Nancy DeCarl
    Senator Ames
    David Lewis
    Margot
    Barbara Bostock

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