(CBS Primetime, 1956; ABC Primetime, 1957 -- re-runs; CBS Primetime, 1960 -- re-runs) [aka: "The Charles Farrell Show"] Charlie Farrell was an athletic fun-loving blue-blood with a perpetual tan who always seemed to be wearing a tennis outfit; frequently a tennis racquet was in his hand; He had also been a long-time Hollywood actor who had worked in many pictures since the 1920s... In real life, Charlie actually owned a Racquet Club in the resort city of Palm Springs, 90 miles East of Los Angeles; The plots of this sitcom were supposedly derived from events that actually took place in and around the club and in and around Palm Springs (talk about a pluggers dream :-); Whether the events were real or not, they were certainly entertaining; His dilemmas resembled those of Gale Storm in "My Little Margie" -- perhaps because he had played her father in that cheery sitcom which was also produced at Hal Roach studios where his own was filmed; In his own sitcom, the role of "Dad" Farrell who was sort of Charlie's sidekick/father was played by character actor Charles Winninger; This series began as a summer replacement for "I Love Lucy" and was re-run twice -- the first time on ABC, and again on CBS later...]
[a 1924 song dedicated to Charley Foy, of "the seven little Foys", a family vaudeville team; THEME title verified by TV theme collector Ray Clark] Composers: Ted Fiorito (ASCAP) and Gus Kahn (ASCAP) 1978 Publisher: The Bourne Co. (ASCAP) 2001 Publisher: The Bourne Co. (ASCAP) of New York, NY Composition Date: 1924 Copyright Date: Renewal Date: Recordings: