(CBS Saturday Nights, 1954 - 1955; CBS Sunday Nights, 1959 - 1960 [reruns]) [Based upon the 1951 motion picture in which Mayehoff starred with Jerry Lewis, this series was based upon the same premise -- that of a retired football star who constantly tries to make a "man" out of his bookish intellectual son "Junior" through a variety of efforts which inevitably fail; Although it sounds like a disfunctional bullying father is abusing his son, the series seemed to resonate with the family values of the Eisenhower generation...]
Composers: music by Hugh Martin (ASCAP) [professional name of Hugh Edward Martin, Jr.], and lyric by Ralph Blaine (ASCAP) 1978 Publisher: Chappell & Co., Inc. (ASCAP) 2001 Publisher: Chappell & Co., Inc. (ASCAP) c/o Warner-Chappell Music, Inc. of Los Angeles, CA Orig. Copyright: 1941, on sheet music Copyright Date: Oct. 20, 1941; E pub. 98 432. Renewal Date: Oct. 21, 1968; R 445 871. Recordings: