That's My Boy (sitcom, starring Eddie Mayehoff and Gil Stratton, Jr.)

    (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...]

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Theme: "Buckle Down, Winsocki", from the Broadway musical "Best Foot Forward"

     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:

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