The Truth about Romantic Comedies by Sean C. McMurray

The heads-up gave the writers time to figure out how to keep the show’s title. “I got along great with ’em, I loved them all, I was just tired of doing that. “I gave them a year’s notice and told them I didn’t want to do it anymore,” he said in a 1997 interview. In 1964, Considine - who had written two episodes of My Three Sons and directed another - told producers that he was quitting. Don Grady and Stanley Livingston played his brothers, Robbie and Chip, respectively all were being raised by their widowed dad, Steve (MacMurray), an aeronautical engineer. In 1956 and ’57, Considine starred in two more sets of Spin and Marty serials and portrayed amateur sleuth Frank Hardy opposite Tommy Kirk as his younger brother, Joe, in The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure and The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Ghost Farm.Īfter playing Buzz Miller, the rival of Kirk’s Wilby Daniels, in the Disney classic The Shaggy Dog (1959), Considine, then 19, reunited with Fred MacMurray to star as Mike Douglas on ABC’s My Three Sons. The series of shorts, set at a Western-style summer camp for boys called the Triple R Ranch, premiered as part of ABC’s The Mickey Mouse Club in November 1955.

He also wrote with his older brother, John Considine, a 1966 episode of NBC’s Tarzan, starring Ron Ely, that morphed into the 1970 feature Tarzan’s Deadly Silence.Ĭonsidine starred as the likable Spin Evans opposite David Stollery as spoiled rich kid Marty Markham on The Adventures of Spin and Marty. Newton Minow, Public TV Advocate and Former FCC Chief, Dies at 97

The Truth about Romantic Comedies by Sean C. McMurray