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Teenager Patty Lane and her worldly identical cousin Cathy navigate family and high school life.Teenager Patty Lane and her worldly identical cousin Cathy navigate family and high school life.Teenager Patty Lane and her worldly identical cousin Cathy navigate family and high school life.
- Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
- 1 win & 5 nominations total
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- TriviaFor most of the scenes featuring Patty and Cathy, Rita Walter played "the back of either Patty's or Cathy's head", as appropriate. She can also be seen in several episodes as a background character.
- GoofsThe theme song has the following verses: "Cathy adores a minuet, / the Ballets Russes and Crepes Suzette." The Ballets Russes shut down before Cathy Lane was born.
- ConnectionsEdited into Intimate Portrait: Patty Duke (2001)
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Charming Relic
The Patty Duke Show stands as a testament to the acting ability of Patty Duke, who truly created two completely different characters as Patty and Cathy Lane. The stories, written in the main by Sidney Sheldon are heartwarming and typical of early 1960s sitcom scripts. William Schallert and Jean Byron were wonderful as Martin and Natalie, and wasn't Jean Byron one of the most gorgeous of all sitcom moms? Paul O'Keefe was suitably mischievous as little brother Ross, and Eddie Applegate was fine as the slightly oafish Richard Harrison, Patty's boyfriend (most of the time). Patty Duke herself was going through some really rough times during the filming of this show, and only in recent years has she been able to embrace what a good show it was and how truly good her performances were in it. How she escaped winning a best-actress Emmy for this show is beyond me. To this day there are those who still think that two actresses played these roles. Other actresses tried to emulate playing dual roles on their series, but Patty was absolutely the best at it. It must have been grueling work to essay two parts on a week-to-week basis. The series was filmed in New York for it's first two seasons because of the more relaxed child labor laws which allowed the producers to work Ms. Duke more hours than would have been possible if the show were filmed in California. The Patty Duke Show is fondly remembered by those who grew up watching it. It certainly holds up better than the current crop of sitcoms will in the future. And the theme song is maybe one of the all-time best.
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