Frederick Timmins De Cordova directed 23 movies, one of the better known was Bedtime for Bonzo. His TV career began with directing The Jack Benny Program, on which he appeared several times as himself. Other programs he directed include The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, The Bob Cummings Show, The George Gobel Program, December Bride, Leave It to Beaver, My Three Sons (103 episodes), and The Smothers Brothers Show. He directed and/or produced more than 500 TV series or segments. He joined The Tonight Show at age 60 and left the show at age 82 as executive producer when the final Carson show signed off in 1992.
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My Three Sons A Horse for Uncle Charley |
1968 |
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My Three Sons A Ring for Barbara |
1969 |
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My Three Sons After the Honeymoon |
1971 |
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The Jack Benny Program Air Force Sketch (Raymond Burr) |
1962 |
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My Three Sons Back to Earth |
1968 |
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My Three Sons Baubles, Bangles, and Beatrice |
1970 |
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My Three Sons Big Ol' Katie |
1968 |
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Ford Star Jubilee Blithe Spirit |
1956 |
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The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Burnses and Mortons Choosing Movie to Attend |
1954 |
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The Bob Cummings Show Calling Dr. Baxter |
1955 |
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My Three Sons Came the Day |
1969 |
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My Three Sons Cassanova O'Casey |
1968 |
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My Three Sons Charley's Cello |
1970 |
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My Three Sons Charley's Tea |
1968 |
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My Three Sons Chip and Debbie |
1969 |
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My Three Sons Chip on Wheels |
1969 |
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The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Columbia Pictures Doing Burns and Allen Story |
1954 |
Movie | Column South | 1953 |
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Conflict Conflict: The Magic Brew |
1956 |
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The Jack Benny Program Connie Francis Show |
1963 |
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My Three Sons Countdown to Marriage |
1967 |
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The Jack Benny Program Crazy Airport |
1962 |
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My Three Sons Dear Enemy |
1968 |
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My Three Sons Debbie |
1971 |
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The Jack Benny Program Dennis Day's Surprise Birthday Party |
1962 |
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The Jack Benny Program Dennis Drives Jack to the Hospital |
1963 |
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My Three Sons Designing Woman |
1967 |
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My Three Sons Dodie Goes Downtown |
1971 |
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My Three Sons Dodie's Dilemma |
1970 |
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My Three Sons Dodie's Tonsils |
1970 |
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The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Dolores DeMarco, George's Ex-Vaudeville Partner |
1954 |
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The Jack Benny Program Don Breaks His Leg |
1964 |
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The Doris Day Show Doris Hires a Millionaire (2) |
1970 |
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The Doris Day Show Doris Meets a Prince |
1970 |
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My Three Sons Double Jealousy |
1970 |
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My Three Sons Dr. Osborne, M.D. |
1968 |
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The Jack Benny Program Ed Sullivan Show |
1963 |
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The Jack Benny Program English Sketch |
1961 |
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My Three Sons Ernie Drives |
1971 |
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My Three Sons Ernie and Zsa Zsa |
1968 |
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My Three Sons Ernie is Smitten |
1969 |
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My Three Sons Ernie's Pen Pal |
1969 |
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My Three Sons Ernie, the Bluebeard |
1967 |
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My Three Sons Ernie, the Jinx |
1968 |
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My Three Sons Ernie, the Transmitter |
1969 |
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My Three Sons Expendable Katie |
1968 |
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My Three Sons First Night Out |
1968 |
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The Jack Benny Program Frankie Avalon Show |
1963 |
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The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show George Gets Call from Unknown Victor |
1954 |
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The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show George Invites Critics to Watch First Show of Season |
1954 |
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The Jack Benny Program George Jessel/Amateur Show |
1963 |
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The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show George and the Missing Five Dollars / Baby Pictures |
1955 |
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The Jack Benny Program Ghost Town Western |
1962 |
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My Three Sons Goodbye, Forever |
1969 |
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My Three Sons Gossip, Incorporated |
1968 |
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The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Gracie Gets a Valet for George |
1955 |
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The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Gracie Gives a Baby Shower for Virginia Beasley |
1954 |
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The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Gracie Hires a Safecracker for Her Wall Safe |
1955 |
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The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Gracie Wants the House Painted |
1955 |
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My Three Sons Green-Eyed Robbie |
1968 |
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My Three Sons Guest in the House |
1970 |
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The Jack Benny Program Harlow Gets a Date |
1964 |
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The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Harry Morton Is Missing |
1954 |
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The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet Here Come the Nelsons |
1952 |
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My Three Sons Honorable Expectant Grandfather |
1969 |
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My Three Sons Honorable Guest |
1968 |
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The Jack Benny Program How Jack Found Dennis |
1964 |
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My Three Sons Inspection of the Groom |
1967 |
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My Three Sons Instant Co-Worker |
1969 |
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My Three Sons It's a Woman's World |
1970 |
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My Three Sons J.P. Douglas |
1970 |
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The Jack Benny Program Jack And The Crying Cab Driver |
1962 |
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The Jack Benny Program Jack Answers Request Letters |
1963 |
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The Jack Benny Program Jack Directs a Film |
1963 |
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The Jack Benny Program Jack Fires Don |
1963 |
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The Jack Benny Program Jack Goes Back Into Pictures (Billy Wilder) |
1962 |
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The Jack Benny Program Jack Goes To The Cafeteria |
1961 |
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The Jack Benny Program Jack Goes To The Rose Bowl |
1957 |
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The Jack Benny Program Jack Goes To The Vault |
1961 |
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The Jack Benny Program Jack Goes To a Gym |
1961 |
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The Jack Benny Program Jack Is Followed Home (Bobby Rydell) |
1961 |
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The Jack Benny Program Jack Is Hypnotized |
1961 |
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The Jack Benny Program Jack Is Kidnapped |
1963 |
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The Jack Benny Program Jack Meets Max Bygraves |
1963 |
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The Jack Benny Program Jack Meets a Japanese Agent |
1962 |
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The Jack Benny Program Jack Plays Golf |
1961 |
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The Jack Benny Program Jack Referees a Wrestling Match |
1962 |
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The Jack Benny Program Jack Renews His Drivers' License |
1964 |
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The Jack Benny Program Jack Takes The Stewarts To a Play |
1961 |
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The Jack Benny Program Jack Takes a Boat to Hawaii |
1963 |
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The Jack Benny Program Jack Takes in a Boarder |
1962 |
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The Jack Benny Program Jack Writes a Song |
1961 |
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The Jack Benny Program Jack and Bob Hope In Vaudeville |
1962 |
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The Jack Benny Program Jack is a Violin Teacher |
1962 |
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The Jack Benny Program Jack on Trial For Murder |
1961 |
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The Jack Benny Program Johnny Carson Show |
1963 |
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The Jack Benny Program Julie London Show |
1962 |
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The Jack Benny Program Lawrence Welk Show |
1962 |
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My Three Sons Life Begins in Katie |
1968 |
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My Three Sons Liverpool Saga |
1967 |
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My Three Sons Love Thy Neighbor |
1970 |
Movie | Love and Learn | 1947 |
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The Jack Benny Program Main Street Shelter |
1961 |
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My Three Sons Mexican Honeymoon |
1969 |
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My Three Sons Mister X |
1970 |
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The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Mortons Exchange Houses with the Gibsons from New York |
1954 |
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My Three Sons Moving Day |
1967 |
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My Three Sons My Four Women |
1970 |
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The Jack Benny Program My Gang Comedy |
1962 |
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My Three Sons My Three Grandsons |
1968 |
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My Three Sons My Wife, the Waitress |
1967 |
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The Jack Benny Program New Year's Eve |
1961 |
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The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show No Fan Mail for George |
1954 |
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My Three Sons One Week to Go |
1969 |
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The Smothers Brothers Show Pay The Man The $27.95 |
1965 |
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The Jack Benny Program Peter Lorre/Joanie Sommers Show |
1963 |
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The Jack Benny Program Phil Silvers Show |
1962 |
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The Jack Benny Program Riverboat Sketch (Carol Burnett) |
1963 |
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My Three Sons Robbie's Honey |
1971 |
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The Jack Benny Program Robert Goulet Show |
1963 |
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The Jack Benny Program Robinson Crusoe Sketch |
1963 |
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My Three Sons Rough on Dodie |
1969 |
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The Jack Benny Program Season Premiere |
1961 |
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The Jack Benny Program Shari Lewis Show |
1962 |
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My Three Sons Silver Threads |
1969 |
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The Jack Benny Program Slogan Contest |
1960 |
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The Jack Benny Program Spanish Sketch (Rita Moreno) |
1963 |
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My Three Sons Table for Eight |
1970 |
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The Smothers Brothers Show Take A Tramp To Lunch This Week |
1965 |
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The Jack Benny Program Tall Cowboy Sketch (Clint Walker) |
1963 |
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My Three Sons Tea for Three |
1968 |
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My Three Sons Teacher's Pet |
1969 |
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The Jack Benny Program Tennessee Ernie Ford Show |
1961 |
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My Three Sons The Aunt Who Came to Dinner |
1967 |
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My Three Sons The Baby Nurse |
1968 |
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My Three Sons The Bride Went Home |
1970 |
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My Three Sons The Cat-Burglars |
1970 |
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My Three Sons The Chameleon |
1967 |
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My Three Sons The Chaperones |
1967 |
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My Three Sons The Computer Picnic |
1967 |
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My Three Sons The Elopement |
1970 |
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My Three Sons The First Meeting |
1969 |
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My Three Sons The Fountain of Youth |
1969 |
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My Three Sons The Grandfathers |
1968 |
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My Three Sons The Great Pregnancy |
1968 |
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My Three Sons The Heartbeat |
1967 |
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My Three Sons The Honeymoon |
1970 |
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My Three Sons The Honeymoon is Over |
1970 |
Movie | The Jack Benny Birthday Special | 1969 |
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My Three Sons The Liberty Bell |
1971 |
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My Three Sons The Littlest Rebel |
1969 |
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My Three Sons The Love God |
1971 |
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My Three Sons The Masculine Mystique |
1968 |
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My Three Sons The Matchmakers |
1969 |
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My Three Sons The New Room |
1968 |
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My Three Sons The New Vice-President |
1971 |
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My Three Sons The O'Casey Scandal |
1969 |
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December Bride The Other Woman |
1957 |
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My Three Sons The Other Woman |
1969 |
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My Three Sons The Perfect Separation |
1968 |
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My Three Sons The Power of Suggestion |
1970 |
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My Three Sons The Recital |
1971 |
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My Three Sons The Return of Albert |
1970 |
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My Three Sons The Return of Terrible Tom |
1971 |
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My Three Sons The Standing-Still Tour |
1968 |
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The Jack Benny Program The Story of the New Talent Show |
1962 |
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My Three Sons The Tire Thief |
1968 |
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The Jack Benny Program Three Musketeers Sketch |
1963 |
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My Three Sons Three's a Crowd |
1969 |
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The Doris Day Show Today's World Catches the Measles |
1970 |
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My Three Sons Two O'Clock Feeding |
1969 |
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My Three Sons Two Weeks to Go |
1969 |
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My Three Sons Uncle Charley's Aunt |
1968 |
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The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Vanderlip Buys Black Negligee for His Wife |
1954 |
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My Three Sons Wedding Bells |
1967 |
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My Three Sons What Did You Do Today, Grandpa? |
1969 |
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Burke's Law Who Killed the Grand Piano? |
1965 |
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My Three Sons Who is Sylvia? |
1970 |
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My Three Sons You Can't Go Home |
1970 |
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My Three Sons You're Driving Me Crazy |
1967 |
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To Rome with Love pilot |
1969 |
Movie | Johnny Carson - His Favorite Moments from 'The Tonight Show' - The Final Show: America Says Farewell | 1992 |
Movie | The Jack Benny Birthday Special | 1969 |
Movie | The Jack Benny Birthday Special | 1969 |
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The Larry Sanders Show As My Career Lay Dying |
1998 |
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The Larry Sanders Show Eight |
1995 |
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The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show Gracie Saves Blanche's Marriage |
1954 |
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The Jack Benny Program Jack Benny: Comedy In Bloom |
1992 |
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My Three Sons The Standing-Still Tour |
1968 |
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ALF Tonight, Tonight (1) |
1988 |
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ALF Tonight, Tonight (2) |
1988 |