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The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1969)
The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1969)
Overview
The Courtship of Eddie's Father is an American television sitcom based on the 1963 movie of the same name, which was based on the book written by Mark Toby. It tells the story of a widower, Tom Corbett, who is a magazine publisher, and his son, Eddie, who believes his father should marry, and manipulates situations surrounding the women his father is interested in. ABC had acquired the rights to the story; the series debuted on September 17, 1969, and was last broadcast on March 1, 1972. Bixby received an Emmy nomination for the show.
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Leans Traditional
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Viewer Rating
6.7
Overview
The Courtship of Eddie's Father is an American television sitcom based on the 1963 movie of the same name, which was based on the book written by Mark Toby. It tells the story of a widower, Tom Corbett, who is a magazine publisher, and his son, Eddie, who believes his father should marry, and manipulates situations surrounding the women his father is interested in. ABC had acquired the rights to the story; the series debuted on September 17, 1969, and was last broadcast on March 1, 1972. Bixby received an Emmy nomination for the show.
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Leans Traditional
Primary
The film focuses on the apolitical themes of a widower raising his son and their search for a new family unit, resolving in a conventional, emotionally satisfying manner without promoting any specific political ideology.
The movie features a traditional cast with no apparent intentional race or gender swaps of roles. The narrative focuses on traditional family dynamics without critiquing or negatively portraying traditional identities, and DEI themes are not central to the story.
Secondary
The television series 'The Courtship of Eddie's Father' does not include any discernible LGBTQ+ characters or themes. Its narrative centers on a single father raising his son, reflecting typical family dynamics of its era without exploring queer identities or relationships.
The television series "The Courtship of Eddie's Father" (1969-1972) is a family sitcom centered on a widowed father and his young son. There are no identifiable transsexual characters or themes present in the show's narrative or character arcs. Therefore, the film's net impact on the portrayal of transsexual characters and themes is N/A.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The 1969 TV series "The Courtship of Eddie's Father" is an adaptation of the 1963 film and 1961 novel. All major characters, including Tom Corbett, Eddie Corbett, and Mrs. Livingston, maintain their established genders from the source material in the television adaptation.
The 1969 TV series does not feature any characters who were canonically or widely established as one race in the source novel or 1963 film and then portrayed as a different race. The character of Mrs. Livingston, a Japanese-American housekeeper, was largely an original creation or significant re-imagining for the TV series, not a race swap of an established character.
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