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Thursday, August 2, 2012

"The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"


"The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" has a unique twist to it. The cast who plays the Nelson family...IS the Nelson family. This sitcom is about a REAL family, played by the actual members of the family!
The Nelson family is comprised of Ozzie( the father), Harriet (the mother), David (the oldest son), and Ricky (the youngest).

Ricky Nelson is remembered mostly for his music career, but while he was growing up, he and his family were television stars. In fact, Ricky most likely got into music because his parents had been in the music business before and after they had gotten married. Ozzie was a big band leader and Harriet sang in the band.

"The Adventures" was on television for quite some time. It started when the boys were young adolescents and continued until they were both married.

It is quite a humorous show, and each member of the family contributes to this hilarity. Because the cast is a real family playing themselves, the scenes, the acting, and the episodes are very believable- very good acting and producing in all.

Here is a bit of a summary I found about the show from "tv.com."

The real-life Nelson family - Ozzie, his wife Harriet and their sons David and Ricky - played themselves in this long-running sitcom, where Ricky got his start as a teen idol. When the Nelson boys grew up and married their sweethearts, Kris and June, their real-life wives played their TV wives. The series began as a radio program in 1944. At that time David and Ricky were played by actors. It wasn't until 1949, when radio personality Bing Crosby's sons began to play themselves on Bing's show that the real David and Ricky decided to join the Nelson family radio show. The "adventures" the family experienced every week involved very little conflict or friction. Problems and misunderstandings were solved quickly and with a shared laugh over the silliness of it all.


God Bless til I get back from Beeton-ton!!! 

from left to right: Ozzie, David, Harriet, and Ricky Nelson