one of Kelly's friends. Evans and Forsythe later starred in the primetime soap opera Dynasty together. Other guest stars include: Jack Albertson Eddie "Rochester" Anderson Frank Bank Jack Benny June Blair Whitney Blake Jean Carson Donna Douglas Barbara Eden Cheryl Holdridge Arlene Howell Charles Lane Sue Ane Langdon Cherylene Lee Jenny Maxwell Gisele MacKenzie Ann McCrea Howard McNear Joyce Meadows Joanna Moore Dean Reed Evelyn Scott Vito Scotti Olan Soule Broadcast history The series' pilot episode, "A New Girl in His Life", originally aired on General Electric Theater on May 26, 1957. The series was first telecast on CBS on September 15, 1957. It originally aired on Sunday evenings on alternating weeks with The Jack Benny Program (Benny guest starred on one episode) opposite NBC's Sally and ABC's Maverick with James Garner. The show moved to NBC as a weekly series on Thursday nights in June 1959 (the Summer 1959 run on NBC were reruns of previous CBS episodes) and concluded its run on that network in September 1961. The series then moved on to ABC on Tuesday nights in 1961 for its final season. The last "first run" episode (the 157th unique episode) aired on June 26, 1962, with reruns filling the remainder of the summer. Bachelor Father is the only series to ever run in consecutive seasons on all three major TV networks of the time (ABC, CBS and NBC). On November 22, 1963, a re-run episode of Bachelor Father was airing on several NBC affiliates in the Eastern Time Zone, Don Pardo broke in at 1:45 PM EST with the first bulletin of the shooting of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas. Episodes Season 1 (1957–58) Season 2 (1958–59) * Because of the Hollywood Blacklist, Alfred Lewis Levitt was credited as "Tom August". Season 3 (1959–60) Season 4 (1960–61) Season 5 (1961–62) Production notes Bachelor Father was filmed at Revue Studios. It was primarily sponsored by American Tobacco (Tareyton cigarettes) and American Home Products Corporation (Anacin, Dristan and Chef Boyardee) throughout its original run. The series was produced by Forsythe's "Bachelor Productions" in association with MCA's Revue Studios. Bachelor Father pilot and broadcast season were produced by Harry Ackerman, who left Revue/MCA after the first season to produce other sitcoms like Hazel, Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie for Screen Gems/Columbia. He was later replaced by Everett Freeman for the rest of the show's run. Syndication Reruns