 Connelly often took the boys on outings while carrying a notebook to record their conversations and activities.Other writers who contributed to the show were Bill Manhoff, Mel Diamond, Dale and Katherine Eunson, Ben Gershman, George Tibbles (who later became the head writer on "My Three Sons"), Fran van Hartesvelt, Bob Ross, Alan Manings, Mathilde and Theodore Ferro, John Whedon and the team of Dick Conway and Roland MacLane, who wrote many of the shows for the last two seasons.Connelly told an interviewer, "If we hire a writer we tell him not to make up situations, but to look into his own background.