Window on Main Street

infobox television
show_name = Window on Main Street
format = Sitcom
picture_format = Black and white
runtime = 30 minutes
starring = Robert Young
Ford Rainey
Constance Moore
Tim Matheson
country = United States
network = CBS
first_aired = October 2, 1961
last_aired = September 12, 1962
num_seasons = 1
num_episodes = unknown
imdb_id = 0054579infobox person
name=Robert Young
footnotes=(1) Of the three Robert Young television series, "Window on Main Street" was the only unsuccessful one, but it evoked nostalgia of an earlier, simpler time in the United States.

(2) As a child actor, Tim Matheson was cast as a 13-year-old in "Window on Main Street". He went on to a successful career in films.

(3) Young's "Father Knows Best" was being carried in prime time repeats during the 1961-1962 season in which he starred and worked in the production of his "Window on Main Street".

"Window on Main Street" is a largely-forgotten nostalgic sitcom-drama series starring Robert Young, which aired on CBS Television in the 1961-1962 season. Young, who had left the discontinued "Father Knows Best" a year earlier, was cast as Cameron Garrett "Cam" Brooks, a widower-author, who returns to his hometown of fictional Millsburg (possibly in New England) to renew his friendship with Lloyd Ramsey, the editor of the local newspaper, portrayed by Ford Rainey (1908-2005). [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0707077/<] The people of Millsburg become the subjects of Cam's stories. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054579/plotsummary<]

Tim Matheson, as 13-year-old Roddy Miller, appeared in "Window on Main Street" eight years before he joined the cast of "The Virginian" on NBC in 1969 in the role of Jim Horn. [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001513/<] Constance Moore (1920-2005) appeared as Cam's blonde female friend Christina "Chris" Logan, who had remained behind years earlier, when she was known as "Tina", and he left Millsburg for points undisclosed. [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0601073/<] Ludwig Stössel (1883-1973), a Jewish actor from Austria who fled the Nazis in the 1930s, guest starred in two episodes of "Window on Main Street", having also appeared earlier on "Father Knows Best". [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0836724/<]

Young, along with the "Father Knows Best" producer Eugene B. Rodney, worked in the writing and production of some of the episodes of "Window on Main Street". [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0734932/ Eugene B. Rodney ] ]

"Window on Main Street" premiered on Monday, October 2, 1961, and closed on September 12, 1962. In the Christmas Day episode, 1961, Cam reluctantly accepts the presidency for the Millsburg charity drive. His appointment upsets Hub Hartwig, who wanted the job himself. In the November 27 episode, Lloyd Ramsey receives an interesting "Letter to the Editor" from a young reader who asks, "I know that God started the world, but who started God"? [ [http://www.tv.com/window-on-main-street/show/5456/summary.html< Window on Main Street - TV.com ] ]

On the CBS schedule, "Window on Main Street" followed the second and final season of "Pete and Gladys", starring Harry Morgan and Cara Williams, and preceded "The Danny Thomas Show". The program took over the time slot vacated the previous season by the unsuccessful "Bringing Up Buddy" starring Frank Aletter. "Window on Main Street" was paired opposite "The Price Is Right" starring Bill Cullen on NBC and Chuck Connors in "The Rifleman" on ABC. [1961-1962 United States network television schedule]

"Father Knows Best" was still on the CBS schedule on Wednesdays in prime time repeats during the 1961-1962 season; so Young was featured in two network comedies the same season. [ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054579/ "Window on Main Street" (1961) ] ]

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