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Brady bunch. I believe he was reading Jonathan Livingston Seagull.
Because Bob Newhart.
Well certainly not because Suzanne Pleshette.
Anyway, didn’t Samantha and Darren have one? I have seen the first few seasons of Bewitched and I’m pretty sure there was one bed.
What about Petticoat Junction?
Brady Bunch.
According to Snopes it was first seen on the Dumont network...years and years ago. Now, we ask, would Snopes fail to tell US the truth?
http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/marykay.asp
Right, the first mainstream program to show a married couple together in bed was the Flintstones. I read somewhere that the first non-animated show was Green Acres but I’m not sure about that. I remember growing up thinking my parents were weird because they didn’t sleep on twin beds separated by a dresser.
Sounds like "progress" to me!
Bob & Emily’s bed was about 200 square feet.
It was huge.
I thought it was The Munsters.
Oh my, so not in “I Love Lucy” nor the immortal “I Married Joan”, eh?
Who was first? There has long been much confusion about which married couple first shared the same bed on TV. Some have said Lucy and Ricky of I Love Lucy, others have gone for Carol and Mike of The Brady Bunch, Wilma and Fred of The Flintstones, Lily and Herman of The Munsters, and, of course, Samantha and Darrin of Bewitched. Strangely enough, it was none of these. The winner is Mary Kay and Johnny, which first aired on November 18, 1947. This was a 15-minute series that ran for three years. The Flintstones [1960-1966] were next, but are often discounted because they were cartoon characters, not real people. Next would be Bewitched and The Munsters both of which first aired in 1964.
Bewitched first showed Darrin and Samantha sharing a bed on October 22, 1964. The Munsters first showed Herman and Lily sharing the same bed in the episode "Autumn Croakus," which aired on November 26, 1964. The Brady Bunch didn’t come along until 1969. The Ricardos and the Nelsons, for example, always used twin beds.
It's from a blog, so you have been warned. http://www.harpiesbizarre.com/bedtime.htm
To Mr. Newhart: "Hi, Bob. You're mistaken."
Regards,
I lived that era
Regardless
Susan Pleshette
Liz Montgomery
Yvonne DeCarlo
Wilma Flintstone
Florence Henderson
Any of those gals and I’m all in on the single bed concept
And then some...
Especially Pleshette
Bob Newhart is one of my favorites but, I swear Hollywood has the worst dentists. Those teeth are so big that they don’t even fit his mouth.
Amazing. All that money and such poor dentistry.
Not true.
The first married couple to sleep in the same bed were Frankie and Johnny, who starred in a sitcom by the same name on the Dumont Network in the late 1940’s.
Frankie and Johnny were married to each other in real life.
