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''My Son Jeep'' is an American
''My Son Jeep'' is an American situation comedy
A sitcom, a portmanteau of situation comedy, or situational comedy, is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who mostly carry over from episode to episode. Sitcoms can be contrasted with sketch comedy, where a troupe may use ne ...
originally broadcast on the NBC
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Radio and Television networks in 1953 (radio: January 25-June 14; television: July 4-September 22, with a "sneak preview" on June 3). Set in Grove Fall, USA, the program starred Martin Huston
Martin Huston (February 8, 1941 – August 8, 2001) was an American television and theatre actor.
Life and career
Huston was born in Lexington, Kentucky. He and his family moved to New York (city), New York, where Huston attended Columbia Uni ...
(later Bobby Alford
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) as Jeffrey "Jeep" Allison, a mischievous ten-year-old boy reminiscent of Dennis the Menace. Jeep was the younger of two children of Dr. Robert Allison, ( Donald Cook and Paul McGrath on radio, Jeffrey Lynn
Jeffrey Lynn (born Ragnar Godfrey Lind; – November 24, 1995) was an American stage-screen actor and film producer who worked primarily through the Golden Age of Hollywood establishing himself as one of the premier talents of his time. Thr ...
on television), a widower and small-town doctor.
The program was later revived as a 15-minute weeknight program on the CBS Radio Network
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(October 3, 1955 – November 9, 1956).
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