Click on the image to watch an episode of "The Bob Cummnings Show" from 1955.

Bob Cummings Show (1955) NBC

Here's an "oldie" that seemed to get much attention when I posted it within the last couple of weeks. "The Bob Cummings Show" featured longtime film star Robert Cummings as a photographer and swinging bachelor, Bob Collins. This series, produced during a much more innocent time, had Bob spending time in his studio taking pictures of beautiful models. His secretary, in the role of "Shultzy," was Ann B. Davis, who would become the housekeeper of the Brady family on "The Brady Bunch." 

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Bob Collins lived with his widowed sister Margaret McDonald, played by Rosemary DeCamp, and nephew Chuck, played by Dwayne Hickman. 

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You might notice by the credits at the end of the show that many names like Paul Henning, Al Simon, and others were also a part of the production of  "The Beverly Hillbillies" in the early 1960s. Others in the cast of "The Bob Cummings Show" included a few who would later show up in "The Beverly Hillbillies." Look for Nancy Kulp as Pamela Livingston, Lyle Talbot as Paul Fonda, Joi Lansing as Shirley Swanson, and Carol Henning as Olive Sturgess.

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"The Bob Cummings Show," or "Love That Bob," as it is known in syndication, aired on all three networks. It began on NBC on January 2, 1955, and continued through September 1955. After that, it moved to CBS from July 1957 through September 1957. By the end of September 1957, it would move back to NBC to finish its first run broadcast through September 1959. After that, reruns were shown under the name "Love That Bob" as part of the expanded weekday schedule of ABC from October 1959 through December 1961. 

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This episode aired on NBC on June 19, 1955, and aired on WICS, WEEK-TV, WGEM-TV, and KSD-TV.