Bill mentioned later on he was saddened when the show was cancelled, he said he would have liked to tackle Eddie's teenage years.
@cathystruska15582 ай бұрын
I watched this show from th beginning in 1969 to its end. I was 11 in 1969 And my dad raised me by myself for my first ten years- when my stepmom came aboard it all changed. My dad and I had that kind of relationships he would even take me to hear jazz on Sundays when it had a dry bar between 2 and 5pm. I think it made her angry She was an ex nun and not very warm. Tomorrow my dad will be gone 11 years. The last 23 years of his life he got wise to her gaslighting and my father and I reclaimed our relationship which pissed her off more. This theme song could have been our own Pop, I love and miss you- proud to be your son- Thomas Struska Jr
@craigmorris729818 күн бұрын
❤❤❤❤
@odikoyote87639 күн бұрын
I hope you find peace and mercy on the ex nun too - 🎉 God bless you and your awesome dad!
@sisco34047 жыл бұрын
Watched this show as a young kid. Fatherless. It pained me to see Eddie with a loving father. 40 years later it still hurts just as much.Go figure.
@YooTuba4 жыл бұрын
I'm so sorry you had that experience. I think we all feel that way when we see movies or TV shows portraying some relationship we'd love to have but through no fault of our own didn't get.
@Michshnly4 жыл бұрын
i'm fighting to see my son right now still in custody battle. $23,500 attorney fees and still patiently waiting. He's 3 years old now. Haven't seen him in over a year. I will be Eddies father when my day in court comes October 8/2020.
@joelanderos233 жыл бұрын
@@Michshnly so, what happened?
@timsmith29333 жыл бұрын
I have the same feelings in a similar circumstance. Just this opening song brings me right back to what were foundational moments of my childhood.
@matthewh50013 жыл бұрын
Sad . Crazy how some feelings just never leave ya . Even 40 yrs later .
@karenlbellmont6560 Жыл бұрын
Bill Bixby. Handsome, talented and passed too soon.😢
@stevenwellington62986 жыл бұрын
I remembered this song as a kid growing up in the 70's and now it reminds me of the wonderful times I spends with my son now, who is of course my best friend ;)
@RonRock19672 жыл бұрын
Childhood memories this song brings to mind....🥰
@goldenblueeye5472 Жыл бұрын
Loved watching this show.
@josephphoenix13762 ай бұрын
Me too..
@user-sj3oi9md2i Жыл бұрын
my dad was my best friend when I was in high school. :)
@YooTuba8 жыл бұрын
It always gets me that Harry Nilsson, whose own father abandoned the family when Harry was 3 and pretty much messed up Harry's young life, could write such a charming song about a father-son relationship. Although I did hear it was written as a song about a girlfriend first and then just changed slightly to be about a father.
@c8Lorraine17 жыл бұрын
yootuba All these years, I didn't realise Harry Nilsson wrote and sang the opening song !
@dadadruma4 жыл бұрын
Nice to see a Harry fan here! Did you see the documentary Who is Harry??? OMG AMAZING . It was recently up here on the tube but it looks as though it was removed UGH
@YooTuba4 жыл бұрын
I did see that some years ago. Wouldn't mind seeing it again.
@Stinkbug743 жыл бұрын
I didn't know the background on the song but did know that Harry wrote and sang it and that I've always liked this song.
@DavidCAdams3 жыл бұрын
Girlfriend - Harry Nilsson. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fWK8hICQj56Vl9E
@michellejohnson27513 жыл бұрын
This was very important sitcom of parent and child friendship ❤😍👏👏🥇
@QuaaludeCharlie2 жыл бұрын
Grew up watching this as a Child , I had no Idea this started from a 1963 Movie and had Ron Howard playing Eddie opposite Henry Ford . My Dad was pretty cool , miss Him .
@briannichols48072 жыл бұрын
I saw that movie years after the TV show and like you I didn't know that there was a movie first . By the way , that was actually Glenn Ford playing Eddie's father in the movie , not Henry . I know that because I remember he played Jonathan Kent in the first Superman movie with Christopher Reeve . It was an easy mistake to make , no biggie !! Also like you , my father passed away and I still miss him !!
@suzakule6 жыл бұрын
Just, Don't make him angry... you wouldn't like him when he's angry! :)
@moodifull4 жыл бұрын
He was never angry as a father. Although Bill Bixby lost his son in real life. He was an exceptional man and a very talented actor💜
@Stinkbug743 жыл бұрын
Lol true, besides, greens not exactly my favorite color.
@kungfucommando16423 жыл бұрын
@@moodifull Bill Bixby’s next TV series after this was “The Incredible Hulk”. He was known to say “you won’t like me when I’m angry”.
@oldmoneyswag65043 жыл бұрын
Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrraaaaahhhhhhhhhh!!! Lol lol lol Hulk Destroy🤣🤣🤣
@denisewhitson64243 жыл бұрын
That's hilarious 😂
@JohnMartinez-ty5jw2 жыл бұрын
I grew up with an abusive stepfather I'm sad right now holding in tears I'm 58 years old and still wish I had a father like Eddie. My real father became well off a very successful businessman and I grew up poor me and my real father never mixed I don't know what I'm saying but my mother used to tease me and say that I should move in with my father and be like the courtship of Eddie's father I really did wish I was like Eddie growing up God bless all men who are real good Fathers unfortunately I didn't grow up to be one oh no can't hold the tears in anymore by everyone
@dbozz805611 ай бұрын
As a woman of 56 I also struggle sometimes wishing I had a good father who didn't verbally abuse us. He took us from my poor single Mom for 5 years and they were the worst of my life. He still did it as an adult and I had to let him go, but my siblings, niece & nephews still see him. The feeling never leaves you.
@JosephBolton-xp2lt3 ай бұрын
My heart goes out to you and God bless! Reading your post really just made me sad.
@Poppaea-Sabina Жыл бұрын
Harry Nilsson was a brilliant songwriter with a voice that could melt buttah.
@chiefscheider Жыл бұрын
Cat's in the Cradle was my favorite
@terrylwjrwa59706 ай бұрын
@@chiefscheider Harry Chapin did Cat's in the Cradle.
@bethprice Жыл бұрын
Song now (2023) used on a commercial - brought me right back to the 60's
@chiefscheider Жыл бұрын
Yes, the song was in an ad for Hy-Vee grocery stores. Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce were in it 👍
@spookynightthelegendofclar40493 жыл бұрын
I freaking loved this show 💕
@LokiDWolf-im7jg Жыл бұрын
A show about a father and his relationship with his son. No more, no less. It was an incredible show!! And fantastic theme song!
@waltersmetak6 жыл бұрын
Its been about 45 years since I last heard this tune......
@20alphabet4 жыл бұрын
No, it was a year ago.
@bigauntiebreenab2 жыл бұрын
My 20 yr old was singing this…NEVER KNEW WHERE IT CAME FROM
@seanparchim9165 Жыл бұрын
I used to sit and watch this weekly with my Mom and Grandma this is beyond just a great memory RIP mom and gram's
@rilgin6 жыл бұрын
One of my earliest memories as a child was watching reruns of this show...must of been late 70s at the time!? Amazing
@Stinkbug743 жыл бұрын
I was thinking that the 70's might be when the originals aired but I guess maybe it was in the late 60's. Was one of my favorite shows when I was a kid.
@oldmoneyswag65043 жыл бұрын
Me too
@quietyoutrash81503 жыл бұрын
Me too also the flying nun and room 222
@BerlinerinToni2 жыл бұрын
I must've seen them in the late '70s too, as I wouldn't have been old enough to remember the original run. One of the networks must have been re-running them on weekday afternoons, because I remember this show came on right after something else we watched regularly (and there was nothing else then but the Big Three Networks, plus PBS!). I can't remember what that show was, but I definitely remember watching the opening montage and theme song many, many times (even if we didn't always stick around for the whole show).
@marktramel6635 Жыл бұрын
Early 70s
@lorrainejordan6518 Жыл бұрын
I reckon I lost out on watching this. Pity it was never screened in England. We missed a great TV show and an even better actor in Bix. RIP you absolute Diamond of a guy
@empireofshaolindvds45922 жыл бұрын
Me too watched as a young kid in the 1960s while my father had the family traveling every 4 years in the Coast Guard till year 1987. I remembered seeing This when I was very young .
@ellenrobisonfrost97178 жыл бұрын
One of my Absolute favorite TV shows of all time. I love to watch it over and over again I have all the seasons on DVD. Sometimes it pays to have short term memory loss!
@lesiamccord53342 жыл бұрын
I started watching this when I was about 4 or 5 yo. My deceased sister and I loved the theme song. This reminds me of her and the good old days
@edwardbennett78132 жыл бұрын
I wish I had a dad like him very lucky he was
@marilynschaedel6578 Жыл бұрын
I loved this show so much and was in love with Brandon Cruz!! We were the same age. I think maybe a couple weeks apart! I named my son Brandon because I loved that little boy so much and his name! When I hear the theme song it gives me goosebumps! Beautiful memories!!! Cutest show ever❤❤
@ralphtom3431 Жыл бұрын
Heres brandon now kzbin.info/www/bejne/pXrTpGV8qLiIbdU
@mikewrasman51032 жыл бұрын
I liked The Courtship of Eddie's Father very much as a pre-teenager.
@Tiberius2912 жыл бұрын
I was 10 years old when this show aired, i also watched "Julia" starring Diahann Carroll and Lloyd Nolan.
@oldmoneyswag65043 жыл бұрын
I love this theme song
@darcyguthrie5623 Жыл бұрын
Harry Nilsson
@rongolf6807golf7 жыл бұрын
At 13 I wanted to kill myself but I made a promise to be a dad unlike mines was to me . I avenged my tears by loving my son to more than anything .
@k.r.murphy43015 жыл бұрын
Ronald Jenkins That is so beautiful. Both of my parents were downright evil. My older sister just passed bc my parents didn’t love her, they demeaned her and they didn’t show her how to make good decisions. Your tears were your motivation. As were mine. Be so proud of yourself for breaking the chain.
@hopkinsonevil5 жыл бұрын
Sometimes I think I should just quit my job and be more like Eddie's father spending more time with my youngest son who needs me more than I need the job. I've been so cruel...
@k.r.murphy43015 жыл бұрын
Ferry Antoni. It’s never too late until it’s too late.
@CraigCastanet5 жыл бұрын
Ronald, from one dad to another, hugs to you. God bless. You too, know the preciousness of sons. I'm sorry your dad did not. Love you.
@chaoskl21835 жыл бұрын
Walter
@juliegorham Жыл бұрын
Love this old song. I loved the show too! So thoughtful. We need another!
@the93rdkid7 жыл бұрын
I loved this show, and I remember one episode where Eddie heard from a classmate that if his father didn't reprimand or spank him, he must not love him. So for the episode, Eddie keeps trying to get into trouble and finally reveals to his dad why he is behaving so.
@Author.Noelle.Alexandria Жыл бұрын
I grew up thinking parents who loved their kids spanked them. I was so sure of it, yet didn’t like to admit to my friends that I was spanked when they weren’t. When I became a mom, so much of what I thought was normal and loving parenting were things I couldn’t do to my own daughter. It pains me that a show a long time before I was born got it, but my parents still did it to me.
@nicecatholicgrl3 жыл бұрын
I love this show as a kid!! Watch this and the monkees faitfully! Lol
@albertspearman21113 жыл бұрын
Best TV dad ever!
@priscillaford47612 жыл бұрын
I named my first cat Mr. Bixby. I had such a crush on Eddie's father when I was 6❤
@jessicawilson80592 жыл бұрын
Watched this with my dad when I was like 7...too bad the show only lasted such a short time.
@bobingalls4643 Жыл бұрын
Yes, you are old if you remember this. Remember Love American Style?
@PaulSorensen-kf9xq Жыл бұрын
I DO remember "Love, American Style". When I would get home from school it was on, as was Courtship of Eddie's Father. I don't know if they were on each day (this would have been early-mid 1970's so the shows would have been in syndication by then). And I sort of remember Gilligan's Island and the Monkees being on as well. Not sure if all four of these shows were on the same channel, or if I was spending 2+ hours in front of the TV before my folks came home from work.
@1401minstrel5 ай бұрын
Yep. I remember this and Love American Style. And yes, I'm old and proud of it! Love American Style's theme song was by the Cowsills. I miss the time when we had great TV theme songs, and they were sometimes sung by famous people.
@harrycarrey51242 жыл бұрын
The shows we watched as kids that you just wonder how did they even get on the air but then become a permanent memory.
@boobraschmidt21993 жыл бұрын
This show was so neat I loved it
@paulwade13196 жыл бұрын
god bless the spirit of bill bixby amen . paul wade
@reginamcday19552 жыл бұрын
I loved watching this show as a kid. 😊
@diehard-schenker-fan72339 жыл бұрын
Love Harry Nilsson!!
@brettcurtis57107 ай бұрын
The late great Harry Nilsson - magic!
@maryannwaters339 Жыл бұрын
Love it! ❤ Theme song "The Courtship of Eddie's Father." 1969-72.
@MultiPaulomota8 жыл бұрын
when I was young a series of my life
@northernbettygirl7 ай бұрын
Bill Bixby, what a sweet man. Loved him in this show, My Favorite Martian (as Tim) and he broke my heart in The Incredible Hulk as David Banner. I still love and miss him 🙏🏼
@lindalackey50113 жыл бұрын
I use to love this show
@Silverado1st2 жыл бұрын
I always loved this song! Even though I had a daughter, this could've been our theme song from all the silly fun we had, making up Yo Mamma jokes, flying kites, playing hide and seek, from peek a boo and Saturday morning cartoons to playing the first Matrix game. Then we kinda went our separate ways, she went the way of Runescape and I got sucked into the World of Warcraft black hole. My heart goes out to all who missed out on those moments in life with a parent or being one.
@Silverado1st2 жыл бұрын
Then my daughter brought to my attention videos she watched called Salad Fingers and I tried to figure out where I went wrong lol. But suddenly cartoons I grew up with didn't seem so bad!
@TrishBell18 жыл бұрын
aw so cute, how can one night smile with this one.
@lam5334 ай бұрын
Few years later became the star pitcher for Roy Turner's Yankees
@user-gt1io7nm9m2 ай бұрын
Bill Bixby was also in another television show in mid 1970's called the Magician...
@ACwebseries4 ай бұрын
Watching an old episode of South Park. One of the storylines was about Stan looking up to his father Randy and one scene played out like a music video. The song was a knock off of COEF theme song. Knew it instantly.
@BerlinerinToni2 жыл бұрын
Which season(s) was this opening montage from, does anyone know? I found another version of it where most of the video footage is filmed on a beach, but this is the one I remember seeing as a kid: a lot of running, swimming in the pool, and riding in that tiny MG. I think I liked the theme song and intro more than I liked the show itself! 😊 What a great memory from the early- to mid-'70s. ✌✌
@user-wl9ed5xt5w3 ай бұрын
Porsupuesto que recuerda mi infancia hace exactamente 50años 😢
@redtidalwave33779 ай бұрын
This was a long time ago.. im old... 😢
@anadthebarbarian9 жыл бұрын
You get a share due to the audio quality- it's about time *thumbs up*
@jckrell7 ай бұрын
Why does KZbin ruin these videos by putting advertisements for other videos on top of them with 25% of the video left?
@teresaprivate45902 жыл бұрын
Did anyone else grow up wishing he was Dad? ;( :)
@Replayability7 жыл бұрын
Wasn't there a quick instrumental fade off at the end instead of cutting off like that?
@BuellStreetBlaster6 ай бұрын
Don't make Eddie's father angry. You wouldn't like him when he's angry.
@1401minstrel5 ай бұрын
😅😅😂😂🤣🤣
@Shell0517nj Жыл бұрын
Netflix "Unstable" brought me here.
@TheGlssr604 ай бұрын
I think it's funny how the intro shows them doing all these things together but in the show I don't remember them doing anything like that together.
@MaryHartman-ei9pv2 ай бұрын
I loved this show 😂❤❤❤❤ #thewonderyears
@yolandambridges4748 жыл бұрын
I remember the theme song but nothing of the show. No one I ask "do you remember. ..." even recalls the show lol
@inthemix76408 жыл бұрын
+Yolanda Marie Bridges i loved this show and didn't miss it. it was on in the 60s or early 70s. it was about a single dad raising his son.
@yolandambridges4748 жыл бұрын
That's all I remember. Single dad raising his son and a foggy memory of peanut butter sandwiches - not sure if the sandwiches were affiliated with the show like a running theme or if I ate sandwiches while watching :)
@inthemix76408 жыл бұрын
+Yolanda Marie Bridges i don't remember any details of the show except that I really liked it. I think I was about the age of Eddie and his dad was really cute. as far as the peanut butter sandwiches, that was probably both them eating it and you. :)
@Stinkbug743 жыл бұрын
@@yolandambridges474 I think I recall the maid always fixing him peanut butter sandwiches. Now I wish I could remember her name.. I always liked her, she was such a sweetie.
@chiefscheider Жыл бұрын
@@Stinkbug74 Mrs Livingston, played by Miyoshi Umeki.
@billhallock30628 жыл бұрын
love harry nilssson
@FrankdfnАй бұрын
It sounds weird but every time i Queen's Best Friend i think of this show.
@Fred.Carpenter2 күн бұрын
Mr. Eddie's Father
@1401minstrel5 ай бұрын
Love me some Harry Nilsson.
@peggypenny19 жыл бұрын
shes a warm hearted person wholl love me till the end..............sailor gutzler
@ash141714 жыл бұрын
I’ve been trying to find this song to download and i can’t find it on iTunes 😭😭😭
@justintyme14493 жыл бұрын
You know this could be a hilarious mash up.......car drives away, edit in spare tires hulk out 😂 Scene where he is shopping with his son and edit in the hulk smashing the toy tank Add the classic pay phone hulk out of course 😂
@anonymoushuman83442 жыл бұрын
I remember the show fondly from when it was in syndication in the 70s. But the lyrics of the song describe a situation that is not healthy. The singer seems to use his son emotionally as a substitute for adult friends and even for a spouse. It's healthy and normal for a parent to relive the joys of childhood through appropriate play. Making one's child one's best friend is not. It's what is sometimes called "emotional incest."
@LeftysLefty2 жыл бұрын
My Mother abandoned us when I was 9 the year before the show came out and for the life of me I couldn't understand why my father wasn't like Eddie's father. As an adult I understand it's all a television trope but as a real life Motherless kid this show certainly set me up with very false expectations.
@Mike-pj1kv Жыл бұрын
People let me tell ya bout my best friend? My dad was my dad. My best friend is my friend.
@CharlesCCRidesChandler9 жыл бұрын
People..!..let me tell you 'bout my best friend...etc...)O(...
@douglasmachacek95794 жыл бұрын
Look out kid! The Incredible Hulk is chasing you!
@1acroyear17 жыл бұрын
Hah! Let's see a show about father-son relationships today.
@heatherferreira42256 жыл бұрын
Production costs money. So back the series. We'd make one. I'd die to see a series like this on American airwaves again, and I'm a woman.
@20alphabet4 жыл бұрын
No doubt it'll be a show with two homosexual men dicking the little boy.
@oldmoneyswag65043 жыл бұрын
Two and a half men is the closest well get.
@MoniqueFromPlymouth4 жыл бұрын
My generation was introduced to Bill Bixby in "The Incredible Hulk" when the show was first broadcast on CBS. With the popularity of "Hulk" at the time, my local TV station started showing reruns of "The Courtship of Eddie's Father" obviously for those who want to see more of Bixby. I am sure it was the same across all the U.S. TV markets.
@ohioplayer3 жыл бұрын
U should check out my favorite martian
@madonnaamadonnaa85806 жыл бұрын
J adore!
@madcat612079 ай бұрын
What style of music is this?
@1401minstrel5 ай бұрын
Pop
@luvyesmusici48862 жыл бұрын
I'm a great dad, just not as fashionable, patient and polite as Bill was. ;-)
@ivelissediaz9583 Жыл бұрын
The shaq brought me here.
@timsmith29333 жыл бұрын
I love this post and this song brings my 54 year-old self right back to childhood. But watching Bill Bixby really hug and kiss this child actor is a little disturbing by 2020 standards. I've always liked Bill... hope he wasn't a creep.
@melsmith26693 жыл бұрын
Well it is no worse than always hearing the flimzy guy from Restaurant Impossible and his ex wrestler wife from wwe always bragging about how lucky they are to have each other and how they are the perfect adorable lovely amazing power couple (soulmates) and how they married up when they got married 8 years ago in May 2012. Oh my god. If I hear about that annoying shit one more time I am going to be nauseatingly sick.
@glynisbell90973 жыл бұрын
RELAX already......geez!
@mitsuomits90773 жыл бұрын
This sounds so much like Revolution from The Beatles🧐
@user-jc3kf8zy9u3 жыл бұрын
مسلسل 😘
@nostradumbass49842 жыл бұрын
I seem to be in the minority here. I also watched this show as a kid in the ´70s, and it bored me to death.
@jamestatumpeddicord80613 жыл бұрын
Lisa, k o l e the smartest boy I have ever known he's smarter than most men and he's only 8 years old Lisa freeze cold freeze is a beautiful boy Jay is a beautiful son your free will is your free will🌈 I heard you and his father speaking you should be very proud of yours children especially the one called k o l e I would never say such a thing to you to where he could hear it I would never say anything like that you're an educator mama a good teachers hard to find ,,,the neighbor... Levi petticord AKA James
@daleknight7777 ай бұрын
Idk bout them lyrics
@LarryLeeMoniz2 жыл бұрын
Hey, Warner Archive... who's the douchebag you hired to put these videos up? They can even manage not to cut off the beginning and ending. FAIL.