Paul Henning

One of the best comedies of the late ’50s, and one of the exceptions to the rule that late ’50s television tended to be pro-social and family-friendly, was The Bob Cummings Show (retitled Love That Bob for syndication), starring former movie star Robert Cummings as a playboy fashion photographer. It divided its time between his work and his home, except that his “work” involved photographing and dating beautiful women, and his home life was as a resolutely single man who had taken his sister (Rosemary DeCamp) and her teenage son (Dwayne Hickman) into his home. Also starred Nancy Kulp and a young Ann B. Davis (well, young-ish).