Ichabod and Me

Ichabod and Me
Clockwise from top: Robert Sterling, George Chandler, Jimmy Mathers, and Christine White
Created by	Joe Connelly Bob Mosher
Starring	Robert Sterling George Chandler Reta Shaw Jimmy Hawkins Burt Mustin Forrest Lewis Christine White Jimmy Mathers
Composer	Pete Rugolo
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	36
Production
Executive producers	Joe Connelly Bob Mosher
Producer	Irving Paley
Running time	30 minutes
Production companies	JaMco Productions Kayro Productions Revue Studios
Original release
Network	CBS
Release	September 26, 1961 (1961-09-26) – June 5, 1962 (1962-06-05)

Ichabod and Me is an American sitcom series set in a small New England town and starring Robert Sterling and George Chandler. It aired on CBS from September 26, 1961, to June 5, 1962, and was produced by Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher, in association with Jack Benny's "JaMco Productions".

Cast and characters

The storyline features Sterling in the role of 44-year-old Robert "Bob" Major, a widower and newspaper reporter from New York City who moves to the fictional town of Phippsboro to purchase and edit the local paper, The Bulletin. Chandler plays the 63-year-old meddlesome former editor, Ichabod Adams, who has become the municipal traffic commissioner but keeps an eye on Sterling to make sure that the newspaper meets specifications. At the time of his "Ichabod" role, Chandler was also the president of the Screen Actors Guild.

In addition to the two main leads, the cast includes Reta Shaw as Aunt Lavinia, Bob's housekeeper; Christine White as Abigail Adams, Ichabod's daughter and Bob's girlfriend; Jimmy Mathers, the younger brother of Leave It to Beaver's Jerry Mathers, as Benjie, Bob's six-year-old son; Jimmy Hawkins, also a semi-regular on The Donna Reed Show and later Petticoat Junction, as Jonathan Baylor; Burt Mustin, Gus the Fireman on Leave It to Beaver, as Olaf; and Forrest Lewis as Colby.

Episodes

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Air date
1	"Bob's Boat"	Sidney Lanfield	Joe Connelly & Bob Mosher	26 September 1961 (26 September 1961)
2	"Tuttle's Wall"	Unknown	Unknown	3 October 1961 (3 October 1961)
3	"A Letter from Juliet"	Unknown	Unknown	10 October 1961 (10 October 1961)
4	"Firefighters"	Unknown	Calvin Clements Sr.	17 October 1961 (17 October 1961)
5	"The Phippsboro Story"	Unknown	Unknown	24 October 1961 (24 October 1961)
6	"The Purple Cow"	Unknown	Raphael Blau & Gene L. Coon	31 October 1961 (31 October 1961)
7	"Whose Ewe?"	Unknown	Unknown	7 November 1961 (7 November 1961)
8	"Summer Theater"	Unknown	Unknown	14 November 1961 (14 November 1961)
9	"The Printer"	Unknown	Unknown	21 November 1961 (21 November 1961)
10	"Ichabod's Romance"	Unknown	Unknown	28 November 1961 (28 November 1961)
11	"The Barter System"	Unknown	Unknown	5 December 1961 (5 December 1961)
12	"Benjie's Spots"	Norman Abbott	Unknown	12 December 1961 (12 December 1961)
13	"Teenage Journalist"	Unknown	Unknown	19 December 1961 (19 December 1961)
14	"Bob's Redhead"	Unknown	Unknown	26 December 1961 (26 December 1961)
15	"The Phipps Papers"	Norman Abbott	Unknown	2 January 1962 (2 January 1962)
16	"My Friend Lippy"	Unknown	Unknown	9 January 1962 (9 January 1962)
17	"The Ad Salesman"	Unknown	Unknown	16 January 1962 (16 January 1962)
18	"The Old Stowe Road"	Norman Abbott	Unknown	23 January 1962 (23 January 1962)
19	"A Teacher for Bob"	Unknown	Unknown	30 January 1962 (30 January 1962)
20	"Parking Problems"	Unknown	Unknown	6 February 1962 (6 February 1962)
21	"Bob's Teenage Guest"	Unknown	Unknown	13 February 1962 (13 February 1962)
22	"Bob's Housekeeper"	Unknown	Unknown	27 February 1962 (27 February 1962)
23	"Benjie's Indian"	Unknown	Unknown	6 March 1962 (6 March 1962)
24	"Big Business"	Unknown	Unknown	13 March 1962 (13 March 1962)
25	"The Celebrity"	Norman Abbott	Story by : Joseph Hoffman Teleplay by : Bob Ross	20 March 1962 (20 March 1962)
26	"Bob's Bathing Beauties"	Unknown	Unknown	27 March 1962 (27 March 1962)
27	"Lippy's Horse"	Unknown	Unknown	3 April 1962 (3 April 1962)
28	"Election Fever"	Unknown	Unknown	10 April 1962 (10 April 1962)
29	"Bob's Award"	Norman Abbott	Leo Rifkin & Mel Tolkin	17 April 1962 (17 April 1962)
30	"Lippy's Love Affair"	Unknown	Unknown	24 April 1962 (24 April 1962)
31	"Lord Byron of Phippsboro"	Norman Abbott	Unknown	1 May 1962 (1 May 1962)
32	"Benjie's Pageant"	Unknown	Unknown	8 May 1962 (8 May 1962)
33	"Jonathan's Romance"	Unknown	Unknown	15 May 1962 (15 May 1962)
34	"Ichabod's Niece"	Unknown	Unknown	22 May 1962 (22 May 1962)
35	"Women's Rights"	Unknown	Unknown	29 May 1962 (29 May 1962)
36	"Dial Phones"	Unknown	Unknown	5 June 1962 (5 June 1962)

Overview

The pilot, titled "Adam's Apples", was broadcast on April 24, 1960 on CBS's General Electric Theater with Ronald Reagan. The episodes shown that season were "Ichabod's Niece", "The Phippsboro Story", "The Old Stowe Road" (with Mary Treen), "Ichabod's Romance", "Bob's Housekeeper", "A Letter from Juliet", "Teenage Journalist", "Parking Problems", "Bob's Redhead" (with Merry Anders), "Election Fever", "Jonathan's Romance", "The Purple Cow", and "Big Business". Notably, Rod Serling appears as Eugene Hollinfield in the episode "The Celebrity", which was shown on March 20, 1962.

Summer rebroadcasts continued until September 16. The series ran at 9:30 Eastern on Tuesday in a favorable time slot sandwiched between The Red Skelton Show and The Garry Moore Show, both in the Top 15. At the end of each Skelton broadcast, George Chandler urged viewers to stay tuned to Ichabod and Me. Yet viewers left CBS for that half-hour in droves, as Ichabod and Me failed to develop a loyal audience. The competition for Ichabod and Me was not considered formidable. It consisted of the second half of the Leslie Nielsen police drama The New Breed on ABC (until November 14, when The New Breed moved to 8:30 PM and Bert Parks' game show Yours for a Song began airing at 9:30 Eastern), and the second half of The Dick Powell Show, an anthology series on NBC. Ichabod and Me was co-sponsored by The Quaker Oats Company and P. Lorillard Tobacco Company.

External links

• Ichabod and Me at IMDb