The Patty Duke Show and the American Sixties : Hot Dogs and Crêpes SSuzette.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flinn, Caryl.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2026.

Summary:

The popular 1960s The Patty Duke Show featured acting sensation Patty Duke playing identical teen cousins, one all-American, one from Britain. Using production history, interviews, archival research, readings of individual episodes, and analysis of the many tie-ins, the authors demonstrate how the series, typically written off as a silly sitcom, engages with social preoccupations of the time, such as the rise of teen culture and the decline of the male-led nuclear family. They illuminate how Cathy, the English cousin, aligns with Kennedy-era eagerness to embrace US global citizenship; yet the show's centering on all-American Patty keeps domestic norms front and center.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Theme Song Themes

Hot Dogs and Crêpes Suzette: The Project

Introduction

Deprecating Patty

Gender and the Debates On Mass Culture

Not So Normative?

Part I Concocting an American Teen Icon and a Sitcom World

1 Patty Duke

Anna: A Lost Name and Stolen Childhood

"The Glint"

Splitting Patty Duke

Singing and the Self

Billie

In California

The Valley of the Dolls

Post-Valley Work

From Actress to Advocate

2 The Patty Duke Show

The Companies Behind the Sitcom

Chrislaw

The Cast

William Schallert

Jean Byron

Paul O'Keefe

Eddie Applegate

Early Announcements in Trade Journals (Correct and Incorrect)

How They Did It

The Pilot

Behind the Scenes of the Pilot

The Show's Premiere and Initial Reception

The Show Unfolds

Selling "Patty Duke"

To the Teens: Beyond The Patty Duke Show

End of the Line: Season 3

Cancellation

The Reunion TV Movie and PSAs

Other Afterlives

3 Sixties Sitcoms

Sitcom Structure: "Formula"

The Domestic Sitcom: Characters and Characteristics

Children Fixing Families

No Room for Patty

Consumption

Going Intragenerational

Feckless Dads and Boring Beaux

Defanged Erotics

Revising Sex and Love in the Sixties

Marriage-Phobia to the Fore

Part II Televising American Dreams and Conflicts

4 Twins, Doubles, and Their Others

The Dominant Story: The Negative Tradition of Twin Studies

The Mass Reproduction of Sameness: Twinning Goes Multiple

Sixties Mass Culture: Horrific Twinning and Replication

The Gendering of Replication

Masculine Prowess: Fantasies of Extension and Comedies of Diminishment

Two-Way Doubling in the Arts: Crossing Established Lines

Sitcoms: Camping Up Clichés.

Comic Possibilities in the Sixties: Twinning Reenvisioned Through Doubling

Confusion and Competition: Exceptions to Prove the Rule

Legacies of The Patty Duke Show in Popular Culture

Doubling Down On Context: Twinning and Proliferation Across the Decades

The Sixties and Beyond

Conclusion: Youth Must Be Heard

5 Playing With the Political

Youthful Visions of JFK: Doing Good in the World and On TV

Sitcoms and Camelot Cosmopolitanism

America's Cosmopolitan Turn in the Sixties

Cosmopolitanism Turns Inward

Kim's Adoption

Brooklyn: Ground-Zero of Placelessness

Cosmopolitanism Uncovered

Others From Within

Mocking and Minimizing the Other: Ditching Cosmopolitism

Coda

Notes

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-19-766746-5

0-19-766745-7

OCLC:

1583182190