Don Grady, One of TV's 'My Three Sons,' Dies at 68 [View all]
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Don Grady, an original Mouseketeer on The Mickey Mouse Club who played son Robbie Douglas on the ABC and CBS series My Three Sons, one of the longest-running family sitcoms in history, died Wednesday in Thousand Oaks, Calif., after a battle with cancer. He was 68.
In 1960, three years after he was hired as a Mouseketeer on ABC's Mickey Mouse Club at age 13, Grady began an 11-year run as Robbie on the sitcom My Three Sons, with Fred MacMurray starring as the widower dad, William Frawley (and then William Demarest) as the family housekeeper and Grady, Tim Considine (Mike), Stanley Livingston (Chip) and Barry Livingston (Ernie) as the sons. (Mike was written out at the start of the fifth season and Ernie was adopted, keeping the number of sons at three.)
My Three Sons, which debuted on ABC, moved to CBS in 1965 and began broadcasting in color. With 12 seasons and 380 episodes produced, the Saturday night staple is second only to The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet as TV's longest-running (live-action) family sitcom.
In the 1968-69 season, Grady's character and his wife Katie (Tina Cole) had triplets. He departed the series at the end of the 11th season when Robbie, now a structural engineer, moved to Peru to work on a bridge construction. . .
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Another Boomer memory. Watched My Three Sons every week. RIP.
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