The series itself was famously dismissed by critics when it premiered in 1964. Its premise-a three-hour tour gone oh-so-wrong-was absurd even by sitcom standards, and its broad comedy made no attempt ...

Alan Hale Jr. was born Alan Hale MacKahan on March 8, 1921, in Los Angeles, into a household where show business was neither exotic nor romanticized. His mother, Gretchen Hartman, had worked as a ...