{"id":15622,"date":"2016-06-10T18:00:57","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T22:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=15622"},"modified":"2016-06-10T17:48:24","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T21:48:24","slug":"11-fun-facts-about-my-three-sons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=15622","title":{"rendered":"11 Fun Facts About “My Three Sons”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kara Kovalchik<\/b>\u00a0and Mental_Floss<\/strong>\u00a0present 11 Fun Facts About My Three Sons<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/b>\u00a0 Here are three of my favorites…<\/p>\n

1. THE STAR MANAGED TO NEGOTIATE A SWEET SET OF WORKING HOURS FOR HIS SCHEDULE.<\/span><\/strong>
\nFred MacMurray was a well-established film star when he was approached by executive producer Don Fedderson about starring in a TV series. MacMurray agreed with two conditions: one, that he would own a percentage of the show, and two, that he only would be required to work three months of each year. In reality, MacMurray was a dedicated family man, and after years of being away on movie sets had planned to retire early and spend the majority of his time at home with his wife and four-year-old twin daughters. But the money Fedderson offered him was too tempting to pass up\u2014and would secure his children\u2019s future\u2014so he signed on to play the widowed patriarch on My Three Sons<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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MacMurray\u2019s \u201cthree month\u201d stipulation meant that the writers had to have each season\u2019s scripts ready in advance so that MacMurray could film all of his scenes in one fell swoop and have them edited into the various episodes of the series after the fact. Years later, several other actors caught on to this concept and agreed to star in a project only if it was filmed in \u201cthe MacMurray Method.\u201d<\/p>\n

4. BILL FRAWLEY CARRIED A GRUDGE \u2026 TO GREAT LENGTHS.<\/span><\/strong>
\nThat there was no love lost between former I Love Lucy <\/em>co-stars William Frawley and Vivian Vance was certainly no secret in Hollywood, but Frawley had been willing to set aside any personal differences when Desilu proposed a spin-off series starring Fred and Ethel Mertz. Vivian Vance absolutely refused, however, and Frawley never forgave her for denying him a steady paycheck.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the third season of our show, lo and behold, Lucy decided to do The Lucy Show<\/em> and they were on the next stage over from ours,\u201d Stanley Livingston recalled. \u201cShe probably picked that stage knowing Bill and Vivian would have to pass each other. When Bill saw Vivian, he\u2019d yell some sort of obscenity at her. He got me to participate in a couple of his pranks. When she was doing a scene, he\u2019d get us kids on the show to sneak in and knock over a stack of empty film cans or throw them like a Frisbee to make a big racket and ruin her scene so she\u2019d have to do it again.\u201d<\/p>\n

8. THE SERIES CHANGED NETWORKS MIDWAY THROUGH ITS 12-YEAR RUN.<\/span><\/strong>
\nMy Three Sons<\/em> was effectively cancelled by ABC in 1964 because the network was bowing to pressure from rival networks and slowly converting their black-and-white prime time shows to color. All things considered, in their opinion the added expense of filming\u00a0My Three Sons<\/em> in color was not worth it, so they axed the show from their schedule. CBS, however, thought the series still had some legs so they picked it up for the fall 1965 season (and continued running it through 1972).<\/p>\n

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