Smith Family

By Patrick Mondout

This short-lived drama series starred Henry Fonda as veteran plainclothes Los Angeles policeman Det Sgt. Chad Smith. Most of the stories centered around the family problems faced by a member of the police force, who deals with violent criminals on a daily basis, but it also touched on the generation gap between Smith and his college-aged daughter Cindy (played by Darlene Carr).

Janet Blair played his wife Betty while Ronny Howard and Michael-James Wixted played his two sons, aged 15 and 7 respectively.

The show took the place of Room 222, which moved to a to an earlier slot vacated by the cancelled Danny Thomas' show.

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My favorite episodes of the Smith Family were the ones in which I appeared as, "Sidney"... the best friend of Fonda's youngest boy on the show! --Ricky

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