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Great interview. My Three Sons was part of my childhood back when the shows were worth watching. Very few in more recent times come close. Enjoyed hearing all the little unknown tidbits of information. Thanks for the memories, Barry.
me too ! such an old school sitcom that captured our era so well. The 😮cast was one of a kind with the iconic FRED MacMURRY portraying the laid back all knowing Father. I had no idea what happened to Barry Livingston. my grandmother worked in film editing at COLUMBIA and SCREEN GEMS before it was restructured
Last year I was finally able to find Barry’s book. It was really good! I really enjoy watching Barry and his brother Stan on my three sons. Their interviews are also so interesting! Thank you John and Bob for bringing us this great interview! Thanks to Barry for being so generous with his time!😘
II still have to read his book but I am definitely buying it. Thank you for your kind feedback. We love doing the interviews. Thanks for being a terrific supporter and subscriber:)
@@ThatsClassicTV I had a heckuva time finding his book because it was not available in audio. So I had to read it in e-book. That’s OK, but I really prefer my memoirs in audio with the actor/author reading their book! Yes, a little spoiled here!
@@ThatsClassicTV sorry, I did not see it on Audible when I went to read it. Yes, he would’ve done great reading his book! I read a lot of memoirs/biographies. It is pretty much a dealbreaker for me if the author does not read the audio. Hence the reason I actually passed up reading Leif Garrett’s book. He didn’t read it. As interested as I was, that really took away from the whole experience for me. So I will probably read it on e-book! I know, sounds really picky and spoiled! Lol
Awesome! Both Barry and Stanley are such smart, sweet, professional guys! It's no surprise these shows became hits, and endured because of all the GREAT people involved. THANK YOU ALL for sharing this behind the scenes info!!!! 📺❤️
Barry was the best actor in My Three Sons. He was the best part of the whole series. I always wanted to hang out with him and play GI Joes and other toys. Amazing to hear him speak about it. Thank you for one of the best shows ever.
This is great ‼️I’ve seen Stanley interviewed several times on TH-cam. But, I’ve never seen Barry interviewed. Every once I a while a show I’m watching Barry pops up. Both his brother and he are so fun and professional. I know they are both involved in the business still.
Thrilled you found it! Barry is still acting and Stanley is involved in various projects behind the scenes. In fact, I will publish my interview with Stanley in the near future. Both of them have great stories.
Barry and Billy Mumy and Butch Patrick are all 70 now (crazy) but still very sharp and competed for juvenile roles against each other for years. I have watched all three interviews you did with them. It would be interesting to get the three of them together for a roundtable discussion.
I am sure I am not the only one with tons of tabs open at the mention of projects Barry has been involved in! Great interview; very entertaining and informative! I am happy to have discovered your channel.
Loved that show, I watched daily after school and in some ways Fred MacMurray was more if a father figure to me than my own dad. Uncle Charlie and the boys provided a sense of calmness and I really miss that.
Great interview! Barry seems like a nice, down to earth person with fabulous stories & am amazing resume. Ill look for his book & for him to pip up in more tv shows & movies.
I'm about the same age as Mr. Livingston. I remember during the initial run of the show, I had trouble with the Frawley/Demarest change as well as the Considine/Livingston change. The latter may have had more to do with the absence of Merideth MacRae than with Tim Considine. Anyway, I'm watching the show now and can see that Barry was an incredibly good actor, perhaps even the equal of Lisa Loring of the Addams Family. It's no wonder why the writers gave him so many of the best lines and made him the focus of so many of the stories.
Barry was a great child actor and is still a terrific actor. Very interesting about all the cast changes, what is even more amazing is the show survived all of them!
Hi Frances, so glad you found my channel! Hope you subscribed as more interviews are on the way. Enjoy going through my channel, I think you will have a blast!
I remember watching my three sons back in the 1960s with the big 19 inch console television that set on the floor that has two speakers on each side it was awesome to watch, I would lay on the floor on my stomach and legs and have my arms propped up on my chin and watching.Those were the day fo great TV classics.
Enjoyed this a lot. I remember seeing Barry on a Lucy Show episode. I especially like My Three Sons when they moved to a new home and introduced Tina Cole to the series.
Barry was hysterical on the Lucy Show where she cuts his hair, so funny. Tina came along at the perfect time to inject a new energy into My Three Sons.
Thank you for this great installment. Great stories from a true raconteur. I love his wonderful offhand humor and wit, hearing about Jack Benny, and the recollections of Barry's relationship with Freddie de Cordova.
i was thinking oh well maybe ill check out B.L. interview i have a minute. A BRILLIANT EPISODE one of the best. BARRY IS A TREASURE TROVE of knowledge about HOLLYWOOD and charming likeable in everyway
Thank you very much. I enjoyed Barry’s book as well. Make sure you check out my interview with Tina Cole as well! Enjoy the rest of the interviews and more to come😀
Gwyn so glad you enjoyed the interview. I agree I thought his stories were wonderful😀Please subscribe to my TH-cam channel, it’s free and there are other fantastic interviews. Thanks!
Really? If you don't agree with him politically on Facebook, he will call you names. I saw him being very rude to some people. His political views shouldn't be shoved down everyone's throats. Stanley is the same way.
So glad I stumbled onto your channel John. My Three Sons is one of my favorite shows and it was great to hear Barry give insight into the back stories. Keep up the great work!
Thank you very much! I am also interviewing his brother Stanley this coming week. Make sure you subscribe and hit the notification bell so you don’t miss it😀
Ernie and later Dotie were my absolute favorites. They’re acting was so genuine; cute and really funny. Honestly Don Grady seemed full of himself. Chip was alright but Ernie was real and so cute. I’m not surprised Barry was the most successful and versatile. I see so much authenticity in him. Still so cute!
Barry is very genuine and stills is passionate about acting. Just was with him a couple days ago and he is still auditioning consistently. I also saw Stan and he is very down to earth himself😀Also the interviews I did with both of them were really fun and interesting!
I was born in 1961 and this was one of the first shows I watched. I really got more into it when Dodie and Barbara came on. Dodie had a lot of drama going on. I was always very engrossed when she was on it.
When I was a little girl, there used to be an annual Christmas parade on Pacific Ave. in Huntington Park. I ran up to the convertible that Barry was in and shook his hand (My Three Sons cast in the car).
Hi, John! My favorite anecdote from Barry's book. "The Importance of Being Ernie," is that he once roomed with actor Steve Railsback, perhaps best known for playing Charles Manson in the made-for-TV film, "Helter Skelter." So, Ernie Douglas and Charles Manson were roommates. You can't make this stuff up.
I was on the set of a number of television shows back in the 70s several times and there was a show called. It is enough. And I saw Dick Van Patten, who wasn’t much of an actor, not very good looking at all, of course, but regarded himself as a star of the show. However, it was called eight is enough. It was really about all these kids. But I’m sure he didn’t see it that way. This guy threw fits. This guy stayed in histrailer and didn’t come out until everybody was ready. What a Primadonna that’s what I thought.
Leave a review? OK. Entertaining and informative. Fred MacMurray had 2 adopted daughters was mind blowing, and having O'Neal fired was probably a bad call, but hey, My 3 Sons succeeded. Thanks gentlemen.
Thanks for your review John. Fred was a unique guy who obviously believed in saving his money as well. It would have been such a different show with Ryan O'Neal so I think it actually happened for a reason because with the regular cast they felt like family.
Oddly enough, if you've ever seen that MY Three Sons-Partridge Family reunion show, William Demarest, from a remote location, spoke of Frawley as a good friend. Don't know if they ever worked together, but you would think they knew each other.
That is really interesting about William Demarest being at a remote location. I agree he must have at the very least run into Frawley a few times during their careers.
I have to say this. Saw him at the Hollywood Autograph Show a few years ago and he was a jerk. There were only a few attendees to see him and he was pushing his book. If they didn't show any interest in buying his book then he ignored them. His brother Stanley was also there and seemed like a nice guy.
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Great interview. My Three Sons was part of my childhood back when the shows were worth watching. Very few in more recent times come close. Enjoyed hearing all the little unknown tidbits of information. Thanks for the memories, Barry.
Glad you enjoyed the interview Martha. Yeah shows back then just had a special quality.
me too ! such an old school sitcom that captured our era so well. The 😮cast was one of a kind with the iconic FRED MacMURRY portraying the laid back all knowing Father. I had no idea what happened to Barry Livingston. my grandmother worked in film editing at COLUMBIA and SCREEN GEMS before it was restructured
Last year I was finally able to find Barry’s book. It was really good! I really enjoy watching Barry and his brother Stan on my three sons. Their interviews are also so interesting! Thank you John and Bob for bringing us this great interview! Thanks to Barry for being so generous with his time!😘
II still have to read his book but I am definitely buying it. Thank you for your kind feedback. We love doing the interviews. Thanks for being a terrific supporter and subscriber:)
@@ThatsClassicTV I had a heckuva time finding his book because it was not available in audio. So I had to read it in e-book. That’s OK, but I really prefer my memoirs in audio with the actor/author reading their book! Yes, a little spoiled here!
That is a shame. It would have been great with Barry reading it.I will just buy the soft cover then.
@@ThatsClassicTV sorry, I did not see it on Audible when I went to read it. Yes, he would’ve done great reading his book! I read a lot of memoirs/biographies. It is pretty much a dealbreaker for me if the author does not read the audio. Hence the reason I actually passed up reading Leif Garrett’s book. He didn’t read it. As interested as I was, that really took away from the whole experience for me. So I will probably read it on e-book! I know, sounds really picky and spoiled! Lol
I still watch My Three Sons to this day on Me TV.❤
Awesome, it is a show that really holds up so well😀
Awesome! Both Barry and Stanley are such smart, sweet, professional guys! It's no surprise these shows became hits, and endured because of all the GREAT people involved. THANK YOU ALL for sharing this behind the scenes info!!!! 📺❤️
My pleasure and my interview with Stanley will be released in the near future as well. Glad you enjoyed the interview. That was such a special time😀
Barry is a treasure!! He’s so humble about his astonishingly rich career! Thank you for giving him this platform!!
Definitely I agree and he has maintained such a great outlook and Stanley is the same. I will be releasing my episode with Stanley in the near future😀
@@ThatsClassicTV That’s fantastic!! Very much looking forward to that episode!! :)
Barry was the best actor in My Three Sons. He was the best part of the whole series. I always wanted to hang out with him and play GI Joes and other toys. Amazing to hear him speak about it. Thank you for one of the best shows ever.
My pleasure, glad you enjoyed the interview😀Barry definitely felt like he could be your pal.
This is great ‼️I’ve seen Stanley interviewed several times on TH-cam. But, I’ve never seen Barry interviewed. Every once I a while a show I’m watching Barry pops up. Both his brother and he are so fun and professional. I know they are both involved in the business still.
Thrilled you found it! Barry is still acting and Stanley is involved in various projects behind the scenes. In fact, I will publish my interview with Stanley in the near future. Both of them have great stories.
John, great interview
Barry was a great guest and his stories were priceless. Thank you.
Appreciate it Bill and I love Barry’s stories as well!
Barry and Billy Mumy and Butch Patrick are all 70 now (crazy) but still very sharp and competed for juvenile roles against each other for years. I have watched all three interviews you did with them. It would be interesting to get the three of them together for a roundtable discussion.
It would be wild and I appreciate the suggestion, will keep it on my radar.
What a great treasure this video is! We still watch My Three Sons on MeTV. Thanks, Barry, for a great interview!
Thanks Joe! I absolutely love Barry and his stories as well😀
❤ thank you. I was wondering where I could watch these classics from childhood❤
Great interview with Barry Livingston. Enjoyed it.
Thank you, Barry is a treasure trove of stories.
I am sure I am not the only one with tons of tabs open at the mention of projects Barry has been involved in! Great interview; very entertaining and informative! I am happy to have discovered your channel.
So happy you found my channel Barbara! So many fun interviews and Barry's was definitely a great example of an interview with amazing stories. Enjoy!
Mr Cato, I LOVE your interviews!
Pat Priest
Butch Patrick
And now Barry!
I am off to find more!
Thanks Brenda, thrilled you are enjoying my interviews, more are coming!
Loved that show, I watched daily after school and in some ways Fred MacMurray was more if a father figure to me than my own dad. Uncle Charlie and the boys provided a sense of calmness and I really miss that.
I completely understand that calmness you are describing. My Three Sons was like comfort food. Glad you enjoyed it!
Great interview! Barry seems like a nice, down to earth person with fabulous stories & am amazing resume. Ill look for his book & for him to pip up in more tv shows & movies.
Thank you and definitely check out his book. I really enjoyed it and it is an easy read too😀
Thanks Guy's,
That was a lot of fun with Barry Livingston. 👍
So thrilled you enjoyed the interview with Barry, I thought it was a blast myself. Loved his stories.
I'm about the same age as Mr. Livingston. I remember during the initial run of the show, I had trouble with the Frawley/Demarest change as well as the Considine/Livingston change. The latter may have had more to do with the absence of Merideth MacRae than with Tim Considine. Anyway, I'm watching the show now and can see that Barry was an incredibly good actor, perhaps even the equal of Lisa Loring of the Addams Family. It's no wonder why the writers gave him so many of the best lines and made him the focus of so many of the stories.
Barry was a great child actor and is still a terrific actor. Very interesting about all the cast changes, what is even more amazing is the show survived all of them!
I just found your show very fun to see these interviews about shows I watched as a kid!
Hi Frances, so glad you found my channel! Hope you subscribed as more interviews are on the way. Enjoy going through my channel, I think you will have a blast!
that was great - thanks for your time :)
Thank you very much Jim! We loved talking with Barry, he was fascinating😀I think you already subscribed but if not please do!
I remember watching my three sons back in the 1960s with the big 19 inch console television that set on the floor that has two speakers on each side it was awesome to watch, I would lay on the floor on my stomach and legs and have my arms propped up on my chin and watching.Those were the day fo great TV classics.
Too funny, I was the same way but our TV was on a stand so I had look up a bit. It really was an amazing time for television.
Well ok, I just found my new favorite channel!!
I appreciate your support!
Terrific interview. What I remember most about My Three Sons was Beverly Garland. What a beauty.
Good point Frank, I wish I had asked about her. Glad you enjoyed the interview, loved the stories.
Beverly was really good. I had a crush on Robbie's wife, Tina. She, along with Julie Newmar, piqued my youthful imagination. 😂
Beverly Garland was the best thing about the later years, when the show was running out of gas. She had this wonderful presence on the show.
Enjoyed this a lot. I remember seeing Barry on a Lucy Show episode.
I especially like My Three Sons when they moved to a new home and introduced Tina Cole to the series.
Barry was hysterical on the Lucy Show where she cuts his hair, so funny. Tina came along at the perfect time to inject a new energy into My Three Sons.
Thank you for this great installment. Great stories from a true raconteur. I love his wonderful offhand humor and wit, hearing about Jack Benny, and the recollections of Barry's relationship with Freddie de Cordova.
Always appreciate feedback Rob. Thank you and so glad you enjoyed. I loved his stories! Appreciate your support and having you as a subscriber.
i was thinking oh well maybe ill check out B.L. interview i have a minute. A BRILLIANT EPISODE one of the best. BARRY IS A TREASURE TROVE of knowledge about HOLLYWOOD and charming likeable in everyway
Glad you did😀Love Barry and what a career and still going!
Great interview. Always enjoyed my three sons(still do actuality) and enjoyed his book . Hope to catch more of your interviews
Thank you very much. I enjoyed Barry’s book as well. Make sure you check out my interview with Tina Cole as well! Enjoy the rest of the interviews and more to come😀
I still watch My Three Sons on you tube.
It is a timeless show!
That was great!!..😎🖒
Enjoyed listening to Barry and his childhood memories...
Gwyn so glad you enjoyed the interview. I agree I thought his stories were wonderful😀Please subscribe to my TH-cam channel, it’s free and there are other fantastic interviews. Thanks!
Wonderful interview!
Thank you very much Wendy! Glad you enjoyed it!
Barry is like his brother Stan:gentlemanly & down to earth.
I have to agree and my interview with Stanley will be released in the future😀
Really? If you don't agree with him politically on Facebook, he will call you names. I saw him being very rude to some people. His political views shouldn't be shoved down everyone's throats. Stanley is the same way.
So glad I stumbled onto your channel John. My Three Sons is one of my favorite shows and it was great to hear Barry give insight into the back stories. Keep up the great work!
Thank you very much! I am also interviewing his brother Stanley this coming week. Make sure you subscribe and hit the notification bell so you don’t miss it😀
@@ThatsClassicTV Look forward to seeing that and I've already subscribed to your channel so not to miss anything...Classic!
@@GmanMusicProductions Sounds good, it may take a few weeks before I release it but it will come. I just have others in the pipeline👍
Ernie and later Dotie were my absolute favorites. They’re acting was so genuine; cute and really funny. Honestly Don Grady seemed full of himself. Chip was alright but Ernie was real and so cute. I’m not surprised Barry was the most successful and versatile. I see so much authenticity in him. Still so cute!
Barry is very genuine and stills is passionate about acting. Just was with him a couple days ago and he is still auditioning consistently. I also saw Stan and he is very down to earth himself😀Also the interviews I did with both of them were really fun and interesting!
@@ThatsClassicTV Well if you see him again, please tell him for me that I’m a huge fan!!!!
@@ThatsClassicTV oh I’m sorry for my critique of Don Grady, God rest his soul.
@@teresabringas4839 That is ok, your being honest on what you felt watching his character not necessarily him.
@@teresabringas4839 I am sure I will and will let him know:)
fabulous 😍💙💙💙
Enjoy, it is very fun interview😀
Love the rehash of My 3 Sons. By the way, Don Fedderson was once Linda Kaye Henning's father-in-law.
What a small world regarding Don Fedderson being Linda Kaye Henning's father-in-law.
Ernie was the cutest.
Seriously Ernie was unforgettable!
I was born in 1961 and this was one of the first shows I watched. I really got more into it when Dodie and Barbara came on. Dodie had a lot of drama going on. I was always very engrossed when she was on it.
Great memories that’s for sure.
1970s pop star/actor Leif Garrett is Dodie's (Dawn Lyn's) sister.
When I was a little girl, there used to be an annual Christmas parade on Pacific Ave. in Huntington Park. I ran up to the convertible that Barry was in and shook his hand (My Three Sons cast in the car).
It is always so cool to be able to relive those memories, love it!
Hi, John! My favorite anecdote from Barry's book. "The Importance of Being Ernie," is that he once roomed with actor Steve Railsback, perhaps best known for playing Charles Manson in the made-for-TV film, "Helter Skelter." So, Ernie Douglas and Charles Manson were roommates. You can't make this stuff up.
If you wrote that in a screenplay people would think that was so far fetched:) Just too funny!
I just saw a My Three Sons Marathon yesterday on stechey Comedy.
What a great show to watch a marathon of!
I was on the set of a number of television shows back in the 70s several times and there was a show called. It is enough. And I saw Dick Van Patten, who wasn’t much of an actor, not very good looking at all, of course, but regarded himself as a star of the show. However, it was called eight is enough. It was really about all these kids. But I’m sure he didn’t see it that way. This guy threw fits. This guy stayed in histrailer and didn’t come out until everybody was ready. What a Primadonna that’s what I thought.
Thanks for sharing.
Leave a review? OK. Entertaining and informative. Fred MacMurray had 2 adopted daughters was mind blowing, and having O'Neal fired was probably a bad call, but hey, My 3 Sons succeeded. Thanks gentlemen.
Thanks for your review John. Fred was a unique guy who obviously believed in saving his money as well. It would have been such a different show with Ryan O'Neal so I think it actually happened for a reason because with the regular cast they felt like family.
I have my tv on while watching this video. The Honeymooners just came on just now ow MeTV!
Great show.
Ernie was my favorite ‘Son’. I remember I kinda felt sorry for him because he wore glasses. And I also wore glasses as a kid.
@@TomKatzman Yep. I think I especially felt bad for Ernie because his glasses were so much clunkier than mine. 😂
The irony is it also made his character stand out on the show.
Barry was such a cute little boy.
He was so memorable, you can’t forget him😀
67 and i loved My Three Sons! So creepy in the slasher film Hostel 3 & didnt say one word
Barry is a great actor.
Oddly enough, if you've ever seen that MY Three Sons-Partridge Family reunion show, William Demarest, from a remote location, spoke of Frawley as a good friend. Don't know if they ever worked together, but you would think they knew each other.
That is really interesting about William Demarest being at a remote location. I agree he must have at the very least run into Frawley a few times during their careers.
@@ThatsClassicTV Demarest wasn't on that reunion show in person. He probably prerecorded his spiel and they played it on the air.
@@8avexp Gotcha, still pretty cool though.
He was really good in hostile three as the face peeler.
Barry is quite a versatile actor.😀
Ozzie Nelson proved helpful in the early careers of both Stanley and Barry Livingston . It must have his experience with young Dave and Rick .
I had such a crush for Barry. Still do a bit.
We all had our crushes and still do. Always fun to bring back those memories😀
Mike was mentioned as teaching out east to Barbara
Interesting, thanks for the info😀
Did Barry listen to Vin Scully on a transistor radio while at the Dodger games?
I don’t know for sure but since he was a fan probably.
I just watched a episode of The Twilight Zone with William Demarest Uncle Charlie!
Awesome, what is the name of the episode?
I have to say this. Saw him at the Hollywood Autograph Show a few years ago and he was a jerk. There were only a few attendees to see him and he was pushing his book. If they didn't show any interest in buying his book then he ignored them. His brother Stanley was also there and seemed like a nice guy.
John Cato looks more like Ernie than Barry does...Amazing
Now that’s a first😀
He played on the movie called elevator
Thanks for that, always interesting to hear about a movie or show where you spotted the celebrity😀
Ozzie and Harriet!
That is where both Barry and Stanley got their start.
One of those interviewers looks too much like that wonderful person Al Franken.
Interesting.
Franken Barry?