I haven't forgotten Mr whittaker. I grew up watching Family Affair as a child. And i still watch it to this day on occasion. It is a good family show that teaches values about life. We definitely need more Family Affair Shows these days.
I sat down to watch Tom Sawyer when Johnny came in and sat down beside me. We were in college, in the basement t.v. room of our dorm at BYU. He answered a question or two, like how he didn't really remember much about making the movie. Then I let him be, and he watched for a few minutes, then said goodnight, and that he needed to get back to his room and study. He was a nice, normal guy.
Kathy Garver is the true superstar/survivor of child stardom. Even helps her former cast mates stay employed/get work. Acting as an agent of sorts. - Love Kathy.
I saw Johnny in Tom Sawyer then and you look at him here his expressions are identical but older, his smiles his head movement everything is the same. I saw him in Boston Ma 1997 great person to talk to.
wow, seeing this guy brings back incredible memories. man, that family affair show brings me back to being 6 yrs old. what a show that was!. so innocent, in a very innocent time.
I still watched the reruns, so did my children, and my grandchildren. I think it was the first diverse, white family I seen there was always a lesson to be learned.
I am watching reruns of "Family Affair" right now on TUBI TV! I love love love this show. My favorites are Mr. French and Mrs. Beasley - Buffy and Jody are fun and Cissy is very cool! And of course, Uncle Bill is the best!!
The story about Jodie Foster and the Lion "saving her" is eerily similar to what was said about the Roy Horn (Siegfried & Roy magicians) Lion incident during a show in Las Vegas.
Family ties no dear Family affair. It's terribly sad what happened to Anissa. He was right the wrong friends, she was still a child. It would have been nice to see her older.
Peg Entwhistle was his stepmother, he was really young when she took her life jumping from the letter "H" of the Hollywood sign, don't believe me? you can read about it on Brian Keith- wikipedia.
i missed you on the biscuit eater with my uncle George spell,he play Bobby. his sister , Gwen That's my aunt , she's a mother with three cjildren in San Diego. I'm.gonna say to hello from my uncle. thanks.
Off topic, but i had completely forgotten that Tom Snyder was on CBS in those days... I suppose he was up against Costas or Kinnear's NBC late show? Thanks for jogging my memory..
"Sammy Spartan" took me by surprise cz I know he's from SoCal, as an I, and my hs mascot was Sammy Spartan. I was like, no way!, but his hs was not the same as mine.
I respectfully disagree. Their styles differed and the people have their preference. I can absolutely appreciate both, but Larry King was a master of his craft.
I'm glad you noticed and mentioned that Cherie. I am disappointed too. I can't believe how Johnny reacted. I wanted him to say that that he was shocked and it broke his heart and that they were good friends and he will never get over it.
well he too apparently has had his share of drug use to the point that his family held an intervention and there was also a connection with he and dana plato as well, just can't shake feeling he may have introduced drugs to anissa :(
Whitaker is about 2 or 3 years older than me. When this was done, was he still doing Cocaine, Meth, and Drinking. I hear his family threaten to "divorce" him if he didn't go get help. Now in his 50s, I hope he learned a lesson. If he has truly changed, forget about his past, we can not change it, move forward! Keep these kids of today out of trouble!
He seemed to speak to people as if he had known them his whole life in a very personable way ....I thought.... the few times I saw it .. and then he treated Howard Stern like shit because he knew what an assho stern is
The Buffy girl in fmly affair died of o/d of drugs she was wth her brother both on drugs brother survived but the Buffy girl 4 got her real name, died my start of Jr high yr in 1976 I went to Wamego High in Wamego ks we got the news Buffy died o/d of drugs the girls in class wer crying,, us guys wer quiet an shocked, we ddnt cry we lost class concentration for several minutes are wmn teacher she got dropt tears
I haven't forgotten Mr whittaker. I grew up watching Family Affair as a child. And i still watch it to this day on occasion. It is a good family show that teaches values about life. We definitely need more Family Affair Shows these days.
I sat down to watch Tom Sawyer when Johnny came in and sat down beside me. We were in college, in the basement t.v. room of our dorm at BYU. He answered a question or two, like how he didn't really remember much about making the movie. Then I let him be, and he watched for a few minutes, then said goodnight, and that he needed to get back to his room and study. He was a nice, normal guy.
Daniel Shumway my uncle George spell plays Bobby in the original film the biscuit eater with Johnny . so I hope I could him 😂.
He was one of the few Child Actors that didn't disappear after their show was cancelled. So sad that Anissa Jones passed at an early age.
He was a Mormon with a degree from BYU. He also fell into drugs and almost died. His family did an intervention and he finally got clean.
Johnny Whitaker was one of the 70s coolest kids..
Kathy Garver is the true superstar/survivor of child stardom.
Even helps her former cast mates stay employed/get work.
Acting as an agent of sorts. - Love Kathy.
I remember Johnny Whitaker on Sigmund and the Sea Monsters!
+Edwin Harvey So do I. That was a big hit on Saturday mornings in the mid 1970's.
I'd forgotten about Family Affair. But I do remember watching Zigmund and the Sea Monsters.
I saw Johnny in Tom Sawyer then and you look at him here his expressions are identical but older, his smiles his head movement everything is the same. I saw him in Boston Ma 1997 great person to talk to.
Jodi was absolutely adorable!!!!❤️
wow, seeing this guy brings back incredible memories. man, that family affair show brings me back to being 6 yrs old. what a show that was!. so innocent, in a very innocent time.
Johnny looks like Brian Keith. Eerie. He was so handsome here. This was around 1996 or 1997.
+justess martin Yes he does look like him... R I P Brian Keith, Anissa Jones
I have been watching Family Affair recently (I am recreating the set in VR!) and WOW he still has so many of the same speaking mannerisms etc!
Johnny Whitaker turned out really good looking, and he was such an adorable cute little boy also, a very good actor.
I wish Family Affair had run at least one more season
I think Mr. Whitaker had wanted us to call him "John" since he was 18, as a sign of maturity.
How good he is an actor.
Saudades. Boas lembranças de nosso tempo em Portugal como companheiros missionários na cidade de Aveiro. Good luck for you my brother.
Tom Snyder's voice is capable of purring a ferocious Bengal tiger.
"We'll be right back with John Whitaker of Family Ties". LOL
Just like Jody, he still has the stare, the hair and the head movement.
nice to see he is still here
Bless his heart, what a great guy.
I still watched the reruns, so did my children, and my grandchildren. I think it was the first diverse, white family I seen there was always a lesson to be learned.
Jody looks the same as he did in Family Affair. I almost expected him to look up, wide-eyed & say, " Uncle Bill! Uncle Bill!!"
I still remember the Christmas Classic.."The Littlest Angel",and that Johnny played Tom Sawyer opposite Jodie Foster playing Becky Thatcher
Yes,he was...I had forgotten about that. Thanks for reminding me!!
Kip Lambert he was on the biscuit eater with my uncle George spell he's a actor instructor for UCLA now.
He does have a great personality!!
Yes, he really does a great job interviewing people!!!!! I wish that Johnny had more than his once used generic response to Anissa!!
I remember when he was 9-10 and in a televised parade singing the song about “Every Little Boy Can Be President.”
I am watching reruns of "Family Affair" right now on TUBI TV! I love love love this show. My favorites are Mr. French and Mrs. Beasley - Buffy and Jody are fun and Cissy is very cool! And of course, Uncle Bill is the best!!
Props to Johnny Whitaker for not correcting Tom's "Family Ties" gaffe. No mention of the awesome Sigmund and the Sea Monsters!
The story about Jodie Foster and the Lion "saving her" is eerily similar to what was said about the Roy Horn (Siegfried & Roy magicians) Lion incident during a show in Las Vegas.
Family ties no dear Family affair. It's terribly sad what happened to Anissa. He was right the wrong friends, she was still a child. It would have been nice to see her older.
Anissa Jones story was such a sad story,she just wanted to be a normal child......
So nice to see a child actor to an adult success story, raised by good parents with God in his corner and a good head on his shoulders.
Tyn Bubs Was
Mormon church is not a cult.. My sister is Mormon and they are some of the sweetest people I have ever met..
Raised with a god, not the God. The LDS call him heavenly father and extrapolate that their must logically be a heavenly mother.
Timeline 9:00 minutes a fast break. Family Affair not Family Ties.
He's a Mormon so that helps when you're in show business, just look at the Osmonds. I just loved Family Affair, one of my favorite shows.
Brian Keith knew what he was talking about!
Brian Keith did not know Peg Entwhistle. She was not his mother.
Peg Entwhistle was his stepmother, he was really young when she took her life jumping from the letter "H" of the Hollywood sign, don't believe me? you can read about it on Brian Keith- wikipedia.
Funny, looking at him as an adult, he looks a bit like Brian Keith.
Thank you do much.
That was quite a slip! I'm amazed John didn't correct him. But hey, let's cut Snyder some slack, he's a fine interviewer :)
Classy for not correcting Tom. That was very respectful.
Filmed in 1997, this must have been filmed just before Brian Keith's passing.
He seemed like such a good man if he did the least little thing bad in life obey it will be videoed everywhere
Always good still good 😂
in reply to rhomo, Tom Snyder states at the introduction of the show...It is Wednesday night, April 03, 1996...
9:11 -star of Family Ties?? Family Affair is more like it!
Jack and the bean stalk on bewitched.
My Uncle once worked with Tom Snyder, in Philadelphia.
Johnny Whitaker was great on Tom Sawyer
He could of been the villain in Shawshank redemption !!!! “ has anyone got to you , yet “?
Still a great guy always eatchin family affair every day 😂❤
Time sure screws people over.
i missed you on the biscuit eater with my uncle George spell,he play Bobby. his sister , Gwen That's my aunt , she's a mother with three cjildren in San Diego. I'm.gonna say to hello from my uncle. thanks.
The interviewer said Johnny was on Family Ties!!
Tom Snyder called the show "Family Ties" instead of Family Affair at 9 min 10 seconds.
Good catch..I had to rewind that to make sure I heard correctly..Johnny was classy not to correct him too
Tom Snyder said Family Ties by accident, instead of Family Affair. Oh good he corrected it at the end.
Off topic, but i had completely forgotten that Tom Snyder was on CBS in those days... I suppose he was up against Costas or Kinnear's NBC late show? Thanks for jogging my memory..
"Sammy Spartan" took me by surprise cz I know he's from SoCal, as an I, and my hs mascot was Sammy Spartan. I was like, no way!, but his hs was not the same as mine.
they wrote buffys broken leg into the show.they didnt hide it. seems he doesnt know his own show.
Tom Snyder was 10x better interviewer than Larry King. Fact.
I respectfully disagree. Their styles differed and the people have their preference. I can absolutely appreciate both, but Larry King was a master of his craft.
he looks like uncle bill's mini-me.
Dopey Tom Snyder called it family’ties’lol
David Chambers, that sounds familiar. Is he someone famous?
Is this the same "best friend" he had as an adult as well? The guy that stole his wife?
what reunion show?
Was Johnny in the children's television show "Sigmund and the sea monsters"❓🤔
Yes
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PS he laughs and smiles like George Clooney
Uncle Bill Uncle Bill
Disappointed how he reacted about Annissa's death.
I'm glad you noticed and mentioned that Cherie. I am disappointed too. I can't believe how Johnny reacted. I wanted him to say that that he was shocked and it broke his heart and that they were good friends and he will never get over it.
well he too apparently has had his share of drug use to the point that his family held an intervention and there was also a connection with he and dana plato as well, just can't shake feeling he may have introduced drugs to anissa :(
Probably tired of answering the question.
cool guy
Johnny or john i guess made alot of stuff just like billy mummy
Year?
Wed April 3rd 1996.
He looks a lot like Richard Carpenter.
Well, except for the face and hair.
Man he still looks like Jo see ya
This interview had to be pre 1997. Brian Keith committed suicide in 1997.
+torres songs 0:35
+torres songs Tom Synder mentions the date. Wed April 3rd 1996.
He turned out to be a good man because his parents raised him right; to believe in God.
John L. Which god?
Do Ron I think he's referring to Thor .... maybe
John L. I'm glad he turned from drugs and he looks great
What a stupid reply. God! How ancient and stupid.
@@fixedgearplanet God from the Bible! Why do you ask what you already know!
John Whitaker from Family Ties ?
Love John and Anissa.
family ties not family affair
He works in the computer room. Unpacking and boxing them up
Boy on Tarzan
Whitaker is about 2 or 3 years older than me. When this was done, was he still doing Cocaine, Meth, and Drinking. I hear his family threaten to "divorce" him if he didn't go get help. Now in his 50s, I hope he learned a lesson. If he has truly changed, forget about his past, we can not change it, move forward! Keep these kids of today out of trouble!
Anyone know when this interview took place?
1996.
tom's a big goof
Family Ties?
"Led a normal life????" He, himself - Mr. Smug here - has had tons of problems with drugs and alcohol.
well they were american honest family.
9:10 ...Family Ties, eh?
Remember the movie the russians are coming the russians are and he was hanging on that church steeple
He looks the same.
Looks like Johnny's wearing a wig.
You should see his hair now.
His ears sure do stick out.
9:11 Former star of "Family Ties"????????
Tom Snyder had to be one of the worst interviewers ever.
you got to be kidding
no
Certainly very boring and quite unorthodox with his comments. He said the show was Family Ties instead of Family Affair once during the interview.
He seemed to speak to people as if he had known them his whole life in a very personable way ....I thought.... the few times I saw it ..
and then he treated Howard Stern like shit because he knew what an assho stern is
I guess you've never seen Seth Myers.
Worst talk show host EVER...what a boring, monotone sap.
Johnny himself seems great! His character Jody was annoying.
I liked Jody. I didn't find him annoying
The Buffy girl in fmly affair died of o/d of drugs she was wth her brother both on drugs brother survived but the Buffy girl 4 got her real name, died my start of Jr high yr in 1976 I went to Wamego High in Wamego ks we got the news Buffy died o/d of drugs the girls in class wer crying,, us guys wer quiet an shocked, we ddnt cry we lost class concentration for several minutes are wmn teacher she got dropt tears