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''Hennesey'' is an
Actor and singer Bobby Darin was cast in the second episode (October 5, 1959) as "Honeyboy Jones". That same week Darin became famous with his version of the song, " Mack the Knife".
Prior to being cast as Opie Taylor on '' The Andy Griffith Show'', child actor
''Hennesey'' is an American
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military comedy-drama television series that aired on CBS from 1959 to 1962, starring Jackie Cooper and Abby Dalton.
Cooper played a United States Navy
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physician, Lt. Charles W. "Chick" Hennesey, with Abby Dalton as Navy nurse
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Lt. Martha Hale. In the story line, they are assigned to the hospital at the U.S. Naval Station in San Diego
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, California
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Extended cast
* Jackie Cooper as Lt. (later Lt. Commander) Charles "Chick" Hennesey, M.D. * Abby Dalton as Lt. (JG) Martha Hale, R.N. * Roscoe Karns as Capt. (later Rear Admiral) Walter Shafer * Henry Kulky as Chief Petty Officer Max Bronski * James Komack as Harvey Spencer Blair, III, D.D.S. * Arte Johnson as Seaman Shatz *Herb Ellis
Mitchell Herbert Ellis (August 4, 1921 – March 28, 2010), known professionally as Herb Ellis, was an American jazz guitarist. During the 1950s, he was in a trio with pianist Oscar Peterson.
Biography
Born in Farmersville, Texas, and raised ...
as Dr. Dan Wagner
* Robert Gist as Dr. Owen King
* Stephen Roberts as Commander Wilker
* Harry Holcombe as William Hale
* Ted Fish as Chief Branman
* Frank Gorshin
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As an actor, he played the Riddler on ...
as Seaman Pulaski
* Norman Alden also as Seaman Pulaski
Episodes
Season 1: 1959–60
Season 2: 1960–61
Season 3: 1961–62
Guest stars
Actor and singer Bobby Darin was cast in the second episode (October 5, 1959) as "Honeyboy Jones". That same week Darin became famous with his version of the song, " Mack the Knife".
Prior to being cast as Opie Taylor on '' The Andy Griffith Show'', child actor Ron Howard
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played "Walker", a little boy temporarily left in Hennesey's care in the 1959 episode "The Baby Sitter". Gary Hunley, another child actor, appeared in the same episode.
Charles Bronson, en route to a long film career, was cast twice as Lt. Cmdr. Steve Ogrodowski, a Navy intelligence officer.
Don Rickles was cast in the 1961 episode "Professional Sailor" as CPO Ernie Schmidt. From 1976 to 1978, Rickles played the lead with the same rank in the NBC military sitcom, ''C.P.O. Sharkey
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Bandleader Les Brown and His Band of Renown and comedian Soupy Sales appeared in separate episodes as themselves.
Other guest stars:
*Raymond Bailey
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* Roy Barcroft
* Gertrude Berg
*Ken Berry
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*Bill Bixby
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Bixby's career spanned more than three decades, includi ...
*Jolene Brand
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Career
In 1958, she acted in the B-film '' Giant from the ...
* Charles Bronson
* Jean Byron
* Jack Carter
* Jack Cassidy
* Phyllis Coates
* Ellen Corby
* Yvonne Craig
* Robert Culp
* Sammy Davis, Jr.
* Donna Douglas
* James Franciscus
*Robert Foulk
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Early years
Foulk attended the University of Pennsylvan ...
*Bob Hastings
Robert Francis Hastings (April 18, 1925 – June 30, 2014) was an American actor. He was best known for his portrayal of Lt. Elroy Carpenter on '' McHale's Navy'' and voicing Commissioner James Gordon in the DC Animated Universe.
Early life
Ha ...
* Marty Ingels
* Vivi Janiss
* Arch Johnson
* Helen Kleeb
* Ruta Lee
* Jimmy Lydon
* Doug McClure
*Jaye P. Morgan
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Morgan was born in Mancos in Montezuma County in far southwestern Colorado. Her family moved to California by ...
* Ed Nelson
* J. Pat O'Malley
* Sue Randall
* Stafford Repp
* Chris Robinson
*Mickey Rooney
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* Walter Sande
* William Schallert
* Johnny Seven
* Olan Soule
* Larry Storch
* Dick Wessel
*Grace Lee Whitney
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Early life
Whitney was born o ...
* Meg Wyllie
Production notes
The series theme tune by Sonny Burke was a jazzy hornpipe played by tuba and piccolo. ''Hennesey'' was also innovative for being the first series to employ what has since become a standard device in television: beginning the dialog and action of each episode during opening credits. Cooper starred in, produced, and directed the series, drawing upon his real-life experience as aWorld War II
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Navy veteran and his continuing service for many years as an officer in the United States Naval Reserve
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. He was a former child actor who starred in the Our Gang comedies of the early 1930s and then moved into feature film
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s.
Beginning in 1960, scriptwriter Richard Baer wrote 38 of ''Hennesey's'' episodes, which earned him an Emmy nomination.
For the series finale, "I, Thee Wed", broadcast on May 7, 1962, characters Chick and Martha were married following their series-long romance.
References
External links
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