I LOVED The Courtship of Eddie's Father.

I had to look it up on Wikipedia to see when the TV show was on the air. Turns out it began on TV in 1969 and finished in 1972. I would have been just a kid about the age of Eddie when the show ran on television. From Wikipedia I found out the story was based on a book written by Mark Toby and had even been created as a movie before it was re-created as a TV show which starred Bill Bixby (who was later in The Incredible Hulk, among other things).

The story of Eddie's Father was about Tom Corbett and his son, Eddie. Tom was a single Dad, his wife had died and left himself and Eddie alone. I don't remember much mention about other family, like Grandparents or siblings. Usually the show was about Eddie, his Dad and the women Tom would meet and Eddie would try to decide which were right for his Dad.

The original book by Mark Toby and the movie which was created based on the book (before the TV show).

I found a nice, little tidbit of information which I came across while looking at the information about Brandon Cruz (the actor who was Eddie on the show). Bill Bixby died in 1993 but the actors had been close during and after the TV show. The death of Bill Bixby's only child, Christopher, may have given him a closer feeling to another child who was so much a part of his life as well. In 1995, Brandon Cruz gave his son (Lincoln Bixby Cruz) the middle name of Bixby in honour of Bill Bixby.

Bill Bixby (Tom Corbett was his name on the show) was my TV Dad. The Dad I wished was my own Dad when things were not going so well with my own Dad. Of course, not many real men can compare well with a perfect, scripted TV Dad.