My Son Jeep
January 25, 1953 – June 14, 1953 · 9 broadcasts
My Son Jeep was a gentle half-hour family sitcom that ran on NBC on Sunday evenings from January 25 to June 14, 1953. In the small town of Grove Falls, widowed physician Dr. Robert Allison (Donald Cook) raises two children on his own -- level-headed thirteen-year-old Peggy (Joan Lazer) and his ten-year-old son Jeffrey "Jeep" (Martin Huston), whose well-meaning schemes drive nearly every episode -- with the wise housekeeper Mrs. Bixby (Leona Powers) keeping the household on an even keel. Distinctively for the form, the Allisons' small crises tend to grow out of the family trying to help one another rather than out of selfishness. The property spread fast in 1953: an NBC television version ran that same summer, and a recast CBS radio revival followed in 1955-56. The nine surviving episodes are Armed Forces Radio transcriptions of the NBC originals; the show was warmly reviewed and even carried a Veterans of Foreign Wars citation naming it radio's best situation comedy.
Episode Spine
1953
My Son Jeep was a gentle half-hour family sitcom that ran on NBC on Sunday evenings from January 25 to June 14, 1953. In the small town of Grove Falls, widowed physician Dr. Robert Allison (Donald Cook) raises two children on his own -- level-headed thirteen-year-old Peggy (Joan Lazer) and his ten-year-old son Jeffrey "Jeep" (Martin Huston), whose well-meaning schemes drive nearly every episode -- with the wise housekeeper Mrs. Bixby (Leona Powers) keeping the household on an even keel. Distinctively for the form, the Allisons' small crises tend to grow out of the family trying to help one another rather than out of selfishness. The property spread fast in 1953: an NBC television version ran that same summer, and a recast CBS radio revival followed in 1955-56. The nine surviving episodes are Armed Forces Radio transcriptions of the NBC originals; the show was warmly reviewed and even carried a Veterans of Foreign Wars citation naming it radio's best situation comedy.