StrictlyConfidential (*Lyrics excerpt from TV theme song*) - "Our Patty loves to rock and roll.... A hotdog makes her lose control!"..... (Oh!? Really!??)While watching these episodes from the first season of "The Patty Duke Show" (1964-1965) - The one question that kept coming to my mind was this - "Was Patty Duke really an admired and emulated role-model for teenage girls (and trans-gender wannabes) back in the early 1960's?"IMO - This show's preposterous "Identical Cousins" shtick got real tiresome, real fast. And this flimsy premise for generating laughs was certainly not near enough to carry this program and keep it interesting and entertaining throughout its episodes.And, finally - Even though Patty Duke had won an Oscar 2 years earlier for her portrayal of the young Helen Keller in "The Miracle Worker" - She sure didn't come anywhere near to proving her Oscar-worthy abilities here in this decidedly dumb TV Sit/Com. No way, Jose.

lukejbarnett2002 The Patty Duke Show is about a girl who is between 15-18 years old who is shown doing normal girl things in high school as well as extraordinary, adventuresome things outside of high school. She is an American girl named Patty Lane, and she has a British cousin whose name is Cathy Lane, who looks almost exactly like her. Her cousin is supposed to be her identical cousin as a joke. She also has a brother who often innocently fights with her in normal brother-sister ways.The two main characters, Patty Lane and Cathy Lane, the two identical cousins are both played by Patty Duke.The first time I watched it a few days ago I wasn't going to watch it. I just went to one of my retro TV channels, Antenna TV to see what was on. I noticed it was on and then I looked away from the screen and wasn't really paying attention to it but I listened to it. As I started listening to the main Patty character talk something happened in me which sparked a curiosity. I noticed that some of the things she said, she said in really interesting ways. Then in curiosity I started watching the show. I noticed right away that the Patty Lane character was extremely interesting, uniquely original, and lively, and singularly unique. She was a revelation to me, and she was compulsively watchable, and I couldn't take my eyes off her. She was mesmerizing and I had never seen a character like her before. What made her so compulsively watchable and lovable, and appealing and intriguing to me was not the writing of the character and not what she said but how she said what she said, and her personality. Everything she said and did was fresh and new and completely unique and original to me. So, that to me is an amazing thing. It's also a magical thing to me because it's a very rare thing to watch anything at my age, 36(having grown up on TV shows)which I've never seen, heard, or experienced before in a TV show. She's so affable, lovable, appealing, and entertaining to me also.Also, the show is ingenious in the ways in which things happen in creative, original, entertaining, and unique ways.One thing that's important for me to say about this show is it's very entertaining and never boring. It's very rare for a show made in the '60s to totally capture my attention and my imagination while watching it because usually shows made in the '60s to me are boring because of the old way in which they were made, the old style of TV shows. But this show has never bored me, I've been engaged in and enjoyed every moment of it and I've watched about 5 episodes of it so far.

kristen_skywalker I love love love 60's shows. I didn't grow up on them sadly but I watch them all the time now. This is one of my favorites and I'm watching a few episodes every day. The values are so much better than TV now. One of the reasons I like this show is how the parents are portrayed. I've always had a problem with how TV portrays parents as embarrassing bumbling idiots(watch any cartoon). As a child I thought out was annoying and inaccurate. Now as a parent I feel this does a disservice to parents. With patty duke you see kids respecting their parents and vice versa. Plus there always seems to be a lesson to be learned. Sometimes a parent learns something and sometimes it's a kid. Party keeps me laughing, I want to throttle Richard, and Cathy makes me relax knowing someone with sense will keep it all together

dbaker6 I grew up on the Patty Duke show. I looked forward to coming home from school and watching it with my friends. We would take turns watching it at each other's houses. It had everything. It was funny. Some of the pranks were hilarious. It taught family values and, even if you didn't always see eye to eye all the time, how important your family was. The Patty Duke Show also taught morality. It showed kids how to have a good time just being with friends and family without any of the vices that kids unfortunately rely on today. It basically showed just how to enjoy being young. I have three teen-age boys. They love old music and old shows, and I just wish I had the opportunity to share this very special show with them. I would really appreciate it if you could bring it to TV Land.