The Bob Cummings Show
Wednesday, October 11th, 2000SEASON 1 – NBC
Created by Paul Henning
Theme music composed by Del Sharbutt, Frank Stanton, Richard Uhl
NOTE: This series was re-named “Love That Bob” in syndication. NOTE: Robert Cummings portrayed a character named Bob Collins in the 1945 film “You Came Along”
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- 001. Calling Dr. Baxter – 1/2/1955
- Photographer Bob Collins (Robert Cummings) is a photographer and Air Force Reserve officer living in Hollywood with his widowed sister Margaret MacDonald (Rosemary DeCamp) and her teenage son Chuck (Dwayne Hickman). As a bachelor who often takes pictures of models, Bob is quite the ladies’ man, but wishes to remain single despite the fact that his secretary Charmaine “Schultzy” Schultz (Ann B. Davis) being in love with him. She goes to great lengths to assist Bob, including dressing in a gorilla suit for a shot with a model bride (Joi Lansing) … which causes confusion when one of Margaret’s older friends named Mrs. Anderson (Isabel Randolph) comes to have her dog’s photo taken by Bob, and thinks that Bob’s assistant Schultzy is actually a gorilla. Later Margaret asks Bob to have a father talk with Chuck, because she thinks he is becoming too fixated a former neighbor girl he knew as a child named Francine Williams (Diane Jergens). Bob thinks it is harmless until he sees how much Francine has grown up. He tries to Chuck at his studio, but he is too distracted by the various models (Donna Foster, Beverly Kidd, Trudy Wroe) Meanwhile, Margaret gets a letter from an old classmate named Dr. Tony Baxter (Frank Wilcox), who requests to see a recent picture of Margaret. She plans to send him a picture of her and Chuck, but Bob, anxious to help marry her off, takes some sexier photos of her to send Baxter. Schultzy takes it upon herself to send off the photos when she sees how young Margaret looks and also tells Baxter how much her ‘little boy’ Chuck needs a father. Once Baxter gets the photos, he immediately departs on a flight to Los Angeles. Margaret thinks she will look too old when he sees her in person, so Bob sets up special studio lighting in the house. When he first arrives, he meets Mrs. Anderson, who had come to pick up a card table and is sitting in the light. He also meets Chuck who is dressed like a little boy and claims to be eight years old. Bob runs her out of the house and volunteers to have Schultzy drive her home, but Mrs. Anderson still thinks Schultzy is a gorilla. Just as both Margaret and Bob think that Baxter going to propose, he tells her that he only came to find out who took the great photos, so he can hire the photographer to take pictures for him and his wife. Bob immediately puts the champagne he has passed out back in the bottle. 1/6/22
