Our Man Higgins is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from October 3, 1962, to May 17, 1963.
Synopsis
Our Man Higgins follows the adventures of an English butler who is inherited by a suburban American family, along with a quarter-century-old silver service valued at $50,000. Higgins answers to Duncan and Alice MacRoberts, whose children are Tommy, Dinghy, and Joanie MacRoberts.
It's Higgins, Sir was previously a 13-episode NBC radio comedy series in 1951, created and produced by Paul Harrison, and written by Harrison and Rik Vollaerts. Harry McNaughton read the starring role of Higgins in that series, broadcast on Tuesdays at 9 P.M. (as Bob Hope's summer replacement).
Cast
Stanley Holloway as Higgins
Regina Groves as Joanie MacRoberts
Audrey Totter as Alice MacRoberts
Ricky Kelman as Tommy MacRoberts
Frank Maxwell as Duncan MacRoberts
K.C. Butts as Dinghy MacRoberts
Episodes
Guest stars
Don Drysdale
Stuart Erwin
Reginald Gardiner
Connie Gilchrist
Sylvia Field
Paul Hartman
Julian Holloway
Edward Everett Horton
Bernie Kopell
Cheryl Miller
Roger Mobley
Slim Pickens
Stafford Repp
Roy Roberts
Kurt Russell
Martha Stewart
Dick Wessel
Mary Wickes
Dick Wilson
Scheduling
Our Man Higgins, co-sponsored by General Motors' Pontiac division and American Tobacco, aired on ABC at 9:30 P.M. Eastern on Wednesdays opposite The Dick Van Dyke Show on CBS and the second half of Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall on NBC. Higgins followed another one-year ABC series Going My Way, starring Gene Kelly, Dick York, and Leo G. Carroll, in a television version of the 1944 Bing Crosby film.
Production
Harrison and Harry Ackerman were the show's producers. Its 34 episodes were recorded on film and included a laugh track.