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Sherwood Schwartz, the show's producer, told me that I had the lead role of the Father. Several actresses auditioned for the part of my "wife", and after much discussion, Florence Henderson was chosen. At the eleventh hour, Sherwood called me, practically in tears. He said the executives at ABC had overridden his decision to cast me. They had chosen Robert Reed for the part. He had been on a show called The Defenders, and was a "known" TV actor.
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