Father of the Bride

Father of the Bride is an American situation comedy that aired on CBS during the 1961–1962 season. The television series centers around the challenges an unready father faces as he adjusts to his daughter's engagement and marriage. Cast members include Leon Ames as the father of the bride, Ruth Warrick as the mother, and Myrna Fahey as the bride. Cast Leon Ames as Stanley Banks Ruth Warrick as Eleanor "Ellie" Banks Myrna Fahey as Katherine "Kay" Banks Dunston Ruby Dandridge as Delilah Burt Metcalfe as Buckley Dunston Ransom Sherman as Herbert Dunston Rickie Sorensen as Thomas "Tommy" Banks Lurene Tuttle as Doris Dunston Irene Tedrow as Miss Bellamy Synopsis Stanley Banks is a prosperous attorney who resides at 24 Maple Drive in Fairview Manor, Connecticut, with his wife Eleanor, who is known as Ellie, teenaged son Tommy, and daughter Katherine, who is known as Kay. Although Ellie, Tommy, and almost everyone else in Stanley's life reacts with enthusiasm when Kay announces her engagement to Buckley Dunston, Stanley is taken aback by the news. In the following days, weeks, and months, the unhappy Stanley, psychologically unready for the marriage of his only daughter, faces many challenges as he tries to adjust to Kay's new life, her fiancé Buckley, Buckley's parents Herbert and Doris Dunston, wedding and honeymoon planning, the wedding itself, Kay and Buckley moving into their own home in a small apartment at 324 Adams Street in Fairview Manor, and life in his own home without Kay around. Kay announces her engagement in the first episode, Kay and Buckley marry in midseason, and shortly before the series ends Kay gives birth to a son named Stanley Banks Dunston.{