The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
Overview
The Bower Family Band petitions the Democratic National Committee to sing a Grover Cleveland rally song at the 1888 convention, but decide instead to move to the Dakota territory on the urging of a suitor to their eldest daughter. There, Grampa Bower causes trouble with his pro-Cleveland ideas, as Dakota residents are overwhelmingly Republican, and hope to get the territory admitted as two states (North and South Dakota) rather than one in order to send four Republican senators to Washington. Cleveland opposed this plan, refusing to refer to Congress the plan to organize the Dakotas this way. When Cleveland wins the popular vote, but Harrison the presidency due to the electoral college votes, the Dakotans (particularly the feuding young couple) resolve to live together in peace, and Cleveland grants statehood to the two Dakotas before he leaves office (along with two Democrat-voting states, evening the gains for both parties).
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Cast
Walter Brennan
Buddy Ebsen
Lesley Ann Warren
John Davidson
Janet Blair
Kurt Russell
Bobby Riha
Jon Walmsley
Smith Wordes
Heidi Rook
Debbie Smith
Pamelyn Ferdin
Wally Cox
Richard Deacon
Steve Harmon
Goldie Hawn
John Craig
Jonathan Kidd
Julie Allred
Don Ames
Jimmy Bates
Larry J. Blake
Buddy Bryan
Bill Coontz
Ben Frommer
Rudy Germane
Hank Jones
Richard LaMarr
Tex Lambert
Kenneth MacDonald
Bert May
Philo McCullough
Charles McQuary
Norman Palmer
Butch Patrick
Peter Renaday
Stephen Roberts
John Roy
Andrea Sacino
Cosmo Sardo
Jack Tornek
Jerry Trent
Marc Winters
William Woodson
Crew
Michael O'Herlihy
Lowell S. Hawley
Richard M. Sherman
