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Actually, Brian Keith had a similar shooting arrangement on Family Affair. However, in his case, it wasn't out of arrogance or self-importance but rather because he had such a busy shooting schedule for outside projects that he had to have all of his work for the show out of the way as quickly as possible.

It's interesting that this kind of scheduling took place on two Don Fedderson productions. Was it maybe something more to do with the Fedderson productions than with the individual stars?

Every show whose ratings drop, bring in a new little kid. My God, has this stund EVER worked in recorded history? Why would they keep doing it? Brady Bunch, Married with Children, All in the Family, Bononza, Patridge Family, and many others. Another thing was Fred MacMurray. He refused to show up and act every week like everyone else. No, his Majesty demanded to have all his yearly shots done before all others. If you noticed, most of shis scenes were him alone making reaction shots, or phone calls home. It was rare to see him and Chip or Ernie in the same shot on screne. This type of thing must have been a logistics nightmare for the producers. It would disrupt shooting, continuity among actors, even morale. Here is how it was described by insiders; At Fred MacMurray's insistence, all episodes were filmed out of sequence during the show's entire run using a technique now known as the MacMurray method. MacMurray would do all of his scenes in 65 nonconsecutive days. The cast regulars got haircuts once a week in order to maintain continuity. Guest stars would have to return months later to complete an episode. All kitchen scenes would be done together, then all scenes in the upstairs hallway would be filmed together, etc. This fact was well concealed until Dawn Lyn joined the cast as Dodie. Her upper front teeth grew in irregularly during the entire 1969-70 season, from being barely visible in scenes with MacMurray to being plainly visible in scenes without him. William Frawley never felt comfortable with this method of filming, having grown accustomed to filming I Love Lucy in sequence during its entire run.


Well, the show sucked anyway, but it interesting trivia stuff.

I suspect the orphan girl "Anne-Marie" in the animated film, All Dogs Go to Heaven, was modeled after Dodie. Dodie looks a lot like the girl in the film. In this film, the girl is dressed in rags, lives in an old car, and plays a subservient role to the dogs who "own" her. She was hoping to be adopted into a family. I guess this was Dodie's life before the Douglas family adopted her.

I always envied the Douglas family. They had such a picture perfect family. Just imagine a typical evening in the Douglas household.
Mr. Douglas is sitting in his favorite chair reading the newspaper while smoking his pipe. Katie is curled up on the sofa enjoying a good book.
Chip and Ernie are at the table working on their homework sipping on lemonade. Robbie is on the floor playing with the triplets with a set on Lincoln Logs. Uncle Charlie is doing a crossword puzzle and Barbara (Mrs. Douglas) patiently forces a lice comb through Dodie's matted hair.

'Twas dog-faced Dodie who began to bark,
and caused My Three Sons to jump the shark.

Mike, Mike, you went away and disappeared
Why couldn't Dodie so nobody else would've feared?

When I was a kid, my friends and I used to call Dawn Lyn "dog-faced Dodie" and then laugh and laugh and laugh. She used to scare my little sister.

Dodie! Dodie! Dodie! (Yuck!)

I'm guessing the diapers for Dodie were to put on her face? So she wouldn't scare the other dog in the family?

She was SOOOO ugly!

Speaking of Robbie and Katie, I suppose they had to buy diapers in bulk for the triplets and Dodie...

Robbie and his wife Katie decide to major in psychology at the university and suddenly decide they are sigmund freud and carl jung. Ah, such arrogant little punks!

Dawn 'dog-face' Lyn was the final death knell for this show. However, it had jumped the shark long before she ever arrived on the scene.

Someone said that it was "refreshing to see such a plain looking child on television." Somehow, I don't find it refreshing to be scared out of my wits by seeing that terror on my TV. Dodie was not 'plain looking' -- she was downright horrific.

One of the things that I hated most about MTS was the color scheme of the house once the show went to color. It looked like it was painted by a defense contractor.... all of these horrible blechhh greens and greys. It turns my stomach even today to think back to it. If those colors were truly indicative of the color palette back then, no wonder society turned to the vibrant neons of the next generation.

I know, I know....Dodie was terrible, homely, a bad actress, etc. And having Beverly Garland, who must have been 60, playing her mother didn't help. But I dwell on the positive. Tina Cole and Ronnie Troup. Major hotties (esp. Tina). This thing jumped when they adopted Ernie (yeah, let's have an older father, with a house full of young boys, adopt the little neighbor boy-did their mailbox say Neverland on it?). Tim Considine was a genius! Get off this sinking, stinking ship now while everything is ok.