Fair Exchange

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This article is about the television series. For the Garfield and Friends episode, see Fair Exchange (Garfield and Friends).

Fair Exchange was a television comedy that ran from 1962 to 1963 on CBS. It starred Eddie Foy Jr. and Audrey Christie.

The premise was that Eddie Walker and Tommy Finch (Victor Maddern) were World War II veterans and old friends who decided to have their daughters live in the other's households for a year. This was because of Eddie's daughter, Patty, (Lynn Loring) who wanted to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. Whilst Patty lived in London with Tommy, his wife Sybil (Diana Chesney) and their son, Neville (Dennis Waterman); their daughter, Heather (Judy Carne) lived with Eddie and Dorothy Walker.

The show focused on the difficulties that Heather and Patty experienced as they lived in each other's families. This was the first hour-long sitcom, but didn't do so well, and was cancelled. After mail came in protesting CBS's decision, they brought it back, trimmed to a half hour, but again was not a ratings winner, and it was finally cancelled.

The show made a name for Judy Carne, who later appeared on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. Lynn Loring had name recognition after growing up on the soap opera Search for Tomorrow

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This show replaced Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone on CBS's fall schedule in 1962. Twilight Zone would replace Fair Exchange mid-season, albeit in an hour-long format.