Sunshine

Jim 1970s

Aired: 1975

NBC

Sunshine

DAD: Sam Hayden (Cliff DeYoung) / widower

DAD’S JOB: Composer/Singer/Odd Jobs

KIDS: Jill (Elizabeth Cheshire) (5)

WHERE’S MOM?: Dead

STAND-IN “MOM”: Nora (Meg Foster) / neighbor

Getting Together returns. How about a one-man Partridge Family, with Dad taking the Shirley Jones role, and the one kid doesn’t sing? Okay, that’s stretching a bit. Dad is raising his stepdaughter, left to him by his late wife (who dies of 90-minute TV Cancer in the pilot), and is not following accepted norms of raising kids. Being in a rock-and-roll band, for example, is frowned on by Sam’s neighbors. Anyway, this tedious little show only lasted eight weeks, so don’t even worry about it.