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The Farmer's Daughter aired from September 1963 until September 1966 on ABC.
This comedy concerned Katy ( Inger Stevens), a naiive sexy farm girl of Swedish descent who came to Washington DC to look for help from her Congressman, Glen Morley ( William Windom). Instead she ended up working for him, as Governess of his 2 motherless boy's Danny ( age 8) ( Rory O'Brien), and Steve ( age 14) ( Mickey Sholder ). Also featured was congreeman Morley's mother, Agatha ( Cathleen Nesbitt), herself the widow of a congressman and Cooper the butler ( Philip Coolidge). Occasionally featured were Walter Sande as Papa Holstrum; Alice Frost as Mama Holstrum and Nancy Decarl as Steve's girlfriend Pam.
Through simple charm and native intelligence, Katy managed to loosen up the sometimes stuffy politicians around her and to further Glen's bumbling political career. During the fall of 1965 ( November 1), Katy and Glen finally got married. The event was even celebrated in real-life Washington, where Perle Mesta threw a party for 300 guests ( including Stevens and Windom), but even the wedding couldn't reverse the declining ratings and the show concluded it's run at the end of that season.
A sad note: Inger Stevens who always seemed so happy killed herself a few years after the cancellation of this series.
The program was based on the 1947 movie of the same name, starring Loretta Young, for which Miss Young won an oscar.
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