For the 1912 book by Henry H. Goddard about the Kallikak family, see The Kallikak Family.
The Kallikaks
A promotional photo for The Kallikaks, showing David Huddleston as J. T. Kallikak.
Genre
Sitcom
Created by
Roger Price Stanley Ralph Ross
Starring
David Huddleston Edie McClurg Bonnie Ebsen Patrick J. Peterson Peter Palmer
Theme music composer
Stanley Ralph Ross
Opening theme
"Beat the System", performed by Roy Clark
Country of origin
United States
Original language
English
No. of seasons
1
No. of episodes
5
Production
Executive producer
Stanley Ralph Ross
Producer
George Yanok
Running time
30 minutes
Original release
Network
NBC
Release
August 3 (1977-08-03) – August 31, 1977 (1977-08-31)
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The Kallikaks is an American sitcom television series starring David Huddleston which centers around a family from Appalachia that moves to California to run a decrepit gasoline station. The show aired from August 3 to August 31, 1977 on NBC.[1][2]
^McNeil, Alex, Total Television: The Comprehensive Guide to Programming From 1948 to the Present, New York: Penguin Books, 1996, p. 445.
^Brooks, Tim, and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime-Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present, Sixth Edition, New York: Ballantine Books, 1995, ISBN 0-345-39736-3, p. 546.
depicting "The Jukes and Kallikaks Today". In the book The Manchurian Candidate, Richard Condon makes an adjective of theKallikak name in describing a country...
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1977). "'Kallikaks' Distasteful Comedy". Pittsburgh Press. TV section. p. 2. "Huddleston Heads Kallikaks". Lakeland Ledger. August 7, 1977. p. 4. The Kallikaks...
Twist in the Tale). He starred as J. T. Kallikak in the short-lived NBC situation comedy TheKallikaks later in 1977, and in 1979, he played the title role...
cast member on the short-lived sitcom TheKallikaks (1977), and co-starred in the films Alligator (1980) and The Little Dragons (1980). Since retiring...
of both the name and the land on which they live. In the early 20th century, a family identified in a case study by the pseudonym, theKallikaks, were presented...
She was a comedy regular on the Tony Orlando and Dawn variety show (1976–1977) and then a cast member of TheKallikaks and The Richard Pryor Show. In 1980...
chain. On the streets of New York, Karen was known as "Mr. Pathmark". Karen appeared in an episode of the 1977 NBC situation comedy TheKallikaks, and played...
studies, including theKallikaks, the Zeros and the Nams, that were often quoted as arguments in support of eugenics, though the original Jukes study...
in the Family, Banacek, and G.I. Joe. He was the co-creator with Roger Price of the 1977 NBC situation comedy TheKallikaks and also wrote for the show...
comedy TheKallikaks. In 1982, he appeared in Partners with Ryan O'Neal and John Hurt. Before retiring, Robinson was the host and narrator for the Discovery...
published during the early 20th century, which depicted pineys as congenital idiots and criminals, as seen in the research performed on "TheKallikak Family" by...
and the idea of progress. Some technological utopians promoted eugenics. Holding that in studies of families, such as the Jukes and Kallikaks, science...
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Goddard favored segregation in his The Kallikak Family; Grant favored all of the above and more, even entertaining the idea of extermination. By 1910, there...
Goddard favored segregation in his The Kallikak Family; Grant favored all of the above and more, even entertaining the idea of extermination.) Though their...
researchers have suggested that theKallikaks almost certainly had FAS. General studies and discussions on alcoholism throughout the mid-1900s were typically...
views the "Nordic race" as superior. As a white supremacist eugenicist, Grant was the author of The Passing of the Great Race (1916), one of the most famous...