Ichabod and Me was a situation comedy based series show with 36-episode the set for the series was staged in a small New England town. The stars of the series were Robert Sterling and George Chandler. “Ichabod and Me” was aired on CBS Television network from September 26, 1961, to June 5, 1962. The producers of the show were Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher.
The storyline featured Sterling in the role of 44-year-old Robert “Bob” Major, a widower and newspaper reporter from New York City who moves to the fabricated town of Phippsboro to purchase and edit the local paper, “The Bulletin”. Chandler played the role of 63-year-old intrusive ex- editor, in the series “Ichabod Adams”, played the role of a municipal traffic commissioner who keeps an eye on Robert just to make sure that the newspaper meets specifications. At the time of his “Ichabod” role, Chandler was also the president of the Screen Actors Guild.
“Reta Shaw” was the costars acting as “Aunt Lavinia”, the housekeeper of Bob. The other costars included “Christine White” has played the role o Abigail Adams, Adam’s daughter and Bob’s girlfriend; Jimmy Mathers as Benjie, Bob’s six-year-old son; Jimmy Hawkins as Jonathan Baylor; Burt Mustin as Olaf; and Forrest Lewis as Colby.
The pilot, titled “Adam’s Apples”, was broadcast on April 24, 1960 on CBS’s General Electric Theater with Ronald Reagan. Episodes included “Ichabod’s Niece”, “The Phippsboro Story”, “The Old Stowe Road”, “Ichabod’s Romance”, “Bob’s Housekeeper”, “A Letter from Juliet”, “Teenage Journalist”, “Parking Problems”, “Bob’s Redhead” with Merry Anders, “Election Fever”, “Jonathan’s Romance”, “The Purple Cow”, and “Big Business”. Rod Serling appeared as Eugene Hollinfield in the episode “The Celebrity” on March 25.
Summer rebroadcasts continued until September 16. The series ran at 9:30 Eastern on Tuesday in a favorable time slot sandwiched between The Red Skelton Show and The Garry Moore Show, both in the Top 15. At the end of each Skelton broadcast, George Chandler urged viewers to stay tuned to Ichabod and Me. Yet viewers left CBS for that half-hour in droves, as Ichabod and Me failed to develop its own loyal audience. The competition to Ichabod and Me was not overwhelming either: the second half of both Leslie Nielsen’s The New Breed police drama on ABC and The Dick Powell Show anthology on NBC.
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