The Tony Randall Show

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Tony Randall plays a newly-elected Philadelphia municipal judge named Walter Franklin in The Tony Randall Show, which premiered in the Bicentennial Year of 1976.The Tony Randall Show is a half-hour comedy series starring Emmy Award-winner Tony Randall as Judge Walter' Franklin, a contemporary courtroom judge in Philadelphia who has as many trials and vexations off the bench as on, it debuted Thursday, Sept. 30, 1976 on ABC-TV. A widower, Franklin lives with his two children, Roberta (Devon Scott), 18, and Oliver Wendell Franklin, 11, along with their housekeeper, Mrs. McClellan (Rachel Roberts). At the courthouse, -he is assisted by his court reporter and confidant, Jack Terwilliger (Barney Martin) and his sharp-tongued, sardonic, secretary, Miss Reubner (Allyn Ann McLerie).