McKeever and the Colonel is a situation comedy

Situation comedy

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 that was broadcast on NBC

NBC

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 television

Television

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 in the United States

United States

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 from 1962-1963. Its setting was a Westfield military academy

Military academy

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. Dick Powell

Dick Powell

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's Four Star Television

Four Star Television

Four Star Television, also called Four Star International, was an American television production company. Founded in 1952 as Four Star Productions by prominent Hollywood actors Dick Powell, David Niven, Ida Lupino, and Charles Boyer, the company produced many well-known shows of the early days of...

 produced the series.

Gary McKeever was the name of a student (played by Scott Lane) who was the lead of the series, whilst the Colonel (fully named Colonel Harvey T. Blackwell and played by character actor

Character actor

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 Allyn Joslyn

Allyn Joslyn

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) in the title referred to the school commandant who was constantly at loggerheads with McKeever.

Jackie Coogan

Jackie Coogan

John Leslie Coogan , known professionally as Jackie Coogan, was an American actor who began his movie career as a child actor in silent films. Many years later, he became known as Uncle Fester on 1960s sitcom The Addams Family...

 played Sgt. Barnes, a soldier at the school who was sympathetic to McKeever. The program also starred character actor John McGiver

John McGiver

John Irwin McGiver was a character actor who made more than a hundred appearances in television and motion pictures over a two-decade span from 1955 to 1975....

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The guest stars included Walter Coy

Walter Coy

Walter Darwin Coy was an American stage, radio, film, and, principally, television actor, originally from Great Falls, Montana. He was best known for narrating the NBC western anthology series, Frontier, which aired early Sunday evenings in the 1955-1956 season.-Career:Coy performed on Broadway...

, formerly the host of the NBC anthology series Frontier

Frontier (1955 TV series)

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