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TV family: Jean Hagen is his wife and Sherry Jackson and Rusty Hamer, the children. cords to match, was still hopping about the studio like a Mexican jump¬ ing bean on a spree for days after the first press notices began to pour in from the debut. “Who can be in¬ different about a reaction like this?” he trumpeted with almost child-like joy. “I’ve been a flop too long in this medium. Now look what’s happening. We got a hit. We honest-to-Pete got a hit!” This is a different Danny Thomas from the one who only a year ago was proclaiming loudly that TV was for the birds. He had tried it and had been found wanting. Not a man to run down his own talent, he found his failure hard to take and decided that TV itself must have been at fault. He realizes now that he was wrong. “I was doing night club stuff. I’m good in a night club. The people laugh and cry and get with it. But how do you play in a night club with only four people in it? That’s what the television audience is. Four people. I finally found that out.” It was important to Thomas that he not only crack TV but that he do it in Hollywood. Ten years on the road had left him with a family of three children he hardly knew, and Thomas is the world’s biggest pushover when it comes to children. “Last year,” he says, “my 16-year- old daughter Margaret wrote an essay in school about giving up today in order to secure tomorrow. She said her own father was so busy making tomorrow secure for his family that he never saw them today. I tell you, my hair stood right up on end.” Last May something was done about it. Danny got together with Lou Edel- man, his producer at Warner Broth¬ ers, brought in writer Mel Shevelson, and the three of them hit on the idea of playing a situation comedy based pretty much on Danny’s own career—the story of an entertainer who doesn’t see very much of his family. The title, Make Room for Daddy, came from Thomas’ wife. Whenever he is on the road, one of 6