From My Three Sons to Major Dad

Over the course of his five-decade career in television John Stephens produced many hit shows including <I>My Three Sons</I> <I>Family Affair</I> <I>Gunsmoke</I> <I>How the West Was Won</I> and <I>Simon & Simon</I>. He also produced a number of failures including <I>The Smith Family</I> (starring Henry Fonda and Ron Howard) and arguably the worst Movie of the Week the pilot to <I>Wonder Woman</I> (starring Cathy Lee Crosby). Along the way Stephens encountered the usual-and not so usual-difficulties that accompany work on such projects.