Wait! :eek: What? 
There are cartoon versions of GI?
How do I not know this? :smack:
Not only that, but the only two actors who did their own singing were Shirley Jones and David Cassidy.
You may have that backwards; his father got a job outside of the Los Angeles area, which is why he had to leave the show. At least, that’s how TV Guide reported it when it happened.
It seems possible that that was spin control on the part of the studio or network. As per Wikipedia’s entry on Gelbwaks:
As these old pop culture threads often do, this one took me down a rabbit hole of wiki links and beyond. Reading interviews with Suzanne Crough and Brian Forster from the early 2000’s it is clear that for whatever reasons Gelbwaks was pretty much universally disliked. According to the former it had gotten to the point where either he or Bonaduce HAD to go because the larger and older Bonaduce had gotten sufficiently provoked to start physically picking on him. And since Bonaduce was the breakout star and Gelbwaks and his mother were a royal pain in the ass, the move back East( which was real, but needn’t have caused the end of his career on the show )was an excellent excuse to write him out.
My Daddy has a strong red gene. Most of my sibs are blond, one strawberry blond brother. Mr.Wrekkers family has a strong red gene. He has a light complexion with formally blond hair ( now white-grey). I’m am very pale, blond haired. 2 of my kids are pale blonds. My middle daughter has a ruddy complexion and brownish-red hair. So you can never tell where that red will pop-up. I so wanted a real redheaded kid, with freckles. I blame my middle daughter for the outrage. She would say “Thats par for the course, I get blamed for everything!”
The job on the east coast (at Reston’s US Geological Survey, then under construction) was real. My impression was that his dad would not have taken it if he weren’t getting booted from the show. I don’t think he was ready for the rigors of a hit show that he was only a very minor part of.
There was a TV-movie about “The Partridge Family” that Danny Bonaduce was involved with, and was told from his point of view. In the movie, and in real life, Danny was close to Dave Madden/Reuben Kincaid. In the TVM, [the actor playing] and Danny have this conversation:
Madden: You know why we were cast?
Bonaduce: Yeah, because we’re funny.
Madden: No, because we look funny. Look at the other cast members, and then look at us.
Well, presumably the two-gene theory would have to have two recessive blonde genes and two recessive red genes for both parents, so the only possibility would be to have a child with a recessive blond and recessive red genes, hence a red-head. A blonde would have to have two recessive blonde genes, and a dominant non-red hair gene from one of the parents.
To answer your question, yes, but who? I cannot recall. (Ok, ok, not a sit-com, but…) Oh, I know! One if not both boys selected to act in “Big”! I was reading some behind the scenes tidbits on Big recently shortly after directer Penny Marshall’s passing. And, also, not being able to sleep one night, I popped in the DVD…which led me to read-up on the making of this movie.
My wife says she always thought Danny was cast to have such wild hair to match his character, an ever-scheming, impetus, wild, redheaded child! Maybe that IS what the director was going for…like scheming “Lucy Ricardo” and her cartoon alter-ego, wild “Woody Woodpecker”!
Not exactly a “child” actor but when Beverly Owen left The Munsters after 13 episodes, she was replaced by Pat Priest. Priest not only had the same hair color, she also wore the same size clothes as Owen, so they could use the same wardrobe.
And six different actresses (seven, counting the pilot) played the three daughters on Petticoat Junction, but there was always a blonde, a brunette, and a redhead.
TVTropes has a page on Separated at Birth Casting, which includes some parent-child examples.
What would you expect on a show about a small town brothel with a rather obvious name in the middle of bumfuck nowhere but somehow a stop on the local railroad? Where there’s always a blonde, a brunette and a redhead even when they’re different girls than last time?
Did you think those young women were ‘accidentally’ swimming naked in the water tower as the train came in? 
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, all!
Perhaps Mrs. Partridge wasn’t always faithful to her husband.
What about Full House? Danny has dark hair, his wife Pam had dark hair, her brother Jesse hadsdark hair. Yet the three girls have blonde hair, just like Danny’s best friend Joey.
What conclusions can you draw from that?
Well, if both parents carry a dominant and recessive gene for dark hair, that’s about a one-in-sixty-four chance, roughly (like we said before, the genetics is a little more complicated with hair color, but this should be a decent first-order approximation.) So not all that crazy. As I wrote previously, have a set of cousins just like this: parents both dark hair, three kids all light hair, and they all look like their father, at least to me.
What about Modern Family? DeDe and Claire are blonde, Jay has brown hair. . . and then there’s Mitchell.
Um, actually…
Fans will know that Shirley didn’t meet Reuben until the first episode. Danny was about 11 at the time, and in fact, he introduced the two adults to one another.
I’m trying to decide whether you’ve ruined my childhood, or enhanced it somehow.