MovieChat Forums > The Patty Duke Show (1963) Discussion > Other Identical Cousins On TV?

Other Identical Cousins On TV?

posted 11 years ago by jefgg
8 replies | jump to latest

There have been other identical cousins on TV. On "The Brady Bunch" housekeeper Alice went on vacation and was replaced by her identical cousin Emma. Both were played by Ann B. Davis, of course. Davis actually has an identical twin sister, but they used a split screen when the identical cousins had a scene together.

"Blansky's Beauties" was a "Happy Days" spin off. Although the "Happy Days episode" on which Nancy Blansky first appeared took place in the early '60s, "Blansky's Beauties" itself was set in then present day 1977. Eddie Mekka's character Joey DeLuca was a younger and identical cousin to Carmine "The Big Ragoo" Ragusa.

What other identical cousins have there been?

[–] TheLightFantastic 11 years ago

Serena and Samantha on Bewitched.

[–] jefgg 11 years ago

Were Samantha and Serena really identical? Serena wore a black wig.

[–] welsh_blue_blood 11 years ago

Twin Peaks had identical cousins. Sheryl Lee played both blonde Laura Palmer and her brunette identical cousin Maddy.

[–] rycki1138 11 years ago

Were Samantha and Serena really identical? Serena wore a black wig.

By that reasoning you could also say that Patty and Cathy Lane weren't "identical" cousins because they had different hairstyles.

(knock,knock,knock) Penny (knock,knock,knock) Penny (knock,knock,knock) Penny

[–] TheLightFantastic 11 years ago

Oh, and Thelma "Mama" Harper had an identical cousin named Lydia who appeared on one episode of Mama's Family.

[–] ItsEddieHaskellBeyotch 11 years ago

Steve Urkel and his cousins Myrtle and OGD Urkel on Family Matters.

"No my brotha, you got ta buy yo OWN!"

[–] dwacon-2 10 years ago

Orphan Black, which aired on BBC America, featured identical clones. Tatiana Maslany played (I believe) nine different characters in the first season. Motion capture technology made it a lot more realistic than the 60’s effects in The Patty Duke Show.

Dwacon
http://dwacon.com/
http://facebook.com/DwaconEntertainment

[–] magolding 8 years ago

It is biologically impossible for cousins to be identical.

Suppose that 2 male identical twins and 2 female identical twins marry. Then each set of parents will have identical genes. And the children of the 2 sets will be as genetically identical as siblings.

But siblings, except for rare cases of identical twins, have different genes from each other. it is impossible for 2 humans to have identical genes, unless one is cloned from the other with future science, or they are identical twins grown from a single fertilized egg which split into two very early in development.

Therefore anyone who cares enough about biological science will have to assume that The Patty Duke Show is fantasy or science fiction in which Patty and Cathy's mothers were both implanted with their identical offspring by magic or super advanced science.

Unless, of course, we assume that Patty and Cathy are not genetically IDENTICAL but are genetically SIMILAR ENOUGH in their genes determining appearance that they look almost identical. Just like Tsar Nicholas II and King/Emperor George V were not genetically identical but looked very similar and were hard to tell apart.