How a robot Julie Newmar EXCITED viewers in this overlooked 60s sitcom before she was Catwoman
“[My Living Doll] was a wonderful, wonderful show and it was probably my best work.”—Julie Newmar
The video below features a look at 1960s sitcom My Living Doll and how actress Julie Newmar had TV viewers IN LOVE WITH HER before she took on the roll of Catwoman on the Batman 1966 series!
On the sci-fi sitcom, Dr. Robert McDonald moves the beautiful robot Rhoda Miller into his apartment and begins the task of training her how to function in the human world, while keeping her secret from being discovered, a situation complicated by his interfering sister and his lovesick neighbor Peter.
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My Living Doll was a sci-fi sitcom that aired for 1964-1965 on CBS. The series featured lifelike android Rhoda Miller, played by Julie Newmar. Being hidden from the military, while Rhoda’s personality and understanding of humanity developed, she was cared by psychiatrist Dr. Bob McDonald, played by Bob Cummings.
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This video has a Julie Newmar interview and clips from My Living Doll…
Julie Newmar, now 89, is an actress, dancer, and singer, known for a variety of stage, screen, and TV roles—including Star Trek, Twilight Zone, F Troop, Bewitched, The Beverly Hillbillies, Get Smart, The Monkees, It Takes a Thief, Hart to Hart, Columbo and The Bionic Woman.
Also a writer, lingerie designer, and real-estate mogul(!), Newmar starred as supervillain Catwoman on the 1966-1967 TV show Batman. Her voice work includes the animated feature films Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders (2016) and Batman vs. Two-Face (2017), for which she reprised her role as Catwoman 50 years after the original show.
In an interview with StarTrek.com to discuss her appearance on Star Trek: The Original Series, Newmar shared how much she enjoyed her work on My Living Doll: “I also did a series that I was very fond of called My Living Doll [which ran on CBS from 1964-1965]. I played a character named Rhoda the Robot. The show was in black & white and it was just before Batman and Star Trek. It was a tour de force for me, and probably the most important work that I’ve done. That was a wonderful, wonderful show and it was probably my best work.”