I met Ozzie and Harriet about 1968. Ozzie was just like he appeared on his show. He was very outgoing and friendly. He had been a successful band leader and was instrumental in producing and promoting Ricks early career. Harriet was relatively quiet but lovely and elegant. It was a great privilege to meet them. Its hard to know they are all gone now. Wonderful people.

What a great man he was, you can see that his family inherited his values 😁❤️

I don't know what I would have done without growing up with the Nelsons. I loved Ricky's music and still do, and I am 73. They were a nice, all around good family with high morals and principles.

A great and talented man with a very open honesty about his life; how he wrote and directed his show with his wife and sons; we won't see the likes of him anymore.

Like Desi and Lucy - and Jackie Gleason, Ozzie OWNED and DID EVERYTHING. The show, the producer, the director, actor, the head writer, the copyright holder, the production company, the syndicator etc. etc. etc.

He is so gentle and really wise. I feel like I cant hear enough.

Great interview what a class act, RIP all the Nelsons.

Always been a fan of the show..even a bigger admirer of Ozzie after seeing the interview..such a genuinely, nice man-and very wise. RIP Ozzie.

I love Ozzie and Harriet....really enjoyed the interview. Definitely a lost era.

i saw an interview with a child actor who was on the show and he said Ozzie really was an ice cream junkie. He took the boy in at the end of the day and they watched the rushes while eating ice cream. what great folks these guys were.

Thank you ! This was a wonderful interview. He was an intelligent man

I’m now watching The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriett and LOVING every minute of it! ❤️❤️ LOVE this interview with Ozzie. Such a charming man.

Thanks for this interview showing us he was pretty much that kind & genuine man we watched! I loved hearing about him in his younger days & it‘s all very interesting to me! And I can’t help but love the person he was.

I enjoyed this interview very much. A huge fan of the show, I still listen to the old radio shows of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet and also the tv shows. Thanks so much for sharing!

Rip in peace 🙏 awesome times ..

To Ozzie in 2022, I'm 59, have lived very near Ridgefield park, it is still legally known as a village. They preserve their history, don't knock down the older homes. Your childhood home still stands on Teaneck road and your brother attended the dedication ceremony in the 1990s of Ozzie Nelson drive which still is near the high school. Your legacy survives with your never met grandson Sam Nelson currently restoring every episode of your beloved creation.

What a class act. He seemed like an excellent man.

Thank you, for this interview! I also grew up watching Ozzie and Harriet, and just loved it!! xo

What a remarkable perspective from someone who was the image of the stereotypical 50s middle class white gilded family. A very well and fairly reasoned man.

Great video, thanks for sharing! I'm a big fan of the Ozzie and Harriet TV show.

Such a wonderful thoughtful man. 😊

Sad to know that this was taped June 6, 1974 and his funeral was June 6, 1975. One year later... : (

I remember "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" when I was little, but not very well. Back when the Disney Channel was still good, they brought the program back in the mid-1980s at 12:30 p.m. I couldn't wait to watch it. I still enjoy the program immensely. I then became a Ricky Nelson addict and was obsessed with his early music. Ozzie was a genius in my book. He acts in this interview exactly like I expected. What a wonderful person with high standards. Sad to know they're all gone now. Thank goodness we can still watch the show. Thanks, Ozzie, for what you did. You were a part of so many American's lives. I surely wish we had these standards today for TV shows.

Thank you for sharing this!

I love Ozzie so much, and I really enjoyed this interview.

There is a quiet , intelligent way about this wonderful man I truly respect 🙏.

Very wise and very articulate.

Ozzie was pretty youthful-looking: he was in his late 60s here.

Ozzie was a brilliant man. Great musician. No wonder Rick was great.

What a beautiful nostalgic walk down memory lane. Back to a more civilized time where manners and behavior were front and center. Where anyone older than you was addressed only as Mr. or Mrs. Now coarsened and vulgarized by today's pop culture. The world could use more John Wooden's Vin Scully's Lawrence Welk's and Ozzie Nelson's.

Very interesting & informative video !

great interview

A treasure!

My favorite episodes ~ when Ozzie and Thorney were up to something.

Aired before he passed away in 1975

Interesting what he says almost at the outset that this TV family was viewed as an ideal family and that teenagers from dysfunctional families (abusive/drunk) would want to be adopted by them. I have often thought that is true of so many TV families that seem so perfect.

LOVED OZZIE AS THE FATHER, SOMETHING AS I GREW OLDER I LOOKED UP TO WITH ALL PATIENCE, HUMOR, UNDERSTANDING AND GUIDANCE.

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Wonderful interview ❤

ONCE UPON A TIME .....

Ahhh...... Loved Ozzie! Btw, Did he ever get a job? Haha! Seriously, a great show!!! 💜

All interviewers should watch James Day conduct an interview: this is how you do it, as opposed to say Charlie Rose who just wants to show how much he knows. Very few people know how to get the best from a subject

I wish I had been born when there were more ballrooms! For a while they became popular here on the East coast. I have one old Arthur Murray studio down the street from me, but now it’s only open 3 days a week. I was surely born in the wrong era.

Ozzie was an eagle scout at 13? That is pretty amazing, to be so young. Scouting was a big deal - as he pointed out - in many smaller American towns and continued to be very influential throughout the 1960s and 70s.

I looked this show up and this interview isn't on the list of interviews. Weird

Well, we finally have a clue as to what Ozzie did for a living, he had a band. Obviously on the show that aspect was downplayed, a LOT!!!

I loved the show, still watching re-runs.The only thing I never understood was did Ozzie EVER have a go to job?I never got over his ALWAYS wearing sport coats and ties! And lastly, why the older sons wearing sweaters and ties.Did neighbor "Thorny" ever have a job????

ozzie looked young for 66

I wish he had used film instead of video - as Desilu had done.

What a charming man.

Funniest sitcom actor ever

I don’t know much about him, but, Ozzie seems to not have been a carbon copy of the stereotypical straight-laced Conservative - he was an avowed atheist, he enjoyed rock ‘n roll (he got heat for featuring it on his show), and he could appreciate the positive aspects to the hippy-movement. Refreshing. Also, unlike shows like Leave it to Beaver, etc. references to alcohol use and sexual predilections, although mild, were not verboten. Amazingly enough, Father Knows Best, uncharacteristically, produced a couple of pretty subversive episodes regarding women’s issues, in its early days.

Ozzie had more adventures than Harriet.

A bygone era….great memories.

Ozzie probably liked Chicago.

This was made 1 year before Ozzie Nelson passed away

He stunned many in his autobiography by admitting he was a lifelong atheist.

Yes. Not a true pattern. They wrote comedy. They weren't the simple perfect family. Ozzie the character often had bad ideas which launched the plots. He bumbled into problems. Harriet was always coming out with dry snappy comebacks. Rick flew by the seat of his pants. David was simple, straight forward, conservative. These weren't the classic, square, nuclear family (which is how they are remembered). By the way, most shows weren't like all other sitcoms which ran for 25 mins with one idea; one theme per show. Ozzie and Harriet often had several threads per story line running per show. It must have been harder to write but it often made for a packed, fast moving show. It was funnier too because the viewer would forget about something that was going on so the comedic punch later on would blind side them thus making it surprising.

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Yes Ozzie...integrity has always been around. Unfortunately congress (note small “c”) thinks they are the only ones who can dictate THEIR integrity (socialism/death of the constitution/treating all who doesn’t lock in to their ideology like crap) upon the rest of the country. Says some terrible stuff about congress but even worse stuff about those who elected them! I wonder what Ozzie’s observations about today would be?

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But...What is wrong with a model to look up to.What is wrong with morals

He ruined his beautiful hair.

He was known to be a real bastard