He was one of the few Child Actors that didn't disappear after their show was cancelled. So sad that Anissa Jones passed at an early age.

I haven't forgotten Mr whittaker. I grew up watching Family Affair as a child. And i still watch it to this day on occasion. It is a good family show that teaches values about life. We definitely need more Family Affair Shows these days.

He was a Mormon with a degree from BYU. He also fell into drugs and almost died. His family did an intervention and he finally got clean.

I sat down to watch Tom Sawyer when Johnny came in and sat down beside me. We were in college, in the basement t.v. room of our dorm at BYU. He answered a question or two, like how he didn't really remember much about making the movie. Then I let him be, and he watched for a few minutes, then said goodnight, and that he needed to get back to his room and study. He was a nice, normal guy.

Johnny Whitaker was one of the 70s coolest kids..

Kathy Garver is the true superstar/survivor of child stardom. Even helps her former cast mates stay employed/get work. Acting as an agent of sorts. - Love Kathy.

Jodi was absolutely adorable!!!!❤️

I wish Family Affair had run at least one more season

I remember Johnny Whitaker on Sigmund and the Sea Monsters!

I saw Johnny in Tom Sawyer then and you look at him here his expressions are identical but older, his smiles his head movement everything is the same. I saw him in Boston Ma 1997 great person to talk to.

Johnny looks like Brian Keith. Eerie. He was so handsome here. This was around 1996 or 1997.

"We'll be right back with John Whitaker of Family Ties". LOL

wow, seeing this guy brings back incredible memories. man, that family affair show brings me back to being 6 yrs old. what a show that was!. so innocent, in a very innocent time.

I think Mr. Whitaker had wanted us to call him "John" since he was 18, as a sign of maturity.

I have been watching Family Affair recently (I am recreating the set in VR!) and WOW he still has so many of the same speaking mannerisms etc!

Johnny Whitaker turned out really good looking, and he was such an adorable cute little boy also, a very good actor.

Tom Snyder's voice is capable of purring a ferocious Bengal tiger.

Just like Jody, he still has the stare, the hair and the head movement.

Jody looks the same as he did in Family Affair. I almost expected him to look up, wide-eyed & say, " Uncle Bill! Uncle Bill!!"

How good he is an actor.

Yes, he really does a great job interviewing people!!!!! I wish that Johnny had more than his once used generic response to Anissa!!

I still watched the reruns, so did my children, and my grandchildren. I think it was the first diverse, white family I seen there was always a lesson to be learned.

Saudades. Boas lembranças de nosso tempo em Portugal como companheiros missionários na cidade de Aveiro. Good luck for you my brother.

I remember when he was 9-10 and in a televised parade singing the song about “Every Little Boy Can Be President.”

nice to see he is still here

Bless his heart, what a great guy.

He does have a great personality!!

Timeline 9:00 minutes a fast break. Family Affair not Family Ties.

I still remember the Christmas Classic.."The Littlest Angel",and that Johnny played Tom Sawyer opposite Jodie Foster playing Becky Thatcher

Filmed in 1997, this must have been filmed just before Brian Keith's passing.

Brian Keith knew what he was talking about!

Anissa Jones story was such a sad story,she just wanted to be a normal child......

The story about Jodie Foster and the Lion "saving her" is eerily similar to what was said about the Roy Horn (Siegfried & Roy magicians) Lion incident during a show in Las Vegas.

Props to Johnny Whitaker for not correcting Tom's "Family Ties" gaffe. No mention of the awesome Sigmund and the Sea Monsters!

That was quite a slip! I'm amazed John didn't correct him. But hey, let's cut Snyder some slack, he's a fine interviewer :)

Thank you do much.

Brian Keith did not know Peg Entwhistle. She was not his mother.

He's a Mormon so that helps when you're in show business, just look at the Osmonds. I just loved Family Affair, one of my favorite shows.

Funny, looking at him as an adult, he looks a bit like Brian Keith.

in reply to rhomo, Tom Snyder states at the introduction of the show...It is Wednesday night, April 03, 1996...

Jack and the bean stalk on bewitched.

He seemed like such a good man if he did the least little thing bad in life obey it will be videoed everywhere

So nice to see a child actor to an adult success story, raised by good parents with God in his corner and a good head on his shoulders.

Always good still good 😂

Johnny Whitaker was great on Tom Sawyer

Off topic, but i had completely forgotten that Tom Snyder was on CBS in those days... I suppose he was up against Costas or Kinnear's NBC late show? Thanks for jogging my memory..

Still a great guy always eatchin family affair every day 😂❤

The interviewer said Johnny was on Family Ties!!

My Uncle once worked with Tom Snyder, in Philadelphia.

He could of been the villain in Shawshank redemption !!!! “ has anyone got to you , yet “?

Tom Snyder called the show "Family Ties" instead of Family Affair at 9 min 10 seconds.

Time sure screws people over.

I love this interview but He was on Family Affair not Family Ties.

"Sammy Spartan" took me by surprise cz I know he's from SoCal, as an I, and my hs mascot was Sammy Spartan. I was like, no way!, but his hs was not the same as mine.

Tom Snyder said Family Ties by accident, instead of Family Affair. Oh good he corrected it at the end.

cool guy

he looks like uncle bill's mini-me.

i missed you on the biscuit eater with my uncle George spell,he play Bobby. his sister , Gwen That's my aunt , she's a mother with three cjildren in San Diego. I'm.gonna say to hello from my uncle. thanks.

Was Johnny in the children's television show "Sigmund and the sea monsters"❓🤔

Dopey Tom Snyder called it family’ties’lol

Uncle Bill Uncle Bill

Family ties no dear Family affair. It's terribly sad what happened to Anissa. He was right the wrong friends, she was still a child. It would have been nice to see her older.

John Whitaker from Family Ties ?

they wrote buffys broken leg into the show.they didnt hide it. seems he doesnt know his own show.

Anyone know when this interview took place?

PS he laughs and smiles like George Clooney

Year?

Man he still looks like Jo see ya

David Chambers, that sounds familiar. Is he someone famous? Is this the same "best friend" he had as an adult as well? The guy that stole his wife?

Love John and Anissa.

Boy on Tarzan

Johnny or john i guess made alot of stuff just like billy mummy

9:11 -star of Family Ties?? Family Affair is more like it!

Family Ties?

Tom Snyder was 10x better interviewer than Larry King. Fact.

9:10 ...Family Ties, eh?

tom's a big goof

He looks a lot like Richard Carpenter.

Disappointed how he reacted about Annissa's death.

He works in the computer room. Unpacking and boxing them up

Remember the movie the russians are coming the russians are and he was hanging on that church steeple

I am watching reruns of "Family Affair" right now on TUBI TV! I love love love this show. My favorites are Mr. French and Mrs. Beasley - Buffy and Jody are fun and Cissy is very cool! And of course, Uncle Bill is the best!!

Whitaker is about 2 or 3 years older than me. When this was done, was he still doing Cocaine, Meth, and Drinking. I hear his family threaten to "divorce" him if he didn't go get help. Now in his 50s, I hope he learned a lesson. If he has truly changed, forget about his past, we can not change it, move forward! Keep these kids of today out of trouble!

well they were american honest family.

Fake it to make it.

9:11 Former star of "Family Ties"????????

This interview had to be pre 1997. Brian Keith committed suicide in 1997.

He looks the same.

"Led a normal life????" He, himself - Mr. Smug here - has had tons of problems with drugs and alcohol.

He looks really bad today. He let himself go sadly.

He turned out to be a good man because his parents raised him right; to believe in God.

His ears sure do stick out.

Looks like Johnny's wearing a wig.

Tom Snyder had to be one of the worst interviewers ever.

Johnny himself seems great! His character Jody was annoying.

Worst talk show host EVER...what a boring, monotone sap.

The Buffy girl in fmly affair died of o/d of drugs she was wth her brother both on drugs brother survived but the Buffy girl 4 got her real name, died my start of Jr high yr in 1976 I went to Wamego High in Wamego ks we got the news Buffy died o/d of drugs the girls in class wer crying,, us guys wer quiet an shocked, we ddnt cry we lost class concentration for several minutes are wmn teacher she got dropt tears