Classic Television - Prime Time

To Rome with Love

Original channel

CBS

Original run

September 28, 1969 – September 1, 1971

Starring

John Forsythe

Kay Medford

Peggy Mondo

Vito Scotti

Walter Brennan

To Rome with Love is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from September 1969 to September 1971.

To Rome with Love is the story of a widowed college professor, Michael Endicott, who decided to leave his native Iowa following the death of his wife and accept a new position as an instructor at the American Overseas School of Rome. The culture shock of his children in reacting to their new environment, and, to an extent, his own, provided the main humor in the series. family situations provided most of the rest. Early on, much of this came from Endicott's single sister, Harriet, who followed them to Rome, apparently for the sole purposes of dissuading them from living there and to cajole them into returning to Iowa. Harriet soon departed, but her place was taken shortly afterward by Andy Pruitt, Endicott's father-in-law and the children's grandfather. He came to Rome for a brief visit, but wound up staying indefinitely.