Featured image: Patrick Duffy and Linda Gray at the 2013 Monte-Carlo Television Festival. Photo: Frantogian / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Duffy’s line about meeting his “new Larry Hagman” is a lovely way to describe a TV partnership. Step by Step doesn’t get the TGIF love Full House does, and this tribute is a reminder of what Somers brought to it.
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Duffy said he met Somers two weeks after leaving Dallas: “I looked at her, and I went, ‘Oh my God, that’s my new Larry Hagman’” (Hello!).
He said he and Somers liked to keep improvising after scripted dialogue ended in Frank and Carol’s bedroom scenes, aiming to show a marriage with more romance than audiences might expect, while keeping it “in good taste” (Hello!) (Parade).
Step by Step aired from 1991 to 1998 and followed two newlyweds blending families of three kids each. Somers, earlier famous as Chrissy Snow on Three’s Company, died on October 15, 2023, a day before her 77th birthday (Hello!).
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