I've always had a strong sense of if you have fame, use your fame for good and not for evil. The idea that you're cast in the show so young is wild. It's clear I didn't choose it 11 months to be an actor. Do you see something in yourself that you didn't understand at the time? I feel like I did that, I loved it, I am a very hard worker at it. It's extremely, you know, high work ethic.

When opportunities are offered to me, I love them. Some were in casting makeups, stylist, teaching acting, motivational speaker and stunt double. There's gotta be one good story in there. I've never been, I don't think I've ever been called a failure at least to my face. No, I guess I was really struck that you didn't seem to carry any of the weight or damage that so many people of our generation that were childs seem to kind of struggle with. Some people say it's a glass-happle, some see a glass FMP, I see the pretty glass. Okay, here's a self-extraordinary question. Have you watched every episode you're in? Of course, of course. I don't say I'm not narcissistic and self-centered. No, okay. Aaron, thank you so much for being here. It's nice to talk to you. A little bio, just kind of set this up. It's things you all already know, but it's to set up my thing. So be which premiered on ABC September 64. And you were born, I believe, June or June. June of 64, so I premiered by B4. So I didn't have my nose bullets in there. So you're just a little little baby. And the show ran till March 72. There were 254 total episodes of you which you were 108, I believe is, if that's accurate. I saw a clip where you said 108, so I'm quoting you. Yeah, I'm not even sure.

I've heard 188.

I seen 103. Yep, it's. The show was produced by ScreenGems who also produced the monkeys for fans of that period of time. ScreenGems did a lot of cool shows. They did. They sent a little bit of a counterculture thing. Oh, yeah, a little bit. I think this is a good example.

Absolutely.

Kind of in a weird coincidence, maybe, Jackie Cooper, who was himself a huge child star, was actually the person who sold the show. That's true. To the networks, which I thought was so interesting, because he too, like yourself, sort of faced like being a massive child star and then sort of facing, you know, what comes after that. The first season of the show, it was the number one show. I looked it up, I had to dig around. It was averaging 31 million viewers a show. Which is unheard of. There are no shows that do that anymore. Think about that in modern times. That's like NBA finals or something, right? That's every show. He was preceded in, when it first started behind my three sons and before Peyton Place, if anybody remembers that show, when you came on in season three, when you were two, right? It was right before I was two. Okay, geez, wow. Season three, it was the number seven show. So when you came on, it was, it was only doing a poultry 12 million viewers per show. Still top 10. I think it was, I think it was the number one ABC show. Okay. So you got me there. So real quick, because I know you know the story, is it true they saw you in a stroller or something? Because the idea that you're cast in a show so young is wild.

Yeah, it's not true that they saw me in a stroller for it be wished.

What happened was my dad had a business college in North Hollywood and I have a fraternal

twin sister.

Right.

So my mom would take us two little twins in a double stroller and everywhere my parents would go, people would say, oh my goodness, little blonde twins. They should be on TV and that type of thing. So I was discovered in a stroller and did some commercials before BeWitch. But I actually, when BeWitch came along, I already had an agent and audition. Okay, I didn't know that part. Have you seen the commercials of you as like a baby baby?

Yes, yes.

There's one that I... That must be wild. It's so funny because the first one I have on whatever that old film is called, so I have it on a reel where it was for Folger's Coffee. You just actually have that one. But the one that I was most famous for was with Ronald Reagan. Right. He was the spokesperson for Boratine Deturgent.

So I was a little,

topless baby, taddling around and he's talking about using Boratine to wash your diapers. And so that, that one I have, and I posted every now and then on social media because people get a kick out of it. Finally. Okay. So, correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is Elizabeth Montgomery the star of the show very beautiful woman Was married to William Asher who was the producer director of the show One of the directors he was he was the producer. Yes, so kind of a power couple thing This is her starring vehicle thing that they'd sort of put together and the reason you kind of come into this whole equation is she got pregnant. And they had to find a way to sort of figure out how to keep her on the show pregnant. Sort of. Okay. She was pregnant when they filmed the pilot of the show. So she was pregnant with her first child. Two years in, she was pregnant again. So there are a of having children? So yes, at that point they thought they didn't need to hide her pregnancy since Darren and Samantha were married and it was logical that they would have a baby. And they thought it would lead to kind of new cool storylines about, is Tabitha and that kind of thing. I know you've been asked about this period of your life extensively and I'm always uncomfortable to ask the same question. So I thought childhood memories are very interesting because they're sort of dreamy. Do you have a dreamy memory of being on set? Oh gosh. You know what I mean? I know exactly what you mean. A lot of it, it is kind of dreamy. That's a good word to describe it because I have such specific memories of certain times on the set and it usually revolved around animals. So when we had a baby elephant on the show and I think I was maybe three, I might have only been two, I absolutely remember it because I remember what the baby elephant felt like. And I remember being outside the studio, the stage doors and touching the baby elephant and getting some of the pain on my hands and things like that, that I'm not remembering from watching the show. So like, things are, I say this to people, you're kids remember things that are memorable, like walking out, like remember seeing them walk on the moon when I was five. Yeah. I remember, you know, sitting next to a chimpanzee and like playing with a chimpanzee and all that. So they're very early memories that are kind of dreamy. But you remember the ambiance of a sort of a Hollywood set in that time period? Yeah, it's funny because even coming here today,

people now we say, well be careful there are wires

and be like, you're walking on a set,

be careful you don't want a trip.

I don't even look down because literally,

since I could walk, I've been on sets,

where there are wires on the ground,

and I know that they're there,

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