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Here Come The Brides debuts on ABC on September 25, 1968.

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On September 25, 1968, Here Come The Brides debuts on ABC-TV and ostensibly portrays the arrival of the Mercer Girls in frontier Seattle, where, Perry Como croons, we have "the bluest skies you've ever seen."

The show stayed on the air until 1970.

Sources:
Walt Crowley, Rites of Passage: A Memoir of the Sixties in Seattle (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995), 260-261.

By Alan J Stein, January 01, 1999

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