Series regulars or semi-regulars in 'The Little People' from 1970-1982:
- Brian Keith as Dr. Sean Jamison (1972-1974)
- Shelley Fabares as Dr. Anne Jamison (1972-1974)
- Victoria Young as Nurse Puni (1972-1974)
- Roger Bowen as Dr. Austin Chaffee (1973-1974)
1970-1982 Episode Guide for 'The Little People':
(Episodes with dates prior to 1970 aired as reruns.)
Season 1, episode 1
With Benton Sen (Jimmy). Comedy-drama series about a pediatrician and his family living in Hawaii. Brian Keith, who starred in the long-running Family Affair series, plays Dr. Sean Jamison. Keith's wife, Victoria Young, is a cast regular as his Hawaiian nurse-receptionist. In the first episode, Dr. Jamison is tricked into having his tonsils removed.
Season 1, episode 2
With Melendy Britt (Claire Wells), Evan Williams (Scott), Harry Williams (Al Wells). A woman asks Dr. Jamison by phone to give her son a "favorable sick diagnosis" and to forbid him to accompany his father on a sailing trip.
Season 1, episode 3 Dr. Jamison becomes concerned about the fate of an infant being reared amidst a rock trio.
Season 1, episode 4
With Michael Gray (Ronnie Collins), Seth Sakai (Bartender). After a harmless kiss on the beach, Ronnie becomes infatuated with Anne and asks Sean's permission to marry her.
Season 1, episode 5 Dr. Sean Jamison is determined not to address the local PTA despite Puni's pleading, and he convinces her that his daughter Anne would be the ideal speaker.
Season 1, episode 6
With Allen Tam (Thomas). Anne, Puni and a small boy plan a novel surprise for the doctor's birthday, not realizing how unusual it will be.
Season 1, episode 7
D: Richard Lang
With David Namaka (Judge), Charles Gilbert (Fisherman), Sarah Edlin (Rhoda Beth). A small boy is unhappy as he watches his parents become naturalized citizens, but the reason is not what Dr. Jamison and his staff assume.
Season 1, episode 8 Dr. Jamison misinterprets a rush call to the children's zoo, believing his patient to be a child, and runs into a series of misadventures with a chimp.
Season 1, episode 9
D: Howard Morris
With Elayne Heilveil (Betty), Phil Vandervort (Jack), Sally Lee (Grace).
Season 1, episode 10
D: Richard Lang
With Zulu (Chief Hanamakii). Dr. Jamison is caught in the middle of a comical mix-up when he's arrested as the ringleader of a women's riot.
Season 1, episode 11
With Allan Melvin (Bill Landis), Michael Gray (Ronnie Collins), Steven Hague (Alfred Landis). Dr. Sean Jamison discovers that kicking the smoking habit can have humorous as well as frustrating results.
Season 1, episode 12
D: Richard Lang
With Michael Gray (Ronnie Collins), Steven Hague (Alfred Landis), Douglas Mossman (TV Newsman). Dr. Sean Jamison faces the naked truth, literally, as he tries to prevent a 4-year-old girl from disrobing in front of boys.
Season 1, episode 13
D: Gary Nelson
With Merlin Olsen (Himself), Michael Gray (Ronnie Collins). Dr. Sean Jamison informs one of his young patients that he has a great future in football if only he can solve a problem: stop wetting his bed.
Season 1, episode 14
D: Gary Nelson
With Moe Keale (Officer O'Shaugnessy), Allen Tam (Thomas), Jerry Cox (Herman), Josephine Pagud (Mrs. Paona). Dr. Sean Jamison is disappointed when nurse Puni disqualifies him from playing Santa in the annual holiday pageant, which she is directing and casting.
Season 1, episode 15
D: Gary Nelson Dr. Anne Jamison is despondent when her boyfriend leaves for the mainland and Dr. Sean Jamison is forced into the role of Cupid.
Season 1, episode 16
D: Gary Nelson
With Steven Hague (Alfred Landis), Josie Over (Denise), Ward Bensen (Examiner), Sean Tyler Hall (Stewart), Reta Shaw (Miss Gormley). Dr. Sean Jamison is exposed to frustration and embarrassment because of Puni's failure to remind him to renew his license. He's stopped by officer O'Shaughnessy after running a stop sign.
Season 1, episode 17
D: Richard Lang
With Peter Leeds (Larry Bigelow), Dick Van Patten (Jerry Mason), Bill Zuckert (Judge Martin), Douglas Mossman (Tom Kana), Cheryl Conte (Renee). Sean and Jerry prepare to go to the church where Jerry is to be married with Sean as best man. But before they can leave, Sean has to treat a teenage singing idol for a sore throat.
Season 1, episode 18
D: Brian Keith
With Steven Hague (Alfred Landis), Sean Tyler Hall (Stewart), Gloria Nakea (Joan Wilson). Dr. Jamison, against his better judgement, stars in a movie being made by one of his little patients for a school project, and a comedic madhouse ensues.
Season 1, episode 19
With Sean Tyler Hall (Stewart). When Anne accuses her father of interfering with some of her patients, they decide to divide them up alphabetically but Dr. Sean seems to have forgotten the alphabet.
Season 1, episode 20
D: Richard Lang
With Zulu (Chief Hanamakii). Stewart receives a skateboard from Alfred, then leaves it in a hallway where Dr. Jamison accidentally steps on it.
Season 1, episode 21
D: Richard Lang
With Jackie Coogan (Mr. Plimpton), Ronnie Schell (Dr. Victor Lang), Fern Teasdale (Mrs. Parnell), Nina Foch (Mrs. Peterson), Patricia Herman (Nurse), Don 'Lance' Over (Mr. Devereaux), Shawn Sherman (Larry), Kwan Hi Lim (Dr. Potter). Dr. Jamison bumbles through several attempts to raise money for a children's hospital, but it takes an animal specialist to aid in the successful approach.
Season 1, episode 22
D: Howard Morris
With Richard Ward (Nathaniel A. Johnson). A retired postal worker vacationing in Hawaii hoodwinks Dr. Jamison into becoming his personal guide, and during the tour they become involved in a wacky incident.
Season 1, episode 23
D: Howard Morris A hard-nosed Army sergeant falls on his egg-filled face after he seeks help for a problem that doesn't exist when he thinks his son is a sissy.
Season 1, episode 24
D: Richard Lang
With Michael Morgan (Kenny Phelps). A 10-year-old with a super imagination infiltrates Dr. Sean's office under the disguise of a secret agent.
Season 1, episode 25
With Rip Taylor. Dr. Sean appears on a children's television show as a public service and suddenly is hit in the face with a pie and other outlandish tricks, all part of the show's format.
September 21, 1973: Dr. Chaffee, I Presume?
Season 2, episode 1
D: Earl Bellamy
With Robert M. Luck (Mr. Games). "The Little People" changes titles and starts its second season. Dr. Sean has his first encounter with a very proper allergist, Dr. Chaffee (Roger Bowen, joining the cast), who rents office space at his medical facility. Chaffee immediately takes over Sean's staff.
Season 2, episode 2
D: Earl Bellamy
With Myrtle Hilo (Cab Driver). Dr. Sean realizes his mistake when he shares his home with Dr. Austin and his frustrations skyrocket at the thought of the allergist as a possible son-in-law.
Season 2, episode 3
W: Perry Grant, Dick Bensfield D: Earl Bellamy
With Dawn Lyn (Patti Corrigan), Allae Tam (Commissioner), Carolyn Stellar (Mrs. Corrigan), Scott Spencer (Danny), Kwan Hi Lim (Steve Matsamura), Nancy Kulp (Mrs. Gruber). Dr. Jamison discovers Little League coaching is a tough task, especially when a girl wants to be on the team.
Season 2, episode 4
D: Earl Bellamy
With Pat Morita (Mr. Ishi), Patricia Herman (Myrtle Phillips), Elissa Dulce Hoopai (Estelle Anderson), Leinaala Heine (Mrs. Numa). Dr. Sean loses his office nurse to the battle of inflation when she moonlights working at a golf driving range.
Season 2, episode 5
D: Earl Bellamy
With Jane Adrian (Mrs. Wheeler), Calvin Wiel (Mr. Orniston). When a coconut clobbers Dr. Chaffee, Dr. Sean assumes his practice and sends the patients into shock with his diagnosis of certain itches.
Season 2, episode 6
D: Earl Bellamy
With Carole Wells (Candy), Nick Sylvester (Pilot), Sean Tyler Hall (Stewart), Sarah Edlin (Mrs. Thrum), Joe Moore (Wes Rogers), Hannah Adarna (Mrs. Luomala). Dr. Jamison is pegged as a swinger after attending a singles party.
Season 2, episode 7
With Zulu (Zulu), Matthew Blinson (Billy). Dr. Jamison's planned day of fishing is stymied by such problems as a parking lot baby delivery, Puni's being tossed in jail, and having to teach Sunday school.
Season 2, episode 8
With Kent Bowman (Mr. Dennison), Nancy Kulp (Mrs. Gruber), Kai Santos (Lee), Willa-Jo Broussard (Julie), Robert Kersch (Surveyor), Sam Peters (Patriarch). Dr. Jamison's request for a children's bathroom mushrooms into a huge construction project.
Season 2, episode 9
With David Wayne (Uncle Timothy), Nancy Kulp (Mrs. Gruber), E. Lynne Kimoto (Naomi's Mother). A retired doctor visits his nephew, Dr. Sean, on a 10-day "swinging" Hawaiian vacation capped with a marriage proposal to the landlady.
Season 2, episode 10
With Yankee Chang (Paililo), Jack Hogan (Jack Stanley), Sandra Gould (Sue), Douglas Mossman (Tour Guide), Norman Dupont (Reporter). Dr. Sean Jamison's delivery of quintuplets immediately makes him a celebrity.
Season 2, episode 11
With Ed Fury (Jeff), Nancy Kulp (Mrs. Gruber), Ed Fernandez (Lopaka). Dr. Sean Jamison stakes his financial future and that of his friends on the potential breeding fees of a prize bull.
Season 2, episode 12
D: Earl Bellamy
With Sean Tyler Hall (Stewart), Josephine Pagud (Mrs. Pahali), Jane Page Goo (Mary), Don 'Lance' Over (Uncle Bob), Abigail Nohara (Mrs. Kukahiko). Dr. Jamison responds to a sick call at a camp and is shocked to discover it's a nudist colony.
Season 2, episode 13
With Heather Lowe (Shawna), Christopher Connelly (Mike), Ann Conrad (Angie), Douglas Mossman (Tour Guide), Jennifer Ostrow (Momi), Christopher Pray (Mr. Willoughby), Keokeokalae Hughes (Mrs. Johnson). The first baby ever delivered by Dr. Sean shows up later as a beautiful "bride-to-be" and asks him to officiate at her "nonmarriage".
Season 2, episode 14
With Sean Tyler Hall (Stewart), Alan Krassner (Chief Great Moose), Danny Kamekona (Crooked Elbow), Miiko Taka (Mrs. Browning), Kimo Kahoana (Long Quill). Dr. Sean temporarily takes care of young Stewart and finds the chore includes "new math" homework, attending Indian Scouts and waking up to kiddie cartoons.
Season 2, episode 15
With Sean Tyler Hall (Stewart), Pitt Herbert (Sloan). Dr. Jamison unwittingly leads a music revolt among the island small fry when he quits piano lessons.
Season 2, episode 16
With Robert Sterling (Linc), Nancy Kulp (Mrs. Gruber). A retired ex-Marine buddy of Dr. Jamison's arrives on the islands to pursue his career of painting nudes, but soon becomes enamored of his old pal's daughter, Dr. Anne.
Season 2, episode 17
With Haunani Minn (Joan), Tori Brenno (Amy), Gregory Scott Dela Cruz (Billy). Dr. Jamison's magic tricks delight six fatherless children so much that they try tricking him into becoming their father. But a big magic show, with Dr. Chaffee involved, proves you can't trick a woman in love.
Season 2, episode 18
With Dub Taylor (Rhodes), Peter Carew (Mr. Hulani), George Herman (Kimball), Fern Teasdale (Nautical Lady), Susan Blu (Gloria). A con-man talks Dr. Jamison into accepting part interest in a catamaran as payment for a bill, but doesn't tell him of the boat's condition.
Season 2, episode 19
W: Perry Grant, Dick Bensfield
With Jack Elam (Capt. Tuttle), Sean Tyler Hall (Stewart). An eccentric recluse thwarts Dr. Jamison and his party in their effort to "turn back the clock" while vacationing on a remote island.
Season 2, episode 20
W: Bob Brunner
With Scott Kingston (Moki), Dick Patterson (Stanley Wallick), Nancy Kulp (Mrs. Gruber). When Dr. Jamison lets a madcap movie maker do a documentary on his clinic as a public service for children, he is shocked to discover the film has X-rated overtones.
Season 2, episode 21
W: Gordon Mitchell, Lloyd Turner
With Tina Santiago (Mother), Sean Mullen (Maitre'd), Ellen Weston (Linda Garrett), Gary Wong (Lieutenant), Susan Carroll (Melanie). Dr. Chafee falls for a college chum of Dr. Anne's, not suspecting the beautiful Linda's currently questionable calling.