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Release Date: 1973

Cast: Joby Baker, Joe Flynn, Dick Van Patten, Barbara Rush, Kurt Russell, Ivor Francis, Kathleen Cody, Judith Lowry, Bruno Kirby, Bob Crane

Categories: Movies, Family, Comedy

Superdad is a 1973 American comedy film by Walt Disney Productions and starring Bob Crane, Barbara Rush, Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn, and Kathleen Cody. The film marks the on-screen debut of Bruno Kirby. This film was an attempt by the Disney company to address the generation gap and the social upheaval of the Vietnam era, but it was a critical and commercial failure. An executive (Bob Crane) tries to wrest his daughter (Kathleen Cody) from her childhood sweetheart (Kurt Russell), of whom he disapproves. After its theatrical release, it appeared on the Wonderful World of Disney anthology... MORE

Superdad is a 1973 American comedy film by Walt Disney Productions and starring Bob Crane, Barbara Rush, Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn, and Kathleen Cody. The film marks the on-screen debut of Bruno Kirby. This film was an attempt by the Disney company to address the generation gap and the social upheaval of the Vietnam era, but it was a critical and commercial failure. An executive (Bob Crane) tries to wrest his daughter (Kathleen Cody) from her childhood sweetheart (Kurt Russell), of whom he disapproves. After its theatrical release, it appeared on the Wonderful World of Disney anthology television series. To date it has not been widely released on DVD (made available exclusively to members of the Disney Movie Club in that format), but it did have a limited release on VHS. It was also recently released on iTunes. Superdad was featured in the biographical film Auto Focus, with Bob Crane (Greg Kinnear) seeing his role as the leading man in this Disney film as a way to revive his career following the retirement of his hit series Hogan's Heroes. Footage of the film is shown where Crane is on water skis (Kinnear in a re-shoot of that scene), along with a voice-over of how Superdad sat on LESS