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On television, from 1946 to 1947, he co-hosted "Hour Glass", the first regularly scheduled U.S. network variety show. In 1952, he starred in the NBC sitcom "Doc Corkle", which was broadcast for only three weeks. In the 1954-55 television season, Mayehoff appeared as a construction contractor and former football player trying to impel his son to success on the American football gridiron in "That's My Boy", based on the 1951 Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis film of the same name, in which Mayehoff played the same part. Mayehoff also appeared in two other Martin and Lewis comedy films, "The Stooge" (1952) and "Artists and Models" (1955).