Superdad

Superdad is a 1973 live-action film by Walt Disney Productions starring Bob Crane, Kurt Russell, Barbara Rush, Kathleen Cody, and Joe Flynn.
==Plot==
Charlie McCready (Bob Crane) tries to wrest his daughter Wendy (Kathleen Cody) from her childhood friends, whom he believes have no ambition. He especially disapproves of her boyfriend, Bart (Kurt Russell). Initially he makes a few attempts to bridge the generation gap, but he fails, especially during the surfing scene, where he falls off the surfboard and get washed up. Late in the summer, Wendy receives a letter informing her that she has won a full scholarship to her parents' alma mater, Huttington College. Unbeknownst to her, the letter is fake; her father has paid the first year's tuition himself, and had a friend at the college send the letter to her. He did this so Wendy would not attend City College with Bart and her other friends.
Charlie later visits Wendy at Huttington, and discovers that the college has changed considerably since he attended there. Wendy later discovers his plot, and joins the campus counterculture as a way of getting even. She inadvertently becomes engaged to a hippie artist named Klutch. Charlie attempts to intervene on her behalf, and ends up in a fistfight with Klutch. Fortunately, Wendy's boyfriend Bart comes to the rescue. At this point, Charlie learns that Bart had turned down a scholarship to Huttingdon so he could be near Wendy. The movie ends with Wendy's marriage to Bart.
==Cast==
*Bob Crane as Charlie McCready
*Barbara Rush as Sue McCready
*Kurt Russell as Bart
*Joe Flynn as Cyrus Hershberger
*Kathleen Cody as Wendy McCready
*Joby Baker as Klutch
*Dick Van Patten as Ira Kushaw
*Bruno Kirby as Stanley
*Judith Lowry as Mother Barlow
*Ivor Francis as Dr. Skinner on TV
*Jonathan Daly as Rev. Griffith
*Naomi Stevens as Mrs. Levin
*Nicholas Hammond as Roger Rhinehurst
*Jack Manning as Justice of the Peace
*Jim Wakefield as House Manager
==Home viewing and copyright==
After its theatrical release, it appeared on The Wonderful World of Disney. 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 and BETA. It was also released on the digital format.
A copyright renewal for the film was registered on August 3, 2001.Online Copyright Catalog search (form autofilled, pressing "begin search" brings up the entry)
==In other media==
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 the shelves for a year before flopping at the box office.
==Gallery==
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==References==
Category:Disney films
Category:1973 films
Category:Live-action films
Category:Superdad
Category:G-rated films