Patty Lane (played by Duke) was the normal stripling sleep in the Brooklyn Heights section of New York City, who loved boys, ice cream, & sleepovers. In the 1st episode, her "identical cousin" Cathy (likewise played by Duke, around a dual role that challenged favorite results in television at the instance) come on top to the United States from Scotland to live with Patty's personal.

Patty's father, Martin (played by William Schallert), was the managing editor of the fictitious Just released York Chronicle; Cathy's father as well worked for the Story as a foreign correspondent. It was Cathy's father's wish that she complete her secondary schooling in the United States prior to she would become allowed to link to to Scotland. Cathy was great deal other worldly, & a aggravations that come from either them girls' super different personalities placed a tone for lot of the sitcom. A indicate's theme song, which has since been parodied numbers of days assibilate around popular culture, illustrates them girls' differences: Cathy adores a minuet, the Ballet Russe, and crepes suzette, while Patty loved to rock 'n' roll; a hot dog "made her lose control."

Besides seen was Patty's mother Natalie (played by Jean Byron) and Patty's brother Ross (played by Paul O'Keefe).

Already the budding star inside her have best, A Patty Duke Indicate allowed Duke to stay in the public consciousness. When the series went in, her star power from either a series allowed her to enter a realm of popular music, releasing a Top Ten only, "Don't Just Stand There", around 1965.

Around 1999 CBS aired ''The Patty Duke Show: Still Rockin' In Brooklyn Heights'', which reunited most of the original cast, including Duke, Byron, O'Keefe, & Schallert. Patty & Richard married when high, got a boy, & come currently amicably divorced (though toward the prevent of the motion-picture show it reconcile). Cathy occurs as widow woman sleep in Scotl&, and has the teen boy. Virtually all of the plot revolves about Patty's old competition Sue Ellen's plans to purchase Brooklyn Heights High School, raze it, & replenish it sustaining a mall, which is opposed by Patty, Cathy, & the rest of the personal.