Superdad

"Superdad" (1974) is a live-action film by Walt Disney Productions starring Bob Crane, Kurt Russell, Barbara Rush, Kathleen Cody and Joe Flynn.

ynopsis

The film following the attempts of an executive (Crane) to wrest his daughter (Cody) from her childhood sweetheart (Russell) of whom he disapproves. An attempt by the Disney company to address the generation gap and the social upheaval of the Vietnam era, it was a critical and commercial failure but did appear subsequently on the Wonderful World of Disney anthology television series. To date it has not been widely released on DVD (though was made available exclusively to members of the Disney Movie Club in that format), although it did have a limited release on VHS.

In other media

Superdad was also featured in the film "Auto Focus", where Bob Crane (Greg Kinnear) sees his role as the leading man in the film a way to get noticed following the retirement of Hogan's Heroes. Footage of the film is shown where Crane is on waterskis (Greg Kinnear reshooting that scene), and narrating how Superdad sat on the shelves for a year, then flopped at the box office. Crane then said he had to be grateful to Disney for casting him in the film Gus, which came a few years later.