The Pride of the Family is a 30-minute American television situation comedy that was broadcast on ABC from October 2, 1953, until September 24, 1954.
[3] Writers included Paul Schneider, Clint Comerford,[4] Fred Howard, Irving Phillips, Al Gordon, Jack Fleischman, and Hal Goldman.
[6] The review attributed most of the laughs in the program to Hartman's "wonderfully mobile face"[6] and said that Wray "deserves better" after she came out of retirement to be in this show.
[6] The trade publication Billboard's review of the show's first episode described it as "a rather slow-moving situation comedy series with a competent cast, but only so-so scripting".
[4] Although it complimented Wray as "gracious and telegenic" and Hartman as revealing "an unexpected gift for pathos", it summarized the show overall as "average".