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Series: They laugh alike, they walk alike, at times they even talk alike: Brooklyn cousins are both played by teen Oscar winner Duke in a sitcom that was a '60s hit for ABC and an '80s hit for Nick at Nite.

Anyone even vaguely familiar with the classic television sitcom "The Patty Duke Show" no doubt looks at the show's namesake as the quintessential teenager times two.

Discuss this story now After establishing herself as an award-caliber young star as Helen Keller in both the original stage and screen versions of "The Miracle Worker," Duke conquered television in dual roles as "cousins, identical cousins" Patty and Cathy in this classic mid-1960s sitcom created by best-selling author Sidney Sheldon.

Jayne Meadows, Steve Allen's widow. She's 89. It was her sister Audrey Meadows that played Ralph Kramden's wife Alice on The Jackie Gleason Show.

Helen Keller might have become blind and deaf when she was 19 months old - due to an illness that might have been scarlet fever or meningitis - but she overcame that enormous obstacle and achieved a great deal.

Lock up your barns, surreys and livestock. The Bonnet Heads are preparing to invade New Jersey.