Patrick Duffy and Suzanne Somers' characters' relationship in 'Step by Step' had a playful but noticeable undercurrent of attraction. Duffy recalls how the show's writers embraced this subtext, creating a dynamic that was both wholesome and suggestive.
Patrick Duffy praised Step by Step for not shying away from the more adult implications about the relationship between his and Suzanne Somers ' characters. During an episode of Staci Keanan and Christine Lakin's 'Keanan and Lakin Give You Déjà Vu' rewatch podcast, the former costars addressed how some viewers referred to the show as 'horny' after watching it back over the years. 'I could not believe that anyone would say that,' Keanan, 49, said in an episode from earlier this month.
'I thought, 'What are they talking about? Our show is a very wholesome and sweet family show.' Now I start watching the show .' Duffy, 75, joked about the undertones, adding, 'It's not like we demanded it. But we always pushed for the reason these two families got together on a whim and on a vacation. They got married after knowing each other for two days.' Step by Step chose to lean into the subtext. 'It wasn't because we were both good at playing poker. So every chance that we could, we wanted to go upstairs and we couldn't because we had a house full of kids, you know. And they wrote to that — and we played to that,' Duffy recalled. 'We thought it was important. We could be appropriately attracted to one another and also good parenting models.' The sitcom, which aired from 1991 to 1998, followed single parents Frank (Duffy) and Carol (Somers) who each had three children from previous relationships. They met by chance and quickly married, blending their families together. 'People have come up to me and have said that watching that show was pivotal for them as a child. They wanted — if they didn't have one — a dad like that,' Duffy recalled. 'One young man came up and said, 'I watched the show and ever since I started watching the show as a young person, I said, I want to be a dad like that. I wanna have a dad like that and then I wanna be a dad like that if I ever have children.' So we fulfilled a certain functio
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