kathy garver was at ucla when she got a call about about an audition.i was in the pi phi sorority and my mother calls, and she says, 'kathy, you have an interview. we've got to be in westwood in the afternoon.' i said, 'okay, that's fine, mom. i'm done with my classes,' and i said, 'what's it for?' 'well, it's for this new television series but they want a blonde, blue-eyed girl.' i said, 'okayyy.' now at that time, i did not have little goldilocks. no. i had dark hair and i still had dark eyes and we did not have blue contact lenses during that time." despite "their" preferences, kathy charmed the producers and won the role of catherine patterson davis better known as cissy on "family affair." the showabout 15 year old cissy and her six year old twin siblings moving in with their rich uncle and his butler after being orphaned, premiered on september 12, 1966 and ran untii 1971. "i term it more of a dramedy than a comedy and the essence of the comedy was situational and it depended on what was happening. you know the problem was set up, you know, how ar