I am forever grateful to have spent a lifetime together with him, on and off stage, for over 60 years,” his brother and the duo’s other half, Dick Smothers, said.

Source: https://globalnews.ca/news/10165182/celebrities-movie-stars-tv-deaths-2023/

The family eventually moved to the Los Angeles suburb of Redondo Beach, where Smothers helped his mother take care of his brother and sister while she worked.

Source: https://calgary.citynews.ca/2023/12/27/comedian-tom-smothers-one-half-of-the-smothers-brothers-dies-at-86/

Their first TV series, "The Smothers Brothers Show" aka "My Brother the Angel," arrived in 1965, and was a flop.

Source: https://extratv.com/2023/12/27/tom-smothers-one-half-of-envelope-pushing-comedy-duo-dies/