The show was filmed in June and early July 1956, and broadcast that October, at the start of the show's second season. He was successful and was selected to co-star with Tim Considine. 'The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure'. In April 1956, Kirk auditioned for the part of Joe Hardy for The Mickey Mouse Club serial I worked with some fascinating people - Sarah Churchill and others - and I started getting known. They were hour-long shows, telecast live from coast to coast. I did 37 of those in the next five years. Of these early experiences, Kirk especially liked working on Matinee Theatre: Freedom Highway (1956), a short commercial travelogue produced by Greyhound Lines to promote their Scenicruiser buses. Kirk also supported Angie Dickinson in a short feature called Down Liberty Road, a.k.a. the very picture of Eisenhower-era American youth, unaffected and natural, surprisingly non-annoying, extremely easy to cast as someone’s kid brother, or son, or neighbour.' Watching his early performances it’s easy to see why - he was wide-eyed, gangly, keen, and immensely likeable.

According to Diabolique magazine, 'Kirk was in heavy demand as an actor almost immediately. Kirk began to work steadily in television throughout 19 in episodes of Lux Video Theatre ('Green Promise'), Frontier ('The Devil and Doctor O'Hara'), Big Town ('Adult Delinquents'), Crossroads ('The Rabbi Davis Story'), Gunsmoke ('Cow Doctor'), Letter to Loretta ('But for God's Grace', 'Little League') and Matinee Theatre ('The Outing', 'The Others' – a version of Turn of the Screw). Kirk's brother went on to become a dentist. The performance was seen by an agent from the Gertz agency, who signed Kirk and succeeded in casting him in an episode of TV Reader's Digest, 'The Last of the Old Time Shooting Sheriffs', directed by William Beaudine.

'It was five lines, it didn't pay anything, and nobody else showed up, so I got the part,' said Kirk. Joe was not cast, losing out to Bobby Driscoll, but Tommy was, and he made his stage debut opposite Will Rogers Jr. In 1954, Kirk accompanied his elder brother Joe to an audition for a production of Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness! at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California. Looking for better job opportunities, they moved to Downey in Los Angeles County, California, when Kirk was 15 months old. His father, Louis, was a mechanic who worked for the highway department his mother, Lucy, was a legal secretary.

Kirk was born in Louisville, Kentucky, one of four sons. 2.3 The Shaggy Dog and Swiss Family Robinson.

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