A loving mother and wife deals with situations and problems of a middle-class family in the late 1950s and the early 1960s.A loving mother and wife deals with situations and problems of a middle-class family in the late 1950s and the early 1960s.A loving mother and wife deals with situations and problems of a middle-class family in the late 1950s and the early 1960s.
- Nominated for 4 Primetime Emmys
- 3 wins & 6 nominations total
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- TriviaThe living room set was later used again as Major Nelson's living room on "I Dream of Jeannie". It was also used as the Mitchell's livingroom in "Dennis the Menace" and in the show "Hazel" several times.
- GoofsStarting from the season 3 opening , you hear the phone ring and Donna Reed come down the stairs to answer it , it rings again even after she has picked it up .
- ConnectionsFeatured in Let the Good Times Roll (1973)
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QUINTESSENTIAL FIFTIES SITCOM
Although it lasted in the Sixties, this was the typical family Pleasantiville-style sitcom of the Fifties, along with Leave it to Beaver, Ozzie and Harriet, My Three Sons, and Father Knows Best. Reed's career was on a downturn, so this series was designed as a vehicle for her - and hence the uniquely egocentric title! Can you imagine "Beaver" being called "The Barbara Billingsley Show"? Donna was, admittedly, in the center of things more, and solved all manner of family crisis. The son, Paul Peterson, is now an advocate for child actors, and Shelley Fabares, who had a hit song during this series' run ("Johnny Angel"), had a career that went from teen idol to mature beauty in "Coach". The father was a doctor - at least he had a job unlike the goofy Ozzie! A somewhat contrived and formula show even by Fifties standards, but still a pleasant and wholesome series - unlike the smutty, cynical, and mean-spirited sitcoms of more recent times of which I have little use.
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- Kirasjeri
- Aug 12, 1999
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