The folks you saw were likable, the family was fun, the situations were familiar to people. The messages it sent out were positive and uplifting. It has a sort of level of intelligence and professionalism that is sadly lacking in current entertainment products. In a 2008 interview, Paul Petersen (Jeff Stone) stated: According to many of Reed's friends and family, Reed shared many similarities to the character that she portrayed on screen, implying that the fictional Donna Stone was a near-identical copy of Reed herself. Reed's character, Donna Stone, is a loving mother and wife, but also a strong woman, an active participant in her community, a woman with feelings and a sense of humor.
This show was the first TV family sitcom to feature the mother as the center of the show. The first five seasons have been released on DVD. Following first-run, the show entered daytime reruns on ABC and then syndication on Nick at Nite and TV Land for several years. The series was sponsored by Campbell Soup Company, with Johnson & Johnson as the principal alternate sponsor (succeeded in the fall of 1963 by The Singer Company). She eventually grew tired of the workaday grind involved in the program, and it was cancelled in 1966 after 275 episodes. Reed was repeatedly nominated for Emmy Awards between 19, and won a Golden Globe as Best Female TV Star in 1963. The Donna Reed Show was one of television's top 20 shows in 1963–1964. In the show's middle seasons, Fabares sang what became a #1 teen pop hit " Johnny Angel", and Petersen had above average success with the song " My Dad", also introduced during the course of the series. The show had an uncertain start in the ratings and was almost cancelled, but fared better when it was moved from Wednesday to Thursday nights. Then-daring themes such as women's rights and freedom of the press were occasionally explored. Episodes revolved around typical family problems of the period such as firing a clumsy housekeeper, throwing a retirement bash for a colleague, and finding quality time away from the children. Roberts and developed by Reed and her then husband, producer Tony Owen. The show originally aired on ABC from September 24, 1958, to March 19, 1966. Alex Stone, and Shelley Fabares and Paul Petersen as their teenage children, Mary and Jeff. Carl Betz co-stars as her pediatrician husband Dr. The Donna Reed Show is an American sitcom starring Donna Reed as the middle-class housewife Donna Stone.
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