Details

Release year: 1958

Storyline

A loving wife and mother deals with situations and problems of a middle-class family in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Top credits

Cast

Donna Reed — Donna Stone
Paul Petersen — Jeff Stone
Carl Betz — Dr. Alex Stone, Dad Stone
Shelley Fabares — Mary Stone

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Awards

0 wins & 4 nominations

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Did you know

• The living-room set was later used as Major Nelson's living room on "I Dream of Jeannie", and also used as the Mitchells' living room on "Dennis the Menace" and the Baxters' on "Hazel."

• Of the numerous family-oriented situation comedies of the 1950s and early '60s, "The Donna Reed Show" was the first series to feature the mother as the focal point.

• The first-season opening credits of "The Munsters (1964)" were an outrageous parody of the opening credits of "The Donna Reed Show", which always began with Donna Reed lovingly passing out lunches to her departing family members as they left the house one by one; Yvonne De Carlo, as Lily Munster, did the same thing.