mary left the donna reed show in 1985.
mary left the donna reed show in 1985.
when did mary leave the donna reed show?
1985
the donna reed show is an american sitcom starring donna reed as the middle-class housewife donna stone. carl betz co-stars as her pediatrician husband dr. alex stone, and shelley fabares and paul petersen as their teenage children, mary and jeff. the show originally aired on abc from september 24, 1958 to march 19, 1966. when fabares left the show in 1963, petersen's younger sister, patty petersen, joined the cast as adopted daughter trisha. patty petersen had first appeared in the episode "a way of her own", on january 31, 1963. janet landgard was a series regular from 1963-1965 as karen holmby.
the donna reed show
david tucker writes in "the women who made television funny" that most family sitcoms of the 1950s such as "father knows best", "the life of riley", and "the adventures of ozzie and harriet" focus on the father figure with the mother as "adjunct". he points out however that "the donna reed show" "established the primacy of the mother on the domestic front" and notes that "mother knows better" was even briefly considered as the show's title. though "the donna reed show" did sometimes use recycled "father knows best" scripts that had been slightly altered, such as character name changes.
the donna reed show