the quintessential housewife and perfect mother and donna reed ( a donna stone ) could do it all . settle spat between the child or neighbor and take care of her hard working pipe smoke pediatrician husband and alex and and still have a stack of pancake and three type of breakfast meat and and a tall glass of milk and oj ready for the kid every morning before breakfast . over the course of the past fifty year and we have lose sight of the idealistic stay at home mom and family meal together at the kitchen table and and prepare dinner for a hard working husband when he come home from work . i wish the show be available on dvd i would discontinue my cable altogether .