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Claim: The early TV sitcom Mary Kay and Johnny was the first television series to portray a married couple who slept in the same bed. Status: True. Origins: It's one of the ultimate TV trivia questions: Who was the first couple to be portrayed on a television series as sleeping in the same bed? It may sound like a silly question to younger readers, but those of us who were around for television's first few decades recall how squeamish.
and even Ward and June Cleaver never had the satisfaction of. knocking knees in the same bed in front of the American public. The first TV program to show a husband and wife sharing the same. bed on a regular basis occurred in 1947 on the Dumont sitcom MARY. KAY AND JOHNNY. TV's first sitcom ever. The program told the tale of a newly married. couple living in Greenwich Village. Unfortunately, no copies of. the show exist so we must rely on the documented memories of. others to prove the point. Later in the 1950s Ozzie and Harriet. broke the taboo and were seen in the same bed.