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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.
The Brady's did share a bed together but after the Stevens'. 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. Animated people, Fred & Wilma Flintstone. Mary Kay and Johnny, which aired in 1947. Mary Kay and Johnny Stearns were husband and wife in real life.. Samantha and Darrin Stephens of Bewitched were the first live-action TV couple, with the actors not married to each other in real life, to sleep in a double bed.