What is The Donna Reed Show?
{{Infobox television | image = Donna Reed Show cast 1958.JPG | caption = Cast of ''The Donna Reed Show'' (1958, first season) | camera = | runtime = 30 minutes | creator = | developer = | producer = | executive_producer = | starring = [[Donna Reed]]<br />[[Carl Betz]]<br />[[Shelley Fabares]]<br />[[Paul Petersen]] | narrated = | opentheme = Happy Days | endtheme = Happy Days | country = United States | language = [[English language|English]] | network = [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] | first_aired = {{start date|1958|09|24}} | last_aired = {{end date|1966|03|19}} | num_episodes = 275 | num_seasons = 8 | related = }} '''''The Donna Reed Show''''' is an American [[sitcom]] [[television series]]. It aired on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] from 1958 to 1966. The show stars [[Donna Reed]] as Donna Stone, a [[housewife]], Carl Betz as Alex Stone, a pediatrician (baby doctor), Shelley Fabares as their teenage daughter Mary, and Paul Petersen as their son Jeff. Mary left for [[college]] in the show's fifth year and Paul Petersen's real life little sister Patty Petersen joined the show as Trisha, a child the Stones adopt. Bob Crane and Ann McCrea joined the show in its last years as Stone family friends Dave and Midge Kelsey. The show is about an upper middle class American family. Donna is a somewhat idealized housewife who capably handles any problems or situations that come her way. The show had many famous guest stars: singers James Darren and Lesley Gore, actor George Hamilton, swimmer and actress Esther Williams, Lassie as her TV character, sports stars [[Don Drysdale]] and Willie Mays, [[Buster Keaton]], and Jay North as his TV character Dennis the Menace. Reed won the 1963 [[Golden Globe]] Best Female TV Star Award. == Other websites == *{{imdb title|0051267}} {{tv-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Donna Reed Show, Th