The Donna Reed Show is an American
situation comedy 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 little 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. Actress
Janet Landgard was a series regular from 1963-1965 as Karen Holmby.