The Donna Reed Show

I watch this show while getting ready for work. It is not very funny or interesting, yet I can't turn it off. Do you really think that Donna was giving that hot piece Carl Betz the kind of fucking that he truly deserved? No way, right? I mean you just knew that Lucy was riding Ricky's big Cuban pinga every chance she got. And even though June seemed a little uptight, I got the feeling that she was throwing the puss on Ward 3 or 4 times a week and blew him on his birthday and Christmas. I just don't see Donna being that adventurous or fun. The sex was probably mechanical, maybe twice a month and she probably didn't let him cum on her tits or on her face. Definitely no backdoor action, like Jane Wyatt and Marcus Welby over on 'Father Knows Best'.

• You've obviously never seen Donna in her Oscar-winning role as a cheap prostitute in From Here to Eternity (1953). Her scenes opposite Monty Clift sizzled! No one could work a halter strap like Donna. She and Carl Betz were the very definiton of a sexy suburban couple. There was a reason he maintained his surgery in the rear of their home.

  Shelley Fabares

• I think the only reason Ricky ignored Lucy's craziness was because she was so damned good in bed. Carl Betz really was gorgeous.

• What channel is it on?

• Either MeTV or AntennaTV. One of those.

• Wait.....Carl was fucking Donna AND me?

  Paul%20Peterson

• A DVD set of many of the best episodes came out last year. I bought it but I've only watched a few episodes so far. It is and was a sweet show but rather repetitive. Donna Reed and Carl Betz were definitely my ideal of parenthood when I was a kid....both incredibly attractive, smart and stylish. There's a really wonderful extra on the DVD of Shelley Fabares and Paul Peterson together today reminiscing about the old days. Lots of talk about how neither felt they had the talent to sing and yet the mandate came from Donna's husband, who was also the Executive Producer, that they would sing on the show and create some hit records for the teen audience....which they did. Shelley's Johnny Angel and Paul's She Can't Find her Keys were both Top Ten hits. Jimmy Darren became a semi-regular as Shelley's bf for a few episodes and he sang on the show as well. I remember owning the LP Teenage Triangle which featured all three of them.

• Their house had the weirdest kitchen. The living room was weird too.

• I see her more as a dominant. She probably used him as an ashtray while wearing five inch heels

• How many of us that grew up in the 50s and 60s really did believe there were mothers who did the housework and cooked in pearls and high heels like Donna Stone and June Cleaver? I certainly did.

• I love Carl Betz but you all need to know he wore a toupee.

• I just watched the Xmas episode on Hulu. Sigh..... Carl Betz was dreamy. I remember it came on Nick at Nite in the 80s when I was a kid and I always thought how hot Carl was.

• She Can't Find her Keys was NOT a top ten hit. Paul had a top ten hit, called My Dad

• In 'The Meal', wife Dina Merril shoots Carl Betz to death when she finds him in bed with another man from her dinner party.

• Both Betz and Peterson admitted the emotions here were real. They were very close...and not in THAT way.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DN-vYuV3OmhE

• R8, my thoughts exactly. She was very domineering on that show.

• At least it seems Betz was allowed to go shirtless on the Donna Reed Show. I guess Robert Young and Hugh Beaumont were too old.

  http://tubedreams.blogspot.com/2012/01/best-betz-whos-your-tv-daddy-part-3.html

• I'm surprised they didn't make him shave his chest! Yum.

• I like how high waisted they made them where the towel. He obviously had a gut he was trying to cover up.

• Was Carl Betz fairly well known before he played the dad on The Donna Reed Show?I always thought he was the hottest sitcom dad from that era.

• MeTV had a mini-marathon of The Donna Reed Show today.

• [quote]There was a reason he maintained his surgery in the rear of their home. The surgery wasn't the only thing he was maintaining in the rear.

• Loved the show. I was very flattered when, after meeting my parents, my teachers told me my parents reminded them of Dr. & Mrs. Alex Stone.

• Donna Reed came out against the war in Viet Nam before a lot of other celebs.

• Donna Reed is buried near Natalie Wood.

• They both died too young.

• Paul Petersen turned up on Love, American Style as a young groom embarrassed to learn that his bride and all his in-laws-to-be are nudists (including Charmin's Mr. Whipple who plays his father-in-law.) A misunderstanding leads Paul to assume the wedding will be held in the nude . . .

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D_UP1fEKtaA4

• R25 = Frausy weeper