I'm binge watching The Doris Day Show seasons 1 -5 on Amazon Prime right now.

Oh and 1970's sidekick icon Jackie Joseph of course.

What happened to her family (sons, etc.) from Season 1? Did they kill them off?

Starting with season four, Doris developed amnesia. She thought Rose Marie and McClean Stevenson were Jackie Joseph and John Dehner and forget about her children and the Paluccis. But she never forget the fashion show episode each season

It's even worse than that, R3. She also forgot about her dog! Doris Day, of all people, abandoning a dog.

I like how she flits across the street in the orange outfit. And how did she afford that great apartment?

I think I remember this show. Must be early 60s?

Just Googled, it was 1973. I just vaguely remember it.

Are there any "Doris Day Parking" scenes?

yum!

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At least the Lucy Name lenses didn't go to waste.

MAME

I remember it being incredibly stupid.

"Oh, your almost 60, but the writers just came up with a contrivance for you to waste 15 minutes as a supermodel, doing a silly fashion show!"

I liked the Season 5 opening where Jackie Joseph fully embraced disco-hippie-mod, going from the demure pink career-girl getup to Wiggy from [italic]The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show.[/italic]

Fun article about the series' annual storyline reboots. Basically, Doris had no fucks to give.

She was conscripted into doing the show behind her back by her late husband after he pissed their money away—she found out just a few weeks before filming began. Plus, she was given full creative control, so she got to change the storylines to her liking. After the fifth season, she walked away, having fulfilled her contractual obligations.

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The vaseline on the lens was so thick that you wish your screen had a windshield wiper.

Thanks for the link to that article, R15.

As the last paragraph mentions, Doris Day's DVD commentary sure demonstrates what matters to her. And it's not silly old sitcoms.

She was barely 50 when the series ended, R13.

OMG, I used to babysit so I could watch "The Doris Day Show" in color! I thought it was funny how she hilled off her family. When she moved to San Francisco she rented a duplex apartment with a garden for $175 per month! Later on Doris Martin dated Peter Lawford.

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Doris did the show because she needed money. I guess everything eventually ended up working out for her. She seems to have a really nice life in Carmel ca.

The glamorous TRIPLE ZOOM on Doris as she comes down the spiral stairs...

She had two obviously gay neighbors who came to her place for a tenants association meeting. They were just sissy enough to let you know they were gay but not complete flaming stereotypes. Quite possibly the first gay characters to appear on American television who weren't criminals or portrayed as pathetic sexual deviants.

[quote]I'm binge watching The Doris Day Show

We of the DL condole you OP.

It was a refreshingly gay-friendly show for the early 70s.

It may have been the first sitcom to include a gay couple. They played Doris' neighbors who lived together in her condo complex in San Francisco. They were not identified as gay, but the actors played it that way. They appeared in at least one episode, but maybe more.

And speaking about playing it gay, don't forget that Billy de Wolfe was a regular in the last seasons.

Wiggy was fab!

After her horrible husband died she found among his papers a script for "The Doris Day Show." He had apparently without her knowledge committed her to a contract for weekly tv series. She had to do it or get sued. The first format, where she had kids and a father and a dog, didn't really go over very well, so they made Doris a city girl, and it seemed to work. The show did well and would have gone on longer if she hadn't decided to give it up after her contract ended. She never wanted to do it in the first place. Her manager husband Marty Melcher was such a dick; it seemed like everybody hated him but Doris.

The show must've made her a lot of money because this was basically her last acting job.

OP I think I've seen the episode with the fashion show at the end. I kept thinking "Who thought this would be a good idea? How did this make the final edit? This is going on FOREVER."

That fall...

The stupid fashion show makes up most of R14's opening.

The supporting cast in that clip looks INSUFFERABLE. You can tell the mug on every line just form the opening.

Those fashion shows were ridiculous. Doris was the ONLY model! And they went on and on and on. I never took Doris to be narcissistic but the fashion shows were diva behavior in effect.

"Ooh, let's take this half-eaten brioche from craft services and tell Miss Day it's a 'wiglet fashion.' "

And her tan face in the fashion show opening. OMFG!!!!!!

In those days, successful women in show business often had a husband who played the asshole role as protector so they didn't have to deal with people.

Joan Rivers, Lucille Ball, Debbie Reynolds, Doris Day, Mary Martin, Carol Channing, etc.

And in many cases the women eventually said they regretted it. (But not Lucy or Mary Martin).

R31 She looks a little like Ginger Rogers in that picture.

zzzzzzzexy!

She's insanely tan. Her skin looks like leather.

Tan was the in thing in the 70's.

She's 95 years old, damn!

Do they show her feet a lot? Her feet were constantly being stuck into the camera in her movies. I guess it was considered to be funny?

The actor (Philip Brown) who played one of her kids on the show grew up to be quite the hunk.

yummy!!!!!!!!

It's this weekend's Decades Binge!

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Just a reminder, so we can all celebrate. Tomorrow (April 3) will be Doris's 96th birthday.

R47 Happy Birthday Doris Day!

That's a great picture, R48. Even in her 90s, she still seems to be healthy and brimming with energy.

Doris back in the Day. Simple but very pretty.

She made 2 movies with James Garner.

This photo from her movie Jumbo couldn't get much gayer.

Mid 1960's. Classic dutchboy hairstyle.

This is her "official" 96 yr birthday pic. Same hairdo.

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