TJ
10-31-2008, 01:32 AM
America’s first favorite TV mom from the golden era has finally come to the digital era on DVD! Season One of The Donna Reed Show is a four disc set that brings you all 37 episodes from the 1958-1959 season of the classic sitcom, along with a sampling of special features.
The Donna Reed Show stars Donna Reed (who else?) as Donna Stone, a 1950s era housewife trying to raise her family in the town of Hillsdale. She has to deal with all of the big problems that all mothers have in keeping the family together, although the problems obviously aren’t so big in this era. She is married to Alex (Carl Betz) a doctor and has two kids, Jeff (Paul Petersen) and Mary (Shelley Fabares).
The series could be dismissed by a naive person as “just another 50s family sitcom,” but the angle on this series is that it focuses on the Donna, and not a male leading cast member. This certainly wasn’t the first series to do that, but it was the first successful family sitcom to accomplish that. The series is an innocent series that doesn’t go into controversial territory, but it does provide a way to escape the harsher realities that a modern sitcom explores. It’s innocent TV at it’s best.
Read our review by Skees here:
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/thedonnareedshowseason1dvdreview.html
Please post any questions or comments about this set.
The Donna Reed Show stars Donna Reed (who else?) as Donna Stone, a 1950s era housewife trying to raise her family in the town of Hillsdale. She has to deal with all of the big problems that all mothers have in keeping the family together, although the problems obviously aren’t so big in this era. She is married to Alex (Carl Betz) a doctor and has two kids, Jeff (Paul Petersen) and Mary (Shelley Fabares).
The series could be dismissed by a naive person as “just another 50s family sitcom,” but the angle on this series is that it focuses on the Donna, and not a male leading cast member. This certainly wasn’t the first series to do that, but it was the first successful family sitcom to accomplish that. The series is an innocent series that doesn’t go into controversial territory, but it does provide a way to escape the harsher realities that a modern sitcom explores. It’s innocent TV at it’s best.
Read our review by Skees here:
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/thedonnareedshowseason1dvdreview.html
Please post any questions or comments about this set.