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The Donna Reed Show Season 3 Episodes

38 Episodes 1960 - 1961

Episode 1

Weekend

Thu, Sep 15, 196030 mins

The Stones decide to go away to somewhere different for an extended weekend, but the actual accommodation are nothing like what they saw in the brochure.

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Episode 2

The Mystery Woman

Thu, Sep 22, 196030 mins

While eating lunch with Mary at a restaurant, a woman approaches Donna as a long-lost friend and invites Donna and Alex to dinner the next day at her home. Donna cannot remember who the woman is.

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Episode 3

Donna Decorates

Thu, Sep 29, 196030 mins

Donna has her kitchen remodeled and new appliances installed. Then she needs to refinish an arm chair which leads to the other furniture look drab. Also, Alex's birthday is the next day, and no one can think of a gift to get him.

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Episode 4

The Love Letter

Thu, Oct 6, 196030 mins

The Stones hire a handyman to do repairs around the house. The handyman asks Jeff to help him write a love letter to his girlfriend. Donna finds Jeff's practice letter laying around, and thinks Jeff is in love with a classmate.

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Episode 5

How the Other Side Lives

Thu, Oct 20, 196030 mins

Mary returns home from a weekend visit with a friend and just raves about how wonderful her friend's home is. Donna begins to feel their own home is a shack compared to the other home.

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Episode 6

Alex's Twin

Thu, Oct 27, 196030 mins

Mary meets a boy at school that reminds her of her father. She thinks Elroy looks like what her father might have looked like at that age. Donna and Alex cannot wait to see Elroy and how much he must look like Alex.

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Episode 7

Worried, Anyone?

Thu, Nov 3, 196030 mins

Mary is going out with Scotty in a car he built himself. When Donna and Alex find the parts of the car are from cars that have been in wrecks, they are worried.

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Episode 8

Higher Learning

Thu, Nov 10, 196030 mins

The school issues an intelligence test to the students, and Jeff gets a score that ranks him as a genius. Alex and Donna have to decide to send him to a special school. Jeff fails the entrance exam for the school.

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Episode 9

Never Marry a Doctor

Thu, Nov 17, 196030 mins

When Les has trouble paying his baby's doctor bill Donna let's him do some work on the house in exchange. When $20.00 suddenly disappears everyone wonders if Les could have taken it.

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Episode 10

It Only Hurts When I Laugh

Thu, Nov 24, 196030 mins

Alex proves the old adage that doctors make the worst patients when he goes into the hospital for an appendectomy. Donna helps another patient who doesn't want to leave the hospital.

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Episode 11

The Model Daughter

Thu, Dec 1, 196030 mins

Mary decides she wants to be a model. She wins a scholarship to a modeling school, but finds it expensive to live the life of a model.

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Episode 12

Decisions, Decisions, Decisions

Thu, Dec 8, 196030 mins

Mary has a bad case of indecisiveness and asks Donna for advice on clothes, errands, boys, and more. She ends up having a date with two boys.

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Episode 13

Donna Goes to a Reunion

Thu, Dec 15, 196030 mins

Donna is looking forward to attending her college reunion. When Alex hears about a former boyfriend, he decides to go with her. The women decide to reenact their cheer-leading cheer and Donna gets a black eye the day of the dance.

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Episode 14

Someone Is Watching

Thu, Dec 22, 196030 mins

While Jeff's friend Gordie is showing off his new scooter he accidentally hits a tree and pretends his leg is hurt much worse than it is so that he can stay at the Stones' house. Donna finds out why he does not really want to go home.

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Episode 15

The Lean and Hungry Look

Thu, Dec 29, 196030 mins

Mary and Alex find Donna exercising in the backyard. The dress she bought last season is tight and she's determined to lose weight. Alex says exercise won't do it alone, Donna will have to give up all desserts, candy, and sweets. Donna says "no problem", but then that's all she can think about.

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Episode 16

Character Building

Thu, Jan 5, 196130 mins

Donna gets upset with Mary and Jeff starting projects and never finishing them, losing track of items they used last, and more. Donna decides to make them mend their ways.

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Episode 17

World's Greatest Entertainer

Thu, Jan 12, 196130 mins

Jeff seems to be in a slump by causing things to happen without realizing what is going on. The rest of the family start to praise him for anything he does and he starts to feel better. Jeff decides to try out for the school play.

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Episode 18

Variations on a Theme

Thu, Jan 19, 196130 mins

Donna is tired of everyone using the piano as a drop area for their belongings. Alex suggests selling it. Donna arranges for a pick up, but then Mary puts up a fight to save it. Donna learns the reason why Mary really wants to save it.

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Episode 19

The Stones Go to Hollywood

Thu, Jan 26, 196130 mins

When Donna, Mary, and Jeff find that Alex is going to Hollywood for a doctor's conference, they insist on going with him. They plan on two fast days of sight seeing and star gazing, but they mostly sit in the hotel due to heavy rains.

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Episode 20

Donna Directs a Play

Thu, Feb 2, 196130 mins

Mary and her classmates are rehearsing for a school play, but the director steps out at the last minute. Donna steps in to be the director.

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Episode 21

Trip to Nowhere

Thu, Feb 9, 196130 mins

When a friend of Jeff's brags about going on a camping trip with his father, Jeff says Alex is taking him camping also. Since Alex is unavailable, Donna decides to take him. Before the trip, Jeff finds out his friend is not going camping.

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Episode 22

The Geisha Girl

Thu, Feb 16, 196130 mins

Donna meets the wife of a new doctor at the hospital. Since she is Japaneses, Donna decides she needs to learn some American customs and way of life.

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Episode 23

The Busy People

Thu, Feb 23, 196130 mins

When Donna finds her and Alex's friends stay busy with music lessons and dance lessons, she decides she and Alex have to take some kind of lesson's together. Donna signs them up for painting lessons so they can spend more time together.

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Episode 24

Tony Martin Visits

Thu, Mar 2, 196130 mins

Donna gets a parking ticket and does not think she is in the wrong. She decides to fight it in traffic court. While there, singer Tony Martin is also in court fighting a ticket. He decides to fight his ticket because Donna is fighting hers.

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Episode 25

Aunt Belle's Earrings

Thu, Mar 9, 196130 mins

Donna wants to go to the Founders Ball but Alex does not. Alex is struggling with Mr Greevy for financing of a new clinic. Greevy wants more money. Donna's Aunt Bell visits. Turns out, Bell and Greevy know each other from years past.

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Episode 26

The Poodle Parlor

Thu, Mar 16, 196130 mins

Donna and her friend Madeline decide to open a poodle parlor in town, and the husbands think it is funny because they do not know how to run a business. The women are determined, but find out there are only seven poodles in town.

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Episode 27

Mary's Heart Throb

Thu, Mar 23, 196130 mins

While Mary is babysitting a young child, the older brother comes home and tells Mary he left college. The Stones try to help him determine which career path he wants to follow.

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Episode 28

Donna's Helping Hand

Thu, Mar 30, 196130 mins

The Board of Health Director retires, and Donna campaigns to have Alex nominated. It would mean he could have regular office hours. Alex enjoys his job as a pediatrician.

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Episode 29

The Merry Month of April

Thu, Apr 6, 196130 mins

Alex realizes it is the day before income taxes are due, and he rushes to prepare the papers.

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Episode 30

Music Hath Charms

Thu, Apr 13, 196130 mins

While putting on a puppet show, Jeff accidentally breaks a treasured gift that Donna purchased for Alex - a musical tobacco jar. Alex is glad it is broken because he did not like the music.

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Episode 31

Let's Look at Love

Thu, Apr 20, 196130 mins

Mary is upset when she learns that two boys tossed a coin to see who would take her out. Mary does not want to be considered a pawn and decides to give up on boys.

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Episode 32

For Better or Worse

Thu, Apr 27, 196130 mins

Alex and his friends plan a fishing trip, and the others say they have to ask permission from their wives to go. Alex says he does not have to ask for permission - until he tells her he is going.

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Episode 33

Jeff, the Treasurer

Thu, May 4, 196130 mins

Jeff is elected class treasurer and brings home all the money in the class fund. Alex and Donna warn him to be careful, but of course Jeff misplaces the money and has to find it before the next class meeting.

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Episode 34

The Good Guys and the Bad Guys

Thu, May 11, 196130 mins

Donna & Alex encourage Jeff to join the church choir. He does, but then he is teased by his classmates. Jeff takes up weight lifting to muscle up in case of a fight.

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Episode 35

Military School

Thu, May 18, 196130 mins

Herbie's friend who is in the military visits. Herbie suggests that Mary and he take the friend with them to the school dance. Mary does not want to, but when she sees the handsome friend, she changes her mind.

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Episode 36

Mary's Driving Lesson

Thu, May 25, 196130 mins

Mary asks Scotty to teach her how to drive. He starts out by telling her all about how cars work, what types of cars there are, what is great about cars, etc. Mary just wants to learn how to drive.

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Episode 37

The Mustache

Thu, Jun 1, 196130 mins

Alex returns from a hunting trip with a mustache and beard. He decides to keep the mustache which receives mixed reviews from the family. Mary has a crush with a new boy at school who has different views from all her friends.

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Episode 38

Mary's Little Lambs

Thu, Jun 8, 196130 mins

While Donna is out of town, Mary takes over the house in a negative way. Alex allows her to have a teen party, and on Saturday to open the house to a baby-sitting service.

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