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The Doris Day Show

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  • 1968-1973
  • 5 Seasons
  • CBS
  • Comedy
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This light and fluffy sitcom changed formats and producers almost every season. Originally it was about widow Doris Martin and her two young sons who left the big city for the quiet and peace of her family's ranch, which was run by her dad Buck and ranchhand Leroy. Later Doris, Buck and sons Billy and Toby moved to San Francisco, where Doris got a job as a secretary to bumbling magazine publisher Michael Nicholson. In Season Three, the Martin family moved into an apartment above the Paluccis' Italian restaurant, and Doris began writing features for Today's World magazine. Finally, the kids, family, Nicholson, the Paluccis' and all other cast members vanished, and Doris became a single staff writer for Today's World, where her new boss was stentatorial-voiced Cy Bennett.

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Doris Day
Doris Martin
Philip Brown
Billy Martin
Todd Starke
Toby Martin

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Episode 1

No More Advice... Please

Mon, Sep 11, 197224 mins

Having dinner with Doris and Peter at her place, Cy remarks straight to their faces that they look like they are in domestic bliss and should get married. Both Peter and Doris are happy with the state of their relationship as is, without feeling the need to get married. That status may change when Doris works on a profile story for the magazine on anthropologist turned novelist Eric Stewart, who is in San Francisco for the article. Eric and Doris spend a lot of time together while he is in town. When Eric injures himself, Doris suggests that he go see a doctor friend of hers, namely Peter. Eric, not knowing Peter and Doris' relationship status beyond the fact that he is a friend of hers, confides in him that he sees with Doris a potential relationship. Doris fosters that relationship with Eric if only for the good of the story. Both Peter and Doris have to decide what to do about their own relationship in light of Eric's entrance into the picture. What each believes the other wants, and Cy's perceptions as an outsider looking in may factor into their individual decisions.

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Awards

  • 1969 - Golden Globe - Best TV Show - nominated
  • 1969 - Golden Globe - Best TV Star - Female - nominated

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Hollywood Legend Doris Day Dead at 97

The Oscar-nominated actress and singer also starred in her own sitcom on CBS

Mon, May 13, 2019
Hollywood Legend Doris Day Dead at 97

The Day You Can't Miss on DVD

By the time Doris Day came to television in 1968, her place in entertainment history was as sealed: She was the freckle-faced all-American blonde who had ruled the box office with bubbly musicals (The Pajama Game) and pseudosophisticated bedroom farces (Pillow Talk, for which she was Oscar-nominated). Her CBS sitcom, collected on The Doris Day Show Season 1 (MPI Home Video, $39.98), was wisely built on her bona fide girl-next-door appeal. She played a widowed mother who moves from the big city to the country to raise her boys (Philip Brown and Tod Starke). Critics at the time dismissed the show as poorly written fluff, but audiences spooned it up like a butterscotch parfait, and it ran for five successful seasons. True, the shows' plots make even Everybody Loves Raymond seem multilayered (a noisy clock keeps everyone up; the kids take Mom out to an expen

Mon, Jun 13, 2005

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