This episode introduces the more familiar "Donna Reed Show" graphics - and a jazzier instrumentation to the opening credits. It was the first of several changes in the opening segment. The opening ...

Donna Reed might have played a conventional housewife on The Donna Reed Show, but she was anything but a shrinking violet. The Oscar-winning actor became a TV icon thanks to her role in the ...

Going against type, Donna Reed won a best supporting actress Oscar for her performance as Alma in the World War II drama "From Here to Eternity." ...

Donna Reed Byrd, beloved wife, mother, grandmother and friend, passed away peacefully at her home on Friday, February 6, 2025. She was born on Jan. 17, 1943, in Chickamauga, Ga., to the late ...

When Fabares left the show in 1963, Petersen's little sister, Patty Petersen, joined the cast as adopted daughter Trisha. Patty Petersen had first appeared in the episode, "A Way of Her Own", on ...

Donna is vying for a role in an amateur stage production and doesn't get along so well with the director. Things get worse when Jeff comes home with a black eye, given to him by the director's son. An ...

Donna is frantically making last-minute preparations for Christmas and is vexed when no one seems to care for the fruitcakes she is giving for Christmas presents. Her Christmas spirit is rejuvenated ...