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The Donna Reed Show is an American situation comedy starring Donna Reed as upper-middle-class housewife Donna Stone. Carl Betz plays her pediatrician husband, Dr. Alex Stone, and Shelley Fabares and Paul Petersen play their teenage children, Mary and Jeff. From September 24, 1958 to March 19, 1966, the show was broadcast on ABC. When Fabares left the show in 1963, Petersen's younger sister, Patty Petersen, joined the cast as adopted daughter Trisha. Patty Petersen first appeared in the episode "A Way of Her Own" on January 31, 1963. Bob Crane and Ann McCrea played the Stones' friends the Kelseys in the final seasons, and Darryl Richard became a near-regular as Jeff's best friend, Smitty. The show featured a variety of celebrity guests, including Esther Williams as a famous dress designer, baseball superstars Don Drysdale and Willie Mays as themselves, teen heartthrob James Darren as a pop singer with the measles, canine superstar Lassie as herself, and young Jay North of CBS's Dennis the Menace. The show was created by William S. Roberts and developed by Reed and her then-husband, producer Tony Owen. The episodes revolved around typical family problems of the time, such as firing a clumsy housekeeper, throwing a retirement party for a colleague, and finding quality time away from the children. Women's rights and press freedom were occasionally addressed as controversial topics.