Please Don’t Eat The Daisies

1 9 6 5 – 1 9 6 7 (USA)
58 x 30 minute episodes

228 Circle Avenue, Ridgemont, New York was the residence of the Nash Family: James (Mark Miller), an English professor at Ridgemont College; his wife, Joan (Patricia Crowley), a freelance magazine writer who used the pen name of Joan Holliday; and their four boys: Kyle (Kim Tyler) and Joel (Brian Nash), and twins Trevor (Jeff Fithian) and Tracy (Joe Fithian).

Completing the household was Martha O’Reilly (Ellen Corby), the family maid and Ladadog, a huge 150-pound sheepdog.

Next door neighbours were lawyer Herb Thorton (Harry Hickox) and his wife Marge (Shirley Mitchell).

Other regular characters were Gerald Carter (Bill Quinn), the Dean of Ridgemont College; his wife Ethel (Jean VanderPyl) and repairman Ed Hewley (Dub Taylor).

Joan was a most unconventional housewife – She hated housework, preferring to sleep until noon, much to the consternation of Marge and Herb next-door.

The series was based on the 1960 Doris Day film of the same name which in turn was based on a book by Jean Kerr about an unusual suburban family.

Joan Nash 
Patricia Crowley
Jim Nash 
Mark Miller
Kyle Nash 
Kim Tyler
Joel Nash 
Brian Nash
Tracy Nash 
Joe Fithian
Trevor Nash 
Jeff Fithian
Marge Thorton 
Shirley Mitchell
Herb Thorton 
Harry Hickox
Ed Hewley 
Dub Taylor
Dean Gerald Carter 
Bill Quinn
Ethel Carter 
Jean VanderPyl
Martha O’Reilly 
Ellen Corby

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