Please Don't Eat the Daisies is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 14, 1965, to September 2, 1967. The series is based on the 1957 book by Jean Kerr and the 1960 film starring Doris Day and David Niven.
The series ran for 58 half-hour episodes and starred Patricia Crowley and Mark Miller. The show also features Dub Taylor, Clint Howard, Bonnie Franklin and Ellen Corby in recurring appearances. Robert Vaughn and David McCallum appear in the first-season episode "Say UNCLE" as Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin from The Man from U.N.C.L.E., while Stefanie Powers appears as April Dancer from The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. in a second-season episode. Patricia Crowley had appeared in the pilot episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
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Synopsis
Joan and Jim Nash are a married couple who live in an old, turreted house in Ridgemont, New York, with their four rambunctious sons (Kyle, Joel, and identical twins Trevor and Tracy), a very tolerant live-in maid, and an enormous Old English Sheepdog named Ladadog. Jim is a college English professor. Joan—who abhors everything having to do with homemaking and housework—is a freelance newspaper columnist whose columns focus on the humorous side of family life. Joan tries to keep things organized, but her family can be demanding. Chaos regularly breaks out, and the antics of the boys, the dog, her husband and the neighbors, as well as her own indifference to domestic chores, give her plenty of inspiration for her column, much to Jim's embarrassment.
Cast
Pat Crowley as Joan Nash
Mark Miller as Jim Nash
Kim Tyler as Kyle Nash
Brian Nash as Joel Nash
Jeff Fithian as Trevor Nash
Joe Fithian as Tracy Nash
Shirley Mitchell as Marge Thornton
King Donovan as Herb Thornton
Dub Taylor as Ed Hewley
Ned Glass as Mr. Hastings
Jeanne Arnold as Mrs. Podesta
Bill Quinn as Dean Carter
Bonnie Franklin as Dorie
Broadcast history
In its first season, the show did fairly well in the ratings. It was scheduled on Tuesday nights opposite the second half of two veteran series on prime-time television, Rawhide on CBS and Combat! on ABC. In its second season, Please Don't Eat the Daisies was moved to Saturday nights, where it faced strong competition against the second half of The Jackie Gleason Show. The ratings fell, and NBC canceled the series in spring 1967.