The Donna Reed Show

Mary can't understand why her brother Jeff is being so polite to her - unless there is some ulterior motive behind his good behavior.

When Donna fills in for Alex's vacationing nurse, she is taken aback to find him an office tyrant.

Trying to save enough money to build a boat, Jeff and Smitty make a pact to give up dating. Then Jeff finds Mary's friend Joanne hiding under his bed.

Jeff decides wearing glasses would make him look older and sets out to prove he needs them.

The Stone family is having growing pains, now that Mary is 18 and going to college. After several riffs, Mary decides it's time to leave home for the college dormitory for women. Mrs. Stone agrees, as she lived in the dorms and found it a benefit in growing up and learning. Tune in to see how each member of the Stone family reacts to Mary moving out.

Alex tries over and over to spend a day with Jeff, but his plans are always interrupted by emergency calls.Jeff later shows that he still loves his father by singing the song,"My Dad."

Jeff discovers a lost bird. He thinks it might be a rare cockatoo and sends the story to the newspapers and Audubon societies-only to find out that the bird is really a cockateel, not quite a cockatoo.

Donna is selected to take part in a survey of housewives to determine how long they spend doing their household chores.

Mary succeeds in helping a shy boy she knows become a singing star.

Alex and Jeff go camping in order to spend more time together, but the trip turns out to be a plot cooked up by Jeff to meet his friends.

Everyone chips in to buy the elderly baby doctor a new car.

Mary decides to make-over ill-mannered basketball star, Steve into a polished gentleman.

Jeff finds a winning raffle ticket for a new sports car, when he sees a woman drop the winning raffle ticket. Jeff begins to learn the cost of owning and operating an expensive sports car (such as insurance). When Jeff thinks he sees the child and woman again, he reaches a crossroad in his life. Tune in to see the path Jeff takes as he deals with this moral dilemma.

If Jeff wants to be able to afford to go to a special event this weekend, he had better collect on the loans he gave his friends. This prompts Donna to suggest that Alex collect from his deadbeat patients.

After a conversation with a telephone lineman, Jeff decides that it's about time he becomes independent himself. He tests himself by going to a strange town without any money to see whether or not he can make it on his own.

Mary's friend Marcia is getting married, but her Mother has been traveling (the continent), since her father died and has been out of communication. Donna takes on the role of wedding planner for the small gathering of friends and family at the Stone's home. Once Marcia's Mother arrives, Donna has to save the wedding and any relationship Mrs. Haversham hopes to have with the happy couple.

When Donna decides to run for town council, Jeff and Mary agree to take care of the house. And how! But, when Alex dreams about Donna's political future, as Mayor, perhaps Governor, he decides he'd rather have her back home again.

At an annual unclaimed freight auction, a mysterious woman asks Donna to buy a wooden Chinese horse statue and gives her $100 cash. She explains she has to meet her husband out front. After a bidding war, Donna wins it for $50, but has no idea where to deliver the horse. Thus begins an adventure for the Stone family, especially when Jeff proposes it could be an International spy ring!

A boyfriend of Mary's calls her wholesome and she doesn't know whether to take it as a compliment or an insult.

A little girl named Trisha follows the Stones home from the park and says that she is one of the family. After a long effort to find her real parents,her uncle arrives. He realizes that the orphaned Trisha loves being in a family and that the Stones are fond of her. He arranges it so Trisha can stay with the Stones. Thus a new family member is added.

Mary learns the joys and pains of having a little sister, as she has to baby-sit Trisha on a night when she'd planned to go on a date.

On Jeff's 16th birthday he has a big fight with his girlfriend. Then he falls for an older woman.

Alex and Jeff spend the weekend at the cabin of Alex's friend Red. Donna and Mary follow them and prove that women can, "rough it" in the wilderness as well as men can.

Donna visits a reclusive woman who lives in an old Victorian house.She feels trapped in a haunted house after a while.

The Stones all end up at Shelter Bay during "mid-term vacation", better known today as "Spring Break". Mary doesn't know the rest of the family is there; she thought it was just her and her girlfriends. Donna, Jeff, and Alex get to stay on a fishing boat named "Big Daddy", and boy does Donna hook a big one!