The Donna Reed Show: Freeing The Housewife One Episode At A Time

The Writers Ran out of Ideas

Donna Reed and her husband, along with a team of writers, had run out of fresh ideas and plot devices by 1962. They were ready to call it quits because they didn’t want the show to drag on without any originality. It was a noble effort to call it quits so fans didn’t grow bored with the popular TV series.