The Donna Reed Show: The Handy Man
09:30 am - 10:00 am, Monday, December 15 on WNYW Catchy Comedy (5.5)
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The Handy Man
Season 5, Episode 28
The Stones hire on problems in an incompetent handy man. Charlie: Doodles Weaver. Fletcher: Jeff DeBenning.
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1963
English
Comedy
Family
Sitcom
Cast & Crew
Donna Reed
(Actor)
.. Donna Stone
Carl Betz
(Actor)
.. Dr. Alex Stone
Paul Petersen
(Actor)
.. Jeff Stone
Doodles Weaver
(Actor)
.. Charlie
Jeff Debenning
(Actor)
.. Fletcher
Ann Mccrea
(Actor)
.. Midge Kelsey
Janet Landgard
(Actor)
.. Karen Holmby
Darryl Richard
(Actor)
.. Smitty
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Did You Know..
Donna Reed
(Actor)
.. Donna Stone
Born:
January 27, 1921
Died: January 14, 1986
Birthplace: Dennison, Iowa, United States
Died: January 14, 1986
Birthplace: Dennison, Iowa, United States
Trivia:
Reed was elected beauty queen of her high school and Campus Queen of her college. The latter honor resulted in her photo making the L.A. papers, and as a result she was invited to take a screen test with MGM, which signed her in 1941. She played supporting roles in a number of minor films (at first being billed as "Donna Adams"), then in the mid '40s she began getting leads; with rare exceptions, she portrayed sincere, wholesome types and loving wives and girlfriends. She went against type playing a prostitute in From Here to Eternity (1953), for which she won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar. Rarely getting rewarding roles, she retired from the screen in 1958 to star in the TV series "The Donna Reed Show," which was a great success and remained on the air through 1966. After 1960 she appeared in only one more film. In the mid '80s she emerged from retirement to star in "Dallas;" Barbara Bel Geddes returned to the show in 1985, and Reed won a $1 million settlement for a breach of contract suit against the show's producers. She died of cancer several months later.
Carl Betz
(Actor)
.. Dr. Alex Stone
Paul Petersen
(Actor)
.. Jeff Stone
Born:
September 23, 1945
Trivia:
American actor Paul Petersen was a child actor who appeared on television and in a couple of feature films during the '50s; he is best remembered for playing teenager Jeff Stone on The Donna Reed Show where he literally grew up. While there, Petersen had a brief side-career as a popular singer, making his recording debut in early 1962 with the novelty song "She Can't Find Her Keys," which originally aired as a dream sequence on the show. Other hits followed, including his Top Ten single "My Dad," which he also sang on the television show. Eventually Petersen left the show and began playing leads in a few '60s feature films. Since then, Petersen has become a writer of spy novels and has made only infrequent forays into film.
Doodles Weaver
(Actor)
.. Charlie
Born:
May 11, 1912
Died: January 13, 1983
Died: January 13, 1983
Trivia:
Wacky comic actor Doodles Weaver started appearing in films in the late '30s, usually playing country-bumpkin bits. He rose to fame as a musician/comedian with the Spike Jones Orchestra, regaling audiences with his double-talk renditions of such tunes as "The Man on the Flying Trapeze" and "The Whiffenpoof Song." His most popular routine was his mile-a-minute parody of an overly excited sports announcer ("And the winnerrrrrrrr....Bei-del-baum!!!!). So valuable was Weaver to Jones' aggregation that Doodles was the only member of the group who was allowed to drink while on tour. This indulgence, alas, proved to be Weaver's undoing; though he'd scaled the heights as a radio and TV star in the 1940s and 1950s, Doodles had lost most of his comic expertise by the 1960s thanks to his fondness for the bottle. A bitter, broken man in his last years, Weaver died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound at the age of 71. Doodles Weaver was the brother of TV executive Sylvester "Pat" Weaver, and the uncle of actress Sigourney Weaver.
Jeff Debenning
(Actor)
.. Fletcher
Born:
December 30, 1918
Ann Mccrea
(Actor)
.. Midge Kelsey
Born:
February 25, 1931
Janet Landgard
(Actor)
.. Karen Holmby
Born:
December 02, 1947
Darryl Richard
(Actor)
.. Smitty
