Please Don't Eat the Daisies is an American sitcom

Situation comedy

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 that aired on NBC

NBC

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 from September 14, 1965 to April 22, 1967. The series was based upon the 1957 book

Please Don't Eat The Daisies

Please Don't Eat the Daisies is a best-selling collection of humorous essays by American humorist and playwright Jean Kerr about suburban living and raising four boys. The essays do not have a plot or through-storyline, but the book sold so well it was later adapted into a film starring Doris Day...

 by Jean Kerr

Jean Kerr

Jean Kerr was an American author and playwright born in Scranton, Pennsylvania and best known for her humorous bestseller, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, and the plays King of Hearts and Mary, Mary...

 and 1960 film

Please Don't Eat the Daisies (film)

Please Don't Eat the Daisies is a comedy film starring Doris Day and David Niven, made by Euterpe Inc., and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...

 starring Doris Day

Doris Day

Doris Day is an American actress, singer and, since her retirement from show business, an animal rights activist. With an entertainment career that spanned through almost 50 years, Day started her career as a big band singer in 1939, but only began to be noticed after her first hit recording,...

 and David Niven

David Niven

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.

The series ran for 58 half-hour episodes and stars Patricia Crowley

Pat Crowley

Patricia "Pat" Crowley is an American film and television actress.Crowley was often confused with her acting contemporary Kathleen Crowley, who appeared as guest leading lady in different episodes of many of the same television series and is not related.Pat Crowley appeared in The Untouchables...

 and Mark Miller

Mark Miller (actor)

Mark Miller is an American television actor/writer who made more than forty appearances in television programs and films since 1957. He co-starred with Joanne Dru and J...

. The show also features Dub Taylor

Dub Taylor

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, Clint Howard

Clint Howard

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, and Bonnie Franklin

Bonnie Franklin

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 for multiple appearances; Ellen Corby

Ellen Corby

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 had a recurring role as Martha the housekeeper. Robert Vaughn and David McCallum appeared in the "Say UNCLE" episode as Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin, and Stephanie Powers appeared as April Dancer in the "Remember Lake Serene" episode, connecting this series to "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

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" and "The Girl From U.N.C.L.E.

The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.

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".

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 shows on prime time television, Rawhide

Rawhide (TV series)

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on CBS and Combat

Combat

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on ABC. For its second year, Please Don't Eat The Daisies was moved to Saturday nights where it faced brutal competition against the second half of The Jackie Gleason Show

The Jackie Gleason Show

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. The ratings fell and NBC canceled the series in the spring of 1967.

Cast

• Patricia "Pat" Crowley
  Pat Crowley
  Patricia "Pat" Crowley is an American film and television actress.Crowley was often confused with her acting contemporary Kathleen Crowley, who appeared as guest leading lady in different episodes of many of the same television series and is not related.Pat Crowley appeared in The Untouchables...
  
  ...Joan Nash
• Mark Miller
  Mark Miller (actor)
  Mark Miller is an American television actor/writer who made more than forty appearances in television programs and films since 1957. He co-starred with Joanne Dru and J...
  
  ...Jim Nash
• Kim Tyler...Kyle Nash
• Brian Nash...Joel Nash
• Jeff Fithian...Trevor Nash
• Joe Fithian...Tracy Nash

Season 1: 1965-1966

1. My Eldest Child / 1965.09.14
2. How About Two Gorillas? / 1965.09.21
3. Who's Kicking That Gong Around? / 1965.09.28
4. Dinner on the Rocks / 1965.10.05
5. We're Bigger Than They Are, But... / 1965.10.12
6. Look Who's Talking / 1965.10.19
7. The Big Train / 1965.10.26
8. Two Seats on the Moon-Shot / 1965.11.02
9. Shape Up or Ship Out / 1965.11.09
10. Somewhere George Is Calling / 1965.11.16
11. Don't Fool Around with the Man Upstairs / 1965.11.23
12. Of Hitches and Stitches and Big Round Dogs / 1965.11.30
13. Very, Very Huckleberry / 1965.12.07
14. It's Lad by a Nose / 1965.12.14
15. The Big Brass Blonde / 1965.12.21
16. Swing That Indian Club / 1965.12.28
17. The Pied Piper of Ridgemont / 1966.01.04
18. Say Uncle / 1966.01.11 (Solo and Kuryakin appear)
19. Nobody's Perfect / 1966.01.18
20. My Good Friend, Whatsisname / 1966.01.25
21. The Monster in the Basement / 1966.02.01
22. Wring Out the Welcome Mat / 1966.02.15
23. Move Over, Mozart / 1966.02.22
24. Who's Walking Under the Bed? / 1966.03.08
25. How Now, Hausfrau? / 1966.03.15
26. Big Man On Campus / 1966.03.22
27. The Magnificent Muldoon / 1966.03.29
28. The Leaning Tower of Ridgemont / 1966.04.05
29. Mine Is the Luck of the Irish / 1966.04.12
30. Night of Knights / 1966.04.19

Season 2: 1966-1967

1. The Purple Avenger / 1966.09.17
2. My Mother's Name Is Fred / 1966.09.24
3. A-Hunting We Will Go / 1966.10.01
4. At Home with the Family / 1966.10.08
5. The Holdouts / 1966.10.15
6. Trouble Right Here in Ridgemont / 1966.10.22
7. Black Is the Color of My Love's Eye / 1966.10.29
8. My Son, the Genius / 1966.11.05
9. The End of the Trailer / 1966.11.12
10. My Son, the Actor / 1966.11.19
11. Of Haunted Houses, Little Boys, and a Ghost Named Malcolm / 1966.11.26
12. And What Does Your Husband Do? / 1966.12.03
13. Just for Laughs / 1966.12.10
14. The Guardian / 1966.12.24
15. Peace, It's Wonderful / 1967.01.07
16. The Silent Butler Spoke / 1967.01.14
17. The Cupid Machine / 1967.01.21
18. The Thing's the Play / 1967.01.28
19. The Officer of the Court / 1967.02.04
20. None So Righteous / 1967.02.11
21. Remember Lake Serene? / 1967.02.18 (April Dancer cameo)
22. Pest in the House / 1967.02.25
23. Help Wanted, Desperately / 1967.03.04
24. Just While You're Resting / 1967.03.11
25. When I Was a Young Man / 1967.03.25
26. Professor, Please! / 1967.04.01
27. A Matter of Concentration / 1967.04.08
28. The Day the Play Got Away / 1967.04.22