After spending most of her life in big cities, widow Doris Martin decides to move back to the family ranch.After spending most of her life in big cities, widow Doris Martin decides to move back to the family ranch.After spending most of her life in big cities, widow Doris Martin decides to move back to the family ranch.
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When I was a kid this was my first exposure to Doris Day. I was only two when this show first aired and I used to watch it every week. However, it was fairly confusing due to the fact that it changed situations almost every season. In the first season she was the typical widowed mom raising her two kids in an almost carbon copy of "Green Acres", but without the surrealism of that show. In the second season we see her become a writer for a magazine, which she would remain, with slight variations for the next few years. However, in the final season, the show pretty much becomes another version of "Mary Tyler Moore" with her now playing a single girl and without the kids that she had for the first few years. However, despite these changes Doris Day retained the charm and grace that made her one of the most popular stars in television.
Also, one thing that is quite ironic is the fact that this show was set in San Francisco, which was the same locale as her former co-star, and close friend, Rock Hudson's series "McMillan and Wife". That fact could have led to all sorts of guest star possibilities.
Also, one thing that is quite ironic is the fact that this show was set in San Francisco, which was the same locale as her former co-star, and close friend, Rock Hudson's series "McMillan and Wife". That fact could have led to all sorts of guest star possibilities.
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- TriviaDoris Day's contract with CBS to do this series set a record, with her production company getting several million dollars in up-front money. It was negotiated by Martin Melcher, her husband of 17 years. However, after Melcher died unexpectedly in April of 1968, just five months before the series was to debut, Day said she had no knowledge of ever having signed on to do the show. It turned out that Melcher and the couple's lawyer and financial advisor had squandered the millions of dollars that Day had made in her 20-year career in films and records, leaving her not only flat broke but also more than $500,000 in debt. Melcher, desperate for money, had used his position as her husband and manager and had contracted with CBS to produce a sitcom for Day, but he never told her about it.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Biography: Doris Day: It's Magic (1998)
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- 650 California Street, San Francisco, California, USA(Today's World magazine office)
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