The Donna Reed Show - Season 2
Season 2
Network
DatesJan 14, 1959 - Jun 18, 1960
Episodes
Season 2Episode 130 min
That's Show Business
Mary Tries to Act.
Sep 24, 1959
Season 2Episode 230 min
Sleep No More My Lady
Donna is too excited to sleep because Alex is giving a speech at a convention. While trying to sleep on the plane Alex gives Donna a tranquilizer to help her sleep.
Oct 1, 1959
Season 2Episode 330 min
A Penny Earned
Donna has trouble deciding whether or not buy a new dress.
Oct 8, 1959
Season 2Episode 430 min
A Friend Indeed
Jeff's 'friend' Doug keeps getting him into trouble at school, and Jeff silently takes the blame for him because he knows Doug's mother constantly picks on him and wonders why he can't be more like Jeff, who behaves like an innocent cherub at their house. One day when Dr. Alex is at Doug's house, he witnesses Doug's mother berating Doug unfairly, so Donna invites Doug's mother over just before Mary and Jeff get home from school so she can be there to see Jeff's behavior at home. Doug's mother learns that Jeff is obnoxious to his sister, loud, and unruly at home (just like any other adolescent boy) and all ends well when Doug arrives and his mother sees that he too, is just like any other boy, but knows when to be polite in somebody else's house.
Oct 15, 1959
Season 2Episode 530 min
The First Child
Alex must contend with overly anxious new parents who constantly call him in a state of panic, thinking that there is something wrong with their baby.
Oct 22, 1959
Season 2Episode 630 min
Going Steady
Mary wants to meet a boy, so she talks Jeff into going to his kid sister's party.
Oct 29, 1959
Season 2Episode 730 min
The Neighborly Gesture
Alex is hurt that Jeff likes the new neighbor.
Nov 5, 1959
Season 2Episode 830 min
Nothing Like a Good Book
Donna mistakenly accepts an invitation to 'culture vulture' Lydia Langley's cocktail party, at which Lydia mentions that she also conducts a book discussion group. She goads Donna into joining it and then reporting on Tolstoy's ""War and Peace"" at her first meeting. Donna then attempts to immerse the whole family in culture, by buying Jeff a Dickens book, Mary a Tchaikovsky record, and a copy of Tolstoy's epic for her and Alex to read together. She then tries to read the lengthy novel in a week...
Nov 12, 1959
Season 2Episode 930 min
Flowers for the Teacher
Jeff's class has a new teacher, Miss McGuinness. The boys in particular complain that she is too strict, so Donna meets with the new teacher to get matters settled.
Nov 19, 1959
Season 2Episode 1030 min
All Mothers Worry
Jeff's friend, Phillip, has a problem. He wants to play football, but his mother is over-protective and won't let him.
Nov 26, 1959
Season 2Episode 1130 min
Jeff Joins a Club
Jeff finds out the reason why he wasn't made a member of a club: He is friends with a boy no one else likes.
Dec 3, 1959
Season 2Episode 1230 min
The Punishment
Dilemma in the Stone household: How to discipline the children without having Donna look like a villian by meting out the punishments, or having Donna look like a squealer when Alex does .
Dec 10, 1959
Season 2Episode 1330 min
A Difference of Opinion
Donna gets cornered into accepting an invitation from a couple that neither she nor Alex really care for. Alex refuses to go, sparking an argument that they try to keep quiet from the children.
Dec 17, 1959
Season 2Episode 1430 min
The Homecoming Dance
Alex and Donna chaperone Mary's date with a college man. Stan: Jay Strong. Dick: David DeHaven. Betty: Suzi Carnell. Herbie: Tommy Ivo. Carl Betz, Shelley Fabares.
Dec 24, 1959
Season 2Episode 1530 min
The Lucky Girl
Lately all Donna has been hearing is how wonderful Alex is, and how lucky she is to be his wife. After a while this gets Donna to wondering if what people really mean is that Alex got the short end of the stick by marrying Donna.
Dec 31, 1959
Season 2Episode 1630 min
The Broken Spirit
Jeff causes problems for everyone else in the house due to his selfishness and inconsideration for others. Because of this he gets a lecture, which he blows off. But then these same issues end up making him go overboard on being a model son when he fears the repercussions of hurting someone.
Jan 7, 1960
Season 2Episode 1730 min
The Secret
Mary gets an engagement ring and phone calls from Matt, a freshman at UCLA, but doesn't tell anyone in the family about the ring or why Matt is calling.
So what's going on? As Donna says, ""Alex, our daughter has a secret.""
Jan 14, 1959
Season 2Episode 1830 min
The New Mother
Little David Barker is very excited. His father is getting married and he hopes this means he can leave military school and live in a real home, but things don't work out the way David thought they would.
Jan 21, 1960
Season 2Episode 1930 min
Just a Housewife
The radio show ""Housewives Corner"" is broadcast from McClure's Market. Host Jerry Parker is asking the ladies if housewives find questions like ""While baking an upside down cake,do you recommend standing on your head?"" This presents an opportunity for Donna to defend homemakers like herself as being a bit more than ""just a housewife""!
Jan 28, 1960
Season 2Episode 2030 min
The Free Soul
Alex's Uncle Dan takes a break from traveling all over the world. Jeff likes the idea of going to Alaska, Saudi Arabia, Malaya, Australia, and doing whatever he wants, just like Uncle Dan. Jeff decides to join him. Will Donna and Alex allow him to go? Would you believe, yes?
Feb 4, 1960
Season 2Episode 2130 min
The First Quarrel
Donna and Alex advise a newly married couple after their first big argument.
Feb 11, 1960
Season 2Episode 2230 min
A Place to Go
Jeff and his friends get into trouble when they are discovered using an abandoned house as a hang-out. This prompts Donna and the other mothers to create a nice meeting place for the children.
Feb 18, 1960
Season 2Episode 2330 min
A Night to Howl
Mary gets scared of how people get in ruts and seem to lose their sense of wonder and magic as they get older. She shares this feeling with her parents, who decide to do something spontaneous and go out for the evening.
Feb 25, 1960
Season 2Episode 2430 min
The Editorial
Jeff makes editor at the school paper. Excited about his first editorial, he decides to write about how he believes some teachers assign too much homework. But his topic is rejected.
Mar 3, 1960
Season 2Episode 2530 min
The Gentle Dew
Alex lays down the law when Jeff and Mary slack off on their responsibilities at home and their schoolwork. Now Alex is furious when it appears that Mary didn't come home from a bowling date with Roger on time.
Mar 10, 1960
Season 2Episode 2630 min
The Fatal Leap
Alex's wild room-mate from college is getting married, and Alex is invited to the bachelor party. Donna doesn't like this idea at all.
Mar 17, 1960
Season 2Episode 2730 min
The Perfect Pitch
Donna makes Jeff take trumpet lessons when she discovers he has perfect pitch. Jeff would rather be on the track team.
Mar 24, 1960
Season 2Episode 2830 min
Pickles for Charity
While Alex was the ""belle of the ball"" with his fantastic dancing at the Woman's Medical Auxiliary Dance, the dance cost more to produce than the income from ticket sales provided. Each member agrees to contribute $27 using her skills in moneymaking to make up the budget shortfall. Donna will sell 54 jars of her famous pickle recipe at fifty cents per jar and donate the money to the Auxiliary. Will Donna's plan work?
Apr 7, 1960
Season 2Episode 2930 min
Mary's Growing Pain
Mary suffers a lack of confidence when Roger shows up at her door, before a ski trip she and her friends are supposed to go to together, and informs her she’s now going with Tooey and Babs, as he wants to drive Darlene’s new car up there. She later develops a crush on a young intern working with her father.
Apr 14, 1960
Season 2Episode 3030 min
Alex Runs the House
Donna is away and Alex has to manage the house and children.
Apr 21, 1960
Season 2Episode 3130 min
The Career Woman
Donna's old school mate, who has been a single career woman all these years, is now engaged to a doctor. She visits Donna to see what life is really like for a doctor's wife.
Apr 28, 1960
Season 2Episode 3230 min
Jeff, the Financial Genius
Alex cuts off Jeff's allowance until he pays back some money he borrowed. With no funds, Jeff tries the barter system.
May 5, 1960
Season 2Episode 3330 min
Mary's Crusade
Mary vows not to go to the school dance unless Ellen has a date for the dance. Ellen is rather plain so Mary goes to work to transform Ellen into a glamorous young lady.
May 12, 1960
Season 2Episode 3430 min
The First Time We Met
Donna and Alex have different stories about how they first met. Also Donna plays matchmaker to a new doctor in town and a pretty nurse at the hospital.
May 19, 1960
Season 2Episode 3530 min
The Gossip
Donna tells Emily, the town gossip, that Kay Watson is having a baby. Then Donna learns from Alex that Kay is keeping it a secret so that she can stay working longer. Donna is crushed, knowing that she may have let Kay's secret out.
May 26, 1960
Season 2Episode 3630 min
Love's Sweet Awakening
Sixteen- year-old Petie is home from military school and visiting the Stone family. Petie and Mary have been friends for years, but seeing how beautiful Mary has become, he would now like to be more than just friends. As Alex puts it, ""springtime has come to Petie!"" How can Petie catch Mary's eye?
Jun 2, 1960
Season 2Episode 3730 min
The Wedding Present
Aunt Lettie is coming to visit, so Donna and Alex try to find the wedding present she gave them so she would be certain to see it. It would help if they could just remember what it was! And by the way, Alex, can Donna buy a $250 Porcelain Dresden figurine?
Jun 10, 1960
Season 2Episode 3830 min
Cool Cat
Jeff wants to keep a cat that followed him home, so can Harry the Cat stay?
The Stone family will decide by using the democratic process.
Jun 18, 1960
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