The Donna Reed Show!..

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We have a Friday video twofer today kids!

Back when I was (you guessed it) a toddlin' lad,it was a well known fact that mothers wore high heels,figure-flattering dresses,and an understated string of pearls,while going about the business of raising perfectly ideal children,and keeping an immaculate house for their successful husbands.

June Cleaver..
Harriet Nelson....
And Donna Reed were clear examples of the typical American nuclear family matriarch.

Yeah,yeah,..that's a naive vision of the way things truly were,and are in most cases,but it's my childhood,and I'll embrace all the fantasies the black-and-white remembrances of my formative years can abide..

Speaking of fantasies...
Is it possible for a 9 year old pup to have a genuine crush on an older woman?

Yep...

No,..I'm not talkin' about Donna,although I really did think she was beautiful,even then.
Sadly,she was married,and we had scrupulous morals back in the early 60's!
...look it up.

Any pre-pubescent-I-don't-know-what-it-is-but-there's-something-about-Mary,..I'm talkin' about that flaxen haired sultry songstress,and teenage heart throb,Mary Stone!
..AKA, Shelley Fabares.



..check out the look Donna gives 'Johnny'..Priceless!

'Johnny Angel'

I must have her!..

We'll get married.
I'll become a world famous pediatrician!..
We'll have two perfect children,and one day,my own son will pay homage to my sterling character with this touching tribute.



'My Dad'

Things change as they are prone to do,and the best laid plans yada,yada..

Still,we'll cling unerringly to those things that make up the fundamental tenets of our nature,however naive.
Even if they are the grainy,flickering images of a time that never really was.

It's circa 1962,or thereabouts,..and life was good in little Sling's Domain.