The Doris Day Show (Season 1): Opening Credits

[welcomee80]

Dont  forget to masterbate sine rpechauer

[Themaddprof]

I fondly recall seeing this on TV when I was around 4 or 5. Sweet.

[DancingSpiderman]

Uncle Jesse was on Doris Day Show?!? Cooter was still swimming around in his rednek daddy's nutsack. Some snobby Spelling Nazi : "What the hell does Cooter have to do with this show? Stick to the subject matter."

WHATever... Spelling Nazi.

[windstorm1000]

Doris was forced to do the show after she was unknowlingly signed up by the networks by her late husband. Imagine that--her husband and business manager bilk her out of her entire life's savings--20 million--and then she finds out that she has to do the show because she's deeply in debt. But being the trouper she did it--and, in a way, we are the recipients of her husbands dishonesty. Its a fine, funny show.

[fromthesidelines]

Yes, she went after Jerome Rosenthal and won (I read her autobiography)....and she went through with this series primarily to pay her legal expenses [besides, CBS would have sued her for breach of contract, had she decided NOT to do it].

[nightowl8936]

@fromthesidelines

Jerome Rosenthal - damn jews ... I read the Wikipedia page ... these Jews really know how to abuse the legal process and file frivolous lawsuits. Total fuckups these Jews entrusted with money and legal stuff.

[tapeduk]

This show ran for 5 years and had a different format each year

[65purple]

I love this show .

The only place I could find this was on netflix.

I wish they would bring these old shows back to Oldies TV channel

[fromthesidelines]

Doris was indeed committed to doing this series because Marty Melcher, her husband (who controlled her career at the time, and died just before production began) virtually guaranteed this series to CBS without even telling her, "Hey, honey, guess what YOU'RE going to be doing this fall?". She went through with it, primarily to overcome her grief at Melcher's death and keep herself occupied. It wasn't until season two that she became more active in the direction the series was going to take...

[rachelazw]

@fromthesidelines, she and Mary Melcher weren't particularly close in the later years of their marriage. So she wasn't going through with this show to deal with her grief. The real reason was her discovery right after his death that Melcher and his business partner had gambled away her fortune. She began a long litigation process against that business partner and needed the income from this show to pay her legal bills. After the series left the air, she won her lawsuit and was awarded millions.

[mistresspat7]

@rachelazw I'm Sorry but Mary Melcher i thought she was a he Marty. Sorry could'nt resist.

[LukePetroneTV]

Type PRIZE before youtube and hit enter

[Manniklaus]

Eine absolut wunderschöne Serie in meiner Kindheit in Deutschland. Danach wollte ich unbedingt Kalifornien besuchen und über die Golden Gate Brücke fahren. Der Traum wurde 1981 wahr, als ich 21 Jahre alt war.

An absolut wonderful series during my childhood in Germany. After that I absolut did want to visit California und drive via the Golden Gate Bridge. The dream came true in 1981, when I was at the age of 21.

[winterweib]

I loved this so much and begged my Mama to call me 'Doris', lol. I was five years old or so. Later on I read she, Doris Day, had to do this show because her husband stole her whole money and she hated this serial :(

[RmFrRifleman]

I remember my brothers and me watching this,never understood though my they eventually took the boys off the show.

[woodylove85]

love this show

[swami1]

They used to film her in soft focus to hide her wrinkles.

[ra86226]

@swami1 Not so. Her freckles yes, but she was not that wrinkled then. She was always shot through filters even years before this show.

[rachelazw]

@ra86226 , whatever the reason, I find that watching this show nearly gives me a headache, what with the camera focus turning soft whenever Doris is in the shot, then suddenly turning sharp when the camera is on anyone else, then back to soft when Doris is back in this shot, and so on.

[ra86226]

@rachelazw season 1 and 2 was did not seem to employ that filtering effect, or it is not as noticeable to me as it may be to you. 3 you could see the change. The 4th and 5th seasons I agree with you. It was too blurry in the close ups. Made my eyes water.

[patsaxon]

Wow! What a great voice she has! She sings beautifully!

[rayssonation]

yes,that was Denver Pyle,who played her dad(who would go on to The Dukes of Hazzard later on) and also from season 1 was James Hampton as the farm assistant hand.

Hampton was also a regular from another 60's show "F-Troop". Hampton was also Eb's cousin from an episode of Green Acres.

[shaychan89]

i have only seen season 3!

[Rouben19]

This was around the time I saw Doris and this is what she looked like in Person... very pretty - I think when the show changed they made a fuss in Magazines that her co-stars were all complaining about everything...

[Tazal]

doris did the tv show cos she was broke. her hsband or manager or somebody ripped her off

[dlsofsetx]

Doris was reluctant to do a Tv show,but it was a good one.

[Cosmictalk]

I use to watch this with my Mom when I was little.

Tom Jones,Glenn Campbell,Julia.

[vividwatch47]

The dog Lord Nelson in the opening title was apparently Doris' idea.

[rachelazw]

That dog really got around. He was also Mr. Mooney's dog on The Lucy Show, and showed up later on Here's Lucy, too.

[ra86226]

He was the dog in Doris's last fil, With Six You Get Eggroll too.

[bluesun267]

wasn't e also the dog on Patty Duke?

[Johnslh]

I can't get enough Doris. I so miss her, and everything about her! Please come back !!

[indyrandy]

you can buy this on dvd...........thanks for posting!!!

[Gnillob802]

This show was unique in that it changed from season to season as it evolved with the changing roles of women in society. The 1st season was very typical widowed mother and her children (every show on TV then was about widows with kids, widowers with kids or uncle's inheriting kids, divorces were taboo!). Eventually she would get a job in the big city, move to the city, kids would be written out of the show, and ends being all about Doris as businesswoman and her love life (ala Mary Tyler Moore).

[1clarinet1981]

excellent synopsis of the DD show evolution!

[rachelazw]

The way they wrote off the kids, though, was very awkward. In fact, they didn't really write them off, they just made them disappear. Mrs. Doris Martin suddenly became Miss Doris Martin, as if she had never been married (or a mother). There were also references to Doris's still-living but widowed mother, as opposed to a still-living but widowed father! The really bizarre thing is that Miss Doris Martin lived in the same apartment as Mrs. Doris Martin, and had the same neighbors!

[Gnillob802]

Yes. It really was different shows. In a way similar to the various Lucy shows with certain stars crossing over like Vivian Vance to The Lucy Show and Gale Gordon to Here's Lucy. They gave Lucy different last names, jobs and towns but it was still Lucy getting in trouble and Gale Gordon was still the boss. The difference is Doris Day compacted it into 5 years, made her money and got out.

[rachelazw]

I see your point on the Lucy shows: through each series, it was always the same Lucy in spirit. The difference was within each series there was consistency. When the format changed on The Lucy Show and Lucy Carmichael moved to California, they explained that her son was going to military school and her daughter was in college. For the rest of the series, though the kids were not seen, they were sometimes referenced. But on TDDS, the kids just vanished & Doris morphed from widow to never married.

[wickedcoolally]

What else is awkward is that Denver Pyle played Doris' dad and he was only about 2 or 3 years older than Doris!

[twdeck]

I love Doris! And this was a great show. I keep hoping it will show up on TV Land at some juncture.

[man975dog]

While "Que Sera Sera" seemed to be Doris Day's number one song, there were other famous songs from the comedy films she made in the past. Did you like the songs she sang from "Pillow Talk" and "Send Me No Flowers"? They were very nice songs and Doris sang them beautifully. The comedy film of "Lover Come Back" from 1961 comes in between Pillow Talk and Send Me No Flowers. I must see it on DVD because I have never seen it before. Rock Hudson is in it with Doris Day.

[frankd1965]

That song was used in the 1954 film "The Man Who Knew Too Much" It was a remake of a 1930's film by Sir Alfred Hitchcock. Doris Day who was blonde was the blond lead for the film. Sir Alfred liked blondes

[man975dog]

there was an article about Doris Day last year in one of the tabloid newspapers like "The Globe" or the "National Enquirer". Doris is age 84 and she live in Carmel, California right above a golf course. She is an animal lover and has been a big activist for animal rights for over 30 years.

[vividwatch47]

Kudos for her work for animal rights!

[iwanagaa1919]

I had forgotten that, in years past, television offered some shows that were worth watching.

[shneevels]

@iwanagaa1919 yes....but this wasn't one of them

[BestManMe09]

TubeBoy the Doris Day Show was only tv. Reallife was harder back in the 60's than today in many ways!

[BestManMe09]

I don't like the way Doris and her tv son are shown in sunlight in these opening credits!

[tommy30507]

From time to time I think about this show and the opening credits portion.....GOOD MEMORIES.

[Texasred63]

Lord nelson was always my favorite!!

[CaliforniaGuy888]

1960s sitcoms and English Sheepdogs go hand-in-hand..LOL

[Texasred63]

yep your right, even the partrage family had one!!

[CaliforniaGuy888]

and I think Please Dont Eat The Daisies and My Three Sons...I think........

[2nicks]

I really love The Doris Day Show...especially seasons 1,2, and 3! They could have stayed on the farm for the entire run of the sitsom as far as I am concerned:)

[lemmatt]

Einfach Genial!

[TubeBoy02]

Love this. Can watch it over & over. Life was so much better back then! DORIS DAY YOU RULE!!!

[jsinc909]

Wow...an amazing late 60's timepiece or what!!