Please Don't Eat the Daisies (TV series)

Please Don't Eat the Daisies
Mark Miller and Patricia Crowley as Jim and Joan Nash, 26 April 1966
Genre	Sitcom
Written by	William Cowley Lee Erwin Neil Travis Bill Everett Bill Freedman Ben Gershman Austin Kalish Irma Kalish Roy Kammerman Jean Kerr Sidney A. Mandel Michael Morris Jack Raymond Robert Stambler
Directed by	David Alexander Peter Baldwin Bruce Bilson John Erman Alvin Ganzer Tay Garnett Jeffrey Hayden Richard Kinon Sidney Miller Hollingsworth Morse Howard Morris Gary Nelson Richard Whorf
Starring	Patricia Crowley Mark Miller
Composer(s)	Jeff Alexander
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	58
Production
Producer(s)	Robert Stambler Paul West
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	24 min
Production company(s)	MGM Television
Distributor	Warner Bros. Television Distribution
Release
Original network	NBC
Picture format	1.33:1
Audio format	Monaural
Original release	September 14, 1965 – April 22, 1967
Chronology
Related shows	Please Don't Eat the Daisies Please Don't Eat the Daisies (film)

Please Don't Eat the Daisies is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 14, 1965 to April 22, 1967. The series was based upon the 1957 book by Jean Kerr and 1960 film starring Doris Day and David Niven.

The series ran for 58 half-hour episodes and stars Patricia Crowley and Mark Miller. The show also features Dub Taylor, Clint Howard, and Bonnie Franklin for multiple appearances; Ellen Corby 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 Stefanie Powers appeared as April Dancer in the "Remember Lake Serene" episode, connecting this series to The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.. (Patricia Crowley had appeared in the pilot episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E..)

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 on CBS and Combat! 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 ratings fell and NBC canceled the series in the spring of 1967. To date, it is the earliest television series in which the entire cast still survives.

Cast

• Patricia "Pat" Crowley...Joan Nash
• Mark Miller...Jim Nash
• Kim Tyler...Kyle Nash
• Brian Nash...Joel Nash
• Jeff Fithian...Trevor Nash
• Joe Fithian...Tracy Nash

Episode list

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

Guest star Audrey Meadows in "The Big Brass Blonde" episode, 1965

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" with Mary Treen / 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

External links

• Please Don't Eat the Daisies at the Internet Movie Database
• Please Don't Eat the Daisies at TV.com
• Please Don't Eat the Daisies at epguides.com