Other pivotal plot points: getting bad advice from a friend or suffering the consequences of spreading gossip. Notably, the new fourth-season set includes "Donna's Prima Donna," the episode in which Shelley Fabares sings the debut of her 1962 No. 1 pop...

Other pivotal plot points: getting bad advice from a friend or suffering the consequences of spreading gossip. Notably, the new fourth-season set includes "Donna's Prima Donna," the episode in which Shelley Fabares sings the debut of her 1962 No. 1 pop...

TV series "The Donna Reed Show," 1958-66, centered on the Stone family -- Shelley Fabares, left, Donna Reed, Carl Betz and Paul Petersen. To baby boomers of a certain age, Donna Reed was a sunny-bright television fixture for eight seasons, the perfect...

Reed was more than just a TV mom to actress Shelley Fabares. Fabares played Reed's teenage daughter, Mary Stone, on the well-loved 1958-66 ABC family sitcom "The Donna Reed Show," which revolved around Donna Stone (Reed), the wife of handsome...

Photo Archives, via Getty Images From left, Shelley Fabares, Carl Betz, Donna Reed and Paul Petersen. TO baby boomers of a certain age Donna Reed was a sunny-bright television fixture for eight seasons, the perfect mom — at least according to the...

The episode that is likely to receive the most attention is Donna’s Prima Donna, which has Mary Stone forsaking college to start a singing career and debuting the song “Johnny Angel” on national television. The song, as released on the Colpix Records...