8.4/1031 votes#1 - Mister Nice Guy
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/1962
Mary can't understand why her brother Jeff is being so polite to her - unless there is some ulterior motive behind his good behavior.
Director: Jeffrey Hayden
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1025 votes
#2 - Mrs. Stone and Doctor Hyde
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1962
When Donna fills in for Alex's vacationing nurse, she is taken aback to find him an office tyrant.
Director: Gene Nelson
Writer: Barbara Avedon
- 8.0/1026 votes
#3 - To Be a Boy
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1962
Trying to save enough money to build a boat, Jeff and Smitty make a pact to give up dating. Then Jeff finds Mary's friend Joanne hiding under his bed.
Director: Gene Nelson
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1025 votes
#4 - Who Needs Glasses?
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/1962
Jeff decides wearing glasses would make him look older, and sets out to prove he needs them.
Director: Jeffrey Hayden
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1027 votes
#5 - Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/18/1962
Mary decides it's time to leave home, and moves into the college dormitory.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1037 votes
#6 - My Dad
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/1962
Alex tries over and over to spend a day with Jeff,but his plans are always interrupted by emergency calls.Jeff later shows that he still loves his father by singing the song,""My Dad.""
Director: Gene Nelson
Writer: Barbara Avedon
- 7.1/1019 votes
#7 - Fine Feathers
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 11/1/1962
Jeff discovers a lost bird.He thinks it might be a rare cockatoo and sends the story to the newspapers and audobon societies-only to find out that the bird is really a cockateel,not quite a cockatoo.
Director: Gene Nelson
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1027 votes
#8 - Rebel With a Cause
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/8/1962
Donna is selected to take part in a survey of housewives to dtermine how long they spend doing their household chores.
Director: Gene Nelson
Writer: Barbara Avedon
- 6.4/1028 votes
#9 - Big Star
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 11/15/1962
Mary succeeds in helping a shy boy she knows become a singing star.
Director: Jeffrey Hayden
Writer: Barbara Avedon
- 7.1/1020 votes
#10 - Man to Man
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 11/22/1962
Alex and Jeff go camping in order to spend more time together, but the trip turns out to be a plot cooked up by Jeff to meet his friends.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1028 votes
#11 - The Baby Buggy
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 11/29/1962
Everyone chips in to buy the elderly baby doctor a new car.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1023 votes
#12 - The Makeover Man
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 12/6/1962
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1027 votes
#13 - The Winning Ticket
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 12/13/1962
Jeff has a moral dilemma. He won a sports car with a raffle ticket he picked up off the ground after the original owner dropped it. Does Jeff keep the car or does he track down the original ticket holder?
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1022 votes
#14 - The Soft Touch
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 12/20/1962
If Jeff wants to be able to afford to go to a special event this weekend, he had better collect on the loans he gave his friends. This prompts Donna to suggest that Alex collect from his deadbeat patients.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1030 votes
#15 - Jeff Stands Alone
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 12/27/1962
After a conversation with a telephone lineman, Jeff decides that it's about time he becomes independent himself. He tests himself by going to a strange town without any money to see whether or not he can make it on his own.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1025 votes
#16 - Just a Little Wedding
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 1/3/1963
Mary's friend, Marcia, is getting married. She and her fiance want a small, simple wedding, but her mother, upon arriving in town, has other ideas.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1019 votes
#17 - A Woman' Place
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 1/10/1963
When Donna decides to run for town council, Jeff and Mary agree to take care of the house. And how! But when Alex dreams about Donna's political future, as Mayor, perhaps Governor, he decides he'd rather have her back home again.
Director: Gene Nelson
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1031 votes
#18 - The Chinese Horse
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 1/17/1963
At an auction a mysterious woman asks Donna to buy a huge Chinese horse statue and gives her the money for it, so Donna does buy it and takes it home. Mary, Jeff and Alex all wonder why?
Director: Gene Nelson
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1024 votes
#19 - The New Look
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 1/24/1963
A boyfriend of Mary's calls her wholesome,and she doesn't know weather to take it as a compliment or an insult.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1027 votes
#20 - A Way of Her Own
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 1/31/1963
A little girl named Trisha follows the Stones home from the park and says that she is one of the family.After a long effort to find her real parents,her uncle arrives.He realizes that the orphaned Trisha loves being in a family and that the Stones are fond of her.He arranges it so Trisha can stay with the Stones.Thus a new family member is added.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1020 votes
#21 - Three is a Family
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 2/7/1963
Mary learns the joys and pains of having a little sister,as she has to baby-sit Trisha on a night when she'd planned to go on a date.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1025 votes
#22 - Big Sixteen
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 2/14/1963
On Jeff's 16th birthday he has a big fight with his girlfriend. Then he falls for an older woman.
Director: Gene Nelson
Writer: Barbara Avedon
- 8.0/1027 votes
#23 - Pioneer Woman
Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 2/21/1963
Alex and Jeff spend the weekend at the cabin of Alex's friend Red. Donna and Mary follow them and prove that women can, ""rough it"" in the wilderness as well as men can.
Director: Gene Nelson
Writer: Barbara Avedon
- 8.1/1034 votes
#24 - The House on the Hill
Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 2/28/1963
Donna visits a reclusive woman who lives in an old Victorian house.She feels trapped in a haunted house after a while.
Director: Gene Nelson
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1026 votes
#25 - Where the Stones Are
Season 5 Episode 25 - Aired 3/7/1963
The Stones all end up at Shelter Bay during ""mid-term vacation"", better known today as ""Spring Break"". Mary doesn't know the rest of the family is there; she thought it was just her and her girlfriends. Donna, Jeff, and Alex get to stay on a fishing boat named ""Big Daddy"", and boy, does Donna hook a big one!
Director: Gene Nelson
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of The Donna Reed Show Season 5
Every episode of The Donna Reed Show Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Donna Reed Show Season 5!
Revolves around typical family problems, such as firing a clumsy housekeeper, throwing a retirement bash for a colleague, and finding quality time away from the...
Genres:ComedyFamily
Network:ABC
Season 5 Ratings Summary
"Mister Nice Guy" is the best rated episode of "The Donna Reed Show" season 5. It scored 8.4/10 based on 31 votes. Directed by Jeffrey Hayden and written by N/A, it aired on 9/20/1962. This episode is rated 1.4 points higher than the second-best, "Mrs. Stone and Doctor Hyde".