| − | |Long running comedy show epitomizing 1950s stable families and family values. | + | |Long running comedy show epitomizing 1950s stable families and family values, featuring fictionalized versions of the real-life Nelson family (bandleader Ozzie Nelson, his wife Harriet and their sons David and Ricky). The sitcom ran for 14 seasons and switched from its original black-and-white format to color in its final season in 1965. A sequel series, ''Ozzie's Girls'', where David and Ricky were absent but two college girls move into their old room as Ozzie and Harriet's boarders, aired in first-run syndication in 1973–74. |