Hazel is a Screen Gems television series about a fictional live-in maid named Hazel Burke (Shirley Booth) and her employers, the Baxters. The five-season, 154-episode series aired in primetime from September 1961 until April 1966. The first four seasons aired on NBC, were sponsored by Ford Motor Company, which had earlier underwritten Tennessee Ernie Ford's comedy and variety show, The Ford Show. During season four, Bristol-Myers co-sponsored Haz...
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Hazel is a Screen Gems television series about a fictional live-in maid named Hazel Burke (Shirley Booth) and her employers, the Baxters. The five-season, 154-episode series aired in primetime from September 1961 until April 1966. The first four seasons aired on NBC, were sponsored by Ford Motor Company, which had earlier underwritten Tennessee Ernie Ford's comedy and variety show, The Ford Show. During season four, Bristol-Myers co-sponsored Hazel. In the final season on CBS, Procter & Gamble and Philip Morris were the sponsors. The show was based on a popular single panel comic strip by cartoonist Ted Key that appeared in the Saturday Evening Post.
Hazel is a competent, take-charge, live-in maid in the home of George Baxter (Don DeFore), a partner in the law firm of Butterworth, Hatch, Noll & Baxter, and known as "Mr. B" to Hazel, his interior decorator wife Dorothy (Whitney Blake), whom Hazel calls "Missy", their schoolboy son Harold (Bobby Buntrock), known by Hazel as "Sport", and...
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