[1] The show also features Dub Taylor, Clint Howard, Bonnie Franklin and Ellen Corby in recurring appearances.

Joan and Jim Nash are a married couple who live in an old, turreted house in Ridgemont, New York, with their four rambunctious sons (Kyle, Joel, and identical twins Trevor and Tracy), a very tolerant live-in maid, and an enormous Old English sheepdog named Ladadog.

Chaos regularly breaks out, and the antics of the boys, the dog, her husband and the neighbors, as well as her own indifference to domestic chores, give her plenty of inspiration for her column, much to Jim's embarrassment.

It was scheduled on Tuesday nights opposite the second half of two veteran series on prime-time television, Rawhide on CBS and Combat!

In its second season, Please Don't Eat the Daisies was moved to Saturday nights, where it faced strong competition against the second half of The Jackie Gleason Show.