[2] Other characters heard regularly on the program were Dean Ferguson, a "crusty" administrator at Midwestern University and Molly Belle, Janet's roommate.
[5] A review in the trade publication Billboard summarized Young Love as "a happy blend of commercial schmaltz, slick production work, and bright scripting.
"[3] The trade publication Variety called the program "a particularly charming show which should provide considerable divertissement to a hot summer's evening.
"[7] He speculated that the show was intended to provide Waldo "something to grow into" after she had portrayed the approximately 14-year-old title character in Meet Corliss Archer.
I've got the thoughts and emotions of a mature man," Crosby wrote, "Jimmy doesn't behave much differently from Henry Aldrich.