I Married Joan starred Joan Davis, a movie and radio comedienne billed as "America's Queen of Comedy," and Jim Backus, the voice of Mr. Magoo and the popular character Thurston Howell III from Gilligan's Island. The show centered on Joan, a scatterbrained housewife, and her husband, Bradley Stevens, who was a staid and settled domestic court judge. Beverly Wills, Joan Davis' real-life daughter, also co-starred on the show playing the part of her sister. The show was cut from the same mold as I Love Lucy, with Joan Davis' comedy antics derived from the physical school of humor. Ms. Davis produced the show under her own production company for NBC and the series ran for three years between 1952 and 1955.

Cast and Characters

• Joan Davis as Joan Stevens
• Jim Backus as Judge Bradley Stevens
• Sheila Bromley as Janet Tobin
• Wally Brown as Wally
• Geraldine Carr as Mabel
• Mary Jane Croft as Helen #1
• Adele Jergens as Helen #2
• Sandra Gould as Mildred Webster
• Hal Smith as Charlie
• Elivia Allman as Aunt Vera
• Sally Payne as Sally
• Dan Tobin as Kerwin Tobin
• Beverly Wills as Beverly Grossman
• Hope Emerson as Minerva Parker

Broadcast History, Episode Guide & TV Schedule

First Telecast: October 15, 1952
Last Telecast: April 6, 1955
Original Network: NBC
Number of Seasons: 3
Number of Episodes: 99
View the I Married Joan Episode Guide
Original Primetime TV Schedule:

• October 1952- April 1955, NBC, Wednesday 8:00-8:30pm

Theme Song Lyrics and Intro

"I Married Joan" by Richard Mack

I married Joan What a girl, what a whirl, what a life. Oh I married Joan What a mind, love is blind what a wife. Giddy and gay, all day she keeps my heart laughin' Never know where her brain has flown. Each to his own Can't deny that's why I married Joan.

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