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
View the I Married Joan Episode Guide Number of Seasons: 3
Number of Episodes: 99
Original Network: NBC
Original Primetime TV Schedule:
October 1952- April 1955, NBC, Wednesday 8:00-8:30pm
Theme Song Lyrics and Opening Credits
"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.
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.
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