Hazel (TV series)

Hazel
Shirley Booth as the title character, Hazel Burke
Genre	Sitcom
Created by	Ted Key
Based on	The Saturday Evening Post character
Directed by	E. W. Swackhamer William D. Russell
Starring	Shirley Booth Don DeFore (1961–1965) Whitney Blake (1961–1965) Bobby Buntrock Ray Fulmer (1965–1966) Lynn Borden (1965–1966) Julia Benjamin (1965–1966)
Theme music composer	Jimmy Van Heusen (music) (1961-1964) Sammy Cahn (lyrics) (1961-1964) Howard Greenfield (1964-1966) Helen Miller (1964-1965) Jack Keller (1965-1966)
Opening theme	"Hazel" (1961-1964)
Composers	Van Alexander Allyn Ferguson William Loose Fred Steiner Joseph Weiss Charles Albertine Hugo Montenegro Philip Green Eugene Poddany
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	5 (1 in black & white (except for S1 E6), 4 in color (including S1 E6))
No. of episodes	154 (34 in black & white, 120 in color) (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer	Harry Ackerman
Producer	James Fonda
Camera setup	Single-camera
Running time	30 minutes
Production company	Screen Gems
Original release
Network	NBC (seasons 1-4, 1961–1965) CBS (season 5, 1965–1966)
Release	September 28, 1961 (1961-09-28) – April 11, 1966 (1966-04-11)
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Hazel is an American sitcom about a spunky live-in maid named Hazel Burke (played by Shirley Booth) and her employers, the Baxters. The five-season, 154-episode series aired in prime time from September 28, 1961, to April 11, 1966, and was produced by Screen Gems. The first four seasons of Hazel aired on NBC, and the fifth and final season aired on CBS. Season 1 was broadcast in black-and-white except for one episode which was in color, and seasons 2–5 were all broadcast in color. The show was based on the single-panel comic strip of the same name by cartoonist Ted Key, which appeared in The Saturday Evening Post.