Doris Day, legendary actress and former CBS sitcom star, dies at 97

The Hollywood Reporter

Day followed up her iconic movie with her final acting role: playing widowed mother Doris Martin on the 1968-1973 CBS sitcom The Doris Day Show. As Day recounted in her biography, she ended up starring in her own sitcom after her husband Martin Melcher signed her to a TV deal without her knowledge before he died of heart disease five months before her show premiered. The Doris Day Show aired for five seasons and 128 episodes. Day returned to TV in 1985, briefly hosting the Christian Broadcast Network cable show Doris Day’s Best Friends.