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Margaret Anderson played a mean mom (and I mean that in a good way here), for sure. But so did Donna Stone. That was the name of the character played by Donna Reed, the mother on “The Donna Reed Show,” also a popular offering when I was young. Mother Stone wore what seemed to be a string of pearls everywhere, and her aprons set off the gleaming pearls nicely. For my money, Harriet Nelson was the all-time greatest television mom. Continue Reading