Hazel is an American sitcom about a spunky live-in maid named Hazel Burke 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.
Shirley Booth as the title character, Hazel Burke
Don DeFore, Bobby Buntrock, Whitney Blake from the first-season episode "Hazel's Secret Wish"
Shirley Booth, Don DeFore with son Ron DeFore on set of first episode "Hazel and the Playground"
Shirley Booth was an American actress. One of 24 performers to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting, Booth was the recipient of an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards and three Tony Awards.
Booth in 1950
Humphrey Bogart and Booth in the original Broadway production of Hell's Bells (1925)
Playbill for the original production of Three Men on a Horse, starring Booth, William Lynn and Sam Levene (1935)
Shirley Booth as Hazel, 1962