What breed was the dog in the 1960's TV show "Please Don't Eat the Daisies"?

Joan Nash (Patricia Crowley) and her husband Jim Nash (Mark Miller)were fairly typical for the 1970’s but a little atypical for the 60's. She was a work at home journalist who abhorred housework and homemaking. He was a college professor and they had four boys, with two of them being twins and a very large sheepdog.

The commotion that four boys and a dog can create and Joan’s indifference towards all things household make for the comedic moments in the show. This actually worked out well for Joan as the column she wrote was a humorous look at family life.

The series was based on a 1960 movie by the same name starring Doris Day and David Niven which was based on a book by Jean Kerr. The movie was a big success; the TV show, not so much. It did last for two seasons and in defense of the show the network bosses thought that it would be good competition to pit it against “Combat” and “Rawhide” in the Saturday night lineup…what were they thinking!