The Donna Reed Show (TV Series)

The Foundling (1958)

Carl Betz: Dr. Alex Stone

Quotes 

• Alex Stone : Honey, please, we're already running an adoption agency; let's not start a matrimonial bureau.

• Donna Stone : [A policeman has arrived to pick up the baby left at the Stones' doorstep]  Why aren't you out looking for the mother?

  Dr. Alex Stone : Alright, will you calm down? The officer is just doing his duty.

  Milkman : Did you bring your handcuffs and your tear gas? This kid looks pretty tough, you know.

  Policeman : All I know is the radio said to pick up a baby.

  Kathleen : You believe everything you hear on a radio?

  Milkman : That's telling him, Kathleen.

  Dr. Alex Stone : Tony, Kathleen, BE QUIET!

  Donna Stone : Alex, you don't have to shout. We can hear you. Now, can't we settle this calmly and rationally?

  Dr. Alex Stone : The officer and I are the only rational people in this house.

  Policeman : That's for sure.

• Kathleen : Poor little baby.

  Dr. Alex Stone : Now Kathleen, you go to work!

  [To Tony] 

  Dr. Alex Stone : And if I hear another word out of you, we'll switch to another milk company!

  Donna Stone : Alex, I've never seen you like this.

  Dr. Alex Stone : That's because I've never been driven out of my mind before.

  Donna Stone : Alright I-I'm not going to argue with you anymore. If you want to turn a poor, defenseless baby over to an orphanage,

  [hands baby to Alex] 

  Donna Stone : Go ahead. Don't consider the poor mother's feelings, just

  [begins to cry] 

  Donna Stone : turn it over to the police.

  Dr. Alex Stone : [After pause; sighs]  Officer, will you leave the child in my custody for the time being, er, until you find the mother?

  Policeman : With the greatest of pleasure.

  Kathleen : I've got to hand it to you, doctor. You know, you may be a little hard on the outside, but on the inside I know you're a good, decent man.

  Milkman : Well he didn't fool me for a minute. No, siree. Anybody married to Mrs. Stone has gotta be okay.