 In October 2007, TV Land celebrated the show's 50th anniversary with a marathon.Although the show never broke into the Nielsen ratings top 30 or won any awards, it placed on "Time" magazine's unranked 2007 list of "All-TIME 100 TV Shows".In 1957, the radio, film and television writers Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher developed a concept for a TV show about childhood and family life featuring a fictional suburban couple and their children.