"The Family Nobody Wanted"
Playhouse 90 episode
Nanette Fabray, Lew Ayres, and Tim Hovey
Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 12
Directed by	John Frankenheimer
Written by	George Bruce (teleplay), Helen Doss (memoir)
Original air date	December 20, 1956 (1956-12-20)
Guest appearances
Nanette Fabray as Helen Doss Lew Ayres as Carl Doss Tim Hovey as Donny
Episode chronology
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"The Family Nobody Wanted" was an American television play broadcast on December 20, 1956, as part of the CBS television series, Playhouse 90. It was the 12th episode of the first season of Playhouse 90.

The teleplay is based on a true story about a divinity student, Carl Doss, and his wife, Helen Doss, of Redlands, California, who adopt 12 children of various ancestries.^[1][2]

• Nanette Fabray as Helen Doss
• Lew Ayres as Carl Doss
• Tim Hovey as Donny
• Cherylene Lee as Asian Child
• Dick Kay Hong as Timmy, Adopted Kid

Dale Evans hosted the broadcast.

Martin Manulis was the producer and John Frankenheimer the director. George Bruce wrote the teleplay based on the memoir, The Family Nobody Wanted, by Helen Doss.

J. P. Shanley of The New York Times credited the "excellent performances" of Fabray and Ayres and called it "charming entertainment."^[3]