 This episode introduced the Stone s neighbors who were packing up and moving to the country to escape the "rat-race" in the city and was meant to be a spin-off pilot. Along with William Windom ("The Farmer s Daughter") as the father and Pat Breslin ("I Saw What You Did - 1965")as the long-suffering mother, it starred two juvenile brothers from Canada, Steve Barringer and his little brother Leslie. The new series was to be a fish-out-of-water situation comedy to replace the Donna Reed Show because Donna had announced her intentions to retire from Television. The new series was produced by her then husband, Rudy Abel. The concept of a city family of "normal" city folks struggling in the country was taken over by "Green Acres" and a bigger cast by a competitive studio when Donna decided not to retire.