Which TV Mom would you most like to get a spanking from?

Patricia Richardson was another of mine. I could never understand why she didn't spank, and you're right in that not only the boys, but also Tim, could have used a trip over her knees.
Speaking of Bonnie Franklin (I never watched the show), but there was an article in BA, which said that she used to spank her two teen 'daughters' on the show when their behaviour got out of hand. It was done in the inimitable BA style. I have a feeling that it may have been written by our very own Goodgulf.

I watched the show and Valerie Bertinelli received a few spankings of a couple smacks. She did paddle a young male but the cut away as she bends him over and swings the cutting board.

I always imagined being spanked by one of the teachers on TV sitcoms. Not so much June Cleaver as the teacher Beaver had--Miss Landers. And then of course Eve Arden as Our Miss Brooks would have been wonderful as a spanking teacher.

There was an old fashioned teacher in My Three Sons one episode, and as the show was probably made in the 60's or even the 50's she looked like the type to reach for the paddle if she had a student who required it. From memory I think she was played by Nancy Kulp (Miss Hathaway in The Beverly Hillbillies) and she kind of specialised in playing that spinsterish type character back then. I thought the stepmother in that show's latter years was rather attractive, but not a spanker, she never even threatened her daughter Dodi with one and that kid was the archetypal TV brat.

Oh Man, am I that old? Nobody even mentioned the late great Donna Reed... Aw.. she was probably too nice to administer any sort of punishment,,,

I did a search online, and I couldn't find a single image or video of her spanking anyone. If there's nothing like that on the net it implies that never happened on that show.

Of course there were threats and other implications that spankings might happen, but not shown on the screen.

Goodgulf

I think you're probably right; she was just too nice... I remember the late, great Donna Reed fondly, both from that show and as the dime-a-dance girl (actually a prostitute in the book) in "From Here To Eternity".

Well, I felt (even as a kid) that Donna Reed played a rather insipid, suburban 'Middle America' housewife in "The Donna Reed Show," which I watched occasionally although not all that enthusiastically back in the mid-1960s. Her saccharine character ("Donna Stone," I think) never struck me as remotely capable of delivering a sound spanking to anyone.

Donna was much more interesting as George Bailey's playful girlfriend/loving wife in the classic film, "It's a Wonderful Life," in which she actually played two roles--the other one was briefly as an introverted, timid spinster in the alternate reality in which her husband had never existed. Since George (Jimmy Stewart) seemingly was a 'cream puff' toward his children, I'm figuring that they were so well-behaved because his spouse was the family's effective disciplinarian.

Another television mother whom I believe would've been a rather strict disciplinarian was Lorena Parker, played by Cissy Spacek in the western miniseries "Streets of Laredo"--it was obvious that Lorena, a reformed prostitute and schoolmarm, 'ruled the roost' within her family, which included being the dominant partner in her marriage to Pea Eye (Sam Shepard), a former Texas Ranger. (There was even a bit of conversational back-and-forth about the youngest child's hairbrush, which it turned out was in his mother's possession. I was hoping she'd at least say something like, "I'll apply its back to your behind if you don't stop whining and get moving," which would've been in character, but she didn't.)

Larry McMurtry, who wrote the novel, elsewhere once described a F/M erotic spanking relationship which occurred in the Old West of the 1830s--however, it involved Europeans (a young Englishwoman and a Dutch biologist) rather than Americans... --C.K.