Editing Mary Kay and Johnny (section)

==Format==
Plots centered around a bank employee and his "zany, but not dumb" wife and the problems that they encountered.<ref name="laz">{{cite book|last1=Karol|first1=Michael|title=Lucy A to Z: The Lucille Ball Encyclopedia|date=2004|publisher=iUniverse|isbn=9780595752133|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KoABABSnX7oC&dq=%22Mary+Kay+and+Johnny%22&pg=PA281|accessdate=22 September 2017|language=en}}</ref> Much of the activity occurred in the couple's apartment in [[Greenwich Village]].<ref name=laz/>

The March 6, 1948, issue of the trade publication ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' gave a mostly favorable review, "This program comes close to being a model tele[vision] show. In detailing the adventures, mainly domestic, of a young married couple, Johnny and Mary Kay Stearns have come up with charming and fresh material, which always takes into consideration that there are cameras taking everything in," although the column's author objected to the show's usage of familiar sitcom tropes such as "the dreary old tolerant-husband-with-a-dumb-wife pattern."<ref name=bb>{{cite magazine|last1=Chase|first1=Sam|title=Mary Kay and Johnny|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gPUDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA38|accessdate=6 March 2024|magazine=Billboard|date=March 6, 1948|page=38}}</ref>