At the end of this series' fifth season, with CBS ready to renew it for at least another year, Doris Day in effect "canceled" her own series. She held a press conference and announced that in five years, she believed "all that could be done with this material" had been done, and she was uninterested in continuing to work on it. Afterward Doris Day retired from acting and never acted again.
The last show of the series.
Despite this being the final episode of her five season sitcom, this was not the end of Doris Day's contract with CBS. In addition to her eponymous series, the 1968 deal between Day's production company and the network called for her to headline two one hour musical specials. The first of them, The Doris Mary Anne von Kepple Hoff Special with guest stars Perry Como and Rock Hudson, had aired in 1971. The second and final special, Doris Day Today, featured John Denver and Tin Conway as guests, and was not seen until 1975.