Hazel is an American sitcom about a fictional live-in maid named Hazel Burke and her employers the Baxters. The five-season 154-episode series aired in primetime from September 28 1961 until April 11 1966 and was produced by Screen Gems. The show aired on NBC for its first four seasons and then on CBS for its final season. The first season except for one color episode was in black and white the remainder in color. The show was based on the popular single-panel comic strip by cartoonist Ted Key which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post.