For the British television series of a similar name see Hazell (TV series).

Hazel was a Screen Gems television series about Hazel Burke, a fictional live-in maid. The series dramatizes her relationships with her employers, friends, and neighbors. The show was broadcast from 1961 to 1966. It aired on NBC for its first four seasons, in black and white for the first, and in color for the next three, and then in color on CBS for its final season. The title character was portrayed by Shirley Booth. Hazel was based on a popular single panel comic strip by cartoonist Ted Key that appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. The first season of Hazel was released to DVD in 2006.

George Baxter was a highly successful corporation lawyer who was always in control of everything at the office, but almost nothing at home. When he returned from the office at day's end, to his wife Dorothy, and his young son Harold, he entered the world of Hazel. Hazel was the maid and housekeeper who ran the Baxxter household more efficiently than George ran his office. She was always right, knew exactly what needed doing, and pre-empted his authority with alarming, though, justified regularity. Written by Anonymous