Season One
1961-62
1- "The Sick Boy and the Sitter"
Rob talks Laura into leaving "sick" Ritchie with a babysitter while they attend a big party.
2- "The Meershatz Pipe"
Rob fears he is no longer needed when his co-writers do a show without his help.
3- "Jealousy"
Laura begins to worry when Rob has to work nights with a beautiful television star.
4- "Sally & the Lab Technician"
Laura matches up her pharmacist cousin, Thomas, with Sally, for a lopsided dinner party.
5- "Washington vs. the Bunny"
Rob is determined to go on a business trip even though Laura wants him to see Ritchie "star" in a school play.
6- "Oh How We Met the Night That We Danced"
Rob & Laura recall he broke her foot the night they met.
7- "The Unwelcome Houseguest"
Rob reluctantly agrees to take care of Buddy's dog for the weekend.
8- "Harrison B. Harding of Camp Crowder, MO"
Rob invites an old Army pal home to dinner and begins to fear he has a jewel thief on his hands.
9- "My Blonde-Haired Brunette"
Laura dyes her hair blonde when she fears the romance in her marriage is fading.
10- "Forty-Four Tickets"
Rob invites 44 fellow PTA members to his television show, but forgets all about it until airtime.
11- "To Tell or Not to Tell"
Rob and Ritchie find themselves more than a little lost when Laura briefly resumes her dancing career.
12- "Sally Is a Girl"
Rob takes Laura's advice and stops treating Sally as one of the boys.
13- "Empress Carlotta's Necklace"
Rob proudly presents Laura with a horrible necklace, but she cannot bring herself to tell him is awful.
14- "Buddy, Can You Spare a Job?"
After Buddy leaves for a job that falls through, Rob and Sally conspire to get him his old job back.
15- "Who Owes Who What?"
Rob's loan turns into a forgotten debt, and a TV script.
16- "Sol and the Sponsor"
A fancy dinner party for Rob's television sponsor and his wife is enlivened by the arrival of Rob's old Army buddy.
17- "The Curious Thing About Women"
Rob's sense of humor backfires when he decides to base a television skit on Laura's penchant for opening his mail.
18- "Punch Thy Neighbor"
Rob's pal Jerry strains the friendship when he starts knocking Rob's television show in public.
19- "Where Did I Come From?"
6-year-old Ritchie asks his parents the inevitable "Where did I come from?" question. They recall the days before his birth.
20- "The Boarder Incident"
While his wife is away, Buddy moves in with the Petries and quickly wears out his welcome.
21- "A Word a Day"
Ritchie's expanding vocabulary starts to branch out in unexpected directions.
22- "The Talented Neighborhood"
When his show announces a talent contest, Rob finds himself besieged by the parents of neighborhood prodigies.
23- "Father of the Week"
Rob's paternal pride suffers a cruel shock when he finds out that his six-year-old son is ashamed of him.
24- "The Twizzle"
Sally drags the entire production staff to a bowling alley, where she unveils a new song and dance.
25- "One Angry Man"
Serving on jury duty, Rob finds himself siding with the beautiful blonde defendant.
26- "Where You Been, Fassbinder?"
Romance enters Sally's life in the form of an insurance salesman named Leo Fassbinder.
27- "The Bad Old Days"
Buddy convinces Rob that--like all American husbands--he is being dominated by a woman.
28-"I Am My Brother's Keeper"
Rob's bashful brother arrives in town and proves to be confident and outgoing only when he is sleepwalking.
29- "The Sleeping Brother"
Rob's talented, sleepwalking brother manages to audition successfully for "The Alan Brady Show" even while wide-awake.
30- "The Return of Happy Spangler"
Rob tries valiantly to help an old radio comedy writer make a comeback.