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- Widower Steve Douglas raises three sons with the help of his father-in-law, and is later aided by the boys' great-uncle. An adopted son, a stepdaughter, wives, and another generation of sons join the loving family in later seasons.
- Bill's comfortable lifestyle must change when he receives a group of unexpected long-term guests.
- One of the most successful and fondly-remembered shows in TV history, "The Lawrence Welk Show" featured musical numbers and skits, with host Welk leading the band.
- Detective Chad Smith shares his life as a policeman, and as a family man with his wife and three children.
- In this hit 1950s TV series, a millionaire indulges himself giving away $1 million apiece to persons he has never met.
- Michael Endicott accepts a teaching position at a school in Rome.
- In this proposed spin-off of the long-running My Three Sons (1960) series, Robbie (Don Grady) and Katie Douglas (Tina Cole) have moved to San Francisco with their three children and are soon involved in the comic misadventures of their landlords and fellow tenants.
- Betty White and Bill Williams star as newlyweds Vicki and Gus Angel who find themselves involved in comical situations with their friends and neighbors.
- This was an attempt to revive the old television series wherein a millionaire gives a million dollars to total strangers and how it affects their lives. In this case he first gives to a man who works in a garage with his two brothers, and their boss is a slave driver. And a lawyer who is the son of a successful one but chooses not to have anything to do with his father and is a poor public defender and whose wife is the director of a youth center which is about to lose its funding. And a man whose missing partner might be guilty of embezzlement but since his is not around he's going to have to answer for it.
- Married pairs of contestants were asked to answer questions, the husband deciding whether he or she would answer. The original emcee Edgar Bergen was later replaced by Johnny Carson.
- Fess Hamilton is a recently widowed man who must cope with three feisty daughters. His best friend Boomer is also recently widowed and tries to raise three young sons. In the pilot, he must cope with his eldest daughter dating an unsavory boy, his youngest daughter being duped by a conman and clothes that need mending.
- A variety show but with a different format. The announcer sets up the two comedic skits with the actors frozen in place at beginning. The show concludes with Betty singing usually with a guest.
- A disbarred attorney and his staff of ex-convicts are hired by a millionaire to find an embezzling book-keeper.
- The Angels stop at a resort hotel that features a lounge act starring a singer who is an exact lookalike for Vickie. The guests and a new desk clerk keep confusing the two (or, the two unwittingly keep confusing them), but things get more serious when the singer's strong-arm boyfriend thinks that Gus is getting fresh with his girl.
- When Vickie goes with a friend to visit the office of an obstetrician, Gus mistakenly thinks the Angels are due for a visit from the stork.
- The Time: 6 months after Vickie and Gus are married. Vicki and Gus visit an amusement park and run into their neighbors. With misunderstandings and dogs aplenty.
- Liberace says hello to Vicki as he is leaving a restaurant, but Gus does not believe Vickie when she tells him about it. The next day, Dennis Day's car breaks down in front of the Angel's home, but nobody believes Vickie's amazing story.
- Just before an expected visit from Gus' boss, Vickie and Gus get involved in a dispute between their neighbors: the Murphys and Mr. Finley and his son Roger. It seems that the elder Mr. Finley backs his car over the Murphys' front lawn every morning.
- The Angels and Clemsons head to San Francisco, hoping to impress a company bigwig based there. The husbands lose their wives' cooperation after behaving like drooling schoolboys around a pair of attractive sisters aboard the train.
- Vickie and Gus quickly regret bringing along nephew Wheeler to their mountain cabin. The loudmouthed teen soon insults all the locals by calling them hillbillies and hicks and mistaking a chubby woman for a pot-bellied stove. The Angels are banished by the locals, but intend to go to the big dance anyway.
- Buffy likes a boy at school. She starts purposely failing her classes so she does not seem smarter than him. The school thinks Buffy is able to skip a grade but she does not want to skip.
- Cissy is excited to have her friend over, who she sees as very sophisticated and envies her glamorous lifestyle, until her friend reveals that her parents are separated and all she really wants is a loving family like Cissy has.
- Buffy & Jody have problems with a building project for a school. Bill is hosting a large dinner party, and French has to hire an assistant to help serve the food. Adele turns out to have no experience and only makes things worse for French.
- Bill thinks living in the city is not good for the children, and considers moving to the country.
- The kids overhear Bill talking about one of his bridge's collapsing. He goes to the construction site to help with the disaster. The kids think they are going to lose all their money to help pay for the bridge.
- Mr French considers opening a restaurant after his date starts questioning his life as a gentleman's gentleman.
- The vice principal and a child psychologist are concerned that Buffy and Jody only spend time with each other instead of playing with the other children, and state that it would be better for them to spend less time together.
- Cissy befriends a girl who uses her to disobey her parents. Uncle Bill feels that Buffy and Jody would benefit from listening to fairy tales than watching war-based programs on TV, but the fairy tales end up giving them nightmares.
- When Buffy has an operation to remove her tonsils, Jody complains of a sore throat too. Uncle Bill and French think he's simply looking for attention.
- Cissy is taking an art class and has been drawing caricature images of the family members, but does not mention one for Mr French. He is hurt at being left out, however, Cissy has his picture and wants to surprise him with it.
- After Mr. French is ribbed by his gentlemen peers about also being a nanny, he resigns himself to return to his role as a gentlemen's gentleman and starts to shun the children.
- Uncle Bill and Mr French take the twins on vacation to Boston while Cissy spends her vacation time in New York. Everyone seems to be off sync as they miss each other.
- A teenager from a royal family in Vienna wants to marry Cissy, and she wants to marry him. She thinks she is a grown up who can make her own decisions, but Uncle Bill knows she is just in love with love and in love with something different.
- Jody and Buffy make friends with a new girl at school whose father seems to always be out of town. Jody and Buffy find out the girl's father has really left the family and may never return.
- French's nephew David visits French at the Davis' home. David surprises French by announcing he is going into dentistry instead of being a gentleman's gentleman.
- Due to a miscommunication of who would watch Buffy and Jody, the twins find themselves all alone in New York City.
- Cissy's friend Kathy is pregnant, and her husband is out of town.
- Mr French tries to help a friend by talking to the daughter about the life of being an actress. His efforts are negated when Bill finds the daughter an acting position.
- Jody makes up an invisible friend, but it is a large bear.
- Buffy gets upset when she does not get the role of The Big Bad Wolf in her ballet recital.
- Jody and Buffy want to adopt a stray dog, but they can only keep him in the building if he is an award-winning champion.
- Cissy thinks Bill is planning to get married to an old friend, but when her new friend tells her how her stepmothers sent her away, Cissy then suspects that the woman will send her and Buffy and Jody away.
- When a neighboring family has a baby, the children start to ask questions about where babies come from. Uncle Bill has to explain.
- Bill Davis, owner of a successful construction company, is entertaining a date at his New York apartment. Then, Buffy, his niece and daughter of his dead brother, is brought to him. Bill is ambivalent about taking on this responsibility. He suggests sending Buffy to school in Switzerland. This prompts Buffy to run away, but she only makes it as far as the basement of his apartment building. Giles French, the Davis butler, finds her there and brings her back. Bill and Buffy have a talk, where Bill assures her she can stay if she wants. Until now, she has only called him "sir" but now calls him Uncle Bill. The businessman is about to go to Peru when Buffy's twin brother, Jody, is brought to the apartment. Bill decides he'll take in Jody, as well, much to French's discomfort. ("Mr. Davis -- there are two of them!") Bill is off to Peru. Then, his other nice, 15-year-old Cissy, is brought to the apartment and the three siblings enjoy a reunion. French is less enthused. "I am a nanny," he says.
- Buffy helps a shy friend meet new new friends. Buffy throws a party for Angela and friends, but finds some unexpected results
- Jody wants to a club with the big boys, but they tell him he is too young. To prove he is old enough, they tell him he has to cut of some of Mr French's whiskers and bring it to them.
- Buffy makes friends with another girl in the apartment building, and finds out the girl is very sick and may not live too much longer. Buffy asks Uncle Bill if they can have a Christmas holiday because Eve might not be alive in December.