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SEASON 1 – NBC

Theme music by Jeff Alexander

• 000. Pilot – UNAIRED
  • Kaye & Roger Buell and Eve & Herb Hubbard are neighbors who don’t care much for each other. Their animosity is intensified when Kaye and Roger come over to Eve and Herb’s house to use their TV when they believe the Hubbards are out. However Eve and Herb are hiding in the closet and overhear a barrage of insults. They are caught when the Buells see smoke coming out of the closet from Herb’s cigar. Meanwhile, their children Jerry Buell and Suzie Hubbard (Kay Cole) have gotten engaged, so Kay and Eve decide to make amends. This soon erupts again when Eve wants to have a small wedding, while Kay envisions a small wedding so they can save money. This time the kids join in the fight and soo break it off. Kay and Eve are beside themselves with regret and try to come up with a way to get them back together, but soon it happens naturally, and the wedding is back on. They plan an outdoor wedding at the Hubbard house, using Kaye’s piano for Eve to play while Kaye sings a solo of Oh Promise Me, annoying the neighbor Mr. Cornell in the process. That night it rains heavily, and both couples struggle to get it out of the rain, but only succeed in pulling it into the neighbors the Cornell’s pool. The children decide to make a wedding that they attended a double marriage and come home man and wife, so the outdoor wedding was unnecessary anyway. 3/7/20

• 001. On Again, Off Again, Lohengrin – 9/10/1967
  • Kaye (Kaye Ballard) and Roger Buell (Roger C. Carmel) and Eve (Eve Arden) and Herb Hubbard (Herbert Rudley) are neighbors who don’t care much for each other. Their animosity is intensified when Kaye and Roger come over to Eve and Herb’s house to use their TV when they believe the Hubbards are out. However, Eve and Herb are hiding in the closet and overhear a barrage of insults. They are caught when the Buells see smoke coming out of the closet from Herb’s cigar. Meanwhile, their children Jerry (Jerry Fogel) and Suzie Hubbard (Deborah Walley) have gotten engaged, so Kay and Eve decide to make amends. This soon erupts again when Eve wants to have a small wedding, while Kay envisions a small wedding so they can save money. This time the kids join in the fight and soo break it off. Kay and Eve are beside themselves with regret and try to come up with a way to get them back together, but soon it happens naturally, and the wedding is back on. They plan an outdoor wedding at the Hubbard house, using Kaye’s piano for Eve to play while Kaye sings a solo of Oh Promise Me, annoying the neighbor Mr. Cornell in the process. That night it rains heavily, and both couples struggle to get it out of the rain, but only succeed in pulling it into the neighbors the Cornells’ pool. The children decide to make a wedding that they attended a double marriage and come home man and wife, so the outdoor wedding was unnecessary anyway. 4/14/13
• 002. Everybody Goes on a Honeymoon – 9/17/1967
  • The Hubbards go on retreat for a weekend of golf and are surprised when the Buells show up at the resort with the same idea. After coping through an afternoon of golf with the Kaye, who has never played before, the foursome is again surprised when their kids Jerry and Suzie show up to finish their honeymoon there. Not able to secure a room, the kids are offered one of their parents’ rooms and the in-laws are all forced to room together. Crowded conditions and snoring make for a long night, which includes each person winding up in the bed of the wrong partners. 4/14/13
• 003. All Fall Down – 9/24/1967
  • Kaye and Roger take off for a ski weekend with Jerry and Suzie, but soon they are back, Kaye with a broken leg – which she got tripping over a carpet in the lobby. They decide to sue the ski resort and ask Herb to represent them as their lawyer. After some negotiation, they decide to that the case will be handled on a contingency basis. As they try to re-enact the injury, Eve breaks her leg as well. Confined to the bedroom for an evening alone, they realize that they are both easy prey to an intruder and end up in a panic when they hear Jerry and Suzie come in downstairs. Herb then breaks his leg when he visits the ski lodge to negotiate a settlement, and Roger breaks his hand fighting with the ski lodge manager. He is forced to use his settlement money on paying off the manager. 6/11/13
• 004. A Night to Forget – 10/1/1967
  • Kaye and Eve are constantly calling the kids and interrupting them on their honeymoon, so the husbands forbid them from using the phone. The ladies then return one of the kids’ wedding gifts to the store and call them from the store’s phone, chatting so long that the store closes and they are locked inside. When they attempt to call their husbands, they accidentally dial Barcelona, Spain and speak to matador Raphael del Gado (Desi Arnaz), who then relays the message to the Roger and Herb. Kaye and Eve are then held at gunpoint by the store security guard (Lou Krugman), but manage to knock him out just before the husbands arrive. All four pose as mannequins when the police show up, but when the security guard wakes up, they are all arrested. 6/12/13
• 005. The Newlyweds Move In – 10/8/1967
  • Kaye and Eve interfere once again and get the deposit back on their kids’ apartment before they return from their honeymoon. They set up an apartment garage at Eve’s house. They keep sneaking into the apartment to make changes and are eventually caught hiding in the shower. When they catch wind that Jerry and Suzie will be hosting a dinner party for four, they first assume it’s for them, but then realize that the kids are having friends over – in actuality to ‘practice’ for a future dinner party with the parents). The moms spy through the garage door and when the kids open it, they are trapped on top of the garage door until the end of the party. Judy Franklin is Cynthia. 7/6/13
• 006. The Career Girls – 10/15/13
  • Still constantly interfering with their kids’ lives, Kaye and Eve and told by their husbands that they need to re-direct their energies into something else – like finding a job. The ladies decide to return to their show-business roots and try out for a cabaret. The young director (Rob Reiner) is amused at first, but then decides to give the ladies a chance. Jerry & Suzie get their fathers to go to show, which unbeknownst to them, features their wives performing under the name The Marvys. The do a song routine called Down the Drain, which the husbands quite enjoy. In the end, the girls tell their husbands that they are quitting because they can’t bear to be away from them so often, but then it is revealed that the show has actually closed. 7/6/13
• 007. Who’s Afraid of Elizabeth Taylor? – 10/22/1967
  • After seeing one of her movies with Roger, Kaye asks him if he would go on a date with Elizabeth Taylor. Roger reluctantly answers yes, and Kaye promptly throws him out. Roger shows up to stay with Eve and Herb, and eventually the argument extends to them when Herb says that he too would go out with Taylor, and Eve goes over to stay with Kaye. After bickering among themselves, both groups decide that they miss their spouses and want to get them back without losing any pride. Roger and Herb pretend to get into a fistfight, while Eve and Kaye pretend that they have poisoned themselves…all at the same time. The couples reconcile, but now the argument spreads to Jerry and Suzie – although he would rather date Ann-Margret – and Eve gives the ‘right’ answer after watching a Cary Grant movie. 1/6/14
• 008. My Son, the Actor – 10/29/1967
  • Jerry takes a vocational guidance test that determines that he should be in the dramatic arts. The parents have mixed feelings about it but decide to support him – and even assist with furthering his career. As part of Jerry’s audition for his college musical, the whole family performs in a musical play that Roger wrote called Marvin Against the Mob. They perform the musical numbers The Charleston, That Old Gang of Mine, You Belong to Me,  Ain’t She Sweet, All Alone, and Ain’t We Got Fun . Jerry is offered the lead in the play, but he turns it down in favor of entering political science. 1/6/14
• 009. How Do You Moonlight a Meatball? – 11/5/1967
  • Roger and Herb forbid their wives from continuing to shower Jerry and Suzie with gifts, and as they leave for a hunting trip, they leave them only enough to get by for themselves. Jerry wants to make the final payment on Suzie’s engagement ring, so the mothers help them open up Jerry’s Campus Catering, serving spaghetti and meatballs at the college. Kaye and Eve make a deliver to a reception given by Dean Roberts (Percy Helton), but are called by Suzie, who thinks that she has rolled her ring into one of the meatballs. While Kaye distracts the guest by singing Only a Rose and Pace Pace, Eve gathers the meatballs from their plates, and they bring them back home. It turns out that Suzie had already found her ring. When the husbands return early, the ladies hide the meatballs and sauce on the garage door and it all spills on the husbands’ heads. 1/22/14
• 010. I Thought He’d Never Leave – 11/12/1967
  • A bank robber named Ralph (Larry Storch) who has fled the scene forces his way into the Hubbard household to hide from the police and wait for his partner to pick him up. He holds Eve at gunpoint, and then when Kaye comes over, she is forced to stay too. Soon Roger comes looking for her and he is forced to stay and play cards. Kaye and Eve sing I Cover the Waterfront and Kaye attempts to use karate on him, but Herb comes home and interrupts, and they all have chicken. Eve scrawls a note to call the police in a cake and sends it home with Suzie when she visits. When Ralph’s partner shows up, Kaye karate chops him and the police rush in. At first the police think that Roger is the robber and hit him over the head. 1/22/14
• 011. The Great Bicycle Race – 11/19/1967
  • The Hubbards and the Buells are busy sitting around watching TV when a commercial brings to their attention how out of shape they are. They all agree to begin a workout regimen, even though Kaye and Eve focus merely on isometrics. When Jerry and Suzie invite them to go on a biking trip through the Mojave Desert, they jump at the chance so that they can both exercise and spend time with the kids. Herb and Roger make a bet on who will finish the bicycle ride first, but before long all four of them end up lost in the dessert. They spend the morning hot and hungry, and just as the vultures start to circle, they are rescued by the kids and the bicycle guide George (Paul Napier). Back home, the gang gathers in front of the TV again, where Roger claims that he won the race because he was in the front seat of the rescue car. 2/19/14
• 012. Through the Lurking Glass – 11/26/1967
  • Kaye and Eve are rehearsing a play in which they are playing two grasshoppers for the children’s hospital. Roger is working on his TV scripts and goes for a walk to sort out his ideas. Eve suggests that she would be curious as to where he goes, so Kaye follows him on his next walk. He ends up at the Hubbard house looking for Kaye, but when he can’t find her, he uses Eve to rehearse a scene. Kaye barges in and catches Eve tickling Roger and they have to explain. Later Roger is caught by the police dressed in his Masked Martian attire while rehearsing a scene and sits in jail with a drunk (Jay Novello). Kaye and Eve show up to pick him up in their grasshopper costumes and perform their routine, and Herb joins them dressed in his lodge outfit carrying a scimitar. The officers are incredulous. Alan Reed is the police sergeant and Stafford Repp is Patrolman Carver. 2/21/14
• 013. Divorce: Mother-in-Law Style – 12/3/1967
  • Eve gets a call from one of Suzie’s ex-boyfriends, the extremely wealthy Carter Case (Roger Ewing). Kaye gets offended when Eve doesn’t tell Carter that Suzie is married, and an argument escalates to the point that each of the mothers-in-law are demanding a divorce. Things escalate further when Carter shows up to court Suzie, which prompt Kaye to bring in one of Jerry’s old girlfriends Anna Marie (Adrienne Hayes). Jerry and Suzie decide to teach their mothers a lesson by pretending that they are in fact getting a divorce and marrying their exes, with arrangements to be made on Carter’s yacht during a cruise that all four will attend. Eve and Kaye sabotage the trip by putting sugar in the engine but are caught red-handed by the kids. This precludes them from take a real cruise on Carter’s yacht since it is now damaged. 4/14/14
• 014. The Not-Cold-Enough War – 12/10/1967
  • Roger and Kaye are going to host TV Western star Whip Larson (Adam Keefe) for dinner to present him with Roger’s new TV script, but lament that they don’t have a freezer for the cowboy hat-shaped spumoni that Kaye intends to make. When one of Herb’s clients pays him with a new refrigerator, he offers to give the Buells their old one, and in turn they can pass their old one to Jerry and Suzie. Roger insists on paying, so Herb charges him $75. When the freezer goes out – ruining the spumoni – they blame Herb for selling them a lemon and take it upon themselves to steal Herb and Eve’s new refrigerator. As they are moving it, the Hubbard’s return home and call the police. Sgt. Crump (Herb Edelman) and Officer Bailey (Bobs Watson) catch the Buells and nearly arrest everyone when they assume that they are all operating a stolen refrigerator ring. Whip Larson shows up and proves that he is the TV cowboy by performing Roger’s new script, and the police lets everyone go. At dinner, Larson admits he loved the script, but is trying to get away from cowboy roles. 4/16/14
• 015. You Challenge Me to a What? – 12/17/1967
  • At a cookout at the Hubbard House, an argument ensues about the quality of a song that Roger penned for a Garden Club show, in which he wrote lyrics about crabgrass sung to the tune of Greensleeves. It escalates until Herb and Roger agree to a fencing duel. Neither is qualified or prepared to fence but unwilling to forfeit to the other. Kaye and Eve lock them in their bathrooms the day of the duel, while Jerry calls the police to report the duel. Eve and Kaye end up getting into an argument over who would have won the duel and being fencing, just as the police arrive and arrest them. Herb gets them off with his legal skills and the families return for another cookout, which nearly escalates once again with the epees, which are now being used as shish-kabob skewers. 7/13/14
• 016. Everyone Wants to Be a Writer – 12/31/1967
  • Herb and Roger suggest that Eve and Kaye find something better to do with their time than always helping out Jerry and Suzie, so they decide to become television writers. Roger reluctantly gives them a little bit of help, but then criticizes their first work, a story that take place on a southern plantation. Herb gives the girls a couple of scripts by TV writer/director Terrence Archibald (Peter Whitney) to look over. These are being used as evidence in a plagiarism case. The girls decide to put their names on one of the scripts to see if Roger will still criticize it. It backfires when he likes it so much that he submits it to Archibald. The girls try to retrieve the script by invading the set of soap opera that he is directing and end up being cast as extras in a wedding scene. They end up singing a rendition of Because at the wedding and are able to snag the script out of his pocket. Jim Begg is a mailroom boy. 7/13/14 
• 017. The Kids Move Out – 1/7/1968
  • Jerry and Suzie decide that they need more privacy and, after a misunderstanding there their folks think they are expecting a baby, they announce that they will be subletting an apartment at Sunset Manor. The parents are upset but give their blessing and promise each other that they will not visit until invited. But soon Bill the Janitor (Jerry Hausner) is individually letting in Eve, Kaye, Herb, and Roger, respectively posing as the decorator, welcome wagon, realtor, and phone installer. When the kids come home, they are forced to all hide in a giant cupboard, which soon is toted away – with the parents inside of it – at the request of the apartment owner. Ultimately the kids are not happy with the new apartment and decide to move back to the garage. Eve and Kaye force themselves not to visit, but as soon as they are invited, they dart out the door to see the kids. 9/7/14
• 018. The Hombre Who Came to Dinner: Part 1 – 1/14/1968
  • Eve invites bullfighter Raphael del Gado to stay with them while he is town for the bullfights. Not only does he take them up on it, but he brings along his entourage and they set up camp in the Hubbard and Buell households. Before long the visit digresses into late nights, eating all the food, and bringing over guests…including the Seven Dwarfs from Disneyland. The Hubbards and Buells are exhausted and demand that the wives send them to a hotel, but when del Gado serenades them with the Spanish song I Love You, the wives’ hearts melt, and they won’t let the husbands kick him out. As luck would have it, del Gado announces that he has to return to Mexico City. Before he goes, he gives Roger a demonstration of some bullfighting techniques for a script he is writing. Roger steps into the part of the bull by wearing a horned hat, and accidentally gores del Gado. Doctors say he will have to stay at the house for the next two weeks. Desi Arnaz and Desi Arnaz Jr. announce that they will both be back on the show the following week. Miguel Landa is Umberto. 9/7/14
• 019. The Hombre Who Came to Dinner: Part 2 – 1/21/1968
  • Raphael del Gado is still staying at the Hubbard house as he recovers from his injury. The husbands are angry because Eve and Kaye are waiting on Raphael hand and foot and not cooking for them. Raphael apologizes for being so difficult, but he is most upset because he can’t fight in the charity bullfight for the Children’s Hospital. Eve and Kaye suggest he put on a variety show in Mexico City. He likes the idea so much that he suggests that they have a big meal together of a sucking pick. No one in the house has the nerve to slaughter the pig, not even del Gado after the ladies name him Bright Eyes. The whole family tries to audition to play a part in the event, but they perform Latin style. Del Gado says he is looking to perform American numbers, so they try again with Jimmy Crack Corn. The grocery delivery boy Tommy (Desi Arnaz Jr.) also auditions playing Babalu – but del Gado says he’s never heard of it. Later in Mexico City, the Hubbards and Buells perform There’s Gonna Be a Wedding, and then del Gado and Tommy perform The Straw Hat Song. 10/7/14
• 020. Don’t Give Up the Sloop – 1/28/1968
  • Kaye answers the phone at Eve’s house and ends up winning a sloop when she correctly answers Let’s Get Away from It All for the game show Guess-a-Tune. Arguments ensue over the true ownership of the boat with each lady claiming it should be theirs. The husbands intervene and convince the wives that neither wants the hassle of the boat, so they then try to give it to the other. Then they jointly agree to co-own the boat, but further argue on whether Herb or Roger should be captain, the name of the boat, and which wife should christen it. The end up deciding to send it back upon arrival, but when it arrives un-assembled, the husbands think it will be a great project for them to put it together. 10/10/14
• 021. I’d Tell You I Love You, But We’re Not Speaking – 2/4/1968
  • Jerry and Suzie have their first fight and Suzie comes home to her parents. Not knowing what the fight is about, Eve takes Suzie’s side, while Herb encourages her to go back home and make up. When Jerry tells his parents about the fight, Kaye takes his side, while Jerry and Roger end up in an argument. None of the couples are speaking to each other, and Kaye and Eve eventually wind up in a fight as well. Jerry suggests that they talk to his Professor Hutton (Brooks West), a sensitivity trainer, but the word has to be spread utilizing those who are still speaking to one another. During the session, they find out that the original fight was over which mother butted in the most. Eve and Kaye perform a role reversal, and after hurling some insults, they both realize that each of them just loves and misses their child. Everyone is reconciled, although Eve and Kaye nearly get into another argument as they wonder which mother actually interferes more. 11/8/14
• 022. Herb’s Little Helpers – 2/11/1968
  • Herb’s partner’s secretary Elaine (Jeff Donnell) goes home sick, and Eve offers to fill in at the Curtis & Hubbard Law Offices. She immediately drops a call from Walter Hedges (Jerome Cowan), the president of Hedges Incorporated, who will be hiring Herb to handle their legal work for a plant they will be opening in Los Angeles. When Hedges arrives, Kaye snaps up the job of being his temporary secretary. Since neither knows how to take dictation, they alternate words as Hedges dictates. While Herb and Walter are out working on a deal with bankers, Roger shows up to work at the office since he is lonely, and Jerry and Suzie show up to have their mothers help with their costumes. When the men return with the bankers, they find the office in complete disarray. Later Hedges is worried about his daughter Cindy (Donna Loren) getting married to Harold (Jimmy Boyd) and goes to try and stop it, only to find that Eve and Kaye had volunteered to act as witnesses and are singing Because at the wedding. They get credit for delaying it, but then talk Hedges into allowing it. Herb and Hedges deal is solidified, and Roger has to dictate to wives because his hands are sore from sitting in the desk at the office. Herb Vigran is the Judge. 11/8/14
• 023. Bye, Bye Blackmailer – 2/25/1968
  • Roger owes Herb $100 that he has borrowed for his new electric typewriter, but his check hasn’t come in yet and he needs to ask for a third extension. Herb tells Eve that he is going to repossess the typewrite, so Eve, not wanting to cause a fight between the families, gives Kaye the money from Herb’s emergency fund, to give to Roger to pay Herb. Kaye tells Roger that it is money from her Christmas fund. Herb discovers that the money is gone from his fund and thinks Roger stole it, so Eve confesses that she took it…but won’t tell him why. Roger and Herb discuss this and decide that Kaye must be blackmailing Eve, who overhears the conversation and decides to enlist Kaye to play a joke on them by pretending that she is being blackmailed because of a love letter. The letter turns out to be one from Herb. Everyone reconciles and Roger pays back the money. 12/15/14
• 024. The Wig Story – 3/3/1968
  • Kaye borrows Eve’s blonde wig so that Roger can have a good laugh when he comes home to find her wearing it, but on the contrary, it makes him quite amorous, and they end up dancing the night away. The next day Kaye realizes that’s it is almost as if Roger desires another woman, which pushes her into a deep funk that not even Italian food and Italian singing can get her out of. Eve then wears a red wig and invites the Buells over so that they can see Herb go wild with passion when he sees her. This works, and Kaye realizes that marriages need a little spice. However, when Herb gets too excited, Eve ends up having the same reaction that Kaye did and bursts in to tears…as the Buells continue to dance through their house. 12/16/14
• 025. It’s Only Money – 3/10/1968
  • Herb & Eve are outraged when they go out to eat with Roger & Kaye, and despite having ordered much more food, Roger splits the bill down the middle. Herb becomes obsessed with getting even by betting Roger at golf, but he ends up losing. 17 hole. He then switches the game to Gin Rummy and loses even more. When Herb sends Jerry to the Buell’s to borrow milk, Roger & Kaye try to figure out why he is so angry. They think it is because Roger didn’t give him a stock tip on a stock that went up. Kaye gives Eve a tip on Case Electronics, but Eve lets it slip the real reason Herb was angry. This leads to a huge fight between the women, whereas the men have made up and Roger has promised to treat the whole family to dinner. After they eat Roger agrees to let Herb pay the tip…and then it is revealed that Roger was getting free meals for mentioning the restaurant in his scripts. Furthermore, Case Electronics declares bankruptcy after Herb has bought 200 shares of their stock. Benny Rubin is the waiter. Romo Vincent is the maitre d’. 1/30/15
• 026. I Haven’t Got a Secret – 3/17/1968
  • Roger thinks he is really close to closing a deal to sell a soap opera that he’s been working on, but he tells Kaye not to tell anyone because it might jinx the deal. Kaye is bursting to tell Eve, whom she forces to play charades until she guesses it. Eve, sworn to secrecy, likewise has Herb play charades to guess the news. Kaye thinks she will be rich, and despite her jealousy, Eve volunteers to re-decorate their house. An argument erupts when Eve insults the current decor and Kaye threatens to buy a new house and take the kids with her. Kaye gets completely carried away and buys a fur and buys Eve an ugly hat to make up for their argument, only to finally learn that the sponsor went with another show and Roger didn’t get the job. He berates Kaye for counting her chickens too early, but everyone then finds out that Roger has already ordered a new Rolls Royce. 1/30/15
• 027. Jerry’s Night Out with the Boys – 3/24/1968
  • Jerry plans to have his friends over for poker, but when Eve and Kaye hear this from Suzie, they convince her to put her foot down and tell him that he needs to stay in with her. He complies to her demand, but then Herb and Roger convince him that he needs to be the man and tell her that he is in fact having poker night. Suzie shows up at Eve’s in tears, which causes a fight between the wives and husbands. The fathers join Jerry for poker, but by then all of his friends had made plans. They play some boring penny ante games, while the mothers and Suzie attempt to learn poker. The ladies go over to check on the men, but they are on their way home, only to find the girls gone. They go to a late-night movie and fall asleep, while the girls think they are out on the town. When the men come home and find all the ladies in Eve’s bed, Jerry realizes that he has more fun with his wife. Everyone climbs in the bed, and it collapses. 3/15/15
• 028. The Long, Long Weekend – 3/31/1968
  • Jerry and Suzie cancel their plans to go with their parents to a cabin at Lake Arrowhead, and neither sets of parents want to spend the weekend with the other without the kids. Herb & Eve say they are going to San Francisco, and Roger & Kaye say they are going to San Diego. But then thinking the other couple will be out of town, both couples head up to the cabin. Each goes to sleep in a different room but does not know that the others are there. Then Jerry & Suzie show up, thinking that their parents are out of town. When they finally realize they are all there, they decide to stay together but out of each other’s way. A snowstorm prevents them for doing anything outside – or going home – so they start to starve, eating only peanut butter and smoked oyster. They decide to try and shoot a rabbit, but only end up shooting a hole in the ceiling. An attempt to fix it only ends up with Roger falling through the roof. Then the Ranger Sutton (Paul Napier) informs them that the shotgun blast had also started a snowfall that re-covered the area of road that had just been plowed. 3/15/15
• 029. Jealousy Makes the Heart Grow Fonder – 4/7/1968
  • Eve tells Kaye that Herb is meeting up with an old school girlfriend Audrey Fleming (Beverly Garland), a fashion coordinator who needs a legal representative. Kaye tries to convince her that Herb will rekindle his romantic feelings. When Audrey shows up in a sexy mini-skirt, Eve starts to get jealous, but when she finds him out at lunch with her talking about plans to meet in Acapulco, she is heartbroken. In truth Herb was just thanking her for helping pick out a negligee as a gift for Eve. Kaye suggests that Eve make Herb jealous by pretending to be romantic with her French teacher, who will be played by Roger. Herb immediately recognizes him, and then presents Eve with her gift and offer to go to Acapulco. 6/4/15
• 030. How Not to Manage a Rock Group – 4/28/1968
  • Jerry is going to be managing a new rock group called The Warts (The Seeds: Sky Saxon, Jan Savage, Rick Andridge, Daryl Hooper) and he convinces their fathers to invest $500 in the group, which they reluctantly do when they realize how much money they could stand to make. The Warts come to the Hubbard house and perform Pushin’ Too Hard, but none of the parents can stand their garage rock sound. They invite the band over and try to convince them to change their appearance and stick with old standards. The Warts want no part of this and don’t show up for their recording session. The Hubbards and Buells decide to take advantage of the studio time and bring back the marching band The Friends Indeed lead by a fussy bandleader (Joe Besser). They end up recording a record… and joining the marching band with whom they sing Some Enchanted Evening to a marching rhythm. John Myhers is the recording engineer. 6/7/15

SEASON 2

• 031. Here Comes the Bride, Again – 9/15/1968
  • Kaye has lied and told her Italian grandmother Gabriela Balotta (Jeanette Nolan), who believes in long engagements and faints everything things don’t go her way, that Jerry and Suzie’s wedding is coming up after a yearlong engagement. What they don’t know is that Grandma has flown in from Italy and intends on attend the ceremony. Kaye and Eve get everyone on board with maintaining the lie, and the Hubbards are roped into hosting another wedding. Meanwhile Jerry and Suzie get the chance to be on a TV game show for married couples. When Grandma faints when things don’t go her way, Eve and Kay hide her in a window seat while the TV host Mark Redfield (William Lantau) comes over to interview the kids. When Grandma wakes up and ‘blows their cover’, Redfield leaves in a huff. The wedding plans continue, but the ceremony is stopped when Suzie gets a call from her doctor to let her know that she is pregnant. Grandma is surprisingly calm about the situation – and just happy that she is going to become a great great grandmother. NOTE: The role of Roger is taken over by Richard Deacon. 7/26/15
• 032. The Match Game – 9/22/1968
  • Jerry’s job at Computer Data, a matchmaking company, is in jeopardy due to lack of business. Kaye and Eve decide to throw the company some business, but since the company owner Wally Logan (Paul Lynde) has met them before, they disguise themselves and pretend they are unmarried. Kaye pretends to be the Irish Maggie O’Hoolihan, while Eve poses as the Italian Anna Maria Portofino. Roger and Herb have the same idea of going in disguised. The computer pairs the couples up, but not with the correct husband. They all find it humorous… until later, when Eve and Kaye berate their husbands for getting matched to the wrong spouse. Eventually they make up and Wally shows up at the house saying that the allowed the computer to match him up, and it picked both Anna Maria and Maggie. He takes them out for a night on the town. 7/26/15
• 033. A Little Pregnancy Goes a Long Way – 9/29/1968
  • Eve and Kaye put ideas into Suzie’s head about what she should be experiencing during her pregnancy: morning sickness and cravings for strange foods. Although she hasn’t had them yet, she immediately starts with both… as do Eve and Kaye. Jerry begs the fathers to get the wives to butt out, so they arrange a trip to take the wives Arrowhead where they will borrow the cabin “Ho-No-Lulu.” Because Herb and Roger are assisting their friend Vic Cornell (Harry Hickox) with surprising his wife Margaret (Shirley Mitchell) with a trip to Hawaii, the wives think that they are going on the trip as well. They all go to the boat to see off the Cornells and the Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Trumbull (Bruce Kirby, June Whitley), but when Herb and Roger get off the boat, the wives stay on. Eventually their husbands have to cable them their passage money, but the refuse it when it is stipulated that they have to sign an agreement to butt out of Suzie’s pregnancy. Jim Begg is the steward. 10/22/15
• 034. Love Thy Neighbor – If You Can’t Get Him to Move – 10/6/1968
  • After bursting in on Jerry and Suzie as they attempt to study, Eve and Kaye get into an argument on which of them can take the credit for their kids getting together, and consequently having their first grandchild. Eve recalls the day that the Buells moved in next door 22 years earlier, before their phone, electricity, or water had been hooked up. The Buells proceed to impose on the Hubbards in every way conceivable: taking showers at their house, making long-distance calls, and stringing extension cords all over their house. Eve attempts to put a stop to it, but when Kaye acts so appreciative and grateful, Eve continues helping her with every conceivable task. Things reach a head when Herb is asked to help move in cartons of their belongings, while Roger sits back and listens to the radio. They end up in their first huge fight. Back in the present, Eve and Kaye continue arguing over who gets credit for the Buells not to move out. 10/22/15
• 035. I Didn’t Raise Myself to Be a Grandmother – 10/13/1968
  • After arguing over first names for the baby, Eve and Kaye suddenly realize the implications of being a grandmother… which then spreads to their husbands. Everyone suddenly feels old beyond their years. Their solution is job throughout their day on their daily tasks, leading to numerous doors crashing into one another causing various messes. The next day the foursome all are too sore and tired to move. Since they are scheduled to perform in the Garden Club benefit, they choose to do the song You Make Me Feel So Young, using puppet bodies that will limit the amount of movement they have to make. 12/27/15
• 036. Even Mothers-in-Law Have Mothers-in-Law – 10/20/1968
  • With Eve and Kaye constantly hovering over Suzie’s every move during her pregnancy, Jerry has the idea to call up their fathers’ mothers to come for a visit to keep their moms occupied. Herb’s mother Clarita (Doris Packer) and Roger’s mother Frances (Barbara Morrison) show up with a long list of Los Angeles area sites they’d like to visit, which keeps Eve and Kaye extremely busy, and formulating excuses how to get out of it. When they suddenly realize that the reason their kids sent for their grandmothers was because of their interference, they declare their lesson learned. They try to get rid of their mothers-in-law by bringing in their Garden Club to form a Dixieland Jazz band to practice all hours of the day. This doesn’t work because the mothers-in-law just join in on the fun by playing their kazoos. They finally leave when they get called home by their husbands, which was prompted by Eve and Kaye, who vow to limit their time with Suzie…but barely. 12/27/15
• 037. The Matador Makes a Movie – 10/27/1968
  • After being scolded for continuously spending money on the baby, Eve and Kaye decide to get jobs and they think the best prospect will be to get a part in the new movie being filmed in Hollywood by bullfighter Raphael del Gado. The ladies invite del Gado for a friendly visit, but end up auditioning – with Eve reciting Shakepeare, Kay singing, and Jerry and Suzie reciting Tennessee Williams dialogue. Del Gado agrees to give them small parts in the movie about the Sheik of Araby. During their first day of shooting, Roger tries to polish up the script, Herb offers legal advice, Jerry gets jealous when del Gado has to kiss Suzie, and during their scene as dancing girls, Eve manages to injure del Gado’s nose and Kay puts her flute through his bongo. Everyone gets fired, but when del Gado sings the song The Sheik of Araby, they sneak back into the scene dressed as a camel. The Hubbards and Buells are invited to a screening of their scenes, which is also attended by the movie studio president Mr. Walker (John Myhers). The camel scene comes as a surprise to del Gado, but he is even more surprised when Walker actually loves the ‘comedy.’ Joseph Mell is Chuck. Jim Begg is the delivery boy. Desi Arnaz Jr. is the man with clapboard. 2/28/16
• 038. It’s a Dog’s Life – 11/10/1968
  • Herb and Roger are both furious when their wives get traffic tickets once again, and both insist that their wives get glasses. Meanwhile Jerry announces that they will be getting a Cocker Spaniel to raise along with their baby. Eve decides that they should get a Yorkie instead and buys them one that she names Elsworth, while Kaye separately buys them a Basset Hound named Lasagna. Jerry and Suzie fear hurting their mothers feelings, so they keep each dog secret from each other. When Arnold Lacy (John Byner) from the Department of Animal Regulations arrives to administer the dog license, he first sees Lasagna, but when he returns, it is Elsworth he sees, which causes even more confusion as they attempt to hide the other dogs from their mothers. When the wives hit each other’s cars, Herb and Roger intensify their efforts to get the wives to the oculist, renting magic costumes that make them appear headless to show the wives how bad their eyesight it. When the Yorkie gets into a bag that then proceeds to jump around, Eve, Kaye, and Lacy all think they’re going crazy. After getting their glasses, the wives are told by their kids that it’s up to them to choose which dog to keep, but neither wants to look like they’re the domineering one so they reach a stalemate. 2/28/16
• 039. The First Anniversary Is the Hardest – 11/24/1968
  • After spending $62 on paper products for their kids first wedding anniversary, Kaye and Eve learn that Jerry can’t afford to take Suzie out to celebrate because Jerry miscalculated their budget that month. Kaye and Eve discuss with their husbands the idea of slipping Jerry $10 in his old coat so as not to embarrass him by giving him money. They all nix the idea, but then one by one each parent puts $10 in the coat pocket anyway. They all catch each other but decide to let the kids keep the full $40. Giving Jerry a hint that he should check out his coat pocket, the mothers find out that Suzie has donated the jacket to a thrift store drop off box. They try to retrieve the jacket but are caught by a police officer (Stafford Repp) and in the process of trying to keep him from putting it back in the box, they wind up flinging it into the bushes where a tramp (Joe Besser) takes possession of it. They try to put him to sleep, with Kaye singing a boisterous version of Rock-a-Bye Baby, in order to take the money from his pocket, but they are caught by the officer again and arrested, causing Herb to have to bail them out. They also find out that Suzie had already checked the pocket of the jacket and retrieved the $40 before dropping it off. 5/24/16
• 040. The Birth of Everything But the Blues – 12/1/1968
  • Suzie is trying to raise some extra money by pet-sitting for a fish so that she buy her own crib for the baby. Eve and Kaye get the idea to go on The Town Cryer radio show and advertise her pet-sitting services so that she can make even more money. The plans works too well when she ends up with a parakeet, four hamsters, two cats, three tanks of fish two pairs of rabbits, snakes, an annoying Mynah Bird named David (voice of Mel Blanc), and a pregnant German Shepherd named Buttercup. They then realize that almost all of the animals are pregnant. The number of animals continues to increase and soon Eve is overwhelmed, especially Buttercup who insists on sleeping at the foot of their bed, so Kaye take David home but he keeps Roger up at night and interferes with his work. Things get even worse when all of the animals go into labor, and Jerry and their husbands think that it is Suzie having the baby. The veterinarian Dr. Butler (Herb Voland) arrives to help deliver all of the animals, and speculates that he made medical history that night. Another man (Frank Inn) arrives with a bear hoping they’ll babysit it. Del Moore is Buttercup’s owner. 5/24/16
• 041. Nome, Schnome, I’d Rather Have It at Home – 12/8/1968
  • Herb wants to get Jerry a job selling mobile homes after he graduates, while Roger lines him for a job at an advertising agency. Jerry however has accepted a job from a friend working for an air freight company near Nome, Alaska. The mothers are aghast that they won’t be having the baby at home, causing depression to set in. Herb offers to take Even to Honolulu, while Roger offers to take Kaye to Acapulco. That night each lady dreams that they are visiting the kids in Nome, arriving by sled dog to their igloo. In the dreams, Suzie is blown away on an ice float and Eve is attacked by a polar bear, while Kaye cooks Italian food in the igloo and melts it, causing it to float away. The next day after the dreams, the ladies go shopping for their respective trips, while the fathers find out that the job has fallen through. Jerry still refuses the fathers’ help, preferring to stand on his own… even if he has to borrow ten bucks to take Suzie out to eat. The mothers are excited about the new developments, and it is revealed that their ‘vacation clothes’ are winter outfits. 8/30/16
• 042. Hail, Hail, the Gang’s Still Here – 12/15/1968
  • The Hubbards are thrilled that they have a night alone, each of them having told the Buells that they have plans that night. Things go awry when the Buells bypass the new locks on the door and sneak in through the wood box with an outside door in order to use their color TV to watch Roger’s show Green Valley USA. Kaye and Herb sneak upstairs, while the house fills up not only with the Buells, but Jerry and Suzie, and the Buells’ friends Bill and Betty Trumbull, and Vic and Margaret Cornell. Herb meanwhile is waiting for them to leave so that he can watch a show that one of his clients is producing. When the party downstairs continues after the show, Herb and Eve sneak over to the Buells to watch the show, but Eve has to hide inside a bonging grandfather clock when they return for snacks. The Hubbards decide to move the TV to their room much to the Buells irritation. Once again though the Buells come back to watch Green Valley USA, so the Hubbards pretend to not be home. This doesn’t stop the Hubbards, who hide under the bed while they’re bedroom fills with everyone again. Roger refuses to reveal a cliffhanger and gets maligned by his friends, including Eve who reveals her location under the bed. The following week, everyone is back to watch the next episode, but this time the Hubbards are selling concessions and programs and charging people to watch their TV. 8/31/16
• 043. Didn’t You Used to Be Ozzie Snick? – 11/22/1968
  • With the television not working, Kaye, Eve, and Roger resort to conversing and Kay tells her story again about how she once worked as a singer for bandleader Ossie Snick (Ozzie Nelson) and his orchestra under the name Angelina Davina, and how she and Ossie used to be an item. Coincidentally Herb has a new client named Owen Sinclair who is starting a TV variety show, and Owen used to use the name Ossie Snick. Herb and Eve arrange for Ossie and Kaye to meet. At first they don’t recognize each other, but eventually Ossie does in fact remember her, but claims she only sang for him for a week, as he had to let her go since every time she took a bow, she knocked him into the lake. Ossie covers for her however so that she can save face in front of Roger, and reluctantly agrees to let her sing on his new show. Kaye then gets stage fright, which leads to Eve agreeing to join her on stage to sing North Dakota Moon (an Ozzie Nelson composition), posing as the Davina sisters Angelina and Evelina. When Kaye takes her bow, she knocks Ossie into the water once again. 11/13/16
• 044. Make Room for Baby – 1/5/1969
  • Eve and Kaye have bought so many things for the baby that they now feel that the kids need an addition built on the garage so they’ll have more room. They finally are able to convince Herb and Roger to split the cost of this and build it themselves. As they get underway with their work, the wives then decide that the room should be on the other side. This leads to fight among everyone as Roger realizes he is paying half, but it will only increase Herb’s property value. The kids catch them fighting and bawl them out for their interference. With the garage now freezing, the kids sneak into Suzie’s parents house in the middle of the night to sleep, and the next morning overhear the parents’ concern that they are nowhere to be found. They vow to tell the kids they will no longer interfere if they come back, and Jerry has the idea to pretend they are at a hotel in order to get their folks to stick with that promise. When Eve and Kaye return with the kids, they drive the car into the wet cement that the husbands have laid. Herb hires a professional builder, and then they all realize that no one has driven the car out of the cement. 11/13/16
• 045. Haven’t You Had That Baby Yet? – 1/12/1969
  • As Jerry works on his speech for their graduation ceremony, Suzie is a week overdue and quickly grows tired of the mothers staring at her belly waiting for the baby. After being kicked out of their garage apartment, the mothers spot Jerry and Suzie leaving and think she’s having the baby, alerting everyone including Dr. Butler (Herb Voland) to show up at the hospital for a false alarm. This is repeated again when Suzie wants Jerry to take her on a dry run to the hospital in the middle of the night. When Butler encourages Suzie to skip her graduation ceremony and watch Jerry deliver the address on TV, the mothers stay with her…nearly missing it when she actually does go into labor. When they run out of gas, Kaye has to make a run to the gas station while Eve phones Butler, who just happens to stop by and finds Suzie waiting in the back of the car. Kaye and Eve fill the car with gas and drive to the hospital, not realizing until they arrive that Suzie isn’t with them. The fathers arrive and all are forced to sit in the waiting room while Jerry and Suzie go into the maternity ward. Vanda Barra is Charlotte the nurse. 2/23/17
• 046. And Baby Makes Four – 1/19/1969
  • Eve and Kaye stay all night in the waiting room waiting for Suzie to have her baby. When they hear another expectant father Mr. Crawford (Avery Schreiber) announce having a boy, they think it’s for them, but the wait continues, and neither Dr. Butler nor Nurse Wiley (Alice Ghostley) won’t let them into work. The husbands stop by and tell them they’re going on to work, but the ladies continue to stay, disguising themselves as pregnant mothers, then nuns to try and get into the ward. The ruses fail, but when they dress up as doctors they manage to get into the room. When a nurse (Judy Howard) gives them away to Dr. Butler, he drags them into to witness an appendix removal. The fathers rush back when they hear Suzie has gone into the delivery room. The argument about whether they are having a boy for Kaye or a girl for Eve is finally settled when Suzie delivers twins, one of each, and name them Hildy and Joe, shortened versions of the mothers’ middle names. Florence MacMichael is expectant mother Margaret Webster. 2/24/17
• 047. Nanny, Go Home – 1/26/1969
  • When Eve and Kaye’s ‘helpfulness’ with the twins starts to become more of an annoyance, their husbands, who are tired of them never being at home to make dinner, decide to hire a Scottish nanny named Annie McTaggert (Jeanette Nolan), who has just recent immigrated to America. Annie is so stern that she won’t let the mothers-in-law interrupt the baby’s sleep, and her stern nature starts to even bleed over into not letting Suzie around the baby when she wants to. The family teams up and puts on a Scottish show in full Scottish regalia, singing Loch Lomond, hoping that it will make Annie miss her native land and head back home. The ruse backfires when she tells them that she was actually planning on leaving but that their routine made her feel at home in America. The husbands are forced to spend time dancing with Annie for a made-up charity show in order to give Eve and Kaye time with the babies again. Jerry Hausner is the delivery man. 6/28/17
• 048. Double Trouble in the Nursery – 2/2/1969
  • Jerry and Suzie are exhausted from taking care of the twins, so the mothers offer to watch them while the kids go off to Lake Arrowhead. Eve and Kaye spend so much time with the twins that Herb and Roger have to fend for themselves. In need of laundry, the men send their wives home to do some housework while they stay with the babies. While arguing over the correct way to put on a diaper, they use stuffed animals as test subjects, and their wives momentarily believe that they’re throwing the babies around. The kids return home in the midst of the chaos, after having a good time on their vacation. While Eve favors Hildy, and Kaye favors Joey, Suzie tells them each that they’re holding the opposite babies… forcing to acknowledge that the babies are both equal. 7/13/17
• 049. Void Where Prohibited by In-Laws – 2/9/1969
  • The Hubbard and Buell parents argue over where the twins will be going to college, but they all agree that by time the kids are in college, it will be extremely expensive. Jerry doesn’t want them meddling, and the fathers agree, but when they head off for a golf game, Eve and Kaye see a contest on the back of Blimpo cereal to win money for the babies’ education, whereby they are to visit the local grocery store to count the number of Blimpo puffs, the cereal that expands when water is added, in a large barrel. The store owner Mr. Pratt (Benny Rubin) is already irritated by their shenanigans before they even come in, then the ladies make a mess as they attempt to measure the barrel so they can use the money that the husbands left Eve to fix the plumbing and Kaye to paint her porch to buy the store’s entire supply of cereal and fill their own barrels. The ladies do the chores themselves, then get to work on counting the cereal, continually losing count along the way as they count over two million pieces. When the husbands return, they hide the cereal in the kids’ kitchen. Eve has forgotten to turn on the water mane, and when Herb does it causes the sink to turn on, and hit the expanding cereal. In the end, Jerry wins second place in the contest himself by scientifically measuring the number of puffs and wins a years supplies of Blimpos. Flip Mark is Felix. 2/3/18
• 050. Guess Who’s Coming Forever – 2/23/1969
  • Jerry gets a raise, so the kids plan to move out of the garage apartment and find their own place, but the mothers’ scheme to keep them when the kids agree they won’t move until they find another tenant by putting an ad in the paper and asking for six months’ rent in advance. They first dissuade a hippie named Haggard J. Haggard (Skip Battyn), who can’t afford the advance and accuses the mothers of being prejudiced against hippies. The next applicant is a black lawyer named Solomon Elkins (Scoey Mitchell), whom they try to dissuade as well… but he accuses them of being racially prejudiced and has tape recorded their conversation. They agree to rent to him, but then find out that Jerry didn’t get his raise after all, and they can’t afford to move. Meanwhile Herb and Roger agree to take on a houseboy while his employer, one of Herb’s clients, is on vacation. Eve and Kaye tell Solomon that he can’t have the room, but he threatens to take them to court if they don’t pay for his hotel in the interim. Eve has him move into the guest room, and when Herb and Roger come home, they assume he is the houseboy and try to put him to work. When the girls explain who he is, and Herb concurs with the truth about the kids not being able to afford to move, Elkins becomes understanding to the situation. They all have dinner together and Roger remarks that the scenario would make a good script called Guess Who’s Coming Forever. 2/3/18
• 051. Every In-Law Wants to Get Into the Act – 3/2/1969
  • The parents have their friends Fred (Del Moore) and Ruth Cooper (Florence MacMichael) over for a dinner party and Jerry ends up entertaining them with jokes, and impressions of Jerry Lewis and Jimmy Durante. Everyone finds him so funny, that the mothers start discussing him working as a comedian instead of behind the scenes at NBC. Herb then invites his friend Manny Walters (Herbie Faye), the manager of the Footlight Club, over for dinner, and coaxes Jerry to do his act without letting him know who Manny really is. Although nearly starving, Manny is impressed and offers Jerry a job to perform at the upcoming weekend show. He gratefully accepts, and the two mothers immediately work on coaching him how to perform. As the big night rolls around, Suzie announces that Jerry is laid up with the flu and won’t be able to make it. Each parent decides to step into his place, and during the show they all wind up on stage singing Inka Dinka Doo. They are then joined by the real Jimmy Durante (himself), who sings along with them. Later is revealed that Jerry didn’t get an offer to return as Manny ended up hiring Jimmy himself to perform in that slot. 10/11/18
• 052. Two on the Aisle – 3/16/1969
  • Neither Eve nor Kaye are able to get tickets to the final show of the play Charisma, but Herb unexpectedly gets an envelope with two tickets to the show in the mail, but with no note or return address. Kaye tries to convince them that it might be a trick to get them out of the house so they can be robbed. The Buells quickly snap up the tickets for themselves. Eve is particularly heartbroken and attempts to get Jerry and Suzie to come house-sit, but they are heading out on a ski trip. Finally, Herb’s friend Dick Breefer calls and says that it was he who mailed the tickets. When Herb and Eve ask for the tickets back, Roger says that they will have to buy them from him. Herb refuses so the Buells head to the show. Eve and Herb go to the show with standing room only tickets, and Eve poses as an usherette and gets the tickets from Roger which they use to claim the seats. After the intermission, Kaye and Roger return and snatch the seats and the tickets, which Kaye swallows. Eve is able to get them out of the seats by spreading the rumor through a theatergoer named Joe (Joe Besser) that Barbra Streisand is in the lobby. Both couples cause a commotion when the Buells sit on the Hubbards’ laps, getting them all thrown out by the usherette (Teri Garr) and manager. When they get home, they find they’ve all been robbed. The couples eventually patch up their differences and Kaye and Eve go back to babysitting together. A couple of days later, all of the belongings were found when the police found the robbers arguing on who will get stuck with the Buells’ old furniture. Paul Napier and Vanda Barra are Mr. and Mrs. Smith. 10/12/18
• 053. Take Her, He’s Mine – 3/23/1969
  • Kay is up in arms when she finds out that Roger is getting a new secretary named Barbara (Joi Lansing) to help him with his new movie script, but Eve tries to assure her that she may not be anything special. However, when they see how gorgeous Barbara is, it does become a cause for alarm, especially when Herb also wants to use her to help with a case he is working on. Kaye plots to record the husbands at work with Barbara to see if anything is going on, but Kaye initially only records the conversation between her and Kaye. Eve and Kaye then attempt to listen to Herb talk in his sleep, but that is also fruitless, and Kaye ends up having to hide under the bed. With increased workloads and deadlines, the guys then argue about who will get to use Barbara, a conversation that is recorded by Kaye and misunderstood by both wives who think that the men want to leave them for Barbara. The women do such a great job in convincing Barbara that both men are beasts that Barbara quits altogether, leaving Eve and Kaye staying up all night to do the work. All of it is for nothing thought when Herb’s case is dismissed, and Kaye forgets to type a carbon copy of the script. Meanwhile Jerry gets a job at KNBC in the newsroom, and Suzie winds up jealous when he gets sent on an assignment with a female reporter. 8/4/19
• 054. Show Business is No Business – 3/30/1969
  • The girls are irritated when Herb tells Eve they are bringing home a surprise celebrity but change their tune when they find out that the guest is Don Rickles (himself), who is a member of the guys’ lodge and came into a town to do an act for their charity benefit. When Kaye and Eve find out that he wants to do a number in the act that will require a female, they start to each vie for the part. Kaye makes him a special lasagna which winds up spilled on him and his only suit. In the process of trying to clean it, they end up shrinking it and catching it on fire. Rickles blows his stack and heads to a hotel, dressed only in Eve’s pink pajamas. The gals then pose as maids to infiltrate his room and demonstrate Kaye’s flute playing and Eve’s dancing. Rickles has an epiphany when he reveals his name was actually Don ‘Pickles’ and feeling like a lost soul, he allows them to act in the show. They decided to give him a surprise and pad their parts a bit, which they do by dousing him with water from Kaye’s flute after singing April Showers. 8/4/19
• 055. The Charge of the Wife Brigade – 4/6/1969
  • Herb and Roger are going over credit card statements and begin to notice that the wives are charging on each others cards, and even Suzie has forged her mother’s name on one of the card receipts. The net is that the husbands think the ladies have no regard for money, so they cut up their wives’ cards. Eve and Kay then decide to get jobs at department store where they shop, and the husbands vow that if they can hold the jobs for a month, they will re-instate the cards. On the first day at work, they seemingly do nothing but sell each other clothes, and their boss Mr. Finch (Roy Stuart) becomes instantly irritated with them. In fact, he only keeps them because they have sold one customer, Mrs. Crutcher (Monty Margetts) quite a few items. However, she and her husband decide not to vacation in Acapulco as planned, so she returns everything she bought. The boss nearly catches Eve trying on clothes again, so she poses as a mannequin that Finch thinks is inadequate. When he orders ‘it’ off the sale floor, he figures out it is Eve and fires them both. In order to save face with their husbands, the ladies pawn their fur coats so they can flash the money around and keep the illusion that they are getting paid for working. But when Herb finds the pawn ticket, they realize what is going on. The offer to take the wives to the fancy Sky Room for working so hard, but insist they wear their fur coats. When they can’t find them, the husbands reveal that they are wearing them under their overcoats. Eve marvels that Herb is so shifty… just like her. 3/7/20
• 056. The Not-So-Grand Opera – 4/13/1969
  • Kaye and Eve’s women’s club are planning to put on an opera to raise money for music scholarships, but Kaye is irritated that they have moved away from Italian operas and are going to be doing The Valkyrie. Both Eve and Kaye naturally want to play the lead Brunnhilde, so they agree to each perform on one of the two nights. Unbeknownst to them, the club leader Carol Yates (Mary Jane Croft) has secured opera singer Marni Nixon (herself) to perform the lead. When Kaye and Eve meet her at what they think is the audition, they condescendingly give her a few pointers so she can keep up with them. Once it’s been made clear who she is and that she is going to be the lead, Kaye and Eve then argue about who will be the one to ride the one sole horse they got for the production. On the night of the show, both ladies are atop the horse when it makes its entrance. The horse trainer (Donna Hall) is unable to control the horse so it gallops all over the stage as they are trying to perform, winding up outside on the freeway. John Myhers is Bob Simpson. Marjorie Bennett is Lucille. The Valkyries are Mary Dean, Clare Gordon, Jeannine Wagner, Gloria Grace Prosper, Maurita Phillips, and Brenda Fairaday. 3/7/20

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