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The Tony Randall Show — Season 1

197622 episodes6.4/10 (5 votes)

About this season

Walter Franklin is a somewhat less-than-magisterial Philadelphia judge put upon by an assortment of family and courtroom recidivists.

Episodes (22)

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1. Pilot

Aired 23 September 1976 • 30 min

Walter Franklin has to cope with a bad case of nerves as he preens for his first date with widow Linda Jenkins in almost two years.

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2. Case: A Question Of Qualifications

Aired 30 September 1976 • 30 min

Walter finds that hiring a new clerk can be a trying experience. He interviews an odd-lot assortment of law-clerk applicants and surprise everyone with his final choice.

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3. Case: His Honor Vs. Her Honor

Aired 7 October 1976 • 30 min

Walter becomes infatuated when he meets another Judge, Eleanor Hooper, and they try to find some privacy together by meeting in Atlantic City.

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4. Case: The Ego Affair

Aired 14 October 1976 • 30 min

After delivering a well-received speech, Walter is inundated with public-speaking requests that send his ego sailing. He gets too big for his judicial robe when he accepts too many speaking engagements and starts believing his own publicity.

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5. Case: Franklin vs. Reubner And Reubner

Aired 21 October 1976 • 30 min

Walter finds out that his tone-faced, sharp-tongued secretary, Miss Reubner, has another side to her personality when he asks her to his home to celebrate her birthday with his family. Ashamed of getting tight at her birthday party, Miss Reubner resigns.

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6. Case: The Snow White Affair

Aired 28 October 1976 • 30 min

After Walter upholds a local theater's right to show a pornographic film, he forbids his eighteen-year-old daughter to see it.

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7. Case: Terwilliger vs. Himself

Aired 11 November 1976 • 30 min

When Jack's normally ultra-accurate court reports deteriorate, Walter investigates his friend's problem.

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8. Case: The Denecki Debacle

Aired 18 November 1976 • 30 min

Walter gets more than he bargained for on the bench when he replaces another jurist and has to deal with an attorney notorious for his devious tactics. .

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9. Case: Mario Strikes Again

Aired 2 December 1976 • 30 min

Walter loses his cool in the courtroom when a new law clerk keeps interrupting him, and the issue of his emotional sickness is taken up by the judicial review board.

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10. Case: Franklin In Love

Aired 16 December 1976 • 30 min

Walter's family thinks his engagement to Judge Hooper is premature.

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11. Case: O' Come All Ye Wastrels

Aired 23 December 1976 • 30 min

Believing there's no place like home for the holidays, Walter brings home a convicted criminal to spend the Christmas holidays with his family.

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12. Case: Money Vs. Stature

Aired 30 December 1976 • 30 min

Walter is tempted by a friend's offer of a law partnership.

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13. Case: The Hooper Affair

Aired 6 January 1977 • 30 min

Walter's romance with Judge Hooper is threatened by the arrival of a college buddy who once dated her.

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14. Case: Democracy Vs. Tyranny

Aired 13 January 1977 • 30 min

Walter's household rebels: Bobby wants an apartment, Brad refuses to change schools, and Mrs. McClellan buys a cat.

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15. Case: Whatever Happened To Mary Jane?

Aired 20 January 1977 • 30 min

Walter's eagerness to help his loyal friend and court reporter Jack backfires when an overzealous city attorney Mario Lanza busts the judge on a marijuana charge.

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16. Case: McClellan Vs. Immigration

Aired 27 January 1977 • 30 min

To prevent deportation to her native England, Mrs. McClellan advertises for a husband and a motley crew of prospects show up.

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17. Case: May Vs December

Aired 3 February 1977 • 30 min

After reprimanding Bobby for dating an older man, Walter finds himself attracted to a younger woman.

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18. Case: The Lawndale Report

Aired 10 February 1977 • 30 min

From a beach at Acapulco to a minimum security prison is quite a contrast for Walter, who sought the former for two weeks but has to settle for the latter instead. He got the assignment as part of a judicial investigation on the institution's conditions.

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19. Case: Violence Vs Finesse

Aired 17 February 1977 • 30 min

Oliver cuts school and learns a lesson when he comes to his father's courtroom to see his hero Wild Doug Mclntire, the toughest hockey player in the league to testify. Then the boy tries to emulate his hero's hockey style.

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20. Case: Franklin Vs. McClellan

Aired 24 February 1977 • 30 min

Walter's household rises up against him, Brad is not willing to change schools, Bobby expresses her liking to live in an apartment and Mrs. McClellan would love to have a cat.

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21. Case: Facing Up Vs. Hiding Behind The Drapes

Aired 3 March 1977 • 30 min

Mario becomes Walter's self-appointed bodyguard after the escape of a vengeful convict Walter once sent to prison.

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22. Case: The People Speak

Aired 10 March 1977 • 30 min

Walter runs for Superior Court judge against a former rival.

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