I Married Joan — Season 1

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About this season

I Married Joan is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from 1952 to 1955. It starred veteran vaudeville, film, and radio comedienne-comedy actress Joan Davis as the manic, scatterbrained wife of a mild-mannered community judge, the Honorable Bradley Stevens.

Episodes (39)

1. Pilot

Aired 15 October 1952 • 30 min

A young couple's quarrel over a fur coat ends up in Brad's court and brings back memories of another fur coat that caused a crisis in the Stevens marriage. Joan remembers when she was an airline hostess and buys a fur coat.

2. Career

Aired 22 October 1952 • 30 min

Judge Stevens invites a prospective campaign contributor to dinner, only to find that his wife, trying to be helpful, has invited another sponsor.

3. Ballet

Aired 29 October 1952 • 30 min

The Judge advises his wife Joan to get more exercise as an antidote to fatigue from housework and Joan turns to ballet.

4. Jitterbug

Aired 5 November 1952 • 30 min

Joan finds an ingenious way to retaliate after Brad fines her for speeding, she takes up jitterbugging after trying babysitting and selling "all you can eat" to phone men.

5. Crime Panel

Aired 12 November 1952 • 30 min

Joan is scheduled to appear on a crime prevention forum. To prepare herself she spends the day visiting poolrooms.

6. Brad's Class Reunion

Aired 19 November 1952 • 30 min

Joan struggles to change herself into "The Perfect Woman" to fit a description written by her husband.

7. Hunting

Aired 26 November 1952 • 30 min

Joan insists that she is an experienced camper. Unconvinced, Brad decides to test her aptitude for the great outdoors.

8. Joan's Curiosity

Aired 3 December 1952 • 30 min

Joan is in for a surprise when she opens an interesting-looking package that arrived for Brad.

9. Birthday

Aired 10 December 1952 • 30 min

Joan buys some dresses, puts them on her charge account, then sells them to friends for cash. The reason is she needs money to buy Brad a birthday present.

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10. Bazar Pie

Aired 17 December 1952 • 30 min

Joan wants to arrange a romance, by introducing her new neighbor, a handsome Latin, to her visiting aunt.

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11. Acrobats

Aired 31 December 1952 • 30 min

When Brad announces that he is bringing home important guests for dinner, Joan feels it necessary to buy a new wardrobe for the occasion. While shopping for a hat she winds up in a fight with a woman who turns out to be one of Brad's dinner guests. At dinner Joan tries to disguise herself by joining the nightclub's entertainers, acrobats.

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12. Dreams

Aired 24 December 1952 • 30 min

After meeting three former schoolmates who are now successful career woman, Joan decides that she is happier just being a housewife

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13. Bad Boy

Aired 7 January 1953 • 30 min

Joan tries to reform a juvenile delinquent and nearly winds up in jail herself.

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14. Circumstantial Evidence

Aired 14 January 1953 • 30 min

Joan takes an interest in her husband's work and tries to prove that a man he is about to sentence was convicted on circumstantial evidence.

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15. Uncle Edgar

Aired 21 January 1953 • 30 min

Uncle Edgar visits Joan and her husband and they have a difficult time trying to keep him out of trouble.

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16. Moosehead

Aired 28 January 1953 • 30 min

Joan tries to kill two problems with the same fifty-dollar bill and winds up deeply wounded by a dead moose at an auction.

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17. Fireman

Aired 4 February 1953 • 30 min

Joan tries to patch up the quarrels of her newlywed-neighbors and succeeds in creating some for herself at the firehouse.

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18. Memory

Aired 11 February 1953 • 30 min

Joan's faulty memory wreaks gastric disaster when she forgets a dinner invitation, resulting in not one, not two, but three spaghetti dinners in the same evening.

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