The Danny Thomas Show — Season 1

Aired 29 September 1953 • 30 min

Aired 6 October 1953 • 30 min

Danny buys a new doll for Terry and brings it home, expecting her to be happy about it, but instead finds that Margaret is making her a new dress for a school dance—and Terry, at age eleven, is too old for dolls.

Aired 13 October 1953 • 30 min

Margaret finally gets her second honeymoon with Danny, but a friend needs him to open for him in Atlantic City, the same place where the honeymoon is taking place. A flashback occurs which tells what happened on their first honeymoon in 1941. In the end, the Williams' get their honeymoon.

Aired 20 October 1953 • 30 min

Margaret’s mother starts feeling like she’s forgotten, and taken for granted, when she’s called up time-after-time just to babysit.

Aired 27 October 1953 • 30 min

When Danny forgets his and Margaret’s wedding anniversary and is stuck in the doghouse, he reminisces about a simpler time and their first anniversary, before his success in show business.

Aired 3 November 1953 • 30 min

Aired 10 November 1953 • 30 min

Margaret and Danny become exasperated by an unwanted guest who won’t leave and who causes all sorts of problems for the two—but the kids adore him, and, later, they become fond of him, as well.

Aired 17 November 1953 • 30 min

Danny showers the children with money, and drops plenty of hints, for them to get a present for his birthday. But the children don't understand, and spend it on the custodian of the building, who was once a sailor.

Aired 24 November 1953 • 30 min

Aired 1 December 1953 • 30 min

Aired 8 December 1953 • 30 min

When an old college friend of Margaret’s comes to visit her, and she starts to compare her life with her successful friend’s, she becomes unhappy with her own life. Afterwards, Danny takes an unfortunate jab at her, and she decides to accept a job that the friend had previously offered her.

Aired 15 December 1953 • 30 min

While about to start a relaxing vacation with just Margaret and himself, Danny finds himself stuck with a houseguest who’s the winner of a publicity stunt his agent submitted him for.

Aired 22 December 1953 • 30 min

Rusty becomes cynical about Santa Claus and Christmas, and Danny gets stuck, on Christmas Eve, in Detroit because of a small clause in his contract.

Aired 29 December 1953 • 30 min

Danny takes the kids with him to Toledo, and the stories he tells them about his childhood days and friends there, they discover, are off the mark when they meet several of his old acquaintances.

Aired 5 January 1954 • 30 min

Margaret unnecessarily works herself up to be jealous of Danny and an old girlfriend of his.

Aired 12 January 1954 • 30 min

Aired 19 January 1954 • 30 min

Aired 26 January 1954 • 30 min

Aired 2 February 1954 • 30 min

After dispensing a lecture to the kids on unselfishness, Danny discovers that they have brought a bum, albeit an emeritis college professor, into the house without his knowledge.

Aired 9 February 1954 • 30 min

Aired 16 February 1954 • 30 min

Aired 23 February 1954 • 30 min

Margaret’s three friends in her Wednesday bridge club brag to her about the presents their husbands gave them for Valentine’s Day, and she feels the need to defend Danny for a simple tape recorder she ostensibly got. Later, he hears something on said tape recorder and decides to change up her birthday present.

Aired 2 March 1954 • 30 min

Aired 9 March 1954 • 30 min

Aired 16 March 1954 • 30 min

Aired 23 March 1954 • 30 min

Aired 30 March 1954 • 30 min

Aired 6 April 1954 • 30 min

Aired 13 April 1954 • 30 min

Aired 20 April 1954 • 30 min