About this season
Danny Thomas, an entertainer, tries to balance his home life with the needs of his career, with hilarious results.
Episodes (30)
1. Boarding School
Aired 1 October 1956 • 30 min
Danny decides that the kids have become too unruly without their mother to help parent them. So, he decides to send them to boarding school to help give them the proper guidance they need.
2. The Nelson Eddy Show
Aired 8 October 1956 • 30 min
Danny and Jesse search for a performer to replace him in the club while he’s stuck at home with a broken leg. Danny settles on Nelson Eddy.
3. Problem Father
Aired 15 October 1956 • 30 min
Terry is dating a new, popular, wealthy, cultured boy, and this makes her hyper-sensitive, and insecure, about her father.
4. Be a Pal to Your Son
Aired 22 October 1956 • 30 min
Danny feels bad about spending so much time working and tries being a friend to Rusty, as well as a father.
5. Den Mother
Aired 29 October 1956 • 30 min
Danny makes the supreme sacrifice when son Rusty complains he's the only Cub Scout in the pack not represented at the den-mother meetings.
6. Terry at the Crossroads
Aired 5 November 1956 • 30 min
Terry is disappointed when a guy, Bobby, she has a crush on doesn’t ask her to the junior prom. Danny worries she’s too athletic and cavalier about her appearance, since she no longer has a mother to guide her, and is encouraged by Liz to talk to her.
7. Danny Goes to Texas
Aired 12 November 1956 • 30 min
Danny’s agent gets him a gig at a birthday party in Texas—much to Danny’s chagrin.
8. The Diary
Aired 19 November 1956 • 30 min
When Terry comes home upset one day, Danny tries, to no avail, to get her to confide in him. When this fails, Ben and Liz encourage him to check Terry’s diary for clues, so he can help her.
9. Talented Kid
Aired 26 November 1956 • 30 min
Danny plans on Rusty joining him in singing on a show, but is quickly disappointed when, during their first rehearsal, Rusty sings off-key. He then bemoans the fact that his kid lacks talent.
10. Danny's Comeback
Aired 3 December 1956 • 30 min
Danny’s doctor has said he’s ready to go back to work. Danny disagrees.
11. My Fair Vocal Coach
Aired 10 December 1956 • 30 min
Danny takes a talented vocal coach with stage fright under his wing.
12. Pride Takes a Holiday
Aired 17 December 1956 • 30 min
Danny gives Terry advice about swallowing her pride, instead of indulging in it, then has to face the same choice himself.
13. Christmas and Clowns
Aired 24 December 1956 • 30 min
Rusty invites a bunch of circus people, with nowhere to go for the holidays, over for Christmas dinner.
14. Liz's Boyfriend
Aired 31 December 1956 • 30 min
Liz is finally in love and brings her boyfriend over to have dinner with the family and Benny.
15. The School Teacher
Aired 7 January 1957 • 30 min
Danny goes to see Rusty's fourth-grade teacher, Miss Lorraine Andrews. He doesn't approve of her method of teaching at all. She, in turn, says that singing in a night club is much easier than teaching school.
16. Danny's Date
Aired 14 January 1957 • 30 min
17. Girl from Iowa
Aired 21 January 1957 • 30 min
18. Danny Goes Social
Aired 28 January 1957 • 30 min
19. Lobster Story
Aired 4 February 1957 • 30 min
20. The Flashback Show
Aired 14 February 1957 • 30 min
For his birthday, Danny makes a special trip home from his tour of night-club engagements. He is somewhat disappointed when it appears daughter Terry and son Rusty have forgotten this momentous event!
21. Danny's Fiance
Aired 21 February 1957 • 30 min
22. My Friend Harry
Aired 28 February 1957 • 30 min
23. Uncle Tonoose Pays a Visit
Aired 7 March 1957 • 30 min
24. The Model
Aired 14 March 1957 • 30 min
Terry decides to quit school in favor of a modeling career, much to Danny's dismay. He connives to discourage her from leaving school without arousing her suspicion.
25. The Orphan Asylum
Aired 21 March 1957 • 30 min
26. Little League Umpire
Aired 28 March 1957 • 30 min
27. Danny Meets Kathy
Aired 4 April 1957 • 30 min
28. Men Are Men
Aired 11 April 1957 • 30 min
29. Little Miss Moppet
Aired 18 April 1957 • 30 min
30. Danny's Proposal
Aired 25 April 1957 • 30 min