The BEST episodes directed by Charles T. Barton

#1 - The Flip Side

Family Affair - Season 3 - Episode 25

Cissy falls for a singer who writes a song about her, but as he goes off on tour, they lose touch. Cissy goes to one of his concerts to see him again, only her heart is broken when she sees him with another girl.

#2 - Christmas Came a Little Early

Family Affair - Season 3 - Episode 7

Buffy throws an early Christmas party for a sick little girl who might not live to see it.

#3 - A Matter of Choice

Family Affair - Season 3 - Episode 10

#4 - A Waltz from Vienna

Family Affair - Season 3 - Episode 3

Cissy is asked by a boy in Vienna to be his bride. Cissy likes the idea at first, but reality comes in and snaps some sense into her.

#5 - The Language of Love

Family Affair - Season 4 - Episode 18

Bill asks a doctor to help Buffy's pal who is disabled.

#6 - Jane Butterfield Says

Dennis the Menace - Season 4 - Episode 12

Mr. Wilson is doing a column for the newspaper that he thinks will have every single women in town happily Married. However, it ends up getting Sgt. Mooney in a love triangle with Miss Cathcart and Miss Tarbell.

#7 - The Big Basketball Game

Dennis the Menace - Season 4 - Episode 21

Dennis and his friends help a boy who is poor and feels that he doesn't fit in prepare for and play in the school basketball game.

#8 - Henry's New Job

Dennis the Menace - Season 4 - Episode 10

Henry is thinking of getting a new job which takes place neer the Asian river. Dennis does what he can to prevent it including running away from home.

#9 - The Substitute Teacher

Family Affair - Season 3 - Episode 5

Jody is attracted to a new substitute teacher, but is sad when she leaves. Uncle Bill meets Jody's secret crush and finds out that she looks somewhat like the children's mother.

#10 - By a Whisker

Family Affair - Season 3 - Episode 2

Jody must clip French's whiskers to get into a club.

#11 - The Latch Key Kid

Family Affair - Season 3 - Episode 1

Buffy meets a girl named lana who lives along wheile her mother goes out all the time. Buffy considers being just like Lana, until she comes over and confesses that Buffy has a god life.

#12 - Family Plan

Family Affair - Season 3 - Episode 13

Bill is laid up with a broken leg from a ski accident. The kids and his girlfriend both give him some horrendous care.

#13 - The Little Judge

Dennis the Menace - Season 4 - Episode 4

Dennis and the children take over Judge Mcconnell's court for a day for children's day in court.

#14 - Dennis and the Dodger

Dennis the Menace - Season 3 - Episode 31

Mr. Quigley coaches Dennis' baseball team with help from Sandy Koufax.

#15 - Dennis and the Circular Circumstances

Dennis the Menace - Season 4 - Episode 3

Dennis gets a job for a day delivering Circulars for Mrs. Elkins. But, When he swaps territories with another kid, he gets blamed for throwing the circulars in a trash can.

#16 - Go Home, Mr. French

Family Affair - Season 2 - Episode 3

Mr. French's romance with an old flame puts his job in jeopardy when he thinks about working with his old love in another house.

#17 - It Can't Be Five Years?

Family Affair - Season 5 - Episode 6

The kids celebrate five years of living in the Davis apartment bu throwing a surprise party for Bill, who doesn't make it because of a trip to Washington D.C. Emily then reminds him of the day and he goes to the party after all.

#18 - The Unsinkable Mr. French

Family Affair - Season 5 - Episode 12

Events conspire to make French lose his cool.

#19 - Goodbye, Mrs. Beasley

Family Affair - Season 5 - Episode 22

Buffy meets a real, live Mrs. Beasley, an old lady who owns a toy store, when a friend forces her to give up her doll, Mrs. Beasley.

#20 - The Return of Maudie

Family Affair - Season 5 - Episode 5

French knows Maudie, a nobelwoman, as a former barmaid.

#21 - The Girl Graduate

Family Affair - Season 4 - Episode 14

Graduate Cissy plans to stay out all night.

#22 - Grandpa, Sir

Family Affair - Season 4 - Episode 15

The siblings' long-absent grandfather pays a visit.

#23 - The Toy Box

Family Affair - Season 2 - Episode 8

Uncle Bill enforces an iron-clad confiscation order of toys constantly being left on the floor by the kids and they can never get them back. It hits a little too close when Buffy's beloved Mrs. Beasley is in danger of being taken away from her.

#24 - Family Reunion

Family Affair - Season 2 - Episode 16

Bill and Mr. French visit the kids' old home in Terre Haute where they are faced with a painful decision: Stay with their aunt who makes up stuff about how they are a burden to Bill or go back to New York.

#25 - The Old Cowhand

Family Affair - Season 4 - Episode 23

Jody meets his favorite movie western hero, Chaps Callahan, and makes friends with him. Jody decides to introduce Chap to his friends, and finds out that he is not the same as he was in his movies. Jody is disheartened because Chap is not who he used to be, and Chap reassures him that he is the same person, just older.

#26 - Star Dust

Family Affair - Season 2 - Episode 14

Bill is starstruck now, with a famous actress that wants to give up the business and settle down with him.

#27 - Our Friend Stanley

Family Affair - Season 2 - Episode 12

Buffy and Jody make friends with a disabled boy named Stanley, much to the dismay of his overprotective mother.

#28 - A Lesson for Grown-Ups

Family Affair - Season 3 - Episode 16

The siblings take action to solve a financial crisis.

#29 - Put Your Dreams Away

Family Affair - Season 5 - Episode 19

Cissy meets up with her old friend Russ Brooks, who is joining the Peace Corps in Chile. Cissy wants to join Russ, but Bill tries to discourage her decision. Russ and Cissy decide to run off to Chile and get married, but Cissy backs out when she finds out the risks involved.

#30 - First Love

Family Affair - Season 2 - Episode 2

Bill and Buffy both fall in love with people they cannot have.

#31 - Cinder-Emily

Family Affair - Season 5 - Episode 21

Emily wants to go to Jim's graduation ball, but can't because of four reasons: no date, no dance experience, nothing to wear, and fear of embarassing her son. Buffy and Jody help her out, and tries to get Mr. French to take her to the ball. Mr. French decides to take her, but comes down with the flu. Bill cancels a trip to take Emily to the ball.

#32 - A Matter of Privacy

Family Affair - Season 3 - Episode 18

The twins learn how to eavesdrop with a tape recorder.

#33 - Oh, to Be in England

Family Affair - Season 3 - Episode 17

A year in England doesn't include Bill.

#34 - A Man's Place

Family Affair - Season 2 - Episode 17

A new romance that Mr. French has puts him in the position to make him think that his current life as a butler is not good enough for his date.

#35 - Number One Boy

Family Affair - Season 4 - Episode 10

Bill's valet from Hong Kong usurps French's place.

#36 - Stamp of Approval

Family Affair - Season 5 - Episode 8

Jody falls for a girl named Geraldine only because he wants her stamp. Bill falls for a woman to get a job with her foundation. Jody then talks about stamp collecting and Geraldine becomes friends with him and gives him the stamp that he was after. Jody then gives the stamp back to her because he's more interested in her. The woman doesn't give Bill a job, but they become friends.

#37 - Class Clown

Family Affair - Season 5 - Episode 11

Bill goes out on a date with a funny comedianne.

#38 - Member of the Family

Family Affair - Season 2 - Episode 23

Mr. French thinks he is left out of Cissy's drawings for school.

#39 - And Baby Makes Eight

Family Affair - Season 5 - Episode 9

Cissy takes care of her pregnant friend while her soldier husband is out on a job.

#40 - The New Principal

Dennis the Menace - Season 4 - Episode 7

Dennis gets a new Principal, Mr. Spivey who is very strict at his school. Mr. Spivey and Dennis get off on the wrong foot at first However, Johnny Brady takes note of that and because he wants to be on the pitcher on the school baseball team. So, he sets Dennis up by drawling a picture on the back of his paper making fun Mr. Spivey's height. When Mr. Spivey finds it he naturally assumes Dennis is the one that drew it so he punishes Dennis by kicking him off the baseball team and keeping him after school. As the news travels Mr. Wilson, Mr. Quigley and Mr. Finch all go to the school a few minutes apart and talk to Mr. Spivey each claiming to be Henry Mitchell to stand up for Dennis. Mr. Spivey gets confused but soon realizes he misjudged Dennis and ends up apologizing and putting Dennis back on the school baseball team.

#41 - Speak for Yourself, Mr. French

Family Affair - Season 3 - Episode 24

A young woman pursues Mr. French.

#42 - Wish You Were Here

Family Affair - Season 5 - Episode 13

Jody worries that Bill can't attend a father/son night.

#43 - To Love with Buffy

Family Affair - Season 3 - Episode 14

Bill takes Buffy on a trip with him to Puerto Rico to spend some time together. He then meets a flame of his, but he vows to spend all of his time with Buffy.

#44 - Hooterville A-Go-Go

Petticoat Junction - Season 3 - Episode 8

Kate's daughters clamor for her to invite rock'n roll star King Ring-a-Ding to perform at a benefit show.

#45 - Horseless Carriage Club

Dennis the Menace - Season 3 - Episode 26

Mr. Wilson takes Dennis and his friends up to the lake and back in an old car. Mr. Wilson then gets elected president of the Horseless Carriage Club.

#46 - The Treasure Chest

Dennis the Menace - Season 3 - Episode 28

Mr. Wilson buys a treasure chest at an auction thinking that it has buried treasure in it. Mr. Wilson later discovers a treasure map drawn by Dennis. Although Mr. Wilson thinks the map is authentic so he plans to take a trip to the island and dig for the treasure.

#47 - The Club Initiation

Dennis the Menace - Season 3 - Episode 36

Dennis wants to join an older boys club, but in order to do so he has to take an initiation.

#48 - Dennis, the Rain Maker

Dennis the Menace - Season 4 - Episode 17

Dennis and his friends do an indian rain dance to try to get Henry out of playing golf with his boss.

#49 - Dennis Goes to Washington

Dennis the Menace - Season 4 - Episode 20

Dennis is appointed by the Mayor to go to Washington and ask the Senater to pass a bill for a national Forest.

#50 - Through Thick and Thin

Dennis the Menace - Season 3 - Episode 14

Dennis' cub scouts are putting on a circus of which Mr. Wilson is the Lion in the circus, which is suppose to be a secret from everyone.