The BEST episodes directed by Dave Powers
#1 - with Dinah Shore
The Carol Burnett Show - Season 10 - Episode 8
Business professionals (Carol and Harvey) discuss his marriage proposal in the style of a business meeting. Dinah Shore sings "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover". Tim's plays the oldest living butcher with Harvey as an impatient customer. "Went With The Wind," a "Gone With The Wind" spoof features Carol as Starlet O'Hara, Vicki as Sissy, Tim as Brashley Wilkes, Dinah as Melody, and Harvey as Capt. Rat Butler. A musical salute to New Orleans with "Basin Street Blues" as the centerpiece.
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#2 - Upstairs, Downstairs, Upstairs
Three's Company - Season 5 - Episode 1
Jack wears himself out trying to serve dinner in three places at once.
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#3 - Stanley's Hotline
Three's Company - Season 3 - Episode 15
Stanley overhears Chrissy talking through the pipes and mistakenly thinks she is pregnant.
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#4 - Lies My Roommate Told Me
Three's Company - Season 6 - Episode 6
Jack plays Cyrano for a tongue-tied Larry, who has talked Terri into a date.
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#5 - Chrissy's Cousin
Three's Company - Season 5 - Episode 7
Chrissy's clumsy cousin Cindy moves into the apartment.
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#6 - Chrissy's Hospitality
Three's Company - Season 4 - Episode 9
Chrissy falls and hits her head in the bathtub while trying to put up a shower curtain. Jack and Janet take her to the hospital when she starts to get dizzy. They misunderstand the doctor when he comes out of Chrissy's room crying, and think that she has only a short time to live.
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#7 - Jack's Double Date
Three's Company - Season 7 - Episode 17
Janet and Terri bet Jack that he can't go without women for a week, but the temptation of a new flame gives him little chance to collect.
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#8 - The Older Woman
Three's Company - Season 3 - Episode 14
When Janet and Chrissy think Jack is dating an old woman, they send Larry to try to seduce her.
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#9 - Found Money
Mama's Family - Season 5 - Episode 6
When Mama tries to use the bank's ATM, it malfunctions and gives her $800, and she is unsure whether to keep it or give it back to the bank.
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#10 - Look Who's Breathing
Mama's Family - Season 6 - Episode 18
Naomi and Vinton are taking a childbirth class. When Vint is called in to work, Mama has to go to class with Naomi instead of going to the Bingo Bonanza with Iola, so an impatient Mama creates chaos by trying to speed things along and offering her own perspective on the "miracle of birth".
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#11 - Take My Mama, Please!
Mama's Family - Season 6 - Episode 9
After heckling a stand-up comedian at the Bigger Jigger, Mama accepts a challenge to do a routine of her own.
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#12 - Flounder's Day
Mama's Family - Season 4 - Episode 6
After being unfairly beat out 50 years ago, Mama finally has a chance to sing in the annual Founder's Day festival when an audition is held to find a new singer of the town anthem "Raytown, O Raytown"
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#13 - The Big Nap
Mama's Family - Season 6 - Episode 15
After watching detective movies on TV for a week, and hearing that Iola's mother is missing, Mama dreams that she is a film noir-style detective hired to find her client's mother.
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#14 - Guess Who's Going to Dinner
Mama's Family - Season 6 - Episode 17
Vint wins a Mother's Day dinner for two at a North African (Moroccan) restaurant called Abdul's Garden of Eating. As a result, Mama and Naomi fight over which of them Vinton should take.
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#15 - Bedtime for Bubba
Mama's Family - Season 5 - Episode 9
Mama suspects that Bubba and his female classmate are doing more than studying together, and she is determined to prove it.
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#16 - Doctor in the House
Three's Company - Season 6 - Episode 20
Jack pretends he is a doctor to impress his grandfather.
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#17 - Birthright
Mama's Family - Season 3 - Episode 17
An anonymous letter convinces Vint that he's adopted, so he sets out to find his biological mother.
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#18 - The Really Loud Family
Mama's Family - Season 5 - Episode 4
For a school project, Bubba makes a film about the Harper family. However, a short circuit in the camera causes it to turn itself off and on again while recording, resulting in an unintentionally provocative film — shown on public TV.
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#19 - Jack's Tattoo
Three's Company - Season 8 - Episode 16
Jack needs surgery to remove a tattoo that his navy buddies made him get while drunk.
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#20 - Full House
Mama's Family - Season 5 - Episode 8
Vinton has a chance to join a local group called the Poker Pals, but he needs Mama to sit in for a missing player, a decision he soon comes to regret.
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#21 - Where There's Smoke
Mama's Family - Season 3 - Episode 11
Mama invites Reverend Meechum to dinner in hopes of being names President of the Church Ladies' League.
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#22 - Mama and Dr. Brothers
Mama's Family - Season 3 - Episode 6
When Dr. Joyce Brothers comes to town, Naomi calls in to talk about her bedroom problems with Vint. Dr. Brothers blames it on Mama, which doesn't sit well.
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#23 - Mama's Cousin
Mama's Family - Season 3 - Episode 20
Mama's worldly cousin (Vicki Lawrence in a dual role) annoys Mama with her neverending stories.
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The Carol Burnett Show - Season 10 - Episode 17
Mrs. Wiggins (Carol) has a millionaire date (guest Rock Hudson) for lunch, but she wants to dump him; Steve Lawrence sings "You Take My Heart Away"; a husband-and-wife news team bicker while anchoring a newscast; and a salute to the music of composer Jule Styne including including "People", "Together", "Small World" and "Everything's Coming up Roses".
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#25 - Borrowing Trouble
Three's Company - Season 7 - Episode 22
When the girls and Larry stage a fake radio contest to give Jack money they mistakenly think he needs, Jack uses the sudden windfall to buy a new leather coat.
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#26 - Handcuffed
Three's Company - Season 4 - Episode 18
Chrissy borrows her policeman cousin's handcuffs and accidentally gets locked together with Jack who has a big date waiting for him.
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#27 - Chrissy and the Guru
Three's Company - Season 3 - Episode 7
Chrissy joins a cult run by a swindling fraud.
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#28 - Family Show
The Carol Burnett Show - Season 10 - Episode 16
A couple bicker over a late-night "wrong number" phone call; a woman tries to liven up her life as a party is going on at the next apartment; the dancers perform a ballet to the music of "Nadia's Theme"; an inept, out-of-tune trio of musicians accompany an opera singer at a recital; a vacuum-cleaner salesman tries to peddle his wares to a housewife; and a "Late Late Late Show" presentation of "Torchy Song" (a spoof of the 1953 Joan Crawford film "Torch Song").
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#29 - Psycho Pheno-Mama
Mama's Family - Season 6 - Episode 8
Vinton and Naomi persuade Mama to have a psychic called "Madame Rita" give everyone readings. At first, Mama is surprised by the psychic's ability, but later sets out to expose the phony medium.
#30 - Many Unhappy Returns
Mama's Family - Season 5 - Episode 5
Vinton's boss, Mr. Carstairs, asks Vint to hold a $200 diamond bracelet for him; it is an anniversary present for Mrs. Carstairs. Confusion ensues when Mama finds it, thinking it is her birthday present.
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#31 - Best Medicine
Mama's Family - Season 3 - Episode 3
Ellen must have surgery, which deeply concerns Mama despite her ongoing feud with Ellen.
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#32 - The Love Letter
Mama's Family - Season 3 - Episode 8
After a love test with disappointing results, Vint convinces Bubba to write Naomi a love letter. When Iola finds the misplaced letter, a scene of mistaken love occurs.
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#33 - Look What I Found
Three's Company - Season 8 - Episode 15
The trio leaves a stray kitten at Mr. Furley's doorstep, but the gift threatens Furley's ability to pass an inspection ordered by his brother Bart.
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#34 - Extra, Extra
Three's Company - Season 7 - Episode 4
The trio's living arrangements are mischaracterized in a newspaper article, causing the girls shame but making Jack a hero with his friends.
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#35 - Hearing is Believing
Three's Company - Season 8 - Episode 6
Janet mistakes Jack's girlfriend, a sex therapist, for a prostitute.
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#36 - Mama Makes Three
Mama's Family - Season 5 - Episode 25
After being told that they cannot conceive a child, Vint and Naomi decide to adopt, but first they - and Mama - are required to meet with a psychiatrist.
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#37 - with Gloria Swanson
The Carol Burnett Show - Season 7 - Episode 3
The Charwoman meets Charlie Chaplin (guest Gloria Swanson); in another "Carol & Sis" sketch, an elevator operator in Carol and Roger's new apartment building has a crush on her; a mistress (Vicki) tells all to a radio call-in show about a man (Lyle) with whom she's having an affair, while his unsuspecting wife (Carol) listens to every word; and an "Old Folks" sketch. Gloria Swanson performs "A New-Fangled Tango" and Carol sings "Without a Word, Without a Sound".
#38 - Mama's Girls
Mama's Family - Season 4 - Episode 18
Trying to get Aunt Effie to follow her doctor's advice and exercise leads Mama to start a senior citizens's tap-dancing troupe.
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#39 - Mama Takes Stock
Mama's Family - Season 6 - Episode 11
Vinton learns that he is about to lose his job because Kwik Keys is being shut down by the new owners, a corporation called Bernice. When Bubba discovers that an old stock certificate Mama owns is now ten shares of Bernice, she sets out to save Vinton's job.
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#40 - She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not
Three's Company - Season 8 - Episode 2
Mistakenly believing that one of the girls is in love with him, Jack brings Janet and Terri to a cabin to determine the identity of his mystery lover.
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#41 - Grandma USA
Mama's Family - Season 3 - Episode 18
Mama competes in the Grandma U.S.A. competition after Bubba jokingly enters her.
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#42 - Fly Naomi
Mama's Family - Season 3 - Episode 12
Unhappy with her dead end career at the Food Circus, Naomi decides to enroll in school to become a stewardess.
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#43 - Paradise Lost
Three's Company - Season 6 - Episode 22
When Terri scores a fancy new house rental, Larry and Mr. Furley scheme to keep the trio from moving.
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#44 - Mama with the Golden Arm
Mama's Family - Season 3 - Episode 21
Mama emerges as a contender in an arm-wrestling competition.
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#45 - Old Folks at Home
Three's Company - Season 4 - Episode 7
Chrissy feels sorry for a homeless man and lets him stay with her, Janet and Jack, much to their dismay.
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#46 - There's No Place Like...No Place
Mama's Family - Season 5 - Episode 18
When the police arrest people at a rally for the homeless, Mama is mistakenly arrested for vagrancy and thrown in jail.
#47 - Eleanor's Return
Three's Company - Season 3 - Episode 13
When former roommate Eleanor visits, Jack thinks he is being pushed out.
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#48 - The Key to the Crime
Mama's Family - Season 4 - Episode 3
A burglar known as the Courteous Crook is robbing and subsequently cleaning homes all over Raytown. When Vinton is accused of being the Crook, Mama and Iola set out to find the real culprit.
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#49 - Now Hear This
Mama's Family - Season 6 - Episode 4
The Harpers install an intercom so that Naomi will be able to monitor her baby, but Mama uses it to eavesdrop on the family, and vice versa.
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#50 - Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
Mama's Family - Season 4 - Episode 4
Vinton and Naomi are separated, yet living in the same house, and driving Mama crazy in the process.
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