The BEST episodes of Family Affair season 1
Every episode of Family Affair season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Family Affair season 1!
Family Affair was one of those successful family comedies of the 1960's. Bill Davis' carefree existence as a swinging bachelor was just about perfect. A highly paid consulting engineer, he maintained an elegant apartment off Fifth Avenue in Manhattan and had his domestic needs cared for by a very English gentleman's gentleman, Mr. French. Into this life of independence came three young orphans, the 6-year old twins Buffy and Jody and 15-year-old Cissy. Their parents, Bill's brother and sister-in-law, had died in an accident, and other relatives felt that Bill could best provide for them. Despite initial misgivings, Bill and French became very attached to the children and learned to adjust their lifestyle to make room for the new members of the household. Mr. French, a stickler for neatness and order, had the toughest adjustment to make, he was with the children all the time while Bill was often out of town on assignments. All in all, they were a happy family. Family Affair aka Fed
#1 - Hard Hat Jody
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/2/1967
Jody's allusion about being a constuction worker leads him to "gaining" a job with a constuction worker who Bill is trying to get a job with.
#2 - Fancy Free
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/30/1967
Buffy and Jody are placed in a fast-learning portion of their grade, but Bill is spending his time with a woman who is quite uncertain about what she wants. The twins get a friendly window-washer to help them with their work, but a call from the school to Bill makes him see that the children are more important than a hot date.
#3 - A Helping Hand
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/6/1967
A lesson to be learned in this episode: Helping people is good, but it only goes but so far. The family learns this the hard way. Mr. French helps out a maid who is very bad with housekeeping by covering up her mistakes, and this charade goes on until she is hired by a guest who is throwing a party. Eventually, she gets fired and she gets on Mr. French. Bill does the same thing when he takes over the twins' school project, and he gets credit. Cissy tells them all about how important it is to get involved in the family because they had none when they were in Terre Haute.
#4 - Who's Afraid of Nural Shpeni?
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/7/1966
Mr. French gets Lebanese cooking lessons from a Middle Eastern restaurant owner named Nural Shpeni, and her family forces Mr. French to marry her, whether he wants to or not.
#5 - The Thursday Man
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/12/1966
Cissy learns a lesson in snooping when she is to do a paper on Mr. French and finds a shocking secret about him.
#6 - Think Deep
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/26/1966
Cissy worships a teacher named Julian Hill and spouts his theories all through the household. Bill invites the teacher to dinner and Cissy sees that he is not the man that she worships so dearly when he goes off on Buffy and Jody for an innocent spill.
#7 - Once in Love with Buffy
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/13/1967
Aunt Fran's back and she wants the kids to come back with her. She believes that Bill will not be a suitable person for the kids. Of course, Fran thinks that this fact is confirmed when Buffy thinks that Bill doesn't want them there. When teh family gets ready to leave, Buffy sees the light and changes her mind.
#8 - Ballerina Buffy
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/20/1967
Buffy gets chosen for a lead in a ballet, which is totally annoying for a mother whose little girl, Melissa, was passed over for a complete stranger. She has reason to suspect foul play when the casting director is Bill's old girlfriend Margo, but she knew nothing about Bill's children until after she had cast the roles. Then Margo tells Buffy that she will be a big success and travel all over the world. Buffy gets the idea that it means right away, so she botches up her role in the production so that she will not be separated from her new family.
#9 - The Mother Tongue
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/27/1967
Buffy and Jody meets a new girl named Marilyn, who is the daughter of a Chinese diplomat and speaks no English. Mr. French tries to work out his Cantonese and unknowingly insults her.
#10 - Everybody Needs Somebody
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/13/1967
Buffy and Jody play matchmaker for Mr. French, but he thinks that they do not want him around because he punished them so severely.
#11 - All Nephews are Created Equal
Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/27/1967
Mr. French gets a visit from his nephew David. French is shocked when David announces that he wants to become a dentist, but the final straw comes when he goes out with Cissy.
#12 - The Prize
Season 1 - Episode 27 - Aired 4/10/1967
The twins win a baby lamb in a cereal contest, which is not a good thing if your neighbors are trying to sleep.
#13 - A Matter for Experts
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/14/1966
Buffy and Jody have been spending a lot a time with each other at school, and it is a major concern for the vice principal and a child psychologist who states that Buffy and Jody need to make friends and join in with other children.
#14 - Beware: The Other Woman
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/21/1966
When an old flame steps back into Bill's life, the children think that he will get married and send them back to Indiana.
#15 - Love Me, Love Me Not
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/5/1966
When Jody sees a friend getting spanked by his father, his father tells him that he punishes him out of love. So Jody takes it upon himself to earn a spanking from Uncle Bill to see if he loves him enough to enforce physical punishment.
#16 - The Gift Horse
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/26/1966
Buffy and Jody decide to give Bill a great gift- a horse!
#17 - Take Two Aspirin
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/28/1966
Bill gets a chance to work with a friend in Mexico on a job, but his trip is cut short when Mr. French comes down with the flu and difficultt in keeping touch with the family.
#18 - That was the Dinner That Wasn't
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/9/1967
Cissy is disheartened because she will be left out of a mother-daughter event at school, and she doesn't tell Bill what is wrong with her.
#19 - One for the Little Boy
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/23/1967
Bill plans to do some serious bonding with Jody by taking him on a business trip, but Murphy's Law plagues the trip. But Jody states that just being with Bill is exciting enough.
#20 - The Award
Season 1 - Episode 29 - Aired 5/1/1967
Buffy and Jody want to make an award for Bill for being the best uncle, but they fall allergic to the clay they are making the award with. Bill thinks that the allergies are caused by irregular parenting, but the doctor states that they are allergic to modeling clay.
#21 - The Matter of School
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/3/1966
Cissy wants to go to a public school, but she overhears Bill considering to send her to a boarding school and thinks that Bill doesn't want her home. Cissy goes to Bryerfield and Bill promises her an evening on the town when she comes home for the weekend. Bill unknowingly breaks his promise and Buffy and Jody hitch to Connecticut to see her. Bill then notices his error and brings Cissy home.
#22 - Jody and Cissy
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/19/1966
Cissy joins the family and Mr. French thinks that he is not wanted anymore. Mr. French changes his mind after Buffy puts her doll in his suitcase and decides to stay after all.
#23 - Room with a Viewpoint
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/17/1966
Buffy doesn't like the new changes in her and Cissy's bedroom and refuses to ever step foot in it.
#24 - All Around the Town
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/16/1967
Bill and the whole family are seeing the Gaynors off on their cruise. Buffy and Jody think that Bill is having dinner with them, but when they find out the thuth, they are left on the dock by themselves. Mrs. Gaynor sees them and calls Bill, but Buffy and Jody run off in the city to find the owner of some money they found on the dock.
#25 - The Way It Was
Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/20/1967
Bill sends the kids away for a week-long trip at camp because they are driving him up the wall. He then starts to miss them when he goes back to his bachelor life.