The BEST episodes written by Fred S. Fox
#1 - Lucy and Her Prince Charming
Here's Lucy - Season 5 - Episode 12
A visiting Latin Prince falls for Lucy. Uncle Harry is promised a reward if Lucy agrees to marry the prince. Harry sees dollar signs and encourages her through various schemes to marry him. Lucy decides that she does not love the prince and so cannot get married.
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#3 - 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.
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Family Affair - Season 5 - Episode 11
Bill goes out on a date with a funny comedianne.
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#5 - The Slumber Party
Diff'rent Strokes - Season 2 - Episode 24
Leaving Willis in charge of the house for Kimberly's slumber party is a mistake Mr. Drummond soon regrets as the ensuing chaos disrupts his own date with a lovely lady. The Facts of Life stars Mindy Cohn, Kim Fields, Julie Anne Haddock, and Molly Ringwald guest star.
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#6 - Not So Fast, Gopher/Haven't We Met Before?/Seoul Mates
The Love Boat - Season 3 - Episode 22
Gopher invites his widowed mother onto the ship in the hopes of cheering her up, but is hurt by her seemingly cheerful attitude, which he interprets as an insult to his father. A group of buddies takes a cruise. One of the men meets a woman who is a regular customer at the restaurant where he works. He lies about his identity because he thinks she would be put off by the fact that he is a waiter. A comic's romance with the reporter who is writing a feature about him appears doomed after she takes offense to his act.
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#7 - Speak for Yourself, Dwayne
What's Happening!! - Season 1 - Episode 7
When Roger talks to a new girl on Dwayne's behalf, he finds himself falling for her and at odds with his friend.
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#8 - A Case of Black and White
The Jeffersons - Season 3 - Episode 17
George's latest business deal is with a black man married to a white woman, so when he invites them over for dinner, he also has Tom and Helen come over, to make it look like he doesn't have racial prejudices. However, when Tom and Helen discover his plot, they storm out before the guests have arrived. This leads to George having Florence and Ralph impersonate Tom and Helen.
Watch Now:Amazon#9 - Lucy's Lucky Day
Here's Lucy - Season 4 - Episode 15
Lucy is a game show contestant on her lucky day. She can win $1000 if she can train Jackie the chimp to do a trick in a week.
Watch Now:Amazon#10 - Lucy's Replacement
Here's Lucy - Season 4 - Episode 19
Harry gets a new office computer, leading Lucy to get a new job at an insurance company, so she schemes to make the computer obsolete and get her job back.
Watch Now:Amazon#11 - A Home Is Not An Office
Here's Lucy - Season 5 - Episode 4
Amazingly, Harry is lost without Lucille, and after 4 failed replacements moves the office to her house while she is recovering. Lucy then uses a variety of schemes to get him out. Harry ends up being arrested for operating a business in a residential area
Watch Now:Amazon#12 - Lucy, the Other Woman
Here's Lucy - Season 5 - Episode 7
The milkman's wife thinks Lucy is having an affair with her husband. After she throws him out Lucy, Kim & Harry work to get the two back together.
Watch Now:Amazon#13 - Lucy and the Italian Bombshell
Here's Lucy - Season 4 - Episode 3
When Harry learns that a woman whom he knew many years ago in Italy is coming to see him. He says they vowed to wait for each other. He wants to look good for her so he asks Lucy and Kim to help him lose weight and learn Italian before she arrives.
Watch Now:Amazon#14 - Lucy and the Group Encounter
Here's Lucy - Season 5 - Episode 14
Mary Jane suggests Lucy and Harry go to group therapy to improve their working relationship. Once in therapy, the psychiatrist suggest the two reverse roles to see how the other one feels. Lucy takes charge and lands the agency a big account.
Watch Now:Amazon#15 - The Case of the Wreckless Wheelchair Driver
Here's Lucy - Season 5 - Episode 6
Lucy is involved in a lawsuit when a young man is flattened by Lucy's wheelchair. A con man (Jesse White) seeks to get $100,000 from Lucy based on an injury lawsuit. Kim proves the guy is faking by offering him a job to sing and dance at a club.
Watch Now:Amazon#16 - Lucy's Punctured Romance
Here's Lucy - Season 4 - Episode 22
Lucy has a new boyfriend Bob Collins, but Kim and Uncle Harry are worried. The milkman doesn't help matters when he informs the pair the Lucy's boyfriend is a playboy. Kim & Harry cook up all kinds of crazy stunts to scare off Bob.
Watch Now:Amazon#17 - Lucy and the Little Old Lady
Here's Lucy - Season 4 - Episode 17
When an old lady comes in the enployment agency looking for a job because she has nowhere to go, Lucy decides to let her stay at her house. When Mrs. Brady sells land to Harry, Kim tells them about a similar sounding scam which gives Lucy and Harry the idea to let the Mrs. Brady have a seance in which they dress up as Napoleon and Josephine to convince her to refund Harry his money.
Watch Now:Amazon#18 - My Fair Buzzi
Here's Lucy - Season 5 - Episode 13
In preparation for an audition, Kim's friend Ruth get a makeover from Lucy and Kim. Unfortunately, the director wants a less attractive actress, much like Ruth before the makeover. Nonetheless, all three get hired for a 1920's style production.
Watch Now:Amazon#19 - The Caller/Marriage of Convenience/No Girls for Doc/Witness for the Prosecution
The Love Boat - Season 3 - Episode 28
In this special 90-minute episode that guest stars theater icon Helen Hayes (and her real-life son), the actress' character navigates romance after becoming a widow. Also, a district attorney falls for the woman he has in protective custody, and Doc swears off his own romances for a while.
Watch Now:Amazon#20 - The Boys Against the Girls
Family Affair - Season 4 - Episode 22
Jody is a victim of peer pressure when he is forced to choose between a stickball team and taking up for Buffy, who the team ridicules.
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#22 - The Family Plan/The Promoter/May the Best Man Win/Forever Engaged/The Judges (1)
The Love Boat - Season 4 - Episode 2
The promoter of a marriage cruise is trying to reconcile with his own wife. Doc tricks Gopher into being a contestant judge but then discovers the other two judges are attractive women who vie for Gopher's attention. Another couple has a reputation for being perpetually engaged. Julie's old friend Mark is supposed to be the best man in the mass wedding, but the groom runs off with an ex-girlfriend. A groom's father and bride's mother attempt to talk their children out of marrying, only to fall in love themselves.
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#23 - Mother Jefferson's Birthday
The Jeffersons - Season 2 - Episode 19
Mother Jefferson is all excited about it being her 70th birthday and even more excited about what George is giving her for a gift. However, George and Louise have totally forgotten all about it leading them to scramble to come up with something to please the old bitty.
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#24 - Harry's House Guest
The Jeffersons - Season 5 - Episode 11
Harry practically moves into the Jefferson's apartment to avoid his annoying house guest, Felicia. George tries to help him out by giving him tips to throw her out but this results in Felicia thinking that Harry is proposing.
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#25 - Lucy, the Starmaker
The Lucy Show - Season 6 - Episode 4
A young man wants a career in the music, but his uncle insists he learn the banking business. Lucy arranges for an impromptu audition with a record producer in the bank's lobby.
#26 - Dial M for Martin
My Favorite Martian - Season 2 - Episode 5
When a phone wire falls on Martin, he starts getting incoming calls.
Watch Now:Amazon#27 - Chico's Cousin Pepe
Chico and the Man - Season 2 - Episode 19
Chico's blind, skirt chasing, singer of a cousin visits Chico and meets Ed.
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#28 - The Spanking
Diff'rent Strokes - Season 1 - Episode 5
Arnold ignores warnings and continues to drop water balloons from the balcony. Mr. Drummond's decision to punish Arnold for the prank with a spanking becomes a learning lesson for Willis too, when he insists that he be the one to spank Arnold -- but where's Arnold?
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#29 - Jeannie and the Great Bank Robbery
I Dream of Jeannie - Season 3 - Episode 12
When Tony needs to write a report for Dr Bellows, he tells Jeannie not to help him and sends her to the park, where she accidentally helps some strangers rob a bank in Tony's car.
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#31 - The Relative
Diff'rent Strokes - Season 1 - Episode 14
LaWanda Page guest stars as a cousin of Willis and Arnold who, after seeing the boys in their comfortable new surroundings, knows she should stay closer to her long-lost little relatives.
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#32 - I've Still Got It
The Jeffersons - Season 8 - Episode 5
George has become convinced that age is taking it's toll on him, with a receding hairline and larger midsection. To try to revitalize him, Louise sends him some flowers with a seductive note at his office. However, George becomes convinced the flowers are from his secretary.
#33 - Lucy and Her Genuine Twimby
Here's Lucy - Season 5 - Episode 17
While antique shopping, Lucy purchases an antique reproduction. The dealer, however, has made a mistake and sold Lucy an original, rare antique, and romances Lucy in hopes of retrieving the chair.
Watch Now:Amazon#34 - Lucy Goes to Prison
Here's Lucy - Season 5 - Episode 18
Lucy goes undercover again, this time to prison. Lucy attempts to get needed information from a cell mate, but has little luck until Lucy fills her with alcohol.
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#35 - The Barbershop Quartet
The Andy Griffith Show - Season 7 - Episode 3
The Barbershop Quartet is missing one singer when Howard develops a sore throat. Andy, much to his dismay,must bring along a chicken thief who is a great singer. Andy has deep misgivings about this fellow and whether he will actually sing or try to break free.
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Petticoat Junction - Season 3 - Episode 14
The Shady Rest hotel is visited by a mysterious and affluent guest, whom Uncle Joe deduces is a bank robber.
#37 - Big Brother
The Andy Griffith Show - Season 7 - Episode 28
Howard takes a liking to his Little Brother's sister.
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#38 - Don't Miss a Good Bet
The Andy Griffith Show - Season 7 - Episode 16
A stranger comes to Mayberry promising to find the Ross Raiders treasure. Goober, Floyd, Helen and Bee all invest--much to Andy's irritation.
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#39 - Poor Albert
Maude - Season 4 - Episode 13
One of Maude's ex-husbands gives himself to her, literally.
#40 - Deputy Otis
The Andy Griffith Show - Season 2 - Episode 31
Can the town drunk masquerade as a respected Mayberry deputy? That's the plan when Otis Campbell receives a letter from his brother, who is planning to visit the town and observe his brother's law-enforcement talents.
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#41 - The Statue
The Andy Griffith Show - Season 7 - Episode 23
When Howard suggests Mayberry erect a statue of Andy’s ancestor Seth Taylor in honor of all the work he did to make the town the quaint place it turned out to be. However, after a local artist completes the statue and earns the praise of the Taylors and everyone else in town, Andy and Aunt Bee get a big shock when Mr. Simmons lets them in on a secret that Seth Taylor worked with his ancestor to swindle the town out of a large amount of money. At first Andy and Bee want to keep this secret under wraps, but she soon admits what Seth did during the unveiling speech. In the end, Floyd saves the day by saying that while Seth wasn’t the hero everybody thought he was, he still played a large part in making Mayberry the town what it is today.
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#42 - The Clubmen
The Andy Griffith Show - Season 2 - Episode 10
Both Andy and Barney are offered membership in an exclusive men's club, but Barney manages to alienate the entire group by trying too hard to fit in -- an endeavor that threatens his chances at joining the elite organization.
Watch Now:Apple TV#43 - The Baby Alarm/Tell Her She's Great/Matchmaker, Matchmaker Times Two
The Love Boat - Season 4 - Episode 8
An unwed mother's infant son has an unusual way of showing his disapproval to men who try to romance her. Isaac gets the crew to bolster his stagestruck aunt's ego, which turns her into an outrageous prima donna and upsets his uncle. Two sets of parents go overboard trying to spark a romance between their respective children.
#44 - Room for One More
Diff'rent Strokes - Season 3 - Episode 21
Dudley, fearing his foster father's lost job means he's headed back to the orphanage, cons Arnold into getting Drummond to consider adopting him into their family.
#45 - The Family Plan/The Promoter/May the Best Man Win/Forever Engaged/The Judges (2)
The Love Boat - Season 4 - Episode 3
Vicki tries to play matchmaker for Capt. Stubing and Emily, whose husband still plans on winning her back. Gopher lands in a Curacao jail after Doc sends him on a wild goose chase so that he can get cozy with the marriage-a-thon judges. Carl and Mary Ann decide that they were wrong to interfere with their kids' wedding plans; Mary considers calling it quits with Tom. Emily accuses Marv of treachery after her fiancé suddenly reappears in Curacao and denies that he planned to leave her.
#46 - Politics Begin at Home
The Andy Griffith Show - Season 7 - Episode 8
Aunt Bee runs for a seat on the city council against the more qualified Howard, who is supported by Andy.
Watch Now:Apple TV#47 - Lucy and the Generation Gap
Here's Lucy - Season 2 - Episode 12
Kim and Craig are in charge of producing the school play, and decide its theme should be the Generation Gap. When they have casting problems, Lucy and Harry wind up playing the parents, and they all put on a really spectacular show.
Watch Now:Amazon#48 - Lucy and Liberace
Here's Lucy - Season 2 - Episode 16
Craig's high school club initiation scavenger hunt includes a candelabra that Craig borrowed from Liberace. Lucy of course thinks it has been stolen and feels obliged to return it to the famous pianist. A cute song and dance segment follows as the whole family end up with Liberace at his home.
Watch Now:Amazon#49 - Lucy, the Coed
Here's Lucy - Season 3 - Episode 6
Harry & his classmates hold a reunion musical variety show about the roaring 20's in which of course Lucy & family are prominently featured. A fun show with good music and dancing.
#50 - Lucy's Vacation
Here's Lucy - Season 3 - Episode 17
Lucy wants to go to Palm Springs with Kim but can't go unless she gets fired. As she continues to cook up wild ways to get Harry to fire her Harry's doctor is telling him to be nice to her. This episode features a classic look as Lucy dons a wild wig and costume in an effort to not dress conservatively.