The BEST episodes written by Henry Garson
#1 - By a Whisker
Family Affair - Season 3 - Episode 2
Jody must clip French's whiskers to get into a club.
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#2 - 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.
Watch Now:Amazon#3 - The Language of Love
Family Affair - Season 4 - Episode 18
Bill asks a doctor to help Buffy's pal who is disabled.
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#4 - 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.
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#5 - Member of the Family
Family Affair - Season 2 - Episode 23
Mr. French thinks he is left out of Cissy's drawings for school.
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#6 - 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.
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#7 - Oh, to Be in England
Family Affair - Season 3 - Episode 17
A year in England doesn't include Bill.
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#8 - Speak for Yourself, Mr. French
Family Affair - Season 3 - Episode 24
A young woman pursues Mr. French.
Watch Now:Amazon#9 - The Return of Maudie
Family Affair - Season 5 - Episode 5
French knows Maudie, a nobelwoman, as a former barmaid.
Watch Now:Amazon#10 - Ballerina Buffy
Family Affair - Season 1 - Episode 22
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.
Watch Now:Amazon#11 - All Nephews are Created Equal
Family Affair - Season 1 - Episode 26
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.
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#12 - The Prize
Family Affair - Season 1 - Episode 27
The twins win a baby lamb in a cereal contest, which is not a good thing if your neighbors are trying to sleep.
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#13 - The Award
Family Affair - Season 1 - Episode 29
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.
Watch Now:Amazon#14 - The Day Nothing Happened
Family Affair - Season 2 - Episode 20
A Blizzard can be anyone's worst enemy. This lesson is true when everything goes awry for the David family in Long Island: French is stranded in the blizzard, kids Building snowmen inside, ruined potential dates, Oy Vey!
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#15 - A Matter of Tonsils
Family Affair - Season 2 - Episode 22
Poor Buffy and Jody have to have their tonsils out.
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#16 - A Diller, a Dollar
Family Affair - Season 3 - Episode 22
Buffy has a chance to skip a grade, but she is failing. Bill thinks that she is failing to stay with Jody, but Buffy is actually in love with a boy in her grade.
Watch Now:Amazon#17 - Eastward, Ho!
Family Affair - Season 5 - Episode 3
Bill's friend, Eng Ho, is planning an arranged marriage for his daughter, Ming Lee, and wants Bill to give her a place to stay until the wedding. Cissy then makes friends with her and takes her out with her friends. Ming Lee then falls for her escort, which is a bad idea when she is about to be married. Ming Lee decides not to marry, and her father threatend to take her back to Hong Kong. Bill convinces Eng to let Ming Lee stay in America.
Watch Now:Amazon#18 - Travels with Cissy
Family Affair - Season 5 - Episode 7
Cissy and Gregg? Getting married? Not if Bill can help it. He takes the kids to California to get Cissy to change her mind. Bill then takes her to a studio party where Cissy meets Steve Hunter, a handsome western star. She falls for him and, after hearing stories about Steve, Bill tries to stop this new romance by bringing Gregg out to win her back. Gregg tells Cissy that he wishes her lots of luck with Steve. Steve then proposes to Cissy, and she refuses.
Watch Now:Amazon#19 - The Joiners
Family Affair - Season 5 - Episode 20
Buffy wants to join a clique, but is dropped because she is younger by one year. Bill makes a deal with Shirley, the leader, that if he builds them a clubhouse, Buffy can join the club. After the clubhouse is built, Buffy is now a member, but Cissy wants her to run for secretary. The current secretary, Carol, wants to know why Buffy is in the club and Shirley tells her the truth and Buffy is out of the club.
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#20 - The Matter of School
Family Affair - Season 1 - Episode 4
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.
Watch Now:Amazon#21 - Maudie
Family Affair - Season 4 - Episode 12
A rich, titled English widow proposes to French.
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#22 - Jody and Cissy
Family Affair - Season 1 - Episode 2
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.
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#23 - Take Me Out of the Ball Game
Family Affair - Season 2 - Episode 9
Jody tries his hardest to be on a local stickball team, only to be beaten out by Buffy, who happens to be a great player as well.
#24 - Fade in to Murder
Columbo - Season 6 - Episode 1
Ward Fowler, who plays debonair television detective Lieutenant Lucerne, has a reputation for being a difficult actor. His series is a hit, however, so the network and studio executives again and again capitulate to his demands. Although separated, husband and wife team Sid and Claire Daley continue to produce the Inspector Lucerne program. Claire continually advises everyone else to go along with their stars demands. Not even Sid knows that Claire is blackmailing Ward. Claire discovers Ward in Canada. She knows he deserted from the United States Army during the Korean War. If that information got out ,it would ruin Ward's career. When Claire takes a phone call in Ward's trailer, the actor overhears her saying she’ll be getting a sandwich at Tony’s Deli. Ward gets to Tony’s Deli just after Claire disguising himself with a ski mask and bulky parka he pretends to be a hold up man.
Watch Now:Amazon#25 - Marooned
Family Affair - Season 4 - Episode 16
Mr. French and the twins are snowbound in Vermont.
#26 - Marmalade
Family Affair - Season 1 - Episode 5
Mr. French is chosen for an ad for marmalade and is a huge promotion success, until he tastes the marmalade that he is hawking.
#27 - So Long, Charley, Hello
My Three Sons - Season 7 - Episode 31
Uncle Charley's old seafaring buddy arrives with a wonderful proposition: He wants Charley to join him as first mate for a six month fishing cruise in the Carribean. The family then conspires to demonstrate to Charley that he is not needed, but they really don't want him to leave.
#28 - Good Guys Finish Last
My Three Sons - Season 7 - Episode 4
Three fathers face their sons in a quiz game at a school entertainment night, and when the boys easily beat the dads so much interest is aroused in town that a re-match is scheduled on the local television station.
#29 - If At First...
My Three Sons - Season 7 - Episode 6
Steve Douglas gets a parking ticket from Robbie's girlfriend, a pretty meter maid, and another citation for not having his driver's license renewed -- and then flunks his driving test. Soon Robbie realizes that he's given his father last year's manual to study and that some laws have been changed.
#30 - My Wife, the Waitress
My Three Sons - Season 8 - Episode 7
For their fourth week wedding anniversary, Katie decides to earn some money for an expensive gift for Robbie by taking a one week job as a tea-room waitress. Robbie lunches at the tea-room and finds Katie, who has taken over as a last-minute replacement for the cigarette girl, in an abbreviated costume.
#31 - A Horse for Uncle Charley
My Three Sons - Season 8 - Episode 22
Uncle Charley is talked into buying an 11 year old trotting horse in the hopes of capturing old racing glories. The family is delighted when they hear that the horse, driven by Uncle Charley, has qualified for a race after winning a trial competition.
#32 - What Did You Do Today, Grandpa?
My Three Sons - Season 9 - Episode 17
The Douglases feel that Steve is becoming sedentary, not knowing that he's just been assigned to help capture some enemy agents, but things get rough when he's taken to a Greenwich Village cocktail party where the spies start shooting when they find him hiding in the bathtub.
#33 - The Unsound of Music
Family Affair - Season 3 - Episode 8
A nightclub singer coaches tone-deaf Buffy.
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Family Affair - Season 4 - Episode 6
Cissy and Gregg decide to get engaged.
Watch Now:Apple TV#35 - The Best Man
My Three Sons - Season 7 - Episode 22
Robbie is crushed when he learns that Denise DuBois, a French exchange student that Robbie had hoped to marry, has accepted his friend Tom's proposal of marriage the night before.