The BEST episodes written by Seaman Jacobs
#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 - Class Clown
Family Affair - Season 5 - Episode 11
Bill goes out on a date with a funny comedianne.
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#4 - 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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#5 - Grandma Goody (Cat Burglar)
Hong Kong Phooey - Season 1 - Episode 5
This time, cats are being stolen all over town (including Spot) -- and Grandma Goody is not what she seems, as Hong Kong Phooey finds out in a bubble-filled climax. It's also Sergeant Flint's birthday, so Rosemary ask Penry to purchase a few things for his surprise birthday party.
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#6 - The Penthouse Burglaries
Hong Kong Phooey - Season 1 - Episode 7
A gorilla robbing penthouses? Hong Kong Phooey and Spot go bananas trying to solve this crime. Penry is giving the Police Station walls a new coat of paint.
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#7 - Everybody Needs Somebody
Family Affair - Season 1 - Episode 24
Buffy and Jody play matchmaker for Mr. French, but he thinks that they do not want him around because he punished them so severely.
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#8 - 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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#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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#15 - 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.
#16 - 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.
#19 - A Night at the Hooterville Hilton
Petticoat Junction - Season 1 - Episode 13
A brochure describing the Shady Rest of the future is prematurely mailed to a Hooterville travel columnist.
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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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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.
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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
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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#24 - 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.
#25 - 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#26 - 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.
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#27 - Is There a Doctor in the Roundhouse?
Petticoat Junction - Season 1 - Episode 4
No one can attend Kate's Shady Rest Jamboree after Norman Curtis makes the Cannonball inoperative.
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#28 - How to Be a Hero Without Really Trying
My Favorite Martian - Season 1 - Episode 13
The O'Hara's have new neighbors, the Richmonds, within the family being young Stevie and his grown up sister Jennifer. The foursome go on a picnic to Sunset Mountain, since Martin needs to pick up some bling, an alloy located there but that has not yet been discovered by humans. Stevie has a vivid imagination and likes to pretend he's from Mars, which intrigues Martin. That's OK with Tim, as that means he can spend time with Jennifer alone. However Jennifer is concerned with Stevie's ability to discern reality from fantasy. While Martin goes off to collect his bling, Stevie plays a game of pretend and climbs up the mountain, but reality hits when he can't get down on his own. Martin suggests that Tim climb up and get Stevie as an act of heroism, but Tim is afraid of heights. Martin reassures Tim that he will be safe with the assistance of his remote control gravitation machine. Tim bounds up the mountain, but doesn't know that Martin's machine breaks while he's half way up. Tim and Stevie have a couple of close calls, which Tim thinks is Martin just trying to be dramatic. Although Tim faints when he finds out the truth about the gravitation machine, he shows that one just needs to have a little faith to accomplish mountains.
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#29 - Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall
Hong Kong Phooey - Season 1 - Episode 15
Mirrors are being stolen and used to fool people into thinking they are taller, smaller, skinnier and fatter. Hong Kong Phooey must battle them in the house of mirrors.
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#31 - The Courtship of Floyd Smoot
Petticoat Junction - Season 1 - Episode 5
Kate pretends to fall in love with Floyd after his bad experience with a mail-order bride.
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#33 - 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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#34 - Car Thieves
Hong Kong Phooey - Season 1 - Episode 1
A stolen car ring is operating in town, and it's up to Hong Kong Phooey to break through the ring's sneaky secrets and stop them in their fiendish tracks. Meanwhile, Sarge is expecting the Commissioner to stop by, so he wants Penry to have the police station cleaned up before he arrives.
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#35 - 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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#36 - 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.
#37 - Almost the Sound of Music
My Three Sons - Season 4 - Episode 1
To capture the affections of a pretty blond, Robbie turns pop composer and produces a novelty song. The family agrees to do the vocal background, but when they are selected to sing the song on television, Steve gets a bad case of stagefright.
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#38 - The Addams Family Goes to School
The Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 1
Sam Hilliard, a truant officer, shows up at the Addams family home, due to the fact that Pugsley and Wednesday are not attending school. Soon he discovers, he's dealing with no typical everyday family.
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#39 - 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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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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#41 - My Daughter, the Doctor
Petticoat Junction - Season 1 - Episode 17
Billie Jo receives $500 that her late father designated for her to become a doctor, but she wants to be an actress instead.
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The New Addams Family - Season 1 - Episode 3
The school board finds out that Wednesday and Pugsley have never been to school, and insists that they be enrolled immediately. Gomez and Morticia are rightly concerned about how the first day of school would be for the kids. Wednesday and Pugsley return with the horror of a dragon being killed in Grimm's Fairy Tales. But everything is straightened out when the school board reps come to the Addams house.
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#44 - 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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#45 - The President Who Came to Dinner
Petticoat Junction - Season 1 - Episode 3
The railroad president comes to town to shut down the Cannonball but becomes enchanted by the staff of the Shady Rest.
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#46 - 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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#48 - 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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#49 - The Little Train Robbery
Petticoat Junction - Season 1 - Episode 9
The Cannonball's bank shipment is the target of two young train robbers.
#50 - 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.