Fri, Nov 9, 1962
Mr. Jillson wins an Eskimo dog in a contest, and then agrees to take Mrs. Walters' cat for a week while she is in Miami Beach. They fight "like cats and dogs", so Mr. Jillson gets Joey and Ellie to take the dog for that week. It turns out that the dog is fresh from the Arctic and needs to be slowly acclimated to indoor temperatures, so Joey and Ellie must live without heat for a week.
Fri, Nov 16, 1962
Ellie is concerned that Joey hasn't been to the doctor for a check-up since she has known him, and he keeps breaking the appointments with the doctor that she has made for him, because it makes no sense to him to go to a doctor unless he feels there is something wrong with him. Therefore, Ellie sets out to convince Joey that there is something the matter with his health.
Fri, Dec 21, 1962
Joey has been spending a lot of evenings working at the office with Cindy, his new, very beautiful, secretary. Ellie suspects that Joey is straying. Joey, though innocent, realizes that he has to fire Cindy to keep Ellie from leaving him, but he has no cause. Freddie convinces Joey to feign romantic interest in Cindy to get her to quit.
Fri, Jan 11, 1963
With Jillson being a guest on Joey's talk show, Joey tells the story of how Jillson went on a diet. Mrs. Jillson calls everyone in the apartment house and tells every tenant that Mr. Jillson is on a diet and not to give him any cinnamon buns. Desperate, Jillson goes and buys every cinnamon bun that he can find and hides them in every apartment in the apartment house.
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Fri, Jan 18, 1963
In an episode showcasing Guy Marks' amazing ability as an impressionist and clown, Freddie falls in love with a society girl, and he goes all-out to impress her, complete with a faux British accent. This was Guy Marks' last appearance in this series. The character Freddie was never again even mentioned.
Fri, Jan 25, 1963
A gorgeous woman who is a Judo expert appears on Joey's show to demonstrate how women can defend themselves from men that attempt to overpower them, and ends up kissing Joey on the air. This causes embarrassment to Ellie as well as engenders her jealousy, and when she threatens to leave him and go home to her mother in Texas, Joey decides to move in with his head-writer Larry. Corbett Monica joins the cast as Larry Corbett, which is a new character, replacing Guy Marks as Joey's best friend and second-banana in the series.
Fri, Feb 15, 1963
A little girl's crush on Joey interferes with the already-established puppy love between her and a boy near her own age. The boy and Joey hatch a plan to make the girl dislike Joey, which involves the children attending a rehearsal for Joey's show during which Joey will pretend to be a tyrant and abuser of his employees.
Fri, Feb 22, 1963
Joey learns that Ellie's aunt Cecilia, with whom he shares a mutual dislike, is coming to town for two weeks and intends to stay in his guest room. Joey gets Larry to pretend to break his leg in the Barnes' apartment so that Joey can justify Larry staying in the guest room, which he assumes would force Ellie's aunt to stay in a hotel.
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Fri, Mar 8, 1963
Since Joey has passed an Expectant Fathers' class with flying colors, Ellie agrees to trust him with a friend's baby for a few hours. When he needs to whip up some baby formula, Joey follows what he thinks is the recipe, but in reality it is a recipe for Turkey stuffing that Ellie is planning to make.
Fri, Apr 12, 1963
Joey's sure he's going to have a son; he's up all night trying to convince a mostly asleep Ellie that their son will be a doctor. And when he's not going after Ellie he's bugging everyone else they know. Ellie has heard it so much that she has a dream about her son as a doctor operating on a long time friend of the family.
Fri, May 3, 1963
Buddy Hackett, Joey's old friend, comes to visit, and appears on Joey's TV show. Buddy also delights in playing practical jokes on Joey, starting with a prank call to Joey in the middle of the night. The jokes increase in number and intensity, ending with the arrest of Danny Thomas, another friend of Joey's.