Overview of 'The Tony Randall Show' Season 1

The Tony Randall Show (1976)

Comedy

Walter Franklin is a somewhat less-than-magisterial Philadelphia judge put upon by an assortment of family and courtroom recidivists.

Writing:

Jay Tarses

Stars:

Release Date: 1976-09-23
Seasons: 1 2

5.0/10

Country: US
Language: English
Runtime: 30

Season 1 Episode List

Episode 1 - Pilot
Release Date: 1976-09-23
Walter Franklin has to cope with a bad case of nerves as he preens for his first date with widow Linda Jenkins in almost two years.
Episode 2 - Case: A Question Of Qualifications
Release Date: 1976-09-30
Walter finds that hiring a new clerk can be a trying experience. He interviews an odd-lot assortment of law-clerk applicants and surprise everyone with his final choice.
Episode 3 - Case: His Honor Vs. Her Honor
Release Date: 1976-10-07
Walter becomes infatuated when he meets another Judge, Eleanor Hooper, and they try to find some privacy together by meeting in Atlantic City.
Episode 4 - Case: The Ego Affair
Release Date: 1976-10-14
After delivering a well-received speech, Walter is inundated with public-speaking requests that send his ego sailing. He gets too big for his judicial robe when he accepts too many speaking engagements and starts believing his own publicity.
Episode 5 - Case: Franklin vs. Reubner And Reubner
Release Date: 1976-10-21
Walter finds out that his tone-faced, sharp-tongued secretary, Miss Reubner, has another side to her personality when he asks her to his home to celebrate her birthday with his family. Ashamed of getting tight at her birthday party, Miss Reubner resigns.
Episode 6 - Case: The Snow White Affair
Release Date: 1976-10-28
After Walter upholds a local theater's right to show a pornographic film, he forbids his eighteen-year-old daughter to see it.
Episode 7 - Case: Terwilliger vs. Himself
Release Date: 1976-11-11
When Jack's normally ultra-accurate court reports deteriorate, Walter investigates his friend's problem.
Episode 8 - Case: The Denecki Debacle
Release Date: 1976-11-18
Walter gets more than he bargained for on the bench when he replaces another jurist and has to deal with an attorney notorious for his devious tactics. .
Episode 9 - Case: Mario Strikes Again
Release Date: 1976-12-02
Walter loses his cool in the courtroom when a new law clerk keeps interrupting him, and the issue of his emotional sickness is taken up by the judicial review board.
Episode 10 - Case: Franklin In Love
Release Date: 1976-12-16
Walter's family thinks his engagement to Judge Hooper is premature.
Episode 11 - Case: O' Come All Ye Wastrels
Release Date: 1976-12-23
Believing there's no place like home for the holidays, Walter brings home a convicted criminal to spend the Christmas holidays with his family.
Episode 12 - Case: Money Vs. Stature
Release Date: 1976-12-30
Walter is tempted by a friend's offer of a law partnership.
Episode 13 - Case: The Hooper Affair
Release Date: 1977-01-06
Walter's romance with Judge Hooper is threatened by the arrival of a college buddy who once dated her.
Episode 14 - Case: Democracy Vs. Tyranny
Release Date: 1977-01-13
Walter's household rebels: Bobby wants an apartment, Brad refuses to change schools, and Mrs. McClellan buys a cat.
Episode 15 - Case: Whatever Happened To Mary Jane?
Release Date: 1977-01-20
Walter's eagerness to help his loyal friend and court reporter Jack backfires when an overzealous city attorney Mario Lanza busts the judge on a marijuana charge.
Episode 16 - Case: McClellan Vs. Immigration
Release Date: 1977-01-27
To prevent deportation to her native England, Mrs. McClellan advertises for a husband and a motley crew of prospects show up.
Episode 17 - Case: May Vs December
Release Date: 1977-02-03
After reprimanding Bobby for dating an older man, Walter finds himself attracted to a younger woman.
Episode 18 - Case: The Lawndale Report
Release Date: 1977-02-10
From a beach at Acapulco to a minimum security prison is quite a contrast for Walter, who sought the former for two weeks but has to settle for the latter instead. He got the assignment as part of a judicial investigation on the institution's conditions.
Episode 19 - Case: Violence Vs Finesse
Release Date: 1977-02-17
Oliver cuts school and learns a lesson when he comes to his father's courtroom to see his hero Wild Doug Mclntire, the toughest hockey player in the league to testify. Then the boy tries to emulate his hero's hockey style.
Episode 20 - Case: Franklin Vs. McClellan
Release Date: 1977-02-24
Walter's household rises up against him, Brad is not willing to change schools, Bobby expresses her liking to live in an apartment and Mrs. McClellan would love to have a cat.
Episode 21 - Case: Facing Up Vs. Hiding Behind The Drapes
Release Date: 1977-03-03
Mario becomes Walter's self-appointed bodyguard after the escape of a vengeful convict Walter once sent to prison.
Episode 22 - Case: The People Speak
Release Date: 1977-03-10
Walter runs for Superior Court judge against a former rival.