The Danny Thomas Show (1953)
Danny Thomas, an entertainer, tries to balance his home life with the needs of his career, with hilarious results.
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Episode 1 - Uncle Daddy
Release Date: 1953-09-29 -
Episode 2 - Party Dress
Release Date: 1953-10-06Danny buys a new doll for Terry and brings it home, expecting her to be happy about it, but instead finds that Margaret is making her a new dress for a school dance—and Terry, at age eleven, is too old for dolls.
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Episode 3 - Second Honeymoon
Release Date: 1953-10-13Margaret finally gets her second honeymoon with Danny, but a friend needs him to open for him in Atlantic City, the same place where the honeymoon is taking place. A flashback occurs which tells what happened on their first honeymoon in 1941. In the end, the Williams' get their honeymoon.
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Episode 4 - Mother-in-Law
Release Date: 1953-10-20Margaret’s mother starts feeling like she’s forgotten, and taken for granted, when she’s called up time-after-time just to babysit.
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Episode 5 - Anniversary
Release Date: 1953-10-27When Danny forgets his and Margaret’s wedding anniversary and is stuck in the doghouse, he reminisces about a simpler time and their first anniversary, before his success in show business.
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Episode 6 - Margaret, Non-Pro
Release Date: 1953-11-03 -
Episode 7 - The Visiting Englishman
Release Date: 1953-11-10Margaret and Danny become exasperated by an unwanted guest who won’t leave and who causes all sorts of problems for the two—but the kids adore him, and, later, they become fond of him, as well.
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Episode 8 - The Sea Captain
Release Date: 1953-11-17Danny showers the children with money, and drops plenty of hints, for them to get a present for his birthday. But the children don't understand, and spend it on the custodian of the building, who was once a sailor.
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Episode 9 - Thanksgiving Story
Release Date: 1953-11-24 -
Episode 10 - Last Dollar
Release Date: 1953-12-01 -
Episode 11 - Margaret's Job
Release Date: 1953-12-08When an old college friend of Margaret’s comes to visit her, and she starts to compare her life with her successful friend’s, she becomes unhappy with her own life. Afterwards, Danny takes an unfortunate jab at her, and she decides to accept a job that the friend had previously offered her.
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Episode 12 - Wonderland
Release Date: 1953-12-15While about to start a relaxing vacation with just Margaret and himself, Danny finds himself stuck with a houseguest who’s the winner of a publicity stunt his agent submitted him for.
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Episode 13 - Christmas
Release Date: 1953-12-22Rusty becomes cynical about Santa Claus and Christmas, and Danny gets stuck, on Christmas Eve, in Detroit because of a small clause in his contract.
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Episode 14 - Toledo
Release Date: 1953-12-29Danny takes the kids with him to Toledo, and the stories he tells them about his childhood days and friends there, they discover, are off the mark when they meet several of his old acquaintances.
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Episode 15 - Margaret's Jealousy
Release Date: 1954-01-05Margaret unnecessarily works herself up to be jealous of Danny and an old girlfriend of his.
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Episode 16 - Terry for President
Release Date: 1954-01-12 -
Episode 17 - True Blue Benny
Release Date: 1954-01-19 -
Episode 18 - Rusty Runs Away
Release Date: 1954-01-26 -
Episode 19 - The Professor
Release Date: 1954-02-02After dispensing a lecture to the kids on unselfishness, Danny discovers that they have brought a bum, albeit an emeritis college professor, into the house without his knowledge.
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Episode 20 - Burlesque
Release Date: 1954-02-09 -
Episode 21 - Black Eyes
Release Date: 1954-02-16 -
Episode 22 - Margaret's Birthday
Release Date: 1954-02-23Margaret’s three friends in her Wednesday bridge club brag to her about the presents their husbands gave them for Valentine’s Day, and she feels the need to defend Danny for a simple tape recorder she ostensibly got. Later, he hears something on said tape recorder and decides to change up her birthday present.
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Episode 23 - The Matchmaker
Release Date: 1954-03-02 -
Episode 24 - Night Club
Release Date: 1954-03-09 -
Episode 25 - Terry's Career
Release Date: 1954-03-16 -
Episode 26 - School Festival
Release Date: 1954-03-23 -
Episode 27 - Rusty's Pal
Release Date: 1954-03-30 -
Episode 28 - Julia's Birthday
Release Date: 1954-04-06 -
Episode 29 - Pittsburgh
Release Date: 1954-04-13 -
Episode 30 - Danny's Vacation
Release Date: 1954-04-20