I Married Joan (1952)
I Married Joan is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from 1952 to 1955. It starred veteran vaudeville, film, and radio comedienne-comedy actress Joan Davis as the manic, scatterbrained wife of a mild-mannered community judge, the Honorable Bradley Stevens.
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Episode 1 - Pilot
Release Date: 1952-10-15A young couple's quarrel over a fur coat ends up in Brad's court and brings back memories of another fur coat that caused a crisis in the Stevens marriage. Joan remembers when she was an airline hostess and buys a fur coat.
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Episode 2 - Career
Release Date: 1952-10-22Judge Stevens invites a prospective campaign contributor to dinner, only to find that his wife, trying to be helpful, has invited another sponsor.
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Episode 3 - Ballet
Release Date: 1952-10-29The Judge advises his wife Joan to get more exercise as an antidote to fatigue from housework and Joan turns to ballet.
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Episode 4 - Jitterbug
Release Date: 1952-11-05Joan finds an ingenious way to retaliate after Brad fines her for speeding, she takes up jitterbugging after trying babysitting and selling "all you can eat" to phone men.
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Episode 5 - Crime Panel
Release Date: 1952-11-12Joan is scheduled to appear on a crime prevention forum. To prepare herself she spends the day visiting poolrooms.
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Episode 6 - Brad's Class Reunion
Release Date: 1952-11-19Joan struggles to change herself into "The Perfect Woman" to fit a description written by her husband.
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Episode 7 - Hunting
Release Date: 1952-11-26Joan insists that she is an experienced camper. Unconvinced, Brad decides to test her aptitude for the great outdoors.
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Episode 8 - Joan's Curiosity
Release Date: 1952-12-03Joan is in for a surprise when she opens an interesting-looking package that arrived for Brad.
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Episode 9 - Birthday
Release Date: 1952-12-10Joan buys some dresses, puts them on her charge account, then sells them to friends for cash. The reason is she needs money to buy Brad a birthday present.
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Episode 10 - Bazar Pie
Release Date: 1952-12-17Joan wants to arrange a romance, by introducing her new neighbor, a handsome Latin, to her visiting aunt.
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Episode 11 - Acrobats
Release Date: 1952-12-31When Brad announces that he is bringing home important guests for dinner, Joan feels it necessary to buy a new wardrobe for the occasion. While shopping for a hat she winds up in a fight with a woman who turns out to be one of Brad's dinner guests. At dinner Joan tries to disguise herself by joining the nightclub's entertainers, acrobats.
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Episode 12 - Dreams
Release Date: 1952-12-24After meeting three former schoolmates who are now successful career woman, Joan decides that she is happier just being a housewife
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Episode 13 - Bad Boy
Release Date: 1953-01-07Joan tries to reform a juvenile delinquent and nearly winds up in jail herself.
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Episode 14 - Circumstantial Evidence
Release Date: 1953-01-14Joan takes an interest in her husband's work and tries to prove that a man he is about to sentence was convicted on circumstantial evidence.
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Episode 15 - Uncle Edgar
Release Date: 1953-01-21Uncle Edgar visits Joan and her husband and they have a difficult time trying to keep him out of trouble.
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Episode 16 - Moosehead
Release Date: 1953-01-28Joan tries to kill two problems with the same fifty-dollar bill and winds up deeply wounded by a dead moose at an auction.
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Episode 17 - Fireman
Release Date: 1953-02-04Joan tries to patch up the quarrels of her newlywed-neighbors and succeeds in creating some for herself at the firehouse.
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Episode 18 - Memory
Release Date: 1953-02-11Joan's faulty memory wreaks gastric disaster when she forgets a dinner invitation, resulting in not one, not two, but three spaghetti dinners in the same evening.
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Episode 19 - Draftboard
Release Date: 1953-02-18Brad receives a letter from his local draft board. Joan assumes he's being called to armed service and panics.
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Episode 20 - Opera
Release Date: 1953-02-25In order to save her club's benefit show, Joan takes a whirl at the opera. Bing Crosby helps out.
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Episode 21 - Shopping
Release Date: 1953-03-04Joan needs newly out-fitted for a fancy party. So does husband Brad, but both have second thoughts about Joan's shopping trip.
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Episode 22 - The Stamp
Release Date: 1953-03-11Joan mails a letter using a Mozambique stamp that Brad just purchased for $350. Her husband blows his top, but why is Joan now on trial?
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Episode 23 - Little Girl
Release Date: 1953-03-18Joan tries to spark a romance between a guest and a neighbor's son. Joan Davis.
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Episode 24 - Diet
Release Date: 1953-03-25 -
Episode 25 - Model
Release Date: 1953-04-01 -
Episode 26 - Lateness
Release Date: 1953-04-08 -
Episode 27 - The Eviction Show
Release Date: 1953-04-15 -
Episode 28 - The Recipe
Release Date: 1953-04-22 -
Episode 29 - Repairs
Release Date: 1953-04-29 -
Episode 30 - Secrets
Release Date: 1953-05-06 -
Episode 31 - The Artist Show
Release Date: 1953-05-13 -
Episode 32 - The Threat
Release Date: 1953-05-20 -
Episode 33 - Country Club
Release Date: 1953-05-27 -
Episode 34 - Theatrical Can-Can
Release Date: 1953-06-03 -
Episode 35 - Neighbors
Release Date: 1953-06-10 -
Episode 36 - Talent Scout
Release Date: 1953-06-17 -
Episode 37 - Honeymoon
Release Date: 1953-06-24Joan locks Brad in a burglar-proof closet. Joan Davis, Jim Backus.
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Episode 38 - Business Executive
Release Date: 1953-07-01 -
Episode 39 - Brad's Broken Toe
Release Date: 1953-07-08All is not quiet in a hospital when Joan and Brad become patients. Jim Backus.