The Danny Thomas Show
Season 1
1953 · 30 episodes
1. Uncle Daddy
1953-09-29 · 30m
2. Party Dress
1953-10-06 · 30m
Danny 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.
3. Second Honeymoon
1953-10-13 · 30m
Margaret 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.
4. Mother-in-Law
1953-10-20 · 30m
Margaret’s mother starts feeling like she’s forgotten, and taken for granted, when she’s called up time-after-time just to babysit.
5. Anniversary
1953-10-27 · 30m
When 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.
6. Margaret, Non-Pro
1953-11-03 · 30m
7. The Visiting Englishman
1953-11-10 · 30m
Margaret 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.
8. The Sea Captain
1953-11-17 · 30m
Danny 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.
9. Thanksgiving Story
1953-11-24 · 30m
10. Last Dollar
1953-12-01 · 30m
11. Margaret's Job
1953-12-08 · 30m
When 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.
12. Wonderland
1953-12-15 · 30m
While 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.
13. Christmas
1953-12-22 · 30m
Rusty becomes cynical about Santa Claus and Christmas, and Danny gets stuck, on Christmas Eve, in Detroit because of a small clause in his contract.
14. Toledo
1953-12-29 · 30m
Danny 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.
15. Margaret's Jealousy
1954-01-05 · 30m
Margaret unnecessarily works herself up to be jealous of Danny and an old girlfriend of his.
16. Terry for President
1954-01-12 · 30m
17. True Blue Benny
1954-01-19 · 30m
18. Rusty Runs Away
1954-01-26 · 30m
19. The Professor
1954-02-02 · 30m
After 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.
20. Burlesque
1954-02-09 · 30m
21. Black Eyes
1954-02-16 · 30m
22. Margaret's Birthday
1954-02-23 · 30m
Margaret’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.
23. The Matchmaker
1954-03-02 · 30m
24. Night Club
1954-03-09 · 30m
25. Terry's Career
1954-03-16 · 30m
26. School Festival
1954-03-23 · 30m
27. Rusty's Pal
1954-03-30 · 30m
28. Julia's Birthday
1954-04-06 · 30m
29. Pittsburgh
1954-04-13 · 30m
30. Danny's Vacation
1954-04-20 · 30m
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