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1 :01x01 - Howie Comes Home to Roost
Writer: Ron Clark, Sam Bobrick
Director: William Asher
Guest star: Dick Van Patten (Wollner)
Attorney Paul Simms must adjust to the presence of his new son-in-law in his home. It seems as though the boy is a genius who can't seem to find a job.
2 :01x02 - Whiz Kid Sizzles as Quiz Fizzles
Writer: Ed Jurist
Director: William Asher
Guest star: Roy Rowan (Emcee), Anson Williams (Jimmy)
When Howie gets chosen to compete on a quiz show, Paul hopes that he will win enough money to move out of his house.
3 :01x03 - The Landlord
Writer: S.A. Long
Director: William Asher
Guest star: Anne Meara (Grace Dickerson), Jerry Stiller (Barney Dickerson)
Howie and Barbara decide to move out of the upstairs apartment but they only move to the basement.
4 :01x04 - No Nudes is Good Nudes
Writer: Robert Fisher, Arthur Marx
Director: William Asher
Guest star: Arthur O'Connell (guest star)
When Howie gets a part in an all-nude play, Paul tries to prevent it from opening.
5 :01x05 - To Commune or Not to Commune
Writer: Robert Fisher, Arthur Marx
Director: Bruce Bilson
Guest star: Kenneth Washington (Joe), Jodie Foster (Maggie), Anne Wyndham (Patsy), Jack Bender (Jericho)
Howie ruins Paul's expensive new briefcase. Paul's subesequent tirade causes Howie and Barbara to move out of the house to a commune. Martha then persuades her husband to ask them to move back.
6 :01x06 - How to be Unhappy, Though Poor
Writer: S.A. Long
Director: William Asher
Guest star: Herb Voland (J. J. McNish), Jack Denton (Delivery Man), Iggie Wolfington (Delivery Man), Tracy Bogart (Hippie Chick), Judie Stein (Hippie Chick), Cliff Norton (Ralph), Mollie Irving (Mae)
Paul is unhappy with his job when he receives time off instead of an expected cash bonus. Howie then mistakenly thinks that the Simms' are broke.
7 :01x07 - Pollution Solution
Writer: Robert Fisher, Arthur Marx
Director: Jack Donohue
Guest star: Mwako Cumbuka (Harley), Ronda Copland (Carol)
The kids are protesting off-shore drilling by an oil company that happens to be one of the largest clients of Paul's law firm.
8 :01x08 - To Wed or Not to Wed
Writer: Budd Grossman
Director: Ernest Losso
Guest star: Anne Meara (Grace), Chuck McCann (Minister), Jerry Stiller (Barney), Allison McKay (Alice)
Howie and Barbara discover that they aren't legally married due to a technicality: the license of the minister who married them expired before the wedding. A new wedding ceremony is then held at the Simms' pool.
9 :01x09 - Unsteady Going
14 year old Sally has her first steady boyfriend. She's happy with the situation but the same cannot be said for her father.
10 :01x10 - Whose Lib?
Writer: Robert Fisher, Arthur Marx
Director: Ernest Losso
Guest star: Joel Lawrence (Officer), Allison McKay (Alice), Herb Voland (J. J. McNish), Barbara Rhoades (Eve Loring)
When his secretary takes a two week vacation, Paul hires Howie as a temporary replacement. Needless to say, things don't exactly work out.
11 :01x11 - Meet Aunt Charlotte
Writer: Stan Dreben, Ed Jurist
Director: George Tyne
Guest star: Charlotte Rae (Aunt Charlotte), Ray Walston (Tamuro)
Paul's sister, Charlotte, arrives for a visit at the same time as a potentially big Japanese client does. Paul then jumps to the conclusion that sis and the client are fooling around.
12 :01x12 - An Affair to Forget
Writer: Robert Fisher, Arthur Marx
Director: George Tyne
Guest star: Thelma Carpenter (Thelma), Jo Anne Worley (Fay Adamson), Roger Perry (Dr. Jack Adamson), Dick Wilson (Patient)
After her husband flirts with Martha at a party, a wife leaves him and moves in with the Simms'. It's a hard road to reconciliation especially since she wants to return to her old show biz career.
13 :01x13 - Martha's Last Hurrah
Writer: Myles Wilder, William Raynor
Director: Jack Donohue
Guest star: Charlotte Rae (Aunt Charlotte)
Aunt Charlotte returns only to find herself on the opposite side of brother Paul in a mayoral election.
14 :01x14 - Paul's Desperate Hour
Writer: Ben Starr
Director: Bruce Bilson
Guest star: Paul Smith (Officer), Carol Speer (Laverne), James A. Watson, Jr. (Leroy)
Amazingly, Howie brings the man who tried to mug him and Barbara home for dinner. The good deed does not go unpunished when the mugger pulls a gun and begins ransacking the Simms house.
15 :01x15 - No More Mr. Nice Guy
Writer: Bernie Kahn
Director: George Tyne
Guest star: Ellen Blake (Patty), Eugene Troobnick (Dr. Grunning), Marcia Strassman (Karen), Paul Gregory White (Steve), Martin Speer (Barry), Joshua Shelley (Joe Patterson), Helen Page Camp (Louvella Patterson)
In order to get his blood pressure down, Paul tries extra hard not to let Howie's antics annoy him but Howie thinks that Paul needs to vent so he goes overboard to make his father-in-law angry.
16 :01x16 - The Bare Facts
Writer: Robert Fisher, Arthur Marx
Director: George Tyne
Guest star: Richard X. Slattery (Sullivan), Henry Jones (Judge Conrad), Dick Wilson (Intoxicated Man)
Howie paints a nude picture of Barbara that somehow ends up on the wall of a hangout for Paul's law partners.
17 :01x17 - Howie's Inheritance
Writer: Laurence Marks
Director: Jerry London
Guest star: Milt Kamen (guest star)
Howie inherits the tidy sum of $10,000 but declines to accept the money.
18 :01x18 - P.S. I Loathe You
Writer: Bob Carroll, Jr., Madelyn Davis
Director: Jack Donohue
Guest star: James Gregory (T. R. Scott), Neva Patterson (Edna Scott), Frank Campanella (Bernie), Dick Wilson (George)
For therapeutic value, Paul writes a nasty letter to his boss never intending for it to get mailed. Unfortunately, the letter does get mailed and chaos ensues.
19 :01x19 - The Congressman's Son
Writer: Leo Rifkin
Director: George Tyne
Guest star: Stephen Nathan (Willie Landis), Gordon Jump (Larry), Tom Bosley (Fred Landis), Paul Sorenson (Vince)
Paul's old law school buddy, who's now a Congressman, pays him a visit. Howie then persuades the Congressman's son to become a hippie.
20 :01x20 - Out of Bounds
Writer: Myles Wilder, William Raynor
Director: Oscar Rudolph
Guest star: Maggie Malooly (Joan Perkins), Roger Bowen (Sam Perkins), Richard Roat (Barton), Bernie Kopell (Myron Campbell), Liam Dunn (Frisby), Theodore Wilson (Johnson), Dick Curtis (Frazier), Barney Phillips (Surveyor)
Paul's backyard fence is discovered to be a foot onto his neighbor's property so he's asked to move it but Howie's research indicates that the fence is in the correct location.
21 :01x21 - Is This Trip Necessary?
Writer: Robert Fisher, Arthur Marx
Director: George Tyne
Guest star: Mabel Albertson (Mabel)
When his mother-in-law stays and stays and stays, Paul arranges for her to win a free trip in order to get rid of her.
22 :01x22 - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Your Mother-in-Law But Were Afraid to Ask
Writer: Arthur Marx, Robert Fisher
Director: Coby Ruskin
Guest star: Richard X. Slattery (Sullivan), Dick Wilson (George), Alan Hale, Jr. (Dr. Colton), Mabel Albertson (Mabel)
Paul has the mother-in-law blues again when she pays the Simms family another visit.
23 :01x23 - Back Talk
Writer: Phil Sharp
Director: Oscar Rudolph
Guest star: Victor Sen Yung (Fong), Dick Van Patten (Dr. Willis), Herbert Anderson (Ed Murphy)
Paul pulls a muscle in his back before he's scheduled to attend a dance with Martha but when the injury heals he keeps on pretending in order to get out of attending the dance.
24 :01x24 - Barbara Goes Home to Mother
After an argument, Barbara moves upstairs with Martha while Paul is forced to share the basement with Howie.
25 :01x25 - Togetherness
Writer: Barry E. Blitzer
Director: Ernest Losso
Guest star: James Gregory (T. R. Scott), Sean Kelly (Mark)
Paul demands that the family spend more time together instead of doing their own things but they are miserable as a result.
26 :01x26 - Springtime for Paul
Writer: S.A. Long
Director: Ernest Losso
Guest star: Mary Ann Gibson (Rita Cunningham), Roger C. Carmel (George Cunningham), Christopher Norris (Julie Cunningham), Frank Welker (Freddie)
A pretty 18 year old damsel who lives in the neighborhood develops a crush on Paul causing jealousy in both her boyfriend and Martha.