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1 :01x01 - Pilot
Writer: Tom Patchett, Jay Tarses
Director: Jay Sandrich
Guest star: Emory Bass (George, maitre d’), Melendy Britt (Linda Jenkins), Garry Walberg (waiter), David Rounds (Edwin Marden), Robert Mandan (Lionel Crenshaw)
Emmy winner Tony Randall portrays widower Walter Franklin, a somewhat less-than-magisterial Philadelphia judge put upon by an assortment of family and courtroom recidivists. In this pilot-opener, Walter copes with a bad case of nerves as he preens for his first date with a widow, Linda Jenkins, in almost two years. Walter goes out with the widow, whose talk about her dear departed, turns it into a memorial dinner for the late Mr. Jenkins' so much so that the waiter offers to bring an extra plate.
2 :01x02 - Case: A Question Of Qualifications
Walter finds that hiring a new clerk can be a trying experience. Judge Franklin interviews an odd-lot assortment of law-clerk applicants, and surprise everyone with his final choice. Judge Walter Franklin must weigh the scales of Justice off the bench when he Interviews for a new law clerk and the applicants include his court reporter, Jack Terwilliger, an aggressive young man, and a beautiful girl with excellent qualifications.
3 :01x03 - Case: His Honor Vs. Her Honor
Writer: David Lloyd
Director: James Burrows
Guest star: Leonard Barr (Bellhop)
The Honorable Judge Franklin becomes infatuated when he meets another Judge, Eleanor Hooper, and they try to find some privacy together by meeting in Atlantic City. Walter courts the female judge who's anything but turned off by his romantic naivete.
4 :01x04 - Case: The Ego Affair
Writer: Tom Patchett, Jay Tarses
Director: Alan Myerson
Guest star: Victor Buono (Judge Bernard Gluck), Richard Bull (Mort Lumbuli)
After delivering a rousingly well-received speech, Walter (Tony Randall) is inundated with public-speaking requests that send his ego sailing. Judge Walter Franklin gets too big for his judicial robe when he accepts too many speaking engagements and starts believing his own publicity
5 :01x05 - Case: Franklin vs. Reubner And Reubner
Writer: Hugh Wilson
Director: Peter Bonerz
Guest star: Gertrude Flynn (Kim Reubner)
Ashamed of getting tight at her birthday party, Miss Reubner (Allyn Ann McLerie) resigns. Judge Walter Franklin 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.
6 :01x06 - Case: The Snow White Affair
Writer: Lloyd Garver
Director: Michael Zinberg
Guest star: Michael Evans (George), Jay W. MacIntosh (Chairwoman), Kenneth Mars (Dr. Stanner)
After Walter (Tony Randall) upholds a local theater's right to show a pornographic film, he forbids his 18-year-old daughter to see it. Judge Franklin makes a decision regarding the picketing of an X-rated theater then finds that his daughter, Bobby, intends to see the film.
7 :01x07 - Case: Terwilliger vs. Himself
Writer: Jay Tarses, Tom Patchett
Director: Harvey Medlinsky
Guest star: Bobo Lewis (Tanya), Hal Smith (Bum)
When Jack's normally ultra-accurate court reports deteriorate, Walter (Tony Randall) investigates his friend's problem.
8 :01x08 - Case: The Denecki Debacle
Writer: Hugh Wilson
Director: Alan Myerson
Guest star: Stephen Elliott (DeNecki), Nino Candido (Tony), Jerry Fogel (Neil Butler)
Judge Franklin 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. Walter does a slow burn over the bullying tactics of a defense attorney in an arson case.
9 :01x09 - Case: Mario Strikes Again
Writer: Gary David Goldberg
Director: Harvey Medlinsky
Guest star: Patrick Allen Reynolds (Bullet Head), Murray Matheson (Burnside)
Walter flares over his temporary assistant's penchant for courtroom histrionics. He 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.
10 :01x10 - Case: Franklin In Love
Writer: Tom Patchett, Jay Tarses
Director: Harvey Medlinsky
Guest star: Richard Balin (Cornfeld), Jason Wingreen (Newley), Diana Muldaur (Judge Eleanor Hooper)
Judge Walter Franklin pops the question, "Will you marry me?" to beautiful Judge Eleanor Hooper. Walter's family thinks his engagement to Judge Hooper (Diana Muldaur) is premature.
11 :01x11 - Case: O' Come All Ye Wastrels
Writer: Sy Rosen
Director: James Burrows
Guest star: Dick Van Patten (Myron C. Dobbs)
Feeling Christmas spirit, Walter takes a colorful but incorrigible thief into his home. Believing there's no place like home for the holidays, Judge Franklin brings home a convicted criminal to spend the Christmas holidays with his family - and the judge gets more than he bargained for.
12 :01x12 - Case: Money Vs. Stature
Writer: Hugh Wilson
Director: Hugh Wilson
Guest star: Michael Durrell (Winslow), Ken Sylk (Thorten), Bill McLean (Negley), William Windom (Kiss)
Walter is tempted by a friend's offer of a law partnership. When Judge Franklin meets his old law partner, he is offered a position with the firm and must decide whether or not to stay on the bench.
13 :01x13 - Case: The Hooper Affair
Writer: Patricia Jones, Donald Reiker
Director: Michael Zinberg
Guest star: Craig Stevens (Neely), Joan Shawlee (Joanie Biederbeck)
Walter's romance with Judge Hooper (Diana Muldaur) is threatened by the arrival of a college buddy who once dated her. Judge Franklin makes a common error and introduces his girl, Judge Eleanor Hooper, to his old pal, a famous trial attorney. And they only have eyes for each other. She doesn't even know he's in the same room. Franklin tries to forget her by dating another woman, a former classmate.
14 :01x14 - Case: Democracy Vs. Tyranny
Writer: Gary David Goldberg
Director: Tony Mordente
Guest star: Nedra Volz (Mildred Piersen)
Walter's housekeeper and children simultaneously defy his control. Walter's household rebels: Bobby wants an apartment, Brad refuses to change schools, and Mrs. McClellan buys a cat. Judge Franklin is charged with three counts of first degree tyranny by his children and housekeeper. Judge Franklin is perturbed when his children, Bobby and Oliver, seek his housekeeper's advice instead of his
15 :01x15 - Case: Whatever Happened To Mary Jane?
Writer: Tom Patchett, Jay Tarses
Director: John C. Chulay
Guest star: Michael Durrell (Gene Locatelli)
Mario Lanza (Zane Lasky) charges Walter with possession when a bag of marijuana turns up in the judge's desk. Judge Franklin's eagerness to help his loyal friend and court reporter, jack, backfires when an overzealous city attorney, Lanza, busts the judge on a marijuana charge.
16 :01x16 - Case: McClellan Vs. Immigration
Writer: David Lloyd
Director: Hugh Wilson
Guest star: Cliff Norton (Harry), Richard Libertini (Nadim), James Greene (Dr. Pepper)
For a change, its not the judge who is in trouble. His housekeeper, Mrs. McClellan, discovers her visa has been invalidated and she could be deported. But she come up with a plan to avoid deportation. To prevent deportation to her native England, Mrs. McClellan (Rachel Roberts) advertises for a husband, and a motley crew of prospects show up.
17 :01x17 - Case: May Vs December
Writer: Gary David Goldberg
Director: Harvey Medlinsky
Guest star: Annette O'Toole (Melissa), Ken Sansom (Leonard)
After reprimanding Bobby (Devon Scott) for dating an older man, Walter (Tony Randall) finds himself attracted to a younger woman. Judge Franklin loudly protests his daughter's dating a much older man, and then the tables are turned. He starts to date, secretly, his son Oliver's teacher, a very pretty, but also very young, woman.
18 :01x18 - Case: The Lawndale Report
Writer: Gary David Goldberg
Director: Harvey Medlinsky
Guest star: Dick Sargent (Chesley), Linden Chiles (Crosswaithe), Archie Hahn (Graham)
A social Activist persuades Walter (Tony Randall) to write an exposé of prison conditions from behind bars. From a beach at Acapulco to a minimum security prison is quite a contrast for Judge Franklin, 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.
19 :01x19 - Case: Violence Vs Finesse (aka Case: The Hero Syndrome)
Writer: Earl Pomerantz
Director: Hugh Wilson
Guest star: Ed Walsh (Bruno Kessler), Jordan Clarke (Doug "Wild Dog" McIntire), Ken Sylk (Honniker)
Judge Franklin's son Oliver cuts school and learns a lesson in this episode 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. That's where the lesson comes in.
20 :01x20 - Case: Franklin Vs. McClellan
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.
21 :01x21 - Case: Facing Up Vs. Hiding Behind The Drapes
Writer: Earl Pomerantz
Director: James Burrows
Guest star: Phil Leeds (Ralph Martin), Ed Walsh (Bruno Kessler)
Mario (Zane Lasky) becomes Walter's self-appointed bodyguard after the escape of Bruno Kessler,a vengeful convict, Walter (Tony Randall) once sent to prison.
22 :01x22 - Case: The People Speak
Director: Michael Zinberg
Guest star: Charles Cyphers (Eddie Foxworth), David Ogden Stiers (Cleaver)
Walter runs for Superior Court judge against a former rival. Franklin runs for Superior Court Judge, his opponent dies during the election but too late for his name to be removed from the ballot. Lo and behold, he wins. Franklin is beaten by a dead man.
23 :02x01 - Case: Civil Disobedience
Writer: Tom Chehak
Director: Harvey Medlinsky
Guest star: Whit Bissell (Baker), James Keach (Bastian), Buddy Douglas (Nizer)
Judge Franklin's daughter Bobby who has been away at school decides to come back to Philadelphia to go to college. Franklin is elated she is coming home, especially since he didn't want her to go away but is stunned to learn the real reason she is returning. A lovers' quarrel sends Bobby (Penny Peyser) home to a doting father (Tony Randall).
24 :02x02 - Case: The Prodigal Father Returns
Walter (Tony Randall) and his father (Hans Conried) have a reunion after feuding for years. Hans Conried stars as Judge Franklin's prodigal father who returns to Philadelphia to see his son and grandchildren five years after Walter has stopped speaking to him.
25 :02x03 - Case: Walter Screws Up
Writer: Sy Rosen
Director: Asaad Kelada
Guest star: David Byrd (Pahagan), Ron Rifkin (Benten), Dana Gladstone (Watson)
After mistakenly convicting a defendant, Walter (Tony Randall) decides to hang up his robes.
26 :02x04 - Case: The Dream Maker
Writer: Mary-David Sheiner, Sheila Judis Weisberg
Director: Asaad Kelada
Guest star: Jay W. MacIntosh (Chairwoman), Michael Evans (George), Kenneth Mars (Dr. Stanner)
Eleanor (Diana Muldaur), bothered by a sense of monotony, decides to cool her relationship with Walter for a while. Busy work schedules present a problem for Judges franklin and Hooper, and when they manage to find some time together they are invaded by Mario Lanza, who has a crush on the lady judge.
27 :02x05 - Case: The Skin Game
Writer: Earl Pomerantz
Director: Harvey Medlinsky
Guest star: Michael Keaton (Zeke), Ralph Wilcox (D'Evangelista), Melanie Chartoff (Ginny), Richard Stahl (Pete)
Walter (Tony Randall) is thrilled by his night-school students' test scores, unaware that they cheated en masse.
28 :02x06 - Case: The Taking of Reubner 1-2-3
Writer: Hugh Wilson
Director: Hugh Wilson
Guest star: David Himes (Guard), Michael Pataki (Captain Roberts), Taurean Blacque (Officer), Veronica Redd (Mrs. Alexander), Cleavon Little (Willie Alexander), Kelton Green (LaMar)
An escaped prisoner (Cleavon Little) holds Miss Reubner hostage in Walter's chambers and demands a getaway plane. A convicted car thief plans to escape from jail, with Miss Reubner as his hostage.
29 :02x07 - Case: Love Vs. Excitement
Writer: Gary David Goldberg
Director: Michael Zinberg
Guest star: Walker Edmiston (Wells), Allan Arbus (Hashna-Vedanta), Michael Burns (Michael), Woodrow Parfrey (Davis)
Bobby (Penny Peyser) drops out of college and moves in with her boy friend.
30 :02x08 - Case: New Found Franklin
Writer: Carol Gary
Director: Asaad Kelada
Guest star: William Marshall (Judge Bradshaw), Glynn Turman (Bradshaw)
On an impulse, Judge Franklin hires his superior judge's son to fill the job of court clerk, causing him to be constantly agitated by the young man who turns out to be a racist. Walter tries to act hip to put his new clerk (William Turman), a hostile young black, at ease.
31 :02x09 - Case: Franklin Vs. Casanova
Writer: Kathy Donnell, Madeline DiMaggio
Director: Harvey Medlinsky
Guest star: Robert Alda (Charlie Finmore)
Judge Franklin discovers that his stoic secretary is dating the Casanova who is being judged in a trial.
32 :02x10 - Case: Bobby Vs. Michael
Writer: Donald Reiker, Patricia Jones
Director: Tony Mordente
Guest star: Michael Burns (Michael)
Bobby learns that even judges daughters are not exempt from punishment by law, when Walter sends her to jail for contempt of court.
33 :02x11 - Case: Franklin Vs. The Generation Gap
Writer: Donald Reiker, Patricia Jones
Director: Harvey Medlinsky
Guest star: Annette O'Toole (Melissa)
Walter (Tony Randall) dates a young admirer while keeping up a relationship with Eleanor (Diana Muldaur).
34 :02x12 - Case: The Sylvia Needleman Experience
Writer: Jay Tarses
Director: Harvey Medlinsky
Guest star: Beverly Garland (Sylvia Needleman), John William Young (Morton)
A flashy real-estate agent (Beverly Garland) has designs on Walter's house.
35 :02x13 - Case: Kids' Rights
Writer: William Allen Dial
Director: Tony Mordente
Guest star: Dawn Lyn (Jill), Lee Bergere (Clifford)
In court, a girl is suing her father; and at home, Oliver is bedeviling his. Mario Lanza is hired by a little girl who wants to be removed from her father's custody, but during the trial, she decides to have Mario removed as her lawyer.
36 :02x14 - Case: Bobby and Brian (aka Brian's Song)
Writer: Patricia Jones, Donald Reiker
Director: Tony Mordente
Guest star: Paul McKenna (Brian), Paula Shaw (Claire), Brian Dennehy (Brian Sr.)
The meticulous Walter admits he's overprotective, and feels there aren't too many men who are worthy of his daughter's companionship. But he also feels that Brian, Bobby's new interest, has got to be the pits.
37 :02x15 - Case: I Live to Dance
Jack (Barney Martin) and Miss Reubner (Allyn Ann McLerie) put down some surprising steps as impromptu dance-contest partners.
38 :02x16 - Case: The Philadelphia Triangle
Writer: Gary David Goldberg
Director: Tony Mordente
Guest star: Diana Muldaur (Judge Eleanor Hooper), Annette O'Toole (Melissa)
Mario (Zane Lasky) mistakes a female judge's kindness for passion.
39 :02x17 - Case: Twice Is Not Enough
Writer: Patricia Jones, Donald Reiker
Director: Asaad Kelada
Guest star: Michael Anderson Jr. (unknown), Phillip Richard Allen (Glazer), Richard Balin (Cornfeld), Helen Page Camp (Tanya)
Deserted by his wife, Jack (Barney Martin) turns to Walter (Tony Randall) for advice
40 :02x18 - Case: The Eyes of the Law
Writer: Jay Tarses, Tom Patchett
Director: John C. Chulay
Guest star: Jane Rose (Mrs. Tilden), Patricia Cosgrove (Nancy), Jack O'Leary (Stanley), Michael Keaton (Zeke)
The only zealous law student in Walter's night-school class may drop out because she is blind.
41 :02x19 - Case: The Phantom of the Poconos
Writer: Judy Neer, Joyce Armor
Director: Ken Luber
Guest star: Madlyn Rhue (Evelyn), Robert Phalen (Lawyer), John Crawford (Inspector), Jocelyn Brando (Mrs. Griggs)
An atmosphere of mystery pervades Walter's inherited mountain cabin.
42 :02x20 - Case: Adios, Mr. Chips
Writer: Tom Patchett, Jay Tarses
Director: Michael Zinberg
Guest star: Melanie Chartoff (Ginny), Michael Keaton (Zeke), Richard Stahl (Pete), Ralph Wilcox (D'Evangelista)
Walter (Tony Randall) finds that hiring a law clerk can be a trying experience.
43 :02x21 - Case: The Way It Was
Writer: Blake Hunter
Director: Asaad Kelada
Guest star: Michael Durrell (Higgins), Carole Mallory (Miss Gordon), Dean Santoro (Pratt)
Walter's co-workers recall his first day as a judge somewhat less flatteringly than Walter himself does.
44 :02x22 - Case: Wyatt Loves Bonnie
Writer: Gary David Goldberg
Director: Harvey Medlinsky
Guest star: Harold Stone (Carlson Sr.), Timothy Jerome (Carlson Jr.)
Walter's dad (Hans Conried) announces he's fallen in love with Mrs. McClellan (Rachel Roberts).