The twins plan a surprise birthday party for Mr. French.

Bill asks a doctor to help Buffy's pal who is disabled.

While Jody is playing with his friends at school, a window gets broken and Jody is blamed for it. When Jody is suspended, Bill considers taking him to a private school. He reconsiders when one of Jody's friends confesses to breaking the window.

Buffy and Jody discover a runaway orphan and decides to keep him without Mr. French knowing about it.

Mr. French and the twins are snowbound in Vermont.

After Bill returns from a vacation, the kids decide to let him just kick back and relax, but constant interruptions make that totally impossible.

Cissy's friend falls for Uncle Bill.

Buffy gets a broken leg and the family tries to cheer her up, but to no avail.

The siblings' long-absent grandfather pays a visit.

The twins get a small inheritance.

A tidal wave is predicted for New York and the kids get scared.

The kids celebrate five years of living in the Davis apartment bu throwing a surprise party for Bill, who doesn't make it because of a trip to Washington D.C. Emily then reminds him of the day and he goes to the party after all.

Cissy is asked by a boy in Vienna to be his bride. Cissy likes the idea at first, but reality comes in and snaps some sense into her.

A boxer advises Bill to send Jody to a boys camp.

Buffy throws an early Christmas party for a sick little girl who might not live to see it.

French contemplates marriage to raise his professional esteem.

A fantastic family trip in Spain goes absolutely wrong when Mr. French and the twins get lost.

Jody is a victim of peer pressure when he is forced to choose between a stickball team and taking up for Buffy, who the team ridicules.

French knows Maudie, a nobelwoman, as a former barmaid.

Jody makes friends with a boy in teh park whose uncle is Ken Granger, a football superstar. Jody starts worshipping the ground that Granger walks on until he finds out that Granger is suspended from the team for betting on his own games. Jody is disappointed, but Uncle Bill tells him that people do not act the way we want them to act.

Cissy's independence is put to the test when she decides to stay in her own apartment with a friend. Her family wil not leave her alone, but when they stop coming, she feels lonesome for them.

Graduate Cissy plans to stay out all night.

Bill asks Cissy to babysit the twin while he and French are out. When her boyfriend calls and asks her to go on a trip, she calls someone else to take her place and then just leaves. The replacement does not get there because of a blizzard.

Jody falls for a girl named Geraldine only because he wants her stamp. Bill falls for a woman to get a job with her foundation. Jody then talks about stamp collecting and Geraldine becomes friends with him and gives him the stamp that he was after. Jody then gives the stamp back to her because he's more interested in her. The woman doesn't give Bill a job, but they become friends.

Events conspire to make French lose his cool.