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The Best Episodes of Family Affair Season 1

Every episode of Family Affair Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Family Affair Season 1!

The Best Episodes of Family Affair Season 1

Family Affair is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from September 12, 1966 to September 9, 1971. The series explored the trials of well-to-do...

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  1. 7.5/10(2 votes)

    #1 - Buffy

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    S1:E1

    The excellent family series begins when Bill Davis, a fantastic construction engineer, unexpectedly adopts Buffy, who along with Jody and Cissy, have lost their parents in an accident. Buffy comes first and at first, Bill doesn't like her and wants to send her back to Terre Haute. Buffy gets the feeling that Bill doesn't like her and runs off to hide in the basement. Bill tells her that he likes her and wants her to stay. In the end, when Bill gets ready to leave for a trip, Jody and Cissy come to be with Buffy.

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    Director:James Sheldon
    Writer:N/A
  2. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - Jody and Cissy

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    S1:E2

    Cissy joins the family and Mr. French thinks that he is not wanted anymore. Mr. French changes his mind after Buffy puts her doll in his suitcase and decides to stay after all.

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    Writer:N/A
  3. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - The Gift Horse

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    S1:E3

    Buffy and Jody decide to give Bill a great gift- a horse!

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  4. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - Marmalade

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    S1:E5

    Mr. French is chosen for an ad for marmalade and is a huge promotion success, until he tastes the marmalade that he is hawking.

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  5. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - Mrs. Beasley, Where Are You?

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    S1:E7

    Buffy's doll, Mrs. Beasley, gets knocked out of the apartment window by accident and Buffy goes up at arms about the whole thing. She fnds out that a little girl owns a doll that looks just like her lost Mrs. Beasley, and realizes that it is not her doll. Suddenly, the real Mrs. Beasley doll is found in a trash bin.

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  6. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - A Matter for Experts

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    S1:E9

    Buffy and Jody have been spending a lot a time with each other at school, and it is a major concern for the vice principal and a child psychologist who states that Buffy and Jody need to make friends and join in with other children.

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  8. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - Take Two Aspirin

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    S1:E11

    Bill gets a chance to work with a friend in Mexico on a job, but his trip is cut short when Mr. French comes down with the flu and difficultt in keeping touch with the family.

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  9. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - Love Me, Love Me Not

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    S1:E12

    When Jody sees a friend getting spanked by his father, his father tells him that he punishes him out of love. So Jody takes it upon himself to earn a spanking from Uncle Bill to see if he loves him enough to enforce physical punishment.

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  10. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - Hard Hat Jody

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    S1:E15

    Jody's allusion about being a constuction worker leads him to ""gaining"" a job with a constuction worker who Bill is trying to get a job with.

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  11. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - All Around the Town

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    S1:E17

    Bill and the whole family are seeing the Gaynors off on their cruise. Buffy and Jody think that Bill is having dinner with them, but when they find out the thuth, they are left on the dock by themselves. Mrs. Gaynor sees them and calls Bill, but Buffy and Jody run off in the city to find the owner of some money they found on the dock.

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  12. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - Once in Love with Buffy

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    S1:E21

    Aunt Fran's back and she wants the kids to come back with her. She believes that Bill will not be a suitable person for the kids. Of course, Fran thinks that this fact is confirmed when Buffy thinks that Bill doesn't want them there. When teh family gets ready to leave, Buffy sees the light and changes her mind.

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  13. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - Everybody Needs Somebody

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    S1:E24

    Buffy and Jody play matchmaker for Mr. French, but he thinks that they do not want him around because he punished them so severely.

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  14. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - The Prize

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    S1:E27

    The twins win a baby lamb in a cereal contest, which is not a good thing if your neighbors are trying to sleep.

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  15. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - The Award

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    S1:E29

    Buffy and Jody want to make an award for Bill for being the best uncle, but they fall allergic to the clay they are making the award with. Bill thinks that the allergies are caused by irregular parenting, but the doctor states that they are allergic to modeling clay.

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  16. 4.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - The Mother Tongue

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    S1:E23

    Buffy and Jody meets a new girl named Marilyn, who is the daughter of a Chinese diplomat and speaks no English. Mr. French tries to work out his Cantonese and unknowingly insults her.

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    #16 - The Matter of School

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    S1:E4

    Bill decides to send Cissy to a private girls' school in Connecticut, and even though she would prefer to attend high school locally, she reluctantly agrees to go, thinking Bill wants to get her out of the way.

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    #17 - Room with a Viewpoint

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    S1:E6

    Buffy doesn't like the new changes in her and Cissy's bedroom and refuses to ever step foot in it.

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    #18 - Who's Afraid of Nural Shpeni?

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    S1:E8

    Mr. French gets Lebanese cooking lessons from a Middle Eastern restaurant owner named Nural Shpeni, and her family forces Mr. French to marry her, whether he wants to or not.

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    #19 - Beware the Other Woman

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    S1:E10

    When an old flame steps back into Bill's life, the children think that he will get married and send them back to Indiana.

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    #20 - The Thursday Man

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    S1:E13

    Cissy learns a lesson in snooping when she is to do a paper on Mr. French and finds a shocking secret about him.

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    #21 - Think Deep

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    S1:E14

    Cissy worships a teacher named Julian Hill and spouts his theories all through the household. Bill invites the teacher to dinner and Cissy sees that he is not the man that she worships so dearly when he goes off on Buffy and Jody for an innocent spill.

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    #22 - That Was the Dinner That Wasn't

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    S1:E16

    Cissy is disheartened because she will be left out of a mother-daughter event at school, and she doesn't tell Bill what is wrong with her.

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    #23 - One for the Little Boy

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    S1:E18

    Bill plans to do some serious bonding with Jody by taking him on a business trip, but Murphy's Law plagues the trip. But Jody states that just being with Bill is exciting enough.

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    #24 - Fancy Free

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    S1:E19

    Buffy and Jody are placed in a fast-learning portion of their grade, but Bill is spending his time with a woman who is quite uncertain about what she wants. The twins get a friendly window-washer to help them with their work, but a call from the school to Bill makes him see that the children are more important than a hot date.

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    #25 - A Helping Hand

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    S1:E20

    A lesson to be learned in this episode: Helping people is good, but it only goes but so far. The family learns this the hard way. Mr. French helps out a maid who is very bad with housekeeping by covering up her mistakes, and this charade goes on until she is hired by a guest who is throwing a party. Eventually, she gets fired and she gets on Mr. French. Bill does the same thing when he takes over the twins' school project, and he gets credit. Cissy tells them all about how important it is to get involved in the family because they had none when they were in Terre Haute.

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Buffy" is the best rated episode of "Family Affair" season 1. It scored 7.5/10 based on 2 votes. Directed by James Sheldon and written by N/A, it aired on 9/12/1966. This episode is rated 1.5 points higher than the second-best, "Jody and Cissy".