8.3/10136 votes#1 - Buffy
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/12/1966
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.
Director: James Sheldon
Writer: N/A
8.3/1090 votes#2 - Jody and Cissy
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/19/1966
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.
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: N/A
8.0/1078 votes#3 - The Gift Horse
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/26/1966
Buffy and Jody decide to give Bill a great gift- a horse!
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: John McGreevey
8.1/1070 votes#4 - The Matter of School
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/3/1966
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.
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: N/A
8.2/1072 votes#5 - Marmalade
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/10/1966
Mr. French is chosen for an ad for marmalade and is a huge promotion success, until he tastes the marmalade that he is hawking.
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: N/A
7.8/1068 votes#6 - Room with a Viewpoint
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/17/1966
Buffy doesn't like the new changes in her and Cissy's bedroom and refuses to ever step foot in it.
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: N/A
8.1/1063 votes#7 - Mrs. Beasley, Where Are You?
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/24/1966
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.
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: John McGreevey
7.3/1060 votes#8 - Who's Afraid of Nural Shpeni?
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/7/1966
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.
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: N/A
7.9/1057 votes#9 - A Matter for Experts
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/14/1966
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.
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: John McGreevey
8.0/1056 votes#10 - Beware the Other Woman
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/21/1966
When an old flame steps back into Bill's life, the children think that he will get married and send them back to Indiana.
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: N/A
7.9/1062 votes#11 - Take Two Aspirin
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/28/1966
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.
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: George Tibbles
7.8/1058 votes#12 - Love Me, Love Me Not
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/5/1966
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.
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: N/A
8.2/1062 votes#13 - The Thursday Man
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/12/1966
Cissy learns a lesson in snooping when she is to do a paper on Mr. French and finds a shocking secret about him.
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: N/A
7.5/1061 votes#14 - Think Deep
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/26/1966
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.
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: George Tibbles
8.1/1068 votes#15 - Hard Hat Jody
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/2/1967
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.
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: N/A
8.2/1059 votes#16 - That Was the Dinner That Wasn't
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/9/1967
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.
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: N/A
8.1/1065 votes#17 - All Around the Town
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/16/1967
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.
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: N/A
8.2/1057 votes#18 - One for the Little Boy
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/23/1967
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.
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: N/A
7.9/1051 votes#19 - Fancy Free
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 1/30/1967
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.
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: John McGreevey
7.6/1058 votes#20 - A Helping Hand
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/6/1967
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.
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: John McGreevey
8.0/1054 votes#21 - Once in Love with Buffy
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/13/1967
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.
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: N/A
7.8/1057 votes#22 - Ballerina Buffy
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/20/1967
Buffy gets chosen for a lead in a ballet, which is totally annoying for a mother whose little girl, Melissa, was passed over for a complete stranger. She has reason to suspect foul play when the casting director is Bill's old girlfriend Margo, but she knew nothing about Bill's children until after she had cast the roles. Then Margo tells Buffy that she will be a big success and travel all over the world. Buffy gets the idea that it means right away, so she botches up her role in the production so that she will not be separated from her new family.
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: N/A
7.7/1057 votes#23 - The Mother Tongue
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 2/27/1967
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.
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: George Tibbles
7.4/1053 votes#24 - Everybody Needs Somebody
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/13/1967
Buffy and Jody play matchmaker for Mr. French, but he thinks that they do not want him around because he punished them so severely.
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: Ed James, Seaman Jacobs
7.7/1052 votes#25 - The Way It Was
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/20/1967
Bill sends the kids away for a week-long trip at camp because they are driving him up the wall. He then starts to miss them when he goes back to his bachelor life.
Director: William D. Russell
Writer: George Tibbles
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Buffy" is the best rated episode of "Family Affair" season 1. It scored 8.3/10 based on 136 votes. Directed by James Sheldon and written by N/A, it aired on 9/12/1966. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Jody and Cissy".