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The Best Episodes of Family Affair Season 1

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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 civil engineer and bachelor Bill Davis as he attempted to

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Family Affair Season 1 Episode 1 - Buffy
    8.4/10(154 votes)

    #1 - Buffy

    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.

    Director:James Sheldon
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Family Affair Season 1 Episode 2 - Jody and Cissy
    8.5/10(101 votes)

    #2 - Jody and Cissy

    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.

    Director:William D. Russell
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Family Affair Season 1 Episode 3 - The Gift Horse
    8.0/10(91 votes)

    #3 - The Gift Horse

    S1:E3

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

    Director:William D. Russell
    Writer:John McGreevey

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  4. Family Affair Season 1 Episode 4 - The Matter of School
    8.2/10(83 votes)

    #4 - The Matter of School

    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.

    Director:William D. Russell
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Family Affair Season 1 Episode 5 - Marmalade
    8.3/10(81 votes)

    #5 - Marmalade

    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.

    Director:William D. Russell
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Family Affair Season 1 Episode 6 - Room with a Viewpoint
    7.9/10(81 votes)

    #6 - Room with a Viewpoint

    S1:E6

    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:Unknown

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  7. Family Affair Season 1 Episode 7 - Mrs. Beasley, Where Are You?
    8.3/10(72 votes)

    #7 - Mrs. Beasley, Where Are You?

    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.

    Director:William D. Russell
    Writer:John McGreevey

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  8. Family Affair Season 1 Episode 8 - Who's Afraid of Nural Shpeni?
    7.3/10(70 votes)

    #8 - Who's Afraid of Nural Shpeni?

    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.

    Director:William D. Russell
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Family Affair Season 1 Episode 9 - A Matter for Experts
    8.1/10(69 votes)

    #9 - A Matter for Experts

    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.

    Director:William D. Russell
    Writer:John McGreevey

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  10. Family Affair Season 1 Episode 10 - Beware the Other Woman
    8.0/10(68 votes)

    #10 - Beware the Other Woman

    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.

    Director:William D. Russell
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Family Affair Season 1 Episode 11 - Take Two Aspirin
    8.1/10(73 votes)

    #11 - Take Two Aspirin

    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.

    Director:William D. Russell
    Writer:George Tibbles

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  12. Family Affair Season 1 Episode 12 - Love Me, Love Me Not
    7.9/10(69 votes)

    #12 - Love Me, Love Me Not

    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.

    Director:William D. Russell
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Family Affair Season 1 Episode 13 - The Thursday Man
    8.2/10(71 votes)

    #13 - The Thursday Man

    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.

    Director:William D. Russell
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Family Affair Season 1 Episode 14 - Think Deep
    7.6/10(69 votes)

    #14 - Think Deep

    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.

    Director:William D. Russell
    Writer:George Tibbles

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  15. Family Affair Season 1 Episode 15 - Hard Hat Jody
    8.2/10(75 votes)

    #15 - Hard Hat Jody

    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.

    Director:William D. Russell
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Family Affair Season 1 Episode 16 - That Was the Dinner That Wasn't
    8.3/10(67 votes)

    #16 - That Was the Dinner That Wasn't

    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.

    Director:William D. Russell
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Family Affair Season 1 Episode 17 - All Around the Town
    8.1/10(73 votes)

    #17 - All Around the Town

    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.

    Director:William D. Russell
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Family Affair Season 1 Episode 18 - One for the Little Boy
    8.2/10(68 votes)

    #18 - One for the Little Boy

    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.

    Director:William D. Russell
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Family Affair Season 1 Episode 19 - Fancy Free
    7.9/10(58 votes)

    #19 - Fancy Free

    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.

    Director:William D. Russell
    Writer:John McGreevey

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  20. Family Affair Season 1 Episode 20 - A Helping Hand
    7.6/10(66 votes)

    #20 - A Helping Hand

    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.

    Director:William D. Russell
    Writer:John McGreevey

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  21. Family Affair Season 1 Episode 21 - Once in Love with Buffy
    7.9/10(64 votes)

    #21 - Once in Love with Buffy

    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.

    Director:William D. Russell
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Family Affair Season 1 Episode 22 - Ballerina Buffy
    7.8/10(64 votes)

    #22 - Ballerina Buffy

    S1:E22

    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:Unknown

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  23. Family Affair Season 1 Episode 23 - The Mother Tongue
    7.8/10(65 votes)

    #23 - The Mother Tongue

    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.

    Director:William D. Russell
    Writer:George Tibbles

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  24. Family Affair Season 1 Episode 24 - Everybody Needs Somebody
    7.4/10(62 votes)

    #24 - Everybody Needs Somebody

    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.

    Director:William D. Russell
    Writers:Seaman Jacobs, Ed James

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  25. Family Affair Season 1 Episode 25 - The Way It Was
    7.7/10(59 votes)

    #25 - The Way It Was

    S1:E25

    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 8.4/10 based on 154 votes. Directed by James Sheldon and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/12/1966. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Jody and Cissy".