7.7/1028 votes#1 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/15/1952
A young couple's quarrel over a fur coat ends up in Brad's court and brings back memories of another fur coat that caused a crisis in the Stevens marriage. Joan remembers when she was an airline hostess and buys a fur coat.
Director: Philip Rapp
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1026 votes
#2 - Career
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/22/1952
Judge Stevens invites a prospective campaign contributor to dinner, only to find that his wife, trying to be helpful, has invited another sponsor.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1019 votes
#3 - Ballet
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/29/1952
The Judge advises his wife Joan to get more exercise as an antidote to fatigue from housework and Joan turns to ballet.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1020 votes
#4 - Jitterbug
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/5/1952
Joan finds an ingenious way to retaliate after Brad fines her for speeding, she takes up jitterbugging after trying babysitting and selling "all you can eat" to phone men.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/1020 votes
#5 - Crime Panel
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/12/1952
Joan is scheduled to appear on a crime prevention forum. To prepare herself she spends the day visiting poolrooms.
Director: Hal Walker
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1024 votes
#6 - Brad's Class Reunion
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/19/1952
Joan struggles to change herself into "The Perfect Woman" to fit a description written by her husband.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1020 votes
#7 - Hunting
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/26/1952
Joan insists that she is an experienced camper. Unconvinced, Brad decides to test her aptitude for the great outdoors.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1018 votes
#8 - Joan's Curiosity
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/3/1952
Joan is in for a surprise when she opens an interesting-looking package that arrived for Brad.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1014 votes
#9 - Birthday
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/10/1952
Joan buys some dresses, puts them on her charge account, then sells them to friends for cash. The reason is she needs money to buy Brad a birthday present.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1014 votes
#10 - Bazar Pie
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/17/1952
Joan wants to arrange a romance, by introducing her new neighbor, a handsome Latin, to her visiting aunt.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1020 votes
#11 - Acrobats
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/31/1952
When Brad announces that he is bringing home important guests for dinner, Joan feels it necessary to buy a new wardrobe for the occasion. While shopping for a hat she winds up in a fight with a woman who turns out to be one of Brad's dinner guests. At dinner Joan tries to disguise herself by joining the nightclub's entertainers, acrobats.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1023 votes
#12 - Dreams
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/24/1952
After meeting three former schoolmates who are now successful career woman, Joan decides that she is happier just being a housewife
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1024 votes
#13 - Bad Boy
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/7/1953
Joan tries to reform a juvenile delinquent and nearly winds up in jail herself.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1012 votes
#14 - Circumstantial Evidence
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/14/1953
Joan takes an interest in her husband's work and tries to prove that a man he is about to sentence was convicted on circumstantial evidence.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1016 votes
#15 - Uncle Edgar
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/21/1953
Uncle Edgar visits Joan and her husband and they have a difficult time trying to keep him out of trouble.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1012 votes
#16 - Moosehead
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/28/1953
Joan tries to kill two problems with the same fifty-dollar bill and winds up deeply wounded by a dead moose at an auction.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1011 votes
#17 - Fireman
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/4/1953
Joan tries to patch up the quarrels of her newlywed-neighbors and succeeds in creating some for herself at the firehouse.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1012 votes
#18 - Memory
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/11/1953
Joan's faulty memory wreaks gastric disaster when she forgets a dinner invitation, resulting in not one, not two, but three spaghetti dinners in the same evening.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1011 votes
#19 - Draftboard
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/18/1953
Brad receives a letter from his local draft board. Joan assumes he's being called to armed service and panics.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/1011 votes
#20 - Opera
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/25/1953
In order to save her club's benefit show, Joan takes a whirl at the opera. Bing Crosby helps out.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1014 votes
#21 - Shopping
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/4/1953
Joan needs newly out-fitted for a fancy party. So does husband Brad, but both have second thoughts about Joan's shopping trip.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1013 votes
#22 - The Stamp
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/11/1953
Joan mails a letter using a Mozambique stamp that Brad just purchased for $350. Her husband blows his top, but why is Joan now on trial?
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1011 votes
#23 - Little Girl
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/18/1953
Joan tries to spark a romance between a guest and a neighbor's son. Joan Davis.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1010 votes
#24 - Diet
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/25/1953
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1011 votes
#25 - Model
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 4/1/1953
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of I Married Joan Season 1
Every episode of I Married Joan Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of I Married Joan Season 1!
I Married Joan is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from 1952 to 1955. It starred veteran vaudeville, film, and radio comedienne-comedy actress Joan...
Genre:Comedy
Network:NBC
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Pilot" is the best rated episode of "I Married Joan" season 1. It scored 7.7/10 based on 28 votes. Directed by Philip Rapp and written by N/A, it aired on 10/15/1952. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Career".