The Best Episodes of The Danny Thomas Show Season 1
Every episode of The Danny Thomas Show Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Danny Thomas Show Season 1!
Danny Thomas, an entertainer, tries to balance his home life with the needs of his career, with hilarious results.
Season 1 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "The Danny Thomas Show" season 1 is "Uncle Daddy", rated 7.6/10 from 11 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "Uncle Daddy" aired on 9/29/1953 and is rated 0.2 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Party Dress".
7.6/10 11 votes#1 - Uncle Daddy
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/29/1953
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- 7.4/10 24 votes
#2 - Party Dress
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/6/1953
Danny buys a new doll for Terry and brings it home, expecting her to be happy about it, but instead finds that Margaret is making her a new dress for a school dance—and Terry, at age eleven, is too old for dolls.
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- 7.2/10 18 votes
#3 - Second Honeymoon
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/13/1953
Margaret finally gets her second honeymoon with Danny, but a friend needs him to open for him in Atlantic City, the same place where the honeymoon is taking place. A flashback occurs which tells what happened on their first honeymoon in 1941. In the end, the Williams' get their honeymoon.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Bob Fisher, Alan Lipscott
- 7.2/10 19 votes
#4 - Mother-in-Law
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/20/1953
Margaret’s mother starts feeling like she’s forgotten, and taken for granted, when she’s called up time-after-time just to babysit.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Bob Fisher, Alan Lipscott
- 6.8/10 16 votes
#5 - Anniversary
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/27/1953
When Danny forgets his and Margaret’s wedding anniversary and is stuck in the doghouse, he reminisces about a simpler time and their first anniversary, before his success in show business.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Bob Fisher, Alan Lipscott
- NaN/10 0 votes
#6 - Margaret, Non-Pro
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/3/1953
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Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/10 18 votes
#7 - The Visiting Englishman
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/1953
Margaret and Danny become exasperated by an unwanted guest who won’t leave and who causes all sorts of problems for the two—but the kids adore him, and, later, they become fond of him, as well.
Director: Sheldon Leonard
Writer: Bob Weiskopf
- 7.2/10 17 votes
#8 - The Sea Captain
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/17/1953
Danny showers the children with money, and drops plenty of hints, for them to get a present for his birthday. But the children don't understand, and spend it on the custodian of the building, who was once a sailor.
Director: Sheldon Leonard
Writer: Bob Fisher, Alan Lipscott
- NaN/10 0 votes
#9 - Thanksgiving Story
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/24/1953
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- NaN/10 0 votes
#10 - Last Dollar
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/1/1953
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- 6.5/10 15 votes
#11 - Margaret's Job
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/8/1953
When an old college friend of Margaret’s comes to visit her, and she starts to compare her life with her successful friend’s, she becomes unhappy with her own life. Afterwards, Danny takes an unfortunate jab at her, and she decides to accept a job that the friend had previously offered her.
Director: Sheldon Leonard
Writer: Bob Fisher, Alan Lipscott
- 6.9/10 17 votes
#12 - Wonderland
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/15/1953
While about to start a relaxing vacation with just Margaret and himself, Danny finds himself stuck with a houseguest who’s the winner of a publicity stunt his agent submitted him for.
Director: Sheldon Leonard
Writer: Bob Fisher, Alan Lipscott
- 6.3/10 22 votes
#13 - Christmas
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/22/1953
Rusty becomes cynical about Santa Claus and Christmas, and Danny gets stuck, on Christmas Eve, in Detroit because of a small clause in his contract.
Director: Sheldon Leonard
Writer: Bob Fisher, Alan Lipscott
- 6.0/10 13 votes
#14 - Toledo
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/29/1953
Danny takes the kids with him to Toledo, and the stories he tells them about his childhood days and friends there, they discover, are off the mark when they meet several of his old acquaintances.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.7/10 15 votes
#15 - Margaret's Jealousy
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/5/1954
Margaret unnecessarily works herself up to be jealous of Danny and an old girlfriend of his.
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Writer: N/A
- NaN/10 0 votes
#16 - Terry for President
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/12/1954
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- NaN/10 0 votes
#17 - True Blue Benny
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/19/1954
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- NaN/10 0 votes
#18 - Rusty Runs Away
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/26/1954
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- 7.4/10 8 votes
#19 - The Professor
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/2/1954
After dispensing a lecture to the kids on unselfishness, Danny discovers that they have brought a bum, albeit an emeritis college professor, into the house without his knowledge.
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- 8.0/10 8 votes
#20 - Burlesque
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/9/1954
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Writer: N/A
- 7.0/10 10 votes
#21 - Black Eyes
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/16/1954
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Writer: N/A
- 6.7/10 9 votes
#22 - Margaret's Birthday
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/23/1954
Margaret’s three friends in her Wednesday bridge club brag to her about the presents their husbands gave them for Valentine’s Day, and she feels the need to defend Danny for a simple tape recorder she ostensibly got. Later, he hears something on said tape recorder and decides to change up her birthday present.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/10 8 votes
#23 - The Matchmaker
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/2/1954
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- 7.8/10 8 votes
#24 - Night Club
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/9/1954
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- 7.0/10 8 votes
#25 - Terry's Career
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/16/1954
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