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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.
Genre:Comedy
Networks:ABCCBS

Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Uncle Daddy" is the best rated episode of "The Danny Thomas Show" season 1. It scored 7.6/10 based on 12 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/29/1953. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Party Dress".

  • Uncle Daddy
    7.6/1012 votes

    #1 - Uncle Daddy

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/29/1953

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Party Dress
    7.4/1024 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Second Honeymoon
    7.2/1018 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

  • Mother-in-Law
    7.2/1019 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

  • Anniversary
    6.8/1016 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

  • Margaret, Non-Pro
    NaN/100 votes

    #6 - Margaret, Non-Pro

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/3/1953

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Visiting Englishman
    7.4/1018 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

  • The Sea Captain
    7.2/1017 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

  • Thanksgiving Story
    NaN/100 votes

    #9 - Thanksgiving Story

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/24/1953

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Last Dollar
    NaN/100 votes

    #10 - Last Dollar

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/1/1953

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Margaret's Job
    6.5/1015 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

  • Wonderland
    6.9/1017 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

  • Christmas
    6.3/1022 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

  • Toledo
    6.0/1013 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

  • Margaret's Jealousy
    6.7/1015 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Terry for President
    NaN/100 votes

    #16 - Terry for President

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/12/1954

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • True Blue Benny
    NaN/100 votes

    #17 - True Blue Benny

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/19/1954

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Rusty Runs Away
    NaN/100 votes

    #18 - Rusty Runs Away

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/26/1954

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Professor
    7.4/108 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Burlesque
    8.0/108 votes

    #20 - Burlesque

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/9/1954

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Black Eyes
    7.0/1010 votes

    #21 - Black Eyes

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/16/1954

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Margaret's Birthday
    6.7/109 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

  • The Matchmaker
    7.8/108 votes

    #23 - The Matchmaker

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/2/1954

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Night Club
    7.8/108 votes

    #24 - Night Club

    Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/9/1954

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Terry's Career
    7.0/108 votes

    #25 - Terry's Career

    Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/16/1954

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A