7.6/1012 votes#1 - Uncle Daddy
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/29/1953
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- NaN/100 votes
#6 - Margaret, Non-Pro
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/3/1953
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 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
- 7.2/1018 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/100 votes
#9 - Thanksgiving Story
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/24/1953
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#10 - Last Dollar
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/1/1953
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- NaN/100 votes
#16 - Terry for President
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/12/1954
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#17 - True Blue Benny
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/19/1954
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#18 - Rusty Runs Away
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/26/1954
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 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
- 8.0/108 votes
#20 - Burlesque
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/9/1954
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1010 votes
#21 - Black Eyes
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/16/1954
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 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
- 7.8/108 votes
#23 - The Matchmaker
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/2/1954
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/108 votes
#24 - Night Club
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/9/1954
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 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
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
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".