At the school where Emily works, low reading scores prompt indignant outbursts and threats from angry parents. Principal Phil Bannister flees their wrath by going on an extended fishing trip—but not before he tells Emily to handle the crisis.

Bob's friends close ranks to ""protect"" Emily Hartley when a handsome old flame pays her a very warm visit.

Bob moves up in the world from the seventh to the tenth floor when he joins the firm of a swinging psychiatrist.

Paul Billingham—known to his radio fans as Ralph Alfalfa, the Happy Farmer—comes to Bob because of his stuttering problem. On radio, he practiced several unseen rhythmic devices to mask his problem, but a new television opportunity threatens to expose his problem with disastrous results.

It's no laughing matter for Howard when his 12 year old son Howie announces he's leaving home to become a comedian.

Jerry Robinson's depression turns to instant joy when a globe-trotting ex-flame suddenly re-enters his life and proposes.

Bob defends the work ethic when Jerry comes into a pile of money and promptly retires from the dental profession.

A professional basketball team hires Bob to give a psychological assist to its superstar.

Bob counsels a quintet of jovial ex-convicts to help them find honest employment.

Bob and Emily have been trying for some time to have a child. When they attend a party where the conversation turns to the subject of children, they feel so left out that they decide to adopt a child.

Howard insists on joining Bob and Emily's anniversary dinner at a fashionable Chicago restaurant in order to enlist their aid in popping the question to Ellen. But he chokes up in the clutch, and Bob is forced to do the proposing for him.

Bob contends with a patient's delusion that her bingo game is fixed, staggers through a series of wild poker parties, and watches in wonder as his secretary slowly smothers under an attack of love.

Bob develops a unique psychological problem when his receptionist, Carol, decides to resume her college career and become a psychologist.

A despondent friend accepts Bob's suggestion and turns the psychologist's reception area into a mini-Polynesian village.

Bob's divorced neighbor, Howard Borden, is convinced that his son, Howie, doesn't really like him. Later, Howard's ex-wife convinces him that Howie thinks he is the greatest guy in the world.

Facing the depressing prospect of returning home to Iowa to spend the holidays with her domineering parents, Carol brings her troubles to Bob's apartment. There she spends Christmas Eve pouring out the disasters of her childhood.

Emily must contend with irate teachers, hamsters, and an escaped snake when she's unexpectedly upped to the position of school vice principal.

Bob becomes his patient's partner in a get-rich-quick real-estate venture.

Both Bob's receptionist and a Buddha figure with a clock in its navel give the psychologist a hard time.

Bob and his friends host an orphan contingent for a wildly improbable camping-out experience.

Jerry, retired orthodontist and orphan, takes off on a world tour to search for his long-lost parents.

Bob succumbs to the pressures of living in a big city and desperately seeks employment of a small rural college.

Bob's well-ordered life turns topsy-turvy when he and Emily move to a new Chicago residence.

Bob's attempt at treating convicts who are about to be released has him climbing the walls.

Emily Hartley discovers a new low in male chauvinism when Bob's father arranges a fishing trip to his cabin and assigns her woman's work while the men brave the great out-of-doors.