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Uncle Daddy

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.

Party Dress

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.

Second Honeymoon

Margaret’s mother starts feeling like she’s forgotten, and taken for granted, when she’s called up time-after-time just to babysit.

Mother-in-Law

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.

Anniversary

Margaret, Non-Pro

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.

The Visiting Englishman

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.

The Sea Captain

Thanksgiving Story

Last Dollar

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.

Margaret's Job

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.

Wonderland

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.

Christmas

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.

Toledo

Margaret unnecessarily works herself up to be jealous of Danny and an old girlfriend of his.

Margaret's Jealousy

Terry for President

True Blue Benny

Rusty Runs Away

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.

The Professor

Burlesque

Black Eyes

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.

Margaret's Birthday

The Matchmaker

Night Club

Terry's Career

School Festival

Rusty's Pal

Julia's Birthday

Pittsburgh

Danny's Vacation

Danny loses his confidence, so Margaret enlists the kids to help restore it.

Family Trouble

Tonsillectomy

Margaret is away from home on jury duty, Louise is out with a cold, and Danny is having back issues, so Terry wants to take over her mother’s role in the house—but Danny thinks she’s still too young.

Terry Takes Charge

Margaret decides to teach Danny a lesson when he breaks another promise to the kids.

Danny Has a Baby

Military School

Danny Lands in Pictures

Danny has to make a decision about whether to get a nose job to get a Hollywood contract.

Hollywood Trip

Margaret’s curmudgeonly aunt comes to visit when Margaret invites her over to try to reconcile her and her mother.

Margaret's Aunt

Terry is walking on a cloud when she is asked out by the president of the student council. Danny doesn't know what to do when he finds out the only reason he is dating Terry is so her father will perform at their school dance. After the news is broken to her, Terry is heartbroken.

Terry's Boyfriend

Margaret feels as if she lives perpetually in the shadow of Danny and his fame.

Margaret Feels Neglected

Father of the Year

The Anna Maria Alberghetti Show

The New Year's Show

Jesse's Romance

Terry Gets Her Own Room

Danny Goes on TV

Terry's First Big Crush

Danny and Margaret are going on a trip to Boston and they hire a governess. Grandma shows up to take care of the care unexpectedly. Grandma and the governess have completely different ideas of how to handle the children.

The Children's Governess

Daddy's Biography

Danny Tries Real Estate

Danny wants Rusty to cut all his curls off after he gets in a fight because of them.

Rusty Gets a Haircut

Terry's Teen-Age Birthday

Peter Pan

The Piano Teacher

The Newpaper Man's Show

The Philosopher

Father-Son Show

The Benefit Show

The family takes a vacation to Baraboo, Wisc. to visit the couple that took care of Margaret when her parents were on the road. Danny has a hard time dealing with the quiet on the farm. Rusty goes to find arrowheads and gets lost.

A Trip to Wisconsin

Davy Crockett

Little League

Margaret Goes Home to Mother

Love Thy Neighbor

Rusty Gets a Job

Big Shot

Danny's Palladium Offer

The London Palladium

Danny gets carried away with Margaret's accounts of sightseeing in London. He begins to dream that he is Robert Browning.

Sonnets from the Lebanese

High Society

The Smugglers

Danny's Old Girlfriend

Louise's Suprise Party

Mr. Williams Goes Legit

Danny Strikes Oil

Terry's Party

The Songwriter

Star of the Family

Margaret's mooching cousin, Carl, visits the Williams. He quickly moves in, and makes Danny very upset. Danny finally puts his foot down, and reshapes his character. The once lovable Carl becomes a hard worker, but he is no longer any fun. Danny finally gives in to his children (and Margaret), and Carl becomes as lovable as ever.

Margaret's Cousin

Like Father, Like Son

Wyatt Earp Visits the Williamses

Danny is at a loss when daughter Terry balks at appearing in a school play. Even the son of a former vaudeville partner prefers a medical career to show business.

Who Can Figure Kids?

Controversy brews at the Williams house while Uncle Tonoose visits. When Terry is not tapped to join a soroity she would like to join due to her heritage, her uncle teachs her a big lesson.

Terry and the Sorority

Danny and Jesse Split

Terry Has a Date

Don't Yell at Your Children

Coats and Boats

We're Going to Chicago

Songwriter Harry Ruby offers his services as accompanist on Danny's USO tour.

Danny Goes on USO Tour

Danny showers the children with money to give them a hint about getting a present for his birthday. But the children don't know,and spend it on the custodian of the building, who was once a sailor. They buy him a shirt. In the tag, the children perform a play due to Danny's love of the arts.

Danny's Birthday

Boarding School

The Nelson Eddy Show

Problem Father

Be a Pal to Your Son

Danny makes the supreme sacrifice when son Rusty complains he's the only Cub Scout in the pack not represented at the den-mother meetings.

Den Mother

Terry at the Crossroads

Danny Goes to Texas

Danny runs into family problems after he takes a look at daughter Terry's diary. He has a hard time deciding whether or not he should let Terry known what he has done.

The Diary

Talented Kid

Danny's Comeback

Danny Thomas, an entertainer, tries to balance his home life with the needs of his career, with hilarious results.

The Best Seasons of The Danny Thomas Show

The Best Seasons of The Danny Thomas Show

Season 4

Season 7

Season 3

Season 2

Season 5

Season 1

Season 10

Season 6

Season 8

Season 9

Season 11