When Patty invites an out of work musician over for a meal, he decides to make the Lane home his permanent residence.

Patty unknowingly signs papers to adopt a Korean orphan.

Patty takes care of a society columnist's French poodle.

Cathy falls in love with a foreign exchange student.

Cousin Betsy from Chattanooga comes to visit, captivating all the eligible young men.

Patty decides to join the Peace Corps.

Patty accepts the challenge to live like a pioneer for one week.

Patty patcher up a quarrel between Ross and the new boy in town because she is interested in the boy's older brother!

The school is putting on a lavish version of Anthony and Cleopatra. Cathy tries out for the lead, but Patty unexpectedly gets it.

Patty receives some beautiful letters from a new pen pal, and therefore loses interest in Richard.

Sal Mineo visits his alma mater, and Patty is cast in a play opposite him. The night of the performance, she gets stage fright and cannot speak her lines.

To raise money for a church bazaar, Patty raffles off Richard.

Martin's Aunt Pauline comes to visit.

Martin learns that he is being transferred to Paris.

Patty falls for an attractive young doctor, and misunderstands his feelings for a boat as feelings for her.

Patty gets a crush on her new French teacher after he makes her his test subject.

Ross is invited to his first dance, so Patty and Cathy try to teach him about girls.

Patty follows Martin's suggestion and volunteers to do a lot of things at home and at school; everyone else, however, ends up doing the work for her.

Patty tries to improve her cooking in order to impress Richard, who has grown fond of French food cooked by a girl named Gloria.

While Patty is taking a test to determine the intelligence of today's students, the machine goes nuts and the results say Patty is a genius with a 185 I.Q.

When Mr. Lane refuses to pay for an evening gown for Patty, she decides to go into the babysitting business.

Christmas is a day away and Cathy anxiously awaits a visit from her father, only to learn that he is a prisoner in a foreign country.

Martin uses a pocket-knife advertisement to show the family what for his birthday, but they read the wrong side and try to buy him a $99 rifle. 4

Patty promise her creative writing class that her father will appear as a guest speaker, but does not check with him first.

Martin's brother Kenneth sets out to write his autobiography, but discovers writing a book to be more difficult than he imagined.