Season 1

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  The Fling

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/12/1972

  Restaurant-equipment dealer Harry Boyle helps a sexy female customer move into her apartment, prompting everyone around him to think that Harry is cheating on his wife, Irma.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Alice's Dress

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/19/1972

  The Boyles are invited to a party. Alice decides to buy a dress for the event, but it turns out to be way too revealing.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  The Hippie

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/26/1972

  Chet befriends a hippie musician, which drives his family crazy and prompts Ralph and his anti-Communist Army buddies to create a wall around the neighborhood to keep out all hippies, alleged Communists, subversives, and free-thinkers.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  The Beach Vacation

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/3/1972

  The Boyles rent a beach house, but things get complicated when Alice wants to wear a string bikini and Harry must decide whether or not to press charges against a nude sunbather who will not leave his property.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Help Wanted

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/10/1972

  Harry gets into trouble with special-interest groups when he fires his Jewish driver and must choose between hiring someone who is right for the job versus hiring someone in order to comply with the dictates of affirmative action and diversity.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Love Story

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/17/1972

  Alice shocks her family again by dating a homeless man named Norman, but when Harry and Irma find out that Norman has rich parents, they push Alice into staying with him.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  The Victim

  Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/24/1972

  Harry gets mugged and beaten in the park by a young criminal. While Harry and Ralph want the young criminal to be locked away, Chet and Alice want Harry to go soft on his assailant since it is his first offense.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Chet's Job

  Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/31/1972

  Harry gives his slacker son, Chet, an ultimatum: either find a job and pay rent or get out of the house. Chet decides to find a job — and ends up earning more than his father as a hardware-store grunt.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Chet's Fiancee

  Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/7/1972

  Chet dates a young, attractive decent young woman named Prudence and brings her home to meet Harry and Irma...and ends up shocking everyone when he tells Prudence that he does not want to marry her.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  The Mouse

  Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/14/1972

  Jamie brings home a pet mouse. After being told that he can't keep it, the mouse escapes. Jamie blames Harry, and then he runs away.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Duty Calls

  Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 10/21/1972

  Chet angers his parents when he tries to bail out of being enlisted in the Army.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Expectant Papa

  Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 11/28/1972

  Irma worries that she may be pregnant again, which does not sit well with Chet and Alice, who feel the world is too overpopulated.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  The New Car

  Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/5/1972

  The Boyles are tricked into buying a crummy car, and fight back against the man who sold it to them.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  The New House

  Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/12/1972

  The Boyles consider moving into a bigger house, but Harry does not have the money for it.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  The Prowler

  Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/19/1972

  Ralph starts a neighborhood vigilante group in order to fight back against a burglar who has been breaking into houses in the Boyles' neighborhood.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Mama's Identity

  Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 12/26/1972

  In an attempt to be more than just a housewife and mother, Irma takes a job as a secretary at a law firm, but struggles with sexual discrimination and competition from a younger, prettier coworker, while Harry and Ralph worry that women in the workplace will lead to men being treated like sex objects and second-class citizens.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Papa the Patient

  Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/2/1973

  Harry is sent to the hospital after suffering from stress-related stomachaches.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  The Swimming Pool

  Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/9/1973

  Harry builds a swimming pool for his family, but the neighbors end up using it.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Sweet Sixteen

  Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 1/16/1973

  Irma wants Alice to have an extravagant 16th birthday party, but Harry is too cheap to do it.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  The Commune

  Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 1/23/1973

  Alice runs away to a hippie commune to escape the stresses of school and home life.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Music Tycoon

  Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 1/30/1973

  Chet and his friends get famous as a hot, new garage band, but Chet soon learns that fame is fickle.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Accidents Will Happen

  Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/6/1973

  Harry splits his pants after slipping in a restaurant. Everyone advises Harry to sue, but Harry just wants a new pair of pants.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Papa in New York

  Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 2/13/1973

  Harry goes to New York on business, and takes Ralph with him.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  The Neighbors

  Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 2/20/1973

  Newlyweds Mona and George experience trouble in paradise when they fight over a new couch. The Boyles must get Mona and George back together when George moves in with the Boyles.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown