Jerry Paris — Director
Episodes 82
Ray Murdock's X-Ray
Rob goes on an interview show, where he is tricked into describing Laura as a nut.
Read MoreI Was a Teenage Head Writer
Rob recalls the day he became head writer of the Alan Brady Show, and his first day of work with Buddy and Sally.
Read MoreIt May Look Like a Walnut!
In this classic, Rob has a dream - inspired by a late-night horror movie on TV - involving walnuts, missing thumbs, and a creature named Kolac.
Read MoreGive Me Your Walls!
Rob and Laura hire a painter who seems to want to do anything but paint their walls.
Read MoreThe Square Triangle
This week’s guest star on the Alan Brady Show turns out to be someone from Rob and Laura’s past—and they both have a reason to avoid him.
Read MoreI'm No Henry Walden!
Rob gets to meet Henry Walden at literary party but feels uncomfortable when he learns that he is the only comedy writer. The Hotels can't get their names right!
Read MoreA Surprise Surprise Is a Surprise
Rob nearly ruins his own surprise birthday party after Laura finds out Rob already knows! Laura stays up all night planning the party. The guests are hiding in the Petrie house!
Read MoreJilting the Jilter
Sally gets engaged to Freddy White, a shady comedian who just wants her to write his act.
Read MoreWhen a Bowling Pin Talks, Listen
Ritchie gives Rob an idea for a comedy sketch, but Rob doesn’t know he saw it on The Uncle Spunky Show.
Read MoreToo Many Stars
Rob is recruited to direct another talent show, but this time Laura faces competition as the star.
Read MoreWho and Where Was Antonio Stradivarius?
While working on a joke, Rob should be going to Alan's house to talk about the joke. After hitting himself on the head with a violin (a real one) Rob goes to a party. The party is in Red Hook, New Jersey!
Read MoreUncle George
Rob’s Uncle George comes to visit in search of a wife.
Read MoreBig Max Calvada
A gangster asks Rob and the gang to write an act for his no-talent nephew.
Read MoreTurtles, Ties, and Toreadors
Rob hires a maid who turns out to have broken arm, speaks only Spanish, and is expecting a live-in position.
Read MoreThe Sound of Trumpets of Conscience Falls Deafly on a Brain That Holds Its Ears
Rob thinks he has seen the suspects in a jewelry store robbery, but is afraid to go to the police.
Read MoreThe Alan Brady Show Presents
The staff has to plan a Christmas show.
Read MoreThe Third One from the Left
Rob tries to stop a guest star from falling in love with him.
Read MoreMy Husband is the Best One
Rob is interviewed by a reporter, but the resulting story gives him a little too much credit for comfort at the office, thanks to Laura’s input.
Read MoreThe Lady and the Tiger and the Lawyer
Laura tries to setup Arthur with a wife she invites Sally & Donna on two different days. Laura really wants Donna date Arthur, when Donna & Arthur hit it Rob does everything to stop the date by locking Donna in the bathroom!
Rob feels Sally won't have a chance with Arthur, Rob and Laura wonder who Arthur picked for his date, he picks his former wife who he married twice!
Read MoreThe Life and Love of Joe Coogan
Rob meets Laura's old flame Joe Coogan at the country club, Rob tells Laura he met Joe and Laura thinks he looked in her shoebox where her pomes are kept. (The pomes are kept in the basement) What Laura doesn't know is the Sonnets give a clue as to what Joe does for a living.
Laura & Millie play Golf with Father Joe Coogan. Laura invites Joe to dinner along with Buddy & Sally only to get a big shock.
Read MoreHappy Birthday and Too Many More
Laura & Rob are deciding when to have his party day should it be 3 weeks after or before Ritchie actual date of birth? Laura says she will have the party at Dizzy Land (not Disney Land).
Rob & Laura forget the Gardner has come and have the party inside (with 63 kids!) because the garden needed to be fertilized!
Read MoreThe Brave and the Backache
Laura wonders why Rob never wants to be alone with her.
Read MoreThe Pen is Mightier Than the Mouth
Sally is famous overnight leaving Rob and Buddy to work alone.
Read MoreMy Part-Time Wife
Laura helps out at the office but drives Rob crazy while Sally is away.
Read MoreHoneymoons Are for the Lucky
Rob recalls a time when he left Camp Crowder to spend his honneymoon with Laura.
Read MoreHow to Spank a Star
Rob's favorite star Paula Marshall is due to guest on the Alan Brady show but her demands cause problems for everybody.
Read MoreThe Plots Thicken
The Petrie's parents fight over where Laura and Rob should be buried. They have to decide which burial plot to choose without upsetting their in-laws.
Read MoreOctober Eve
Laura's past comes back to haunt her in form of painting that is at an art gallery.
Read MoreDear Mrs. Petrie, Your Husband is in Jail
Rob ends up in jail after contacting an army buddy.
Read MoreMy Neighbor's Husband's Other Life
Rob and Laura see Jerry go out with another woman.
Read MoreI'd Rather Be Bald Than Have No Head at All
Rob goes to Buddy’s barber for a dubious treatment to prevent baldness.
Read MoreTeacher's Petrie
The teacher falls in love with Laura.
Read MoreMy Mother Can Beat Up My Father
Laura has a talent for judo when she defends Rob at a bar.
Read MoreThe Ghost of A. Chantz
Rob, Buddy, Laura, and Sally spend the night in a cabin that is haunted. They later learn that Mel is playing a joke!
Read MoreThe Lady and the Babysitter
Roger Ritchie's Babysitter has fallen in love with Laura. Roger has trouble telling Laura that he loves her.
Read MoreThe Man from Emperor
Rob is offered a job at a men's magazine but Laura doesn't like the idea.
Read MoreRomance, Roses and Rye Bread
Sally finds a secret admirer turns out to be an unwanted suitor in the shape of DelI proprietor, Bert Monker. With middle-age loneliness the only thing they have in common, can she let him down gently?
Read MoreThe Alan Brady Show Goes to Jail
Rob has to perform at prison, just as he is about to perform Rob is thought to be an inmate of the jail.
Read MoreThree Letters from One Wife
Millie gets a letter campaign together to make sure Rob still has a job.
Read MoreMy Two Show-Offs and Me
When a writer comes to do a piece on the Alan Brady Show, Rob is worried about how Buddy and Sally will act in front of her.
Read MoreStretch Petrie vs. Kid Schenk
Neil Schenk comes looking for a job while Rob returns an old favor.
Read MoreBrother, Can You Spare $2500?
Rob loses a script, and a hobo holds it for ransom.
Read MoreThe Impractical Joke
Rob tells Buddy that he will play a joke on Buddy. When Rob doesn't do it, Buddy's troubles only gets worse as an IRS agent visits him.
Read MoreStacey Petrie: Part I
Sally is asked to help Stacey learn how to date a lady.
Read MoreStacey Petrie: Part II
Stacey meets Julie. Julie opens the letter and finds out who really wrote the letter. (Stacey signed the letter James Garner who is a friend of his but not the actor.)
Now Laura and Rob must help Stacey get over Julie.
Read MoreBoy #1, Boy #2
Laura & Millie drive Rob crazy when their sons are cast in a commercial.
Read MoreThe Redcoats Are Coming
Rob offers to hide The Redcoats at his home.
Read MoreYoung Man With a Shoehorn
Rob and Buddy invest in Uncle Lou's shoe store.
Read MoreGirls Will Be Boys
Ritchie comes to his parents for advice on how to get Priscilla Darewell to stop hitting him. Soon Rob and Laura find out that Pricilla loves Ritchie!
Read MoreAnthony Stone
Rob and Buddy find out that Sally's date is married.
Read MoreNever Bathe on Saturday
Laura and Rob plan to see a play but she gets locked in a bathroom at their hotel.
Read MoreBr-rooom, Br-rooom
Rob has a new motorcycle and takes it for a ride and is later arrested.
Read MoreThere's No Sale Like Wholesale
Rob learns a leason after letting Buddy buy a coat that is to big for Laura.
Read MoreCoast-to-Coast Big Mouth
A talk show host gets Laura to tell a TV audience that Alan Brady is bald!
Read MoreA Farewell to Writing
Rob tries to write a novel, but finds that writing comedy is easier.
Read MoreUhny Uftz
Rob and Buddy are working late, and keep thinking they hear a metallic voice saying ""Uhny Uftz""! The explore a supposedly abandoned office somewhere in the building, and find a somewhat 'mad' inventor (complete with a taciturn and vaguely menacing assistant) who has constructed a toy flying saucer. It works quite well, except that, instead of saying ""Merry Christmas"" as the inventor intended, the saucer only says ""Uhny Uftz"".
Read MoreDraw Me a Pear
Laura talks Rob into going to her art class unaware that Valerie falls in love with Rob.
Read MoreThe Great Petrie Fortune
After Rob and Laura finish watching a movie Uncle Hezekiah gives Rob and Laura clue as to what the fortune might be.
Read MoreOdd But True
Ritchie finds out the freckles on Rob's back form the shape of the Liberty Bell. Millie wants to send a pictrue to Odd But True. (a nwespaper column)
Read MoreViva Petrie
Maria (the Petrie's maid) tells Manuel Luis Rodriguez to go to the Petrie's because Maria feels that Rob can find him a job, but the only Manuel can do is be a bullfighter.
Read MoreGo Tell the Birds and Bees
Alberta Nelson shines in a small part as Miss Reshovsky, the concerned elementary schoolteacher of note. Rob and Laurie Petrie are also asked to the principal's office to discuss their son.
Read MoreBody and Sol
Rob tells Buddy and Sally of the time he became the middle weight champion of his Army Camp.
Read MoreSee Rob Write, Write Rob, Write
After going to the Butcher's Shop to get something for dinner, Laura sees pictures (drawn By Charlie Wheelright) Laura wants to write a story to help sell Charlie's pictures. Rob doesn't like the idea because he always finshes her stories.
Read MoreYou're Under Arrest
After fighting with Laura, Rob is arrested for hurting an old Lady. Rob has trouble telling police he didn't hurt the Lady (whom he saw in a barroom).
Read MoreFifty-Two, Forty-Five or Work
The Alan Brady Show is on hiatus Rob is worried about to support Laura (who is pregnant with Ritchie) Rob doesn't anyone to know he needs a job until The Alan Brady Show returns from hiatus.
Read MoreWho Stole My Watch?
After Rob loses his watch that he got as birthday gift, He thinks everyone he knows took his watch. Laura and Rob plan a party to say they are sorry after they learn a crook stole Rob's watch.
Read MoreI Do Not Choose to Run
Rob gives a speech at council meeting that will land him a nomination for city councilman of New Rochelle.
Read MoreThe Making of a Councilman
Rob decides to quit running for his seat on the New Rochelle city council after meeting the opponent running against him because of his experience.
Read MoreThe Curse of the Petrie People
Laura gets a brooch that (in the shape of the United States) tells the history of the Petrie family. Laura later puts the brooch in the garbage! We learn that Rob's mom hates the brooch!
Read MoreRemember the Alimony
Rob and Laura leave Anchor Texas to go to Mexico only to find that marriage is hard to do. They soon find out that getting a divorce is easier than they thought (it costs $10 in Mexico!)
Read MoreBad Reception in Albany
Rob and Laura are attending a wedding in Albany, Rob is asked by Alan to watch a fashion show. He promises to tell Alan what he thought of it. Rob has to hurry to the church to usher a wedding.
Read MoreTalk to the Snail
Rob fears his job is gone after reading a memo (found in the trash where they are looking for this week's script that Buddy lost) Rob almost writes for Jelly Bean a snail!
Read MoreA Day in the Life of Alan Brady
Jerry & Millie are having their anniversary party, at the Petrie home one problem the party is a part of documentary that focuses on Alan.
Read MoreObnoxious, Offensive, Egomaniac, Etc.
The staff sends a script to Alan Brady without deleting the insults directed at the star that they routinely add to blow off steam.
Read MoreThe Man from My Uncle
Ritchie's bedroom is used as a stakeout point (it has the best view) Harry Bond is looking for the nephew of Wendell Gerard, Rob loves the gadgets the agent brings to solve the case.
Read MoreYou Ought to Be in Pictures
Rob gets a movie role, but he has to kiss a woman. Laura makes sure that nothing else happens.
Read MoreLove Thy Other Neighbor
Laura and Rob spend time with the Staggs and going to the theater,Jerry & Millie feel left out.
Read MoreLong Night's Journey into Day
Rob & Jerry go fishing leaving Laura (who has a cold) home alone with a mynah bird. Millie comes back to keep Laura company, Millie couldn't find Laura (She was taking a shower).
Read MoreThe Gunslinger
Under anesthesia for a dental procedure, Rob dreams he is a sheriff in the old west.
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