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- Vern decides to get a tattoo in nearby Exeter which is a rough little town where the kids from Cardella go to booze and pickup women. He takes Howie along so Wes, Irene, Tom-Tom and Nora have to give up their date night to rescue them, or so they think. The frank discussions about sexuality and why young men go to a town like Exeter is explored with amazing realism. Humor and drama go hand in hand throughout the show. A flawless piece of writing. The last five minutes are a showcase for Randy Boone as he shows off his skills as both an actor and musician.
- Tom-Tom, Vern and Howie go camping. Howie ends up lost and partly amnesiac. How he got that way is truly was an innovative twist. Tom-Tom nearly kills himself trying to find him. Again, the emotions and reactions are so real it's amazing. It sounds pretty standard, kid lost in the woods, etc, but they weave in the loss of Wes and Howie's parents and some spiritual stuff without being preachy or saccharine. Another piece of amazing writing.
- Indian Summer has come to Cordella. While everyone else is basking in the sun and fun, Wes and Irene are stuck working and going to classes until they decide to skip out as well. The pair's relationship is explored expertly, including an opportunity for a little premarital sex. Irene (Jan Norris) displays her enormous talents as an actress. She gives a multi-layered performance as she does throughout the show, with the silences displaying an amazing level of subtly. Wes and Irene are about as real a couple as ever populated a TV show. Tom-Tom (Ted Bessell) slips in a nice bit about foreplay concerning a lecture he, Irene and Nora are attending. I start to get the impression that it may have been the barely disguised allusions to sex that doomed this show with the network as much as anything. Far ahead of its time. Makes you realize what we've lost in 50 years in terms of adult writing and performances in television drama. Listen for Lyle Waggoner as the announcer at the end of every show.
- This one features Howie, (Michael Burns), as he gets caught up in a tug of war between Mr. Stott (Harry Hervey Sr.) who runs the gas station and Mr. Lowell (Charles P. Thompson, who is memorable as the elderly bank guard on The Andy Griffith Show), a insurance agent, both of whom want him to work for them. The climax is a moving evocation of the difficulty of men facing retirement and marginalization. There's also some nice horseplay between Wes, Tom-Tom and Vern at the end. It's a fine episode, but it probably highlights another reason the series didn't succeed. When the series shifts away from the three older leads to Howie, it changes tone dramatically. Certainly Howie is a part of the dramatic mix, but if the series had simply been about the three, older leads, it might have had a better chance at success.
- The excellent opening captures the quintessence of the four guys as they set out on a Saturday morning, Howie to play basketball and the three older guys to take an aptitude test setup by Irene. Wes gets frustrated and gets drunk in a show which is unfortunately played for laughs. Nothing like a happy drunk in the good old 60s. Fortunately, the hangover is played for real. In uncharacteristic fashion, Tom-Tom comes to Wes's rescue. The final scene between Wes (Glenn Corbett) and Irene (Jan Norris) is excellent, as always.
- Tom-Tom sets out to buy a car. In the process we're treated to series of labyrinthine wheeling and dealing as he trades up from a typewriter, a tape recorder and on and on. No doubt, Tom-Tom graduated to be a Wall Street entrepreneur. Meanwhile, Howie has his heart set on a mini-motor bike for his paper route that Wes can't afford. Again, the best part of the show and series is when Wes and Tom-Tom verbally duke it out. The dialog and relationship between these two guys is one of the most realistic exchanges you'll ever see in series television in any era.
- The long-delayed mail tells Seaman Dooley his wife is expecting. Holden conspires to get more information.
- Convinced his friend has a severe back ailment that he won't admit, Arch goes behind Harry's back in order to confirm his suspicions.
- When the Dickens' throw a party for their married friends, Harry goes to extremes to conceal from Arch that he's not invited.
- Dickens battles a severe case of stage frightwhile auditioning for a TV commercial.
- 1962–196330m7.2 (7)TV EpisodeWhen Mr. Bannister fires Arch for his endless parade of girlfriends at the construction site, Harry, Mell and Mulligan have to decide whether to admit their own culpability.
- 1962–196330m9.9 (7)TV EpisodeFree spirited college student/artist Nora (Anne Schuyler) is added to the cast. Much of the story focuses around her and Wes when she's stranded on a side road resulting in Wes losing a load of tires he's hauling back to the gas station he works at. The tire part of the episode goes on a bit long, but the rest of the show is great. It's portrait of college students is relevant to any era. The story also highlights the conflicts between Wes and his fiancé Irene, a non-student, who's acting as the surrogate wife/mother for the group. Irene and Nora's confrontation and reconciliation at the end of the show are as well written as anything you'll find on TV in any era. The show had definitely found its footing by the end of episode three.
- Overwhelmed by the impending birth of his eleventh child, Mel allows Dickens and Fenster to babysit his brood.
- Lt. Holden is determined to get everyone aboard the Sea Tiger a Christmas gift but he needs to evade the authorities to make it happen.
- Harry feels like his friendship with Arch is going to the dogs after Fenster adopts a precious pup and begins to neglect all his relationships.
- There's hell "to pay" when Mr. Bannister decides to start wearing a rug.
- 1962–196330m6.7 (8)TV EpisodeTired of being the butt of Mulligan's jokes, Harry puts an end to it by refusing Arch's invitation for a celebratory evening with the construction gang.
- Holmes and Yoyo arrest a known criminal. Later the man's associates hold them captive in exchange for the man's release. And because of an earlier incident Yoyo's power is decreasing and if it continues and if he doesn't get a recharge, he will be useless.
- While on a stake out, Holmes and Yoyo hear a woman had her purse snatched from her, by a dog. And when there are others, they set a trap using Maxine as the mark but the dog gets away. They eventually get a lead on who the one behind the dog is.
- Holmes and Yoyo are assigned to prevent the theft of valuable jewels from the wealthy Thornhills.
- The Telling of a seemingly innocent joke leads to an all-out war, jeopardizing the construction crew's bid for the coveted Safety Award.
- Holden arranges the swiping of two torpedoes from a supply base so the Sea Tiger can go into action, but just as they get their opportunity for their first combat engagement, the Captain is stricken with a seeming case of appendicitis.
- 1962–196330m6.6 (9)TV EpisodeFrustrated with their low wages, Dickens and Fenster decide to go into business for themselves, but soon discover that hanging out their shingle is not as easy as it looks.
- 1962–196330m7.1 (10)TV EpisodeWhile spending the weekend in their mountain cabin, Dickens, Fenster, and Mulligan, become suspicious of Mel, when they discover his uncanny resemblance to a notorious bank robber.
- We're introduced to the four main characters, Wes (Glenn Corbett), Tom-Tom (Ted Bessel), Howie (Michael Burns) and Vern (Randy Boone), but the relationships are far from defined. Wes and Tom-Tom are college students and Howie is in junior high. The three of them share a houseboat on the Ohio River in the small college town of Cordella. Howie and Wes and both smart, ambitious and driven to excel at school, while Tom-Tom, also obviously a bright guy, has his head in the clouds. Vern is a newcomer in town, a drifting Folk singer. The pilot revolves around an economic and moral crisis with Howie and Vern. The writing is excellent and the characters well drawn, but the pacing is manic at times, surprisingly so for that era. In contrast, the drawn out nature of the missing money storyline gets a bit tedious, but the story pays off in the end.
- When a homeless Fenster moves in with Harry and Kate, he nearly demolishes their relationship when he starts to talk trash about his friend...in his sleep!
- A pair of attorneys are hired to defend an heiress accused of murdering her husband.
- A tip-off proves inaccurate, but some checks prove that Holmes' source is genuine. So who is feeding him false information, and why?
- Alex and Yoyo learn of an extortion ring from one of their victims. They follow the money to the man who might be the big man. When he threatens them, they arrest him. They later learn that the man has avoided being convicted because everyone who is suppose to testify against him, disappears or expires. So Yoyo protects Alex by sticking to him like glue.
- Bumbling detective Holmes and his robot partner pursue a cat burglar, a thief that actually steals cats.
- The detectives arrest an out-of-state fugitive but mistakenly release him to his cohorts impersonating cops.
- When Alex tries to pay for his coffee with a counterfeit 20 he is arrested. Later more 20's turn up in the possession of other cops. They try to find out where they got it from. They discover a place they all went to and discover that the guy who bought works with a known counterfeiter.
- An actor, a stuntman and a makeup man are pegged as suspects in the attempted murder of the film director who fired them.
- The detectives are assigned to protect a key grand-jury witness, who is so fearful for his life that he is even evading them.
- The Chief has been robbed by a burglar while staying at a motel. So Yoyo is assigned to undercover work with a policewoman, posing as newlyweds.
- Harry comes down with a severe case of jealousy when Kate, is assigned night shift duties at the hospital with a team of handsome doctors.
- When Arch becomes engaged to a comely young stewardess, a jealous Harry attempts to sabotage their relationship before it ever gets off the ground.
- Holmes and Yoyo are investigating the bombings of dental offices. Yoyo figures out what all have in common, and when they discover that there no more dentists who share that link, they think that's it. But another dental office is bombed. They try to figure out what the bomber has against them.
- 1962–196330m7.0 (16)TV EpisodeIn the pilot for I'm Dickens...He's Fenster, Harry Dickens fears not being promoted to foreman, while his friend, Arch Fenster tries to boost Harry's confidence.
- Curmudgeonly detective Alex Holmes is teamed with a new partner, Gregory 'Yoyo' Yoyonovich, to catch a car thief. Holmes thinks there is something odd about Yoyo who he discovers is a robot, but decides to keep the knowledge to himself.
- A documentary hosted by Walter Matthau, which discussed and showed examples from cinematic comedy classics. Long portions of the documentary were devoted to the comedy teams of Abbot & Costello and Laurel & Hardy, and to the films of director Ernst Lubitsch.