I Married Joan Season 1, Episode 5: Crime Panel

Pilot

A young couple's quarrel over a fur coat ends up in Brad's court and brings back memories of another fur coat that caused a crisis in the Stevens marriage. Joan remembers when she was an airline hostess and buys a fur coat.

30 min

Career

Judge Stevens invites a prospective campaign contributor to dinner, only to find that his wife, trying to be helpful, has invited another sponsor.

30 min

Ballet

The Judge advises his wife Joan to get more exercise as an antidote to fatigue from housework and Joan turns to ballet.

30 min

Jitterbug

Joan finds an ingenious way to retaliate after Brad fines her for speeding, she takes up jitterbugging after trying babysitting and selling "all you can eat" to phone men.

30 min

Brad's Class Reunion

Joan struggles to change herself into "The Perfect Woman" to fit a description written by her husband.

30 min

Hunting

Joan insists that she is an experienced camper. Unconvinced, Brad decides to test her aptitude for the great outdoors.

30 min

Joan's Curiosity

Joan is in for a surprise when she opens an interesting-looking package that arrived for Brad.

30 min

Birthday

Joan buys some dresses, puts them on her charge account, then sells them to friends for cash. The reason is she needs money to buy Brad a birthday present.

30 min

Bazar Pie

Joan wants to arrange a romance, by introducing her new neighbor, a handsome Latin, to her visiting aunt.

30 min

Acrobats

When Brad announces that he is bringing home important guests for dinner, Joan feels it necessary to buy a new wardrobe for the occasion. While shopping for a hat she winds up in a fight with a woman who turns out to be one of Brad's dinner guests. At dinner Joan tries to disguise herself by joining the nightclub's entertainers, acrobats.

30 min

Dreams

After meeting three former schoolmates who are now successful career woman, Joan decides that she is happier just being a housewife

30 min

Bad Boy

Joan tries to reform a juvenile delinquent and nearly winds up in jail herself.

30 min

Circumstantial Evidence

Joan takes an interest in her husband's work and tries to prove that a man he is about to sentence was convicted on circumstantial evidence.

30 min

Uncle Edgar

Uncle Edgar visits Joan and her husband and they have a difficult time trying to keep him out of trouble.

30 min

Moosehead

Joan tries to kill two problems with the same fifty-dollar bill and winds up deeply wounded by a dead moose at an auction.

30 min

Fireman

Joan tries to patch up the quarrels of her newlywed-neighbors and succeeds in creating some for herself at the firehouse.

30 min

Memory

Joan's faulty memory wreaks gastric disaster when she forgets a dinner invitation, resulting in not one, not two, but three spaghetti dinners in the same evening.

30 min

Draftboard

Brad receives a letter from his local draft board. Joan assumes he's being called to armed service and panics.

30 min

Opera

In order to save her club's benefit show, Joan takes a whirl at the opera. Bing Crosby helps out.

30 min

Shopping

Joan needs newly out-fitted for a fancy party. So does husband Brad, but both have second thoughts about Joan's shopping trip.

30 min

The Stamp

Joan mails a letter using a Mozambique stamp that Brad just purchased for $350. Her husband blows his top, but why is Joan now on trial?

30 min

Little Girl

Joan tries to spark a romance between a guest and a neighbor's son. Joan Davis.

30 min

Diet

30 min

Model

30 min

Lateness

30 min

The Eviction Show

30 min

The Recipe

30 min

Repairs

30 min

Secrets

30 min

The Artist Show

30 min

The Threat

30 min

Country Club

30 min

Theatrical Can-Can

30 min

Neighbors

30 min

Talent Scout

30 min

Honeymoon

Joan locks Brad in a burglar-proof closet. Joan Davis, Jim Backus.

30 min

Business Executive

30 min

Brad's Broken Toe

All is not quiet in a hospital when Joan and Brad become patients. Jim Backus.

30 min