The Danny Thomas Show Season 1, Episode 17: True Blue Benny

Uncle Daddy

30 min

Party Dress

Danny buys a new doll for Terry and brings it home, expecting her to be happy about it, but instead finds that Margaret is making her a new dress for a school dance—and Terry, at age eleven, is too old for dolls.

30 min

Second Honeymoon

Margaret finally gets her second honeymoon with Danny, but a friend needs him to open for him in Atlantic City, the same place where the honeymoon is taking place. A flashback occurs which tells what happened on their first honeymoon in 1941. In the end, the Williams' get their honeymoon.

30 min

Mother-in-Law

Margaret’s mother starts feeling like she’s forgotten, and taken for granted, when she’s called up time-after-time just to babysit.

30 min

Anniversary

When Danny forgets his and Margaret’s wedding anniversary and is stuck in the doghouse, he reminisces about a simpler time and their first anniversary, before his success in show business.

30 min

Margaret, Non-Pro

30 min

The Visiting Englishman

Margaret and Danny become exasperated by an unwanted guest who won’t leave and who causes all sorts of problems for the two—but the kids adore him, and, later, they become fond of him, as well.

30 min

The Sea Captain

Danny showers the children with money, and drops plenty of hints, for them to get a present for his birthday. But the children don't understand, and spend it on the custodian of the building, who was once a sailor.

30 min

Thanksgiving Story

30 min

Last Dollar

30 min

Margaret's Job

When an old college friend of Margaret’s comes to visit her, and she starts to compare her life with her successful friend’s, she becomes unhappy with her own life. Afterwards, Danny takes an unfortunate jab at her, and she decides to accept a job that the friend had previously offered her.

30 min

Wonderland

While about to start a relaxing vacation with just Margaret and himself, Danny finds himself stuck with a houseguest who’s the winner of a publicity stunt his agent submitted him for.

30 min

Christmas

Rusty becomes cynical about Santa Claus and Christmas, and Danny gets stuck, on Christmas Eve, in Detroit because of a small clause in his contract.

30 min

Toledo

Danny takes the kids with him to Toledo, and the stories he tells them about his childhood days and friends there, they discover, are off the mark when they meet several of his old acquaintances.

30 min

Margaret's Jealousy

Margaret unnecessarily works herself up to be jealous of Danny and an old girlfriend of his.

30 min

Terry for President

30 min

Rusty Runs Away

30 min

The Professor

After dispensing a lecture to the kids on unselfishness, Danny discovers that they have brought a bum, albeit an emeritis college professor, into the house without his knowledge.

30 min

Burlesque

30 min

Black Eyes

30 min

Margaret's Birthday

Margaret’s three friends in her Wednesday bridge club brag to her about the presents their husbands gave them for Valentine’s Day, and she feels the need to defend Danny for a simple tape recorder she ostensibly got. Later, he hears something on said tape recorder and decides to change up her birthday present.

30 min

The Matchmaker

30 min

Night Club

30 min

Terry's Career

30 min

School Festival

30 min

Rusty's Pal

30 min

Julia's Birthday

30 min

Pittsburgh

30 min

Danny's Vacation

30 min