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A formerly flamboyant hairdresser takes a long walk across a small town to style a dead woman's hair.

A deformed man working for a marine biologist takes revenge on the people that mock him by experimenting with a deadly jellyfish.

A little girl shows up a day late for a friend's birthday party. After wishing she could read a calendar, two spandex-clad people magically appear in her bedroom to teach her how. The duo explains how a calendar can help her keep track of important holidays like Christmas and Halloween. A vest-wearing, electric guitar-wielding rocker who looks like Jackson Browne sings several short songs about the months and the different number of days in each.

Edie Adams performs songs like "My Ship'' and "When My Sweetie Walks Down the Street."

Mrs. Brown hires Mary to babysit her toddler and young daughter when she and her husband go out for the evening. Mary's duties include serving dinner to the older child and changing the diaper on the younger. THe older daughter throws a tantrum when the baby gets too much attention. After putting the kids to bed, she listens to music and works on her history homework.

Short lived (2-1/2 months) live quiz show with members of the studio audience being selected as contestants to win cash.

The editor of the Sag-Harbor Bee exchanges banter with an unemployed man who wishes to place an ad for work. They're interrupted by a bill collector who demands Fred either pay for the coat and vest he bought on installment or return them now. Being broke, he takes them off and hands them over. The same collector returns demanding payment for the pants Fred's wearing. After removing his trousers, he emerges from behind a screen holding an open umbrella to hide his underwear.

Teenager Ken is squandering his afternoon lying around his bedroom being bored. He's shown flashbacks of fifty and one hundred years ago when people had no real free time for themselves. The narrator shows him what his friends are doing right now: birdwatching, working a part time job, sewing, and learning to play the piano. Ken remembers that he got a new camera for Christmas and decides that photography would be a good hobby.

Careers in food preparation are available practically everywhere, from trains to hospitals to restaurants. Workers are seen performing the various jobs in a busy kitchen. Duties include vegetable cook, fry cook, broiler cook and roast cook. The dishes vary from simple to elaborate. A chef is concerned with presentation, making his food look as good as it tastes.

A TV news team of young kids investigates why students have been locked out of their lunchroom at Plumcrest School. Principal Frankfurter says the shutdown is the best news he's heard all year because of the way the kids behave in there. Children are shown fighting, throwing food and acting like uncivilized rowdies. The food, which is animated, informs the press that they've had enough of the bad behavior and refuse to reopen unless the punks start behaving.

This short film encourages children to keep reading.

Short film detailing how to make an outline.

A young suburban family, The Macaulays, gets to work on beautifying their yard. Mom Liz draws up plans for what goes where while husband Arthur stocks up on gardening tools. After dirt samples are analyzed by the county agent, the nursery supplies them with the right mixture of soil conditioners. Working on their rose bed, they add peat moss and fertilizer along with bushes. Gladiola bulbs and seeds for other flowers are planted elsewhere. Their son takes part in the fun.

Three children drop by Bob's Fixit Shop with questions about nature. He explains reproduction to them using the fish in his aquarium. First is the Betta splendens, an aggressive fish breed where the male builds a nest and raises the babies. Then, Bob shows them the Egyptian mouthbrooders, a breed where the mother carries the eggs in her mouth until they hatch.

Arthur Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his business partner who ridicules him for keeping his money in his mattress. The Spirit of Banking appears and whisks him away to a contemporary bank. The spirit explains how checking and savings accounts work and that money is loaned out to generate even more wealth. Seeing the error of his ways, Scrooge vows to move his money to a banking institution.

Teenager Sally is starting to understand the power of emotions. Her teacher demonstrates how we sometimes become irrational without thinking by springing a rubber snake on the classroom. She realizes that by bringing reasoning to a situation, you don't have to let your feelings dictate your behavior. This knowledge allows her to make the right decision and not go with boyfriend Hank to "Lovers' Lane" after the big spring dance.

Young Tommy and his kid sister Peggy start their day by washing up and getting dressed. Tommy's loose tooth is the topic of conversation at the breakfast table. At school, his teacher explains how baby teeth fall out so that permanent teeth can push through. Returning home, Tommy and Peggy play outside until dinner time, Just before bedtime, Tommy pulls out his loose tooth.

A young man in love with a sophisticated woman from the city is torn between his desires and those of his family. His parents wish him and his brother to stay and work on their small Minnesota wheat farm while both want to escape the tough life and move to the city. It's up to the mother to keep the family together in spirit during their Thanksgiving holiday reunion.

An attractive, charming librarian is smitten with the movie director who's been hanging around the library. He enlists her help in tracking down a stunning woman he'd seen there days before; he describes her as having "a glow." Though she's glad to help, she hates that she hasn't captured his attention like the future movie star has.

In a live show from San Francisco's Presido, Hope and McMurray play waterfront fishermen, two shop owners in Chinatown, and prisoners breaking out of Alcatraz. The Bell Sisters perform "Wheel of Fortune" and a comedy number, "June Night", with Bob. Rich prospector Hope drops by a Barbary Coast bar where everyone wants his gold. Bob and Fred do "Small Fry." Alpaka sings "Beyond the Reef."

Noted scientist Dr. J. P. Hartley has been kidnapped by foreign agents. Captain Midnight, Ikky, and Tut determine he'd been working with extreme cold to make a metal that could withstand practically anything. An ice sheet in the desert tips the guys off to the doctor's location. As Captain Midnight tries to revive the frozen scientist in the spies' icy lair, the military drops an atomic bomb nearby at the government's atomic testing grounds.

Carol's guests are Lucille Ball, Eddie Albert, and Nancy Wilson. Harvey joins her for "The Old Folks." Roger brings home his new boss, a health fanatic, and forces Carol to act like she exercises. Carol and Lucy are popular funeral attendees in "As the Stomach Turns," Eddie is an undertaker, and Nancy integrates Canoga Falls. Nancy sings "The Folks Who Live on the Hill," teams with Carol for "The Other Man's Grass Is Always Greener," and Eddie sings "Father of Girls." The finale is a tribute to the astrological sign Leo.

Highlights include a salute to Tin Pan Alley.

Jerry Lester hosts the series' first anniversary. Guests include ventriloquist Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney, Jane Pickens and the Escourtiers, rumba dancers Horatio and Lana, and actors Kim Stanley and John Garfield. Winchell tries to get Mahoney to go to sleep; when he does, the dummy dreams about the two trading places. Pickens and her six Escourtiers' songs include "Alexander's Ragtime Band" and "St. Louis Blues." Lester is a greedy contestant on the radio quiz show "Take It or Lump It." Garfield and Stanley perform a dramatic scene from Clifford Odets' "Golden Boy". Lester also juggles.

A band of gypsies settles down in the Montana Territory to take advantage of the copper stakes they've made in the region. In the nearby town of Bender, a group of shady locals believe the settlers should be stripped of their rights and take the matter to court. When it looks like the judge is going to rule for the gypsies, the outlaws kidnap him and lock him in the local jail.