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- The State Department asks Joey to perform for a visiting Sultan and after the potentate enjoys what he sees, he gifts Joey two harem girls. Ellie is dismayed but the government says they must keep them to help with foreign relations.
- During another twister, Dorothy is hit on the head by a gate and once again whisked away to the Land of Oz. But this time, on her way to the Emerald City, she discovers the witch Mombi's terrible plot to conquer Oz with an army of monster green elephants that's she's brewing up. She escapes with the help of Mombi's slave Pumpkinhead, and they try to warn King Scarecrow and her other friends that Mombi is coming, but she finds that they haven't quite changed as much as she thought. So it's up to her, Pumpkinhead, and the living carousel horse Woodenhead to find a way to stop Mombi's green elephants.
- An aging music-hall performer returns to London believing he's the star of a new show. When he discovers that he's only slated to be the understudy, his daughter sabotages the revue's star in order to get him back into the spotlight.
- Comedian Jack Benny has his butler, Rochester, call several of his celebrity friends over to the house. Benny introduces them to a Catholic priest, who speaks to them about doing a film for a group called the Christophers. The Christophers are an organization that wants to use different mediums such radio, TV, and film to inspire young people to change the world for the better by pursuing careers in public service like teaching and government work. The priest gives the celebrities a history lesson about the founding of the U.S. and God's role in it, and he asks for their help.
- 1961–196530m5.9 (10)TV EpisodeJoey and his pal Buddy have a history of practical jokes. Their rivalry escalates to the point where Joey is hosting a luau in his apartment and Buddy shows up riding a donkey for some reason.
- Joey has a young comedian Jackie on his show and everyone raves about him, Joey gets him a regular gig at a big club. But Jackie's mother objects to his being in show business so everyone must work to get her to change her mind.
- Joey is asked to give a glowing testimonial to a sergeant who made his life miserable while he was in the army. After Joey refuses to attend the reunion, his friends recall the moments of conflict between the two men.
- A golf-crazy songwriter tries to avoid the long, solitary hours of concentration needed to produce a hit musical. His producer and his secretary conspire to get him back on track.
- Ellie thinks her butcher Herbie is a talented comedian, but Joey is tired of auditioning people she knows. Ellie tricks her husband into going to the market to see how funny Herbie is.
- Joey and Freddy have an argument over creative differences spurred by Joey's impromptu playing of a mandolin to end his show, which results in Joey firing Freddy as his manager and also ending their friendship.
- 1961–196530m6.1 (12)TV EpisodeRusty Hamer, who played Rusty Williams on The Danny Thomas Show (1953) (AKA "The Danny Thomas Show"), plays the same character who is now a college student and comes to stay with the Barnes family for a while. Joey, Larry, and two surprisingly good-natured buddies help Rusty and his fellow pledges carry out a most unusual fraternity initiation stunt.
- Joey doesn't want Ellie doing any housework while she is pregnant and encourages her to take up a hobby to occupy her time. But it's Joey and Larry who start creating art, turning it in a destructive competition.
- A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.
- Joey forgets to wish Larry's new girlfriend Marlene happy birthday and she ends the relationship. Larry doesn't feel Joey is apologetic enough and decides to terminate their long association. Ellie tries to fix things.
- Ellie has rehired temperamental Krupnik to redo the nursery and Ellie has promised to keep Joey away. When she fails, Krupnik storms out and Joey decides to finish the nursery with Larry's help.
- Joey and Larry head out of town for a short golf outing and make an error in stopping in a small hamlet. Tom Weed recognizes Joey as a celebrity and keeps coming up with schemes to keep him in town for a ceremony on Saturday.
- A young man returns to San Francisco and his wealthy family with a new bride. His family objects to his marriage as his wife is mixed race and his mother is determined to have it annulled.
- In Prohibition-era Chicago, two rival gangs compete for control of the city's rackets.
- Two unemployed show-biz pals accept treasure-diving work in Bali for a local princess and they find treasure, love and trouble.
- Domestic comedy about a middle-aged couple with two teenage daughters and a long staying friend.
- Exiled American gangster Colini sends his protégé-killer Giordano to the USA to eliminate Colini's mob enemies.
- A compulsive liar admits to a killing she didn't commit so her husband, a lawyer, can clear her and build a reputation for himself.
- 1961–196530m6.4 (10)TV EpisodeAfter Milton makes an appearance on Joey's television show he stops by his home. There he becomes obsessed with Joey Jr. and goes overboard buying the baby gifts. Joey must devise a way to stop Milton's generosity.
- After Joey has Jack Jones on his show and admiring his talent, he precedes to have a fantasy dream that night. In it Ellie is a genie and grants Joey's wish to be a pop singer pursued by fanatical young fans.
- Ellie secretly takes a temporary job as a model in a fashion show to earn the money for a 4-month anniversary gift for Joey. Joey notices her changed behavior, and assumes that she is having an affair.
- A battle of the sexes: Joey jokes about women in politics on his show, and Ellie, who has contemplated running for Assemblyman, decides to do so, demanding time on his show to rebut him. Joey agrees, planning to embarrass her on the air.
- Larry's run of bad luck has shaken his confidence so Joey talks the guys into letting Larry win at poker. Larry, feeling reassured, starts taking wild chances and Joey must tell him the truth.
- Danny Ocean gathers a group of his World War II compatriots to pull off the ultimate Las Vegas heist. Together the eleven friends plan to rob five Las Vegas casinos in one night.
- A singing mechanic from 1912 finds himself in Arthurian Britain.
- Joey Bishop stars as Joey Barnes, a New York talk show host, in this half-hour filmed series about the misadventures of a Hollywood public-relations man.
- Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. People grow up, get married, live, and die. Milk and the newspaper get delivered every morning, and nobody locks their front doors.
- Joey and Jan plan on doing a fake boxing match for the TV show but Larry gets things mixed up and both men start training for a real fight.
- Joey has old friend Jack Carter on his show which gives them a chance to reminisce about when Joey was first dating Ellie. An unusual dinner together with Jack's wife gives Ellie an idea about showbiz marriage.
- Famous insult comedian Jack E. Leonard guests on Joey's show and doesn't ridicule him once. Joey is then convinced Jack doesn't like him and is determined to find out why. It could be over a teddy bear misunderstanding.
- Rusty Hamer , who played Rusty Williams on The Danny Thomas Show (1953) (AKA "The Danny Thomas Show"), plays the same character who is now a college student and comes to stay with the Barnes family for a while in the first of three guest appearances. The Barnes brace themselves for the arrival of their young house guest, and are astonished when he behaves himself like a perfect young gentleman.
- Everyone is excited that Joey Jr. is coming home but less so when Joey Sr. tries to enforce some extreme rules concerning baby care.
- Ellie is taking the baby to see her mother and asks Larry to keep Joey company while she is gone. But the guys have too much time on their hands and quickly find themselves in trouble.
- Merv Griffin invites a series of actors, actresses, writers, and directors to discuss the progressive work they have done and current culture, arts, and entertainment surrounding the numerous projects.
- Little Lulu, torn between playing hookey and going fishing, or going to school, chooses to go fishing...where she encounters the Fish from Cartoon Hades.
- Edgar Bergen is a guest on Joey's show and afterwards teaches him some ventriloquism tricks. Joey decides to play a practical joke on everyone at home by making them think a three month old baby can talk.
- Joey is going on vacation for a week, and he is afraid that Johnny Edwards, the unknown comic that the sponsor hired to fill in for him, is so talented that he may permanently take Joey's job.
- Mr. Jillson promises his Penguin Lodge that Joey will perform there on Saturday, but Joey has other plans. Jillson uses his power as Super to try to change Joey's mind.
- Ever since Joey and Ellie got married Freddie has come over for dinner, without invitation. They want to spend the evening of their 3-month anniversary alone.
- The 30th Academy Awards ceremony, held on March 26th, 1958 to honor the best films of 1957 with Bob Hope returning as host. The ceremony is accompanied by many scandals: Two violent deaths and the Hollywood blacklist during the Cold War.
- Joey mentions his love of dogs on his TV show and his fans drop off several dozen at his apartment. Between jokes Larry suggests gifting them to children who have their parents's permission.
- Rusty Hamer, who played Rusty Williams on The Danny Thomas Show (1953) (AKA "The Danny Thomas Show"), plays the same character who is now a college student and comes to stay with the Barnes family for a while in the final of three guest appearances. Joey is stuck for answers to the questions of his collegiate house guest Rusty until Larry comes up with help in the form of a convicted bookie with a photographic mind who memorized everything he read as a prison librarian.
- 1961–196530m6.8 (12)TV EpisodeJoey is hosting a charity fundraiser and Roberta Sherwood agrees to perform several musical numbers. Ellie causes delays and laughs when she cannot find an outfit different from the other women guests.
- Two inept vaudevillians stow away on a Brazilian-bound ocean liner and foil a plot by a sinister hypnotist to marry off her niece to a greedy fortune hunter.
- Joey and Vic Damone are on a tour to entertain troops and one morning Joey wakes up speaking Russian. After learning Vic has been to Russia, he believes the two of them are part of an elaborate spy plot.
- Joey over praises Dorothy Miller's performance in an amateur theatrical so her husband Art asks Joey to put her in his show. Joey obliges, casting her as a scrub woman but everything goes wrong from there.
- Joey gives a performance at a prison for its inmates. A prisoner who is an exact look-alike to Joey sees his opportunity to escape and forces Joey to trade places with him.
- Newlywed Joey learns that wife Ellie is a compulsive buyer, and is especially susceptible to the con-artist style of door-to-door salesmen.
- Natalie Tribly and Mildred Cosgrove, the two laundresses, con Joey into letting Mildred's niece sing on his television show.
- Ellie again summons Joey Jr's pediatrician and while he's at the apartment Dr. Fisher becomes concerned about Joey Sr's throat. Suddenly it's the father in a hospital about to have surgery.
- Joey discusses parenting challenges with Danny and they imagine themselves as rebellious younger versions of themselves.
- After seeing the abuse Jillson gets for his baldness, Joey decides to buy him a hairpiece. Soon the other residents of the apartment building are trying to get Jillson fired because he spends all his time fixing his toupee and not doing his job.
- Joey grows a mustache but everybody hates it, begging him to shave it off. But Joey thinks it makes him look like a debonair film star.
- With Ellie away, Larry comes to stay with Joey. When Joey begins exhibiting eccentric behaviors, Larry jumps to the conclusion that Joey is reverting to childhood. Larry engages a psychiatrist to pose as a reporter to surreptitiously examine an unsuspecting Joey. When Joey learns the truth, he turns the tables on both of them by pretending to have symptoms of mental illness.
- Ellie is expecting another baby but is afraid to tell Joey because of how he reacted during her first pregnancy. Joey though misinterprets and thinks Ellie has fallen out of love with him. They avoid speaking up so the misunderstandings continue.
- Everyone in the apartment building is trying to avoid Oscar Levant due to his non-stop complaining. Naturally Ellie invites him him to stay for a few days without asking Joey. Joey tries to be a good host but really wants to tell Oscar off.
- After Joey tells jokes about Hilda one night, another of their little feuds erupts. When Hilda calls a TV installer, Larry and Joey believe she is now a Nielsen viewer and try to make amends so she will watch their show.
- Ellie promises Jillson that he can play Santa Claus for Joey Jr. at Christmas since Jillson plays Santa for all the children in the apartment building. Later, Joey comes home with a Santa suit and declaring he would play Santa for Joey Jr. to the dismay of Jillson.
- Larry is cooking Italian for Joey's dinner party. The party breaks into an argument over the baby, Ellie wants a girl this time, Between the son-of-a-guns and oh-brothers, the men are getting in deeper and deeper.
- Mike Douglas, aided by a different celebrity co-host every week, interviews a variety of figures from the world of entertainment.
- After Joey's show is canceled, his wife and friends attempt to cheer him up but do a terrible job. After three weeks Joey starts to get depressed but then he receives a very welcome phone call from CBS.
- Joey gets a big head about his skills as a future dad after he does well in a class for expectant fathers. Larry challenges him by saying anyone, including himself, can do as well.
- Joey is headed to the Catskills to relax and it starts him reminiscing about working there ten years earlier. Performing with Lou and Al, they endure cranky guests turned hecklers due to the non-stop rain.
- On the day that Joey is to perform in a show to honor the governor, he loses the cuff links that he always wears when he performs, and he is afraid to go on stage without them.
- 1961–196530mTV-PG7.1 (14)TV EpisodeWith Jillson being a guest on Joey's talk show, Joey tells the story of how Jillson went on a diet. Mrs. Jillson calls everyone in the apartment house and tells every tenant that Mr. Jillson is on a diet and not to give him any cinnamon buns. Desperate, Jillson goes and buys every cinnamon bun that he can find and hides them in every apartment in the apartment house.
- Joey has been spending a lot of evenings working at the office with Cindy, his new, very beautiful, secretary. Ellie suspects that Joey is straying. Joey, though innocent, realizes that he has to fire Cindy to keep Ellie from leaving him, but he has no cause. Freddie convinces Joey to feign romantic interest in Cindy to get her to quit.
- Joey announces that he plans an evening out with the boys, and Ellie gets the idea that "the wolf wants to howl again." The more Ellie thinks about Joey's night out, the angrier she gets and she plots a retaliation.
- Joey gives Larry some advice about how to conduct his love life, and describes how smoothly his courtship of Ellie had been, how simple and uncomplicated it was, though it turns out Ellie feels cheated, and wanted so much more to indicate the strength of Joey's affection, making life hard for Joey.
- Joey buys Ellie a black wig and she becomes suspicious of his motive, causing a liitle spat. But a date at a night club reveals where he might have gotten his inspiration.
- The misadventures of the Baxter family and their live-in maid, Hazel Burke.
- At the beginning of the program, Peter Lawford explains that Frank Sinatra's plans to film his TV special outdoors in sunny Palm Springs have foundered because an extended rainstorm has turned their desert location into a morass of mud. The company is forced to move inside a stark studio instead and delivers their songs with a minimum of props but a maximum of verve.
- Hazel's suspicions rise as George's old girlfriend visits.
- 1961–196530m7.2 (11)TV EpisodeJoey has Bobby Rydell as a guest on his show and invites him to dinner. A problem arises because Ellie has written a song and sees it as a hit if Bobby is the one who records it.
- Ellie and Joey have never yet had an argument. Ellie's friend Doris tells her that a make-up kiss is the best kind of kiss, so Ellie sets out to cause an argument with Joey so they can make up.
- Joey invests in an unknown, untried boxer's career, based solely on the huge man's impressive display of physical prowess at the local gym.
- A little girl's crush on Joey interferes with the already-established puppy love between her and a boy near her own age. The boy and Joey hatch a plan to make the girl dislike Joey, which involves the children attending a rehearsal for Joey's show during which Joey will pretend to be a tyrant and abuser of his employees.
- George's cousin has a job with a home in Malibu. Since George & Hazel are worried, Hazel visits her. Grace is worried about the men that visit her boss. She and Hazel determine they are part of a crime ring.
- George gets involved in helping to save Grace and Hazel from Grace's employer who is involved in a crime gang.
- Joey lets Ellie practice putting bandages on people but a problem occurs when she can't remove the casts on his arms. Larry takes Joey to the hospital but in a misunderstanding he is admitted.
- Ellie gets a ticket for an illegal left turn and decides to fight it in court against Joey's advice. During the trial Joey is accused of fighting the charge for publicity and Ellie comes to his defense.
- Joey and Ellie misinterpret a phone call of Hilda's they overheard and conclude she is about to quit. They go overboard on making their maid's life perfect so she won't leave.
- 1961–196530m7.2 (11)TV EpisodeLarry wins a writing comedy award for Joey's show the same night Joey loses. Larry becomes insufferable with his bragging leading to a fight between the two friends.
- After many years of service, Joey decides to give Larry his own office. He also hires an additional writer to assist Larry with the weekly banter. The new hire makes Larry feel insecure, which brings to light the fact that he and Joey have never had a written contract between them in the 15 years they have been working together.
- The second installment in the "That's Entertainment" trilogy features more classic scenes from MGM's vast musical library with the addition of comedy and drama films.
- This program aired once every fourth week, and was one of the most costly live shows of the 1950s. Many stars appeared on this show.
- A gorgeous woman who is a Judo expert appears on Joey's show to demonstrate how women can defend themselves from men that attempt to overpower them, and ends up kissing Joey on the air. This causes embarrassment to Ellie as well as engenders her jealousy, and when she threatens to leave him and go home to her mother in Texas, Joey decides to move in with his head-writer Larry. Corbett Monica joins the cast as Larry Corbett, which is a new character, replacing Guy Marks as Joey's best friend and second-banana in the series.
- 1987–199723mTV-PG7.3 (557)TV EpisodeWhile Peggy is away helping Marcy recover her precious childhood belongings that Jefferson abandoned in a storage locker to be auctioned off in which he pocked and gambled away the money, Al, Kelly, and Bud hold an anti-baby meeting and makes plans for a new "Bundy World Order" that includes food, clean clothes and a huge hooter-ed oriental maid to replace the "pegzilla" Peggy.
- The way to a man's heart may be through his stomach, but it's not the heart that's sought by Peggy who's tired of being ignored by Al in the bedroom. So she tries a variety of exciting new outfits in an attempt to whet the appetite of a starving Al. But the only thing Al wants is a cooked steak for dinner.
- Mr. Jillson wins an Eskimo dog in a contest, and then agrees to take Mrs. Walters' cat for a week while she is in Miami Beach. They fight "like cats and dogs", so Mr. Jillson gets Joey and Ellie to take the dog for that week. It turns out that the dog is fresh from the Arctic and needs to be slowly acclimated to indoor temperatures, so Joey and Ellie must live without heat for a week.
- Mr Griffin's nephew and his secretary are getting married. They want to elope, but Mr Griffin wants them to have a large wedding.
- Variety show starring Frank Sinatra, welcoming home singer Elvis Presley after his U.S. Army tour of duty in Germany.
- After Mr. Griffin buys the local dairy, George has to fire Hazel's friend, the Baxters' milkman.
- Working at the diner is getting to Kelly, so she decides to rebel by getting a motorcycle which Peggy deems as too dangerous, until Peggy tries it for herself and gets some good vibrations. But it's Al who really takes to the new bike and imagines himself as an "easy rider,"... at least until an untimely head-on meeting with the Dodge.