Family Affair - Season 1
Season 1
Network
Episodes30
DatesSep 12, 1966 - May 15, 1967
Episodes
Season 1Episode 125 min
Buffy
Bill Davis is ambivalent about taking on the responsibility of raising his niece Buffy after the death of his brother. After suggesting she attend boarding school in Switzerland, she runs away. Giles French, the Davis butler, brings her back.
Sep 12, 1966
Season 1Episode 225 min
Jody and Cissy
Cissy joins the family and Mr. French thinks that he is not wanted anymore. Mr. French changes his mind after Buffy puts her doll in his suitcase and decides to stay after all.
Sep 19, 1966
Season 1Episode 325 min
The Gift Horse
Buffy and Jody decide to give Bill a great gift- a horse!
Sep 26, 1966
Season 1Episode 425 min
The Matter of School
Bill decides to send Cissy to a private girls' school in Connecticut, and even though she would prefer to attend high school locally, she reluctantly agrees to go, thinking Bill wants to get her out of the way.
Oct 3, 1966
Season 1Episode 525 min
Marmalade
Mr. French is chosen for an ad for marmalade and is a huge promotion success, until he tastes the marmalade that he is hawking.
Oct 10, 1966
Season 1Episode 625 min
Room with a Viewpoint
Buffy doesn't like the new changes in her and Cissy's bedroom and refuses to ever step foot in it.
Oct 17, 1966
Season 1Episode 725 min
Mrs. Beasley, Where are You?
Buffy's doll, Mrs. Beasley, gets knocked out of the apartment window by accident and Buffy goes up at arms about the whole thing. She fnds out that a little girl owns a doll that looks just like her lost Mrs. Beasley, and realizes that it is not her doll. Suddenly, the real Mrs. Beasley doll is found in a trash bin.
Oct 24, 1966
Season 1Episode 825 min
Who's Afraid of Nural Shpeni?
Mr. French gets Lebanese cooking lessons from a Middle Eastern restaurant owner named Nural Shpeni, and her family forces Mr. French to marry her, whether he wants to or not.
Nov 7, 1966
Season 1Episode 925 min
A Matter for Experts
Buffy and Jody have been spending a lot a time with each other at school, and it is a major concern for the vice principal and a child psychologist who states that Buffy and Jody need to make friends and join in with other children.
Nov 14, 1966
Season 1Episode 1025 min
Beware: The Other Woman
When an old flame steps back into Bill's life, the children think that he will get married and send them back to Indiana.
Nov 21, 1966
Season 1Episode 1125 min
Take Two Aspirin
Bill gets a chance to work with a friend in Mexico on a job, but his trip is cut short when Mr. French comes down with the flu and difficultt in keeping touch with the family.
Nov 28, 1966
Season 1Episode 1225 min
Love Me, Love Me Not
When Jody sees a friend getting spanked by his father, his father tells him that he punishes him out of love. So Jody takes it upon himself to earn a spanking from Uncle Bill to see if he loves him enough to enforce physical punishment.
Dec 5, 1966
Season 1Episode 1325 min
The Thursday Man
Cissy learns a lesson in snooping when she is to do a paper on Mr. French and finds a shocking secret about him.
Dec 12, 1966
Season 1Episode 1425 min
Thick Deep
Cissy worships a teacher named Julian Hill and spouts his theories all through the household. Bill invites the teacher to dinner and Cissy sees that he is not the man that she worships so dearly when he goes off on Buffy and Jody for an innocent spill.
Dec 26, 1966
Season 1Episode 1525 min
Hard Hat Jody
Jody's allusion about being a constuction worker leads him to ""gaining"" a job with a constuction worker who Bill is trying to get a job with.
Jan 2, 1967
Season 1Episode 1625 min
That Was the Dinner That Wasn't
Cissy is disheartened because she will be left out of a mother-daughter event at school, and she doesn't tell Bill what is wrong with her.
Jan 9, 1967
Season 1Episode 1725 min
All Around the Town
Returning from a shopping excursion with the twins, French meets Miss Faversham who invites him to a poetry reading that afternoon.
Jan 16, 1967
Season 1Episode 1825 min
One for the Little Boy
Bill plans to do some serious bonding with Jody by taking him on a business trip, but Murphy's Law plagues the trip. But Jody states that just being with Bill is exciting enough.
Jan 23, 1967
Season 1Episode 1925 min
Fancy Free
Buffy and Jody are placed in a fast-learning portion of their grade, but Bill is spending his time with a woman who is quite uncertain about what she wants. The twins get a friendly window-washer to help them with their work, but a call from the school to Bill makes him see that the children are more important than a hot date.
Jan 30, 1967
Season 1Episode 2025 min
A Helping Hand
A lesson to be learned in this episode: Helping people is good, but it only goes but so far. The family learns this the hard way. Mr. French helps out a maid who is very bad with housekeeping by covering up her mistakes, and this charade goes on until she is hired by a guest who is throwing a party. Eventually, she gets fired and she gets on Mr. French. Bill does the same thing when he takes over the twins' school project, and he gets credit. Cissy tells them all about how important it is to get involved in the family because they had none when they were in Terre Haute.
Feb 6, 1967
Season 1Episode 2125 min
Once in Love with Buffy
Aunt Fran's back and she wants the kids to come back with her. She believes that Bill will not be a suitable person for the kids. Of course, Fran thinks that this fact is confirmed when Buffy thinks that Bill doesn't want them there. When teh family gets ready to leave, Buffy sees the light and changes her mind.
Feb 13, 1967
Season 1Episode 2225 min
Ballerina Buffy
Buffy gets chosen for a lead in a ballet, which is totally annoying for a mother whose little girl, Melissa, was passed over for a complete stranger. She has reason to suspect foul play when the casting director is Bill's old girlfriend Margo, but she knew nothing about Bill's children until after she had cast the roles. Then Margo tells Buffy that she will be a big success and travel all over the world. Buffy gets the idea that it means right away, so she botches up her role in the production so that she will not be separated from her new family.
Feb 20, 1967
Season 1Episode 2325 min
The Mother Tongue
Buffy and Jody meets a new girl named Marilyn, who is the daughter of a Chinese diplomat and speaks no English. Mr. French tries to work out his Cantonese and unknowingly insults her.
Feb 27, 1967
Season 1Episode 2425 min
Everybody Needs Somebody
Buffy and Jody play matchmaker for Mr. French, but he thinks that they do not want him around because he punished them so severely.
Mar 13, 1967
Season 1Episode 2525 min
The Way It Was
Bill sends the kids away for a week-long trip at camp because they are driving him up the wall. He then starts to miss them when he goes back to his bachelor life.
Mar 20, 1967
Season 1Episode 2625 min
All Nephews Are Created Equal
Mr. French gets a visit from his nephew David. French is shocked when David announces that he wants to become a dentist, but the final straw comes when he goes out with Cissy.
Mar 27, 1967
Season 1Episode 2725 min
The Prize
The twins win a baby lamb in a cereal contest, which is not a good thing if your neighbors are trying to sleep.
Apr 10, 1967
Season 1Episode 2825 min
What Did You Do in the West, Uncle?
Bill takes the twins to the rodeo where he meets his old friend Gabe, whom he invites to stay with them. The twins are mesmerized at the thought of meeting a real live cowboy, and Gabe takes them under his wing. Of course, Bill thinks that they like Gabe more than they like him. But the twins tell him that Bill will always come first in their lives.
Apr 17, 1967
Season 1Episode 2925 min
The Award
Buffy and Jody want to make an award for Bill for being the best uncle, but they fall allergic to the clay they are making the award with. Bill thinks that the allergies are caused by irregular parenting, but the doctor states that they are allergic to modeling clay.
May 1, 1967
Season 1Episode 3025 min
The Butler Method
Cissy has trouble finding a date for the Sadie Hawkins dance, and asks a boy who throws her a curve because of a broken leg. Thinking that he is lying, she feels miserable. Bill suggests that an actor friend of his who is visiting escort her to the dance, but Cissy turns him down. Then, Cissy sees that Virgil really does has a broken leg, and she is happy that he didn't lie to her.
May 15, 1967
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