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I Married Joan - S1 - E11
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.
I Married Joan: Season 1 - 39 Episode s
1x1 - Pilot
October 15, 1952
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.
1x2 - Career
October 22, 1952
Judge Stevens invites a prospective campaign contributor to dinner, only to find that his wife, trying to be helpful, has invited another sponsor.
1x3 - Ballet
October 29, 1952
The Judge advises his wife Joan to get more exercise as an antidote to fatigue from housework and Joan turns to ballet.
1x4 - Jitterbug
November 5, 1952
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.
1x5 - Crime Panel
November 12, 1952
Joan is scheduled to appear on a crime prevention forum. To prepare herself she spends the day visiting poolrooms.
1x6 - Brad's Class Reunion
November 19, 1952
Joan struggles to change herself into "The Perfect Woman" to fit a description written by her husband.
1x7 - Hunting
November 26, 1952
Joan insists that she is an experienced camper. Unconvinced, Brad decides to test her aptitude for the great outdoors.
1x8 - Joan's Curiosity
December 3, 1952
Joan is in for a surprise when she opens an interesting-looking package that arrived for Brad.
1x9 - Birthday
December 10, 1952
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.
1x10 - Bazar Pie
December 17, 1952
Joan wants to arrange a romance, by introducing her new neighbor, a handsome Latin, to her visiting aunt.
1x11 - Acrobats
December 31, 1952
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.
1x12 - Dreams
December 24, 1952
After meeting three former schoolmates who are now successful career woman, Joan decides that she is happier just being a housewife
1x13 - Bad Boy
January 7, 1953
Joan tries to reform a juvenile delinquent and nearly winds up in jail herself.
1x14 - Circumstantial Evidence
January 14, 1953
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.
1x15 - Uncle Edgar
January 21, 1953
Uncle Edgar visits Joan and her husband and they have a difficult time trying to keep him out of trouble.
1x16 - Moosehead
January 28, 1953
Joan tries to kill two problems with the same fifty-dollar bill and winds up deeply wounded by a dead moose at an auction.
1x17 - Fireman
February 4, 1953
Joan tries to patch up the quarrels of her newlywed-neighbors and succeeds in creating some for herself at the firehouse.
1x18 - Memory
February 11, 1953
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.
1x19 - Draftboard
February 18, 1953
Brad receives a letter from his local draft board. Joan assumes he's being called to armed service and panics.
1x20 - Opera
February 25, 1953
In order to save her club's benefit show, Joan takes a whirl at the opera. Bing Crosby helps out.
1x21 - Shopping
March 4, 1953
Joan needs newly out-fitted for a fancy party. So does husband Brad, but both have second thoughts about Joan's shopping trip.
1x22 - The Stamp
March 11, 1953
Joan mails a letter using a Mozambique stamp that Brad just purchased for . Her husband blows his top, but why is Joan now on trial?
1x23 - Little Girl
March 18, 1953
Joan tries to spark a romance between a guest and a neighbor's son. Joan Davis.
1x24 - Diet
March 25, 1953
1x25 - Model
April 1, 1953
1x26 - Lateness
April 8, 1953
1x27 - The Eviction Show
April 15, 1953
1x28 - The Recipe
April 22, 1953
1x29 - Repairs
April 29, 1953
1x30 - Secrets
May 6, 1953
1x31 - The Artist Show
May 13, 1953
1x32 - The Threat
May 20, 1953
1x33 - Country Club
May 27, 1953
1x34 - Theatrical Can-Can
June 3, 1953
1x35 - Neighbors
June 10, 1953
1x36 - Talent Scout
June 17, 1953
1x37 - Honeymoon
June 24, 1953
Joan locks Brad in a burglar-proof closet. Joan Davis, Jim Backus.
1x38 - Business Executive
July 1, 1953
1x39 - Brad's Broken Toe
July 8, 1953
All is not quiet in a hospital when Joan and Brad become patients. Jim Backus.