Family Affair

E01

Episode 1

★ 7.5

Buffy

1966-09-12 · 30m

The excellent family series begins when Bill Davis, a fantastic construction engineer, unexpectedly adopts Buffy, who along with Jody and Cissy, have lost their parents in an accident. Buffy comes first and at first, Bill doesn't like her and wants to send her back to Terre Haute. Buffy gets the feeling that Bill doesn't like her and runs off to hide in the basement. Bill tells her that he likes her and wants her to stay. In the end, when Bill gets ready to leave for a trip, Jody and Cissy come to be with Buffy.

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E02

Episode 2

★ 6.0

Jody and Cissy

1966-09-19 · 30m

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.

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E03

Episode 3

★ 6.0

The Gift Horse

1966-09-26

Buffy and Jody decide to give Bill a great gift- a horse!

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E04

Episode 4

The Matter of School

1966-10-03 · 30m

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.

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E05

Episode 5

★ 6.0

Marmalade

1966-10-10 · 30m

Mr. French is chosen for an ad for marmalade and is a huge promotion success, until he tastes the marmalade that he is hawking.

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E06

Episode 6

Room with a Viewpoint

1966-10-17 · 30m

Buffy doesn't like the new changes in her and Cissy's bedroom and refuses to ever step foot in it.

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E07

Episode 7

★ 6.0

Mrs. Beasley, Where Are You?

1966-10-24 · 30m

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.

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E08

Episode 8

Who's Afraid of Nural Shpeni?

1966-11-07 · 30m

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.

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E09

Episode 9

★ 6.0

A Matter for Experts

1966-11-14 · 30m

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.

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E10

Episode 10

Beware the Other Woman

1966-11-21 · 30m

When an old flame steps back into Bill's life, the children think that he will get married and send them back to Indiana.

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E11

Episode 11

★ 6.0

Take Two Aspirin

1966-11-28 · 30m

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.

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E12

Episode 12

★ 6.0

Love Me, Love Me Not

1966-12-05 · 30m

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.

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E13

Episode 13

The Thursday Man

1966-12-12 · 30m

Cissy learns a lesson in snooping when she is to do a paper on Mr. French and finds a shocking secret about him.

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E14

Episode 14

Think Deep

1966-12-26 · 30m

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.

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E15

Episode 15

★ 6.0

Hard Hat Jody

1967-01-02 · 30m

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.

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E16

Episode 16

That Was the Dinner That Wasn't

1967-01-09 · 30m

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.

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E17

Episode 17

★ 6.0

All Around the Town

1967-01-16 · 30m

Bill and the whole family are seeing the Gaynors off on their cruise. Buffy and Jody think that Bill is having dinner with them, but when they find out the thuth, they are left on the dock by themselves. Mrs. Gaynor sees them and calls Bill, but Buffy and Jody run off in the city to find the owner of some money they found on the dock.

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E18

Episode 18

One for the Little Boy

1967-01-23 · 30m

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.

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E19

Episode 19

Fancy Free

1967-01-30 · 30m

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.

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E20

Episode 20

A Helping Hand

1967-02-06 · 30m

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.

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E21

Episode 21

★ 6.0

Once in Love with Buffy

1967-02-13 · 30m

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.

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E22

Episode 22

Ballerina Buffy

1967-02-20 · 30m

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.

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E23

Episode 23

★ 4.0

The Mother Tongue

1967-02-27 · 30m

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.

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E24

Episode 24

★ 6.0

Everybody Needs Somebody

1967-03-13 · 30m

Buffy and Jody play matchmaker for Mr. French, but he thinks that they do not want him around because he punished them so severely.

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E25

Episode 25

The Way It Was

1967-03-20 · 30m

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.

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E26

Episode 26

All Nephews Are Created Equal

1967-03-27 · 30m

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.

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E27

Episode 27

★ 6.0

The Prize

1967-04-10 · 30m

The twins win a baby lamb in a cereal contest, which is not a good thing if your neighbors are trying to sleep.

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E28

Episode 28

What Did You Do in the West, Uncle?

1967-04-17 · 30m

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.

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E29

Episode 29

★ 6.0

The Award

1967-05-01 · 30m

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.

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E30

Episode 30

The Butler Method

1967-05-15 · 30m

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.

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