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Bringing Up Buddy Season 1 Episodes

Season 1 Episode Guide

Season 1

36 Episodes 1960 - 1961

Episode 1

Working Girls

Mon, Oct 10, 196030 mins

When Buddy complains about his aunts' overdrawn checking accounts, they decide to look for jobs.

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Episode 2

The Girl Next Door

Mon, Oct 17, 196030 mins

Buddy's aunts try their hand at matchmaking for him, targeting a girl who used to live next door and now comes to Buddy's investment office on business.

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Episode 3

Girls in Court

Mon, Oct 31, 196030 mins

Buddy is first worried, then desperate, when his aunts become co-defendants in a lawsuit brought against them by a disgruntled bus passenger.

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Episode 4

Cesare Comes Calling

Mon, Nov 7, 196030 mins

The Aunts have a surprise visitor- an Italian Opera singer they'd known many years ago is in town and they invite him to Dinner. He boasts of a fabulous career, going from one engagement after another around the world, but Buddy sees that he's actually a fraudulent has-been.

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Episode 5

The Blind Date

Mon, Nov 14, 196030 mins

Buddy consents to a blind date with a client's daughter, but gets more than he bargained for when Angela Brent turns out to beautiful and brainy. Angela doesn't hold back her ideas about anything, from Buddy's kissing method to his aunts, whom Angela suggests are in need of therapy.

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Episode 6

Nephew for Sale

Mon, Nov 21, 196030 mins

Heeding the old adage "it pays to advertise" Aunt Vi and Aunt Iris decide to purchase newspaper space promoting Buddy as an eligible young bachelor. The trick works, drawing in a multitude of husband-hungry women, and the aunts are delighted when one of the girls appears to be a potential match for their nephew.

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Episode 7

Gentlemen Callers

Mon, Nov 28, 196030 mins

Worried that Buddy will follow in the footsteps of a neighbor and spend all his time tied to them at home, Aunt Vi and Aunt Iris decide to develop an active social life and encourage Buddy to do the same. Humor ensues when the aunts select two sophisticated playboys as their gentlemen callers and go out on the town for a double date.

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Episode 8

Buddy's Birthday

Mon, Dec 5, 196030 mins

The office staff arranges a surprise birthday party for Buddy, which upsets his aunts' plans for a traditional birthday dinner at home.

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Episode 9

Poppa's Eagle

Mon, Dec 12, 196030 mins

To offset the abstract art and Danish modern furniture in Buddy's new office decor, the aunts decide to give him a huge stuffed bald eagle that was once displayed in their father's office long ago. The staff seems to be impressed, the only snag: Buddy's growing allergic to feathers.

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Episode 10

The Exchange Student

Mon, Dec 19, 196030 mins

A housing shortage at the local college prompts Dean Lester to implore the aunts to let a room to Jeannine Corot, a beautiful exchange student from France. Everyone is charmed by the girl until she innocently sunbathes on the Flowers' lawn in a scandalous French bikini.

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Episode 11

Repair of Robespierre

Mon, Jan 2, 196130 mins

When Robespierre, Aunt Vi and Aunt Iris' beloved antique auto breaks down on the road, Buddy becomes adamant that the car receive an overhaul and insurance for safety. The aunts comply, but when Robespierre comes back from the shop, everyone is stunned to see it changed from a lovable old clunker to a souped up hot rod.

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Episode 12

Call Me Charlie

Sun, Jan 8, 196130 mins

Buddy takes a shine to Charlie Baker, a nine year old boy at the local orphanage. Wanting to add something cheerful to his life, Buddy arranges to take the boy to a football game. Aunt Vi and Aunt Iris think Charlie really needs something else and are proven correct when Charlie runs away after Buddy is unable to take him to the game.

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Episode 13

Buddy's Transfer

Mon, Jan 16, 196130 mins

Sophisticated New Yorker Marcia Sutter assures Buddy there's a place for him in her father's big city brokerage firm. Buddy quickly warms to the idea, until he realizes that Marcia is part of the deal, and the strings she has attached are very long.

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Episode 14

The Singer

Mon, Jan 23, 196130 mins

Gorgeous Ruth Grayson entertains Buddy when the two become trapped in a stalled public elevator. After Buddy sings her praises to Aunt Vi and Aunt Iris, the two decide she would be the perfect choice to entertain at their church social, unaware that Ruth is actually an exotic nightclub performer.

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Episode 15

Cousin Jordan

Mon, Jan 30, 196130 mins

Aunt Vi and Aunt Iris worry about his influence over Buddy when their smooth-talking cousin Jordan decides to pay an unexpected visit to the Flowers household. Their fears are soon realized when Jordan attempts to involve Buddy in a forbidden "bottle of the month" club.

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Episode 16

The Girls Rent a House

Mon, Feb 6, 196130 mins

When the longtime tenants of Aunt Vi and Aunt Iris' rental house decide to move, the aunts rent the home to charming bachelor Pietro Almonti. Their suspicions are aroused though when they discover Almonti has installed a dozen telephones in the dining room and they vow to get to the bottom of it.

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Episode 17

The Education of Nicky Marlo

Mon, Feb 20, 196130 mins

Aunt Vi and Aunt Iris prepare for the visit of Norma Marlo, the twelve year old daughter of an old family friend. The aunts are aghast when Norma arrives, declares she's a beatnik who would rather be called "Nicky" and proceeds to play morose music from albums like "Music to Commit Suicide By." The aunts set out to turn eccentric Nicky into a sweet, average girl.

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Episode 18

The Painting

Mon, Feb 27, 196130 mins

Buddy cleans out the garage and inadvertently allows a risqué painting of a Flowers cousin to make its way into the unsuspecting public. When Aunt Vi and Aunt Iris learn that the family secret is now proudly on display at a local pub, they contrive to get the painting back and hidden once again.

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Episode 19

Selling Shingles

Mon, Mar 6, 196130 mins

Sympathetic to an ailing friend going through a bad stretch, Aunt Vi and Aunt Iris decide to help him out. To get the extra money they want to give him, the aunts become door-to-door sales ladies, pitching a dodgy product that claims to straighten roof shingles. Their amusing efforts land them at a police lineup.

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Episode 20

Buddy Hires a Maid

Mon, Mar 13, 196130 mins

Worried that his aunts have too many domestic responsibilities around the house, Buddy begins to interview applicants for a maid's position. The family finally agree on one, only to discover after she's hired that her rather avant-garde approach to the job isn't what they need.

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Episode 21

Cynthia's Boyfriend

Mon, Mar 20, 196130 mins

Romantic entanglements make for humorous situations with Buddy and Cynthia. Buddy has captured the attention of a brazen secretary while the aunts' friend Cynthia bumps into a geriatric Don Juan on the bus. Aunt Vi and Aunt Iris have a tea for the couples with amusing results.

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Episode 22

Buddy's Wife

Mon, Mar 27, 196130 mins

Aunt Vi and Aunt Iris are contacted by Mrs. Richard Flowers. The woman claims to be the wife that Buddy married and deserted during the war. Buddy and the aunts are even more astonished when Mrs. Flowers arrives with her six year old son in tow.

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Episode 23

Poppa's Memoirs

Mon, Apr 3, 196130 mins

Buddy and the aunts are intrigued by the proposal of a lady author who wants to write the biography of Malcolm Flowers, Buddy's grandfather. After agreeing, Buddy has second thoughts when he learns that the writer is responsible for several scandalous best-sellers, and fears she plans to sensationalize his family, too.

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Episode 24

Buddy and Fennimore

Mon, Apr 10, 196130 mins

Aunt Vi and Aunt Iris decide to find a good girl for Fennimore. However, after they discover a gentleman's magazine they believe i is his, the aunts send Buddy and his date on a wild goose chase to spy on Fennimore and his illicit behavior at the school dance.

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Episode 25

Buddy and the Amazon

Mon, Apr 17, 196130 mins

At the doctor's office, Iris and Violet meet a nurse they think would be an ideal match for Buddy, and so they con him into going there to meet her. Instead he gets interested in one of the patients, and they start dating. He soon regrets this, as she turns out to be an obsessive physical culture-type that practices judo on him.

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Episode 26

Poppa's Picture

Mon, Apr 24, 196130 mins

The provision in an old will has Buddy attempting to fulfill his grandfather Malcolm Flowers' last wishes by donating his oil portrait to the Bradley Falls museum. There, Buddy discovers an unexpected romance instead with the museum's beautiful lady director.

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Episode 27

Auntie's Cake

Mon, May 1, 196130 mins

A cake-mix manufacturer selects the aunts to be models for his endorsement. After they agree, Aunt Vi and Aunt Iris realize that product is inedible and want out. It's up to Buddy to charm account executive Wilella Grant into canceling the contract.

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Episode 28

The Aunts Have a Baby

Mon, May 8, 196130 mins

A distraught young mother abandons her infant by leaving it in Iris and Violet's car while they are out shopping. Discovering it, they try to care for it, but when Buddy finds out he insists the mother must be found. Before he can tell the police, they do a bit of detective work and locate her by way of a Chinese laundry mark on the baby's blanket.

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Episode 29

Cynthia's Concert Tour

Mon, May 15, 196130 mins

A suave Frenchman convinces the aunt's friend Cynthia to take singing lessons from him. When the Flowers family hears that he has promised Cynthia a nationwide concert tour with her off-key soprano voice, they set out to expose him as a charlatan by having Vi and Iris take lessons, too.

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Episode 30

Buddy's Re-Enlistment

Mon, May 22, 196130 mins

Multiple instances of miscommunication and misunderstandings provide the source of humor when Buddy tries on his old Army uniform prior to a company dance. Cooper thinks he plans to re-enlist and quit the firm, so as preemptive measure hires another man to replace him.

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Episode 31

Big Game Hunter

Mon, May 29, 196130 mins

Aunt Vi and Aunt Iris are fascinated by the tales of big game hunter Captain Cunningham. After they engage him to speak at their women's club, they realize that Cunningham's tales are largely tall; he's actually a charlatan and no stranger to drink.

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Episode 32

Buddy and Janie

Mon, Jun 5, 196130 mins

A teenager prone to dramatics comes to live with the Flowers and becomes interested in Buddy.

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Episode 33

Room for Rent

Mon, Jun 12, 196130 mins

In Buddy's absence, Aunt Vi and Aunt Iris rent his room to very disparate twin sisters. Upon his return, the Flowers family faces enormous difficulty in dislodging their new tenants. Buddy then devises a plan to run them off by pretending to be in a motorcycle gang.

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Episode 34

Buddy and the Teenager

Mon, Jun 19, 196130 mins

Buddy is convinced to accept a job teaching a night class in investment banking at the local college, unaware that it's an all-girls school. Humorous complications ensue when pretty student Sharon Davis goes bananas for him, and a plan to divert her attention with another young man backfires.

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Episode 35

Behind Bars

Mon, Jun 26, 196130 mins

Aunt Vi and Aunt Iris square off with City Hall over a tree on their property line. They want to prune it, but city commissioners won't let them without a permit, which they don't issue. The aunts prune the tree anyway and later find themselves sharing a jail cell as Buddy attempts to find a solution.

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Episode 36

The Couple Next Door

Mon, Jul 3, 196130 mins

In the last original story of this gently amusing series, Buddy repairs a blown fuse for Barbara, the flirty, attractive young housewife who lives next door. However, when Barbara begins to call on Buddy for help more often, her jealous husband Harry takes notice, as does Buddy's irritated girlfriend.

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