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33 Episodes 1954 - 1955
Episode 1
Fri, Sep 10, 1954
Bill Hastings begins his job at the newspaper as the writer of the advice column, "Dear Phoebe." He meets a beautiful blond sportswriter who works there, Mickey Riley, and personally intervenes in problems she is having with her boyfriend,
Episode 2
Fri, Sep 17, 1954
Mickey is displeased when Bill beats her to a story by landing an exclusive interview with a victim of the notorious "Kissing Bandit," so she helps bait a trap for the bandit.
Episode 3
Fri, Sep 24, 1954
Mickey becomes jealous when Mr. Fosdick arranges for Bill to visit a psychiatrist to help him with a bout of depression - and the psychiatrist turns out to be a beautiful woman.
Episode 4
Fri, Oct 1, 1954
Bill and Mickey both come down with the mumps.
Episode 5
Fri, Oct 8, 195430 mins
Bill is jealous when Mickey becomes engaged to an alleged socialite.
Episode 6
Fri, Oct 15, 1954
Micky has a new admirer, a baseball player who's an unsophisticated rube from the hills. Bill, who's a little bit jealous, finds out the man is superstitious and uses the news to his advantage.
Episode 7
Fri, Oct 22, 1954
Bill and Mickey head to Mexico to investigate fraudulent weddings, bringing Humphrey as a witness. But the reporters discover too late that only some of the marriages are not legal and it affects them personally.
Episode 8
Fri, Oct 29, 1954
When a man who reads "Dear Phoebe" expresses the conviction that women are expensive, Bill fixes Mickey up with him on a blind date to prove him wrong.
Episode 9
Fri, Nov 5, 1954
In an effort to boost the newspaper's circulation, Mr. Fosdick makes public the "birthday" of the fictional Phoebe Goodheart, intending to give all the presents that readers send her to charity.
Episode 10
Fri, Nov 12, 1954
Mickey and Humphrey decide to play a trick on Bill, but they end up in trouble when their plans go astray.
Episode 11
Fri, Nov 19, 195430 mins
During a cozy dinner at Fung Loo's Chinese restaurant, Bill and Mickey make long-range plans for an expose of a prefabricated-housing racket.
Episode 12
Fri, Nov 26, 1954
After a lonesome old lady who was a grateful reader of the "Dear Phoebe" column bequeaths $1,000,000 to Phoebe Goodheart for comforting her with the columns. Bill claims the money is his because he is "Phoebe Goodheart,"
Episode 13
Fri, Dec 3, 1954
After the glamorous Italian movie star Constanzia D'Amore begins making personal appearances in L.A., Bill becomes enamored of her and writes a "Dear Phoebe" column in which he has Phoebe say that European women make better wives.
Episode 14
Fri, Dec 10, 1954
Editor Mr. Fosdick is concerned about copy boy Humphrey's gambling behavior. Fosdick enlists Bill and Mickey in a scheme to break Humphrey of his bad habits before he's totally broke.
Episode 15
Fri, Dec 17, 1954
To prove to Mickey that he gets along with children, Bill tries to reform a disrespectful boy.
Episode 16
Fri, Dec 24, 1954
Bill's romance with sportswriter Mickey Riley is hampered by a child who is AWOL from military school and Mr. Fosdick's refusal to host an office Christmas party.
Episode 17
Fri, Dec 31, 1954
Bill runs a "Key to Successful Marriage" contest in the "Dear Phoebe" column, and the winning couple, two ranchers from Montana, provide quite a shock.
Episode 18
Fri, Jan 7, 1955
When Bill tries a new approach to winning Mickey's heart by writing in the "Dear Phoebe" column that "career girls make mediocre wives", Mickey challenges him on the statement.
Episode 19
Fri, Jan 14, 1955
After Bill finds an abandoned infant on his doorstep, he and Mickey become reluctant parents.
Episode 20
Fri, Jan 21, 1955
Bill is startled when an angry woman who has mistaken him for a victim of amnesia comes into the newspaper's office and accuses him of being the husband who abandoned her and their two children five years earlier.
Episode 21
Fri, Jan 28, 195530 mins
Episode 22
Fri, Feb 4, 195530 mins
Episode 23
Fri, Feb 11, 1955
Mickey is upset with Bill after he prints a letter in the "Dear Phoebe" column from a "Mr. 1066" which calls women the world's most expensive luxury and demands that they be abolished.
Episode 24
Fri, Feb 18, 1955
Episode 25
Fri, Feb 25, 1955
Episode 26
Fri, Mar 4, 195530 mins
Episode 27
Fri, Mar 11, 1955
Episode 28
Fri, Mar 18, 1955
Episode 29
Fri, Mar 25, 1955
Episode 30
Fri, Apr 1, 1955
Episode 31
Fri, Apr 8, 195530 mins
Disturbed that all his friends have become horoscope-happy, Bill sets out to debunk astrology.
Episode 32
Fri, May 20, 1955
Bill and Mickey decide to expose the activities of lonely hearts clubs.
Episode 33
Fri, May 27, 1955
Mickey's new boyfriend is a handsome athlete, and that upsets Bill - who then discovers that he taught psychology to the man in college.