Dear Phoebe

Episode 1

Bill Gets a Job

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

The Kissing Bandit

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

Psychologically Speaking

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

Bill's Black Book

Fri, Oct 1, 1954

Bill and Mickey both come down with the mumps.

Episode 5

Mickey's Engagement

Fri, Oct 8, 1954 30 mins

Bill is jealous when Mickey becomes engaged to an alleged socialite.

Episode 6

The Hex

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

Mismated

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

Bill Plays Cupid

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

Phoebe's Birthday

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

Supermarket Sam

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

A Date for Mickey

Fri, Nov 19, 1954 30 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

A Million to One

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

That's D'Amore

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

That's a Bet

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

The Monster

Fri, Dec 17, 1954

To prove to Mickey that he gets along with children, Bill tries to reform a disrespectful boy.

Episode 16

The Christmas Show

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

Lead Your Own Life

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

My Unmarried Wife

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

Bill's Baby

Fri, Jan 14, 1955

After Bill finds an abandoned infant on his doorstep, he and Mickey become reluctant parents.

Episode 20

And So to Wed

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

Out of My Mind

Fri, Jan 28, 1955 30 mins

Episode 22

Mind Over Muscle

Fri, Feb 4, 1955 30 mins

Episode 23

What Price Women?

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

See You in Jail

Fri, Feb 18, 1955

Episode 25

No Talent School

Fri, Feb 25, 1955

Episode 26

Humphrey Gets Drafted

Fri, Mar 4, 1955 30 mins

Episode 27

Mr. Fosdick Steps Out

Fri, Mar 11, 1955

Episode 28

A Face for Phoebe

Fri, Mar 18, 1955

Episode 29

Legal and Tender

Fri, Mar 25, 1955

Episode 30

Fire the Boss

Fri, Apr 1, 1955

Episode 31

How's Your Horoscope?

Fri, Apr 8, 1955 30 mins

Disturbed that all his friends have become horoscope-happy, Bill sets out to debunk astrology.

Episode 32

Lonely Hearts Club

Fri, May 20, 1955

Bill and Mickey decide to expose the activities of lonely hearts clubs.

Episode 33

You Hypnotize Me

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.