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Hey, Landlord

  • 1966-1967
  • 1 season
  • NBC
  • Comedy
  • TV-G

A short-lived sitcom (1966-1967) about a young man from Ohio who inherits a New York City brownstone apartment building from his uncle and shares his apartment with an up-and-coming stand-up comedian.

Season 1 Episode Guide

31 Episodes 1966 - 1967

Episode 1

Pursuit of a Dream

Sun, Sep 11, 1966 30 mins

Episode 2

If She Catches the Bouquet, I'll Die

Sun, Sep 18, 1966 30 mins

Dedicated bachelor Chuck is unhappy: his girlfriend Shirley is becoming possessive and overprotective.

Episode 3

From Out of the Past Comes the Thundering Hoofbeats

Sun, Sep 25, 1966 30 mins

Woody, overcome by nostalgia when he finds his old childhood radio in tie basement, insists on restoring the relic.

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Episode 4

The Daring Duo vs. the Incredible Captain Kill

Sun, Oct 2, 1966 30 mins

Woody and Chuck's script for a toy talking-crow may win Woody a job as writer for a toy company, if the dialog impresses the company managers.

Episode 5

Instant Family

Sun, Oct 9, 1966 30 mins

Woody falls for a new tenant, a divorceé with two children. He worries over the difference in their ages. Chuck even asks Ellenhorn if he has any advice. The situation comes to a head when Woody's parents unexpectedly drop in on a romantic restaurant dinner.

Episode 6

The Shapes of Wrath

Sun, Oct 16, 1966 30 mins

Chuck tries his luck as a model for an advertisement being shot by Jack Ellenhorn, but proves to be unmanageable, driving Jack to inadvertently hire a hit man. In his remorse, he confesses to Woody and Chuck that he can't even remember what the man looked like, putting Chuck into a panic.

Episode 7

Chuck Nobody

Sun, Oct 23, 1966 30 mins

Chuck gets the shock of his life when his childhood baby-sitter tells him that he was adopted.

Episode 8

The Long Hot Bus

Sun, Oct 30, 1966 30 mins

Woody's Uncle Dwight is a Miami bus driver who wants to visit Woody in New York, so he takes a slight detour with the company bus.

Episode 9

Safari

Sun, Nov 13, 1966 30 mins

Woody and Chuck are determined to not end up on a weekend night with their old friends at the same dull party destination, so they go looking for girls. They find some tourists at a movie theatre but they go off with some guys leaving the show, then at an arcade, they find some receptive girls whose tough boyfriends soon show up.

Episode 10

When You Need a Hidden Room, You Can Never Find One

Sun, Nov 20, 1966 30 mins

While waiting for a coal shipment Woody and Chuck find the building's original blueprints, and a heretofore unknown room is shown. They try to locate it in the girl's apartment, but break into Ellenhorn's dark room. Later the find the room, one that Woody's Uncle used as a secret sanctuary.

Episode 11

Divorce, Bachelor Style

Sun, Nov 27, 1966 30 mins

Woody and Chuck squabble, feeling that neither respects the other's space, resulting with them splitting everything down the middle and share nothing.

Episode 12

Sizzling Sidney

Sun, Dec 4, 1966 30 mins

An exciting young secretary is Woody's latest heartthrob, but he's consumed with jealousy when she seems to be interested in her boss, a rich playboy publisher who's in his forties. This is considered unseemly great age to Woody, who challenges him to a showdown.

Episode 13

The Big Fumble

Sun, Dec 11, 1966 30 mins

Boasting that tickets to the big game can be had, Chuck forces Woody to beg for them from a star player on the visiting team. They went to high school together in Ohio, but the egomaniac footballer has no recollection of him, and the boys must wait in a long line at the box office.

Episode 14

By the Sea, or at Least Rent It

Sun, Dec 18, 1966 30 mins

When Woody and Chuck can't make the rent on the beach house, they con Ellenhorn into going in with the promise of a quiet, peaceful stay with only the three of them. But before they realize it, three beautiful beach bunnies and then a bunch of freeloading musicians insinuate themselves into the crowded shack. When Ellenhorn arrives, they try to hide their new roommates.

Episode 15

How're You Gonna Keep 'em Down on the Farm, After They've Seen the Rug?

Sun, Dec 25, 1966 30 mins

Woody and Chuck become ant hunters to find suitable replacements for the prized insects that escaped from a vacationing tenant's ant farm.

Episode 16

Go Directly to Jail

Sun, Jan 1, 1967 30 mins

In the park, Woody and Chuck mistake a mugger for a victim, and try to fight a cop trying to arrest the crook. They are set free after a trial, but the holdup man, now on the lam, comes to the apartment and has the hapless duo, and soon, one by one, all their visitors, held at gunpoint.

Episode 17

Roommate, Stay Away from My Door

Sun, Jan 8, 1967 30 mins

Woody and Chuck are keeping away from their shared apartment believing that the other has a date and a desire for privacy.

Episode 18

A Legend Dies

Sun, Jan 15, 1967 30 mins

Chuck is recruited by the police to talk his old street gang, "The Gladiators", out of engaging in a ramble. He gets too involved and another former gang member that's made a successful career in crime with a bookie joint fronting as a laundry, must intervene.

Episode 19

Oh, How We Danced

Sun, Jan 22, 1967 30 mins

Woody recalls his college days when he and fellow fraternity-pledge Chuck were victims of a hazing stunt that nearly got them expelled.

Episode 20

The Screen Queen Quiz

Sun, Jan 29, 1967 30 mins

Woody and Chuck are contestants on "The Screen Queen Quiz", a show offering the winner a date with a starlet.

Episode 21

Same Time, Same Station, Same Girl

Sun, Feb 5, 1967 30 mins

Woody and Chuck have an unexpected new tenant, a young blonde that cons them into staying rent free in Ellenhorn's apartment while he's on a picture assignment.. But he gets back sooner than the boys expect, so they talk him into moving in with them. Unfortunately, they are incompatible room mates with the fussy photographer.

Episode 22

How Do You Follow Hi-Lites from Hamlet?

Sun, Feb 12, 1967 30 mins

A play that Woody has written is going to be produced, but not on a Broadway stage, it's women's club in Garden City. They prove to be hopelessly inept and frustrating, but the play is obtuse and overly arty anyway, so Chuck tries to add some low comedy.

Episode 23

Woody, Can You Spare a Sister?

Sun, Feb 19, 1967 30 mins

Sally Field begins a series of guest appearances as Woodys kid sister, Bonnie, who impulsively stops her wedding in mid-vow and takes off-for a taste of life in New York City.

Episode 24

Sharin' Sharon

Sun, Feb 26, 1967 30 mins

Chuck's plan to test a new girl friend's loyalty backfires when Woody's sister warns the victim.

Episode 25

Big Brother Is Watching You

Sun, Mar 5, 1967 30 mins

To get back at her snoopy brother, Bonnie Banner goes to a wild party with a hipster named Beast. Worried Woody follows, and is soon hip-deep in mod mayhem.

Episode 26

A Little Off the Top

Sun, Mar 12, 1967 30 mins

The boys checkout the men's grooming salon where Bonnie works and encounter an obnoxious egotist called Mr. Gregory (Paul Lynde).

Episode 27

Testing, One Two

Sun, Mar 26, 1967 30 mins

The boys need money in a hurry to rent tuxedos for Ellenhorn's gallery show, so they go to a scientific research facility. There they get paid to participate in grueling food and sleep deprivation experiments. After they're over, they show up ill-suited to help host the event.

Episode 28

Swingle City, East

Sun, Apr 2, 1967 30 mins

Woody and Chuck turn the brownstone apartment house into a spa for single swingers to the disgust of irritable Ellenhorn, who hasn't a moment of peace.

Episode 29

Czech Your Wife, Sir?

Sun, Apr 9, 1967 30 mins

Woody and Chuck's new tenant is Emile Kucheck, a famous high-wire acrobat from Czechoslovakia. While he's away at a performance upstate, the boys must look after Mrs. Kucheck, who's very pregnant, and doesn't speak English. Problems mount when they must take her to the hospital when the delivery becomes imminent.

Episode 30

The Dinner Who Came to Man

Sun, Apr 16, 1967 30 mins

Cheerleaders from school days are invited to candlelight hopeful sexy dinner but the girls have become Nuns.

Episode 31

Aunt Harriet Wants You

Sun, Apr 23, 1967 30 mins

Ellenhorn warily accepts to take woody's visiting Aunt on a blind date, but he didn't realize she'd be pretty much his polar opposite. He's a high-strung, whiny introvert, and she's a brash, loudmouthed army sergeant who emasculates him on a date, and starts, and wins a fight in a restaurant.

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