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It's Always Jan Season 1 Episodes

Season 1 Episode Guide

Season 1

26 Episodes 1955 - 1956

Episode 1

The Four of Us

Sat, Sep 10, 195530 mins

In this first episode, Jan is upset about her daughter's behavior. The girl seems too mature for her age. The only solution seems to be to move out of the apartment. Jan sings "Nothing Could Be Finer."

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Episode 2

Child Actress

Sat, Sep 17, 195530 mins

Josie is in a school play and after a good performance likes all the attention. She informs her mother Jan that she wants to be an actress and is upset that her mother Is against it.

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Episode 3

Joe

Sat, Oct 1, 195530 mins

Jan is faced with a problem when she finds herself falling in love. A fun-loving Irishman tries to convince her she need not live entirely in the past with the memory of her husband, a casualty of the war.

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Episode 4

Pat's Romance

Sat, Oct 8, 195530 mins

Roommate Pat brings a date to the apartment who is drawn to Jan. Afraid of hurting her friend Pat's feeling Jan fights her own attraction to the handsome bachelor.

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Episode 5

Stanley's Love

Sat, Oct 15, 195530 mins

The deli delivery boy Stanley develops a crush on Jan which isn't reciprocated. She's embarrassed by his attentions because of his youth. Things worsen when her daughter Josie has a case of puppy love for Stanley.

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Episode 6

Playboy

Sat, Oct 29, 195530 mins

Val is thrilled over her engagement to a wealthy and much-married playboy. He, however, is not too in love to overlook the charms of roommate Jan.

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Episode 7

Stanley's Trip

Sat, Nov 5, 195530 mins

Stanley decides his life lacks a future and adventure so he gets a job that will take him halfway across the world. Jan thinks Stanley is too innocent for such a position and should remain at his father's deli.

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Episode 8

Special Material

Sat, Nov 12, 195530 mins

Jan gets into hot water by borrowing money from her friends. She was tricked into paying a songwriter for some "special material."

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Episode 9

The Baby

Sat, Nov 26, 195530 mins

A young couple's crying baby is disturning the neighbors and they try to have the family evicted. But Jan sticks up for the husband and wife, working to find a solution that will quiet the infant plus pacify the other tenants.

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Episode 10

Episode #1.10

Sat, Dec 3, 195530 mins

Josie thinks she is becoming too much of a burden to her mother and runs away to an orphanage.

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Episode 11

Movie Star

Sat, Dec 10, 195530 mins

Jan's neighbors form a corporation to start her on a career as a movie actress.

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Episode 12

Propriety

Sat, Dec 24, 195530 mins

Even though Jan complaints that all her boy friends want to kiss her goodnight, she is twice as upset when a new beau makes no attempt to kiss her at all.

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Episode 13

Stool Pigeon

Sat, Dec 31, 195530 mins

Jan finds herself in a quandary when she has to explain why she betrayed the confidence of her daughter Josie.

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Episode 14

The Diary

Sat, Jan 7, 195630 mins

Because she thinks she has neglected her daughter, Jan decides to refuse a lucrative singing contract, but Josie's diary proves startling when Jan accidentally learns what the girl has written.

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Episode 15

Housekeeper

Sat, Jan 21, 195630 mins

Trouble begins when Jan and her girlfriends hire a young male housekeeper. They become the enemies of every husband when the other women in the apartments see how well the man does housework and insist that their husbands do likewise.

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Episode 16

Stage Door Johnny

Sat, Jan 28, 195630 mins

Jan's curiosity is aroused when she begins receiving gifts and flowers from an unknown admirer, who turns out to be an elderly man who sacrificed his life for his sisters but who has absolutely no interest in her.

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Episode 17

Press Release

Sat, Feb 4, 195630 mins

Jan is upset when her press agent invents a romance between her and a film star even though Jan claims she hasn't even met her "beau."

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Episode 18

The Doctor

Sat, Feb 18, 195630 mins

When handsome, unmarried Dr. Phillips comes to treat Josie, all the girls fall for him. Jan soon discovers that the doctor has decided Jan is just what the doctor ordered.

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Episode 19

Guilty Conscience

Sat, Feb 25, 195630 mins

One day at the club, a longtime rival agent to Harry drops in and sees Jan's show. He offers her big time opportunities if she'll dump Harry and join his agency. She fantasizes about what it would be like as a star, but sees leaving to go with a new agent as a betrayal of friendship.

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Episode 20

Public Enemy

Sat, Mar 3, 195630 mins

The Brooklyn Dodgers' star rookie pitcher becomes smitten with Jan, but when she rejects him, he begins losing so many ball games that he is about to be shipped back to the minors, so it's up to Jan to devise a plan to solve the problem.

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Episode 21

Blind Date

Sat, Mar 17, 195630 mins

Pat answers the phone and it's the wrong number but continues the conversation. She finds the stranger named Seymore intriguing and Jan encourages her to go on a date with him despite knowing virtually nothing about him.

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Episode 22

Love Rings Bells

Sat, Mar 24, 195630 mins

Jan becomes the object of a matchmaking campaign when neighbors send male friends of all assortments of shapes, sizes and dispositions to look her over.

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Episode 23

Love Rings Bells

Sat, Mar 31, 195630 mins

Jan and her roommate, Pat, have a falling out and Pat decides to move to another apartment, but Josie has some ideas about resolving their differences.

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Episode 24

Stock Deal

Sat, Apr 14, 195630 mins

When Jan receives a hot tip on a uranium deal she shares the info with her neighbors. They all begin to dream about their futures as millionaires and how they will spend their riches.

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Episode 25

Stage Struck

Sat, Apr 21, 195630 mins

When Josie comes home from school singing the praises of her friend's mother, who is a woman lawyer, Jan takes her daughter to the nightclub to show Josie that her mom's no slouch either.

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Episode 26

Harry Should Marry

Sat, Apr 28, 195630 mins

Jan, Josie and Pat hatch a plot to get Jan's agent married off, but their efforts to rearrange Harry's life so that he'll meet the right girl go awry.

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