It's Always Jan
Widowed nightclub singer Janis Stewart struggles to raise 10 year old Josie. She shares a small apartment with aspiring actress Val and producer's secretary Pat. Stanley is their friendly neighborhood deli employee.
- 1955-1956
- 1 season
- CBS
- Comedy
Widowed nightclub singer Janis Stewart struggles to raise 10 year old Josie. She shares a small apartment with aspiring actress Val and producer's secretary Pat. Stanley is their friendly neighborhood deli employee.
Season 1 Episode Guide
26 Episodes 1955 - 1956
Episode 1
The Four of Us
Sat, Sep 10, 1955 30 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."
Episode 2
Child Actress
Sat, Sep 17, 1955 30 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.
Episode 3
Joe
Sat, Oct 1, 1955 30 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.
Episode 4
Pat's Romance
Sat, Oct 8, 1955 30 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.
Episode 5
Stanley's Love
Sat, Oct 15, 1955 30 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.
Episode 6
Playboy
Sat, Oct 29, 1955 30 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.
Episode 7
Stanley's Trip
Sat, Nov 5, 1955 30 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.
Episode 8
Special Material
Sat, Nov 12, 1955 30 mins
Jan gets into hot water by borrowing money from her friends. She was tricked into paying a songwriter for some "special material."
Episode 9
The Baby
Sat, Nov 26, 1955 30 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.
Episode 10
Episode #1.10
Sat, Dec 3, 1955 30 mins
Josie thinks she is becoming too much of a burden to her mother and runs away to an orphanage.
Episode 11
Movie Star
Sat, Dec 10, 1955 30 mins
Jan's neighbors form a corporation to start her on a career as a movie actress.
Episode 12
Propriety
Sat, Dec 24, 1955 30 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.
Episode 13
Stool Pigeon
Sat, Dec 31, 1955 30 mins
Jan finds herself in a quandary when she has to explain why she betrayed the confidence of her daughter Josie.
Episode 14
The Diary
Sat, Jan 7, 1956 30 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.
Episode 15
Housekeeper
Sat, Jan 21, 1956 30 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.
Episode 16
Stage Door Johnny
Sat, Jan 28, 1956 30 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.
Episode 17
Press Release
Sat, Feb 4, 1956 30 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."
Episode 18
The Doctor
Sat, Feb 18, 1956 30 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.
Episode 19
Guilty Conscience
Sat, Feb 25, 1956 30 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.
Episode 20
Public Enemy
Sat, Mar 3, 1956 30 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.
Episode 21
Blind Date
Sat, Mar 17, 1956 30 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.
Episode 22
Love Rings Bells
Sat, Mar 24, 1956 30 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.
Episode 23
Love Rings Bells
Sat, Mar 31, 1956 30 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.
Episode 24
Stock Deal
Sat, Apr 14, 1956 30 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.
Episode 25
Stage Struck
Sat, Apr 21, 1956 30 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.
Episode 26
Harry Should Marry
Sat, Apr 28, 1956 30 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.