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28 Episodes 1954 - 1955
Episode 1
Fri, Oct 8, 195430 mins
Ozzie and Harriet must decide whether to celebrate their 19th wedding anniversary with a night on the town or to stay at home and chaperon a party for Ricky.

Episode 2
Fri, Oct 15, 195430 mins
In order to make closet space, Harriet insists Ozzie get rid of his multitude of neckties.

Episode 3
Fri, Oct 22, 195430 mins
It's hot versus cold, as Ozzie and Harriet battle over setting the furnace's thermostat.

Episode 4
Fri, Oct 29, 195430 mins
Ozzie gets upset when the gravel Thornberry ordered is dumped in his yard instead. After a phone call, things get worse. Worse yet, Thornberry is down on his back and can't deal with the problem himself, which leaves only one person to take care of the mess.

Episode 5
Fri, Nov 12, 195430 mins
Ozzie is bursting with pride when David is chosen over several boys as an usher at the local movie theatre. Ozzie's pride it tempered when he learns why David was chosen over the other boys.

Episode 6
Fri, Nov 19, 195430 mins
Wally Dipple invites Ozzie and Harriet to his annual "Come-As-You-Are" party, and Ozzie does his best not to be caught in a robe and pajamas like last year.

Episode 7
Fri, Dec 3, 195430 mins
Wally Dipple invents an unusual garage door opener. Ozzie and Thorny want to invest in it, but their plans hit a little snag.

Episode 8
Fri, Dec 10, 195430 mins
Ozzie comes across a mysterious metal bolt, and sets about the house in search of where it's supposed to go.

Episode 9
Fri, Dec 17, 195430 mins
Ozzie agrees to pay David fifty dollars when he grows to be the same height as his dad.

Episode 10
Fri, Dec 24, 195430 mins
After the Christmas gifts have been opened, one exception is noticed: Ricky's catcher's mitt. Ozzie guesses it might have been delivered to another Nelson family across town, as a package had before. They go there and find a poor, young widow with small kids. Ozzie, Harriet and the boys decide to give them a merry Christmas.

Episode 11
Fri, Jan 7, 195530 mins
When Harriet insists that everyone write thank-you notes, Ozzie struggles to write his to Thorny.

Episode 12
Fri, Jan 14, 195530 mins
As a favor to their wives, Ozzie and Thorny are to deliver sandwiches and potato salad to the women's club. They need to use David's car but he leaves with the food in the trunk. Ozzie takes Ricky's bike and Thorny is on skates as they try to locate the missing refreshments.

Episode 13
Fri, Jan 21, 195530 mins
Ricky tries to teach an old dog new tricks. Meanwhile, Ozzie and Thorny take drastic measures to avoid going to a violin recital with their wives, in order to stay home and watch the big fight on television, instead.

Episode 14
Fri, Jan 28, 195530 mins
Ozzie tries to derail Thorny's scheme to save money by having his house painted with the paint that is leftover from painting Ozzie's home. Ozzie demands that Thorny paint his house a different color than his. Meanwhile, Ricky gets permission to express his individuality by redecorating his half of the bedroom he shares with David.

Episode 15
Fri, Feb 4, 195530 mins
Ricky wants to turn in his old train set in for a new chemistry set.

Episode 16
Fri, Feb 11, 195530 mins
After giving David a lecture on saving his money, Ozzie and Thorny indulge in some impulsive buying at the local sporting goods store.

Episode 17
Fri, Feb 18, 195530 mins
After hearing a speech at the women's club about exciting careers for women. Harriet starts to think about pursuing a career of her own, something "old-fashioned" Ozzie is dead against.

Episode 18
Fri, Feb 25, 195530 mins
Ozzie and Harriet encourage David to invite his girlfriend over for dinner. Ricky and his friends unexpectedly show up for dinner the same night.

Episode 19
Fri, Mar 11, 195530 mins
Doc Williams is selling a fancy sportscar, and Ozzie is tempted to buy it.

Episode 20
Fri, Mar 18, 195530 mins
David is taking Susan to a fraternity party but he needs to find a date for her younger cousin Betty. David enlists Ricky as the escort and the Nelsons find laughs in getting Ricky ready for the dance. Ozzie is stumped on how to retrieve the tuxes from a closed dry cleaner.

Episode 21
Fri, Mar 25, 195530 mins
Ozzie and Thorny are under extreme marital pressure to perform their annual spring cleaning chores.

Episode 22
Fri, Apr 1, 195530 mins
One night Ozzie and his friend and neighbor Thorny were planning on going fishing the next morning. That night Ozzie is dressed in his pajamas and is ready for bed when he encounters his milkman coming in the back kitchen door delivering milk. The milkman suggests that Ozzie get a breath of cool fresh air outside for better blood circulation which will help him sleep better. When Ozzie tries to go back in the house, he gets locked out. He goes over to get Thorny to help and Thorny winds up getting locked out of his house too. So, to avoid waking up the families, they decide to fall asleep in the back of their station wagon in the garage. The next morning Harriet takes the car to town not knowing Ozzie and Thorny were in the back of the car. Harriet parks at the market and leaves when a few minutes later Ozzie and Thorny wake up. They're like how did they wind up there. They find a dime in the car to call at the phone booth for one of the family members to help him. The phone was busy and they go back to the car and Harriet had already driven the car away. They try to get out of one embarrassing predicament after another, with plenty of curious on lookers, in efforts to find a way home, when they wind up in a fisheries delivery truck somehow. When the delivery man discovers Ozzie and Thorny in the back of the truck, he thought it was some kind of fraternity prank. He was friendly enough to forget the whole thing and he even gave Ozzie and Thorny some left over fish that he didn't deliver. When Ozzie got home, cleaned himself up and he left the fish cleaned on the kitchen counter, he made Harriet and his sons think he had caught the fish making him look good.

Episode 23
Fri, Apr 8, 195530 mins
A little girl is following Ricky around, everywhere he goes. When Ozzie & Harriet try to talk to her, she runs away. Ozzie, Harriet, David, Ricky & even Thorny are trying to figure out what she wants.

Episode 24
Fri, Apr 15, 195530 mins
After a fender-bender, Thorny gets his day in court.

Episode 25
Fri, Apr 22, 195530 mins
After Ricky has been coming home and hardly eating his dinner, Ozzie and Harriet become concerned. Ozzie sets up a charge account at the drugstore after Thorny sees Ricky in there possibly eating ice cream.

Episode 26
Fri, Apr 29, 195530 mins
Ozzie wants to throw a surprise testimonial dinner in appreciation of Doc Williams.

Episode 27
Fri, May 6, 195530 mins
Ozzie's next-door neighbor, Thorny, has not taken piano lessons since he was nine years old, but he bets Ozzie he can learn to play a complete song within one week.
Episode 28
Fri, May 27, 195530 mins
Ozzie and Harriet's trip to Rainbow Lake is in jeopardy when a dog follows Ricky home from school.
