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10 Episodes 1958 - 1959
Episode 0
Thu, Sep 25, 195834 mins
Midge and Laurie are staying with their grand-father, John Beamer, because their father is on duty in Saudi Arabia. Laurie, a college student, convinces him to take some of her friends and a pet monkey in as boarders. John's friend and lawyer Ernest advises him that it is illegal to do so.
Episode 2
Thu, Oct 2, 1958
Helpful John Beamer takes over a friend's job for one day and almost eliminates it. Beamer's ever-zealousness in directing traffic leads to an altercation with the city manager, who abolishes the guard's job and installs a traffic light.
Episode 3
Thu, Oct 9, 1958
John Beamer aids Dave Hilliard, a young student who is faced with having to leave college owing to family financial difficulties.
Episode 4
Thu, Oct 16, 195830 mins
Dink, a gawky college boy falls for John Beamer's granddaughter Laurie and takes up squatter's rights on the Beamer living room sofa.
Episode 5
Thu, Oct 23, 1958
Episode 6
Thu, Oct 30, 1958
John Beamer embarks on a one-man crusade to save his town's only public recreation area from invasion by a new highway extension.
Episode 7
Thu, Nov 6, 1958
Beamer tries to divert Danny, a problem boy from delinquency by helping him prepare for a jalopy derby.
Episode 8
Thu, Nov 13, 1958
John Beamer believes he will be chairman of the city's centennial celebration, but the mayor says a younger man will have the job.
Episode 9
Thu, Nov 20, 1958
John becomes a Romeo to his disagreeable neighbor, Mrs. Creavy, all because he tried to play Cupid for his granddaughter.
Episode 14
Thu, Jan 1, 1959
John Beamer seeks to persuade owners of a pajama factory not to close the plant.