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The Joey Bishop Show Season 4 Episodes

Season 4 Episode Guide

26 Episodes 1964 - 1965

Episode 1

Joey Goes to CBS

Sun, Sep 27, 196430 mins

After Joey's show is canceled, his wife and friends attempt to cheer him up but do a terrible job. After three weeks Joey starts to get depressed but then he receives a very welcome phone call from CBS.

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Episode 2

Joey the Patient

Sun, Oct 4, 196430 mins

Ellie again summons Joey Jr's pediatrician and while he's at the apartment Dr. Fisher becomes concerned about Joey Sr's throat. Suddenly it's the father in a hospital about to have surgery.

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Episode 3

Joey vs. Oscar Levant

Sun, Oct 11, 196430 mins

Everyone in the apartment building is trying to avoid Oscar Levant due to his non-stop complaining. Naturally Ellie invites him him to stay for a few days without asking Joey. Joey tries to be a good host but really wants to tell Oscar off.

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Episode 4

Joey and Larry Split

Sun, Oct 18, 196430 mins

Joey forgets to wish Larry's new girlfriend Marlene happy birthday and she ends the relationship. Larry doesn't feel Joey is apologetic enough and decides to terminate their long association. Ellie tries to fix things.

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Episode 5

In This Corner, Jan Murray

Sun, Oct 25, 196430 mins

Joey and Jan plan on doing a fake boxing match for the TV show but Larry gets things mixed up and both men start training for a real fight.

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Episode 6

The Nielsen Box

Sun, Nov 1, 196430 mins

After Joey tells jokes about Hilda one night, another of their little feuds erupts. When Hilda calls a TV installer, Larry and Joey believe she is now a Nielsen viewer and try to make amends so she will watch their show.

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Episode 7

You're What, Again?

Sun, Nov 8, 196430 mins

Ellie is expecting another baby but is afraid to tell Joey because of how he reacted during her first pregnancy. Joey though misinterprets and thinks Ellie has fallen out of love with him. They avoid speaking up so the misunderstandings continue.

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Episode 8

Joey Goes to a Poker Party

Sun, Nov 15, 196430 mins

Joey has been sticking close to home during Ellie's pregnancy but is persuaded to go out for an evening. When his poker game lasts all night, he tries to fool Ellie by changing the clocks but she turns the tables on him.

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Episode 9

The Perfect Girl

Sun, Nov 22, 196430 mins

Joey and Ellie are host to an attractive young woman Liz and Larry becones smitten after a few dates with her. The committed bachelor becomes wary that she has marriage in mind and convinces Joey to help him break up with Liz. Ellie has ideas of her own.

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Episode 10

Joey's Courtship

Sun, Nov 29, 196430 mins

Joey gives Larry some advice about how to conduct his love life, and describes how smoothly his courtship of Ellie had been, how simple and uncomplicated it was, though it turns out Ellie feels cheated, and wanted so much more to indicate the strength of Joey's affection, making life hard for Joey.

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Episode 11

Ellie Goes to Court

Sun, Dec 6, 196430 mins

Ellie gets a ticket for an illegal left turn and decides to fight it in court against Joey's advice. During the trial Joey is accused of fighting the charge for publicity and Ellie comes to his defense.

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Episode 12

Jillson's Toupee

Sun, Dec 13, 196430 mins

After seeing the abuse Jillson gets for his baldness, Joey decides to buy him a hairpiece. Soon the other residents of the apartment building are trying to get Jillson fired because he spends all his time fixing his toupee and not doing his job.

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Episode 13

A Hobby for Ellie

Tue, Dec 29, 196430 mins

Joey doesn't want Ellie doing any housework while she is pregnant and encourages her to take up a hobby to occupy her time. But it's Joey and Larry who start creating art, turning it in a destructive competition.

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Episode 14

Rusty Arrives

Tue, Jan 5, 196530 mins

Rusty Hamer , who played Rusty Williams on The Danny Thomas Show (1953) (AKA "The Danny Thomas Show"), plays the same character who is now a college student and comes to stay with the Barnes family for a while in the first of three guest appearances. The Barnes brace themselves for the arrival of their young house guest, and are astonished when he behaves himself like a perfect young gentleman.

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Episode 15

The Weed City Story

Tue, Jan 12, 196530 mins

Joey and Larry head out of town for a short golf outing and make an error in stopping in a small hamlet. Tom Weed recognizes Joey as a celebrity and keeps coming up with schemes to keep him in town for a ceremony on Saturday.

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Episode 16

Rusty's Education

Tue, Jan 19, 196530 mins

Rusty Hamer, who played Rusty Williams on The Danny Thomas Show (1953) (AKA "The Danny Thomas Show"), plays the same character who is now a college student and comes to stay with the Barnes family for a while in the final of three guest appearances. Joey is stuck for answers to the questions of his collegiate house guest Rusty until Larry comes up with help in the form of a convicted bookie with a photographic mind who memorized everything he read as a prison librarian.

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Episode 17

The Sultan's Gift

Tue, Jan 26, 196530 mins

The State Department asks Joey to perform for a visiting Sultan and after the potentate enjoys what he sees, he gifts Joey two harem girls. Ellie is dismayed but the government says they must keep them to help with foreign relations.

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Episode 18

Joey Entertains Rusty's Fraternity

Tue, Feb 2, 196530 mins

Rusty Hamer, who played Rusty Williams on The Danny Thomas Show (1953) (AKA "The Danny Thomas Show"), plays the same character who is now a college student and comes to stay with the Barnes family for a while. Joey, Larry, and two surprisingly good-natured buddies help Rusty and his fellow pledges carry out a most unusual fraternity initiation stunt.

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Episode 19

The Do-It-Yourself Nursery

Tue, Feb 9, 196530 mins

Ellie has rehired temperamental Krupnik to redo the nursery and Ellie has promised to keep Joey away. When she fails, Krupnik storms out and Joey decides to finish the nursery with Larry's help.

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Episode 20

The Sergeant's Testimonial

Tue, Feb 16, 196530 mins

Joey is asked to give a glowing testimonial to a sergeant who made his life miserable while he was in the army. After Joey refuses to attend the reunion, his friends recall the moments of conflict between the two men.

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Episode 21

Joey Changes Larry's Luck

Tue, Feb 23, 196530 mins

Larry's run of bad luck has shaken his confidence so Joey talks the guys into letting Larry win at poker. Larry, feeling reassured, starts taking wild chances and Joey must tell him the truth.

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Episode 22

Never Put It in Writing

Tue, Mar 2, 196530 mins

After many years of service, Joey decides to give Larry his own office. He also hires an additional writer to assist Larry with the weekly banter. The new hire makes Larry feel insecure, which brings to light the fact that he and Joey have never had a written contract between them in the 15 years they have been working together.

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Episode 23

Larry's Habit

Tue, Mar 9, 196530 mins

With Ellie away, Larry comes to stay with Joey. When Joey begins exhibiting eccentric behaviors, Larry jumps to the conclusion that Joey is reverting to childhood. Larry engages a psychiatrist to pose as a reporter to surreptitiously examine an unsuspecting Joey. When Joey learns the truth, he turns the tables on both of them by pretending to have symptoms of mental illness.

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Episode 24

Joey the Star Maker

Tue, Mar 16, 196530 mins

Joey over praises Dorothy Miller's performance in an amateur theatrical so her husband Art asks Joey to put her in his show. Joey obliges, casting her as a scrub woman but everything goes wrong from there.

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Episode 25

What'll You Have?

Tue, Mar 23, 196530 mins

Larry is cooking Italian for Joey's dinner party. The party breaks into an argument over the baby, Ellie wants a girl this time, Between the son-of-a-guns and oh-brothers, the men are getting in deeper and deeper.

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Episode 26

Joey Discovers Jackie Clark

Tue, Mar 30, 196530 mins

Joey has a young comedian Jackie on his show and everyone raves about him, Joey gets him a regular gig at a big club. But Jackie's mother objects to his being in show business so everyone must work to get her to change her mind.

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