The Mothers-In-Law
The Hubbards and Buells are the best of friends despite their wildly different lifestyles. Herb Hubbard is a successful lawyer and Eve is a former champion athlete, while Roger Buell is a television writer and his wife Kaye is a poor housekeeper to the point of being lazy. Also, Roger and Kaye's son Jerry was married to Herb and Eve's daughter Susie. Sometimes the friendship is tested as both "mothers-in-law" try to help their children as they go through the early stages of their marriage.
- 1967-1969
- 2 seasons
- NBC
- Comedy
- TV-PG
The Hubbards and Buells are the best of friends despite their wildly different lifestyles. Herb Hubbard is a successful lawyer and Eve is a former champion athlete, while Roger Buell is a television writer and his wife Kaye is a poor housekeeper to the point of being lazy. Also, Roger and Kaye's son Jerry was married to Herb and Eve's daughter Susie. Sometimes the friendship is tested as both "mothers-in-law" try to help their children as they go through the early stages of their marriage.
Season 2 Episode Guide
26 Episodes 1968 - 1969
Episode 1
Here Comes the Bride, Again
Sun, Sep 15, 1968 30 mins
Kaye's Italian grandmother shows up unannounced expecting to attend Jerry and Suzie's marriage ceremony. Not wanting to disappoint her, Kaye insists the kids get married again.
Episode 2
The Match Game
Sun, Sep 22, 1968 30 mins
Business is slow at Jerry's employer, a computer dating service and he's worried that he might lose his job, so the parents produce four new customers. But nobody anticipated who would be paired up with whom.
Episode 3
A Little Pregnancy Goes a Long Way
Sun, Sep 29, 1968 30 mins
Suzie's pregnancy has developed to the point where she is having cravings and morning sickness. To everyone's surprise so are Kaye and Eve.
Episode 4
Love Thy Neighbor - If You Can't Get Him to Move
Sun, Oct 6, 1968 30 mins
Flashbacks show how the Hubbards and Buells met 22 years earlier, when Kaye and Roger moved in next door. With no lights, phone, or water, the Buells also had no worries - they just mooched off the Hubbards' facilities.
Episode 5
I Didn't Raise Myself to Be a Grandmother
Sun, Oct 13, 1968 30 mins
The joy of Suzie's pregnancy fades a bit when everyone realizes they'll soon be known as "Gramps" and "Granny." They take up jogging to feel young again. The foursome sings "You Make Me Feel So Young."
Episode 6
Even Mothers-In-Law Have Mothers-In-Law
Sun, Oct 20, 1968 30 mins
The newlyweds try a devious diversion to get free of Eve and Kaye's meddling: They send for their mothers' mothers-in-law, who run the women ragged.
Episode 7
The Matador Makes a Movie
Sun, Oct 27, 1968 30 mins
When Raphael Del Gado arrives in town to make a movie, the Hubbards and Buells invite him to a dinner party - which soon becomes a family talent show.
Episode 8
It's a Dog's Life
Sun, Nov 10, 1968 30 mins
To keep peace, Jerry and Suzie frantically juggle gifts purchased separately by their mothers - a basset hound and a Yorkshire terrier. Caught in the confusion is a bewildered animal inspector.
Episode 9
The First Anniversary Is the Hardest
Sun, Nov 24, 1968 30 mins
On the sly, the in-laws slip $40 into Jerry's old jacket for the couple's anniversary celebration. Unaware, Suzie donates the coat to a thrift shop, sending the mothers on a spree to retrieve it.
Episode 10
The Birth of Everything But the Blues
Sun, Dec 1, 1968 30 mins
Eve and Kaye tackle the care and feeding of a motley menagerie when they take over for Suzie, who has become a pet-sitter for extra money. Problems increase rapidly, as most of the critters are expecting.
Episode 11
Nome, Schnome, I'd Rather Have It at Home
Sun, Dec 8, 1968 30 mins
Suzie and Jerry stun their folks with news of their post-graduation plans: They're moving to Alaska - before the baby is born. In a dream sequence, Eve and Kaye visit them in their igloo.
Episode 12
Hail, Hail, the Gang's Still Here
Sun, Dec 15, 1968 30 mins
In hopes of spending a quiet evening, the Hubbards tell the Buells that they'll be away. Instead, they're stuck hiding under the bed when the Buells invite friends over to watch the Hubbards' color TV.
Episode 13
Didn't You Use to Be Ossie Snick?
Sun, Dec 22, 1968 30 mins
Producer Owen Sinclair - alias bandleader Ossie Snick - is in town, and the Hubbards arrange a surprise visit between him and Kaye, who's been bragging for years about her singing success with his old orchestra. Eve, Kaye, and Ozzie Nelson sing "North Dakota Moon."
Episode 14
Make Room for Baby
Sun, Jan 5, 1969 30 mins
After Kaye and Eve buy so many things for the baby it makes the garage apartment very crowded so they come up with the great idea that their husbands need to build on another room for the baby. The men decide it would save some money if they do the labor themselves...
Episode 15
Haven't You Had That Baby Yet?
Sun, Jan 12, 1969 30 mins
With the baby due momentarily, a mood of jittery expectancy grips everyone, especially the mothers, who mistake a trial run for the real thing, and then lose Suzie on the way to the hospital when it's really time.
Episode 16
And Baby Makes Four
Sun, Jan 19, 1969 30 mins
Eve and Kaye torment the hospital staff by crashing the maternity ward in various disguises to see Suzie, and when she has twins, fights erupt over the babies' names.
Episode 17
Nanny, Go Home
Sun, Jan 26, 1969 30 mins
When meddling mothers-in-law double Suzie's problems in caring for twins, Herb and Roger hire a stern nanny, who bars Eve and Kaye from the nursery, and they try hard to get rid of her.
Episode 18
Double Trouble in the Nursery
Sun, Feb 2, 1969 30 mins
Suzie and Jerry go away for a weekend of rest, and their mothers gladly abandon their own homes for nursery duty - which isn't as simple as they expected.
Episode 19
Void Where Prohibited by In-Laws
Sun, Feb 9, 1969 30 mins
To win money for the babies' college fund, Eve and Kaye enter a contest to guess the number of Blimpo cereal bits in a barrel. To eliminate the guesswork, they plan to construct a duplicate barrel and fill it with cereal at their own expense.
Episode 20
Guess Who's Coming Forever
Sun, Feb 23, 1969 30 mins
Eve and Kaye try to dissuade a black lawyer from renting the kids' apartment after the kids change their minds about moving, prompting faux pas and foot-in-mouth comments that make the adamant man lecture them about fair housing.
Episode 21
Every In-Law Wants to Get Into the Act
Sun, Mar 2, 1969 30 mins
Jerry makes everyone laugh with his routine at a dinner party, and someone says he should be on TV. After Kaye reads that comedy writers are paid very well, she and Eve decide that Jerry should be a comedian.
Episode 22
Two on the Aisle
Sun, Mar 16, 1969 30 mins
When they aren't able to get four tickets to a hit Broadway show the couples are disappointed but when the Hubbards get two tickets. The Hubbards and the Buells go to war over the seats with hilarious results.
Episode 23
Take Her, He's Mine
Sun, Mar 23, 1969 30 mins
Eve and Kaye resort to domestic spying when they become jealous of the gorgeous new secretary their husbands hired to work at home: Kaye bugs Roger's den and Eve listens to Herb's sleep-talking.
Episode 24
Show Business Is No Business
Sun, Mar 30, 1969 30 mins
Eve and Kaye cause a string of calamities as they both try to wangle a spot in Don Rickles' act for the lodge benefit show.
Episode 25
The Charge of the Wife Brigade
Sun, Apr 6, 1969 30 mins
When both Kaye and Eve max out their credit cards their husbands tell them they need to get jobs. They get jobs as saleswomen at the very store where they ran up the cards. After getting fired on the first day they have a scheme to make the husbands think everything is fine.
Episode 26
The Not-So-Grand Opera
Sun, Apr 13, 1969 30 mins
At auditions for the lead role in their club's opera production, would-be divas Eve and Kaye smugly approach their competition, Marni Nixon, who they mistakenly believe is an amateur.
