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The Odd Couple Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 1970 - 1971
Episode 1
The Laundry Orgy
Thu, Sep 24, 1970
Oscar has arranged dates for himself and Felix with Gwendolyn and Cecily Pigeon who live upstairs. Oscar is excited, but Felix is nervous and uncertain. Oscar tries to rally Felix to get back in the dating game, but then both realize that the date will conflict with poker night. Felix wants to cancel the date, but Oscar wants to trick the guys into breaking up the game early.
Episode 2
The Fight of the Felix
Thu, Oct 1, 197025 mins
Splint McCullough is a rough and tough hockey player who spends as much time in the penalty box for fighting as he does on the ice. He and Oscar have just gone a round at a sports bar and Oscar comes away the loser with a black eye. He is determined to get revenge in his column by writing an expose about McCullough. Felix thinks revenge is wrong and when he confronts McCullough he too is forced into a fight.
Episode 3
Felix Gets Sick
Thu, Oct 8, 197030 mins
Oscar has a date with an airline stewardess while Felix is away for the weekend on business. Only Felix isn't away...he's in bed sick with a 48 hour flu. With a high fever Oscar feels guilty about leaving Felix alone and is going to cancel his date. Felix convinces him to bring her to the apartment instead and assures Oscar he'll be quiet. This is just the beginning of a disastrous weekend for Oscar.
Episode 4
The Jury Story
Thu, Oct 15, 197030 mins
Leo Garvey is being released from prison after serving 7 years of a 10 year sentence. The mention of this on the news makes Oscar and Felix reminisce about the first time they met...serving on Garvey's jury. What should be an open and shut case is dragged on by Felix's search for mitigating circumstances. After lengthy deliberation the jury is sequestered overnight and Oscar and Felix spend their first night together and get their first glimpse of each other's annoying habits.
Episode 5
The Breakup
Thu, Oct 22, 197030 mins
Oscar has a bad hangover and has zero tolerance for Felix or the noise he's making cleaning. They have an argument and Oscar tells Felix to get out. Felix moves in with Murray, Vinnie and the Pigeon sisters and promptly begins driving them all crazy. Meanwhile Oscar is having his own problems with cooking, cleaning and ironing and it isn't long before he realizes how much he wants Felix to move back in.
Episode 6
Oscar's Ulcer
Thu, Oct 29, 197030 mins
Felix is warning Oscar that he needs to change his lifestyle and get healthy or it could catch up with him. He could be right when Oscar folds during a poker game with a full house due to stomach pains. The doctor thinks it could be the beginning of an ulcer. Felix is determined to prevent this and begins to monitor Oscar's meals and habits to the point of creating the tension in Oscar's life he wanted to avoid in the first place.
Episode 7
I Do, I Don't
Thu, Nov 5, 197030 mins
Felix ruins the wedding plans of a couple.
Episode 8
Oscar, the Model
Thu, Nov 12, 197030 mins
Felix gets Oscar to pose in a cologne ad, but soon he lives to regret it.
Episode 9
The Big Brothers
Thu, Nov 19, 197030 mins
Oscar and Felix join the Big Brothers foundation. Felix tries to show his little brother culture, but he prefers to be with Oscar.
Episode 10
It's All Over Now, Baby Bird
Thu, Dec 3, 1970
Felix's pet parrot passes away. While he wants to give the bird an honorable burial, Oscar just wants to get rid of the body.
Episode 11
Felix Is Missing
Thu, Dec 10, 197030 mins
When Felix leaves on a sudden out of town assignment, their friends think he died at Oscar's hands.
Episode 12
Scrooge Gets an Oscar
Thu, Dec 17, 197025 mins
After Oscar refuses to be Scrooge in a children's play, his poker buddies come to him in a dream giving him the Christmas Carol treatment.
Episode 13
The Blackout
Thu, Dec 24, 197025 mins
Oscar gets accused of stealing $50 from the poker pot during a blackout.
Episode 14
They Use Horse Radish, Don't They
Thu, Jan 7, 197125 mins
Besides his bad back, Felix thinks he'll have trouble with the cooking contest after Oscar gave away his secret ingredients to his competitor.
Episode 15
The Hideaway
Thu, Jan 14, 197125 mins
While Oscar thinks his Eskimo friend would make a great quarterback, Felix wants him to follow his cello talents.
Episode 16
Lovers Don't Make House Calls
Fri, Jan 29, 197130 mins
Oscar falls in love with the doctor that is subbing for Felix's regular doctor.
Episode 17
Engrave Trouble
Fri, Feb 5, 197125 mins
In Felix's latest attempt to get back together with his ex, Oscar suggests he get the watch he gave her which he engraved with a lame inscription and re engrave it with a more romantic one and invite her for dinner and give her the watch. So he gives the watch to Oscar who gives it to a friend to re engrave it. When they go to pick it up, they discover the man's store's been robbed. To try and get it back Oscar asks a friend whom he knows "knows" people who might be able to help them get it back.
Episode 18
Bunny Is Missing Down by the Lake
Fri, Feb 12, 197130 mins
Oscar and Felix go into the woods and are interrupted by a girls' group.
Episode 19
You've Come a Long Way, Baby
Fri, Feb 19, 197125 mins
Oscar is all set to go to a sportswriter's dinner, but Felix can't leave since he found a baby.
Episode 20
A Taste of Money
Fri, Feb 26, 197130 mins
Phillip, the son of Oscar's neighbor bets him a $1000 he can bet him at arm wrestling. And when Oscar wins and tells him to pay up, he does. He and Felix are astonished he has that much money. He then tells him he got it from the bank. And they know the bank was robbed. So they go there to return the money. They inform the bank president that they know about who robbed the bank. So he calls in the teller but before they could tell them what they know the teller admits he stole the money. Later they go back and confront Phillip who bets them another $1000 and pays them. Now they're left wondering where did the money come from.
Episode 21
Oscar's New Life
Fri, Mar 5, 1971
Oscar comes home saying he was fired. It seems that he and his boss got into a fight. But Oscar assures Felix that this is something that happens often and his boss will call him to ask him to come back. Felix goes there and tells the man that Oscar deserves more respect but he feels that Oscar is not irreplaceable so he tells him Oscar is fired for good. So Felix tells Oscar and he breaks down. Felix tells him that he's better than that. But still he's without a job. Felix tells Oscar that he knows someone who might want to hire him. So Oscar goes to Felix's studio where he introduces Oscar to a Hugh Hefner type who offers Oscar a job at his magazine and he doesn't take no for an answer. Oscar tries to do his best but he misses being a sportswriter.
Episode 22
What Makes Felix Run
Fri, Mar 12, 197125 mins
After having another bad date with Gloria and having a nightmare that he can't get into heaven because of his neatness, Felix asks Oscar to help him. And what Oscar does is to help him loosen up. And what he does is to get him to not mind having a little mess around. But in the end the whole thing shocks Felix into becoming like Oscar. So Oscar calls Nancy to help him.
Episode 23
What Does a Naked Lady Say to You?
Fri, Mar 19, 197125 mins
Felix is dating a girl he says is a librarian. She comes to the apartment during one of the poker games and Murray can't help but think he knows her. He then recalls he arrested her for illegal exposure. He says they(the police) raids a play called Bathtub wherein actors appear naked onstage. Oscar upon learning this decides to find out if it's true so he goes to the play to find out.
Episode 24
Trapped
Fri, Mar 26, 197130 mins
Felix and Oscar are suppose to go to a costume party where Felix's ex-wife will be attending but Oscar forgot his costume. Felix knows of something he can wear in the basement so they go to get it but they get locked in. And Felix is desperate to get out.