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The Phyllis Diller Show Season 1 Episodes

Season 1 Episode Guide

Season 1

30 Episodes 1966 - 1967

Episode 1

Phyllis Goes Broke

Tue, Sep 6, 196630 mins

Phyllis Diller stars as Phyllis Pruitt-a society matron who hasn't got a dime. Premiere reveals In a flashback, how Phyllis got the bad news about her fortune from an Internal Revenue agent.

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Episode 2

Phyllis, the Milkmaid

Tue, Sep 13, 196630 mins

Phyllis has her hands full when Uncle Ned brings home a lovely Guernsey cow he won at the county fair.

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Episode 3

Phyllis Beats the Rap

Tue, Sep 20, 196630 mins

Phyllis, also known as Harriet Hammerstmith, needs some big money quick. When she begins pawning priceless heirlooms from the mansion she finds herself in trouble with the police.

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Episode 4

Phyllis Takes a Letter

Tue, Sep 27, 196630 mins

With money on her mind and a tape recorder in her hair, Phyllis goes to work as secretary for a man with plenty of dictation and a jealous wife.

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Episode 5

Phyllis, the Cookie Tycoon

Tue, Oct 4, 196630 mins

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Episode 6

Phyllis Fires the Butler

Tue, Oct 11, 196630 mins

Regina Wentworth , Phyllis's social arch rival, wages a sneaky campaign to lure Sturgis the butler away from the Pruitt household.

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Episode 7

Phyllis Saves the Day

Tue, Oct 18, 196630 mins

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Episode 8

Phyllis Goes Commercial

Tue, Oct 25, 196630 mins

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Episode 9

Phyllis Entertains Royalty

Tue, Nov 1, 196630 mins

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Episode 10

Phyllis, the Upstairs Girl

Tue, Nov 15, 196630 mins

Phyllis and Uncle Ned are approached by a stuck up neighbor for a $200 contribution for charity. Rather then have it discovered they're not wealthy Phyllis and Ned consider finding employment.

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Episode 11

Phyllis, the General Stealer

Tue, Nov 22, 196630 mins

Phyllis opens a campaign to capture General Cannon (and his money) when she learns that another woman has laid siege to the wealthy old soldier.

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Episode 12

Phyllis, the Dress Maker

Tue, Nov 29, 196630 mins

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Episode 13

Phyllis Goes Arty

Tue, Dec 6, 196630 mins

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Episode 14

Santa Was a Lady

Tue, Dec 13, 196630 mins

The Pruitts are planning hot dogs and beans for Christmas dinner when Phyllis is blackmailed into hosting Christmas for fifty orphans. When appeals to the IRS for help fail work, Phyllis finds herself working as a department store Santa.

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Episode 15

The Hubcap Caper

Tue, Dec 20, 196630 mins

Phyllis turns private eye to lift a curse from the house of Pruitt. Someone has stolen the family good-luck charms: the Rolls Royce hubcaps.

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Episode 16

Phyllis, Queen of the Road

Tue, Dec 27, 196630 mins

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Episode 17

My Brother Harvey

Tue, Jan 3, 196730 mins

Phyllis decides forming a hillbilly band is a way to make it big. Her brother Harvey volunteers to help find the talent and soon Phyllis has too many authentic characters.

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Episode 18

Little Miss Fixit

Fri, Jan 13, 196730 mins

Rudy's latest money making scheme: put a workshop in the basement and have the local fix-it man work day and night fixing the neighbors appliances, then split the money "down the middle".

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Episode 19

Learn to Be a Millionaire

Fri, Jan 20, 196730 mins

Phyllis takes on a repair job at the library. She's trying to help Mr. Krump, the fix-it man, who's been immobilized by a disastrous deal with the Pruitts. Bob Hope makes a brief appearance as a library patron.

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Episode 20

The Ghost of Pruitt Mansion

Fri, Jan 27, 196730 mins

Poverty-stricken Phyllis latches onto a paying guest who turns out to be nothing but trouble. He's an arrogant writer who has the mansion in an uproar and handyman Krump itching for revenge.

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Episode 21

Portrait of Krump

Fri, Feb 3, 196730 mins

A flaming feud threatens to deprive Phyllis of her only source of income. Handyman Krump and star boarder Bradley are at each other's throats, and it's up to the mad matron to effect a truce.

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Episode 22

How to Rob a Millionaire

Fri, Feb 10, 196730 mins

Phyllis discovers her late husband's diary, and finds he left a secret room. Imagining it could be filled with all sorts of valuables or money that might pay off her debts, she tells Baldwin about it. They find it, but instead of money, a collection of rare champagnes is inside. Baldwin's boss at the IRS puts pressure on Baldwin to make the wine turn into cash, and needles him with innuendos about an imagined romantic interest he might have in Phyllis. Meanwhile, two crooks have an idea that the Pruitts are still rich, break in and stick up Phyllis, Baldwin and Sturgis.

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Episode 23

Nobody Here But Us Chickens

Fri, Feb 17, 196730 mins

Phyllis has more than the usual quota of clucks in her odd brood: 1500 cackling hens and a deadbeat relative are all under the Pruitt roof for the same reason, money. Reginald Gardiner plays Uncle Ned and roguish newcomer Cousin Reggie.

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Episode 24

Phyllis, the Bat Girl

Fri, Feb 24, 196730 mins

In her never-ending hunt for money Phyllis signs up for a role witr a Hollywood movie studio, without learning what kind of movie she's in,

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Episode 25

Marry a Million

Fri, Mar 3, 196730 mins

Rudy get his hopes up after Steffi starts dating wealthy Ronnie Lansbury. He invites Ronnie's father over to meet the family but several cases of mistaken identities creates chaos.

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Episode 26

Goddess of Love

Fri, Mar 10, 196730 mins

Pandemonium reigns at the Pruitt pad when Bradley's model is caught sending short-wave messages to a submarine. Phyllis, Bradley and Krump are certain that the girl is a spy.

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Episode 27

My Sister-in-Law Phyllis

Fri, Mar 17, 196730 mins

Phyllis and Rudy have a invention from a relative which they think is a hair dryer. When they investigate it they find is was redesigned to be a coin operated pizza maker. They try everything to get some of their money back from the IRS to market the machine.

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Episode 28

Krump, the Playboy

Fri, Mar 24, 196730 mins

A spoiled young heiress is playing up to Krump for fun and profit: Her dad just might give her anything to jilt the handyman.

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Episode 29

Phyllis, the Beauty Queen

Fri, Mar 31, 196730 mins

Phyllis treats a shaggy lawn and a beauty salon patron with the same gay abandon, and spectacular results.

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Episode 30

The House Is Not a Zoo

Fri, Apr 7, 196730 mins

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