Season 1

1972 · 24 episodes

Episodes

1The FlingRestaurant-equipment dealer Harry Boyle helps a sexy female customer move into her apartment, prompting everyone around him to think that Harry is cheating on his wife, Irma.
2Alice's DressThe Boyles are invited to a party. Alice decides to buy a dress for the event, but it turns out to be way too revealing.
3The HippieChet befriends a hippie musician, which drives his family crazy and prompts Ralph and his anti-Communist Army buddies to create a wall around the neighborhood to keep out all hippies, alleged Communists, subversives, and free-thinkers.
4The Beach VacationThe Boyles rent a beach house, but things get complicated when Alice wants to wear a string bikini and Harry must decide whether or not to press charges against a nude sunbather who will not leave his property.
5Help WantedHarry gets into trouble with special-interest groups when he fires his Jewish driver and must choose between hiring someone who is right for the job versus hiring someone in order to comply with the dictates of affirmative action and diversity.
6Love StoryAlice shocks her family again by dating a homeless man named Norman, but when Harry and Irma find out that Norman has rich parents, they push Alice into staying with him.
7The VictimHarry gets mugged and beaten in the park by a young criminal. While Harry and Ralph want the young criminal to be locked away, Chet and Alice want Harry to go soft on his assailant since it is his first offense.
8Chet's JobHarry gives his slacker son, Chet, an ultimatum: either find a job and pay rent or get out of the house. Chet decides to find a job — and ends up earning more than his father as a hardware-store grunt.
9Chet's FianceeChet dates a young, attractive decent young woman named Prudence and brings her home to meet Harry and Irma...and ends up shocking everyone when he tells Prudence that he does not want to marry her.
10The MouseJamie brings home a pet mouse. After being told that he can't keep it, the mouse escapes. Jamie blames Harry, and then he runs away.
11Duty CallsChet angers his parents when he tries to bail out of being enlisted in the Army.
12Expectant PapaIrma worries that she may be pregnant again, which does not sit well with Chet and Alice, who feel the world is too overpopulated.
13The New CarThe Boyles are tricked into buying a crummy car, and fight back against the man who sold it to them.
14The New HouseThe Boyles consider moving into a bigger house, but Harry does not have the money for it.
15The ProwlerRalph starts a neighborhood vigilante group in order to fight back against a burglar who has been breaking into houses in the Boyles' neighborhood.
16Mama's IdentityIn an attempt to be more than just a housewife and mother, Irma takes a job as a secretary at a law firm, but struggles with sexual discrimination and competition from a younger, prettier coworker, while Harry and Ralph worry that women in the workplace will lead to men being treated like sex objects and second-class citizens.
17Papa the PatientHarry is sent to the hospital after suffering from stress-related stomachaches.
18The Swimming PoolHarry builds a swimming pool for his family, but the neighbors end up using it.
19Sweet SixteenIrma wants Alice to have an extravagant 16th birthday party, but Harry is too cheap to do it.
20The CommuneAlice runs away to a hippie commune to escape the stresses of school and home life.
21Music TycoonChet and his friends get famous as a hot, new garage band, but Chet soon learns that fame is fickle.
22Accidents Will HappenHarry splits his pants after slipping in a restaurant. Everyone advises Harry to sue, but Harry just wants a new pair of pants.
23Papa in New YorkHarry goes to New York on business, and takes Ralph with him.
24The NeighborsNewlyweds Mona and George experience trouble in paradise when they fight over a new couch. The Boyles must get Mona and George back together when George moves in with the Boyles.