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- After Bob unwittingly hires a printer with a drinking problem, he sets out to reform him. (en)
- Appalled at how decrepit the Old Stowe Road – named for Harriet Beecher Stowe — has become, Bob and several local businessmen propose bulldozing it and replacing it with a new, modern thoroughfare to stimulate economic growth and create prosperity in Phippsboro. Bob gets the city council — pleased that the county will pay for the project – to approve the idea. Ichabod agrees that the road is in bad shape, but cautions Bob that Phippsboro's residents do not welcome change. Bob nonetheless writes a stirring editorial in the Phippsboro Bulletin calling for the road's replacement – and when Abby discovers that the new road will require demolition of the old one, she mobilizes the women of Phippsboro in opposition to the plan, leaving Bob to try to resolve the dispute without becoming the local pariah. Guest stars: Mary Treen, Irene Ryan, Alice Backes, and Robert F. Simon. (en)
- Bob discovers Mehitabel Hobbs, an elderly painter who he believes is so talented that she could be the next Grandma Moses, and writes a story about her in the Phippsboro Bulletin — but Mehitabel dislikes publicity, and she threatens to sue Bob if his story makes her rich and famous. Guest stars: Margaret Hamilton, John Abbott, and Laurie Main. (en)
- Bob feels he is not getting good results from his advertising manager, so he imports an expert advertising salesmen from New York City – but the new salesman turns out to be a woman. (en)
- Leona, a former girlfriend of Bob's, comes to Phippsboro from New York City for a visit, and Bob is the perfect host – until he finds out she is intent on matrimony. Guest star: Merry Anders. (en)
- Bob hopes to improve the lives of the residents of Phippsboro by making the town's banker, Samuel Cheever, less ornery by getting him to marry Miss Prouty. Guest stars: Russell Collins and Linda Watkins. (en)
- Members of the staid Phippsboro women's club ask Bob to help them stage a fashion show. (en)
- Bob runs into difficulty when he delves into the story of Caleb Phipps, the founder of Phippsboro, (en)
- When Martin sells Bob a small sailboat commonly known as Flippin' Maude, Bob discovers that the boat will not stay upright and soon decides that he's been had. Guest stars: George Spicer and Sherwood Keith. (en)
- When Aunt Livvy goes on a vacation, Bob looks for a temporary housekeeper, and eyebrows are raised around Phippsboro when he hires his first applicant for the job – Miss Lily Fontaine, an unemployed exotic dancer. Guest star: Leslie Parrish (en)
- A vacancy occurs on the Phippsboro city council, so Bob writes an editorial urging women to play a greater role in politics, angering the men in town. Guest star: Mary Treen (en)
- When Bob proposes dismantling a rock wall, he meets fierce resistance from the townspeople, who claim it has historical significance. (en)
- Bob brings high school student Liz Halladay into the newspaper office to teach her journalism, and she develops a crush on him. Guest star: Yvonne Craig. (en)
- When Bob publishes the poetry of young Elmer Waldschlagel in the Phippsboro Bulletin, the boy becomes egotistical and begins to refer to himself as an "artist," much to the annoyance of his father. (en)
- Fed up with delinquent accounts among the Phippsboro Bulletin′s subscribers and needing the more than $600 they owe to keep the newspaper in business, Bob decides he has been too lenient to his debtors, and with the help of an accountant friend in New York City sends sternly worded letters to more than 30 subscribers demanding that they pay up, despite Ichabod's warning that things are not done that way in Phippsboro. As Ichabod predicted they would, the subscribers take offense at the letters rather than pay. One delinquent subscriber, retired lawyer Caleb Cunningham, discovers an 18th-century law still on the books allowing the payment of debts in barter. He pays his $14 bill with a pig, the newspaper's other debtors follow suit, and although Bob receives no cash, his office soon is full of livestock. During an auction, Caleb calls on the newspaper's subscribers to pay their debts, and Bob receives the money he needs to keep the Phippsboro Bulletin financially afloat. (en)
- thumb|Christine White and Jenny Maxwell in "Bob′s Teenage Guest." Bob invites the teenaged son of an old friend to spend a week as his houseguest in Phippsboro, then discovers that the boy is a juvenile delinquent. Guest star: Jenny Maxwell. (en)
- Benjie decides Bob is lonely, so he writes a love letter, signs it with Bob's name, and sends it along with flowers his schoolteacher, Miss Tyler. When Bob finds out about it, he goes to the school superintendent – Ichabod – for help. Guest star: Sue Randall. (en)
- When Ichabod owned the Phippsboro Bulletin, he always wanted it to win the Federation Award as the best weekly newspaper in New England. After it finally does win the award under Bob's ownership, Bob tries to figure out a way to share it with Ichabod. Guest star: Nina Shipman. (en)
- Ichabod's niece returns to Phippsboro after two years in Paris and finds herself shunned by her less-sophisticated ex-boyfriend. (en)
- Benjie finds a week-old lamb and nurses it back to health – and when farmer Caleb Crawford claims ownership of the animal, Benjie insists that the lamb is now his due to their mutual affection. (en)
- Responding to a girl's letter to the Phippsboro Bulletin′s advice column "Dear Debby," Bob advises a young couple to elope – and when Horace Cheever, the girl's father, storms into the newspaper office in a rage, Bob has to try to get out of trouble by blaming the advice on the imaginary Debby. (en)
- When the town's banker, Samuel Cheever, asks Bob what he should do to make profitable use of several plots of land he owns, Bob suggests that they try to attract industries to the Phippsboro area in the hope that they will purchase the land – but the town's longtime residents object to the idea. Guest stars: Philip Coolidge, Henry Hunter, and Russell Arms. (en)
- After Bob loses an exclusive story for the newspaper because half the population of Phippsboro is listening in to his telephone conversation on a party line, he launches a campaign for rotary dial telephones in Phippsboro. (en)
- After Bob invites his uncle, racetrack tout Lippy Bourke, to stay at his home, Lippy creates a furor when he begins wagering on races with the townspeople of Phippsboro – and winning, of course – and teaches Benjie to play cassino. Guest star: Jesse White. (en)
- When a New York City stage star walks out on a summer stock theater production in Phippsboro, Abby replaces her. (en)
- Bob offers advice on romance to Jonathan, who has a crush on pretty cheerleader Mary Tanner at his high school – but she doesn't know Jonathan is alive. (en)
- Bob launches a newspaper investigation into the efficiency of the Phippsboro fire department — and finds it sadly lacking. (en)
- thumb|Robert Sterling and Rod Serling in "The Celebrity."Bob discovers that the famous, but reclusive, author Eugene Hollenfield – known for his books Picture in the Cornfield and Life with Louie, as well as for associating with a beatnik-like group called "The Clan" — has moved to Phippsboro to work in seclusion, and becomes determined to get an interview with him for the Phippsboro Bulletin. When all else fails, Bob and Abby disguise themselves as beatniks and crash a party at Hollenfield's house. Guest stars: Rod Serling, Ann Atmar, Robert Sorrells, Tim Graham, Frances Morris, and Nick Blair. (en)
- Bob is proud when Benjie gets a part in the school pageant, but then is indignant when he learns that Benjie will be portraying Benedict Arnold. (en)
- Bob persuades a national magazine to do an article about the "typical New Englanders" of Phippsboro. Guest stars: Mari Aldon, Arthur Franz, and Paul Barselow. (en)
- A stranger begins to court Aunt Livvy, but really is interested only in her money. (en)
- thumb|Christine White and Jimmy Mathers in "Benjie's Spots."
When Benjie contracts a mysterious case of spots, Bob brings in a doctor from New York City in the belief that Phippsboro's doctors are somewhat lacking. (en)
- Phippsboro's traffic commissioner – Ichabod – has parking meters installed on Phippsboro's main street, and Bob strongly objects. (en)
- Bob suspects that someone posing as an American Indian is selling children at Benjie's school phoney "Indian" arrowheads labeled "Made in Japan," and he sets out to investigate. (en)
- The pilot for Ichabod and Me, broadcast as an episode of General Electric Theater. When bright young advertising executive Terrance "Terry" Major moves from New York City to a rural New England community to take up the life of a farmer, he rents a property from the determined Ichabod Adams. A battle of wits over a business deal ensues between Terry and Ichabod, resulting in Ichabod getting Terry to do all the work in the apple orchard. Meanwhile, Terry's former boss, Mr. Fownes – after whom Terry named his bulldog "Fownes" because of their mutual resemblance – tries to get Terry to return to his old job in New York. Fred Beir portrayed Terry Major; Robert Sterling replaced him as the character Bob Major in the regular series. Also starring Leon Ames, Edward Marr, Ann Doran, Pitt Herbert, and Dorothy Neumann. (en)
- Bob reluctantly allows his Uncle Lippy to visit again, only to discover that the visit includes him riding a horse for Lippy. Guest star: Jesse White. (en)
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