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- Bill is startled when an angry woman who has mistaken him for a victim of amnesia comes into the newspaper′s office and accuses him of being the husband who abandoned her and their two children five years earlier. (en)
- Bill becomes upset with his coworkers when they begin to guide their lives by their daily horoscopes, so he decides to debunk astrology to teach them the foolishness of doing it. (en)
- The Forsythe Academy of Tomorrow′s Stars is a drama school that appears to be merely a front for a scheme to extract money from untalented students willing to pay high tuition, so Bill and Mickey team up to infiltrate the school posing as students and expose the scheme in a front-page exposé in the newspaper — but Bill cannot decide which Marlon Brando role he wants to copy. (en)
- Alternative title "Batter Up." When a hillbilly baseball player becomes attracted to Mickey, Bill takes advantage of the young man's superstitions to break up the romance. (en)
- Humphrey has a rival for his girlfriend's affections — and she decides that she will date whichever of them joins the United States Army first. (en)
- Mr. Fosdick comes up with what he thinks is the perfect plan for curing Humphrey of his continual betting on horse races before he goes totally broke, and he enlists Bill and Mickey in his scheme. (en)
- Mr. Fosdick decides to give Phoebe Goodheart a huge publicity build-up, but this creates a problem for Bill: The fictional Phoebe is supposed to be an elderly woman, but Bill is the author of the "Dear Phoebe" column. (en)
- Bill and Mickey both come down with the mumps. (en)
- Bill comes home to find Joey — a fatherless little boy he has befriended who is prone to mishaps — hiding in a cabinet after running away from military school. Joey's mother believes he ran away because he does not have a father to take him to the school′s father-son Christmas banquet. Bill tries to help Joey find his father in time for the banquet and eventually succeeds — but meanwhile, both the search and Mr. Fosdick′s refusal to allow the newspaper staff to hold an office Christmas party hamper Bill in his hopes for romance with Mickey. Guest stars: George Winslow, Jesse White, and Ruth Perrott. (en)
- While trying to help Mr. Fosdick with his problems, Bill becomes involved in a blackmail plot. (en)
- Mickey is displeased when Bill beats her to a story by landing an exclusive interview with a victim of the notorious "Kissing Bandit," so she helps bait a trap for the bandit. (en)
- Bill consults a psychiatrist after he begins to have frequent hallucinations in which he sees Mickey everywhere he goes. Meanwhile, Mickey goes to see the same psychiatrist because she is seeing similar apparitions of Bill. (en)
- After Bill finds an abandoned infant on his doorstep, he and Mickey become reluctant parents. (en)
- To prove to Mickey that he gets along with children, Bill tries to reform a disrespectful boy. (en)
- When a man who reads "Dear Phoebe" expresses the conviction that women are expensive, Bill fixes Mickey up with him on a blind date to prove him wrong. (en)
- After the glamorous Italian movie star Constanzia D'Amore begins making personal appearances in Los Angeles, Bill becomes enamored of her and writes a "Dear Phoebe" column in which he has Phoebe say that European women make better wives than Americans — and to prove his point, he invites the newspaper′s entire staff to see D′Amore′s latest film. (en)
- The employees of the newspaper file a complaint with the newspaper′s publisher which includes a list of over 200 complaints against Mr. Fosdick. In response, the publisher, who happens to be Mr. Fosdick's father, fires Fosdick. (en)
- Humphrey sends the wrong form letter to a woman who asked advice from the "Dear Phoebe" column concerning her boyfriend, who is on his way to jail. The form letter says, "It is not too late — help your true love escape," and Bill decides he has to do something before the woman acts on its advice. (en)
- Mickey's new boyfriend is a handsome athlete, and that upsets Bill — who then discovers that he taught psychology to the man in college. (en)
- Bill and Mickey head to Mexico to investigate a racket involving fraudulent "quickie" marriages, taking Humphrey along to serve as a witness — and the three discover too late that not all the marriages are illegal. (en)
- In an effort to boost the newspaper′s circulation, Mr. Fosdick makes public the "birthday" of the fictional Phoebe Goodheart, intending to give all the presents that readers send her to charity — but one of the gifts is a key sent by a gang of thieves. (en)
- Bill Hastings begins his job at the newspaper as the writer of the newspaper's advice column, "Dear Phoebe." He meets a beautiful blond female sportswriter who works there, Mickey Riley, and personally intervenes in romantic problems she is having with her athletic boyfriend, Rocky. Guest star: Chuck Connors. (en)
- After a lonesome old lady who was a grateful reader of the "Dear Phoebe" column bequeaths $1,000,000 to Phoebe Goodheart for comforting her with the columns. Bill claims the money is his because he is "Phoebe Goodheart," but Mr. Fosdick says that the money belongs to the paper because it created the "Phoebe Goodheart" character. (en)
- To keep himself from trying to live beyond his means, Bill plans an elaborate budget. (en)
- Bill is jealous when Mickey becomes engaged to an alleged socialite. (en)
- Mickey becomes jealous when Mr. Fosdick arranges for Bill to visit a psychiatrist to help him with a bout of depression — and the psychiatrist turns out to be a beautiful woman. (en)
- Bill runs a "Key to Successful Marriage" contest in the "Dear Phoebe" column, and the winning couple, two ranchers from Montana, provide quite a shock. (en)
- Bill and Mickey each decide to expose the activities of lonely-hearts clubs. Mr. Fosdick and Humphrey help Bill, but Bill takes an interest in the person assisting Mickey — a beautiful woman. (en)
- When Bill tries a new approach to winning Mickey′s heart by writing in the "Dear Phoebe" column that "career girls make mediocre wives," Mickey challenges him on the statement. (en)
- Mickey and Humphrey decide to play a trick on Bill, but they end up in trouble when their plans go astray. (en)
- During a cozy dinner at Fung Loo's Chinese restaurant, Bill and Mickey and make long-range plans for an exposé of a prefabricated-housing racket. (en)
- Alternative title "The Will to Win." After Bill develops a theory that he can pick the winner of a boxing match by using simple psychology, he and Mickey bet against each other as to whether Humphrey can win a fight against a skilled boxer. Bill proves that a fighter's background and not his physical prowess makes him a winner, and when Mickey loses the bet she must pay up. (en)
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