Love, American Style: Season 4
Season 4 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Love, American Style Season 3.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 4 Progress Shield
Love and the Sensuous Twin
Sep 15, 1972 · 60 min
Two men fall for the same girl who has a split personality.
Love and the Triple Threat
Sep 15, 1972 · 60 min
Warren Berlinger plays three flipped-out characters involved in a scheme to break up a romance.
Love and the Cheaters
Sep 22, 1972 · 60 min
A cheating husband won't cheat until his wife finds a suitable cheater.
Love and the Unbearable Fiancee
Sep 22, 1972 · 60 min
A woman comes home with a bear as her fiancee, much to the father's dismay.
Love and the Amateur Night
Sep 22, 1972 · 60 min
A talent-show host who can't escape contestants -- even on his wedding night.
Love and the Overnight Guests
Sep 29, 1972 · 60 min
A date with a stripper isn't everything he wishes for.
Love and the Lucky Couple
Sep 29, 1972 · 60 min
A philanderer is caught in a hotel publicity stunt.
Love and the Mail Room
Sep 29, 1972 · 60 min
A handle-with-care story of a girl who wants to mail herself far away.
Love and the New Act
Sep 29, 1972 · 60 min
A song-and-dance duo come up with a new instrument: the man's head.
Love and the Girlish Groom
Oct 6, 1972 · 60 min
A man is in drag -- and in trouble -- when he meets his fiancee's parents.
Love and the New You
Oct 6, 1972 · 60 min
A man gets dumped by his girlfriend and decides to get a makeover.
Love and the Oldlyweds
Oct 6, 1972 · 60 min
Parents try to dissuade their daughter from marrying a senior citizen.
Love and the Wishing Star
Oct 6, 1972 · 60 min
A lonely old wood carver and the fiery godfather who tries to grant his fondest wish.
Love and the Spaced Out Chick
Oct 13, 1972 · 60 min
A soap opera writer falls in love with a female alien.
Love and the Country Girl
Oct 13, 1972 · 60 min
A traveling salesman in trouble over the farmer's daughter.
Love and Dear Old Mom and Dad
Oct 13, 1972 · 60 min
A tale of talkative women and the men who tune them out.
Love and the High School Sweetheart
Oct 13, 1972 · 60 min
A man's wife invites her old high school sweetheart, now a Minister, for dinner.
Love and the Disappearing Box
Oct 20, 1972 · 60 min
A magician's prop makes people vanish.
Love and the Happy Medium
Oct 27, 1972 · 60 min
A man wants to end it all, but first he wants to meet a girl from the great beyond.
Love and the Jinx
Oct 27, 1972 · 60 min
A man courts a girl who seems to court accidents.
Love and the President
Nov 3, 1972 · 60 min
About a First Family caught by an 8-year-old photographer.
Love and the Return of Raymond
Nov 3, 1972 · 60 min
A newly married couple spend the night at a motel. In the room they stay in, they find a dog hiding in one of the dresser drawers. Later, the owner shows up to get the dog.
Love and the Perfect Wedding
Nov 3, 1972 · 60 min
What the participants of a perfect wedding really think.
Love and the Pick-Up Fantasy
Nov 10, 1972 · 60 min
A couple decides to put some pizazz in their marriage.
Love and the Hairy Excuse
Nov 10, 1972 · 60 min
A man pretends he's a werewolf... to explain why he spends nights out.
Love and the Christmas Punch
Nov 17, 1972 · 60 min
A slapstick story about Christmas Eve.
Love and the Mystic
Nov 17, 1972 · 60 min
A mercenary mystic helps out a friend in need.
Love and the Tycoon
Nov 17, 1972 · 60 min
A wallflower's dream: she's being courted by a tycoon.
Love and the Secret Life
Nov 24, 1972 · 60 min
A man takes dance lessons that could lead to disaster.
Love and the Swinging Philosophy
Nov 24, 1972 · 60 min
A square's new job depends on his conversion to a swinging personality.
Love and the Impressionist
Dec 1, 1972 · 60 min
A showcase for an impressionist who can be anybody but himself.
Love and the First Kiss
Dec 1, 1972 · 60 min
About the cave man's invention of the kiss.
Love and the Out-of-Town Client
Dec 8, 1972 · 60 min
A terribly confused wife of a philandering tycoon.
Love and the Secret Habit
Dec 8, 1972 · 60 min
An embarrassing date for a shy guy and an ex-nun.
Love and the Cryptic Gift
Jan 5, 1973 · 60 min
The slightly macabre tale of a gift cemetery plot.
Love and the Family Hour
Jan 5, 1973 · 60 min
The difficulties of getting started on a family.
Love and the Sexpert
Jan 5, 1973 · 60 min
A young man is always mistaken for a sex book author.
Love and the Impossible Gift
Jan 12, 1973 · 60 min
A rich wife attempts to come up with the perfect gift for her rich husband with the help of their butler.
Love and the Face Bow
Jan 12, 1973 · 60 min
Orthodontia lead a honeymoon couple to romantic disaster.
Love and the Old Lover
Jan 19, 1973 · 60 min
A man sees a girl who is stuck in the past.
Love and the Missing Mister
Jan 19, 1973 · 60 min
A woman's past husband returns after several years of being missing in action.
Love and the Twanger Tutor
Jan 19, 1973 · 60 min
A rich but illiterate bumpkin tries to romance an erudite tutor.
Love and the Unmarriage
Jan 26, 1973 · 60 min
A story about a girl who likes the idea of living with her boyfriend better than marrying him.
Love and the Singing Suitor
Jan 26, 1973 · 60 min
A shy junior executive takes musicals to heart: he's courting his secretary in song and dance.
Love and the Wee He
Jan 26, 1973 · 60 min
A pair of honeymooners cannot turn off a mechanical elf.
Love and the Laughing Lover
Feb 2, 1973 · 60 min
A newlywed wife has a problem laughing when she kisses.
Love and the Hot Spell
Feb 2, 1973 · 60 min
A post-hypnotic suggestion triggers a wedding-day comedy.
Love and the Hand Maiden
Feb 2, 1973 · 60 min
A model who is willing to remove everything -- except her gloves.
Love and the Playwright
Feb 9, 1973 · 60 min
A story about a playwright who tests his plots on his gullible wife.
Love and the Baby Derby
Feb 16, 1973 · 60 min
Brothers compete for an inheritance: first one to marry and have a baby, wins.
Love and the Burglar Joke
Feb 16, 1973 · 60 min
A burglary victim mistakes the perpretrator for a practical joker.
Love and the Favorite Family
Feb 16, 1973 · 60 min
A family that portrays itself in a TV sitcom.
Love and the Crisis Line
Feb 23, 1973 · 60 min
A story about an emotional crisis hot-line and the girls who man the phones.
Love and the Happy Family
Feb 23, 1973 · 60 min
A couple pretend to be brother and sister in order to prevent their parents' fighting.
Love and the Vertical Romance
Feb 23, 1973 · 60 min
A newlywed with an unusual pet peeve: he can't stand beds.
Love and the Mind Reader
Mar 2, 1973 · 60 min
A man uses ESP to get a girl to get attracted to his buddy.
Love and the Mr. and Mrs.
Mar 2, 1973 · 60 min
The trials of married lawyers who share bed, board and duties in the public defender's office.
Love and the Postal Meeter
Mar 9, 1973 · 60 min
A young man's pen pal comes over for a visit.
Love and the End of the Line
Mar 9, 1973 · 60 min
Point at issue: a vasectomy vs. a family.
Love and the Growing Romance
Mar 9, 1973 · 60 min
All about a plant doctor who falls for one of her green thumb customers.