The Danny Thomas Show: Season 1
Episode Guide
Season 1 Progress Shield
Party Dress
Oct 6, 1953 · 30 min
Danny buys a new doll for Terry and brings it home, expecting her to be happy about it, but instead finds that Margaret is making her a new dress for a school dance—and Terry, at a
Second Honeymoon
Oct 13, 1953 · 30 min
Margaret finally gets her second honeymoon with Danny, but a friend needs him to open for him in Atlantic City, the same place where the honeymoon is taking place. A flashback occu
Mother-in-Law
Oct 20, 1953 · 30 min
Margaret’s mother starts feeling like she’s forgotten, and taken for granted, when she’s called up time-after-time just to babysit.
Anniversary
Oct 27, 1953 · 30 min
When Danny forgets his and Margaret’s wedding anniversary and is stuck in the doghouse, he reminisces about a simpler time and their first anniversary, before his success in show b
The Visiting Englishman
Nov 10, 1953 · 30 min
Margaret and Danny become exasperated by an unwanted guest who won’t leave and who causes all sorts of problems for the two—but the kids adore him, and, later, they become fond of
The Sea Captain
Nov 17, 1953 · 30 min
Danny showers the children with money, and drops plenty of hints, for them to get a present for his birthday. But the children don't understand, and spend it on the custodian of th
Margaret's Job
Dec 8, 1953 · 30 min
When an old college friend of Margaret’s comes to visit her, and she starts to compare her life with her successful friend’s, she becomes unhappy with her own life. Afterwards, Dan
Wonderland
Dec 15, 1953 · 30 min
While about to start a relaxing vacation with just Margaret and himself, Danny finds himself stuck with a houseguest who’s the winner of a publicity stunt his agent submitted him f
Christmas
Dec 22, 1953 · 30 min
Rusty becomes cynical about Santa Claus and Christmas, and Danny gets stuck, on Christmas Eve, in Detroit because of a small clause in his contract.
Toledo
Dec 29, 1953 · 30 min
Danny takes the kids with him to Toledo, and the stories he tells them about his childhood days and friends there, they discover, are off the mark when they meet several of his old
Margaret's Jealousy
Jan 5, 1954 · 30 min
Margaret unnecessarily works herself up to be jealous of Danny and an old girlfriend of his.
The Professor
Feb 2, 1954 · 30 min
After dispensing a lecture to the kids on unselfishness, Danny discovers that they have brought a bum, albeit an emeritis college professor, into the house without his knowledge.
Margaret's Birthday
Feb 23, 1954 · 30 min
Margaret’s three friends in her Wednesday bridge club brag to her about the presents their husbands gave them for Valentine’s Day, and she feels the need to defend Danny for a simp