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The Tony Randall Show: Season 1

22 episodes Premiered Sep 23, 1976 Updated Oct 7, 2026
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Season 1 Episodes

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (19): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S1·E1 Mytharc

Pilot

Sep 23, 1976 · 30 min

Walter Franklin has to cope with a bad case of nerves as he preens for his first date with widow Linda Jenkins in almost two years.

S1·E2 Core

Case: A Question Of Qualifications

Sep 30, 1976 · 30 min

Walter finds that hiring a new clerk can be a trying experience. He interviews an odd-lot assortment of law-clerk applicants and surprise everyone with his final choice.

S1·E3 Core

Case: His Honor Vs. Her Honor

Oct 7, 1976 · 30 min

Walter becomes infatuated when he meets another Judge, Eleanor Hooper, and they try to find some privacy together by meeting in Atlantic City.

S1·E4 Core

Case: The Ego Affair

Oct 14, 1976 · 30 min

After delivering a well-received speech, Walter is inundated with public-speaking requests that send his ego sailing. He gets too big for his judicial robe when he accepts too many

S1·E5 Core

Case: Franklin vs. Reubner And Reubner

Oct 21, 1976 · 30 min

Walter finds out that his tone-faced, sharp-tongued secretary, Miss Reubner, has another side to her personality when he asks her to his home to celebrate her birthday with his fam

S1·E6 Core

Case: The Snow White Affair

Oct 28, 1976 · 30 min

After Walter upholds a local theater's right to show a pornographic film, he forbids his eighteen-year-old daughter to see it.

S1·E7 Core

Case: Terwilliger vs. Himself

Nov 11, 1976 · 30 min

When Jack's normally ultra-accurate court reports deteriorate, Walter investigates his friend's problem.

S1·E8 Core

Case: The Denecki Debacle

Nov 18, 1976 · 30 min

Walter gets more than he bargained for on the bench when he replaces another jurist and has to deal with an attorney notorious for his devious tactics. .

S1·E9 Core

Case: Mario Strikes Again

Dec 2, 1976 · 30 min

Walter loses his cool in the courtroom when a new law clerk keeps interrupting him, and the issue of his emotional sickness is taken up by the judicial review board.

S1·E10 Core

Case: Franklin In Love

Dec 16, 1976 · 30 min

Walter's family thinks his engagement to Judge Hooper is premature.

S1·E11 Core

Case: O' Come All Ye Wastrels

Dec 23, 1976 · 30 min

Believing there's no place like home for the holidays, Walter brings home a convicted criminal to spend the Christmas holidays with his family.

S1·E12 Core

Case: Money Vs. Stature

Dec 30, 1976 · 30 min

Walter is tempted by a friend's offer of a law partnership.

S1·E13 Core

Case: The Hooper Affair

Jan 6, 1977 · 30 min

Walter's romance with Judge Hooper is threatened by the arrival of a college buddy who once dated her.

S1·E14 Core

Case: Democracy Vs. Tyranny

Jan 13, 1977 · 30 min

Walter's household rebels: Bobby wants an apartment, Brad refuses to change schools, and Mrs. McClellan buys a cat.

S1·E15 Core

Case: Whatever Happened To Mary Jane?

Jan 20, 1977 · 30 min

Walter's eagerness to help his loyal friend and court reporter Jack backfires when an overzealous city attorney Mario Lanza busts the judge on a marijuana charge.

S1·E16 Core

Case: McClellan Vs. Immigration

Jan 27, 1977 · 30 min

To prevent deportation to her native England, Mrs. McClellan advertises for a husband and a motley crew of prospects show up.

S1·E17 Core

Case: May Vs December

Feb 3, 1977 · 30 min

After reprimanding Bobby for dating an older man, Walter finds himself attracted to a younger woman.

S1·E18 Core

Case: The Lawndale Report

Feb 10, 1977 · 30 min

From a beach at Acapulco to a minimum security prison is quite a contrast for Walter, who sought the former for two weeks but has to settle for the latter instead. He got the assig

S1·E19 Core

Case: Violence Vs Finesse

Feb 17, 1977 · 30 min

Oliver cuts school and learns a lesson when he comes to his father's courtroom to see his hero Wild Doug Mclntire, the toughest hockey player in the league to testify. Then the boy

S1·E20 Core

Case: Franklin Vs. McClellan

Feb 24, 1977 · 30 min

Walter's household rises up against him, Brad is not willing to change schools, Bobby expresses her liking to live in an apartment and Mrs. McClellan would love to have a cat.

S1·E22 Mytharc

Case: The People Speak

Mar 10, 1977 · 30 min

Walter runs for Superior Court judge against a former rival.

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