Playlist: Host: Betty Grable opens with a song, Make Believe. The Town Criers, A Kiss Goodnight. The Town Criers also sing, Sunny Side of the Street. June Haver joins her…
The courtship to get grandpap and Charity together has had its ups and downs. The gents review some of the struggles of their attempts to cure grandpaps amnesia, and matters of the powers of love. Abner is skeptical at Lum's expertise, since he has been in love many times, but never married.
Gracie opens with an important public service announcement, buy war bonds.
This morning in the Burns home, Gracie talks to George about their great love affair, and their upcoming anniversary. George suggests that Gracie get rid of their useless maid. All she does is gather gossip while Gracie does all the work. The scene changes to another couple with a famous love affair. Adolph Menjou and his wife. They talk about a movie scene that he is shooting. The maid overhears their staged arguement, and thinks its real. She's the same maid who works for Gracie, and other Hollywood stars.
Cedric has driven aunt Charity to the county seat for a beauty treatment, and today Lum and Abner talk about the expected date between grandpap and Charity. Abner has only had more trouble with his woman, when he manages to tell her the wrong thing in fending off her requests to look beautiful.
Vicky and Toddy have their sentimental moments at home interupted when they learn of a guest lecturer who is to stop by later. The man is an expert on Shakespeare,…
Thinking that love will refresh memories for Buster, and make him remember that he's really grandpap, the gents play matchmaker. Today we find Abner and Cedric as they practice crooning love songs in the store. Lum enters with a report of how Charity feels about their plan to spruce her up, and make her look and feel young again.
As she tries to bloom into adulthood, shirley deals with feelings of being treated like a child. Especially when she butts heads with Mrs Farrow, played by Verna Felton. Shirley is much the typical teen, even by some of today's standards, sneaking out of the house, demanding privacy, sassing those in authority positions, testing the limits of her liberties, and desiring to push those limits farther. Doesn't anybody understand her?
A cheerful musical about life on the banks of the Wabash River. Mary Martin and Dick Powell recreate their roles as Sally and Paul. Wearing a suit of tar and…
Joan Bennet is Gloria, a girl who may be the cause for her fiancee to lose an inheritance. Randy is determined to flee the iron hand of his family, and…
Fractions pose a problem for Cathy, and for dad as he tries to explain the tricky math concept. Meanwhile, drama queen, Betty enters to show off her skill at speaking…