 | 1x01 The Fling (Air Date: Sep. 12, 1972)
A restaurant equipment dealer named Harry Boyle helps a sexy female customer, prompting everyone around him to think that Harry is cheating on his wife, Irma. | | 1x02 Alice's Dress (Air Date: Sep. 19, 1972)
Harry and his family get invited to a party held by Harry's boss, but Harry and Irma run into trouble when Alice buys a see-through dress to wear to the party. | | 1x03 The Hippie (Air Date: Sep. 26, 1972)
Chet befriends a hippie, which drives his family crazy and prompts Ralph and his anti-Communist Army buddies to create a wall around the neighborhood. | | 1x04 The Beach Vacation (Air Date: Sep. 03, 1972)
The Boyles rent a beach home, and must contend with Alice prancing around in a bikini and a beach full of nude sunbathers. | | 1x05 Help Wanted (Air Date: Oct. 10, 1972)
Harry gets into trouble with special interest groups when he fires his driver (who is Jewish) and must choose between hiring someone who's right for the job or giving in to affirmative ... | | 1x06 Love Story (Air Date: Oct. 17, 1972)
Alice shocks her family once again; this time, by dating a homeless man named Norman. But when Harry and Irma find out that Norman has rich parents, they push Alice into staying with hi ... | | 1x07 The Victim (Air Date: Oct. 24, 1972)
Harry gets mugged and beaten in the park. While Harry takes the mugger to court, Alice and Chet try to rehabilitate him. | | 1x08 Chet's Job (Air Date: Oct. 31, 1972)
Harry gives his slacker son, Chet, an ultimatum: either find a job to pay for rent or get out of the house. Chet decides to find a job--and ends up earning more than his father as a hardware ... | | 1x09 Chet's Fiancée (Air Date: Nov. 07, 1972)
Chet dates a young, attractive and decent young woman named Prudence and brings her home to meet Harry and Irma...and ends up shocking everyone when he tells Prudence that he doesn't want ... | | 1x10 The Mouse (Air Date: Nov. 14, 1972)
Jamie runs away from home after Harry tells him he can't keep a mouse as a pet. | | 1x11 Duty Calls (Air Date: Oct. 21, 1972)
Chet angers his parents when he tries to bail out of being enlisted in the Army. | | 1x12 Expectant Papa (Air Date: Nov. 28, 1972)
Irma worries that she may be pregnant again, which doesn't sit well with the family. | | 1x13 The New Car (Air Date: Dec. 05, 1972)
The Boyles are tricked into buying a crummy car, and fight back against the man who sold it to them. | | 1x14 The New House (Air Date: Dec. 12, 1972)
The Boyles consider moving into a bigger house, but Harry doesn't have the money for it. | | 1x15 The Prowler (Air Date: Dec. 19, 1972)
Ralph starts a militia in order to fight back against a burglar who has been breaking into houses in the Boyles' neighborhood. | | 1x16 Mama's Identity (Air Date: Dec. 26, 1972)
In an attempt to be more than just a housewife and mother, Irma takes a job as a secretary at a law firm, but struggles with being used by her employers. | | 1x17 Papa The Patient (Air Date: Jan. 02, 1973)
Harry is sent to the hospital after suffering from stress-related stomach aches. | | 1x18 The Swimming Pool (Air Date: Jan. 09, 1973)
Harry builds a swimming pool for his family, but the neighbors end up using it. | | 1x19 Sweet Sixteen (Air Date: Jan. 16, 1973)
Irma wants Alice to have an extravagant 16th birthday party, but Harry is too cheap to do it. | | 1x20 The Commune (Air Date: Jan. 23, 1973)
Alice runs away to a hippie commune to escape the stress of school and home life. | | 1x21 Music Tycoon (Air Date: Jan. 30, 1973)
Chet and his friends get famous as a hot, new garage band, but Chet soon learns that fame is fickle. | | 1x22 Accidents Will Happen (Air Date: Feb. 06, 1973)
Harry splits his pants after slipping in a restaurant. Everyone advises Harry to sue, but Harry just wants a new pair of pants. | | 1x23 Papa in New York (Air Date: Feb. 13, 1973)
Harry goes to New York on business, and takes Ralph with him. | | 1x24 The Neighbors (Air Date: Feb. 20, 1973)
Newlyweds Mona and George experience trouble in paradise when they fight over a new couch. The Boyles must get Mona and George back together when George moves in with the Boyles. |
| 2x01 Bringing Up Jamie (Air Date: Sep. 11, 1973)
A child psychologist recommends that Jamie take up photography to deal with his aggressions, but Jamie only ends up photographing his family at their worst. | | 2x02 The Lady Detective (Air Date: Sep. 18, 1973)
Phyllis Diller guest stars as an eccentric female detective hired to help Harry find out who stole from the company's payroll. | | 2x03 Permissive Papa (Air Date: Sep. 25, 1973)
Harry bars Alice from going to a concert and sets her up on a date with a nice man named Jay Jay, who turns out to be a pervert. | | 2x04 Boyles on T.V. (Air Date: Oct. 02, 1973)
The Boyles are invited to be interviewed on TV, but Harry thinks having the entire family on TV will ruin his reputation. | | 2x05 My Wife, The Secretary (Air Date: Oct. 09, 1973)
Once again, Irma tries to find a job...and ends up working as Harry's secretary at his restaurant equipment store. | | 2x06 Papa , the Housewife (Air Date: Oct. 16, 1973)
Harry takes Irma's place as a housewife...with disastrous results. | | 2x07 Jamie's Project (Air Date: Oct. 23, 1973)
Harry helps Jamie with a project for a school-wide competition. | | 2x08 Don for the Defense (Air Date: Nov. 06, 1973)
Harry goes to court to contest a traffic violation--and ends up in deeper trouble when he hires an incompetent lawyer. | | 2x09 Alice's Diet (Air Date: Nov. 13, 1973)
After being spurned by a crush at school, Alice goes to a beauty farm, and comes back slim and beautiful. | | 2x10 Mama Loves Monty (Air Date: Nov. 20, 1973)
Irma signs herself and Harry to appear on a game show, but Harry misconstrues it as a sign that Irma is leaving him for game show host Monty Hall. | | 2x11 Alice's Crush (Air Date: Nov. 27, 1973)
Alice has fallen in love once again; this time, her object of desire is one of her teachers. | | 2x12 Papa's Big Check (Air Date: Dec. 04, 1973)
Harry gets a tax refund check for $940,000, but learns too late that the amount is a misprint. | | 2x13 Mama's Charity (Air Date: Dec. 11, 1973)
Irma begins spending all of her time working for different charities. | | 2x14 Chet's Pad (Air Date: Dec. 18, 1973)
Chet finally moves out of the house and into his own place, but Harry keeps visiting Chet to parent him. | | 2x15 Papa, The Coach (Air Date: N/A)
Harry is named the new coach of the high school basketball team, and must contend with the pushy parents of the players. | | 2x16 Birdman Chet (Air Date: Jan. 01, 1974)
Chet gets a job at a pan factory, and suggests that the company change their image to help the endangered California condors. | | 2x17 Papa, The Coach (Air Date: Dec. 25, 1973)
[add summary] | | 2x18 Back to Nature (Air Date: Jan. 08, 1974)
Harry takes his family on a camping trip to break them of their addiction to TV, but after a few days in the woods, Harry wants out. | | 2x19 Alice's Freedom (Air Date: Jan. 15, 1974)
Irma's mother visits and insists that Alice be allowed her freedom since she is a woman. Alice enjoys her freedom to do as she pleases, but soon realizes that there's a downside to too much ... | | 2x20 The Beekeeper (Air Date: Jan. 22, 1974)
The Boyles call an exterminator to get rid of the bees in their backyard, but the exterminator ends up being more of a pest than the actual bees. | | 2x21 Maude Loves Papa (Air Date: Jan. 29, 1974)
While collecting back payment, Harry helps an old woman open a service station for motorcycles. |
| 3x01 Rich Little, Supersleuth (Air Date: Sep. 17, 1974)
Impressionist Rich Little plays detective when the bank next to Harry's store gets robbed. | | 3x02 Model Alice (Air Date: Sep. 24, 1974)
Alice is asked to pose nude for a painter in search of a model, which Harry objects. | | 3x03 Marriage Counselor (Air Date: Oct. 01, 1974)
Harry and Irma's visit to a marriage counselor ends up destroying their relationship rather than saving it. | | 3x04 Car 54 (Air Date: Oct. 08, 1974)
Irma's brother-in-law (who works as a police officer) opens a kindergarten, which goes well, until a child goes missing. |
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