The Danny Thomas Show - Season 1

1. Uncle Daddy

Aired: 9/29/1953

2. Party Dress

Aired: 10/6/1953

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 age eleven, is too old for dolls.

3. Second Honeymoon

Aired: 10/13/1953

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 occurs which tells what happened on their first honeymoon in 1941. In the end, the Williams' get their honeymoon.

4. Mother-in-Law

Aired: 10/20/1953

Margaret’s mother starts feeling like she’s forgotten, and taken for granted, when she’s called up time-after-time just to babysit.

5. Anniversary

Aired: 10/27/1953

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 business.

6. Margaret, Non-Pro

Aired: 11/3/1953

7. The Visiting Englishman

Aired: 11/10/1953

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 him, as well.

8. The Sea Captain

Aired: 11/17/1953

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 the building, who was once a sailor.

9. Thanksgiving Story

Aired: 11/24/1953

10. Last Dollar

Aired: 12/1/1953

11. Margaret's Job

Aired: 12/8/1953

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, Danny takes an unfortunate jab at her, and she decides to accept a job that the friend had previously offered her.

12. Wonderland

Aired: 12/15/1953

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 for.

13. Christmas

Aired: 12/22/1953

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.

14. Toledo

Aired: 12/29/1953

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 acquaintances.

15. Margaret's Jealousy

Aired: 1/5/1954

Margaret unnecessarily works herself up to be jealous of Danny and an old girlfriend of his.

16. Terry for President

Aired: 1/12/1954

17. True Blue Benny

Aired: 1/19/1954

18. Rusty Runs Away

Aired: 1/26/1954

19. The Professor

Aired: 2/2/1954

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.

20. Burlesque

Aired: 2/9/1954

21. Black Eyes

Aired: 2/16/1954

22. Margaret's Birthday

Aired: 2/23/1954

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 simple tape recorder she ostensibly got. Later, he hears something on said tape recorder and decides to change up her birthday present.

23. The Matchmaker

Aired: 3/2/1954

24. Night Club

Aired: 3/9/1954

25. Terry's Career

Aired: 3/16/1954

26. School Festival

Aired: 3/23/1954

27. Rusty's Pal

Aired: 3/30/1954

28. Julia's Birthday

Aired: 4/6/1954

29. Pittsburgh

Aired: 4/13/1954

30. Danny's Vacation

Aired: 4/20/1954