Season 1

30 EPISODES • 1953

Season 1 of The Danny Thomas Show was released on September 29 and consists of 30 episodes.

Episodes

1: Uncle Daddy

Sep 29, 1953

2: Party Dress

Oct 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

Oct 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

Oct 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

Oct 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

Nov 3, 1953

7: The Visiting Englishman

Nov 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

Nov 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

Nov 24, 1953

10: Last Dollar

Dec 1, 1953

11: Margaret's Job

Dec 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

Dec 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

Dec 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

Dec 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

Jan 5, 1954

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

16: Terry for President

Jan 12, 1954

17: True Blue Benny

Jan 19, 1954

18: Rusty Runs Away

Jan 26, 1954

19: The Professor

Feb 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

Feb 9, 1954

21: Black Eyes

Feb 16, 1954

22: Margaret's Birthday

Feb 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

Mar 2, 1954

24: Night Club

Mar 9, 1954

25: Terry's Career

Mar 16, 1954

26: School Festival

Mar 23, 1954

27: Rusty's Pal

Mar 30, 1954

28: Julia's Birthday

Apr 6, 1954

29: Pittsburgh

Apr 13, 1954

30: Danny's Vacation

Apr 20, 1954

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