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The Dennis O'Keefe Show:
All Around Towne (1959-60)
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Episode Guide compiled by The Classic TV Archive [Updated Nov 2019]
with contributions by:
Tom Alger, Rina Fox, Robert Leszczak, Bruno,  Charnetha Kimbrough
references:
TV Guide / Library of Congress (telnet://locis.loc.gov)
Internet Movie Database (https://us.imdb.com)
UCLA Film and Television Archive / Writers Guild of America (wga)
New York Times, Melbourne "The Age", Delaware County Daily Times, Chicago Tribune
Delaware (Penn) County Daily Times, Troy NY Times Record
Source: Enterprise DVD
(DVD features 4 episodes - "Dimples" "It's Only Money" "June Thursday" "The Regency Club")


Cypress Productions, Inc.
Presented by United Artists Television
for CBS (Tuesdays 8:00pm EST)
Produced by Les Hafner

US Comedy series 1959-60    32 episodes x 30 min
22Sep59-14Jun60
Starring
Dennis O'Keefe  as Hal Towne
Hope Emerson as Amelia "Sarge" Sargent (housekeeper)
Rickey Kelman as Randy Towne (son)
Eloise Hardt as Karen Hadley (Hal's girlfriend)
Eddie Ryder as Eliot
Oliver McGowan/ Syd Smith as Conrad Morland (recurring)

Premise:
The tribulations of a widowed columnist and his young son.
His column was called "All Around Towne"

Theme Music by Leon Klatzkin

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CBS Tuesdays 8:00 pm Eastern

  1.01 [--] The Dennis O'Keefe Show: HAL'S TV DATE (premiere)
Prod. no. 1001
22Sep59 CBS Tue
Written by Alan Lipscott & Robert Fisher.
Guest cast:
Judy Nugent … teenage girl
Synopsis 1:
Hal is forced to date a swooning teenage quiz show winner for one week.
[TA/ Melbourne "The Age" newspaper]
Synopsis 2:
Hal becomes involved with a television quiz show and winds up as the date of an aggressive teenager. [TA / CBS press photo]
Synopsis 3:
Towne is inveigled into becoming the week-long date of a teenage quiz-show winner. The situation becomes complicated
when the teenager, played by Judy Nugent, expects him to entertain her for dinner in his apartment.

1.02 [--] The Dennis O'Keefe Show: TEACHER'S PEST
Prod. no. 1002
29Sep59 CBS Tue
Written by John Fenton Murray.
Synopsis:
Randy's teacher Miss Diffendorf send Hal Towne a note complaining about Randy's school work. Angered by the note,
Hal visits the teacher. After one look at the pretty Miss Diffendorf, Hal devises a scheme to change the teacher's opinion. [TA]

1.03 [--] The Dennis O'Keefe Show: MOON MAN [verified -Bruno]
Prod. no. 1003
06Oct59 CBS Tue
Written by Elon Packard & Harry Winkler.
Guest cast:
Dick Foran ............ Major Lafferty (a.k.a. "Brick")
Joe Flynn .............. Army Doctor
Herb Vigran ........... The Waiter
All Shelly ............. Staff Sergeant
Larry Blake ............ Master Sergeant
Tony Miller ............ Airman 2nd class
James Flavin ........... General Macauly
Synopsis 1:
Hal's old college buddy, a physical fitness fanatic, holidays at Hal's apartment. [TA/ Melbourne "The Age"]
Synopsis 2:
Hal's good friend Major Lafferty arrives in town on a special assignment. Hal generously suggests that he bunk in the
Towne apartment, little realizing that the major has some unusual habits. [TA]
Synopsis 3:
Eager to help a friend, Hal Towne offers to undergo a physical fitness test for space travel. [TA]
Synopsis 4:
His friend Brick accidentally get drunk and can't make it to the base for the fitness test. So O'Keefe thinking that
General was his friend goes to the base to explain about Brick, but his friend the General was transferred, and in
the rush, O'Keefe gets mistaken for Brick and they give him the test. [Bruno]

1.04 [--] The Dennis O'Keefe Show: ON STAGE, SARGE
Prod. no. 1004
13Oct1959 CBS Tue (Network rerun 31May60)
Written by John Fenton Murray
Guest cast:
Neil Hamilton .......... Miles Rogers
George Conrad .......... Delivery Man
Robert Cornthwaite ..... Max Renfros
Synopsis:
Impressed with Sarge's cooking, a producer friend of Hal Towne's tries to get her to come to work for him by telling
her what a good actress she is.Sarge is swayed, but Hal hires a method acting coach to discourage herambitions. [RF]

1.05 [--] The Dennis O'Keefe Show: LANCER COME HOME
Prod. no. 1005
20Oct59 CBS Tue
Written by John Fenton Murray
Guest cast:
Jesse White ......... Ollie Wintergreen (to be verified)
Synopsis 1:
Columnist Hal Towne interviews Ollie Wintergreen, a famous dog trainer. Wintergreen irritates Hal by saying that all
the credit should go to the trainer because dogs aren't too smart. [TA]
Synopsis 2:
Hal Towne resorts to dognaping in an effort to teach a trainer respect for his famous dog actor charge. [TA]
Synopsis 3:
Hal interviews a famous film dog, and discovers that the trainer is jealous of the animal.
[TA/ Melbourne "The Age"]

1.06 [--] The Dennis O'Keefe Show: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON
Prod. no. 1006
27Oct59 CBS Tue
Production crew:
Producer: Les Hafner
Director: Abby Berlin
Written by Hugh Wedlock, Howard Snyder, and Benedict Freeman.
Editor: Phil Scott
Photography: Frank Carson
Music: Leon Klatzkin.
Guest cast:
Cal Bolder
Joey Faye
Eddie Little
Douglas Evans
Mitzi McCall
Mike Masters
Joe Besser
Synopsis 1:
After telling his son Randy to fight back when a bully threatens him, columnist Hal Towne finds himself faced with
the same problem. But Hal is afraid that if he fights he will be the loser. [TA]
Synopsis 2:
When Randy tries to get his father to mention a classmate, Butch, in his column duet to the fact that Butch has coerced
him into the act, Hal lectures the boy on never giving in to a bully.
[TA/ Melbourne "The Age"]

1.07 [--] The Dennis O'Keefe Show: FRAME THAT PAINTING
Prod. no. 1007
03Nov59 CBS Tue
Written by Bill Freedman & Larry Rhine.
Synopsis 1:
A friend of Hal Towne's is faced with the loss of his job as an art critic. Hal decides to help his friend by becoming an artist. [TA]
Synopsis 2:
Hal Towne nearly destroys a masterpiece in an attempt to save the job of an art critic friend. [TA]
Synopsis 3:
When Herman Bauer, the art critic of Hal's paper, is in danger of being dismissed because of the vindictive criticism
of an art critic on another paper, Hal sets out to save Herman's job.
[TA/ Melbourne "The Age"]

1.08 [--] The Dennis O'Keefe Show: SUPERIOR WOMAN
Prod. no. 1008
10Nov59 CBS Tue
Written by Sumner Long and John Fenton Murray.
Guest cast:
Joan Tabor ........... Gilda Stacey
Synopsis 1:
Columnist Hal Towne arranges an interview with a young lady voted "Woman of the Year." He is pleased to find that she
is beautiful but is apprehensive when he discovers that she is an accomplished sportswoman. [TA]
Synopsis 2:
Hal Towne reaches a state of utter confusion when he interviews the "Woman of the Year" and finds she is able to defeat
him in any sport. [TA]
Synopsis 3:
Hal interviews Woman of the Year Gilda Stacey, and is upset to find that she excels in every sport. He makes futile
attempts to prove himself superior to Gilda.
[TA/ Melbourne "The Age"]

1.09 [--] The Dennis O'Keefe Show: BUM'S RUSH
Prod. no. 1009
17Nov59 CBS Tue
Written by Richard Conway & Roland MacLane.
Synopsis 1:
Sarge tries to return a silent screen idol to stardom. [TA]
Synopsis 2:
Sarge brings home an old star of silent films whom she met in the park. She refuses to believe that his career is finished,
and sets out to make him a matinee idol once again. [TA/ Melbourne "The Age"]

1.10 [--] The Dennis O'Keefe Show: THERE GOES THE GROOM
Prod. no. 1010
24Nov59 CBS Tue
Written by John Fenton Murray.
Guest cast:
Barbara Nichols
Synopsis 1:
Hal Towne extricates his publisher's son from the clutches of a gold digger but falls into the trap himself. [TA]
Synopsis 2:
Barbara Nichols is featured as a money hungry chorus girl who traps columnist Hal Towne when he attempts to extricate
his publisher's son from her clutches. [TA]
Synopsis 3:
Hal's publisher asks him to break up the romance between his 21-year-old son and a mercenary chorus girl.
[TA/ Melbourne "The Age"]

1.11 [--] The Dennis O'Keefe Show: IT'S ONLY MONEY (wga title)
aka THE CAULIFLOWER KIDS [Enterprise DVD]
Prod. no. 1011
01Dec59 CBS Tue
Written by Alan Lipscott & Robert Fisher.
Guest cast:
Paul Bryar .... Dan Pulaski
Cherry Grace .... Emily Valentine
Allen Jung .... Wong Lee (Chinese man)
Dwight Marfield .... Charles Beckwith
Almira Sessions .... Mrs. Panessa
Forrest Taylor .... Julius Valentine
Synopsis 1:
Randy Towne's boy scout troupe is selling tickets door-to-door. His father promises to help with the campaign. [TA]
Synopsis 2:
Hal Towne gets involved in a counterfeit money conspiracy when he attempts to help Randy sell Boy Scout tickets. [TA]
Synopsis 3:
The nice old couple who have just moved in down the hall turn out to be counterfeiters, and when Sarge spends one of their
phony bills, an agent from the Treasury Department wants to know where the phony money came from. Hal decides to find out
himself. [DVD description]
Synopsis 4:
Hal Towne helps in the capture of two counterfeiters operating in his apartment building. [HBC]

1.12 [--] The Dennis O'Keefe Show: BONJOUR BABETTE
Prod. no. 1012
08Dec59 CBS Tue
Written by John Fenton Murray.
Guest cast:
Susan Cummings ........ Babette Benoit
Olan Soule ............ Babette's husband (to be verified)
Patty Ann Gerrity ..... Babette's daughter (to be verified)
Synopsis 1:
The marriage of the sultry Babette Benoit is a well-guarded secret until columnist Hal Towne discovers it. [TA]
Synopsis 2:
Columnist Hal Towne becomes a victim of a blackmail plot when he stumbles upon the fact that a famous French beauty
(Susan Cummings) is secretly married. [TA]

1.13 [--] The Dennis O'Keefe Show: NIGHT IN THE WILD EAST (wga title)
aka NIGHT IN THE WILD, WILD EAST
Prod. no. 1013
15Dec59 CBS Tue
Written by Jonathan Rix.
Guest cast:
Ned Glass ............. Delivery Man
Roy Engel ............. Fire Chief
King Donovan .......... Grizzly Bear
Synopsis 1:
Columnist Hal Towne decides to take his son Randy on a camping trip. Hal picks a spot to pitch their tent - right in
the center of town. [TA]
Synopsis 2:
Bedlam results when Hal Towne takes son Randy on a campout and their midtown bivouac is invaded by firefighters, an
assortment of characters from a costume party, and a gun wielding burglar. [TA]
Synopsis 3:
Hal takes Randy camping on the roof of their apartment. He is startled by the appearance of a bear, an Indian, Goldilocks and a burglar.
[TA/ Melbourne "The Age"]

1.14 [--] The Dennis O'Keefe Show: PRINCESS GOES TO TOWN (wga title)
aka “The Princess Goes to Towne”
aka "Maid to Order"
Prod. no. 1014
22Dec59 CBS Tue (Network rerun 14Jun60 CBS)
Written by Alan Lipscott & Robert Fisher.
Guest cast:
Lisa Montell ....... Annabella
Mischa Auer ........ Count Hager
Irene Seidner ........ Kleinschen
Michael Forrest ....... Raoul
Synopsis:
Hal hires a foreign girl as a maid. He doesn't know she's a princess who has run away from home. [TA]

1.15 [--] The Dennis O'Keefe Show: PRIVATE EYEWASH
Prod. no. 1015
29Dec59 CBS Tue
Written by John Fenton Murray.
Synopsis 1:
Hal Towne decides to write a column about private detectives. His research involves him with a talkative mynah bird. [TA]
Synopsis 2:
Hal becomes enmeshed in a situation involving a garrulous mynah bird. [TA / Chicago Tribune]

1.16 [--] The Dennis O'Keefe Show: FOR THE LIFE OF HAL
Prod. no. 1016
05Jan60 CBS Tue
Written by Alan Lipscott and Robert Fisher.
Synopsis 1:
Columnist Hal Towne repays an old debt by giving a job to the son of a friend. [TA]
Synopsis 2:
Hal Towne repays a personal debt by giving a job to the son of an old friend but regrets it when the man involves
him with the State Department and the overly romantic daughter of a South American diplomat.

1.17 [--] The Dennis O'Keefe Show: THE HOTTEST KIDS IN TOWN (wga title 1959)
12Jan60 CBS Tue
Teleplay by Benedict Freedman and Jack Michael.
Story by Jack Michael
Guest cast:
Lisa Simone .......... Mrs. Martino (or Mrs. Martine)
Charles Keane ........ Dumbrowski
Arthur Lewis ......... Cab Driver
Franco Corsaro ....... Martino (or Martine)
Robert Burton ........ Dr. Kirby
Synopsis 1:
Suddenly realizing that the stork is about to win another race, Hal Towne offers his apartment as emergency quarters
to the expectant wife of a United Nations delegate. [TA]
Synopsis 2:
Hal Towne experiences a newspaper man's nightmare when a woman gives birth to quintuplets. [TA /Chicago Tribune, Saturday "TV Week"]
Synopsis 3:
Comedy episode about quintuplets and diplomatic complications. [TA/NY Times]
Synopsis 4:
Hal Towne offers his apartment as emergency quarters to the expectant wife of a United Nations delegate. The woman
gives birth to quintuplets. [TA]
Synopsis 5:
Columnist Hal Towne finds himself in a newspaperman's nightmare when a diplomat's wife, unable to reach a hospital
in time, gives birth to quintuplets in his apartment - and he is unable to print the story.
[TA / Delaware County Daily Times]

1.18 [--] The Dennis O'Keefe Show: SHAKE HANDS WITH HAL
19Jan60 CBS Tue
Written by John Fenton Murray.
Guest cast:
Howard McNear ....... Mr. Howell
Connie Hines ........ Sally Fisher
Mike Green .......... George Fisher
Synopsis 1:
A national magazine prints an article about columnist Hal Towne revealing that Towne always closes a deal with a
handshake - never a written contract. [TA]
Synopsis 2:
An article in Manhattanite magazine about columnist Hal Towne (O'Keefe) says that he's never signed a contract.
Every deal he's ever made has been with a handshake. Well, this comes back to haunt him when he's evicted from his
apartment (he has no lease) so that the landlord's daughter and her new husband can move in. [RL]

1.19 [--] The Dennis O'Keefe Show: TAMMANY HALL (wga title)
aka TAMMANY HAL
aka CYPRESS GRADE SCHOOL
26Jan60 CBS Tue (CBS repeat 7Jun60)
Written by Alan Lipscott & Robert Fisher.
Guest cast:
Tommy Nolan .......... Irving Gallup
Joyce Meadows ........ Lois Evans
Wendy Winkelman ...... Julie Evans
Vera Marshe .......... Teacher
Synopsis 1:
Seeing an opportunity to make a hit with a young widow, Hal Towne volunteers to manage her daughter's campaign for
president of the fifth-grade class. Then he discovers that Randy is also a candidate. [TA]
Synopsis 2:
Randy is running for class president in the episode, "Cypress Grade School". He wants it to be a surprise for his dad,
Hal. Hal is helping Randy's opponent, the daughter of an attractive widow. The outcome is a tie vote, and the class will have co-presidents. [HBC]

1.20 [--] The Dennis O'Keefe Show: I LIKE IT
02Feb60 CBS Tue
Written by Phil Shuken, John Greene and Benedict Freedman.
Synopsis 1:
When a Broadway producer attempts to bribe him into writing a favorable
review in his column, Hal throws him out. However, it eventuates that Hal
is the only one of all the critics who believes the play is a success.
[TA/Melbourne "The Age"]
Synopsis 2:
Columnist Hal Towne publicly expresses what appears to be a series of bad opinions and when his friends and his publisher
call attention to his "errors" he decides to keep his future opinions to himself.
[02Feb1960 Delaware (Penn) County Daily Times]
Synopsis 3:
Hal puts some personal opinions in his column, which makes his publisher pretty unhappy. So Hal decides to show
the boss what the column would be like without any opinions whatever. [TA]

1.21 [--] The Dennis O'Keefe Show: FOLLOW THAT MINK (wga title)
aka SUPER SALESMAN
9Feb60 CBS Tue
Written by Manny Manheim & Arthur Marx.
Guest cast:
Joi Lansing ....... Mavis
Sheila Bromley ........ Mrs. Morland
Oliver McGowan ........ Conrad Morland (recurring)
Synopsis:
Hal goes all out to sell a mink coat at a charity bazaar. There's a small difficulty, however.
The coat isn't for sale - it belongs to his publisher's wife. [TA]

1.22 [--] The Dennis O'Keefe Show: HOW MANY SCOOPS (wga title)
aka THE BETRAYAL
16Feb60 CBS Tue
Written by Benedict Freedman
Guest cast:
Jerome Cowan ....... Hollister
B.G. Norman ........ Danny
Synopsis:
Hal Towne receives a jolt when he reads some of his own exclusives in a rival's column. Hal thinks that his friends
Karen and Eliot collaborated in the betrayal. [RF]

[--] 23Feb60 CBS - pre-empted for coverage of the Winter Olympics (women's free-figure skating finals)

1.23 [--] The Dennis O'Keefe Show: AUTHOR, AUTHOR
01Mar60 CBS Tue
Written by John Fenton Murray.
Guest cast:
Sydney Smith ...... Conrad Morland (recurring)
Ina Victor ........ Charlotte
Synopsis:
Hal Towne is mistakenly identified as the author of a smoldering romantic novel. Despite his denials, he
becomes the target of a procession of amorous women and irate men. [TA]

1.24 [--] The Dennis O'Keefe Show: GO HOME AUNT MILLIE
Prod. no. 1024
08Mar60 CBS Tue
Written by Joel Kane, Robert Gottlieb and John Fenton Murray.
Guest cast:
Lee Patrick ........ Aunt Millie
Jonathan Hole ...... George Roebuck
Synopsis 1:
Aunt Millie comes to visit Hal. Her all-too-candid comments disrupt Hal's life at home and in the office. But the climax
comes when Hal learns he's supposed to go on network TV. [TA]
Synopsis 2:
Hal's aunt from England has come to visit. She disrupts their happy home life, but gets Hal a spot on a local TV show.
In one scene, Randy goes off to school in a uniform provided by Millie. Aunt Millie described it as "precious", but
Randy says he'll need bodyguards if he's to survive until recess. Hal advises Randy to put some school clothes in bag
and change in the broom closet outside their apartment door.
Randy comes back a few moments later: he's already had to fight for his honor! [HBC]

1.25 [--] The Dennis O'Keefe Show: ENEMY FATHER
Prod. no. 1025
15Mar60 CBS Tue
Producer: Les Hafner
Director: Don Weis
Written by John Fenton Murray.
Guest cast:
Lorna Thayer ...... Ernestine Dix
Pamela Searle........ Actress
Anthony De Mario
Pamela Searle
Jim Beck
Sydney Smith
Bill Quinn
Marina Hardt
Synopsis 1:
Interviewing a female psychologist, Hal gets more information than he bargained for. She convinces him that his glamorous
job is giving his son an inferiority complex. [TA]
Synopsis 2:
Convinced that he is giving his son an inferiority complex by overshadowing the lad's personality. Hal Towne decides to give
up writing a column in favor of a less glamorous job.

[--] 22Mar60 CBS - pre-empted for "The Hiding Place," a "Playhouse 90" special with James Mason, Trevor Howard and Richard Basehart.

1.26 [--] The Dennis O'Keefe Show: A BEAU FOR SARGE
Prod. no. 1026
29Mar60 CBS Tue
Written by Alan Lipscott & Robert Fisher.
Synopsis 1:
Hal plays Cupid for his housekeeper. [TA]
Synopsis 2:
Columnist Hal Towne sets out to find a beau for Sarge, his housekeeper, and comes up with a forger who charms his way into
Sarge's affections and Hal's bank account. [TA]

1.27 [--] The Dennis O'Keefe Show: HIGH SOCIETY (wga title)
aka THE SOCIAL CLIMBER (NY Times title)
aka THE REGENCY CLUB [DVD title]
Source: Enterprise DVD
Prod. no. 1027
05Apr60 CBS Tue
Written by John Fenton Murray.
Guest cast: (imdb)
Noel Drayton .... Lord Haverstock
Norma Varden .... Viscountess
Rebecca Welles .... Paula Hamilton
Synopsis 1:
Hal becomes a snob. In his climb up the social ladder, he bypasses family and friends. [TA]
Synopsis 2:
Hal joins the social elite after attracting the fancy of wealthy heiress Paula Hamilton. As he continues to see more of
the prim and proper socialite, his old friends begin to see a change in his attitude and they want the old Hal back. [DVD description]

1.28 [--] The Dennis O'Keefe Show: THE COURTSHIP OF HAL TOWNE (wga title)
a.k.a. DIMPLES [DVD title]
Source: Enterprise DVD
Prod. no. 1028
12Apr60 CBS Tue
Written by Alan Lipscott & Robert Fisher.
Guest cast:
Zasu Pitts .... Loretta Kimbal, Grandmother
Tommy Nolan .... Irving Gallop
Merry Martin .... Susan Kimbal (imdb)
Lester Mathews .... Sylverster Barnes (imdb)
Anthony De Mario .... Tony the Matre'd (imdb)
Cynthia Lourdes .... Blonde on Phone (imdb)
Synopsis 1:
ZaSu Pitts, as the grandmother of Randy's latest crush, intercepts a mash note. She thinks it's from Hal - and for her. [TA]
Synopsis 2:
Randy has a crush on a new girl who's moved into the Towne's apartment building. Not knowing her name, he begins a campaign
of sending letters and gifts to "Dimples," which end up in the hands of her grandmother instead. [DVD description]
Synopsis 3:
A love letter from a secret admirer ends up in the wrong hands, causing comic results. [HBC]

1.29 [--] The Dennis O'Keefe Show: CHILD GENIUS (wga title)
aka THE YOUNG GENIUS (NY Times)
Prod. no. 1029
19Apr60 CBS Tue
Written by John Fenton Murray.
Synopsis:
Hal is proud of Randy's report card until he meets a child genius and his egghead parents. [TA]

1.30 [--] The Dennis O'Keefe Show: WEDDING ANYONE (wga title)
aka MARRIAGE, ANYONE
Prod. no. 1030
26Apr60 CBS Tue
Written by John Fenton Murray.
Synopsis 1:
A movie actor friend wants no fans at his wedding and Hal is helping to keep the plans quiet. But Sarge jumps to the wrong
conclusion - she thinks Hal's getting ready to elope with Karen Hadley. [TA]
Synopsis 2:
Sarge, Randy, and Hal's co-workers think he's going to elope with his publicist. It's all a mistake: Hal's just making the
arrangements for a couple of friends. [HBC]

1.31 [--] The Dennis O'Keefe Show: SEND THIS BOY TO CAMP
Prod. no. 1031
03May60 CBS Tue
Written by John Fenton Murray.
Guest cast:
Eddie Quillan ......... George Martin
Tony Miller ........... Ken Houghton
Danny Hartford ........ Jerry Martin
Tim Cagney ............ Beetle Benson
Synopsis:
Convinced that Randy is entitled to a vacation away from his father, Hal packs the boy off to summer camp. But Randy concludes
that Hal just doesn't want him along on his annual holiday in Maine. [TA]

1.32 [--] The Dennis O'Keefe Show: WHAT HAPPENED TO THURSDAY? (wga title)
aka JUNE THURSDAY (imdb & dvd) [DVD]
aka JANE THURSDAY (tvguide)
Source: Enterprise DVD (final new episode)
Prod. no. 1032
10May60 CBS Tue
Written by Simon Rose & Seaman Jacobs.
Guest cast:
Pat Blair ............. Gretchen Clayhipple
Jerome Cowan .......... Ed Hollister
Mitzi McCall .......... Sally, Hatcheck Girl
Syd Smith ............. Conrad Morland (recurring)
*
June McCall .... June Thursday (imdb)
Elaine Walker .... June Thursday (imdb)
Patti Chapman .... Elviry Clayhipple (imdb)
William Fawcett .... Cyrus Clayhipple (imdb)
Burt Mustin .... Grandpa Clayhipple (imdb)
Judy Birr .... Little Girl (imdb)
Ralph Brooks .... Reporter (imdb)
Synopsis 1:
Hal volunteers to boost a girl's theatrical career in his column. Without consulting her, he changes her name - from Gretchen
Clayhipple to Jane Thursday. [TA]
Synopsis 2:
Hal offers to help jump-start the career of talented, but struggling, young actress Gretchen Clayhipple. Promising to mention
her in his column, Hal decides that her name isn't quite catchy enough and changes it to June Thursday. That's when the
problems start! [DVD description]
Synopsis 3:
A rival columnist publicly accuses Hal Towne of perpetrating a hoax when Hal gives a column buildup to a beautiful, talented
cigarette girl and she disappears before he can prove she really exists. [Troy NY Times Record]

[--] 17May60 - pre-empted for a news special on the Summit Meeting in Paris (between President Eisenhower, President de Gaulle,
Premiere Kruschev and Prime Minister Macmillan).

1.33 [--] Dennis O'Keefe Show: MOB AND I
Prod. no. 1033
Written by John Fenton Murray
CBS airdate unknown
Note:
Although it wasn’t broadcast on CBS, “The Mob and I” seems to have been an actual episode.
The Age, a Melbourne Australia newspaper, listed this episode for 17Jan1962 on HSV, channel 7.

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Spring/Summer Reruns: CBS Tuesdays (24May60-14June60)
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[--] 24May60 - Rerun of # 1.3 "Moon Man" (from 06Oct59)
[--] 31May60 - Rerun of #1.4 "On Stage, Sarge" (from 13Oct59)
[--] 07Jun60 - Rerun of 1.19 "Cypress Grade School" (from 26Jan60)
[--] 14Jun60 - Rerun of 1.14 "Maid to Order" (from 22Dec59)
Note: According to the New York Times, the series was pre-empted on 14Jun60 for coverage of President Eisenhower's trip to the Far East.

[--] 21Jun60 - pre-empted for (another) CBS special on Eisenhower's trip to the Far East.

[--] 28Jun60 - start of Summer replacement series: "Peck's Bad Girl" (repeats from 1959 series)

########### The Dennis O'Keefe Show ##########
######### Melbourne, Australia, air dates #########
############### HSV, channel 7 ################

Saturdays 9:00pm:
27Aug1960 - "Hal's TV Date" (#1.01)
03Sep1960 - "Teacher's Pet (Pest)" (#1.02)
10Sep1960 - "Moon Man" (#1.03)
17Sep1960 - "On Stage, Sarge" (#1.04)
24Sep1960 - "Lancer Come Home" (#1.05)
01Oct1960 - "Like Father, Like Son" (#1.06)
08Oct1960 - "Frame That Painting" (#1.07)
15Oct1960 - "Superior Woman" (#1.08)
22Oct1960 - "Bum's Rush" (#1.09)
29Oct1960 - "There Goes the Groom" (#1.10)
05Nov1960 - "It's Only Money" (#1.11)
12Nov1960 - "Bonjour Babette" (#1.12)
19Nov1960 - "Night in the Wild, Wild East" (#1.13)

Mondays 2:30pm:
10Apr1961 - "Private Eyewash" (#1.15)
17Apr1961 - unknown
24Apr1961 - "Shake Hands with Hal" (#1.18)
01May1961 - "Tammany Hal" (#1.19)
08May1961 - "I Like It" (#1.20)
15May1961 - "Follow that Mink" (#1.21)
22May1961 - "For the Life of Hal" (#1.16)
29May1961 - "How Many Scoops" (#1.22)
05Jun1961 - "Author, Author" (#1.23)
12Jun1961 - "Go Home Aunt Millie" (#1.24)
19Jun1961 - "Enemy Father" (#1.25)
26Jun1961 - "A Beau for Sarge" (#1.26)
03Jul1961 - "High Society" (#1.27)
10Jul1961 - "Courtship of Hal" (#1.28)
17Jul1961 - "Child Genius" (#1.29)

Mondays 3:30pm:
24Jul1961 - "Wedding Anyone" (#1.30)
31Jul1961 - "Send This Boy to Camp" (#1.31)

Wednesdays 4:00pm:
27Dec1961 - “The Princess Goes to Towne” (1.14)
03Jan1962 - “Send This Boy to Camp” (1.31)
10Jan1962 - “What Happened to Thursday?” (1.32)
17Jan1962 - “The Mob and I” (1.33)

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(33 titles listed)
1.1 HAL'S TV DATE (wga title)
1.2 TEACHERS PEST (wga title)
1.3 THE MOON MAN (wga title)
1.4 ON STAGE SARGE (wga title)
1.5 LANCER COME HOME (wga title)
1.6 LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON (wga title 1959)
1.7 FRAME THAT PAINTING (wga title)
1.8 SUPERIOR WOMAN (wga title 1959)
1.9 BUMS RUSH (wga title)
1.10 THERE GOES THE GROOM (wga title)
1.11 IT'S ONLY MONEY (wga title)
1.12 BONJOUR BABETTE (wga title)
1.13 NIGHT IN THE WILD EAST (wga title)
1.14 PRINCESS GOES TO TOWN (wga title)
1.15 PRIVATE EYEWASH (wga title)
1.16 FOR THE LIFE OF HAL (wga title)
1.17 THE HOTTEST KIDS IN TOWN (wga title 1959)
1.18 SHAKE HANDS WITH HAL (wga title)
1.19 TAMMANY HALL (wga title)
1.20 I LIKE IT (wga title 1959)
1.21 FOLLOW THAT MINK (wga title 1960)
1.22 HOW MANY SCOOPS (wga title)
1.23 AUTHOR, AUTHOR (wga title)
1.24 GO HOME AUNT MILLIE (wga title 1959)
1.25 ENEMY FATHER (wga title)
1.26 A BEAU FOR SARGE (wga title)
1.27 HIGH SOCIETY (wga title)
1.28 THE COURTSHIP OF HAL TOWNE (wga title)
1.29 CHILD GENIUS (wga title)
1.30 WEDDING ANYONE (wga title)
1.31 SEND THIS BOY TO CAMP (wga title)
1.32 WHAT HAPPENED TO THURSDAY? (wga title)
1.33 MOB AND I (wga title)

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