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Starring Patty Duke
Season 1 (ABC) (1963-64)
Episode Guide compiled by The Classic TV Archive
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ABC Wednesdays 8:00 pm
36 episodes

1.01 [--] The Patty Duke Show: THE FRENCH TEACHER
UA-Chrislaw prod. no. 1003
18Sep63 ABC
Patty's attitude toward school, and her grades, suddenly improve when
she falls in love with her handsome new French teacher.
Guest cast:
Jean Pierre Aumont (as André Malon)

1.02 [--] The Patty Duke Show: THE GENIUS
UA-Chrislaw prod. no. 1002
25Sep63The electronic brain that grades Patty's IQ test classifies her as a
genius. Is this purely accidental or has Patty been tampering with the
computer?
Guest cast:
Paul Lynde (as Mr. Snell)

1.03 [--] The Patty Duke Show: THE ELOPEMENT
UA-Chrislaw prod. no. 1005
2Oct63
Guest Cast:
John McGiver (as J. Castle)
Patty schemes to arrange a weekend for her parents at the
same fishing lodge where they spent their honeymoon.
Martin's boss J. Castle spots Patty and Richard at the license bureau
and thinks they're planning to elope. But they're actually getting a
fishing license.

1.04 [--] The Patty Duke Show: THE HOUSE GUEST
UA-Chrislaw prod. no. 1007
9Oct63 ABC
Guest cast:
Ilka Chase (as Aunt Pauline)
Chaos reins in the Lane household. Spinster Aunt Pauline, the family
tyrant, is due for a visit. All of auntie's household gifts have to be
hastily transported from the basement to the living room. When she arrives
arrives she immediately takes over running the house and feeding the family.

1.05 [--] The Patty Duke Show: THE BIRDS AND THE BEES BIT
UA-Chrislaw prod. no. 1008
16Oct63 ABC
Guest cast:
Susan Melvin (as Nikki Lee Blake)
Ross, determined not to let a cute Southern belle sweet-talk him into
going to the dance, may have a rough time of it. His family is on her side,
and Patty & Cathy try to teach Ross all he has to know about women in two days.

1.06 [--] The Patty Duke Show: THE SLUMBER PARTY
UA-Chrislaw prod. no. 1009
23Oct63 ABC
The girls are planning a "Slumber Party," but kid brother Ross is not
asleep at the switch - he tapes their private conversations for
blackmail purposes and suddenly becomes king of the house.


1.07 [--] The Patty Duke Show: THE BABYSITTERS
UA-Chrislaw prod. no. 1010
30Oct63 ABC
When Mr. Lane refuses to pay for an evening gown for Patty, she decides
to go into the babysitting business.

1.08 [--] The Patty Duke Show: THE CONQUERING HERO
UA-Chrislaw prod. no. 1004
6Nov63 ABC
Guest:
Charles Nelson Reilly
The school basketball star is moving to Michigan during the height of
the school's most successful season, so Patty suggests he live with her
until the end of the basketball seasons.

1.09 [--] The Patty Duke Show: THE PRESIDENT
UA-Chrislaw prod. no. 1011
13Nov63 ABC
 Patty and Cathy both want to be "The President" of the Girls' League, and
they're not above a little mudslinging.

1.10 [--] The Patty Duke Show: DOUBLE DATE
UA-Chrislaw prod. no. 1012
20Nov63 ABC
Guest cast:
Skip Hinnant (as Ted)
Ralph Bell (as Dr. Williams)
Cathy suddenly becomes ill on the eve of a party, so Patty decides to pass
herself off as Cathy at the party - which means she has two dates,
Richard and Craig, for the same evening.

1.11 [--] The Patty Duke Show: THE ACTRESS
UA-Chrislaw prod. no. 1013
27Nov63 ABC
The high school is putting on a lavish version of "Anthony and Cleopatra".
Patty isn't interested in competing with Cathy for the lead in the
Shakespeare production, but the director wants Patty for the
role. Cathy tries out for the lead but Patty unexpectedly gets it.

1.12 [--] The Patty Duke Show: HOW TO BE POPULAR
UA-Chrislaw prod. no. 1001
4Dec63 ABC 
 Jealous that her cousin Patty is more popular than she, Cathy studies a book
on popularity to find some new ways of winning friends - with disastrous results.

1.13 [--] The Patty Duke Show: THE SONGWRITERS
UA-Chrislaw prod. no. 1006
11Dec63 ABC
Guest cast:
Jimmy Dean (himself)
Phil Foster (Sam Cramer)
Phil McGrath (Charles Remington)
Patty uses someone else's love poem to help win Richard back from
her archrival Sue Ellen, and then Cathy sets it to music and enters it
in a songwriting contest.

1.14 [--] The Patty Duke Show: THE PRINCESS CATHY
UA-Chrislaw prod. no. 1016
18Dec63 ABC
Cathy falls in love with a foreign royal exchange student at the high
school, but things get too serious when he proposes marriage.

1.15 [--] The Patty Duke Show: THE CHRISTMAS PRESENT
UA-Chrislaw prod. no. 1014
25Dec63 ABC
Guest Cast:
John McGiver (as J.R. Castle)
Joel Crager (as Alan Miller)
Martin doesn't know how to tell Cathy that her father, a foreign
correspondent, has been imprisoned in a foreign country, and won't be
able to spend Christmas with her.

1.16 [--] The Patty Duke Show: AULD LANG SYNE
UA-Chrislaw prod. no. 1015
1Jan64 ABC
Martin's brother Kenneth sets out to write his autobiography but
discovers writing a book is more difficult than he imagined.

1.17 [--] The Patty Duke Show: HOROSCOPE
UA-Chrislaw prod. no. 1017
8Jan64 ABC
To earn money to buy her mother a birthday gift, Patty becomes an astrologist.

1.18 [--] The Patty Duke Show: THE TYCOONS
UA-Chrislaw prod. no. 1018
15Jan64 ABC
After making a dress that turns out to be a masterpiece, Cathy decides
to start manufacturing dresses without considering the risks.

1.19 [--] The Patty Duke Show: AUTHOR!, AUTHOR!
UA-Chrislaw prod. no. 1019
22Jan64
Guest cast:
Jeff Siggins (as Alfred)
Roger C. Carmel (as Mr. Blair)
Patty reads a best-selling novel by a French teen-ager, and decides to
write the great American teen-age novel. She presents the viewpoint
of the American teenager and immediately gets a publishing contract.

1.20 [--] The Patty Duke Show: THE CONTINENTAL
UA-Chrislaw prod. no. 1020
29Jan64 ABC
After Patty's father tells the family they will have to move to Paris
for a year, they begin to realize how much they appreciate their home.

1.21 [--] The Patty Duke Show: LET 'EM EAT CAKE
UA-Chrislaw prod. no. 1021
5Feb64 ABC
Guest cast:
Margaret Hamilton (as Mrs. Williams)
George S. Irving (Mr. Klemmerhorn)
Shannon Bolin (Mrs. Davis)
Lia Waggner (Mrs. Roberts)
After accidentally eating a cake Natalie baked for a contest, the girls
try to bake a substitute.

1.22 [--] The Patty Duke Show: GOING STEADY
UA-Chrislaw prod. no. 1022
12Feb64 ABC
Patty and Richard are going steady, and their parents aren’t too happy about the situation.

1.23 [--] The Patty Duke Show: ARE MOTHERS PEOPLE?
UA-Chrislaw prod. no. 1023
19Feb64 ABC
Note: This Is a Spoof on the Title of a Popular 1930s Comedy Movie
Called "Are Parents People?"
Guest cast:
Joan Copeland (as Joan Hollis)
Natalie Lane begins to feel unwanted and devises a plan to get even
with her family for the uncaring way they have been acting. She hopes
her campaign will make the rest of the family appreciate her.

1.24 [--] The Patty Duke Show: THE CON ARTIST
UA-Chrislaw prod. no. 1024
26Feb64
Guest cast:
Paul Reed (as Mr. Hansen)
Estelle Parsons (as Mrs. Appleton)
Sam Greene (as Mr. Rogers)
Sibyl Bowan (as Mrs. Smythe)
After a smooth-taking salesman talks Cathy into buying an expensive vacuum
cleaner for Natalie's birthday, she discovers the cost is too much for her
to handle So Patty decides they can unload it on "some other suckers."

1.25 [--] The Patty Duke Show: THE PERFECT TEENAGER
UA-Chrislaw prod. no. 1025
4Mar64 ABC
Patty concludes that she is a flop after she flunks a psychology exam
for teenagers. To overcome her deficiencies, she decides to enroll in
a course for teen-age models.

1.26 [--] The Patty Duke Show: CHIP OF THE OLD BLOCK
UA-Chrislaw prod. no. 1026
11Mar64 ABC
Guest cast:
Charles White (as Mr. Brewster)
Cliff Carpenter (as Mr. Rogers)
John C. Attie (as George)
Jeff Siggins (as Phillip)
Joanne Mariano (as Alice)
To increase the circulation of the school paper, Patty uses scandalous
stories which infuriate the school principal.

1.27 [--] The Patty Duke Show: THE WEDDING ANNIVERSARY CAPER
UA-Chrislaw prod. no. 1027
18Mar64 ABC
Guest cast:
Cliff Hall (as chief judge)
Sal Lombardo (as Hubert)
Charles C. Welch (as postman)
Bruce Kirby (as stage manager)
Ross enters a photo of Patty in a teenage beauty contest - without
telling her, to earn enough money to get his parents a wedding anniversary gift.

1.28 [--] The Patty Duke Show: PEN PALS
UA-Chrislaw prod. no. 1029
25Mar64
Guest Cast:
Peggy Lang (as Mary)
Joan Kall (as Alice)
Patty answers a pen pal ad in a teen-age magazine - unaware that her
poetic correspondent is really her boy friend Richard.

1.29 [--] The Patty Duke Show: THE FRIENDSHIP BIT
UA-Chrislaw prod. no. 1030
1Apr64 ABC
Guest Cast:
Matt Crowley (as Dr. Fayer)
Skip Hinnant (as Ted)
Jeff Siggins (as Henry)
According to her doctor, Patty is allergic to Cathy and is forced to
stay far away from her cousin.

1.30 [--] The Patty Duke Show: A SLIGHT CASE OF DISASTER
UA-Chrislaw prod. no. 1028
8Apr64 ABC
Guest Cast:
Kitty Sullivan (as Sue Ellen Turner)(debut)
Alberta Grant (as Mary)
Frank Behrens (as Mr. Carey)
Marijane Maricle (as saleslady)  Sue Ellen
Patty buys an expensive dress she can't afford in order to compete
with her arch rival Sue-Ellen and finds she can't return it after Cathy stains it.

1.31 [--] The Patty Duke Show: PATTY, THE FOSTER MOTHER
UA-Chrislaw prod. no. 1031
15Apr64 ABC Wed
 Guest Cast:
Delfini De Arco ........ Kim
Pat Englund ............ Mrs. Lomax
Natalie Ross ........... Mrs. Leseth
Jeff Siggins ........... Alfred
Synopsis 1:
Patty volunteers to act as a foster mother to a Korean War orphan - and
begins making personal sacrifices to keep the child supplied with food,
gifts and money.
Synopsis 2:
"Patty is put in charge of a campaign to adopt a Korean war orphan and
must explain to her parents that the boy is her son"

1.32 [--] The Patty Duke Show: THE DROP OUT
UA-Chrislaw prod. no. 1032
22Apr64 ABC
Guest Cast:
David Doyle (as Mr. Harrison)
Arthur Rubin (as Pat)
Richard has decided to quit high school and look for a job - unless Patty
and her family can talk him out of it.

1.33 [--] The Patty Duke Show: LEAVE IT TO PATTY
UA-Chrislaw prod. no. 1033
29Apr64 ABC
Guest cast:
John Kenny (as Binky)
Kitty Sullivan (as Sue Ellen Turner)(return)
Patty is a candidate for chairwoman of the class prom and can insure her
victory by supplying a celebrity guest, but she's afraid she won't be able
to until she learns that Cathy knows English rock 'n' roll star Binky Bristol.

1.34 [--] The Patty Duke Show: THE LITTLE DICTATOR
UA-Chrislaw prod. no. 1034
6May64 ABC
Guest cast:
Charles White (as Mr. Brewster)
Alberta Grant (as Maggie)
G. Anderson (as Bill)
Cathy is appointed student principal for a week and sends in a bad
report on Patty who declares war on her cousin.

1.35 [--] The Patty Duke Show: THE WORKING GIRL
UA-Chrislaw prod. no. 1035
13May64 ABC
Guest cast:
Sammy Smith (as Anderson)
Patty's latest moneymaking venture is as a waitress in the local ice cream
parlor. But it all proves too much for Patty.

1.36 [--] The Patty Duke Show: THE COUSINS
UA-Chrislaw prod. no. 1036
20May64 ABC
Produced and Directed by William Asher
Written by Sidney Sheldon.
Film Editor Jack Ruggiero
Director of Photography, Harold E. Wellman
Music, Sid Raimin, Sonny Burke
Theme music by Sid Raimin, Lyrics by Robert Wells.
Guest Cast:
Phyllis Coates, Geraldine Wall, Mary Scott; John McGiver (J.B.).
Summary:
Patty and Cathy reminisce about the day Cathy arrived in America
and they met for the first time.  

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