The Danny Thomas Show

Aired 1953-09-29

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Aired 1953-10-06

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.

Aired 1953-10-13

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.

Aired 1953-10-20

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

Aired 1953-10-27

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.

Aired 1953-11-03

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Aired 1953-11-10

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.

Aired 1953-11-17

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.

Aired 1953-11-24

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Aired 1953-12-01

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Aired 1953-12-08

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.

Aired 1953-12-15

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.

Aired 1953-12-22

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.

Aired 1953-12-29

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.

Aired 1954-01-05

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

Aired 1954-01-12

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Aired 1954-01-19

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Aired 1954-01-26

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Aired 1954-02-02

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.

Aired 1954-02-09

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Aired 1954-02-16

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Aired 1954-02-23

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.

Aired 1954-03-02

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Aired 1954-03-09

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Aired 1954-03-16

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Aired 1954-03-23

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Aired 1954-03-30

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Aired 1954-04-06

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Aired 1954-04-13

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Aired 1954-04-20

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