Season 5

1962–1963

Sep 20, 1962 · 30m

Mary can't understand why her brother Jeff is being so polite to her - unless there is some ulterior motive behind his good behavior.

E2. Mrs. Stone and Doctor Hyde

Sep 27, 1962 · 30m

When Donna fills in for Alex's vacationing nurse, she is taken aback to find him an office tyrant.

E3. To Be a Boy

Oct 4, 1962 · 30m

Trying to save enough money to build a boat, Jeff and Smitty make a pact to give up dating. Then Jeff finds Mary's friend Joanne hiding under his bed.

E4. Who Needs Glasses?

Oct 11, 1962 · 30m

Jeff decides wearing glasses would make him look older, and sets out to prove he needs them.

E5. Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary

Oct 18, 1962 · 30m

Mary decides it's time to leave home, and moves into the college dormitory.

E6. My Dad

Oct 25, 1962 · 30m

Alex tries over and over to spend a day with Jeff,but his plans are always interrupted by emergency calls.Jeff later shows that he still loves his father by singing the song,""My Dad.""

E7. Fine Feathers

Nov 1, 1962 · 30m

Jeff discovers a lost bird.He thinks it might be a rare cockatoo and sends the story to the newspapers and audobon societies-only to find out that the bird is really a cockateel,not quite a cockatoo.

E8. Rebel With a Cause

Nov 8, 1962 · 30m

Donna is selected to take part in a survey of housewives to dtermine how long they spend doing their household chores.

E9. Big Star

Nov 15, 1962 · 30m

Mary succeeds in helping a shy boy she knows become a singing star.

E10. Man to Man

Nov 22, 1962 · 30m

Alex and Jeff go camping in order to spend more time together, but the trip turns out to be a plot cooked up by Jeff to meet his friends.

E11. The Baby Buggy

Nov 29, 1962 · 30m

Everyone chips in to buy the elderly baby doctor a new car.

E12. The Makeover Man

Dec 6, 1962 · 30m

E13. The Winning Ticket

Dec 13, 1962 · 30m

Jeff has a moral dilemma. He won a sports car with a raffle ticket he picked up off the ground after the original owner dropped it. Does Jeff keep the car or does he track down the original ticket holder?

E14. The Soft Touch

Dec 20, 1962 · 30m

If Jeff wants to be able to afford to go to a special event this weekend, he had better collect on the loans he gave his friends. This prompts Donna to suggest that Alex collect from his deadbeat patients.

E15. Jeff Stands Alone

Dec 27, 1962 · 30m

After a conversation with a telephone lineman, Jeff decides that it's about time he becomes independent himself. He tests himself by going to a strange town without any money to see whether or not he can make it on his own.

E16. Just a Little Wedding

Jan 3, 1963 · 30m

Mary's friend, Marcia, is getting married. She and her fiance want a small, simple wedding, but her mother, upon arriving in town, has other ideas.

E17. A Woman' Place

Jan 10, 1963 · 30m

When Donna decides to run for town council, Jeff and Mary agree to take care of the house. And how! But when Alex dreams about Donna's political future, as Mayor, perhaps Governor, he decides he'd rather have her back home again.

E18. The Chinese Horse

Jan 17, 1963 · 30m

At an auction a mysterious woman asks Donna to buy a huge Chinese horse statue and gives her the money for it, so Donna does buy it and takes it home. Mary, Jeff and Alex all wonder why?

E19. The New Look

Jan 24, 1963 · 30m

A boyfriend of Mary's calls her wholesome,and she doesn't know weather to take it as a compliment or an insult.

E20. A Way of Her Own

Jan 31, 1963 · 30m

A little girl named Trisha follows the Stones home from the park and says that she is one of the family.After a long effort to find her real parents,her uncle arrives.He realizes that the orphaned Trisha loves being in a family and that the Stones are fond of her.He arranges it so Trisha can stay with the Stones.Thus a new family member is added.

E21. Three is a Family

Feb 7, 1963 · 30m

Mary learns the joys and pains of having a little sister,as she has to baby-sit Trisha on a night when she'd planned to go on a date.

E22. Big Sixteen

Feb 14, 1963 · 30m

On Jeff's 16th birthday he has a big fight with his girlfriend. Then he falls for an older woman.

E23. Pioneer Woman

Feb 21, 1963 · 30m

Alex and Jeff spend the weekend at the cabin of Alex's friend Red. Donna and Mary follow them and prove that women can, ""rough it"" in the wilderness as well as men can.

E24. The House on the Hill

Feb 28, 1963 · 30m

Donna visits a reclusive woman who lives in an old Victorian house.She feels trapped in a haunted house after a while.

E25. Where the Stones Are

Mar 7, 1963 · 30m

The Stones all end up at Shelter Bay during ""mid-term vacation"", better known today as ""Spring Break"". Mary doesn't know the rest of the family is there; she thought it was just her and her girlfriends. Donna, Jeff, and Alex get to stay on a fishing boat named ""Big Daddy"", and boy, does Donna hook a big one!

E26. The Two Doctors Stone

Mar 14, 1963 · 30m

Alex and Donna prepare to go away for the weekend, but Donna suspects Trisha will be sick. Donna sees Trisha eating bananas and she always saw Jeff eating bananas before he became ill. Alex's collegue Dave (Bob Crane) tries to convince them otherwise ... and it turns out that Jeff is the one who came down with a fever. Trisha had been eating bananas because of her promised treehouse and she had wanted to climb trees like a monkey.

E27. Everywhere That Mary Goes

Mar 21, 1963 · 30m

A new boy at college has taken a shine to Mary. To Mary's consternation, he follows her everywhere and scares off any other boy who approaches her. Mary decides to find him another girl to protect.

E28. The Handy Man

Mar 28, 1963 · 30m

There is a local handyman Trisha knows who loves fooling around and making children laugh.Trisha offers him to help fix the little things around the house that need fixing,but it turns out that he is clumsy and inept.Donna and Mary feel helpless as he wrecks much around the house,but soon afterwards the ice-cream man arrives.He knows much more about reapir work- and he hates kids.Donna makes a suggestion,which is followed.The ice-cream man ends up fixing everything around the house-while the handyman ends up delivering the ice cream,and singing to all the kids as they play and have fun.

E29. Friends and Neighbors

Apr 4, 1963 · 30m

Dr.Dave Kelsey,who has been more and more frustrated by his in-laws(or outlaws as he calls them)moves into the house next door with his wife Midge.Midge is a neophyte when it comes to household chores,so for the first week or so Donna helps her all she can-and Dave is truly grateful that the Stones have helped both of them settle down.

E30. Boys and Girls

Apr 11, 1963 · 30m

While Jeff and Joanne are dating as seniors in high school and Mary and Scotty are dating in college, turns out Scotty would rather date Joanne, and Joanne would rather go out with Scotty got it? Then they all go to a college dance and Jeff and Mary wind up being the wallflowers. What can Jeff and Mary do?