Bachelor Father

- Season 3

(1959)

Bentley coaches Peter in winning the heart of the woman he loves.

Jasper has been stealing and hiding items around the house, and after Bentley is sued for a neighbor's garden damage, he sends Jasper to dog obedience training school.

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Kelly manipulates Uncle Bentley, Peter, and Howard into providing money, food, and entertainment for a party she's planning. She soon learns what goes around comes around.

Kelly tries to mold her new flame in the form of her beloved Uncle Bentley.

Peter is addicted to his favorite TV western show starring Rock Randall, a client of Mr. Gregg. Peter threatens to quit unless Mr. Gregg buys a TV that he can watch in the kitchen while he cooks.

Peter introduces Kelly and Uncle Bentley to the inimitable Grandpa Ling. If he sees something he likes, he takes it and leaves an item that he thinks is of equal value in its place.

Kelly starts dating a rich boy, and all she cares about is his money. Uncle Bentley plots to set her straight.

Bentley Gregg takes the case of a canine client named Rufus, after a little boy's dog is accused of biting a man, who demands that Rufus be destroyed.

Kelly pleads with Uncle Bentley that she's almost sixteen and now old enough to have her own house key.

Uncle Bentley unwillingly becomes involved with directing two plays: one featuring Kelly and the other featuring Peter.

Tired of dating dumb blondes, Bentley starts going out with a smart attractive female attorney.

Bentley tries to trick his bachelor friend, Chuck, into marrying his lovelorn secretary, Kitty.

Bentley Gregg goes on a detective mission to find out the identity of the person in Kelly's class who is getting married. He assumes it's a student, but what Kelly won't tell him is that it's actually her teacher.

Bentley is being lured to join a prestigious law firm in Washington, DC. Of course, none of his friends and family want him to move.

It's rough and tumble politics, as Kelly campaigns to be elected president of the student council.

Bentley decides to take harsh measures against a gopher that is stealing his backyard grown tomatoes.

Bentley suffers the trials and tribulations of helping a small jazz combo from Kelly's high school rehearse for a Battle Of The Bands contest. Their new pushy young sax player becomes the bane of everyone's existence - especially Bentley's.

Peter barters for a lovely young bride set up by 'Cousin' Charlie.

After Uncle Bentley says absolutely not to Kelly's request to dye her hair blonde, she makes a bet with him that if there's evidence that his redheaded girlfriend dyes her hair, then Kelly can dye hers, too.

Bentley encourages one of Kelly's friends to enter a majorette contest.

Bentley is a member of the City Planning Committee, and as such, it has put him at odds with a couple neighbors. Whether or not to install a new traffic light is the problem.

Kelly thinks that Uncle Bentley wishes he had a son, so she offers to go on a camping trip with him and his friends and their cute teenage sons.

Against Mr. Gregg's advice, Peter, with the help of Kelly, Ginger, and Howard, goes into business making and selling homemade fortune cookies. The bureaucratic red tape that Peter encounters takes up so much of Mr. Gregg's time that it jeopardizes a million-dollar deal at his law office.

16-year-old Kelly gets in over her head after lying about her age to a 22-year-old college man because she wants to date him. She tells him that she's 19, and surprisingly, she gets Uncle Bentley to back up her lie.

There's disorder in the court when Kelly becomes Uncle Bentley's "junior partner".

Bentley Gregg reminisces about the ups and downs of moving into his family's new house.

Kelly wants to break into acting, and Uncle Bentley gets a little bit too involved.

Kelly is tired of being excluded from adult matters, so Uncle Bentley allows her to substitute for his secretary on her day off. Kelly quickly becomes overwhelmed by the tasks at hand.

Bentley begins dating an efficiency expert.

Bentley's latest attraction is a lovely young lady working at her father's travel agency. In order to ingratiate himself with them, he drums up business.

Uncle Bentley and Kelly both decide to go steady at the same time. It's not easy for either of them.

Frank Curtis tells a phony story about Bentley being a World War II hero, and a pretty young nurse at the Red Cross agrees to go out with him, only because she believes it.

After several ego-shattering blows, Peter's feeling of self-importance is at an all-time low. He threatens to quit and move to San Francisco - and this time he means it.

Kelly has fallen for a beach bum, and Uncle Bentley intends to do something about it.

Mystery and intrigue abound when Bentley Gregg assembles an odd cast of characters to attend the reading of the last will and testament of a rich relative.

Kelly plans to surprise her Uncle Bentley on his birthday, but her scheme goes awry.