Bachelor Father

- Season 4

(1960)

Jasper, the family dog, dies at age 14, and Uncle Bentley is dead set against adopting a new one.

It's time for Kelly to learn how to drive, and her Uncle Bentley is a bundle of nerves.

After a disagreement with Mr. Gregg, Peter questions their compatibility and decides that it's best to have a week-long trial separation.

Bentley Gregg attempts to get an unwilling and shady witness to testify on behalf of his niece, Kelly, after she is rear-ended in a traffic accident. The other driver claims that it's all Kelly's fault.

The daughter of one of Bentley Gregg's clients develops a crush on him.

Peter views his jury notice as an opportunity to impress his new girlfriend, so he invites her to court to watch him in action. When he's finally chosen, he is humiliated by being kicked off the jury because Mr. Gregg is one of the lawyers.

Hilda the Jewel turns out to be more like Hilda the Horrible, when Bentley Gregg temporarily takes in a vacationing friend's overbearing housemaid to help Peter.

When a pretty election board supervisor needs help, it's Bentley to the rescue. He offers to convert his living room into a polling precinct on election day.

Bentley's latest fling gives advice to Kelly on the finer points of trapping a boy.

Kelly meddles in the love life of others, which turns everyone's life upside down.

Bentley pulls the purse strings and puts the entire household on a strict weekly budget. His timing couldn't have been worse.

Following Bentley's advice, Peter and Kelly each buy one share of stock in Sutton Industries. When the stock price promptly falls, things get ugly.

Kelly gets her very own teenage advice column in the school paper.

One of Mr. Gregg's clients needs an original theme song for a new sci-fi series. When he hears Peter humming an original tune while vacuuming, he asks for him to record it. Unfortunately, Peter soon forgets the melody.

Ginger has an eye for David; David has an eye for Kelly; and Uncle Bentley has both eyes on everyone.

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A noisy woodpecker is keeping Bentley up at night. He may have to take drastic measures to get rid of it.

Peter has an opportunity to go with Mr. Gregg and Kelly on a free trip to Italy, but first he has to prove he's a United States citizen in order to obtain a passport. Easier said than done.

Acting on behalf of a client, Bentley pressures an Italian director to complete a motion picture.

The Gregg's visit London, and Peter butts heads with a butler.

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Bentley, Kelly, and Peter all get bitten by the love bug, while in Paris.

The Gregg household has returned from Europe, and they are boring everyone with their photos, home movies, and tales about their trip across The Pond.

Howard and Kelly try their hand at writing a jingle for the salmon industry.

Kelly has fallen for the star high school basketball center, much to Howard's dismay.

Peter wins a 7-year-old girl in a poker game and wants to adopt her, even if it means getting married.

Howard volunteers for the Army, and he asks Kelly if she'll wait for him.

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A stuttering, bumbling student takes on the president of the school's debating team.

Bentley has his eye on a bird watcher.

Bentley, Kelly, and Peter enter into a pact not to get angry.

Bentley plays matchmaker when Hilda the maid returns to the Gregg household.

Uncle Bentley allows Kelly to open a personal charge account. It doesn't take long before she becomes a personal loan company to all of her girlfriends.

Bentley's neighbor, Cal, is sick of being bothered by all of Ginger's friends hanging around their swimming pool, so he slyly convinces Bentley into building a backyard pool of his own.

Peter lets power go to his head after he becomes chairman of the building committee for the Purple Dragon Lodge.

Kelly asks Uncle Bentley for a favor, which leads to a chain of favors made by several people, each favor being dependent on the other being kept. This house of cards is bound to collapse.

After Uncle Bentley refuses to buy a new formal gown for Kelly to wear to a college fraternity dance, she gets a job as a teen fashion model to earn money for a new dress.

Bentley finds Kelly lying to one boy to get out of a date, so she can go out with another boy. She's forbidden to go, and a firm rule is established about strict truth telling-until he's found having to juggle similar lies with clients.

Backyard battles begin: Bentley's barbecue pit versus Cal's sprinkler system.

Kelly, Peter, and Uncle Bentley all go on a diet and exercise program to lose weight. Which one of them will cave in first?