Bachelor Father

- Season 5

(1961)

Uncle Bentley meddles in Kelly's high school graduation day and future college plans.

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Kelly develops a crush on a young philosopher, who is full of hot air.

Peter has a crush on supermarket clerk Helen but she's devoted to pop singer Frankie Laine. Peter thinks if he can get the crooner to appear at a party it will help him out so he asks for Bentley's aid in making it happen.

A college prank gone wrong lands Howard in court, and Bentley Gregg must defend him against theft and arson charges.

Kelly, Howard, and Peter go into the food catering business. Too bad it's in violation of residential zoning laws.

Bentley Gregg investigates a claim that one of his client's houses is haunted, thereby greatly depressing its value.

Due to an old Chinese family contract entered into by Peter's parents when he was born, he must marry a certain young woman who is now old enough to wed. This means that he must quit his job as houseboy.

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Cousin Chalie's latest scheme is the BSCH - the Benevolent Society of Chinese Houseboys, which in turn forces Bentely Gregg to put Peter on a time clock.

Howard has a song, penny has a voice. Howard works a deal and they both sing along.

Uncle Bentley, tired of the Christmas rush tries to sell his family and friends on the true meaning of the holiday by donating in their names money to charity instead of giving gifts.

After passing an aptitude test that states she would make a good journalist, Kelly spends a day shadowing Uncle Bentley at his law office to come up with an article for her school paper.

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To win popularity and votes when she's placed on the ballot for class vice-president, Kelly volunteers Peter's cooking and a visit from one of Bentley's movie star clients at a school party.

Peter purchases five acres of land in an abandoned gold prospecting town.

Howard wants to impress Kelly by earning a school sports letter for his sweater, so he tries out for the fencing team.

Bentley Gregg subcontracts the butler services of Rochester, while Jack Benny is away on vacation. He hopes that he can teach Peter to be more economical.

Peter's neice stays with the Gregg's while her mother is entertaining overseas, but refuses to play with other children or go to school.

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Bentley and Peter panic when they hear from Kelly in Yellowstone who informs them she's getting married. They immediately head to the park to put a stop to her wedding to ranger Gary.

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Jasper's couch-jumping lands him in the doghouse, until he becomes top dog by getting a job doing it in show business.

Bentley Gregg scrambles to cover his butt after he receives notice of a scheduled interview with the Internal Revenue Service.

To convince Kelly, Ginger and Mrs. Mitchell that camping out would be fun, Bentley, Cal and Peter challenge them to spend a few nights in sleeping bags in the Gregg backyard. They agree to this, but scheme to get out of it.

Peter quits and goes to work for ventriloquist Edgar Bergen.

Bentley and his neighbor, Cal, feud over the rights to a cat that is heir to a million-dollar fortune.

Kelly arranges a clandestine meeting of a Chinese teenage girl with a Chinese teenage boy, whom her father forbids her to see.

Bentley Gregg is assigned the task of taking the tomboy out of a Los Angeles Dodgers third-base coach's doting daughter.

Kelly receives a proposal of marriage from a young new attorney, whom her Uncle Bentley suspects is merely trying to further his legal career by joining his law office.

Not only is Kelly going to meet her fiancé's parents, she's cooking dinner for them, and she's a bundle of nerves.

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Kelly is feeling that she is intellectually inadequate for her lawyer-fiancé, so Uncle Bentley coaches her in the finer points of deceiving a man.

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With Kelly's encouragement, Uncle Bentley decides to take a week off from his law practice and spend it relaxing at home. Unfortunately for Kelly, Peter, and Julio the gardener, he becomes an unbearable fussbudget around the house.

Bentley is talked into organizing activities for a group of boys who are in and out of trouble with the law. All seems to go well until a judge's prized golf trophy is stolen.

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Peter wants to be just like his favorite TV character: Dr. Bart Bellamy, M.D.

Kelly and Ginger move away from home and into a college boarding house, which is ruled by a strict housemother.