The Doris Day Show

- Season 2

(1969)

Doris lands a job in San Francisco as a Girl Friday for the Managing Editor of Today's World magazine.

Unbeknownst to Doris, Billy and Toby's frog Harold has accompanied her to work. Chaos ensues when he escapes after she arrives at her office.

Doris' single boss convinces her to pretend to be married to him when his old flame arrives in town.

Doris' natural charm soothes the savage beast and threatens the loss of a client for her boss.

It's a war between two mothers and the battleground is the lucrative exit of Genson's Grocery Store. To the victor goes first prize in the Boy Scout candy selling contest. Doris learns the world is just too small a place to make enemies.

Nick is having problems even trying to speak to, let alone arrange a meeting with Bruce Sanders, whose latest non-fiction book, "How to Build a Better Body", Nick wants to serialize in the magazine. Nick asks Doris, in her first step to an executive position at the magazine, to try to get that meeting with Sanders in his place. Doris is able to get a meeting with him, but finds that their discussions have to be fit in around and during his excessive workout schedule or publicity engagements. Because of such distractions, Sanders suggests dinner at his apartment, which...

Today's World is hosting an exclusive fashion show, and Doris and Myrna must babysit the two French models being wooed with food by lovestruck Jewish delicatessen Lotharios.

Doris has a date with a French movie star, but learns her sons have volunteered her to umpire their baseball game that afternoon.

Myrna moves into a swinging singles apartment complex that just ain't got that swing. When she can't break the lease, Doris has the solution: Let slip the sheepdog of war.

Doris feels guilty that her work is interfering with her spending time with her boys, so she plans a whirlwind weekend of activities that they can all do together--but all the boys want to do is play football with their friends.

At the office Christmas party, Myrna and Ron have a bit too much to drink and Doris sees how lonely they really are, so she invites them out to the ranch for a Christmas party.

Doris' father is beginning to feel his age, which depresses him and he starts acting like an old man, so Doris sets out to convince him that he's not as old as he feels.

Because it would take away from his weekend social time, Ron asks Doris to go on assignment - what would be her first writing assignment - to cover Duke Farentino in the deserted mining town of Silver Gulch, he who is training there for the weekend in the title defense of his world middleweight boxing crown. Despite boxing not being Doris' interest, she reluctantly agrees. Although she arrives looking like the proverbial fish out of water, Doris is determined to fit in "with the boys". Duke ends up taking a special interest in Doris professionally because of his ...

A computer error leads to efficiency expert Mr. Jarvis insisting that Doris has never paid her electricity bill, which leads to unexpected problems.

Walking through a parking lot at Fisherman's Wharf after their lunch on a hot day, Doris and Myrna see six poodles inside a locked station wagon, a business car of Paul's Poodle Parlor, with all the windows rolled up and no food or water inside. With Myrna's help, Doris does whatever needed to get the poodles out of this unsafe situation. Managing to break in, Doris figures that the most prudent course of action is to take the poodles back to the air-conditioned office--as Nick has gone for the day--and telephone "Paul" to have him pick up the poodles there, but not ...

Nick is under a lot of pressure from Today's World publisher, Colonel Fairburn, as Nick and his executive team have lately had and are still having problems coming up with interesting and insightful feature stories. What Doris thinks Nick and Ron need is a day away from the office to let their minds relax and re-energize, she offering the farm as a retreat location on Sunday. They accept Doris' invitation. On Sunday at lunch at Doris', Toby seems a little listless, as he is not even eating. With a fever, he is eventually diagnosed with the measles. As neither Nick or ...

LeRoy seems preoccupied when Buck, Doris and Myrna stop by the gas station for some gas. The reason is that his wife Ellie is in the hospital soon to give birth to their first child. LeRoy can't leave since there isn't anyone else to manage the gas station in his place. As such, Doris volunteers herself and Myrna to be the pump jockeys, while Buck drives him to the hospital as he seems to be in no shape to pay attention to the road. Doris figures that it should be an easy job as all the station's business is local, and as such infrequent because of the small ...

Warren Coleman has just completed an article for the magazine, an exposé on purported mobster Barney Moore. As such, Coleman is a bundle of nerves, he believing that Moore's men are after him despite that he has been placed in a safe house and the fact that only he, Doris and Nicholson are supposed to know about the article. Coleman is comforted by Doris' assurances, until Moore and his men stop by the safe house and kidnap the two of them. Moore's goal is not to stop publication of the article, but rather that it be edited to his satisfaction. While Nicholson, Ron ...

Nick's hired an artist to do a painting for the magazine's cover. Soon, she's found the perfect subject; Buck. Though he initially declines Doris is able to convince him to do it. Soon, Buck's enjoying being the subject of a magazine cover. But when the finished work ends up not being quite what she nor Buck envisioned, Doris has to figure a way to break it to Buck .

Nicholson gets wind that reclusive billionaire William Tyler, who is hyper-vigilant about his privacy and who has not had his photograph taken in thirty years, is in San Francisco. It would be a huge scoop for the magazine to get a photograph of the man today, and Nick puts Ron on the case. Meanwhile, Doris, who doesn't know the topic of Ron's assignment, is having lunch in the park, when she comes to the rescue of a simply dressed elderly man taking a nap, he who is harassed by the police as a vagrant. Believing him to be a homeless transient, Doris, who can see that...

Incognito as down and out vagrant Bill Thompson, recluse billionaire William Tyler is enjoying his work helping Buck on the farm, "Thompson" who is doing all the work while Buck "supervises". Both Doris and Buck like having Bill around purely for his good-natured company. But they also notice that he is one to keep to himself, never wanting to venture out beyond the farm to meet people. Ron and Nicholson's search for Tyler and the fact of Tyler living on Doris' farm may finally come together when Nicholson searches for a human interest story, Doris who believes that ...

While on a flight to Florida, Doris tries to comfort the passenger in the seat next to her, who is deathly afraid of flying. Things don't work out as she planned, however, when the passenger winds up hijacking the airplane to Cuba.

Doris meets a foreign prince, who is smitten with her and pursues her. She invites him home to dinner to try to talk him out of his pursuit of her, but it has the opposite effect and he winds up proposing marriage to her.

Retired boxer Duke Farentino has become a dance instructor and turns to Doris for help with his problems.

Jarvis, an efficiency expert assigned to Today's World magazine as a troubleshooter and the entire staff is at the point of revolt, as he blithely goes about his busybody business.

The Publisher of Today's World arrives unexpectedly and assumes control of the office and its staff, taking a special interest in Doris.