Season 1

1976-09-23 · 30m

Walter Franklin has to cope with a bad case of nerves as he preens for his first date with widow Linda Jenkins in almost two years.

1976-09-30 · 30m

Walter finds that hiring a new clerk can be a trying experience. He interviews an odd-lot assortment of law-clerk applicants and surprise everyone with his final choice.

1976-10-07 · 30m

Walter becomes infatuated when he meets another Judge, Eleanor Hooper, and they try to find some privacy together by meeting in Atlantic City.

1976-10-14 · 30m

After delivering a well-received speech, Walter is inundated with public-speaking requests that send his ego sailing. He gets too big for his judicial robe when he accepts too many speaking engagements and starts believing his own publicity.

1976-10-21 · 30m

Walter finds out that his tone-faced, sharp-tongued secretary, Miss Reubner, has another side to her personality when he asks her to his home to celebrate her birthday with his family. Ashamed of getting tight at her birthday party, Miss Reubner resigns.

1976-10-28 · 30m

After Walter upholds a local theater's right to show a pornographic film, he forbids his eighteen-year-old daughter to see it.

1976-11-11 · 30m

When Jack's normally ultra-accurate court reports deteriorate, Walter investigates his friend's problem.

1976-11-18 · 30m

Walter gets more than he bargained for on the bench when he replaces another jurist and has to deal with an attorney notorious for his devious tactics. .

1976-12-02 · 30m

Walter loses his cool in the courtroom when a new law clerk keeps interrupting him, and the issue of his emotional sickness is taken up by the judicial review board.

1976-12-16 · 30m

Walter's family thinks his engagement to Judge Hooper is premature.

1976-12-23 · 30m

Believing there's no place like home for the holidays, Walter brings home a convicted criminal to spend the Christmas holidays with his family.

1976-12-30 · 30m

Walter is tempted by a friend's offer of a law partnership.

1977-01-06 · 30m

Walter's romance with Judge Hooper is threatened by the arrival of a college buddy who once dated her.

1977-01-13 · 30m

Walter's household rebels: Bobby wants an apartment, Brad refuses to change schools, and Mrs. McClellan buys a cat.

1977-01-20 · 30m

Walter's eagerness to help his loyal friend and court reporter Jack backfires when an overzealous city attorney Mario Lanza busts the judge on a marijuana charge.

1977-01-27 · 30m

To prevent deportation to her native England, Mrs. McClellan advertises for a husband and a motley crew of prospects show up.

1977-02-03 · 30m

After reprimanding Bobby for dating an older man, Walter finds himself attracted to a younger woman.

1977-02-10 · 30m

From a beach at Acapulco to a minimum security prison is quite a contrast for Walter, who sought the former for two weeks but has to settle for the latter instead. He got the assignment as part of a judicial investigation on the institution's conditions.

1977-02-17 · 30m

Oliver cuts school and learns a lesson when he comes to his father's courtroom to see his hero Wild Doug Mclntire, the toughest hockey player in the league to testify. Then the boy tries to emulate his hero's hockey style.

1977-02-24 · 30m

Walter's household rises up against him, Brad is not willing to change schools, Bobby expresses her liking to live in an apartment and Mrs. McClellan would love to have a cat.

1977-03-03 · 30m

Mario becomes Walter's self-appointed bodyguard after the escape of a vengeful convict Walter once sent to prison.

1977-03-10 · 30m

Walter runs for Superior Court judge against a former rival.