These Are the Days

Season

1974

USA

7.3

TV-G

This Hanna-Barbera animated series is set in fictional Elmsville of the early 1900s. The Day family consists of Grandpa Jeff, his widowed daughter Martha, and her three children: Ben, Kathy, and Danny. Stories consist of everyday events plus the changes in society.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Sensible Ben

Ben has a knack for saving money. But when his mother entrusted him to take two dollars to pay a piano teacher, he gets sidetracked at the fair to play a win your luck midway game and loses it.

S1 • E2

The Fire Brigade

Grandpa Day loses his job as a fireman when he is told he is too old to do the job.

S1 • E3

Danny's Musical Dilemma

Danny is torn between doing what he wants to do and what he should do. The Day family has their annual family reunion on the same day as the tryouts for a band that he wants to join. He only has a few hours left to make his decision.

S1 • E4

Danny Runs Away

Jeff tries to play peacemaker between Ben and Danny only to have it backfire on him. Danny gets so upset by the situation that he decides to run away from home.

S1 • E5

Ben for President

Ben decides to make a run for class President and hopes for the support of his family and friends. He finds himself disappointed when one of his supporters becomes a challenger for the job.

S1 • E6

The Good Luck Charm

After Danny gets two black eyes from the local bully, Judd Taylor, Ben gives him a piece of a lamp to use as a good luck charm.

S1 • E7

Kathy's Job

When Kathy gets a job at the ice cream parlor, jealous Nancy schemes to humiliate her.

S1 • E8

The Runaway Horse

Ben wants to keep a runaway horse he found, and names it Pegasus.

S1 • E9

How Ben Was Cowed

When Jeff's prize cow, Delilah, wanders off due to carelessness on Ben's part, he and his siblings set out to find her and bring her home before Martha and Jeff return from running errands in another town.

Grandpa and the Great Cyclic Harmonium Swindle

S1 • E10

Grandpa and the Great Cyclic Harmonium Swindle

Two con men convince Jeff to pay them $750 to promote his inventions. Ben, Kathy, and Danny concoct a plan to get the money back.

S1 • E11

The Visitor

Murdock the magician comes to town, and agrees to take part in a benefit show to raise money for a new bell at the town hall.

S1 • E12

The Most Precious Gift of All

Danny forgets to buy Jeff a birthday present. So when he finds a watch bob in the street, he decides to give it as a gift, only to discover it was lost by his coach.

S1 • E13

The Spa

The Days discover a hot spring on their property, and Jeff decides to use it as a spa. But Jeff's greed will cost's his friendship with his oldest friend Homer Gladfet.