The Tom Ewell Show

Season

1960

USA

7.1

Tom Potter is a real estate agent who lives in a female centric household. His wife Fran, teenager Carol plus her younger sisters Debbie and Sissie keep things lively. The presence of his skeptical mother-in-law Irene though is less than ideal.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Tom Cuts Off the Credit

In an attempt to cut the spending by the women of the house, Tom closes the store charge accounts across town, but with disastrous consequences.

S1 • E2

Debbie Takes Up the Tuba

The family starts to regret Tom's insistence that Debbie joins the school orchestra.

S1 • E3

The Safety Lesson

Tom decides it's time that someone else in the family learn to drive. He errors in thinking he would be a good instructor for his wife.

S1 • E4

Tom Takes Over

Fran has appendicitis and Tom promises her that things will run smoothly at home while she's in the hospital. Tom attempts at doing housework and expecting his daughters to help lead to disaster.

S1 • E5

Tom Puts the Girls to Work

When Tom suggests that the girls start to learn the value of money by getting after school jobs, Fran and Mother Brady conspire to change his mind.

S1 • E6

The Second Phone

Tom never has a chance to use the phone with so many women in the house. He decides to put in a second line just for him but it doesn't work out that way because everyone thinks their call is an emergency.

S1 • E7

The Handwriting on the Wall

Tom takes up handwriting analysis and believes it gives him the upper hand in his business dealings.

S1 • E8

The Spelling Bee

Tom enters Debbie in a spelling bee contest thinking if she does well it will reflects postively on him. He imagines the difference in his life if he had all boys instead of girls.

S1 • E9

Site Unseen

Dick Powell guest-stars in this episode in which the actual Four Star Studios production lot is used as part of a story involving an important real-estate deal.

S1 • E10

The Friendly Man

Tom Potter is pretty happy in regards to the policy he sold the Steckels. But almost immediately the claims start coming in.

S1 • E11

Salesmanship Lesson

Tom and the girls learn a lesson in sales.

S1 • E12

Advice to the Lovelorn

When Tom hears the news that two of the local teenagers have eloped, he fears that Carol and her boyfriend Stanley may do the same.

S1 • E13

Try It on for Size

Tom has to explain how he ended up buying something he didn't want in the first place.

S1 • E14

No Fun in the Sun

Tom has been working too hard so Fran suggests that the two of them take a short vacation without the children.

S1 • E15

Mr. Shrewd

After reading a book on saving money, Tom starts an economy drive with costly results.

S1 • E16

The Middle Child

Tom overcompensates when he is told that Debbie may be felling neglected as a middle child.

S1 • E17

The Trouble with Mother

Mother Brady feels that she is getting in the way of Tom and Fran's life.

S1 • E18

A Fellow Needs a Friend

Tom is in the doghouse when he takes Carol's prospective boyfriend to the football game.

S1 • E19

Out of Left Field

Tom takes a young baseball player under his wing.

S1 • E20

Storm Over Shangri-La

Tom is given the job of buying the home of three old ladies out from under them.

S1 • E21

I Don't See It

Tom gets involved with the world of art.

S1 • E22

The Old Magic

After meeting an old college friend of Tom's, Fran is worried that Tom is missing the bachelor life.

S1 • E23

Mrs. Dynamite

Tom hires the wife of an old friend to help out at the office, however she soon starts to take over. The problem is how to get rid of her without hurting her feelings.

S1 • E24

The Prying Eye

A take off on the popular "Candid Camera" series. Tom Ewell is determined never to get caught on that show and he writes to the show telling them. The show receives the letter and decides to find him and photograph him.

S1 • E25

The Chutney Caper

Fran is less than happy when Tom's free spirited sister comes to stay.

S1 • E26

Put It On, Take It Off

Fran has absolutely nothing to wear for the Chamber of Commerce Ball.

S1 • E27

Big Brother

When Carol goes off to collage for a week to do her exams, Tom decides to give her room to a young boy from the local orphanage as part of a mentoring program.

S1 • E28

Handy Man

Against Fran's advice, Tom decides to lay a new kitchen floor himself rather than use their usual handy man.

S1 • E29

Passenger Pending

Tom has an important business meeting in Montreal, but events conspire to prevent him from travelling there.

S1 • E30

Never Do Business with Relatives

Tom is in the market for a new car, but what should he do with his old one? Put it in for part exchange or sell it to Mother Brady?

S1 • E31

Our Vacation

Tom causes friction and confusion in the Potter household when he announces that he alone will plan the family vacation.

S1 • E32

Mr. Memory

Tom's real estate license has expired and he needs to sit an exam to renew it. However, with so many new regulations to learn, Tom's memory isn't what it used to be.