S1 • E1
John Beamer's grand daughter Laurie brings her college mates to live with them. John ends up in jail because of it.
S1 • E2
Helpful John Beamer takes over a friend's job for one day and almost eliminates it. Beamer's ever-zealousness in directing traffic leads to an altercation with the city manager, who abolishes the guard's job and installs a traffic light.
S1 • E3
John Beamer aids Dave Hilliard, a young student who is faced with having to leave college owing to family financial difficulties.
S1 • E4
Dink, a gawky college boy falls for John Beamer's granddaughter Laurie and takes up squatter's rights on the Beamer living room sofa.
S1 • E6
John Beamer embarks on a one-man crusade to save his town's only public recreation area from invasion by a new highway extension.
S1 • E7
Beamer tries to divert Danny, a problem boy from delinquency by helping him prepare for a jalopy derby.
S1 • E8
John Beamer believes he will be chairman of the city's centennial celebration, but the mayor says a younger man will have the job.
S1 • E9
John becomes a Romeo to his disagreeable neighbor, Mrs. Creavy, all because he tried to play Cupid for his granddaughter.
S1 • E14
John Beamer seeks to persuade owners of a pajama factory not to close the plant.
John Beamer
Laurie
Midge
Ernest Hinshaw
Pauline
Barry
Mrs. Creavy
Katie
Biff
