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I Married Joan

I Married Joan is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from 1952 to 1955. It starred veteran vaudeville, film, and radio comedienne-comedy actress Joan Davis as the manic, scatterbrained wife of a mild-mannered community judge, the Honorable Bradley Stevens.

Comedy

3.0 / 5

15th October 1952 - 23rd March 1955

Top Cast

Joan Davis • Jim Backus •

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Pilot

15th October 1952

Episode 1

A young couple's quarrel over a fur coat ends up in Brad's court and brings back memories of another fur coat that caused a crisis in the Stevens marriage. Joan remembers when she was an airline hostess and buys a fur coat.

Career

22nd October 1952

Episode 2

Judge Stevens invites a prospective campaign contributor to dinner, only to find that his wife, trying to be helpful, has invited another sponsor.

Ballet

29th October 1952

Episode 3

The Judge advises his wife Joan to get more exercise as an antidote to fatigue from housework and Joan turns to ballet.

Jitterbug

5th November 1952

Episode 4

Joan finds an ingenious way to retaliate after Brad fines her for speeding, she takes up jitterbugging after trying babysitting and selling "all you can eat" to phone men.

Crime Panel

12th November 1952

Episode 5

Joan is scheduled to appear on a crime prevention forum. To prepare herself she spends the day visiting poolrooms.

Brad's Class Reunion

19th November 1952

Episode 6

Joan struggles to change herself into "The Perfect Woman" to fit a description written by her husband.

Hunting

26th November 1952

Episode 7

Joan insists that she is an experienced camper. Unconvinced, Brad decides to test her aptitude for the great outdoors.

Joan's Curiosity

3rd December 1952

Episode 8

Joan is in for a surprise when she opens an interesting-looking package that arrived for Brad.

Birthday

10th December 1952

Episode 9

Joan buys some dresses, puts them on her charge account, then sells them to friends for cash. The reason is she needs money to buy Brad a birthday present.

Bazar Pie

17th December 1952

Episode 10

Joan wants to arrange a romance, by introducing her new neighbor, a handsome Latin, to her visiting aunt.

Acrobats

31st December 1952

Episode 11

When Brad announces that he is bringing home important guests for dinner, Joan feels it necessary to buy a new wardrobe for the occasion. While shopping for a hat she winds up in a fight with a woman who turns out to be one of Brad's dinner guests. At dinner Joan tries to disguise herself by joining the nightclub's entertainers, acrobats.

Dreams

24th December 1952

Episode 12

After meeting three former schoolmates who are now successful career woman, Joan decides that she is happier just being a housewife

Bad Boy

7th January 1953

Episode 13

Joan tries to reform a juvenile delinquent and nearly winds up in jail herself.

Circumstantial Evidence

14th January 1953

Episode 14

Joan takes an interest in her husband's work and tries to prove that a man he is about to sentence was convicted on circumstantial evidence.

Uncle Edgar

21st January 1953

Episode 15

Uncle Edgar visits Joan and her husband and they have a difficult time trying to keep him out of trouble.

Moosehead

28th January 1953

Episode 16

Joan tries to kill two problems with the same fifty-dollar bill and winds up deeply wounded by a dead moose at an auction.

Fireman

4th February 1953

Episode 17

Joan tries to patch up the quarrels of her newlywed-neighbors and succeeds in creating some for herself at the firehouse.

Memory

11th February 1953

Episode 18

Joan's faulty memory wreaks gastric disaster when she forgets a dinner invitation, resulting in not one, not two, but three spaghetti dinners in the same evening.