S01E01 Bombshell At Breakfast
Kay delivers her bombshell to the Banks family at breakfast with just three little words, ""we're getting married.""
Father of the Bride
S01E10: White Elephant
A large white elephant, without a card, arrives with Kay's wedding gifts. Its presence is treated as a prank, but Father learns the piece comes from his secretary and is a priceless antique. His fears grow as he arrives home just as a trash truck starts to pull away from the house.
Overview
Father of the Bride is an American sitcom that aired on CBS during the 1961-62 season. Produced by MGM Television, the series was based on the 1950 film of the same title. Cast members include Leon Ames as the father of the bride, Ruth Warrick as the mother, and Myrna Fahey as the bride.
Episodes
S01E02 Buckley
Stanley Banks meets his future son-in-law to learn how Buckley Dunstan expects to take care of a wife but only succeeds in convincing Buckley that he, Stanley, is destitute.
S01E03 Buckley's Parents
Ellie, with great trepidation, and Stanley call on Buckleys' parents for the first time.
S01E04 The Ring
Buckley's mother suggests a specially cut, family heirloom ring as the ideal engagement ring for Kay, to Buckley's horror. But to Buckley's amazement, Kay thinks the ring is beautiful, and all goes happily until Father...
S01E05 The Engagement Party
Father decides against hiring caterers for the engagement party. He'll handle the drinks and Delilah will take care of everything else.
S01E06 Kay's Dinner
Kay sets out to show the Dunstans that she is more than just an attractive woman by insisting, against Ellie's warning, on making an exotic curry. All goes well until Tommy's pained cries ring through...
S01E07 Guest List
To Father's relief, everyone is in favor of a small wedding. But when Ellie hands him her guest list, it's a much different story. Stanley nominates himself to reduce the list, thus forcing Ellie to...
S01E08 Maid of Honor
Swearing Kay to secrecy, Agnes Ramsey reveals that she is secretly married and cannot be maid of honor at Kay's wedding. Agnes' parents, close friends of the Banks, react violently when they hear the news,...
S01E09 Mr. Massoula
Ellie brings in a Mr. Massoula to cater the wedding reception. Stanley, hearing how much it's going to cost, assures her he can handle the job himself. His attempts backfire, forcing him to make a...
S01E10 White Elephant
A large white elephant, without a card, arrives with Kay's wedding gifts. Its presence is treated as a prank, but Father learns the piece comes from his secretary and is a priceless antique. His fears...
S01E11 Stanley's Suit
Stanley, despite the fact that he has gained some 20 pounds from the time he was married, is determined to lose enough weight so he can wear his old cutaway suit at Kay's wedding. He...
S01E12 The Shower
On the day of Kay's bridal celebration, Ellie persuades Stanley to take Herbert, Buckley and Tommy fishing. But the expedition winds up a disaster when all but Tommy are hauled before a country judge and...
S01E13 Furnishing the Apartment (aka The Apartment)
After Stanley puts a deposit down on an apartment for Kay and Buckley, he discovers the newlyweds have already decided to buy a house.
S01E14 Surprise, Surprise!
For his birthday present, Stanley has a brand new electric gold cart picked out. But with all the excitement centered around the impending wedding, Ellie seems to have completely forgotten his birthday. When Stanley's bold...
S01E15 The Honeymoon
Tommy begins to worry about Kay and Buckley's compatibility when the two disagree over where they will spend their honeymoon.
S01E16 Homework
Stanley gets himself in an awkward situation when he brags to Tommy about his scholastic prowess. When Tommy invites a classmate, a girl who he is very anxious to impress, to come over for help...
S01E17 The Rehearsal
At a stage luncheon for Buckley before his wedding, someone sets his watch back an hour as a joke and causes him to miss the wedding rehearsal, thus getting him into big trouble with Kay.
S01E18 The Wedding
The day of Kay's wedding to Buckley finally arrives. It is during the reception at the Banks' home that an unexpected crisis develops. Upset by the appearance of Buckley's former girlfriend and by his forgetting...
S01E19 The Pine Pillow
Stanley becomes jealous when the honeymooning Buckley sends a pine pillow to his parents, but the Banks receive nothing from Kay. To cover his disappointment, Stanley tells the Dunstans he has received a long letter...
S01E20 The Homecoming
After furnishing the apartment for Kay and Buckley's homecoming, both families receive a shock when the newlyweds return and find it completely bare.
S01E21 Too Many Cooks
Buckley's mother decides that Kay's cooking isn't proper for her son and determines to remedy the situation by giving Kay recipes, helping her shop and even taking a turn in her kitchen. When Mrs. Dunstan...
S01E22 The Quarrel
Kay and Buckley's first quarrel ends with Kay running home to mother. Stanley thinks his daughter is too pampered and is in favor of sending her right back but Ellie won't hear of it. When...
S01E23 Tommy's Hero
Both Stanley and Kay begin to feel neglected when Tommy begins spending all of his spare time with Buckley.
S01E24 The Milking Stool
Ellie and Doris Dunstan decide to open an antique shop for charity. They start acquiring stock by giving all of their own ""antiques,"" which are Stanley and Herbert's favorite pieces of furniture. Stanley comes to...
S01E25 Quibbling
A tearful Kay arrives at the Banks' house following a quarrel with Buckley. Her dramatic explanation of what took place is later contradicted in Buckley's version, whereupon Stanley deliberately puts on an act for the...
S01E26 The House
When the Dunstans find an elegant old home for Kay and Buckley that is an unbelievable bargain, Stanley is piqued because the house is quite close to the Dunstans and across town from him and...
S01E27 The Campaign Manager
Delilah's announcement of candidacy for president of a social and charity organization throws the Banks' household into political turmoil.
S01E28 The Duchess
Doris receives a letter telling her that a distant relative has died leaving an island and 145-room Norman Castle off the coast of Wales, which she will inherit along with a title if she can...
S01E29 Stanley's Steamer
Stanley begins devoting much of his evenings to a mysterious ""Josephine"" to the horror of Doris, Herbert and Stanley's secretary, who can't believe that he and Ellie are having marital troubles after all their happy...
S01E30 The Hospital
When Stanley hears that Herbert has been mysteriously hospitalized but is unable to reach him or his doctor, he goes to the hospital himself to see what it's all about. Stanley discovers that Herbert is...
S01E31 The Band
Stanley takes Buckley's suggestion for a band to play at the annual Lawyer's Ball.
S01E32 Bradley's Shack
Stanley cons Buckley and Tommy into joining him for the weekend at Ed Bradley's mountain hideaway, unaware of the consequences when Ellie and Kay discover that Bradley's so called ""shack"" is a palatial lodge, used...
S01E33 The Hammers
Stanley invites an old-school mate, Bones Hammerstock, to stop by for a visit. He discovers that Bones is now a big, hearty muscleman and his wife is a veritable Amazon. Ellie recognizes the couple as...
S01E34 The Visit
Stanley listens to the counsel of one of his clients, Mr. Wilkins, about how to deal with Kay. Wilkins' advice and the experts' psychology backfire, leaving Stanley in trouble with newlyweds Kay and Buckley.
Cast
Ruth Warrick
Eleanor "Ellie" Banks
Ruby Dandridge
Delilah
Lurene Tuttle
Doris Dunston
Leon Ames
Stanley Banks
Myrna Fahey
Katherine "Kay" Banks Dunston
Rickie Sorensen
Thomas "Tommy" Banks
Burt Metcalfe
Buckley Dunston
Ransom M. Sherman
Herbert Dunston
