Love, American Style

S01E17: Love and the Watchdog

Puff-Puff is a watchdog who's more trouble than he's worth to reunited divorcees.

Overview

An anthology comedy series featuring a line up of different celebrity guest stars appearing in anywhere from one, two, three, and four short stories or vignettes within an hour about versions of love and romance.

Episodes

S01E01 Love and the Pill

September 29, 1969 60 min
How to get your daughter to take the Pill on her swinger's tour of Europe.

S01E02 Love and the Hustler

September 29, 1969 60 min
An ace pool player meets a lovely novice who chalks up a cue.

S01E03 Love and a Couple of Couples

September 29, 1969 60 min
An ex-wife makes matters difficult for her former husband who's about to give his new fiancee her ring.

S01E04 Love and the Joker

October 6, 1969 60 min
About a lovestruck practical joker.

S01E05 Love and the Letter

October 6, 1969 60 min
A teacher criticizes a student's letter.

S01E06 Love and the Living Doll

October 6, 1969 60 min
A young man decides to make his girlfriend jealous by using an inflatable doll as his date for the evening.

S01E07 Love and the Unlikely Couple

October 6, 1969 60 min
A young man brings his rich girlfriend home to his parents.

S01E08 Love and the Phone Booth

October 13, 1969 60 min
A shy country boy looks for a date.

S01E09 Love and the Doorknob

October 13, 1969 60 min
A doorknob is the source of consternation for newlyweds.

S01E10 Love and the Militant

October 20, 1969 60 min
A college president is confronted by a militant with designs on the secretary.

S01E11 Love and the Legal Agreement

October 20, 1969 60 min
A separated couple with unseparated housing arrangements.

S01E12 Love and Who?

October 20, 1969 60 min
A man wakes up after a hangover and does not remember anything from the night before.

S01E13 Love and the Single Couple

October 27, 1969 60 min
What to do when your coed daughter has a male roommate.

S01E14 Love and the Phonies

October 27, 1969 60 min
Conversation between a husband and wife who dress up (literally) for special occasions.

S01E15 Love and the Modern Wife

October 27, 1969 60 min
Tale of a husband disgruntled at his wife's modern marriage course.

S01E16 Love and the Busy Husband

November 3, 1969 60 min
How to get the attenttions of a busy husband.

S01E17 Love and the Watchdog

November 3, 1969 60 min
Puff-Puff is a watchdog who's more trouble than he's worth to reunited divorcees.

S01E18 Love and the Dating Computer

November 3, 1969 60 min
A mixed-up match from a computer dating service.

S01E19 Love and Take Me Along

November 10, 1969 60 min
An unmarried reverend and his single companion.

S01E20 Love and the Geisha

November 10, 1969 60 min
How an old flame can kindle a fire in a marriage.

S01E21 Love and the Advice Givers

November 10, 1969 60 min
A husband and wife each receive differing advice from other people about their marriage.

S01E22 Love and the Roommate

November 17, 1969 60 min
A roving bachelor story.

S01E23 Love and the Burglar

November 17, 1969 60 min
A story about a burglar and the lady he victimizes.

S01E24 Love and the Wild Party

November 17, 1969 60 min
The dancing is anything but square at a swinging party attended by two hayseeds.

S01E25 Love and the Big Leap

November 24, 1969 60 min
A tale about a sky-diving wedding.

S01E26 Love and the Former Marriage

November 24, 1969 60 min
A man's ex-wife still calls him in every emergency, and so does her new husband.

S01E27 Love and the Good Deal

November 24, 1969 60 min
The hassle of finding a special bed for a tiny apartment.

S01E28 Love and the Shower

December 1, 1969 60 min
A divorce shower complete with everything for the newly single man -- including two new young ladies.

S01E29 Love and Mother

December 1, 1969 60 min
Three is definitely a crowd when a new bride's mother shows up to spend the night in the happy couple's room.

S01E30 Love and the Athlete

December 1, 1969 60 min
A man tries to expose a female athlete.

S01E31 Love and the Dummies

December 1, 1969 60 min
Love between two shy ventriloquists who let their dummies do all the talking.

S01E32 Love and the Comedy Team

December 8, 1969 60 min
Two comedy writers try to meet a deadline, but the finacée of one is not very understanding.

S01E33 Love and the Mountain Cabin

December 8, 1969 60 min
A mountain retreat honeymoon, but hubby's mind is on the money hidden there.

S01E34 Love and the Divorce Sale

December 8, 1969 60 min
The end of a marriage is marked by a divorce sale.

S01E35 Love and the Bachelor

December 22, 1969 60 min
A bachelor lays down the law to his overprotective mother.

S01E36 Love and the Positive Man

December 22, 1969 60 min
Five-foot-three Marvin Glassmire aspires to win the heart of the statuesque Sylvia.

S01E37 Love and the Other Love

December 22, 1969 60 min
If anything breaks up the marriage of Rob and Pat, it will be Rob's all-consuming love for his new sports car.

S01E38 Love and the Medium

December 29, 1969 60 min
A widower, Gobel, goes to a medium, Vance, to communicate with his late wife. When he becomes engaged to a young woman the medium does some checking on fiance.

S01E39 Love and the Bed

December 29, 1969 60 min
The battle for ownership of a brass bed involves Peter, his neighbor, and the rebirth of a Collonial courtship custom of bundling.

S01E40 Love and the High School Flop-Out

December 29, 1969 60 min
A sensitive and embarrassingly inexperienced teenager is railroaded into taking home a very worldly waitress.

S01E41 Love and the Fighting Couple

January 5, 1970 60 min
A recipe for marital bliss: fight a lot.

S01E42 Love and the Pick-Up

January 5, 1970 60 min
How to solve the troubles of a month-old marriage.

S01E43 Love and the Proposal

January 5, 1970 60 min
Ways to wriggle out of a marriage proposal.

S01E44 Love and Mr. Nice Guy

January 12, 1970 60 min
A little guy loves a woman who likes big, mean men.

S01E45 Love and the Gangster

January 12, 1970 60 min
A big-time gangster uses strong-arm methods to keep men away from his 19-year-old daughter.

S01E46 Love and the Boss' Ex

January 12, 1970 60 min
To stop paying alimony, an executive pays an underling to marry his ex-wife.

S01E47 Love and the Big Night

January 23, 1970 60 min
A married man gets involved with another woman.

S01E48 Love and Those Poor Crusaders' Wives

January 23, 1970 60 min
A man has difficulty trying to unlatch an armored chastity belt after he puts it on.

S01E49 Love and the V.I.P. Restaurant

January 23, 1970 60 min
A straight-laced matron finds her husband at a topless restaurant.

S01E50 Love and the Nervous Executive

January 30, 1970 60 min
An executive cracks under the strain of working with an ultra-attractive secretary.

S01E51 Love and the Great Catch

January 30, 1970 60 min
A surprise visit from Adam West starts a tug of war between a husband and wife who have different matchmaking ideas.

S01E52 Love and the Hitchhiker

January 30, 1970 60 min
An eagar lad's visions of seduction pale before his date's hangups on organic foods and great causes.

S01E53 Love and the King

February 6, 1970 60 min
A happily married man tries to live down his reputation as King of Swingers.

S01E54 Love and the First Nighters

February 6, 1970 60 min
A teenage couple attempt to be sophisticated when they check into a motel.

S01E55 Love and the Banned Book

February 6, 1970 60 min
A jealous husband wants to know where his wife got the material for her sexy best seller.

S01E56 Love and the Co-ed Dorm

February 13, 1970 60 min
Coed-dorm life is a real eye-opener for student Stanley Stein. And so is his roommate.

S01E57 Love and the Teacher

February 13, 1970 60 min
When his son flunks sex education, a painter of nudes figures it's time for a talk with the teacher.

S01E58 Love and the Optimist

February 13, 1970 60 min
A loser in love and a loser in life contemplate taking a loss together: a big leap off a high building.

S01E59 Love and the Many Married Couple

February 20, 1970 60 min

S01E60 Love and the Uncoupled Couple

February 20, 1970 60 min
When to say ""I do"" creates turmoil in a nurse-intern romance.

S01E61 Love and the Safely Married Man

February 20, 1970 60 min
Janine doesn't date single men, so Zack pretends to be married -- and the father of two children.

S01E62 Love and Las Vegas

February 27, 1970 60 min
An odd wedding.

S01E63 Love and the Good Samaritan

February 27, 1970 60 min
Nice guy Freddy gets into hot water when he helps a shapely neighbor fix her faucet.

S01E64 Love and the Marriage Counselor

February 27, 1970 60 min
Two squabbling business partners seek unusual help: a marriage counselor.

S01E65 Love and Grandma

March 6, 1970 60 min
A young woman realizes that her grandmother is living with a man.

S01E66 Love and the Other Guy

March 6, 1970 60 min
A boyfriend is upset when his girl allows a male neighbor to sleep in her spare bedroom.

S01E67 Love and Double Trouble

March 13, 1970 60 min
The American-bred son of a Middle Eastern ruler is given two fiancees.

S01E68 Love and the Millionaire

March 13, 1970 60 min
A couple enjoys a game of make-believe spending.

S01E69 Love and the Fly

March 13, 1970 60 min
There's a very real fly in the ointment of a marriage: the wife keeps one as a pet.

S01E70 Love and the Singles Apartment

March 27, 1970 60 min
Trevor has his business-trip accomodations in a swinging singles apartment. Then his wife arrives to cheer her supposedly lonesome hubby.

S01E71 Love and the Minister

March 27, 1970 60 min
Hell hath no fury like a minister scorned -- and forced to perform the nuptials of his beloved.

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