Episode

Family Affair: That Was the Dinner That Wasn't

Name: Family Affair: That Was the Dinner That Wasn't
Released: 1967-01-09
Duration: 30 min
Cast: Brian Keith, Sebastian Cabot, Kathy Garver, Anissa Jones, Johnny Whitaker

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Overview

Cissy is disheartened because she will be left out of a mother-daughter event at school, and she doesn't tell Bill what is wrong with her.

Details

Series: Family Affair
Season: Season 1
Episode: Episode 16
Air date: 1967-01-09
Runtime: 30 min

Episode context

That Was the Dinner That Wasn't is Episode 16 in Season 1 of Family Affair. It aired on 1967-01-09. The runtime is 30 min.

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Episode 15: Hard Hat Jody 1967-01-02 | 30 min Jody's allusion about being a constuction worker leads him to ""gaining"" a job with a constuction worker who Bill is trying to get a job with.

Episode 17: All Around the Town 1967-01-16 | 30 min Bill and the whole family are seeing the Gaynors off on their cruise. Buffy and Jody think that Bill is having dinner with them, but when they find out the thuth, they are left on the dock by themselves. Mrs. Gaynor sees them and calls Bill, but Buffy and Jody run off in the city to find the owner of some money they found on the dock.

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Episode 12: Love Me, Love Me Not 1966-12-05 | 30 min When Jody sees a friend getting spanked by his father, his father tells him that he punishes him out of love. So Jody takes it upon himself to earn a spanking from Uncle Bill to see if he loves him enough to enforce physical punishment.

Episode 20: A Helping Hand 1967-02-06 | 30 min A lesson to be learned in this episode: Helping people is good, but it only goes but so far. The family learns this the hard way. Mr. French helps out a maid who is very bad with housekeeping by covering up her mistakes, and this charade goes on until she is hired by a guest who is throwing a party. Eventually, she gets fired and she gets on Mr. French. Bill does the same thing when he takes over the twins' school project, and he gets credit. Cissy tells them all about how important it is to get involved in the family because they had none when they were in Terre Haute.

Episode 11: Take Two Aspirin 1966-11-28 | 30 min Bill gets a chance to work with a friend in Mexico on a job, but his trip is cut short when Mr. French comes down with the flu and difficultt in keeping touch with the family.

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Episode 22: Ballerina Buffy 1967-02-20 | 30 min Buffy gets chosen for a lead in a ballet, which is totally annoying for a mother whose little girl, Melissa, was passed over for a complete stranger. She has reason to suspect foul play when the casting director is Bill's old girlfriend Margo, but she knew nothing about Bill's children until after she had cast the roles. Then Margo tells Buffy that she will be a big success and travel all over the world. Buffy gets the idea that it means right away, so she botches up her role in the production so that she will not be separated from her new family.