Episode

Family Affair: Everybody Needs Somebody

Name: Family Affair: Everybody Needs Somebody
Released: 1967-03-13
Duration: 30 min
Cast: Brian Keith, Sebastian Cabot, Kathy Garver, Anissa Jones, Johnny Whitaker

Family AffairSeason 11967-03-13

Overview

Buffy and Jody play matchmaker for Mr. French, but he thinks that they do not want him around because he punished them so severely.

Details

Series: Family Affair
Season: Season 1
Episode: Episode 24
Air date: 1967-03-13
Runtime: 30 min

Episode context

Everybody Needs Somebody is Episode 24 in Season 1 of Family Affair. It aired on 1967-03-13. The runtime is 30 min.

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Episode 23: The Mother Tongue 1967-02-27 | 30 min Buffy and Jody meets a new girl named Marilyn, who is the daughter of a Chinese diplomat and speaks no English. Mr. French tries to work out his Cantonese and unknowingly insults her.

Episode 25: The Way It Was 1967-03-20 | 30 min Bill sends the kids away for a week-long trip at camp because they are driving him up the wall. He then starts to miss them when he goes back to his bachelor life.

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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.

Episode 26: All Nephews Are Created Equal 1967-03-27 | 30 min Mr. French gets a visit from his nephew David. French is shocked when David announces that he wants to become a dentist, but the final straw comes when he goes out with Cissy.

Episode 21: Once in Love with Buffy 1967-02-13 | 30 min Aunt Fran's back and she wants the kids to come back with her. She believes that Bill will not be a suitable person for the kids. Of course, Fran thinks that this fact is confirmed when Buffy thinks that Bill doesn't want them there. When teh family gets ready to leave, Buffy sees the light and changes her mind.

Episode 27: The Prize 1967-04-10 | 30 min The twins win a baby lamb in a cereal contest, which is not a good thing if your neighbors are trying to sleep.

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 28: What Did You Do in the West, Uncle? 1967-04-17 | 30 min Bill takes the twins to the rodeo where he meets his old friend Gabe, whom he invites to stay with them. The twins are mesmerized at the thought of meeting a real live cowboy, and Gabe takes them under his wing. Of course, Bill thinks that they like Gabe more than they like him. But the twins tell him that Bill will always come first in their lives.

Episode 19: Fancy Free 1967-01-30 | 30 min Buffy and Jody are placed in a fast-learning portion of their grade, but Bill is spending his time with a woman who is quite uncertain about what she wants. The twins get a friendly window-washer to help them with their work, but a call from the school to Bill makes him see that the children are more important than a hot date.

Episode 29: The Award 1967-05-01 | 30 min Buffy and Jody want to make an award for Bill for being the best uncle, but they fall allergic to the clay they are making the award with. Bill thinks that the allergies are caused by irregular parenting, but the doctor states that they are allergic to modeling clay.

Episode 18: One for the Little Boy 1967-01-23 | 30 min Bill plans to do some serious bonding with Jody by taking him on a business trip, but Murphy's Law plagues the trip. But Jody states that just being with Bill is exciting enough.

Episode 30: The Butler Method 1967-05-15 | 30 min Cissy has trouble finding a date for the Sadie Hawkins dance, and asks a boy who throws her a curve because of a broken leg. Thinking that he is lying, she feels miserable. Bill suggests that an actor friend of his who is visiting escort her to the dance, but Cissy turns him down. Then, Cissy sees that Virgil really does has a broken leg, and she is happy that he didn't lie to her.