Episode
Family Affair: Desert Isle: Manhattan Style
Overview
Bill asks Cissy to babysit the twin while he and French are out. When her boyfriend calls and asks her to go on a trip, she calls someone else to take her place and then just leaves. The replacement does not get there because of a blizzard.
Details
- Series
- Family Affair
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 2
- Air date
- 1970-09-24
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
Desert Isle: Manhattan Style is Episode 2 in Season 5 of Family Affair. It aired on 1970-09-24. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 1: The Good Neighbors
Tired of the unfriendliness from all of the tenants in the building, Buffy and Jody decide to throw a party for all of the neighbors. Then the neighbors get stuck in an elevator and they work together to fix the problem.
Episode 3: Eastward Ho!
Bill's friend, Eng Ho, is planning an arranged marriage for his daughter, Ming Lee, and wants Bill to give her a place to stay until the wedding. Cissy then makes friends with her and takes her out with her friends. Ming Lee then falls for her escort, which is a bad idea when she is about to be married. Ming Lee decides not to marry, and her father threatend to take her back to Hong Kong. Bill convinces Eng to let Ming Lee stay in America.
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