The Tony Randall Show

Walter Franklin is a somewhat less-than-magisterial Philadelphia judge put upon by an assortment of family and courtroom recidivists.

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Jay Tarses

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Tony Randall

Walter Franklin

Episodes

Season 1

22 episodes

S1 E1 · Pilot

1976-09-23

Walter Franklin has to cope with a bad case of nerves as he preens for his first date with widow Linda Jenkins in almost two years.

S1 E2 · Case: A Question Of Qualifications

1976-09-30

Walter finds that hiring a new clerk can be a trying experience. He interviews an odd-lot assortment of law-clerk applicants and surprise everyone with his final choice.

S1 E3 · Case: His Honor Vs. Her Honor

1976-10-07

Walter becomes infatuated when he meets another Judge, Eleanor Hooper, and they try to find some privacy together by meeting in Atlantic City.

S1 E4 · Case: The Ego Affair

1976-10-14

After delivering a well-received speech, Walter is inundated with public-speaking requests that send his ego sailing. He gets too big for his judicial robe when he accepts too many speaking engagements and starts believing his own publicity.

S1 E5 · Case: Franklin vs. Reubner And Reubner

1976-10-21

Walter finds out that his tone-faced, sharp-tongued secretary, Miss Reubner, has another side to her personality when he asks her to his home to celebrate her birthday with his family. Ashamed of getting tight at her birthday party, Miss Reubner resigns.

S1 E6 · Case: The Snow White Affair

1976-10-28

After Walter upholds a local theater's right to show a pornographic film, he forbids his eighteen-year-old daughter to see it.

S1 E7 · Case: Terwilliger vs. Himself

1976-11-11

When Jack's normally ultra-accurate court reports deteriorate, Walter investigates his friend's problem.

S1 E8 · Case: The Denecki Debacle

1976-11-18

Walter gets more than he bargained for on the bench when he replaces another jurist and has to deal with an attorney notorious for his devious tactics. .

S1 E9 · Case: Mario Strikes Again

1976-12-02

Walter loses his cool in the courtroom when a new law clerk keeps interrupting him, and the issue of his emotional sickness is taken up by the judicial review board.

S1 E10 · Case: Franklin In Love

1976-12-16

Walter's family thinks his engagement to Judge Hooper is premature.

S1 E11 · Case: O' Come All Ye Wastrels

1976-12-23

Believing there's no place like home for the holidays, Walter brings home a convicted criminal to spend the Christmas holidays with his family.

S1 E12 · Case: Money Vs. Stature

1976-12-30

Walter is tempted by a friend's offer of a law partnership.

S1 E13 · Case: The Hooper Affair

1977-01-06

Walter's romance with Judge Hooper is threatened by the arrival of a college buddy who once dated her.

S1 E14 · Case: Democracy Vs. Tyranny

1977-01-13

Walter's household rebels: Bobby wants an apartment, Brad refuses to change schools, and Mrs. McClellan buys a cat.

S1 E15 · Case: Whatever Happened To Mary Jane?

1977-01-20

Walter's eagerness to help his loyal friend and court reporter Jack backfires when an overzealous city attorney Mario Lanza busts the judge on a marijuana charge.

S1 E16 · Case: McClellan Vs. Immigration

1977-01-27

To prevent deportation to her native England, Mrs. McClellan advertises for a husband and a motley crew of prospects show up.

S1 E17 · Case: May Vs December

1977-02-03

After reprimanding Bobby for dating an older man, Walter finds himself attracted to a younger woman.

S1 E18 · Case: The Lawndale Report

1977-02-10

From a beach at Acapulco to a minimum security prison is quite a contrast for Walter, who sought the former for two weeks but has to settle for the latter instead. He got the assignment as part of a judicial investigation on the institution's conditions.

S1 E19 · Case: Violence Vs Finesse

1977-02-17

Oliver cuts school and learns a lesson when he comes to his father's courtroom to see his hero Wild Doug Mclntire, the toughest hockey player in the league to testify. Then the boy tries to emulate his hero's hockey style.

S1 E20 · Case: Franklin Vs. McClellan

1977-02-24

Walter's household rises up against him, Brad is not willing to change schools, Bobby expresses her liking to live in an apartment and Mrs. McClellan would love to have a cat.

S1 E21 · Case: Facing Up Vs. Hiding Behind The Drapes

1977-03-03

Mario becomes Walter's self-appointed bodyguard after the escape of a vengeful convict Walter once sent to prison.

S1 E22 · Case: The People Speak

1977-03-10

Walter runs for Superior Court judge against a former rival.

Season 2

22 episodes

S2 E1 · Franklin vs. the Generation Gap

1977-09-24

Bobby announces she's going to live with her boyfriend Michael.

S2 E2 · The Prodigal Father Returns

1977-10-01

Walter's estranged father Wyatt visits him for the first time in five years.

S2 E3 · Walter Screws Up

1977-10-08

Walter doubts his competence as a judge when he discovers that he convicted an innocent man.

S2 E4 · Philadelphia Triangle

1977-10-15

Mario mistakes Eleanor's kindness for love.

S2 E5 · Love vs. Excitement

1977-10-22

Walter fears that Jack will become suicidal after he and his wife separate.

S2 E6 · The Taking of Reubner 1-2-3

1977-10-29

An escaped convict takes over Walter's chambers with a gun and holds Miss Reubner hostage.

S2 E7 · Civil Disobedience

1977-11-05

Franklin is forced to rule against an environmental protester, and when Bobby leads a protest, he jails her for contempt of court.

S2 E8 · Skin Game

1977-11-12

Walter doesn't know how to act around his new clerk, a militant young upper-class black man.

S2 E9 · New Found Franklin

1977-11-26

When Eleanor thinks their relationship has become dull, Walter tries to make himself a more well-rounded person by joining clubs.

S2 E10 · Franklin vs. Casanova

1977-12-10

Walter must protect Miss Reubner from the advances of a notorious womanizer.

S2 E11 · Bobby vs. Michael

1977-12-17

Franklin reacts unexpectedly after Bobby announces she's tired of living with Michael.

S2 E12 · The Sylvia Needleman Experience

1977-12-24

A predatory real estate agent tries to get Walter to sell his house.

S2 E13 · Kids' Rights

1978-01-07

Mario is hopelessly outmatched when he represents a young girl suing for the right to live with her stepmother.

S2 E14 · Bobby and Brian

1978-01-14

Bobby's new boyfriend is not only too old for her, but a known gangster.

S2 E15 · I Live to Dance

1978-01-21

Jack and Miss Reubner enter a ballroom dancing competition.

S2 E16 · Twice Is Not Enough

1978-01-28

Walter has to choose between Eleanor and Melissa.

S2 E17 · Dream Maker

1978-02-04

Mrs. McClellan's nephew enthralls everyone with his tales of globe-trotting adventure.

S2 E18 · Case: The Eyes of the Law

1978-02-11

Walter begins teaching a night school law course, where the only promising student is a blind woman.

S2 E19 · The Phantom of the Poconos

1978-02-18

Walter inherits a mountain cabin that seems to be haunted.

S2 E20 · Adios, Mr. Chips

1978-03-04

Walter is proud of his night school class's showing on a test, until it turns out they all cheated.

S2 E21 · The Way It Was

1978-03-11

Walter and his employees all have different memories of his first day as a judge.

S2 E22 · Wyatt Loves Bonnie

1978-03-25

Walter discovers that his father is in love with Mrs. McClellan.