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.
Guest Stars:
Allyn Ann McLerie, David Rounds, Robert Mandan, Garry Walberg, Melendy Britt
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.
Guest Stars:
Barney Martin, Allyn Ann McLerie, Devon Scott, Brad Savage
Walter becomes infatuated when he meets another Judge, Eleanor Hooper, and they try to find some privacy together by meeting in Atlantic City.
Guest Stars:
Barney Martin, Allyn Ann McLerie, Leonard Barr, Janet Meshad, Diana Muldaur
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.
Guest Stars:
Barney Martin, Allyn Ann McLerie, Victor Buono, Richard Bull, Devon Scott
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.
Guest Stars:
Allyn Ann McLerie, Gertrude Flynn, Barney Martin, Devon Scott, Rachel Roberts
After Walter upholds a local theater's right to show a pornographic film, he forbids his eighteen-year-old daughter to see it.
Guest Stars:
Barney Martin, Allyn Ann McLerie, Phil Leeds, Devon Scott, Rachel Roberts
When Jack's normally ultra-accurate court reports deteriorate, Walter investigates his friend's problem.
Guest Stars:
Barney Martin, Allyn Ann McLerie, Bobo Lewis, Hal Smith
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. .
Guest Stars:
Barney Martin, Allyn Ann McLerie, Stephen Elliott, Nino Candido, Jerry Fogel
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.
Guest Stars:
Barney Martin, Allyn Ann McLerie, Zane Lasky, Murray Matheson, Patrick Reynolds
Walter's family thinks his engagement to Judge Hooper is premature.
Guest Stars:
Barney Martin, Allyn Ann McLerie, Jason Wingreen, Richard Balin, Diana Muldaur
Believing there's no place like home for the holidays, Walter brings home a convicted criminal to spend the Christmas holidays with his family.
Guest Stars:
Barney Martin, Allyn Ann McLerie, Dick Van Patten, Devon Scott, Rachel Roberts
Walter is tempted by a friend's offer of a law partnership.
Guest Stars:
Barney Martin, Allyn Ann McLerie, William Windom, Michael Durrell, Bill McLean
Walter's romance with Judge Hooper is threatened by the arrival of a college buddy who once dated her.
Guest Stars:
Joan Shawlee
Walter's household rebels: Bobby wants an apartment, Brad refuses to change schools, and Mrs. McClellan buys a cat.
Guest Stars:
Nedra Volz
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.
Guest Stars:
Michael Durrell
To prevent deportation to her native England, Mrs. McClellan advertises for a husband and a motley crew of prospects show up.
Guest Stars:
Cliff Norton, Richard Libertini, James Greene
After reprimanding Bobby for dating an older man, Walter finds himself attracted to a younger woman.
Guest Stars:
Annette O'Toole
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.
Guest Stars:
Dick Sargent, Archie Hahn, Linden Chiles
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.
Guest Stars:
Jordan Clarke
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.
Mario becomes Walter's self-appointed bodyguard after the escape of a vengeful convict Walter once sent to prison.
Guest Stars:
Phil Leeds