My Little Margie

- Season 1

(1952)

Father Vern and his grown daughter Margie can't resist meddling in each other's affairs. In the pilot episode, Vern and Margie both try to use reverse psychology to bring the other around to approving of their respective paramours.

Worried that Roberta is comprising Vern's time and health, Margie furtively arranges a cocktail party with an actor Roberta admires and a producer hoping Roberta transfers her affections to the actor.

Margie writes a fake letter saying there is uranium on some property Freddie has inherited so Vern will give him a job. Vern finds out and turns the tables by making Margie think there is uranium behind their apartment building

Margie's friend, Ginny has plans and can't meet up with an old friend of the family, an opera singer. She asks Margie to fill-in. Margie agrees and schemes to have a party in his honor so she can help her father impress a reluctant client.

To help her father Vern with a client Margie agrees to date his son who she thinks is a boy. Margie dresses as an eleven year old but the son Wesley is an adult so Margie also pretends to be her own older sister.

Margie and Honeywell use the attendance of a rival for Roberta's affections at a masquerade ball to coerce Vern to go he event which he shuns but is important to the business. Meanwhile, a burglar has read the newspaper list of invitees.

Margie and boyfriend Freddie try to find out who is in the apartment closet.

Margie falls under the impression that her father has lost all of his money in the stock market. She suspects the worst, when he pays a visit to his life insurance agent.

When Margie receives a mink instead of what she really ordered, she decides to make her father think it a man gave it to her so she could teach him a lesson. But her plan soon backfires when the Mink's foreign owner shows up and announces he wants to marry Margie!

To show Vern Freddie is not so objectionable, Margie pretends to fall for a person more objectionable than Freddie to Vern, Honeywell's efficiency minded nephew. The plan backfires when Margie is headed for a quick and efficient marriage.

Odetts and Margie concoct a charade in which Margie pretends to be a Russian spy, so Margie gets noticed by an FBI agent who has caught her attention. Vern and the agent plot to make Margie think she has stumbled upon actual espionage.

Margie and her father both have two dates for the same evening.

A couple of Vern's old friends from Vaudeville collude with him in a scheme to dissuade Freddie's parents from approving of his relationship with Vern's daughter, Margie.