The Doris Day Show

- Season 5

(1972)

Doris and Peter claim to be comfortable with their open relationship ... until Doris is charmed and wooed by a handsome, bestselling author.

Doris accepts a lucrative offer from Prestige Magazine, sparking a war between it and Today's World Magazine.

To finance her lavish lifestyle, Doris secretly moonlights as Miss Understanding, hosting an overnight advice radio program and arousing Peter's suspicions.

Cupid casts a ballot when Doris signs on as press secretary to dashing congressional candidate Jonathan Rusk.

Doris fears a peeping tom is watching her from a neighboring rooftop.

Doris pens a piece critical of the divorce epidemic, calling on couples to forgive and forget hurts and betrayals. But Doris finds it difficult to heed her own counsel when she suspects Peter of a fling with a beautiful young actress.

Doris discovers how wealthy she really is when she needs $1,100 in a hurry.

Doris goes undercover and in disguise to land an interview with a hospitalized criminal, contending with a disapproving Peter, eccentric patients and a nosy nurse.

Doris becomes romantically entangled with the young pop star she's profiling for Today's World, putting her at odds with Cy when it begins affecting her journalistic standards.

Doris warms up the Cold War when her beauty catches the eye of an amorous Soviet general rumored to be planning a defection to the West.

To keep their apartment complex from being bought by a conglomerate, Doris, Mr. Jarvis and the other tenants meet to discuss buying the building themselves and creating a co-op.

Peter's anniversary gift to Doris of an antique automobile literally backfires when its constant breakdowns result in Doris being chronically late for dates and work.

Doris sits in for Cy and serves as editor-in-chief for one issue of Today's World Magazine.

A retired mobster makes Doris an offer she can't refuse: he'll donate $10,000 to her animal charity if she will babysit his dog Tiger for two weeks. It won't be easy money because the reigning syndicate leader as well as the police are determined to get their hands on the pooch.

After the photogenic Doris is approached by a charming talent scout (Andy Griffith), Cy assigns her to go undercover as an aspiring actress and write an expose of the phony talent agency racket.

Today's World Magazine's 40-year veteran linotypist Sam Johnson is turning 65 and eagerly anticipating retirement, until Doris coerces him into challenging the company's compulsory retirement policy.

Doris puts together and appears as the only model in a fashion show to help fund an expansion of Peter's hospital.

Doris rescues two stray dogs from the dog catcher and then must try and persuade landlord Mr. Jarvis to relax his no pets policy. The episode is an earnest promotion of pet adoption and reflects Doris Day's real life passion.

Doris' old flame Sir Robert Kingsley is coming to the States on a lecture tour, but Cy is reluctant to allow Doris to interview him, fearing their hanky-panky will tarnish Today's World's image as a family magazine.

Cy is ecstatic at the prospect of his ex-wife remarrying and releasing him from paying her alimony, but Doris has reasons for keeping the cork in the champagne bottle a little longer.

Doris' art-forging uncle visits and to keep from being returned to jail enlists Doris and Cy's help in switching out a forged painting from the collection of a wealthy art collector.

With Doris no longer with Peter, and Jonathan Rusk divorced from his wife, former candidate Jonathan returns to declare his love for Doris. But will her jealousy of his new globe-trotting reporting career come between them?

Jackie and her freeloading boyfriend Sid invite themselves along on Doris and Jonathan's romantic getaway weekend to Big Sur.

A struggling Today's World writer on the verge of being fired asks Doris to ghostwrite an important story for him. Final episode of the series.