The Joey Bishop Show

- Season 2

(1962)

Joey gets married. He promises his bride that they will spend their honeymoon at Niagara Falls, but at the last minute Danny Thomas, who gave him his start in show business, asks Joey to substitute for him in his Las Vegas show on his wedding night.

Mr. Jillson promises his Penguin Lodge that Joey will perform there on Saturday, but Joey has other plans. Jillson uses his power as Super to try to change Joey's mind.

Ever since Joey and Ellie got married Freddie has come over for dinner, without invitation. They want to spend the evening of their 3-month anniversary alone.

Newlywed Joey learns that wife Ellie is a compulsive buyer, and is especially susceptible to the con-artist style of door-to-door salesmen.

Joey is going on vacation for a week, and he is afraid that Johnny Edwards, the unknown comic that the sponsor hired to fill in for him, is so talented that he may permanently take Joey's job.

Ellie secretly takes a temporary job as a model in a fashion show to earn the money for a 4-month anniversary gift for Joey. Joey notices her changed behavior, and assumes that she is having an affair.

Joey and Freddy have an argument over creative differences spurred by Joey's impromptu playing of a mandolin to end his show, which results in Joey firing Freddy as his manager and also ending their friendship.

A battle of the sexes: Joey jokes about women in politics on his show, and Ellie, who has contemplated running for Assemblyman, decides to do so, demanding time on his show to rebut him. Joey agrees, planning to embarrass her on the air.

Mr. Jillson wins an Eskimo dog in a contest, and then agrees to take Mrs. Walters' cat for a week while she is in Miami Beach. They fight "like cats and dogs", so Mr. Jillson gets Joey and Ellie to take the dog for that week. It turns out that the dog is fresh from the Arctic and needs to be slowly acclimated to indoor temperatures, so Joey and Ellie must live without heat for a week.

Ellie is concerned that Joey hasn't been to the doctor for a check-up since she has known him, and he keeps breaking the appointments with the doctor that she has made for him, because it makes no sense to him to go to a doctor unless he feels there is something wrong with him. Therefore, Ellie sets out to convince Joey that there is something the matter with his health.

Ellie is homesick for Texas, and wouldn't be happy going back for a visit without Joey, who can't get away, so he decides to turn their apartment into little bit of Texas.

Joey announces that he plans an evening out with the boys, and Ellie gets the idea that "the wolf wants to howl again." The more Ellie thinks about Joey's night out, the angrier she gets and she plots a retaliation.

Joey invests in an unknown, untried boxer's career, based solely on the huge man's impressive display of physical prowess at the local gym.

On the day that Joey is to perform in a show to honor the governor, he loses the cuff links that he always wears when he performs, and he is afraid to go on stage without them.

Joey has been spending a lot of evenings working at the office with Cindy, his new, very beautiful, secretary. Ellie suspects that Joey is straying. Joey, though innocent, realizes that he has to fire Cindy to keep Ellie from leaving him, but he has no cause. Freddie convinces Joey to feign romantic interest in Cindy to get her to quit.

Ellie and Joey have never yet had an argument. Ellie's friend Doris tells her that a make-up kiss is the best kind of kiss, so Ellie sets out to cause an argument with Joey so they can make up.

Joey gives a performance at a prison for its inmates. A prisoner who is an exact look-alike to Joey sees his opportunity to escape and forces Joey to trade places with him.

With Jillson being a guest on Joey's talk show, Joey tells the story of how Jillson went on a diet. Mrs. Jillson calls everyone in the apartment house and tells every tenant that Mr. Jillson is on a diet and not to give him any cinnamon buns. Desperate, Jillson goes and buys every cinnamon bun that he can find and hides them in every apartment in the apartment house.

In an episode showcasing Guy Marks' amazing ability as an impressionist and clown, Freddie falls in love with a society girl, and he goes all-out to impress her, complete with a faux British accent. This was Guy Marks' last appearance in this series. The character Freddie was never again even mentioned.

A gorgeous woman who is a Judo expert appears on Joey's show to demonstrate how women can defend themselves from men that attempt to overpower them, and ends up kissing Joey on the air. This causes embarrassment to Ellie as well as engenders her jealousy, and when she threatens to leave him and go home to her mother in Texas, Joey decides to move in with his head-writer Larry. Corbett Monica joins the cast as Larry Corbett, which is a new character, replacing Guy Marks as Joey's best friend and second-banana in the series.

Ellie causes the Barnes home life to be constantly interrupted by arranging to have people she knows audition for Joey in their living room, regardless of whether they have entertaining talent or skills.

A little girl's crush on Joey interferes with the already-established puppy love between her and a boy near her own age. The boy and Joey hatch a plan to make the girl dislike Joey, which involves the children attending a rehearsal for Joey's show during which Joey will pretend to be a tyrant and abuser of his employees.

Joey learns that Ellie's aunt Cecilia, with whom he shares a mutual dislike, is coming to town for two weeks and intends to stay in his guest room. Joey gets Larry to pretend to break his leg in the Barnes' apartment so that Joey can justify Larry staying in the guest room, which he assumes would force Ellie's aunt to stay in a hotel.

Ellie tells Joey that she is expecting a baby. Joey promptly tells everyone in his television audience the blessed news, causing an avalanche of baby gifts to be sent to the Barnes home, overwhelming the apartment-dwelling couple.

Since Joey has passed an Expectant Fathers' class with flying colors, Ellie agrees to trust him with a friend's baby for a few hours. When he needs to whip up some baby formula, Joey follows what he thinks is the recipe, but in reality it is a recipe for Turkey stuffing that Ellie is planning to make.

Joey lands a part in a dramatic picture, but finds the transition from comedy to drama more difficult, and painful, than he had anticipated.

Natalie Tribly and Mildred Cosgrove, the two laundresses, get Joey to let them on his show by putting starch in his undershorts. However, he draws the line at giving them a free plug for their laundry business.

Joey is supposed to go to a party dressed as Robin Hood, but he changes his mind at the last minute and decides to go in a matador's outfit because he sees himself as slim and dashing.

Natalie Tribly and Mildred Cosgrove, the two laundresses, con Joey into letting Mildred's niece sing on his television show.

Joey's sure he's going to have a son; he's up all night trying to convince a mostly asleep Ellie that their son will be a doctor. And when he's not going after Ellie he's bugging everyone else they know. Ellie has heard it so much that she has a dream about her son as a doctor operating on a long time friend of the family.

Joey gets a big head about his skills as a future dad after he does well in a class for expectant fathers. Larry challenges him by saying anyone, including himself, can do as well.

Joey and Ellie have a difference over who to hire to be the nanny, with Ellie wanting to hire Hilda and Joey being very much against.

Buddy Hackett, Joey's old friend, comes to visit, and appears on Joey's TV show. Buddy also delights in playing practical jokes on Joey, starting with a prank call to Joey in the middle of the night. The jokes increase in number and intensity, ending with the arrest of Danny Thomas, another friend of Joey's.

The baby is on the way and Joey is so nervous he almost forgets Ellie. Later in the waiting room, he and the other prospective fathers exchange stories.