The Mothers-In-Law

- Season 1

(1967)

Feuding neighbors the Buells and Hubbards are forced to put their differences aside when their children announce their engagement.

While their children are honeymooning, the Buells and Hubbards each decide to vacation, at the same resort.

A chain reaction is set in motion when Kaye breaks her leg. Meanwhile, Herb agrees to represent Kaye in a lawsuit.

When Eve and Kaye get locked in a department store, they spend their last dime on a misdialed call to a Spanish matador.

When the kids move into the Ballards' garage apartment, Eve and Kaye find the temptation to snoop is too much to bear.

With their children out of the house, Eve and Kaye decide to focus their energies on developing a nightclub act.

Casual conversations escalate into ridiculous quarrels when Herbert and Roger each admit they'd like to take out Elizabeth Taylor.

When Jerry decides to pursue a career in acting, the entire family gets in on the act.

Kaye and Eve set up a catering business to help Suzie and Jerry make ends meet, but a complication arises when Suzie loses her engagement ring.

A bank robber forces his way in and takes the Hubbards and Buells hostage.

A physical-fitness kick has the Hubbards and Buells joining a bicycling club, and they wind up lost in the desert.

When Roger goes off alone to ponder on a problem in his script, Eve suggests Kaye follow him to find out where he goes and what he does.

A former boyfriend of Suzie's is in town to visit. It's bad enough that he is rich and single; it's even worse that Eve fails to mention her daughter is now married.

The Hubbards sell their old refrigerator to the Buells. When it breaks down, the Buells retaliate by launching a raid to steal the Hubbards' new one.

A heated argument leads to Roger challenging Herb to a duel at dawn. While they practice with fencing foils, their wives conspire to stop the showdown.

Eve and Kaye team up to write a TV script, and wind up begging Roger for ideas, snapping at each other, and trying to retrieve their script, which they plagiarized, after Roger submits to it for them.

Suzie and Jerry, desperate to get away from their meddling parents, lease an apartment sight unseen and soon regret their hasty move. While they consider their options the parents can't help but snoop, a decision that quickly backfires.

The Hubbards get an unexpected visit from bullfighter Raphael Delgado and his colorful entourage, whose late-night partying causes a spectacle in the suburbs. Desi sings his composition "I Love You."

The Hubbards and Buells work up acts to go to Mexico to be on a variety show hosted by their matador friend. Desi sings "The Straw Hat Song" with Desi, Jr. on drums; Eve and Kaye sing "Turn Around."

While anxiously awaiting a game show phone call, Eve has to leave to help Suzie. Kaye stops by and, while waiting for Eve to return, wins a new boat when she answers the phone. Now if only they can figure out who should get the boat.

When Suzie and Jerry have their first big fight the in-laws take sides in completely unexpected ways. The animosity becomes so bad they seek the help of Jerry's professor who soon finds out what a dysfunctional family is really like.

Eve agrees to be a temp at Herb's, office which naturally means Kaye has to help out also. Before long Roger, Jerry, and Suzie have all stopped by and turned the office into utter chaos, potentially ruining Herb's impending business deal.

After Herb lends Roger $100 to buy a new typewriter, Roger is slow to pay him back. Eve gives the money to Kaye to give to Roger to give to Herb. When Herb finds out the money came from Eve, he assumes that Kaye is blackmailing Eve.

Kaye is at first delighted by how much Roger likes her in a blonde wig. But than she becomes miserable convincing herself he should have married someone else.

Tired of Roger's skinflint ways, Herb plots to play golf and gin rummy for money, but Herb finds himself in the financial hole when Roger's luck turns for the better.

Roger thinks he may have sold a soap opera series to a network but forbids Kaye to tell anyone as it may jinx the deal. Kaye desperately wants to tell Eve but won't - unless she happens to guess it while playing charades.

Suzie tells Eve and Kaye that Jerry wants to go play poker with his friends. They tell her this sets a bad precedent in a new marriage and that he should stay home. Roger and Herb naturally tell Jerry something completely different.

The Hubbards, the Buells, and Suzie and Jerry all wind up together at a cabin at Lake Arrowhead that each couple couldn't go on a fishing trip they had all planned. An unexpected snowstorm then blows in to trap all six in the cabin with no food.

Thanks to Kaye's overactive imagination, Eve suspects a rekindled romance between Herb and his old flame, who has come to visit.

Jerry convinces his folks to put up $500 for a hippie rock group to make a demo recording. They scare off the band with talk of crew cuts, tuxedos, and old songs. The parents wind up recording "Some Enchanted Evening" w/the help of a Salvation Army band. The Seeds play The Warts, and sing their hit song, "Pushing Too Hard."