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Stephen Dallas, well-educated and refined, falls in love with and marries Stella Martin, a pretty young mill-hand. He soon realizes that they have nothing in common. Gradually they see less and less of each other, Stella being absorbed in bringing up their daughter Laurel. Laurel has much of her father in her and recoils instinctively from her mother's vulgarity, though remaining completely loyal to her. As Laurel grows up things become increasingly...

From Season 1, Episode 38. Episode first aired Jul 1, 1953. A couple of rich law school pals who've gotten rich in business makes Brad feel he's cheated Joan out of the high life. He decides to become a business executive with a chicken soup company, despite Joan's warnings that he's cut out for that work. In Joan's nightmare, the job has changed Brad into a cantankerous, bald man who cares only about money. Wanting happiness over money, Joan refuses...

From Season 2, Episode 13. Episode first aired Jan 6, 1954. Joan becomes frantic when she loses her good luck locket.

From Season 1, Episode 26. Episode first aired Apr 8, 1953. Brad is infuriated by Joan's tardiness when she arrives at the theater just in time for the final curtain. The late Joan Stevens fears oversleeping for a dinner date, so she buys extra time by turning back the clocks.

From Season 3, Episode 20. Episode first aired Feb 9, 1955. Joan tries to pass her neighbor Wally off as an army general married to her sister in order to impress a friend.

From Season 3, Episode 18. Episode first aired Jan 26, 1955. During a visit to the eye doctor, Joan is given the incorrect eye drops. This leads to some unusual stunts in her visit to a bowling alley.

Joan Stevens tries to keep her husband from finding out about the furniture she sold. She hides the money in what turns out to be a very unsafe spot - a shotgun

Joan's husband, Judge Stevens, is called on to decide the custody of a chimpanzee which has inherited a great deal of money. The judge brings "Marty," the wealthy chimp, home with him, and Joan proceeds to handle things with her usual aplomb.

Joan has a lapse of memory that nearly breaks up her marriage by overloading her husband with three separate spaghetti dinners in one night.

Joan writes her In-Laws a letter suggesting they retire and come and live with Brad and Joan. But it gets mailed to her parents instead. El Brendel, as Joan's father, becomes a permanent member of the cast.