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Wed, Feb 14, 1973
Since Frank Spencer's mother died and he married Betty, her mother can't decide what's worst: her girl moving out or the one-man walking -rather stumbling- disaster-area staying, as everything he touches is doomed. A salesman job interview demonstrates Frank's inverse Midas-touch on the iron mongery company lift and his social skills being both scary and scared, his mental age embryonic.
Wed, Feb 21, 1973
Frank and Betty spend a weekend with her brother George Fisher, who is about to show off his gadget-filled 'fool-proof' home with his partner to a building boss, who may pay George's firm a fortune for the concept. Alas a simple lavatory visit from Frank, who was supposed to remain unnoticed, suffices to start a catastrophic chain of 'accidents', which worsens while they try to cover it up.
Wed, Feb 28, 1973
When Betty's mother comes to Frank's place, sick, Frank gets sent to call the doctor from the neighbor's house. He's a scriptwriter who already mistrusts the noisy klutz, but once Frank has been inside his life turns into the same kind of nightmare as Frank's family's. It's no picnic for Dr. H.S. Smedley or his script companion either.
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Wed, Mar 7, 1973
Frank boards the train for his second honeymoon -the first time he landed in the wrong town. At the hotel, things start go really wrong when he tries to push the single beds together, gradually wrecking the whole room. Looking for replacements, he and Betty raid a neighboring room (funny Kenny's room), causing him to complain to manager Bedford about haunting, presuming it's his late grandpa.
Wed, Mar 14, 1973
While Betty is in hospital, Frank makes a masterly mess of the kitchen and the shopping. Next he raids the flowers from the reception at the start of a bad hospital visit. Frank is scolded, confused with a depressive patient's neglecting husband, and carries out inappropriate instructions, for too many patients.
Wed, Mar 21, 1973
When Betty sends Frank to a psychiatrist, the doctor's confident that Frank's problem is a lack of confidence but this slowly crumbles as every routine question unleashes a catalog of bumbling and ineptitude which antagonizes everyone, including Frank's family, even his own late mother.
Wed, Mar 28, 1973
When the new employment exchange manager Bradshaw insists that everyone can be helped, veteran Hooper gladly passes on the hopeless case of Frank Spencer. Both his serial disaster-record and 'qualification' (25 meter breaststroke, after 'attending' many schools, till age 11, no actual classes) support Hooper's point amply. Yet Frank acts indignant, and Bradshaw insists on trying - betting he'll keep a job for a week. The only way to win is to employ Frank himself, but this proves far more costly and dangerous for everyone and everything.
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Wed, Nov 21, 1973
Frank manages to mess up the library card system without actually getting a book out; he then returns to the farm supplies firm with one more chicken than he let escape. Frank finds out that the job he's going for with the farm supplies company comes with a company car. He lies he has a driving license and passes the interview with stand-in recruiter Henry. So they take the car for a picnic to the seaside.
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Wed, Dec 5, 1973
Tired of disappointing Betty as breadwinner, Frank signs up for a PR training course. One introductory reception, a night in the dorm and a morning class with Frank being his bumbling, naive self suffice to cause fights, damage and utter break-down of concept and confidence, even for seasoned instructor Watson.
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Wed, Dec 12, 1973
Betty and gynecologist Dr. H.S. Smedley have reason to worry when she must give Frank her good news: they're expecting a baby, but Frank is unemployed again. His next job is as animator in Mr. Lockwood's holiday camp, with self-made ventriloquist's monkey-dummy (already with an unfit second head) Marvin, is alas Frank's equal in IQ and ability to produce lip-less sound. The camp is in utter manpower penury, so Frank is auditioned: a testing experience his prospective colleague Roy will never forget.
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Wed, Dec 19, 1973
Because Frank passed out in the only fatherhood class he attended, after one minute of the 'dirty film', Betty takes him along to a cousin's daughters, who only enjoy his inadvertent monkey-business, ultimately actually co-starring with a zoo chimp. Frank's loan credentials prove perfect- for refusal and expulsion. When he actually attends a class, that proves fatal for its entire course, and for peace among expecting families.
Wed, Dec 26, 1973
Frank's endless premature fussing about the unborn baby drives everyone nuts, even when he's not bringing Betty to the hospital for another trial run or false alarm to Dr. Boyde's rising horror. Frank is still unable to do it properly when the time comes, in fact it goes badly wrong. Still they insist Frank comes inside the delivery room.