An incompetent Hollywood "public relations man" named Joey Mason forgets to make proper accommodations for an exhausted Danny Williams after he arrives in Los Angeles to play a show. Joey is then forced to put Danny up in the home he shares with his colorful parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mason and two unmarried sisters, Betty and aspiring actress Stella.
Joey badmouths his boss on a hidden camera TV show.
Joey tries to get a trained chimp on Jack Parr's show.
Joey's mother goes to work in a supermarket.
Joey arranges to get Danny Williams on ""This is your life"".
Joey moves into a swinging actors apartment complete with girls.
Joey gets his brother-in-law a job with his public relations firm.
Everyone tries to find joey a girlfriends.
Frank discovers oil on Joey's property while digging a hole.
Mrs Barnes unknowingly rents a room to a bookie
Joey has to put up with an egotistical movie star who thinks he is a great lover.
Larry is such a success in a school show that he wants to turn pro.
Joey agrees to hold a mink stole so his boss can surprise his wife, but Joeys wife Think it's for her.
The cartoon dog in a food commercial that joey is promoting looks like him.
Joey has to hide a bratty childstar for a publicity stunts.
Joey sells the house when he plans to move to New York but he changes his mind.
Joey and Larry thinks their sister is in love with her ballet teacher.
Joey is called to jury duty during his vacation.
Joey is being audited, but he didn't keep the receipts.
Lookalike Joey is kidnapped when he is mistaken for Joey Bishop.
Larry comes home with a Great Dane wich proceeds to eat them out of house and home.
Mrs Barnes buys a stuffed santa and four reindeer for a lawn display in the middle of spring.
On the eve of his wedding to Ellie, Joey is asked to fill in for Danny Thomas at a night club in Las Vegas. With nuptials looming, he turns down the request only to learn a few hours after the marriage that his manager has accepted the engagement beginning that night.
When Joey refuses to perform at a benefit for Jillson's fraternal lodge, the janitor tries to harass him into changing his mind.
Ellie is upset when Freddy keeps crashing in on her and Joey's meals. But, when Freddy crashes Ellie and Joey's three-month wedding anniversary dinner, Ellie becomes upset and tells Joey to get rid of him.
Joey tries to cure Ellie of her irresistible desire to buy things she doesn't need from every pitchman with a hard-luck story.
Joey is reluctant to take a sorely needed vacation when the sponsor of his nightly TV show enthusiastically picks an unknown comic for the fill-in spot.
Joey and Freddy arrive at Joey's apartment unexpectedly to find Ellie dressed to the nines. Joey's suspicions are further aroused when he learns she is meeting a man named Roger, whom she tries to pass off as the plumber.
Joey's mandolin playing on his TV show so disturbs his manager, Freddy, that the two decide to dissolve their lifelong friendship. But, when Freddy tries for a new job he needs Joey's recommendation and Joey writes terrible about Freddy. The two resolve their differences and Freddy is still Joey's manager.
Joey's gags knocking women in politics on his show spurs Ellie to announce her candidacy for Assembly. Freddy and Joey plot that she will quit this silly idea when they let her go on TV and embarrass herself when she acts dumb about American History. Except she goes and steadies on the American History and makes a fool of Joey.
Ellie and Joey reluctantly become hosts to an Eskimo dog that apartment superintendent Jillson won in a jingle contest. But, the dog must have the apartment freezing and Joey complains all the time. He and Ellie stay in Jillson's basement apartment with animals of all types.
Weary of hearing Joey's excuses for neglecting to take his regular medical checkup, Ellie cooks up an elaborate plot to make him think he's sick. When the scheme fails, Freddy brings in old vaudeville star, Max Collins, to hypnotize Joey.
When Joey feels that Ellie is homesick for Texas he decides to take her to Texas but can't leave his show then Freddy decides that since Joey can't take Ellie to Texas for Joey to bring Texas to Ellie. In the apartment Freddy, Joey and guests perform a Texas act for Ellie.
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.
Seeking a good investment opportunity for Joey, Freddy finds a boxer who looks like he will make champ material ever though he has never fought professional. Joey ends up wasting money on the boxer and Willie never becomes anything.
Shortly before he is scheduled to perform at an important dinner attended by the Governor, Joey discovers he can't find his lucky cuff links. Joey refuses to go and perform unless he finds out his lucky cuff links. Joey goes to the laundry to find them and the two laundress look for them and Ellie makes believe that she finds them. But, later the women find them.
Ellie turns into a green-eyed monster after Joey misses five consecutive meals to work overtime with his new secretary. Freddy tells Joey to chase Cindy around the office and she will quit but Ellie walks in. Freddy informs Ellie of his plan and Joey and Ellie make up.
Ellie's friend Doris makes Ellie want a make up kiss from Joey because she and Joey haven't ever had a a fight. And Doris says that the make up kiss is the best thing out of marriage. So Ellie tries to provoke Joey into a fight but can't understand it. Freddy tells Joey to give Ellie a fight if she wants one.
Joey Bishop portrays dual roles, as TV entertainer Joey Barnes and nearsighted convict Louie. After Joey entertains inmates at a nearby prison, Louie knocks Joey unconscious and changes clothes with him. Later, at Joey's apartment, Louie even fools Ellie for a time. Meanwhile, Joey is thrown into Louie's cell and tries to convince his cellmate that the whole thing has been a terrible mistake.
With Jillson being a guest on Joey 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.
To discourage an 8-year-old girl's crush on him, Joey invites her to a rehearsal of his show and acts like a tyrant, firing members of his production staff and brow-beating his performers.
Ellie is babysitting Mrs. Bennett's, a neighbor, baby but when Mrs. Bennett calls and tells Ellie that she can't make it back in time for Ellie's doctor's appointment, Joey volunteers Larry and himself to take care of the baby. Joey and Larry make the baby formula and make a mess instead.
Joey tells Ellie that he's making the jump from comedy to drama.
Natalie Tribly and Mildred Cosgrove who have been trying to con Joey Barnes into letting them on his show, by putting starch in his under shorts. So Joey finally gives in. He tells the two laundresses that they can mention their laundry because it would plug the laundry. The two try and try to but it into conversation and Joey, and the two laundresses end up singing and dancing and afterwards the two laundresses go ahead and plug their laundry, and starch Joey's shorts too.
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 Barnes into letting Mildred's niece a big break on his television show. Gina, Mildred's unknown teenage opera singing niece gets a start on Joey's show.
Joey practices prenatal suggestion on Ellie by repeating ""our son is going to be a doctor"" in her ear while she sleeps.
Joey demonstrates the skills he acquired at an expectant father's school.
Ellie is convinced that Hilda will be just as good a nanny as she has been a maid - which is exactly what Joey is afraid of.
Special guest star Buddy Hackett becomes Joey's practical-joking house guest. From the moment he makes his unannounced appearance at the Barnes's apartment, leading a baby elephant, to his impromptu buffoonery on Joey's TV show, Buddy plays a madcap role. Joey, however, plots revenge with the help of a surprise celebrity guest.
Joey tries to remain calm while Ellie goes off to the maternity ward.
Joey brings Ellie and Joey Jr. home from the hospital, and his concern for them transcends reason. His insistence that everyone who comes near this child must wear a mask leads to complications when Joey himself is suspected of being an armed bandit.
Joey plugs a laundry on his show and gets swamped with "equal time" demands.
Joey is determined to keep his mustache despite all opposition.
Guest star Danny Thomas and Joey Bishop play a pair of restless teenagers in a spoof of ""spare the rod and spoil the child."" The two stars play their own teenage sons in a lampoon of pampered youth. The two comedians reminisce about their own simple childhoods, and Danny cautions Joey not to spoil his newborn son.
Joey Barnes stages his own one man show in his living room to ease his wife Ellie's disappointment over missing their big night out on the town because the baby sitter canceled.
Joey tries to re-claim a valuable item
Ellie goes off on a visit leaving Joey and Larry home with the housework.
Ellie thinks Joey is hinting that she needs more beautifying.
Vic Damone plays himself in this zany cloak and dagger episode which Joey Barnes becomes convinced that both he and Vic are soviet spies.
An intimate TV interview with Joey Barnes, Ellie, and Joey Jr. becomes more like Grand Central Station. However, Joey is determined to have the program run smoothly despite Ellie's jitters, the wisecracks of the director, and the insistance that Jillson and Hilda are now part of the Barnes family.
Special Guest Star Bobby Rydell sings to ease the tense situation between the Barneses, and is trapped into promoting an amateurish song composed by Ellie.
In an effort to give Joey a much needed rest from the pressure of this TV show and network commitments, Ellie rents a remote cabin in a place that isn't even on the map - Hoppawattomie Falls.
Zsa Zsa decides that Joey Jr.'s room is not masculine enough and takes it upon herself to redecorate it - much to Ellie's dismay.
Comedian Phil Foster has never forgiven the Dodgers for moving from Brooklyn to Los Angeles, but the Dodgers still remember Phil as their No. 1 fan. Dodger manager Leo Durocher gives Joey the impossible task of getting Phil to act as MC at a testimonial dinner for the Dodgers.
Joey Barnes, the ""King of Deadpan Comics"", and Jack E. Leonard, the ""Master of Insults"", have a disagreement over a teddy bear.
On the night when Joey is to entertain the sponsor, comedian Buddy Hackett plays a practical joke on Joey, by getting rid of all the furniture and creating a luau.
A battle of the sexes flares when guest stars Andy Williams and his wife, Claudine, pay a call on Joey and Ellie Barnes. Aware that their wives have arranged for them to be ""surprise"" guest entertainers at their Ladies' Club dinner for the fifth consecutive year, Joey and Andy openly defy their wives and decide on a ""sitdown"" strike.
The Dodgers strike out with Joey when they fail to show up for his TV show.
Edgar Bergen teaches Joey some ventriloquist's tricks.
Joey fights a losing battle trying to get Milton Berle into the TV studio to rehearse for a guest appearance on Joey's TV show. But, Uncle Miltie is too busy supervising Joey Jr.'s homecoming from the hospital.
The close harmony of the Andrews Sisters (Patty, Maxine, and LaVerne) shatters when Joey Barnes wants to make them a quartet.
Joey has just moved into a new penthouse apartment when he learns his television show has been canceled. So he goes to CBS Television Network and his show gets picked up.
Joey Barnes and guest star Jan Murray agree to put on a comedy boxing show for charity, but it turns into a real life grudge match.
When Joey comes home late from a poker party, he tries to set the clock back but doesn't realize that Ellie is aware of this trick.
Tenants of the apartment house complain that Jillson is too busy admiring himself to do any work. (This is a result of Joey giving him a toupee as a gift, causing a surprising personality change.) But Jillson says he would rather lose his job than his new hair.
Joey's nephew Rusty Williams (Rusty Hamer, of ""Make Room For Daddy"") comes to stay with Joey and Ellie. Joey and Ellie are shocked to see that he conducts himself like a well-behaved gentleman instead of a typical teenager.
Now that Rusty is a college student, he keeps asking Joey questions that Joey doesn't know the answer to. In order to seem smart, he and Larry ask for help from a convicted bookmaker with a photographic mind.
After Joey Barnes entertains at an official luncheon in honor of a visiting sultan, the potentate expresses his appreciation by sending him a couple of harem beauties, much to the dismay of Ellie.
Joey Barnes and three pals help Rusty Williams and his fellow pledges carry out an unusual fraternity initiation stunt, by dressing like girls and going to a fraternity dance.
Joey Barnes takes on the chore of converting a spare room into a nursery after Joey's unending barrage of chatter and unsolicited advice forces the workmen he hired to quit the job.
Joey Barnes refuses to attend a reunion of his wartime Army outfit when he learns that his sadistic former master sergeant will be the guest of honor.
Joey generously lauds a friend's wife for her performance in an amateur production and then finds himself being coerced into putting her on his own television show.
Joey and Ellie are having a party and one of the guests asks Ellie what does she thing the new baby will be and she says a girl. But Joey argues saying that it will be another boy. Then Ellie suddenly goes into labor and the Barnes' have a baby girl.