The Terrible Catsafterme

SEASON 1 – CBS

Created by Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf

Opening song: “Katy” by Ann Sothern and Bonnie Lake

• 001. The Bridal Suite – 10/6/1958
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• 002. Six Wives Plus Two – 10/13/1958
  • When a Maharajah sultan from Rabutistan, traveling incognito as Mr. Smith in New York, comes to the Bartley House with his six wives, the hotel manager Jason Macauley (Ernest Truex) gives the assistant manager Katy O’Connor (Ann Sothern) the task of finding them a room. When one of the Smith’s wives, Liana, (Lisa Montrell) sees Katy’s fingernail polish, he orders eight bottles of it for his six wives present and the two back home. Bellboy Johnny Wallace (Jack Mulaney) is interested in polygamy from a sociology standpoint, while the French desk clerk Paul Monteney (Jacques Scott) is jealous that America doesn’t normalize this. Mr. Macauley’s wife Flora (Reta Shaw) and his secretary, who is also Katy’s roommate, Olive Smith (Ann Tyrrell) are titillated by the situation, but Flora gets quite jealous when she finds Mr. Macauley showing one of the Maharani how to use the shower in the room. However, Flora still invites all of the women to attend a party in her room. When Macauley steps outside to direct Smith to Cartier’s shop, a car nearly collides with Smith, but Macauley, while simply trying to get out of the way himself, saves Smith from being hit. As a reward for his bravery, Smith has his assistant (Howard Caine) presents Macauley with his favorite wife Liana. Although Macauley is tempted by having her as his wife, Katy says he can’t keep her because he is already married, but Liana insists that she will be punished if she returns to the Maharajah. Macauley decides to tell his wife the truth, but when she comes into the room, he has Katy hide her in the closet. Flora is expecting all six wives at her party, but Liana refuses to go back with the harem of wives, so Katy dresses up as one of the Maharanis herself. Flora notices that she doesn’t know the rituals as well, has blonde hair unlike the others, and has trouble keeping her veil out of her mouth. When the ladies all put on a song and dance for Flora, Katy has to do so in high heels and blames it on her flat feet. Back in Macauley’s office, e Liana is giving him a facial… and in seventh heaven. Katy returns and is annoyed that he is enjoying himself while she is struggling to get through her tea party with Flora. Katy gets the idea to ask the Maharajah if he might be able to exchange Liana for another gift, as the government forbids bigamy. Smith agrees to these terms and tells him that he will send another gift when he returns to his home country. A months later, the replacement gift finally arrives, and it turns out to be an elephant, also named Liana. Katy tells Olive about how Smith winded up buying hats for his wives… and Post cereal for himself. 3/2/25
• 003. Love Comes to Olive – 10/20/1958
  • Olive has been acting flighty, and when she serves Katy her parakeet Agnes’s birdseed instead of cereal for breakfast, she surmises that Olive must be in love. Olive admits that this is true, but she won’t tell her with whom. When Katy gets to the hotel, she finds out soon enough when Paul tells her that Olive keeps leaving him ‘secret admirer’ letters constantly, all of which are in her handwriting, and won’t take her eyes off him at the hotel. Mr. Macauley is also annoyed by this as Olive seems preoccupied, and the others are paying more attention to this situation than work. Macauley puts Katy in charge of finding a solution, so she decides to talk to Paul and have him act like a wolf around Olive. Paul confesses to Katy that he is really quite shy around women, so Katy keeps Olive busy rewriting the letters that she absentmindedly botched before, while she meets with Paul at her their apartment to teach him how to be aggressive with women. When Johnny finds out that Katy is out with Paul, he too gets jealous and tells Olive what is going on. She rushes home and walks in on Katy seemingly aggressively pursuing Paul, causing her to storm right back out. After disappearing for a while, she returns home and puts a rope up across the living room, telling Katy that they can divide the room in halves and stay in their own section. At work the next day, neither Olive nor Katy can get anything done, so Macauley sends Olive home and tells Katy that she’s better keep working on resolving the issue. She asks Johnny if she might be able to meet with his Psychology professor Alexander Handley (Frank Behrens). She convinces him to visit with Olive under the pretense of performing a survey. Olive and Johnny wait in the hall and work a crossword puzzle while Handley talks to Olive. They emerge 90 minutes later, and Olive has a brand-new outlook on things. This is because Handley has decided to ask her out on a date. He tells Katy that there will no charge for his services. Later, Paul brings Katy flowers and asks when they can continue their ‘wolf’ lessons. She tells him to sit down, close his eyes, and think about wolves, then she quietly leaves and tells him they can finish the lesson via a correspondence course. 3/2/25
• 004. Governess for a Day – 10/27/1958
  • When Katy arrives at work, she finds out from Mrs. Macauley that her husband is being given the achievement award for the Best Hotel Manager in the entire Bartley chain, and the Vice President Harvey McKendrick (Raymond Bailey) will be coming the following day to make the presentation to him. Wanting to make sure that nothing disturbs the tranquility of McKendrick’s visit, Mrs. Macauley has Katy put in charge of making sure that it doesn’t. Just then Miss Brody (Isabelle Dwan), the governess of one of the major shareholders’ son, Donald Carpenter (Barry Gordon), grows tired of all of the boy’s shenanigans including sending a scathing letter about her to his father and quits. Katy tries to put an ad out for a replacement, but in the meantime, she is asked to look after Donald. Johnny tries to advise Katy to just ignore anything that Donald does so that he gets no attention for his misbehavior. When Katy arrives at Donald’s room, he is quite polite to her before giving her a hand buzzer. He is shocked right away when she says that his joke was funny, and she isn’t mad. It only takes a matter of minutes before they are playing cops and robbers, and Donald has her handcuffed. Two hours later, he is still interrogating her, and she is still in the cuffs. After beating Katy in checkers, he then sings her a rock and roll song and beats on his drums. Donald then asks if he can go outside and mail a letter to his father. Katy assumes that everything in the letter is bashing her, but Donald gets angry and lets her read the letter. He actually told his father that she is the best governess he ever had and that he is happy when he is with her. After she apologizes to him, Donald returns to being kind and helpful to Katy and all of the other workers in the hotel. Mrs. Macauley tells Katy to send Mr. McKendrick to room 709, which is to be stocked with refreshments. Mrs. Macauley also tells Katy that she has found a male governess for Donald. He isn’t happy when he hears this, so he changes the notes that Katy wrote for the front desk to send the governess Mr. White (James Seay) to McKendrick’s room and to send McKendrick to his room. When Mr. Macauley and Katy go to see Mr. McKendrick, they wind up talking to Mr. White. They eventually realize what has happened, so they hightail it to Donald’s room where he has McKendrick stuck on a stationary bike. He tells Macauley that he isn’t going to give him the award after all. Donald tells Katy that she is no pal for planning to palm him off on some other governess. Katy then visits with Mr. McKendrick to try to tell him that Mr. Macauley had nothing to do with what happened, but he says that as manager, Macauley is still responsible for what goes on. Katy accepts a phone call in McKendrick’s room and pretends to give a press release about how a boy alone without his parents has ruffled the feathers of Mr. McKendrick and has arbitrarily decided not to give Macauley the award. McKendrick then has a change of heart and says that the award ceremony is still on. After McKendrick presents the award, Donald apologizes to him for the indignities he suffered. As he leaves, he has a sign tacked to his back that says “I’m a football. Kick me.” Katy gives him both a spanking and a hug. Jack Wagner is the desk clerk Alfred. Sid Tomack is Herman. 7/15/25
• 005. The Masquerade Ball – 11/3/1958
  • There will be a masquerade ball in the Crystal Room at the Bartley House, and Mr. Macauley is going to dress as Lord Nelson. One of the guests is the ultra-rich Cornelius Van Dyck (Selmer Jackson) who will be attending with his wife (Lela Bliss), who was just featured in the newspaper for her famous valuable pendant. Meanwhile, two thugs, Joey O’Connor (Alan Carney) and Michael Franklin (Wally Cassell) are planning to attend the ball so that they can steal the pendant. At the ball that night, Mrs. Van Dyck asks Mr. Macauley to put her jewels in the safe, which is located in the manager’s office. Katy says that once she stays up this late, she has trouble sleeping, so Macauley offers some of his ‘relaxing pills’ which puts her right to sleep at her desk. The two thugs break into the office but are unable to wake her up at first. When they realize that they can’t break into the safe, they manage to wake up Katy and force her to open the safe. She tries to stall them but eventually gives them the combination. As she walks out with the robbers, they tell her that they hope she doesn’t get in trouble, and Joey kisses her on the cheek… all in full view of the Van Dycks. The detective, James O’Connor (Frank Faylen), questions Katy and brings up the robber that kissed her, but she insists that she’d never seen them before in her life. Katy doesn’t care for how she is portrayed in the newspaper as a suspect, thinking that no one will want to put their jewels in the safe at the Bartley House, which will lead to her being fired, poor, and starving. When Katy remembers that one of the robbers mentioned the place Flip’s, Katy has Johnny looking into, and he finds out that Flip’s is a bar in Brooklyn. Katy dresses like a brunette floozy and visits the bar, where she meets the bartender Louis (Stanley Adams) and a drunk (Wally Vernon). Sure enough, Joey and Michael show up at the bar. Katy introduces herself to Joey as Maisie McGuire, and he is immediately smitten by her. He tries to impress her by showing her some of Mrs. Van Dyck’s jewelry. She calls Detective O’Connor and calls him her mother and gives him clues about Joey having beautiful jewels at Flip’s. O’Connor takes the hint and heads to Flip’s, while Katy keeps Joey busy by dancing with him repeatedly. At one point, her brunette wig starts to come off, and he grabs Michael, who identifies her. Just then, O’Connor and his men come in and arrest the guys. Katy identifies herself to O’Connor, and he drives her home. Later, Detective O’Connor reveals to Katy that Joey’s last name is O’Connor too. 7/15/25
• 006. A New Lease on Life – 11/10/1958
  • Katy has to scold Johnny for spending too many of his work hour studying for school. He explains that he is deep into a writing a paper on human dominance and using Katy’s dominance over Olive as his subject. Meanwhile, Katy checks in a Mexican band called the Caballeros (Guadalajara Boys aka Guadalajara Trio) led by their English-speaking member Juano (Jose Gonzales-Gonzales) to perform in the Crystal Room, and the hotel starts to receive complains that they are making too much noise playing music in their room. Katy starts to feel about the fact that Olive seems unable to make any decision for herself without Katy leading the way for her. With their lease up at their apartment, Katy wants Olive to make the decision to renew it instead of letting Katy make yet another decision for them. When Katy consults Professor Handley about whether dominance can be bad, he tells her that it can be quite destructive. She then makes the decision to move out into her own apartment so that Olive can have some independence. As their landlord Miss Bennett (Kathleen Freeman) tries to get them sign the lease, Katy comes up with every possible reason not to sign. Olive questions Katy, who tells her that she thinks that their apartment may not be big enough for both of them any longer. Olive interprets this to mean that they need to find a bigger apartment for them both to move to. Katy looks at one apartment, and when the landlord calls for Katy and Olive answers, she assumes that it is an apartment for both of them, so she rushes over and signs the lease on Katy’s behalf. Katy then finds out that the apartment she was looking at was grabbed up by someone else, not knowing it was Olive. Katy then signs a lease on yet another apartment. When Katy talks to Professor Handley again, she realizes that she misinterpreted what he said as he was talking about children being dominated by their parents. He suggests that Olive is best off by having Katy to lean on. Katy then finds out that Olive has also signed a lease, leaving them with two apartments. In addition, Miss Bennett informs them that even though they didn’t sign the lease, a clause stating that it would renew automatically if they didn’t give notice of terminating it mean that they now have three apartment leases. When Katy talks to the Caballeros about making too much noise, the language barrier prevents them from getting her message across. However, she gets the idea to bring the band to her new apartment to play all night in order to break that lease. Once that works, she brings them to Vi’s new apartment to try the same thing. However, this doesn’t work with this landlord, Jack Lambert (Howard McNear), as he is a music lover. However, Katy renews the contract for the Caballeros to play in the Crystal Room for a year and arranges for them to take Lambert’s apartment since he loves having them around. Lyn Osborn is Jimmy the waiter. 2/22/26
• 007. The Countess 0f Bartley – 11/17/1958
  • The Duchess of Charbonnet (Gladys Cooper) is staying at the Bartley and insists on constant attention and council from Katy. She calls her home from a date at the opera one night to tell her how angry she is about the newspaper reporting that her nephew Count Ferdinand (Alan Marshal) is coming to America to shop for a bride. However, after fifteen engagements, this proves to be true. The Duchess explains that after each engagement has progressed, the Duchess develops a psychosomatic condition whereby he comes down with a bad cold and has to call of the wedding. The Duchess lets Katy try on some of her expensive diamond jewelry and tiara and allows her to take it to the opera. She then gets the idea that it looks good on Katy and thus, she should become Ferdinand’s bride. She makes the announcement to the newspaper, and when Katy arrives at work the next day, she is bombarded by the press. Mr. Macauley is distressed that this will mean he has lost the best assistant manager he’s ever had. When Count Ferdinand arrives, he goes along with the plan and accepts the fact that Katy will be his bride. Katy tries to stand up to the Duchess but is unable to hurt her feelings. Instead, she insists on having an American-style date with the Count. She abandons his limousine and insists that they walk to the Hamburger Palace, then out for dancing, and to a baseball game. When the Count gets hit in the head with a foul ball, Katy puts him in a taxi and sends him back to his hotel, thinking that he will quickly want to quash the engagement. However, it has the opposite effect, and he is relieved to be with a woman so unlike his domineering aunt. Katy has to change her strategy and the next time she sees the Count, she dresses in the gown that the Duchess gave her and acts just as haughty as the Duchess. This brings about an immediate cold from the Count, who returns home and sends word through the Duchess that the engagement is off. The Duchess is disappointed and angry with Ferdinand but tells Katy that she has another nephew, Rupert, the Count of Lando, will be arriving to meet her. Bill Baldwin is the newscaster. Bob Stratton is the reporter. 2/22/26
• 032. Springtime for Katy – 5/18/1959
  • Katy returns to the hotel after a day of shopping with a new outfit and hat, but neither Eddie (Jim Nolan) the doorman, nor Johnny, nor Alfred notice it Furthermore, when Mr. Devery calls her in to discuss their guest, famous international playboy Randy Rand (Patrick O’Neal), he doesn’t notice and then delivers the ultimate insult after calling her ‘O’Connor’ because to him, she is just one of the guys. He also tells her to give Randy Rand some special attention because he is the kind of guest who can bring in clientele. She goes up to his suite to visit Rand, who has been trying to ensure that no women can get to him, as they often want to take souvenirs from meeting him. When Katy comes to the door, he is leery about letting her in, but once he does, he finds himself irresistibly attracted to her. She is aloof about him and thinks that he is a wolf, so when he asks her out, she is quick to turn him down, much to Olive’s surprise and consternation. However, the more she thinks about how insulted she was by Mr. Devery, she changes her mind and accepts the date, insisting that they eat at the Colonial Room where she knows that Devery will be dining as well. Katy can hardly focus on a conversation with Rand as she waits for Devery to arrive. When he finally gets there, Katy talks loud enough so that he can easily overhears the conversation but doesn’t even notice when Rand has to get up and take a phone call. Devery then turns around and finds her talking to herself. He thinks she has had too much to drink, so he escorts her out of the restaurant and sends her home. The next day, Eddie, Johnny, and Alfred all look at and treat Katy differently after seeing her name plastered in the newspaper gossip column about her date with Randy Rand, who begins sending non-stop flowers to her office in hopes of getting another date with her, apologizing for being on the phone too long the night before, which he thinks is what caused her to leave. Katy turns him down and is much more interested in seeing what Mr. Devery thinks about the article. When Rand sends Katy an expensive watch, she goes up to return it to him, telling Olive to spread it on thick about her and Rand when he comes into the office. Olive goes too far with the romance and tells Mr. Devery that Katy and Rand are planning to get married. Up in Rand’s suite, Katy tells him that she was only trying to make her boss see her as a woman. Mr. Devery, thinking Katy will be getting married and leaving the hotel, confesses to Katy that he has always found her a warm, funny, attractive, and desirable woman, and he doesn’t know what he will do without her. She is so taken aback and floating on a cloud that she forgets to tell him that they really aren’t’ getting married. When he overhears Katy turning down Rand’s dinner offer for that night, she confesses that she only wanted to make him see her as a woman. This makes him furious that she pulled out a heartfelt confession by these means. Katy then asks Rand do do her a favor, and they stage a conversation outside of Devery’s office, in which he tells her that he wants to take her away from her work and her horrible boss, and she in turn tells Rand how wonderful Devery actually is. This appeases Devery, he asks her to discuss an upcoming convention of the hotel, and that he wants to get a ‘woman’s angle.’ 11/29/24

SEASON 2

• 036. The Lucy Story – 10/5/1959
  • Katy receives a visit from her old friend Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball), who has checked into the hotel because she is upset by her husband Ricky for going on a skindiving trip with his friend Charlie Snider. Although she complains about her marriage to Ricky, she is stunned to find out that Katy is still single, especially after meeting Mr. Devery and finding out that he is single as well. Lucy warns Katy that one day she will find out that Devery has found another woman and will become quite jealous. In order to instigate this jealousy, Lucy starts sending Devery love letters to ‘Pussycat’ from ‘Cookie.’ To drive the point even more, Lucy pays a visit to Devery and tells her how lonely she is. He suggests a pet, including a pussycat, a word that Lucy says loudly so that Katy can hear her. She also instigates him to say the word ‘cookie’ loudly. When Lucy comes out of the office with Devery, Katy chastises her, prompting Lucy to say she’s proven that Katy is indeed jealous. Katy tries to get Lucy to leave and go back to Ricky, commenting that Devery is about as exciting as a ‘stuffed pimento.’ When Devery overhears this, he became enraged, so he decides to teach Katy a lesson by pursuing Lucy right back. He begins having Katy send Lucy flowers, candy, and champagne on his behalf. Lucy becomes nervous when she starts getting real attention, but he insists on taking her to dinner that evening. Katy goes to see Lucy, who is now ready to go home to Ricky, but Katy doesn’t believe her. Instead, she insists that they toast Lucy’s leaving but puts Rock-a-Bye sleep tablets into Lucy’s champagne. She then tells Lucy that she should just lay down and go to sleep, as she’s locked the door and has the key, and now will wait for Ricky to come pick her up. Before she can go to sleep, she seeks revenge on Katy by putting the sleeping pills in her candy, then offering Katy champagne. Katy says she won’t fall for her trick, but she eats the candy in lieu of the champagne. As the pills start to take effect on both of the ladies, Lucy then convinces Katy that she had never planned to run off with Mr. Devery and truly planned to go home to Ricky. Both of the women try to get out of the apartment, but in their sleepy state, they keep fumbling with the key and accidentally kick it under the door out into the hallway. They attempt to call a cab and try to stay awake by walking around in circles. As Mr. Devery shows up for his date, the girls think that they hear a cab outside and start to climb over the ledge. Fortunately, Devery has found the key and entered the suite and is able to stop them. Devery says that he only started pursuing Lucy to get back at Katy for her comment, but as he lectures them, they both fall asleep. 12/5/24
• 049. Slightly Married – 1/11/1960
  • A little boy named David Travers (Charles Herbert) walks into the Bartley House one day and asks to check in. Mr. Devery thinks they should phone the police as he is obviously a runaway, but Katy wants to humor him and go through the motions of checking him in. However, when Mr. Devery eventually calls the police, David overhears him and disappears in the hotel. A lieutenant (Harry Ellerbe) shows up and scolds both Katy and Devery for not calling him sooner. When David hears that Katy might be in trouble because of him, he resurfaces and tells her that he had taken a plane from Canada and was supposed to meet his adoptive parents, the Jamesons. When they didn’t show up at the airport, he got scared and boarded a bus into New York and tried to check into the hotel. An immigration officer named Mr. Thomas (Frank Behrens) comes to work the case, and when Katy volunteers to look after David until the mess is straightened out, he says that will be find provided that she is married. She lies and tells him that she has a husband named Wellington who would be happy for them to take them. That night she takes David home, and Olive comes over to spend the night and help. Mr. Thomas shows up to check out the house, so Katy pretends that it is her husband who is in the shower rather than Olive. Also showing up unexpectedly is Mr. Devery, who has come to apologize to Katy for being so hard on her about losing David earlier. She pulls him inside and asks him to pretend to be her husband for the night to fool Mr. Thomas. He reluctantly agrees, so Katy pulls Olive out of the shower while she has soap covering her eyes and puts her in the closet. She then has Mr. Devery go into the bathroom and put on a robe so that they can pretend that it was he who was in the shower. Katy goes back to put David to bed, leaving Devery to face Mr. Thomas alone. He starts trying to find Katy or Olive, and when Mr. Thomas overhears him calling for Olive and inquires who she is, he says he is looking for some olives to eat. Mr. Thomas tells him to go to his kitchen to get some, but since Devery doesn’t know his way around the apartment, he goes inside the closet where he finds Olive. Katy then comes out from putting David to sleep and asks where her ‘husband’ is. He tells her that he went to the kitchen and then directs her to the closet. She enters along with Mr. Devery and Olive… followed by Mr. Thomas, for a total of four people in the closet. Later, everything gets straightened out and Mr. (Wally Richard) and Mrs. Jameson (Eileen Harley aka Wallace Earl Laven) are located, and they all meet at the hotel. The Jamesons feel terrible that the got the date mixed up and has been in New York shopping for all kinds of toys, games, records, and clothes for David, who is happy to be entering such a loving family. Katy remarks that with Olive and her in the picture now, it will get awfully expensive for David on Mother’s Day. Later, when Devery sees another boy visiting the Bartley House alone, he tries to dissuade him from staying there. Katy, however, points out that he is only there to do the Tang commercial. 11/29/24
• 057. The Freeloader – 3/14/1960
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SEASON 3

• 069. Loving Arms – 10/13/1960
  • Mr. Devery comes into the office furious one morning after watching the debut of a sitcom called Loving Arms about the misadventures taking place at a swanky hotel. He finds it so offensive that he sends a nasty letter to the producer Arthur Hawk with Angus Television Productions expressing his distaste. Later, the writer of the sitcom, Terry Tyler (Van Johnson) comes into to confront Devery about his letter as the producer and sponsor took it seriously and are on the verge of cancelling the show. Katy is able to intercept his meeting with Devery and calm him down and furthermore offers him a position at the hotel so that he can witness a real hotel in operation in order to get a better picture of what really goes on. Devery is adamantly against this, but Katy, in her capacity as assistant manager, hires him anyway. He starts as an elevator operator, but due to his incompetence, Devery fires him. He then moves on to the kitchen, but he upsets the chef Marcel (Jack Chefe) when he washes the lettuce for a salad using soap and water. The Tyler moves on to being a waiter in the restaurant, but Devery catches on when Tyler spills a pitcher of water in his lap. He rips off Tyler’s fake mustache and ejects him from the hotel. Devery gets angry at Katy for going behind his back and refuses to speak to her. He gets even more annoyed when a blurb in the newspaper informs the public that the show’s writer did his research at the Bartley House. Tyler returns to the hotel to let Katy know that he has reshot the show, and it met with the approval of the producer and sponsor. He tries to get Katy to come to his apartment to watch the show, but she declines. She also informs him that Devery won’t even see the show because his TV is broken. They then arrange for Tyler to pose as a repairman and to enter Mr. Devery’s room to swap his TV. Although he is tired and wants to go to bed, he eventually allows them to do it. Katy joins them in Devery’s room, and they watch the show which stars Ann Sothern (herself) and Don Porter (himself) playing Miss McConnell and Mr. Devery. The show ends with Mr. Devery kissing Miss McConnell, as Tyler states, using dramatic license. After they watch the show, Tyler reveals himself to the real Devery, who actually likes the show. Devery immediately tries to tell Tyler about the hundreds of ideas he has for future shows. Later, Katy finally has dinner with Tyler in the dining room. They invite Mr. Devery to join them, but he already has a dinner date… with Ann Sothern, who wants to get more pointers for the show. 11/30/24
• 076. Secret Admirer – 12/1/1960
  • When Mr. Devery overhears Oscar Pudney insult Mrs. Lester (Norma Varden), one of the guests at the hotel, when she doesn’t have the change on her to pay for a magazine at his cigar shop, Devery threatens to terminate his lease and kick him and his business out of the Bartley House. Pudney then calls his so-called attorney Jerry Doolittle (George O’Hanlon) to ask his advice on whether the lease can be broken. Since Jerry doesn’t have much actual legal expertise, he simply advises for Pudney to try and romance Katy, since she is the assistant manager. Pudney starts copying romantic poetry from greeting cards and sending it to Katy along with flowers and candy, claiming that he it is from a secret admirer. Katy and Olive first suspect that it the gifts are coming from Mr. Devery, and then from Woody. The next time Pudney is getting ready to insult Mrs. Lester, Katy appears nearby, so he is not only extra nice to Mrs. Lester, but he places a phone call to have a romantic telegram to Katy so that she can hear him placing the order. The ruse actually works, as Devery and his lawyer Dave Shelley (John Bryant) come up with a loophole to get Pudney out of the building, but Katy tells Mr. Devery that there is more to Oscar than meets the eye and talks him out of throwing him out. Meanwhile, Doolittle tries several times to get his $5 payment from Pudney with no success. In his frustration, he goes to see Katy to tell her that the secret admirer schtick was all a plot to get him on her side. He also tells her that Pudney has a jealous Italian steady girlfriend named Angie Pepito (Rita Lynn) who works for her father at Guiseppe’s Italian Restaurant, where Pudney one day plans to work. Katy gets the idea to tell Pudney she knows that he is her secret admirer, and now that it is out in the open, they can go out together. She tells him that she wants to go to Guiseppe’s place and drags him there. Naturally, when Angie sees them together and hears how Katy is talking mushy to him, she blows her top and takes back the ring that she gave Pudney. He admits to Katy that he only did it to get her on his side against Mr. Devery. Pudney then pleads with Katy to tell Angie the truth, so she makes him vow to always be nice to the customers at the hotel and then tells Angie that she was just joking around and that they are there to discuss business. Angie returns the ring to Pudney. Later, Katy makes a bet with Mr. Devery that Pudney has reformed, and the eavesdrop on him being ultra kind to a customer… before walking him out of the cigar counter roughly. In the tag scene, Pudney gives Katy another giant gift, which is huge jar of Tang. 11/29/24
• 090. Pandora – 3/16/1961
  • Mr. Devery plans on traveling to Los Angeles to visit with noted actor Anthony Bardot (Guy Mitchell), where he hopes to talk him into letting the Bartley House host his premier party in the Crystal Room. Katy, however, notes that Devery already has a Hotel Managers Convention booked for the weekend. Since Katy has known Bardot since before his days as a star, she volunteers to go in his place. Upon arrival at Bardot’s home, she meets Bardot’s latest secretary Mavis (Jane Burgess), who is storming out of the house and quitting. Bardot tells her that he has had trouble finding and keeping a secretary who didn’t want to either marry him or get a job in the pictures. He introduces her to his assistant Gabby Hoff (Luke Anthony) and housekeeper Mrs. Dudley (Jeane Wood). Katy agrees to help Bardot find a suitable secretary. She starts by calling an employment agency and speaks to a Mrs. Norton (Fay Baker) and tells her that she is looking for a simply, unsophisticated girl. It so happens that she has a girl fresh off the bus from Iowa named Pandora Peterson (Pat Carroll) in her office, although she worries that Pandora may be too clumsy when the wheel falls off of her chair while she is in the office, and she attempts to fix it. Katy asks Norton to send her right over but not tell her that she is working for Anthony Bardot. After she interviews Pandora and sees the incredible speed at which she types, Katy determines that she would be perfect for the job and introduces her to Bardot, causing Pandora to faint dead away. After she recovers, she meets Gabby, who puts her to work rubber stamping Bardot’s autographed photos. Pandora tries to impress Gabby with her Hollywood impersonations of Betty Duck and one that sounds just like Katherine Hepburn but apparently isn’t. Bardot tells Pandora that he is going out to lunch, and Gabby warns Pandora about making sure that she keeps the door bolted when no one is there as fans sometimes try and get in to see Bardot. As she writes a letter home to her mother, Pandora notices a but full of tourist sightseers outside the house. One tourist lady (Edith Leslie) bribes the bus driver (Art Lewis) to let her get off the bus to take pictures of the house. She winds up wandering into the yard and tripping on the front porch. Pandora brings her inside to help her, causing the other tourists to all file into the house and start looting for souvenirs. Bardot returns amidst the pandemonium, and after clearing the house, fires Katy. Both Gabby and Katy try to convince Bardot that the situation wasn’t entirely her fault and that everyone deserves a second chance. Bardot is adamant about getting rid of her, causing Pandora to rail him about that fact that maybe if he would go out and greet his fans once in a while, things like this wouldn’t happen. She tells him them that they just wanted something to remember him by, but she wants to leave and forget him. As a parting shot, she tells Bardot that he is ugly. Bardot is impressed with her and tells her that she is wonderful and has a job for life with him. She then reveals that she had taken a few souvenirs in her purse after all. Later, when Bardot needs Pandora to take a letter, she shows him that she has taken the typewriter apart to give it some maintenance. NOTE: This episode was intended as a backdoor pilot to a sitcom to be named either Pandora or The Pat Carroll Show but was never picked up by the network. 11/26/24

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