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The Mothers-in-Law - Season 1

Series: Mothers-in-Law

(44)

Episodes

Rating

TVG

Year

1967

Language

English

Publisher

MPI Media Group

About

Set in the swinging late 1960s, THE MOTHERS-IN-LAW centers on the laugh-filled misadventures of longtime neighbors who become related when their children suddenly get married.

Emmy Award-Winning actress Eve Arden stars as Eve Hubbard, the sophisticated wife of straight-laced lawyer Herbert Hubbard. Comedienne Kaye Ballard plays Kaye Buell, the outspoken wife of bombastic television writer Roger Buell. The strong-willed mothers are determined to meddle in the lives of newlyweds Jerry and Suzie.

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Episodes

1. On Again, Off Again, Lohengrin

26m

The bickering Hubbards and Buells are stunned when their kids return from a night out announcing they’re engaged. After arguments about the wedding plans are finally settled (amid the kids’ breaking up over a fight about whose mother is right), the kids wind up eloping with another couple, while their parents are trying to rescue Kaye’s beloved grand piano, set up in the Hubbards’ back yard for the next morning’s nuptials, from a midnight rain storm.

2. Everybody Goes on a Honeymoon

25m

The Hubbards and the Buells show up at the same resort, and when their honeymooning kids unexpectedly arrive, having been rained out at their original destination, the in-laws spend a sleepless night together in a cramped room, giving the only other available room to the kids. Desi Arnaz, Jr. can be seen in a golf cart in the opening scene.

3. All Fall Down

25m

Eve and Kaye break their legs skiing and are bedridden in the same room.

4. A Night to Forget

25m

Going to a store to return a duplicate wedding gift for the kids, the mothers, who have been banned from their own phones for continually calling the honeymooning couple, spend $15.70 talking to them on a payphone, unknowingly getting locked in the store when it closes. With only one dime left, they accidentally reach a sleeping bullfighter in Barcelona, whom they beg to relay their SOS to their husbands. Madness ensues when a security guards finds them trying on fur coats.

5. The Newlyweds Move In

25m

Checking out the place that the kids have rented, the mothers return their deposit and fix up the Hubbards’ garage apartment for them. After their snooping gets them caught hiding in the kids’ shower, they promise not to interfere, but their curiosity gets to them when they see friends arriving for a dinner party. Peeking in the electric garage door windows, they wind up spending the evening lying atop the horizontal door after Jerry opens it for some fresh air.

6. The Career Girls

25m

To cut down on their wives’ meddling, Herb and Roger suggest that they get jobs. Realizing that all their “suggesting, recommending, and advising” might just be too much, they decide to try it. With Kaye’s past signing career as “Angelina Davina, The Little Girl with the Big Voice” and Eve’s youthful experience in local radio, they go to audition for a revue at the hip Club Cabaret and work up a novelty act, calling themselves The Marvys. (Desi Arnaz, Jr. is seen playing the drums).

7. Who's Afraid of Elizabeth Taylor?

25m

When Roger and Herb admit that they would date Liz Taylor if given the chance, their wives console each other at the Buell house, leaving their befuddled husbands to go it alone next door.

8. My Son, the Actor

25m

Jerry decides to major in dramatic arts, giving everyone the showbiz bug. Suzie and all four parents tune up to help him audition for the school musical.

9. How Do You Moonlight a Meatball?

25m

When the kids in a financial bind, Eve and Kaye decide to help pay off Suzie’s ring by selling Kaye’s famous spaghetti and meatballs on the college campus.

10. I Thought He'd Never Leave

25m

A fugitive bank robber holds everyone at gunpoint at the Hubbards’ home, whiling away the time reciting poetry and playing gin rummy, and everyone hopes that Kaye’s newly acquired karate skills will help them escape.

Extended Details

SeriesMothers-in-Law

Closed CaptionsEnglish

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