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Series regulars or semi-regulars in 'My World And Welcome To It' from 1970-1982:



1970-1982 Episode Guide for 'My World And Welcome To It':


(Episodes with dates prior to 1970 aired as reruns.)

September 22, 1969: The Disenchanted
Season 1, episode 2
W: Ruth Brooks Flippen   D: Danny Arnold

With Carole Cook (Aunt Kate), Lillian Field (Miss Skidmore), Leonard Bremen (Harry), Arthur Julian (Real Estate Agent). Annoyed by her father's refusal to help get her seat at school changed, Lydia Monroe runs away from home.

September 29, 1969: Little Girls Are Sugar & Spice - And Not Always Nice!
Season 1, episode 3
W: Rick Mittleman   D: Lee Philips

With Oscar Beregi Jr. (Otto Bergmann), Lew Gallo (First Man), Lee Philips (Second Man). In an effort to improve communication between father and daughter, Mrs. Monroe teaches Lydia the rudiments of chess and inveigles a match between the pair.

October 6, 1969: Christabel
Season 1, episode 4
W: Melville Shavelson   D: Sheldon Leonard

With Frank DeVol (Veterinarian), Richard Steele (Charlie). One of John Monroe's magazine articles gets him in trouble with his family, his editor and the police.

October 13, 1969: The Night The House Caught Fire
Season 1, episode 5
W: Melville Shavelson   D: Melville Shavelson

With Douglas Fowley (Grandpa), Vic Tayback (Alexander), Joe Besser (Fire Chief), Bobby Riha (Young John), Ralph Montgomery (Fireman #1), Ken Greenwald (Fireman #2), Billy Corcoran (Roy Monroe). John Monroe retreats into the past and recalls the time his boyhood sniffles led to the calling out of the town's fire department.

October 20, 1969: The Ghost And Mr. Monroe
Season 1, episode 6
W: Carl Kleinschmitt   D: Danny Arnold

With James Gregory (J.P. Morgan), Sheldon Leonard (Stockbroker), Paul Kent (Writer), Frank Christi (Reynolds), Riza Royce (Morgan's Secretary). John Monroe quits his job in a huff and finds himself begging tips on the stock market from J.P. Morgan.

October 27, 1969: Nobody Ever Kills Dragons Anymore
Season 1, episode 7
W: Phil Sharp   D: John Rich

With Svetlana Mischoff (Exotic Secret Agent), Bill Erwin (American Conductor), Karl Bruck (Foreign Conductor), Aly Wassil (Hindu), Ed Peck (Fred). Eleven pickle forks lead John Monroe into a fantasy world of international intrigue.

November 3, 1969: Seal In The Bedroom
Season 1, episode 8
W: Paul Wayne   D: Lee Philips

With Betty Kean (John's Mother), Phil Jensen (Henry Morgan). John Monroe turns to writer Phil Jensen for help when his seal-in-the-bedroom cartoon is rejected by his editor.

November 10, 1969: The Saga Of Dimity Ann
Season 1, episode 9
W: Harvey Bullock, R.S. Allen, Danny Arnold   D: John Rich

With Warren Parker (Judge), Lew Gallo (Defense Attorney). John Monroe secretly abandons the family cat in a new housing development and faces a suspicious family.

November 17, 1969: A Friend Of The Earth
Season 1, episode 10
W: Paul Wayne   D: Hal Cooper

With Arthur Hunnicutt (Zeph Leggin), Larry Storch (Paul Morton). John Monroe finds a country humorist too much competition when his wife and daughter laugh at the man's jokes.

November 24, 1969: Maid In Connecticut
Season 1, episode 11
W: Tom Koch, Danny Arnold, Mel Shavelson   D: James Sheldon

With Queenie Smith (Maid). John Monroe's wife, Ellen, goes on vacation, leaving a maid who's afraid of appliances to look after her daughter and husband.

December 1, 1969: Native Wit
Season 1, episode 12
W: Marion Hargrove   D: Hal Cooper

With Arthur Hunnicutt (Zeph Leggin). When the village wit prepares to leave town after John Monroe "out-wits" him, John begins to feel guilty.

December 8, 1969: The Shrike And The Chipmunks
Season 1, episode 13
W: Marion Hargrove   D: Sheldon Leonard

With Paul Ford (George Lindsay Lockhart). John Monroe, who despises authors of chldren's books, is forced to collaborate with one of the most famous of them.

December 15, 1969: Rally Round The Flag
Season 1, episode 14
W: Laurence Marks   D: James Sheldon

With Danny Arnold (Santa Claus), William Bramley (Beeman), Lew Gallo (Shopper), Sam Denoff (Another shopper). John Monroe's last-minute Christmas shopping brings down the wrath of the neighborhood on his shoulders.

December 22, 1969: The War Between Men And Women
Season 1, episode 15
W: Rick Mittleman   D: Alan Rafkin

With Ray Walston (J.J. Howard), Olive Dunbar (Ruth Jensen), Buddy Lester (Bartender), Patty Regan (Sylvia Howard), Margaret Muse (Margaret Greeley). A spilled martini triggers an outbreak of hostilities among friends attending a party at the Monroes.

December 29, 1969: The Mating Dance
Season 1, episode 16
W: John McGreevey, Melville Shavelson   D: Danny Arnold

With Kerry MacLane (Elbert), Scott Keith (Leonard Otterquist), Douglas Fowley (Grandpa). John Monroe has to call upon all his powers of imagination and ingenuity to illustrate proper social behavior to a young bully.

January 5, 1970: Darn That Dream
Season 1, episode 17
W: Lila Garrett, Bernie Kahn   D: John Rich

With Sheldon Leonard (Jeremiah), Ruth McDevitt (Aunt Hester), Eldon Quick (Cousin Horace), Nick Beuvy (Young John Monroe), Iris Korn (Aunt Dora). John Monroe retreats to his childhood fantasies to explain to his daughter how nightmares run in the family.

January 12, 1970: The Human Being And The Dinosaur
Season 1, episode 18
W: Laurence Marks   D: Alan Rafkin

With Jimmy Miller (Boy), Jesse White (Harold Berger). Lydia takes a punch at a neighborhood boy and sets off an adventure into the realm of superior-inferior beings.

January 19, 1970: "Dear" Is A Four-Letter Word
Season 1, episode 19
W: Erik Tarloff, David Adler, Melville Shavelson, Danny Arnold   D: John Rich

With Alan Oppenheimer (Principal), Lillian Field (Miss Skidmore), Danny Bonaduce (Leonard). Ellen Monroe's insistence that a communications gap exists between her husband and daughter receives support from Lydia's school when John is called before the principal.

January 26, 1970: The Middle Years
Season 1, episode 20
W: Danny Arnold, Ruth Brooks Flippen   D: Danny Arnold

With Lee Meriwether (Neighbor), Noam Pitlik (Mover), Joseph V. Perry (Another Mover), Percy Helton (Mailman), Tom D'Andrea (Cab Driver). When his family heads for the mountains and leaves John Monroe alone to catch up on his work, he flees into fantasy with a seductive neighbor.

February 2, 1970: Rules For A Happy Marriage
Season 1, episode 21
W: Rick Mittleman, Danny Arnold, Melville Shavelson   D: John Rich

With Frank Aletter (Nathan Williams), Stuart Margolin (Arthur Charles), Margaret Muse (Margaret Greeley), Olive Dunbar (Ruth Jensen), Buddy Lester (Bartender). Engrossed in a discussion of the shortcomings of wives, John Monroe forgets to keep a luncheon date with his.

February 9, 1970: The Wooing Of Mr. Monroe
Season 1, episode 22
W: Laurence Marks   D: James Sheldon

With Neva Patterson (Dorothy Carter). Ellen Monroe suspects that husband John's collaboration with a woman writer in her apartment goes further than just work.

February 16, 1970: The Mea Culpa Bit
Season 1, episode 23
W: Bill Manhoff   D: John Rich

With Stuart Margolin (Arthur Charles), Milton Selzer (Dr. Gray). It seems everybody wants to take the blame when John Monroe chases daughter Lydia out of the study and she breaks her arm.

February 23, 1970: The Fourth Estate
Season 1, episode 24
W: Lila Garrett, Bernie Kahn, Melville Shavelson, Danny Arnold   D: John Rich

With Allyn Ann McLerie (Mrs. McGraw), Michael Barbara (Buzz), Christopher Shea (Patrick McGraw). John Monroe is shaken when his work is not only lambasted by his own editor but rejected by his daughter's sixth-grade class editor.

March 2, 1970: Monroe The Mysogynist
Season 1, episode 25
W: Stan Cutler, Martin Donovan   D: Allen Baron

With Craig Stevens (Barley Burell), Bobo Lewis (Secretary). Accusations of being a woman-hater lock John Monroe's creativity in to a single type of cartoon.

March 9, 1970: Child's Play
Season 1, episode 26
W: Carl Kleinschmitt   D: John Rich

With Olive Dunbar (Ruth Jensen), Marc Winters (Harry Jensen), Roberta Carroll (Miss Dalrymple). After criticizing a friend for the same thing, John Monroe gets guilt feelings for forgetting a picnic date with daughter Lydia. (Last show of the series.)


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