Series regulars or semi-regulars in 'The Courtship Of Eddie's Father' from 1970-1982:
- Bill Bixby as Tom Corbett (1969-1972)
- Brandon Cruz as Eddie Corbett (1969-1972)
- James Komack as Norman Tinker (1969-1972)
- Kristina Holland as Tina Rickles (1969-1972)
- Miyoshi Umeki as Mrs. Livingston (1969-1972)
1970-1982 Episode Guide for 'The Courtship Of Eddie's Father':
(Episodes with dates prior to 1970 aired as reruns.)
Season 1, episode 1
W: Richard M. Powell D: Alan Rafkin
With Karin Wolfe (Etta), Lynn Fields (Heidi), Ann Marie (Hildy), Victoria Vetri (Dolly).
Friendly Eddie meets a movie-struck girl on a studio tour and invites her to spend the night at the Corbetts' apartment. When Mrs. Livingston comes to work in the morning she thinks the girl is Tom's guest and is so upset she leaves.
Season 1, episode 2
W: Carl Kleinschmitt D: James Komack
With Ann Prentiss (Kerry Allen).
Tom dates Eddie's attractive teacher and the other students tease Eddie unmercifully to the point where Tom decides to end his friendship.
Season 1, episode 3
W: Stan Cutler, Martin Donovan D: Hal Cooper
With Diana Muldaur (Lynn Bardman).
Tom Corbett's fiancee has a chance to practice being a mother when Eddie catches cold and Mrs. Livingston is out with the flu.
Season 1, episode 4
W: Carl Kleinschmitt D: James Komack
With Bill Dana (Policeman), Pat Morita (Duke), Miko Mayama (Kendis), Mitchell Sakamoto (Frank).
Eddie, concerned because Mrs. Livingston has no family, brings home Frank, a 5-year-old Japanese boy, to be her son.
Season 1, episode 5
W: Rick Mittleman, Ken Pettus D: Leslie H. Martinson
With Sabrina Scharf (Diane Kirby).
Researching an article for his magazine, Tom Corbett submits a profile card to a computer dating service and is matched with a girl who strangely enjoys most things he doesn't.
Season 1, episode 6
W: James Komack D: Jeffrey Hayden
With Sally Ann Richards (Teacher), Ann Marie (Model), Ron Ely (Agent).
Tom wonders if he's pushing Eddie when the 6-year-old shows reluctance to face the first day of school.
Season 1, episode 7
W: James Komack D: Ralph Senensky
With Cicely Tyson (Betty), James Cole (Max).
Tom Corbett calls widow Betty Kelly to invite her to stay for dinner when she brings her son Max over to spend the weekend with Eddie.
Season 1, episode 8
W: Joanna Lee D: Ralph Senensky
With Jodie Foster (Joey), Arlen Stuart (Nurse), Dave Ketchum (Mr. Kelly).
Mrs. Livingston finds the key to the conversion of the tomboy who belts Eddie at school by inviting her to dinner so they can have a "man-to-man" talk.
Season 1, episode 9
W: Peggy Chantler Dick, Irv Pearlberg D: Ralph Senensky
With George Takei (Mr. Sato), Claudia Bryar (Mrs. Thaler).
Tom and Eddie are saddened when Mrs. Livingston announces that she plans to marry a Tokyo businessman.
Season 1, episode 10
W: Stan Cutler, Martin Donovan D: Hal Cooper
With Warren Berlinger (Harvey), Linda Meiklejohn (Jeri), Jean Marie (Doreen).
The example Tom has been trying to set for Eddie is spoiled when a loud-mouthed, freeloading college pal arrives for a visit and stays three days.
Season 1, episode 11
W: Stan Cutler, Martin Donovan D: Ralph Senensky
With Bruce Kirby (Harry), Lolo Cannon (Paul).
Eddie is so afraid that Mrs. Livingston will commit hara-kiri because she flunked English that he won't let her out of his sight.
Season 1, episode 12
W: Peggy Chantler Dick D: Hal Cooper
When Eddie hears that Norman and Tina have decided to be married in a motorcycle ceremony on Sunset Blvd., he feels it is his duty to advise them that there is more to marriage than discotheque dancing.
Season 1, episode 13
W: Stan Cutler, Martin Donovan D: Hal Cooper
With Jonathan Daly (Bob), Teddy Quinn (Danny).
Tom is accused of pampering Eddie when the Corbetts join Dr. Lockwood and his son Danny on a camping trip.
Season 1, episode 14
W: Peggy Chantler Dick D: Hal Cooper
With Pamela Peadon (Camylle Lister), Tani Phelps (Mrs. Harris), Gwynne Gilford (Mrs. Baldoassare), Diana Hale (Mrs. Basiman), John Puglia.
To cheer up Eddie, widower Tom Corbett decides to participate in a party the mothers of his classmates are giving the teacher.
Season 1, episode 15
W: Ken Pettus D: James Komack
With Francine York (Kate), Karen Wolfe (Etta).
Tom Corbett is concerned about the return to town of his late wife's sister, feeling it might be difficult for Eddie and himself.
Season 1, episode 16
W: Pauline Stone, Michael Cosgrove D: Ralph Senensky
With Lisa Gerritsen (Alice), Thomas Hawkins (Police Officer).
Eddie loses his first library book and a playmate tells him he'll probably go to jail.
Season 1, episode 17
W: Peggy Chantler Dick D: James Komack
With Erin Moran (Emily Rush Gustafson), Gabbie Grammer (Elsie), Richard Steele (Dick), Lori Specter (Margaret), Mitchell Sakamoto (Frank), Larry Renda (Richard Katkov), James Cole (Max).
Eddie's crush on the girl from down the hall is forgotten after Richard Katkov's curly-haired little friend, Margaret, arrives at his birthday party.
Season 1, episode 18
W: Blanche Hanalis D: Ralph Senensky
With Ruth McDevitt (Miss Bristol).
When a meddlesome new neighbor tells young Eddie that he's being selfish by demanding so much of his father's time, the lad invents a friend.
Season 1, episode 19
W: Bob Rodgers D: Ralph Senensky
With Sherry Lynn Diamant (Glori).
Eddie falls in love with his 15-year-old babysitter, who has a mad crush on his father, Tom Corbett. Eddie proposes, but gives up the idea when Glori counter-proposes that she become hs mother instead.
Season 1, episode 20
W: Peggy Chantler Dick D: Ralph Senensky
Mrs. Livingston decides to quit her job as housekeeper because she feels she has made things so nice for the Corbetts that Tom won't bother to look for a wife.
Season 1, episode 21
W: Peggy Chantler Dick D: Gary Nelson
With Martha Scott (Grandmother).
Tom Corbett goes searching for a guardian for Eddie after he discovers there's a generation gap between the lad and his grandmother.
Season 1, episode 22
W: Bob Rodgers, Peggy Chantler Dick, James Komack D: Ralph Senensky
With Meg Wyllie (Harriet Ritter).
Young Eddie straightens out an immigration official who refuses to renew Mrs. Livingston's visa.
Season 1, episode 23
W: Stan Cutler, Martin Donovan D: Hal Cooper
With James Komack (Norman).
Norman spends the weekend at the Corbetts asking Tom, Eddie and Mrs. Livingston to help him stay on his diet. At a midnight meeting in front of the open refrigerator, Eddie bolsters the backslider's willpower.
Season 1, episode 24
W: Peggy Chantler Dick D: Hal Cooper
With Tippi Hedren (Cissy Drummond-Randolph).
When Tom Corbett realizes that the chairlady of the magazine's board of directors plans to eliminate the darkroom in order to get rid of Norman Tinker, he quits his job.
Season 1, episode 25
W: Joanna Lee D: Hal Cooper
With Yvonne Craig (Maryanne Atwater), John Fiedler (Mild Man), Ivor Barry (Englishman), Bob Sines (Billy Gerber).
Tom Corbett's new secretary is so efficient she makes him nervous and he gets hiccups, He thinks it might also be due to his former secretary's astrology sign being incompatible with his.
Season 1, episode 26
W: Peggy Chantler Dick D: Hal Cooper
Tom convinces son Eddie to return the bank bag containing several thousand dollars the boy found in the street. Instead of praise, Eddie's classmates derisively call him a goody-goody.
September 23, 1970: The Unbirthday Present
Season 2, episode 1
W: Stan Cutler, Martin Donovan D: Hal Cooper
Eddie decides to give his father a surprise gift "because that's the best kind", as the series starts its second year.
Season 2, episode 2
W: Peggy Chantler Dick D: Hal Cooper
With Dave Ketchum (Joe Kelly), Jodie Foster (Joey Kelly).
Tom overhears Eddie and his girlfriend make plans to run away to Mexico because she's unhappy over her widower father's plan to remarry.
Season 2, episode 3
W: Stan Cutler, Martin Donovan D: Bob Sweeney
With Jonathan Daly (Dr. Lockwood), Teddy Quinn (Danny Lockwood).
Tom and his son join a group called Indian Pals, organized to bring fathers and sons closer by involving them in projects on which they work together.
Season 2, episode 4
W: Stan Cutler, Martin Donovan D: Hal Cooper
Tom Corbett becomes convinced that his housekeeper has fallen for his friend and employee, Norm Tinker.
Season 2, episode 5
W: Bob Rodgers D: Hal Cooper
Tom finds that a scheduled business trip to Las Vegas falls on the same say Eddie is to appear as Abraham Lincoln in a class play.
Season 2, episode 6
W: Peggy Chantler Dick D: Luther James
Tom Corbett's punishment of Eddie upsets Mrs. Livingston's plans to take him to the Japanese Fair.
Season 2, episode 7
W: Joanna Lee D: Bob Sweeney
With Suzanne Pleshette (Valerie Bessinger), Patrick O'Moore (Senator Goldrich), Natalie Masters (Mrs. Goldrich).
A glamorous jet setter who is conducting learning experiments with Eddie and other children for an article becomes romantically involved with Tom Corbett. But he changes his mind about marriage when she breaks a promise to the children.
Season 2, episode 8
W: Shirley Gordon D: Sid McCoy
With Lee Joseph (Bobby Brownbear).
Tom Corbett offers a temporary home to an Indian boy awaiting adoption, and Eddie is jealous.
Season 2, episode 9
W: Peggy Chantler Dick, Joanna Lee D: Don Weis
With Will Geer (Harry Madison).
Eddie's grandfather comes to visit and offers him a trip down the Amazon.
Season 2, episode 10
W: Stan Cutler, Martin Donovan D: Don Weis
With Lori Saunders (Cynthia).
An attractive worker for women's liberation launches a personal campaign to persuade Tom Corbett to run an article for her in his magazine.
Season 2, episode 11
W: Shirley Gordon D: Jerry Bernstein
With Gabbie Grammer (Elsie).
When Eddie's girlfriend learns she's an adopted child, she plants in his mind the suspicion that he is too.
Season 2, episode 12
W: Shirley Gordon D: Randall Hood
Mrs. Livingston says she saw ghosts in Eddie's room and Tom can't convince Eddie that such things don't exist.
Season 2, episode 13
W: Shirley Gordon D: Bill Bixby
With Jodie Foster (Joey Kelly), Dave Ketchum (Joe Kelly).
Norman Tinker's good luck medallion, which he gives to Tom as an expression of friendship, goes full circle.
Season 2, episode 14
W: Stan Cutler, Martin Donovan D: Harry Falk
With Tippi Hedren (Cissy Drummond-Randolph), John Fiedler (Mild Man), Ivor Barry (Englishman).
Tom's publisher-boss seems to want to make her relationship with him a more personal one.
Season 2, episode 15
W: Alan J. Levitt D: Gary Nelson
With Amanda Lynne (Gus).
An underprivileged girl with emotional problems is given a chance to work for Tom's magazine and disrupts the operation.
Season 2, episode 16
W: Stan Cutler, Martin Donovan D: Hal Cooper
With Andrew Prine (Dr. Gould), Barbara Clarke Chisholm (Female Technician), Catherine Ferrar (Miss Fern).
Eddie won't believe that his father's admission to the hospital is only for an insurance checkup.
Season 2, episode 17
W: Peggy Chantler Dick D: Hal Cooper
Eddie gets mad at his father when he nixes Norman Tinker's plan to buy him a horse.
Season 2, episode 18
W: Joanna Lee D: Hal Cooper
With Pat Delaney (Harriet), Lew Horn (Bob), Ed Hall (Ted), Rosemary Edelman (Carol).
Tina asks her boss, Tom, if she can come to his home to discuss her confused feelings about Norman Tinker, who she's dating. Tom is surprised when members of Tina's encounter group also drop in for a meeting.
Season 2, episode 19
W: Mark Saha, Shirley Gordon D: Hal Cooper
With Gordon Cooper (Himself), Bill Fiore (Mr. Weston).
An invitation from Eddie to Gemini 5 astronaut Gordon Cooper to drop by for lunch and "talk about space and things" has all sorts of repercussions in town.
Season 2, episode 20
W: Stan Cutler, Martin Donovan D: Harry Falk
With Jodie Foster (Joey Kelly), Skip Burton (Bob), Claire Brennan (Sherry Barnes), Brenda Benet (Julie).
While Eddie is away at camp, Tom's life is suddenly complicated with a romance, business emergencies, and an unexpected weekend guest.
Season 2, episode 21
W: Joanna Lee D: Harry Falk
With Jodie Foster (Joey Kelly), Chris Woodley (Miss Huffman), Lisa Kirk (Mrs. Rickles).
Tina's mother convinces Eddie that magic charms can work miracles.
Season 2, episode 22
W: Susan Harris D: Hal Cooper
With Willie Aames (Scott), Vincent Van Patten (Mark).
Tom Corbett is disturbed when he learns that Eddie has been recruited into a group of boys stealing from stores. Ordered not to play with the boys any more, Eddie loses his playmates. However, Norman Tinker suggests a compromise.
Season 2, episode 23
W: Blanche Hanalis D: Hal Cooper
When Eddie's friend waits at the Corbett home while his mother is in labor, Eddie develops a great desire for a baby brother.
Season 2, episode 24
W: Blanche Hanalis D: Terry Becker
Mrs. Livingston differs with Eddie's dad over his mild disciplinary tactics, then Tom finally ends his permissiveness when it almost costs him his son.
September 15, 1971: My Son, The Artist
Season 3, episode 1
W: Stan Cutler, Martin Donovan D: Don Weis
With Angus Duncan (Mr. Buckner), Patti Cohoon (Gretchen).
The third season begins with widower Tom Corbett's art class having progressed from still life to live nude models, and raises some questions in young Eddie's mind about his dad's after-hours activities.
Season 3, episode 2
W: Alan J. Levitt D: Hal Cooper
With Kirk Mee (Mr. Taggert), Virginia Hawkins (Mrs. Kensington), Allen Joseph (Mr. Wertz).
Tom is asked to run for the school board, and Norman and Tina set up a campaign headquarters appropriate for a mayor.
Season 3, episode 3
W: Bob Rodgers D: Harry Falk
With Richard X. Slattery (Robbie MacDonald).
Eddie decides to hang up his rubber spikes when he gets hit by a fast pitch during a junior league game.
Season 3, episode 4
W: Stan Cutler, Martin Donovan D: Hal Cooper
With Frank Corsentino (Marvin Flair), Alan Oppenheimer (Sy Freeman), Lou Jacobi (Mr. Hausman).
A delivery man trips on Eddie's roller skate and Tom is sued for $300,000. Tom's lawyer fears the worst when Mrs. Livingston honestly believes they are at fault for leaving the skate in the doorway.
Season 3, episode 5
W: Stan Cutler, Martin Donovan D: Harry Falk
With Ned York (Alex).
A ruptured water bed tops off a wacky weekend Tom and Eddie spend as Norman's house guests.
Season 3, episode 6
W: Martin A. Ragaway D: Hal Cooper
With Bruce Kirby (Officer Gifford).
Eddie's beat-up bike is stolen through carelessness and Tom rules that he can't have a new one until it's found.
Season 3, episode 7
W: Shirley Gordon D: Bill Bixby
With Madlyn Rhue (Dolores), Ronny Graham (Tony).
Tom and Tina realize that they are being used in a cat-and-mouse game when they repeatedly fail to reunite Tom's old girlfriend with her ex-husband.
Season 3, episode 8
W: Stan Cutler, Martin Donovan D: Bill Bixby
With Ned York (Alex).
Norman doesn't want the surprise birthday party Tom and Eddie are planning for him.
Season 3, episode 9
W: Stan Cutler, Martin Donovan D: Herbert F. Solow
Tina thinks she deserves a raise in salary, and when Tom refuses, both she and Norman walk out.
Season 3, episode 10
W: Stan Cutler, Martin Donovan D: Harry Falk
With Allan Drake (Prescott), Anne Meara (Bunny), Jerry Stiller (Paul).
A well-intentioned couple moves next door to the Corbetts and smothers them with kindness.
Season 3, episode 11
W: Stan Cutler, Martin Donovan D: James Komack
With Carol Lawrence (Irena Kosnova).
A Russian magazine editor in the U.S. to study publishing techniques is invited home to dinner by Tom.
Season 3, episode 12
W: Stan Cutler, Martin Donovan D: Bill Bixby
With R.J. O'Hara (Herman's Father), Brett Swanson (Herman), Vic Tayback (Bernie).
While Eddie is at camp, Norman becomes so worried over the youth's adventure that he convinces Tom something is wrong.
Season 3, episode 13
W: Joanna Lee D: Harry Falk
With Sally Struthers (Katie O'Hara).
A commercial artist of Irish descent seems to have leprechauns against her which leads to disrupting Tom and Eddie's home life.
Season 3, episode 14
W: Stan Cutler, Martin Donovan D: Hal Cooper
With Aldine King (Mrs. Pick), James Cole (Max), Mitchell Sakamoto (Frank), Heather Harrison (Sandra), Gabbie Grammer (Elsie), Linda Marie (Debbie), Joey Douglas (Paul), Geoffrey Thorpe (Harold).
Eddie takes the role of a prince in a school play to get out of homework, but when he learns that he has to kiss the princess it's panic time.
Season 3, episode 15
W: Stan Cutler, Martin Donovan D: Hal Cooper
With Carmelita Mann (Mrs. Cherry), Trisha Noble (Dr. Liz Park).
When Eddie becomes sick and the new doctor turns out to be a striking blonde, Tom's pulse also quickens.
Season 3, episode 16
W: Martin A. Ragaway D: Bill Bixby
With Ed Parker (Himself), Bill Ryusaki (Karate Instructor), Mitchell Sakamoto (Frank), James Cole (Max), Joey Douglas (Jay), Willie Aames (Harold), Hal Baylor (Mr. O'Brien).
Tom and Eddie take up karate, and when the school bully hears of it he challenges Eddie.
Season 3, episode 17
W: Stan Cutler, Martin Donovan D: Hal Cooper
With Eve McVeagh (Mrs. Karn), Larry Delaney (Mr. Lindley), Alan Drake (Mr. Prescott), Alan Oppenheimer (Sy Freeman), Ivor Barry (Major Pritchett).
Eddie's saxophone playing prompts an apartment building protest.
Season 3, episode 18
W: Stan Cutler, Martin Donovan D: Bill Bixby, Hal Cooper, James Komack
With Janene Forsyth, Martha Salcido (Hostess), Hal Cooper (Gus).
Tom and Norman, on a tip from a head waiter, invest in an oil well.
Season 3, episode 19
W: Alan J. Levitt D: Gary Nelson
With Pat Harrington Jr. (Peter Stowe).
Tom feels his creative writing is causing him to neglect Eddie, but a renowned novelist encourages Tom to finish his book.
Season 3, episode 20
W: Stan Cutler, Martin Donovan D: Hal Cooper
With Sammy Davis Jr.
Norman and an insurance agent friend who is obsessed on the subject of safety offer to take care of Eddie while Tom is away for the weekend. The first thing that happens to the trio is getting stuck in an elevator.
Season 3, episode 21
W: Stan Cutler, Martin Donovan D: Bill Bixby
With Lou Cutell (Samson), William Lanteau (Vincent Pryor).
Tina buys Tom a $16 painting at a flea market and Norman thinks it might be worth thousands.
Season 3, episode 22
W: Stan Cutler, Martin Donovan D: Bill Bixby
With Barbara Cason (Irma Handily), Michael Link.
Tom decides Eddie needs more room so he plans to buy a "fixer-upper" house. But when they find a place they begin to wonder if Mrs. Livingston will come with them.
Season 3, episode 23
W: James Komack D: James Komack
With Jon Breakfield (Jeff), Yvonne Wilder (Kathy), Jerry Stiller (Mr. Landon), Anne Meara (Annie).
Tom subscribes to a phone answering service and the chief operator arrives to take care of Eddie when he catches cold. (Last show of the series.)