Series regulars or semi-regulars in 'The Governor & J.J.' from 1970-1982:
- Dan Dailey as Gov. William Drinkwater (1969-1970)
- James Callahan as George Callison (1969-1970)
- Julie Sommars as Jennifer Jo Drinkwater (1969-1970)
- Neva Patterson as Maggie McLeod (1969-1970)
- Nora Marlowe as Sara Andrews (1969-1970)
1970-1982 Episode Guide for 'The Governor & J.J.':
(Episodes with dates prior to 1970 aired as reruns.)
Season 1, episode 2
D: Leonard Stern
With Thomas Hunter (Ed Lundy), Peter Bonerz (Officer Hubble), Bryan O'Byrne.
J.J. gets a traffic ticket and everyone refuses to believe she doesn't want it "fixed".
Season 1, episode 3
W: Joanna Lee D: Alan Rafkin
With Lyle Waggoner (Garrett Sapulding), Hal Smith (Governor Wick), Emmaline Henry (Leslie Torrance), Roy Stuart (Fred), Jack Bernardi (Bellhop).
J.J.suddenly leaves for Hollywood and Gov. Drinkwater is afraid that her romance with a movie star has turned her head.
Season 1, episode 4
W: Earl Barret D: Jay Sandrich
With Herb Vigran (Waiter), Iron Eyes Cody (Chief Running Bear), Jack Gilford (Broken Bow), Elliott Reid (Ernest Gully Jr.).
Gov. Drinkwater's descent from an old Indian fighter nearly blocks some important Indian legislation.
Season 1, episode 5
W: Earl Barret D: Leonard Stern
With Johnny Haymer (Pierre Picard), Gerry Gaylor (Mme. Picard), Gabriel Dell (Dr. Apthecker), Mel Carter (Policeman), J. Edward McKinley (General Westlake), Don Ross (Photographer).
A leopard headed for the zoo sets off a search of the grounds of the executive mansion -- until Gov. Drinkwater locates the beast under his desk.
Season 1, episode 7
W: Earl Barret D: Leonard Stern
George's fear of flying seems destined to keep him grounded, especially when he learns the governor's pilot is upset over a fight with his girl.
Season 1, episode 8
W: Earl Barret, Chris Hayward D: Alan Rafkin
With Darleen Carr (Marcy), Cyril Delavanti (Lauder).
A protest song sung by housekeeper Sara's granddaughter proves an embarrassment to the entire Drinkwater clan when it appears the tune was pointed at the governor.
Season 1, episode 9
W: Chris Hayward D: Jay Sandrich
With Peter Bonerz (Hubbell), Thomas Hunter (Judge), J.S. Johnson (Shirley).
The governor faces possible great embarrassment when he heaps praise on a man he personally dislikes -- then forgets his name just as he's about to introduce him as "Humanitarian of the Year".
Season 1, episode 10
W: Gene Thompson D: Lee Philips
Maggie, Gov. Drinkwater's secretary, begins to act like a woman in love and J.J. suspects that her father is the object of Maggie's affection.
Season 1, episode 11
W: Barbara Avedon D: Jay Sandrich
With Alexis Smith.
A girl out of the Governor's forgotten past intrigues the entire Drinkwater household -- and leaves the chief executive bewildered.
Season 1, episode 12
W: Earl Barret D: Alan Rafkin
J.J. secretly conspires to make a household member of a basset hound that followed her father home on his jogging round.
Season 1, episode 14
W: Richard Powell D: Lee Philips
With Bud Cort (Marvin Harris).
The Governor's in for trouble when an underground reporter begins covering his activities.
Season 1, episode 15
W: Earl Barret D: Alan Rafkin
With Michael Ansara, Pepe Callahan.
Governor Drinkwater's old college chum, a South American dictator, comes to the capital for a visit, immediately alienating J.J. and upsetting the governor's mansion.
Season 1, episode 16
W: Alden Schwimmer D: Alan Rafkin
With Will Mackenzie (Alex Stampler), Doris Packer (Mrs. Ferguson), Tol Avery (Senator Barkus), John Barbour (Sidney Tempkin).
Gov. Drinkwater casually picks up a racy novel his daughter is reading and soon finds himself in a Senator's anti-smut campaign.
Season 1, episode 17
W: Earl Barret D: Alan Rafkin
With Tol Avery (Senator Barkus), Doris Packer (Mrs. Ferguson).
Gov. Drinkwater plans a nostalgic weekend at Moose Lake, then he and J.J. are snowed in.
Season 1, episode 18
W: Earl Barret D: Dan Dailey
With Alan Rafkin (Jeweler).
George mistakes J.J.'s expensive gift for her father's birthday as one honoring his decade with the governor.
Season 1, episode 19
W: Earl Barret D: George Tyne
With Del Moore (Senator Brogan), Carroll O'Connor (Orrin Hacker), Bob Barend (Lindquist).
Gov. Drinkwater discovers a generation gap between himself and J.J. -- but he also finds she's quite capable of being his first lady.
Season 1, episode 20
W: Earl Barret D: Alan Rafkin
With Joanna Moore (Cynthia Lockwood), Jack DeLeon (Al Burns), Don Ross (Nick Fleming), Joanne Dru (Karen Bradshaw).
Convinced that George will pursue an offer to join the President's press staff, the governor hires a replacement -- George's current girl friend.
Season 1, episode 21
W: Mort Lewis D: Jay Sandrich
With Hamilton Camp (Ace Earhart), Charles Bateman (Dave Cardon), Paul Laxalt (Governor of Nevada).
J.J. employs subtle intervention to block freeway construction which would curtail the children's zoo where she works.
Season 1, episode 22
W: Barbara Avedon D: Dan Dailey
With Linda Watkins (Ella Drinkwater), Herbert Anderson (Carroll Burke), Molly Dodd (Jo Burke), Kent Smith (Frank Courthouse), Dewey Bartlett (Governor of Oklahoma).
Governor Drinkwater's mother decides to remarry and he becomes the middleman in a dispute as to whether the wedding will be large or small.
Season 1, episode 23
W: Bill Manhoff D: Jay Sandrich
With Frank Maxwell (Warren Stark), Jack DeLeon (Al Burns), Jed Allan (Larry Whitaker), Don Ross (Nick Flemming).
The press have a field day when it is discovered J.J. has received an expensive leather chair from Larry Whitaker.
Season 1, episode 24
W: Earl Barret D: Alan Rafkin
With Gary Collins (Dr. Bob Livingston), Edward Everett Horton (Doc Simon), Barbara Minkus (Arlene), Winthrop Rockefeller (Governor of Arkansas).
J.J. is agreeably surprised when a blind date turns out to be a very personable young veterinarian -- but after a week he still hasn't called.
Season 1, episode 25
W: George Kirgo D: Jay Sandrich
With Tom Ewell (Charley), Michael Fox (Abel Mellon), Francis DeSales (Senator Loomis), Calvin Rampton (Governor of Utah).
J.J.'s enthusiastic Uncle Charley, a toy inventor, finally comes up with a great idea but can't find a backer.
Season 1, episode 26
W: Earl Barret D: Alan Rafkin
With Gary Collins (Dr. Bob Livingston), Allan Drake (Duke), Ilona Wilson (Helen).
The governor refuses to submit to veterinarian Bob Livingston's diagnosis of his basset hound's illness and insists on another opinion.
September 23, 1970: And The World Begat The Bleep
Season 2, episode 1
W: Earl Barret D: Alan Rafkin
With Paul Stewart (Dr. Graham), Ed Riley (TV Technician), Sarah Hardy (Script Girl).
The second year begins with the governor suffering from laryngitis and having to bow out of a probing television talk show. Daughter J.J. is asked to fill in and the results are disastrous.
Season 2, episode 2
W: Bill Manhoff D: Alan Rafkin
With Craig Stevens (Ben Armstrong).
Gov. Drinkwater's former law school chum, an avowed ladies' man, gets sidetracked by the governor's daughter, J.J., when he turns up as attorney for a firm suing the state.
Season 2, episode 3
W: Earl Barret D: Alan Rafkin
With Marlene Clark (Diane), Jim Galante (Reporter).
Gov. Drinkwater's re-election plans are upset by, of all things, a homing pigeon.
Season 2, episode 4
W: Earl Barret D: Alan Rafkin
With Alan Oppenheimer (Federenko), Doris Packer (Mrs. Fergerson), Olga Kaya (Natasha), Marlene Clark (Diane).
The governor teeters on the brink of an international incident when a Russian ballerina defects during a farewell party for her touring Soviet troupe at the state mansion.
Season 2, episode 5
W: Earl Barret, Chris Hayward D: George Tyne
With Edward Everett Horton (Doc Simon), Dick Van Patten (Bannister), Ann Summers (Judge Long).
Gov. Drinkwater's bid for re-election is in trouble unless he can find his birth certificate or unless a 97-year-old doctor can verify his birthdate in time to make his candidacy official.
Season 2, episode 6
W: Jay Terry D: Alan Rafkin
With Edward Platt (Orrin Hacker), Lawrence Pressman (John Fawcett).
Gov. Drinkwater's running mate resigns and J.J. boosts a charismatic bachelor congressman as his replacement.
Season 2, episode 7
W: Frank Red Benson D: Dan Dailey
With Maria Mirka (Gina), Howard Storm (Guido).
The housekeeper is so overworked from the busy election-year entertainment schedule at the governor's mansion that she hires an assistant, a former truck-stop hash-slinger who is clumsy and speaks only Italian.
Season 2, episode 8
W: Earl Barret D: Alan Rafkin
With Joan Bennett (Joan Darlene Delaney), Scatman Crothers (Rupert), Robert H. Harris (Mr. Harbach), George Furth (Buddy Harbach).
J.J. tears up a $100,000 check contributed to the governor's campaign thinking it is a gag, then finds the mystery donor.
Season 2, episode 9
W: Burt Prelutsky D: Charles Walters
With Edward Platt (Orrin Hacker), Andrew Duggan (Buck Bradbury), Jack Cassidy (Mark Ellison).
When opinion polls show Gov. Drinkwater trailing cowboy actor Buck Bradbury in the gubernatorial race, the governor agrees to a television debate -- which panics his staff into hiring an image-maker to restyle his appearance.
Season 2, episode 10
W: Roger Damon Price D: Alan Rafkin
With Paul Sand (Lionel Newton), Edward Platt (Orrin Hacker), Doris Day, Sebastian Cabot.
Gov. Drinkwater, unable to match his opponent's lavish TV ad campaign, settles for a low-budget documentary produced by amateur filmmakers.
Season 2, episode 11
W: Earl Barret D: Alan Rafkin
George and the Governor are interested in the same woman.
Season 2, episode 12
W: Douglas Morrow D: Dan Dailey
With Joanne Dru, Edward Platt (Orrin Hacker), Joi Lansing (Joan Brock).
Gov. Drinkwater's opponent accuses him of indiscretion in a mysterious love tryst -- an obvious election-eve smear tactic -- but the governor has trouble disproving the charge when a "love note" turns up in his own handwriting.
Season 2, episode 13
W: Earl Barret D: Earl Barret
With Kent Smith (Frank Courtwright), Linda Watkins (Ella Courtwright).
The governor's newlywed mother comes home to her son after a lovers' quarrel with her hypochondriac husband, who soon follows and floors everyone with the news that the governor's 70-year-old mother is pregnant! (Last show of the series.)