Series regulars or semi-regulars in 'The Paul Lynde Show' from 1970-1982:
- Elizabeth Allen as Martha Simms (1972-1973)
- Jane Actman as Barbara Simms Dickerson (1972-1973)
- John Calvin as Howie Dickerson (1972-1973)
- Pamelyn Ferdin as Sally Simms (1972-1973)
- Paul Lynde as Paul Simms (1972-1973)
1970-1982 Episode Guide for 'The Paul Lynde Show':
(Episodes with dates prior to 1970 aired as reruns.)
Season 1, episode 1
W: Ron Clark, Sam Bobrick D: William Asher
With Dick Van Patten (Wollner), Hope Summers.
Debut of a series featuring Paul Lynde as a lawyer-husband-father in suburbia, beleaguered and put upon by all. In the opener, Paul's daughter returns home from college with her unemployed husband Howie, for whom Paul tries to find a position.
Season 1, episode 2
W: Ed Jurist D: William Asher
With Herb Voland (J.J. McNish), Anson Williams (Jimmy), Roy Rowan (Emcee), Jonathan Daly (Bill).
Paul Simms' encyclopedic-minded son-in-law goes on a television quiz show, hoping to earn enough money for him and his wife Barbara to move into their own apartment.
Season 1, episode 3
W: Sumner A. Long D: William Asher
With Jerry Stiller (Barney Dickerson), Anne Meara (Grace Dickerson).
Paul Simms tries to reconcile Howie's estranged parents, hoping they'll invite Howie and Barbara to live with them.
Season 1, episode 4
W: Bob Fisher, Arthur Marx D: William Asher
With Arthur O'Connell (Mayor), Allen Jenkins (Stagehand).
Paul Simms, determined to close down a nude stage production despite opposition from his boss and the mayor, is embarrassed to learn his son-in-law has accepted a role in the show.
Season 1, episode 5
W: Bob Fisher, Arthur Marx D: Bruce Bilson
With Jodie Foster (Maggie), Jack Bender (Jericho).
After Paul and his son-in-law have several confrontations, Howie and Barbara move to a commune where there will supposedly be no hangups about private property.
Season 1, episode 6
W: Phil Sharp D: George Tyne
With Herb Voland (T.J. McNish), Holly Irving, Cliff Norton.
Paul Simms has a few days off and in order to get his genius son-in-law out of the house -- and hopefully into a job -- tells him he's been fired. Howie immediately becomes so busy putting the household on a tight budget that he hasn't time for job hunting.
Season 1, episode 7
W: Bob Fisher, Arthur Marx D: Jack Donohue
With Mwako Cumbuka (Harley), Ronda Copland (Carol).
Paul's home is full of demonstrators against a polluting oil company when the president of the company, Paul's client, arrives for a consultation.
Season 1, episode 8
W: Budd Grossman D: Ernest Losso
With Jerry Stiller (Barney Dickerson), Anne Meara (Grace Dickerson), Chuck McCann (Minister).
Paul learns that the marriage of his daughter to Howie is invalid due to a technicality.
Season 1, episode 9
W: Bob Fisher, Arthur Marx D: Jack Donohue
With Kenneth Mars (Fletcher), Joel Lawrence (Officer).
When Paul orders his daughter to break up with her boyfriend, she runs away from home.
Season 1, episode 10
W: Bob Fisher, Arthur Marx D: Ernest Losso
With Barbara Rhoades (Eve), Herb Voland (T.J. McNish).
Paul 's hopes for a gorgeous girl as vacation replacement for his secretary fade when son-in-law Howie applies for the job.
Season 1, episode 11
W: Ed Jurist, Stan Breben D: George Tyne
With Ray Walston (Tamura), Charlotte Rae (Aunt Charlotte).
Paul invites a Japanese tycoon to dinner. But instead of talking business, the charming Oxford-educated man's attention is devoted to Paul's visiting sister.
Season 1, episode 12
W: Bob Fisher, Arthur Marx D: George Tyne
With Jo Anne Worley (Fay), Thelma Carpenter (Thelma).
A woman who left her husband shows up at the Simms home at 2 a.m. and asks Paul to handle her divorce.
Season 1, episode 13
W: William Raynor, Myles Wilder D: George Tyne
With Charlotte Rae (Aunt Charlotte), David White (Mayor Scofield), Jack DeLeon (Police Officer).
Martha, campaigning for a women's lib candidate for the city council, asks a male passerby for "a couple of dollars for a really great woman" and is arrested for soliciting.
Season 1, episode 14
W: Ben Starr D: Bruce Bilson
With James A. Watson Jr. (Leroy), Carol Speed (Laverne).
Howie and Barbara bring home a young black whom they befriended after he tried to mug Barbara and Howie slugged him.
Season 1, episode 15
W: Bernie Kahn D: George Tyne
With Eugene Troobnick (Dr. Grunning), Joshua Shelley (Joe Patterson), Helen Page Camp (Louella Patterson).
Paul Simms' doctor advises him to avoid unnecessary excitement, so he makes a superhuman effort to be nice to his son-in-law, Howie.
Season 1, episode 16
W: Bob Fisher, Arthur Marx D: George Tyne
With Henry Jones (Judge), Richard X. Slattery (Sullivan), Wade Graham (Waiter).
Paul's campaign for presidency of the city's bar association on a public decency platform is imperiled when a bar owner buys a nude portrait of his daughter, Barbara.
Season 1, episode 17
W: Laurence Marks D: Jerry London
With Milt Kamen (Dr. Berger).
When Howie turns down a $10,000 inheritance, Paul summons the young man's parents, then a psychiatrist, to help him change Howie's mind.
Season 1, episode 18
W: Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Pugh Davis D: Jack Donohue
With James Gregory (T.R. Scott), Neva Patterson (Edna Scott), Dick Wilson (George), Frank Campanella (Bernie).
Paul Simms vents his hostility toward a senior law partner by writing a letter which he does not intend to mail -- but the dry cleaner does.
Season 1, episode 19
W: Leo Rifkin D: George Tyne
With Gordon Jump (Larry), Tom Bosley (Congressman Landis), Paul Sorensen (Vince), Stephen Nathan (Willie Landis).
Paul loses a big job representing a congressional committee when Howie changes a Congressman's son into a hippie.
Season 1, episode 20
W: William Raynor, Myles Wilder D: Oscar Rudolph
With Bernie Kopell (Campbell), Roger Bowen (Perkins).
Apparently insoluble complications ensue when Paul Simms learns that his back fence is a foot inside his neighbor's property.
Season 1, episode 21
W: Bob Fisher, Arthur Marx D: George Tyne
With Mabel Albertson (Mabel), Elaine Giftos (Judy).
Paul's mother-in-law causes his wife Martha to become jealous of his beautiful young law assistant.
Season 1, episode 22
W: Bob Fisher, Arthur Marx D: Coby Ruskin
With Mabel Anderson (Mabel), Alan Hale Jr. (Dr. Colton).
Paul Simms gets barside advice from a psychiatrist on how to handle his mother-in-law.
Season 1, episode 23
W: Phil Sharp D: Oscar Rudolph
With Victor Sen Yung (Fong), Herbert Anderson, Dick Van Patten (Dr. Willis).
When deceit and cunning fail, Paul sees no way out of taking his wife to the annual charity dance.
Season 1, episode 24
W: Sumner A. Long D: Jerry London
With Jerry Stiller (Barney Dickerson), Anne Meara (Grace Dickerson).
Barbara leaves Howie after a fight, but Paul's joy about the split is dampened when "going home" for her means moving across the hall and forcing him to sleep on the couch.
Season 1, episode 25
W: Barry E. Blitzer D: Ernest Losso
With James Gregory (T.R. Scott), Sean Kelly (Mark).
Paul's attempt to have a family day becomes a disaster instead of his hoped-for plot to promote togetherness.
Season 1, episode 26
W: Sumner A. Long D: Ernest Losso
With Christopher Norris (Julie), Frank Welker (Freddy), Roger C. Carmel (Mr. Cunningham), Mary Ann Gibson (Mrs. Cunningham).
Paul becomes the victim of a college girl's crush when he helps her out with a school paper. (Last show of the series.)