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How To Be Popular

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Dec 3, 1963

Cathy, a shy and retiring girl, finds herself green with envy at Patty's ability to mix and make friends. One day she finds a column in the daily newspaper in which a certain Aunt Jane advises teenagers on their problems.

Full Episodes

Season 1, 36 episodes

Are Mothers People?,

Natalie Lane begins to feel that her family no longer appreciates her. She cooks, she sews, she cleans the house, she runs errands, and delivers messages with no more than a dutiful note of thanks from her husband, her children, or her niece.

25m Feb 18, 1964

Auld Lang Syne,

Martin's brother Kenneth has come to New York to celebrate Christmas with his daughter Cathy, only to discover that T.R. Castle, the publisher of the Chronicle, has fired him from his job as a foreign correspondent.

25m Dec 31, 1963

Author, Author,

After browsing through a French teenager's best-seller, Patty Lane decides to write a novel presenting the American teenager's viewpoint. Propelled by 'creative inspiration', Patty writes her novel in one week.

25m Jan 21, 1964

When Patty decides she needs a new evening gown, and Mr. Lane refuses to pay for it, she decides to go into business to raise the needed cash. The business is babysitting.

25m Oct 29, 1963

Chip Off The Old Block,

Patty is elected editor-in-chief of her school newspaper but discovers that the position is more of a drudge than an honor. The newspaper has a circulation of less than 30. Patty's solution is one that is all too common these days.

25m Feb 10, 1964

Here is the story of how Cathy came to live with the Lane family in New York, and the amazing adventures that befall two girls who look exactly alike.

21m May 19, 1964

On the night that the two cousins are holding a dance party in the Lane home, Cathy is confined to bed as a result of an unexpected reaction to a flu shot.

25m Nov 19, 1963

For no apparent reason, Richard suddenly tells Patty that he has decided to drop out of school and look for a job. Patty and her family do everything they can to dissuade him from taking this fateful step but to no avail.

25m Apr 21, 1964

As a surprise birthday present for her father, Patty schemes to arrange a weekend for her parents at the same fishing lodge where they spent their honeymoon. Part of the plan involves getting a fishing license in her father's name.

25m Oct 1, 1963

Patty and Richard have decided to go steady. Their parents are not happy about this decision. They feel that 16-year old boys and girls should have as many contacts as possible and should not restrict their social life to one member of the opposite sex.

25m Feb 11, 1964

Patty needs money to buy her mother a birthday present. It seems that Patty always needs money, and she usually comes up with fantastic schemes to raise it. This time she decides to become an astrologist, so she converts her bedroom into a reading room.

25m Jan 7, 1964

The Lane household is invaded by spinster Aunt Pauline when she arrives for her annual visit. Much to everyone's dismay Aunt Pauline, expected to stay only for dinner, moves in with a bag and baggage and immediately takes over running the house.

25m Oct 8, 1963

How To Be Popular,

Cathy, a shy and retiring girl, finds herself green with envy at Patty's ability to mix and make friends. One day she finds a column in the daily newspaper in which a certain Aunt Jane advises teenagers on their problems.

24m Dec 3, 1963

Leave It To Patty,

Patty is a candidate for chairman of the class prom. She has a chance to win this important post if she can promise to supply a celebrity as the guest star of the dance.

25m Apr 28, 1964

Let 'Em Eat Cake,

Patty's mother, Natalie Lane, bakes a cake to enter the church bazaar contest. Patty and her look-alike cousin Cathy find it and have it half-eaten before they discover it was meant for the contest. Their solution to the dilemma: bake another cake.

25m Feb 4, 1964

Patty The Foster Mother,

The political science class at Brooklyn Heights High School decides to adopt a Korean war orphan, and Patty is put in charge of the campaign. Patty's enthusiasm knows no bounds. She writes him letters, and sends him food and money.

25m Apr 14, 1964

Patty strikes up a pen-pal relationship with an unknown admirer. Her friendship turns to dreams of idealistic romance as the letters become more poetic and lyrical. As a final touch, they are signed Lancelot.

25m Mar 31, 1964

Slight Case Of Disaster,

Feminine jealousy rears its ugly head when both Patty and her archrival Sue Ellen plan their costumes for the big Saturday night dance.

25m Mar 24, 1964

The slumber party is a peculiar institution, Cathy writes to her father in Europe. Girls get together for a night; they eat, they gossip, they play records, they do everything except sleep.

25m Oct 22, 1963

The Brooklyn Heights High School Drama Department is producing a lavish version of Shakespeare's Anthony & Cleopatra. Cathy tries out for the lead role, but Patty unexpectedly gets the part.

25m Nov 26, 1963

The Birds & The Bees Bit,

Patty's twelve-year-old brother Ross finds himself invited to his first dance by a new girl in the neighborhood. Panicky with fear, he does everything he can to wriggle out of his obligation. It remains for Patty and Cathy to teach him about dances.

25m Oct 15, 1963

The Christmas Present,

Christmas is a day away and Cathy is all aglow. Her father, who is a foreign correspondent in Europe, has always made it a point to visit his daughter on Christmas, no matter where he was stationed at the time. This Christmas promises to be no different.

25m Dec 24, 1963

The Con Artists,

A slick door-to-door salesman talks Cathy into buying a vacuum cleaner as a birthday present for Natalie, but when the cost for the entire package is added up, it turns out that neither Patty nor Cathy have anywhere near enough money to pay for it.

25m Feb 25, 1964

The Conquering Hero,

In the midst of this most successful season, the Brooklyn Heights High School basketball team is threatened with catastrophe. Its star player, Stretch, is moving with his family to Michigan.

25m Nov 5, 1963

The Continental,

Patty's father, Martin Lane, comes home and tells them that his publisher has assigned him to head the Paris office for a year, the family is ecstatic. However, as the day of departure draws near, the thrill of leaving for Europe begins to pale.

25m Jan 28, 1964

The French Teacher,

Love provides an unusual aid to education in the form of a handsome French teacher at Brooklyn Heights High School. Patty's parents are astonished when her French grades suddenly zoom up and up.

25m Sep 17, 1963

The Friendship Bit,

Patty is horrified to discover that she seems to be allergic to Cathy. Patty and Cathy are not only cousins, they are the closest of friends as well. They do everything together and cannot bear to be parted from one another.

25m Apr 7, 1964

Patty Lane tampers with an I.Q. testing computer and is accidentally rated a genius. Mr. Snell persuades her parents to allow Patty to do anything she pleases. Chaos reigns until another test brings Patty's dream world to a crashing end.

26m Sep 24, 1963

The Little Dictator,

Cathy, the brightest student at Brooklyn Heights High School, is appointed Student Principal for a week, the highest honor a student can obtain. Patty becomes jealous, and while Cathy is teaching a class, she engages in wisecracks and unruly behavior.

25m May 5, 1964

The Perfect Teenager,

Patty concludes that she is a flop as a teenager when she flunks a psychological exam for teenagers in a magazine. To overcome her imagined deficiencies, she decides to enroll in a school for teenage models.

25m Mar 3, 1964

At stake is the presidency of the senior class. The candidates are Patty...and her cousin Cathy.

25m Nov 12, 1963

The Princess Cathy,

Cathy finds herself falling in love with a foreign exchange student at the high school. Imagine her surprise when the student proposes marriage, and then turns out to be the Prince of the distant land of Bukanistan.

25m Dec 17, 1963

The Songwriters,

Richard and Patty have had an argument, and to win him back Patty writes him a love poem which in reality has been stolen out of a collection in the Lane family library. Cathy sees the poem and puts it to music.

25m Dec 10, 1963

Cathy, who is an expert seamstress, makes a dress for herself that turns out to be the success of the season at Brooklyn Heights High School. Immediately Patty senses an opportunity to apply business initiative to the situation.

25m Jan 14, 1964

The Working Girl,

As is very often the case, Patty finds that she needs money. Her solution this time is to take a job as a waitress in the local ice-cream parlor, where her pay is $15 a week and all the sodas she can drink.

25m May 12, 1964

Wedding Anniversary Caper,

The Lanes' wedding anniversary is coming up and poor Ross cannot afford to get them a present. In a flash of inspiration, he enters Patty's photo in a Beautiful Teens Contest for which the first prize is a portable television set.

21m Mar 17, 1964