Brad encourages Joan to become an actress. Then, he invites a prospective campaign contributor to dinner only to find that Joan has invited another possible contributor.

I Married Joan

Career

To get more exercise, Joan turns to ballet.

Ballet

After Brad refuses to dismiss Joan's traffic ticket, she gets revenge by charging him for meals.

Jitterbug

Joan tries to learn all she can about the criminal world to prepare for her appearance with Brad on a TV panel show.

Crime Panel

Joan tries to keep Brad from going to his class reunion because she thinks his old girlfriend will be there.

Brad's Class Reunion

Joan thinks she'll impress her old schoolmates with the fact she married a judge until she finds out they have all achieved great personal success on their own.

Dreams

Joan goes hat shopping and has an argument with a lady. When it ends up she and Brad are having dinner with the lady and her husband, Joan takes up acrobatics in the restaurant in order to avoid embarrassment.

Acrobats

Joan and Judge Bradley try to reform a young juvenile delinquent whose father recently received a stiff prison sentence.

Bad Boys

The Stevens' try to keep Brad's visiting Uncle Edgar entertained and out of trouble.

Uncle Edgar

Judge evicts Joan's women's club from their clubhouse.

Eviction

Keeping a secret from Brad almost costs him a missed appointment.

Secrets

Three nights a week, the Stevens pass sleeplessly because of their neighbors' wild parties. Joan manages to convince them to move out, but the new neighbors are even worse - they have dogs that bark all night every night.

Neighbors

Joan is tricked by a couple of con men pretending to be talent scouts and finds herself filming a movie scene where a jungle girl costume sharing screen time with a scene-stealing chimpanzee.

Talent Scout

The judge counsels a couple about to married about the insignificance of a honeymoon by reminiscing about his own disastrous one, where he found himself locked in a burglar-proof closet.

Honeymoon

Brad is frustrated that his business-executive friends can afford to buy their wives such luxuries as fur coats, so he quits his job as judge and goes to work as a corporate executive. Joan knows that he can only be truly happy being a judge.

Business Executive

Pluto

The Stevens want to move, but another couple grabs the house before they can buy it.

New House

Joan discovers a wall safe hidden behind a panel in the living room and visions of dollar signs appear before her eyes.

Wall Safe

Joan innocently comes between a stranger and his wife.

Alienation of Affections

When Joan learns that the snooty Helen Cavanaugh will be attending the charity ball, she insists that Brad give her money to buy a new gown. Disaster Ensues.

Clothes Budget

Two Saint Bernards

The Stevens return from their trip to Hawaii.

Home Movies

A local mobster threatens Judge Stevens over the parole of an incarcerated gang leader. Joan tries to head off the threat by getting a gangster-movie actor to pose as a torpedo from the Eastern Syndicate.

Big Louie's Parole

Joan's new maid is more interested in the stage.

The Maid

It's election time. Bradley is campaigning and wants to show the voters how happily married he is. Unfortunately, Joan starts sneezing whenever he comes within ten feet of her and thinks she's become allergic to him.

The Allergy

Wally enters a charity fight and accidentally knocks out a pro.

The Lady And The Prize Fighter

Shortly after Joan adopts an injured crow, her neighborhood is beset by a jewel thief, and all the stolen items are discovered in the Stephens' home. Joan's friends fear she has developed an acute case of kleptomania.

The Jail Bird

I Married Joan is an American situation comedy that aired on NBC. It starred actress Joan Davis in her wacky adventures as the quirky, scatterbrained wife of a mild-mannered community judge, the Honorable Bradley Stevens (Jim Backus).

New House

Full Episodes

Season 3, 11 episodes