The Courtship Of Eddie's Father

Eddie decides to give his father a surprise gift "because that's the best kind." Norman Tinker suggests they make a home movie featuring Eddie.

Tom Corbett overhears Eddie and his girlfriend, Joey Kelly, making plans to run away to Mexico. Tom learns that Joey's reason for running away is her unhappiness.

Tom Corbett and his son Eddie join a group called Indian Pals, organized to bring fathers and sons closer by involving them in projects on which they work together.

Tom Crobett becomes convinced that Mrs. Livingston has fallen for Norman Tinker. Following a dinner at the Corbetts', Tinker is sure that it's Tom that Mrs. Livingston has fallen for.

Tom Corbett finds that a scheduled business trip to Las Vegas falls on the same day Eddie is to appear as Abraham Lincoln in a class play.

Tom Corbett's punishment of Eddie upsets Mrs. Livingston's plans. Eddie fails to do his homework and his father tells him he can't go to the Japanese Fair with Mrs. Livingston.

Valerie Bessinger, a glamourous jet-setter, is conducting learning experiments with Eddie and other children for an article. Valerie and Tom Corbett become romantically involved.

Tom Corbett offers a temporary home to Bobby Brownbear, an Indian boy awaiting adoption. Tom's attentions to Bobby arouse Eddie's worry that his father's feelings for his son have changed.

Maternal grandfather Harry Madison visits the Corbetts, and Eddie can hardly contain himself in anticipation of joining him on an archaeological expedition down the Amazon River.

Cynthia Kurlan, a beautiful worker for women's liberation, launches a personal campaign to persuade Tom Corbett to run an article on the movement in his magazine.

When Elsie learns she's an adopted child, she plants in Eddie's mind the suspicion that he is, too. Elsie finds the adoption papers when she pries open a locked box in her father's desk.

Mrs. Livingston spends the night with the Corbetts and is petrified when she imagines she's seen a ghost in the bedroom of Eddie.

Norman gives his prized medallion to Tom. Tom passes it on to Eddie as a reward for being a good host to a little girl, Joey Kelly, while her father, Joe, is on weekend Army Reserve duty.

Cissy Drummond-Randolph, the pretty publisher boss of Tom Corbett, seems to want to make her relationship with Tom a more personal one.

Angustia "Gus" Ferreiro, an underprivileged girl with emotional problems, is given a chance to work on the magazine with Tom Corbett and Norman Tinker but disrupts the operation.

When Tom Corbett and Norman Tinker enter the hospital for an insurance checkup, Eddie is upset about not understanding the procedures. Mrs. Livingston brings Eddie to the hospital.

Eddie gets mad at his father, Tom Corbett, when he rejects Norman Tinker's plan to buy Eddie a horse. Unable to understand why his father won't allow him to have a horse.

Tom Corbett invites Tina and Norman Tinker to his home to discuss her confused feelings about Norman, and in turn, Tina invites her encounter group to the meeting.

Eddie invites astronaut Gordon Cooper to his home for a quiet visit away from interviews if he's ever in town but discovers the news media doesn't want it that way.

The fates seem to be against Tom Corbett's plans for a romantic weekend with Julie while Eddie Corbett is away at camp. Their first night's date is interrupted by an emergency at the office.

Mrs. Etta Rickles comes to town for a visit with daughter Tina. During dinner at Tom Corbett's apartment, Mrs. Rickles gives Eddie a magic piece of marble.

Eddie Corbett believes he will lose his friends unless he joins them in a petty-theft ring organized by Mark. Rather than steal from stores, Eddie pilfers items from home.

When Donald gets a baby brother, Eddie believes he too should have one, but realizes it can't be accomplished as long as his father, Tom Corbett, is a bachelor.

Tom Corbett spanks Eddie for the first time when the child's continued disregard of home safety rules twice endangers his life.