The Doris Day Show season 2 The Chocolate Bar War - Metacritic

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TV-G
CBS
Oct 20, 1969
23 m

TV-G
CBS
Oct 20, 1969
23 m

The Doris Day Show

Summary The Doris Day Show was first seen in September of 1968 and quickly became a series marked for it's constant premise changes, with only one constant, Doris Day played Doris Martin for all five years. During the first season, Doris Martin was a widow raising two young sons, Billy and Toby, on her own. The Martins lived on a family ranch an...

Comedy

Directed By: Harry Falk

Written By: Jack Elinson, Norman Paul, James Fritzell

TV-G
CBS
Oct 20, 1969
23 m

TV-G
CBS
Oct 20, 1969
23 m

The Doris Day Show

S2 • Episode 5

The Chocolate Bar War

Air Date: Oct 20, 1969

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Summary The Doris Day Show was first seen in September of 1968 and quickly became a series marked for it's constant premise changes, with only one constant, Doris Day played Doris Martin for all five years. During the first season, Doris Martin was a widow raising two young sons, Billy and Toby, on her own. The Martins lived on a family ranch an...

Comedy

Created By: James Fritzell

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Season Episodes

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Episode 1 • Sep 22, 1969 • 23 m

Doris Gets a Job

Doris lands a job in San Francisco as a Girl Friday for the Managing Editor of Today's World magazine.

Episode 2 • Sep 29, 1969 • 23 m

A Frog Called Harold

Unbeknownst to Doris, Billy and Toby's frog Harold has accompanied her to work. Chaos ensues when he escapes after she arrives at her office.

Episode 3 • Oct 6, 1969 • 23 m

Married for a Day

Doris' single boss convinces her to pretend to be married to him when his old flame arrives in town.

Episode 4 • Oct 13, 1969 • 23 m

The Woman Hater

Doris' natural charm soothes the savage beast and threatens the loss of a client for her boss.

Episode 5 • Oct 20, 1969 • 23 m

The Chocolate Bar War

It's a war between two mothers and the battleground is the lucrative exit of Genson's Grocery Store. To the victor goes first prize in the Boy Scout candy selling contest. Doris learns the world is just too small a place to make enemies.

Episode 6 • Nov 10, 1969 • 23 m

The Health King

Episode 7 • Nov 17, 1969 • 23 m

Doris the Model

Today's World is hosting an exclusive fashion show, and Doris and Myrna must babysit the two French models being wooed with food by lovestruck Jewish delicatessen Lotharios.

Episode 8 • Nov 24, 1969 • 23 m

Doris Strikes Out

Doris has a date with a French movie star, but learns her sons have volunteered her to umpire their baseball game that afternoon.

Episode 9 • Dec 8, 1969 • 23 m

Myrna moves into a swinging singles apartment complex that just ain't got that swing. When she can't break the lease, Doris has the solution: Let slip the sheepdog of war.

Episode 10 • Dec 15, 1969 • 23 m

Doris feels guilty that her work is interfering with her spending time with her boys, so she plans a whirlwind weekend of activities that they can all do together--but all the boys want to do is play football with their friends.

Episode 11 • Dec 22, 1969 • 23 m

A Two-Family Christmas

At the office Christmas party, Myrna and Ron have a bit too much to drink and Doris sees how lonely they really are, so she invites them out to the ranch for a Christmas party.

Episode 12 • Dec 29, 1969 • 23 m

You're as Old as You Feel

Doris' father is beginning to feel his age, which depresses him and he starts acting like an old man, so Doris sets out to convince him that he's not as old as he feels.

Episode 13 • Jan 5, 1970 • 23 m

The Prizefighter and the Lady

Episode 14 • Jan 12, 1970 • 23 m

Doris vs. the Computer

A computer error leads to efficiency expert Mr. Jarvis insisting that Doris has never paid her electricity bill, which leads to unexpected problems.

Episode 15 • Jan 19, 1970 • 23 m

Episode 16 • Jan 26, 1970 • 23 m

Today's World Catches the Measles

Episode 17 • Feb 2, 1970 • 23 m

The Gas Station

Episode 18 • Feb 9, 1970 • 23 m

Episode 19 • Feb 16, 1970 • 23 m

Buck's Portrait

Episode 20 • Feb 23, 1970 • 23 m

Doris Hires a Millionaire: Part 1

Episode 21 • Mar 2, 1970 • 23 m

Doris Hires a Millionaire: Part 2

Episode 22 • Mar 9, 1970 • 23 m

A Woman's Intuition

While on a flight to Florida, Doris tries to comfort the passenger in the seat next to her, who is deathly afraid of flying. Things don't work out as she planned, however, when the passenger winds up hijacking the airplane to Cuba.

Episode 23 • Mar 16, 1970 • 23 m

Doris Meets a Prince

Doris meets a foreign prince, who is smitten with her and pursues her. She invites him home to dinner to try to talk him out of his pursuit of her, but it has the opposite effect and he winds up proposing marriage to her.

Episode 24 • Mar 23, 1970 • 30 m

The Duke Returns

Retired boxer Duke Farentino has become a dance instructor and turns to Doris for help with his problems.

Episode 25 • Mar 30, 1970 • 25 m

The Office Troubleshooter

Jarvis, an efficiency expert assigned to Today's World magazine as a troubleshooter and the entire staff is at the point of revolt, as he blithely goes about his busybody business.

Episode 26 • Apr 6, 1970 • 25 m

Colonel Fairburn Takes Over

The Publisher of Today's World arrives unexpectedly and assumes control of the office and its staff, taking a special interest in Doris.

5 Seasons

Top Cast

Doris Day

Doris Martin, Doris Day

Philip Brown

Billy Martin

Todd Starke

Toby Martin

Denver Pyle

Buck Webb

Rose Marie

Myrna Gibbons

McLean Stevenson

Michael Nicholson

John Dehner

Cyril Bennett

Jackie Joseph

Jackie Parker

Paul Smith

Ron Harvey, Hal Benson

Lord Nelson

Nelson the Sheepdog

James Hampton

LeRoy B. Simpson

Naomi Stevens

Juanita

Louise Lane

Party Guest, Casino Patron, Exhibit Patron, First Secretary, Maternity Nurse, Nurse, Office Worker, Pedestrian, Woman at Meeting, Worker

Billy De Wolfe

Willard Jarvis, Billy De Wolfe, Randolph Jarvis

Norman Stevans

Restaurant Patron, Party Guest, Commuter in Terminal, Diner Patron, Exhibit Patron, Frank, Hotel Guest, Man at Meeting, Pub Patron

Fran Ryan

Aggie Thompson

Kaye Ballard

Angie Pallucci, Flossie Moore

Carol Worthington

Ethel Weber, Girl, Mary-Ellen Farnsworth, Miss Bennington

Charles Cirillo

Businessman, Club Patron, Courtroom Spectator, Mario, Mission Guest, Party Guest, Pedestrian, Vito, Waiter

Peter Lawford

Dr. Peter Lawrence

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