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  • ABC
  • Oct 15, 1971
  • 1 h
  • ABC
  • Oct 15, 1971
  • 1 h
Love, American Style

Summary Love, American Style entertained viewers with stories about common people finding love in all walks of life. In this anthology series, each hour-long broadcast consisted of a group of vignettes, aired sequentially and separately and each with an introductory title card. Normally there were three or four vignettes to a show, although occa...

Directed By: William Wiard

Written By: Bruce Howard

  • ABC
  • Oct 15, 1971
  • 1 h
  • ABC
  • Oct 15, 1971
  • 1 h
Love, American Style
S3 • Episode 5
Love and the Detective/Love and the Guilty Conscience/Love and the Mixed Marriage/Love and the Wake-Up Girl
Air Date: Oct 15, 1971
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Summary Love, American Style entertained viewers with stories about common people finding love in all walks of life. In this anthology series, each hour-long broadcast consisted of a group of vignettes, aired sequentially and separately and each with an introductory title card. Normally there were three or four vignettes to a show, although occa...

Season Episodes

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Episode 1 • Sep 17, 1971 • 1 h
Love and Formula 26B/Love and the Loud Mouth/Love and the Penal Code
Episode 2 • Sep 24, 1971 • 1 h
Love and the Anniversary Crisis/Love and the Conjugal Visit/Love and the Dream Burglar/Love and the Hotel Caper/Love and the Monsters
Episode 3 • Oct 1, 1971 • 1 h
Love and the Artful Codger/Love and the Neglected Wife/Love and the Traveling Salesman
Episode 4 • Oct 8, 1971 • 1 h
Love and the Ledge/Love and the See-Through Man/Love and the Television Weekend/Love and the Waterbed
Cynthia explains to her mother that she's married to someone invisible. Charlie plans on going wild when his wife is away. A GI come home to find a water bed his wife bought. A woman sees a man attempting suicide from a upper floor ledge.
Episode 5 • Oct 15, 1971 • 1 h
Love and the Detective/Love and the Guilty Conscience/Love and the Mixed Marriage/Love and the Wake-Up Girl
A novice private eye (Charles Nelson Reilly) is hired by a gangster (Noam Pitlik) to check out his girlfriend (Louisa Moritz) to see if she's faithful.
Episode 6 • Oct 22, 1971 • 1 h
Love and the Awakening/Love and the Bashful Groom/Love and the Four-Sided Triangle/Love and the Naked Stranger
Actress Elizabeth can't bring herself to perform a passionate love scene. Groom Harold learns his wedding is to take place at a nudist colony. A couple find a stranger in their hotel room.
Episode 7 • Oct 29, 1971 • 1 h
Love and the Lovesick Sailor/Love and the Mistress/Love and the Reincarnation/Love and the Sex Survey
Episode 8 • Nov 5, 1971 • 1 h
Love and the Married Bachelor/Love and the Sweet Sixteen/Love and the Vacation/Love and the Well-Groomed Bride
Episode 9 • Nov 12, 1971 • 1 h
Love and the Baby/Love and the Big Mother/Love and the Free Weekend/Love and the Jealous Husband/Love and the Old Cowboy
Episode 10 • Nov 19, 1971 • 1 h
Love and the College Professor/Love and the Eyewitness/Love and the Lady Barber/Love and the Plumber
Episode 11 • Dec 3, 1971 • 1 h
Love and the Accidental Passion/Love and the Black Limousine/Love and the Eskimo's Wife/Love and the Tuba
In skit Black Limousine a couple are afraid their daughter is marrying crime boss. A newlywed couple's honeymoon goes wrong when one of the is stuck in a tuba. Wife sharing is explored among the Eskimos.
Episode 12 • Dec 10, 1971 • 1 h
Love and the Bowling Ball/Love and the Check/Love and the Hiccups/Love and the Liberated Lady Boss
Episode 13 • Dec 17, 1971 • 1 h
Love and the Particular Girl/Love and the Fountain of Youth/Love and the House Bachelor/Love and the Waitress
Helen becomes proficient in karate which scares away suitors. An aging Casanova fights appearing old. A couple is tired of a bachelor friend always arriving for dinner. A man proposes where his ex-wife is a waitress.
Episode 14 • Dec 31, 1971 • 1 h
Love and the Contact Lens/Love and the Doctor's Honeymoon/Love and the Motel Mixup
April loses her contact lenses but on advice of her mother doesn't tell her boyfriend. Young couple Alan and Shari can't decide whether to get a room for their first time. Casey, a doctor, doesn't have time for her navy captain husband.
Episode 15 • Jan 7, 1972 • 1 h
Love and the Lady Athlete/Love and the Lady Killers/Love and the New Size 8/Love and the Single Sister
Episode 16 • Jan 14, 1972 • 1 h
Love and the Big Surprise/Love and the Security Building/Love and the Ski Lodge/Love and the Happy Unhappy Couple/Love and the Topless Policy
Episode 17 • Jan 21, 1972 • 1 h
Love and the Advice Column/Love and the Bathtub/Love and the Fullback/Love and the Guru/Love and the Physical
A woman calls off her wedding based on an advice column. A prospective bride get her toe caught in bathtub drain. A football coach is angry when a player weds. A wife invites two doctors to give her husband a physical over dinnner.
Episode 18 • Jan 28, 1972 • 1 h
Love and the Anxious Mama/Love and the Boomerang/Love and the Private Eye
Private investigator Melvin Danger, who uses wacky disguises to solve his cases, is hired to find out who killed the corporate magnate and stole the office payroll.
Episode 19 • Feb 4, 1972 • 1 h
Love and the Plane Truth/Love and the Scroungers/Love and the Small Wedding
Episode 20 • Feb 11, 1972 • 1 h
Love and the Bachelor Party/Love and the Latin Lover/Love and the Old-Fashioned Father/Love and the Test of Manhood
In "Love and the Old-Fashioned Father", a teen (Kristina Holland) wants permission to go away with her hippie boyfriend.
Episode 21 • Feb 18, 1972 • 1 h
Love and the Alibi/Love and the Instant Father/Love and the Lovely Evening/Love and Lover's Lane/Love and the Split-Up
Episode 22 • Feb 25, 1972 • 1 h
Love and the Happy Days/Love and the Newscasters
An American family of the 1950s gets their first television. The teenage son Ritchie and his friend Potsie assume it can be used as a chick magnet. This was a precursor to the Happy Days series.
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Stuart Margolin

Love American Style Player, (segment "Love and the Hip Arrangement"), Fenton (segment "Love and the Love Kit")

Barbara Minkus

Love American Style Player, Mrs. Hackenbush (segment "Love and the Psychiatrist"), Patty (segment "Love and the Postal Meeter")

William Callaway

Love American Style Player, (segment "Love and Operation Model")

Mary Grover

Love American Style Player, (segment "Love and the Note"), Gladys (segment "Love and the Jealous Husband"

Tracy Reed

Love American Style Player, Gloria (segment "Love and the Extra Job")

Buzz Cooper

Love American Style Player

Lynne Marta

Love American Style Player

Michael Callan

(segment "Love and the Lady Athlete"), (segment "Love and the Loud Mouth"), (segment "Love and the Single Husband")

Phyllis Davis

Betty Benson (segment "Love and the Old Boyfriend"), Bonnie Williams (segment "Love and the Physical"), Elaine (segment "Love and the Swinging Surgeon")

Warren Berlinger

(segment "Love and the Married Bachelor"), David Spencer (segment "Love and the Accidental Passion"), Earl (segment "Love and the Weighty Problem")

E.J. Peaker

Carol (segment "Love and the Wake-Up Girl"), Christie (segment "Love and the Spendthrift"), Ellen (segment "Love and the Growing Romance"), Jill Hollister (segment "Love and the Accidental Passion", Louise (segment "Love and the Serious Wedding"), Phyllis (segment "Love and the Christmas Punch"), Vera (segment "Love and the Joker")

John Myhers

Brad Crandall (segment "Love and the King"), Delmo the Magnificent (segment "Love and the Disappearing Box"), Director (segment "Love and the Sex Survey"), Dr. Miller (segment "Love and the Clinic"), Harry Lombardi (segment "Love and the Big Top"), Jake Patterson (segment "Love and the Boss"), Mel (segment "Love and the Lady Prisoner")

Richard Williams

Love American Style Player

Carol Wayne

(segment "Love and the Lady Killers"), Angela Pruett (segment "Love and the Nervous Executive"), Carlotta (segment "Love and the Penal Code"), Irene (segment "Love and Murphy's Bed"), Karen Joy (segment "Love and the Newscasters"), Rosie (segment "Love and the Little Black Book")

Peter Kastner

(segment "Love and the Lovesick Sailor"), Arnold (segment "Love and the Triangle"), Dave (segment "Love and the Phone Booth"), Dennis Stephens (segment "Love and the Mr. and Mrs."), Olive (segment "Love and the Girlish Groom"), Ollie, Stanley (segment "Love and the Awakening")

Joyce Van Patten

(segment "Love and the Plane Truth"), Janet (segment "Love and Mr. Bunny"), Marge (segment "Love and the Playwright"), Nikki (segment "Love and the Naked Stranger"), Rona (segment "Love and the Singles Apartment"), Wanda Glass (segment "Love and the Nuisance")

Jo Anne Worley

(segment "Love and the Pregnancy"), Beverly Arnold Rhodes (segment "Love and the Games People Play"), Housewife (segment "Love and the Guilty Conscience"), Maggie (segment "Love and the Optimist"), Mrs. Stevens (segment "Love and the Happy Unhappy Couple"), Susie (segment "Love and the Big Mother")

Dick Gautier

(segment "Love and the Sexpert"), Bill (segment "Love and the Security Building"), Cal Tucker (segment "Love and the Four-Sided Triangle"), George (segment "Love and the Traveling Salesman"), Kirk Foster (segment "Love and Women's Lib"), Robert Herridan (segment "Love and the Fractured Fibula")

Herb Edelman

(segment "Love and the Advice Column"), Bob Curtis (segment "Love and the King"), Marion Feinstein (segment "Love and the Dating Computer"), Norman Levy, Phil (segment "Love and the Pick-Up Fantasy")

Stefanie Powers

(segment "Love and the Big Surprise"), Betty (segment "Love and Formula 26B"), Helen (segment 'Love and the Particular Girl'), Phyllis (segment "Love and the Tattoo"), Poppy (segment "Love and the Doorknob")

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