The Joey Bishop Show

On the eve of his wedding to Ellie, Joey is asked to fill in for Danny Thomas at a night club in Las Vegas. With nuptials looming, he turns down the request only to learn a few hours after the marriage that his manager has accepted the engagement beginning that night.

When Joey refuses to perform at a benefit for Jillson's fraternal lodge, the janitor tries to harass him into changing his mind.

Ellie is upset when Freddy keeps crashing in on her and Joey's meals. But, when Freddy crashes Ellie and Joey's three-month wedding anniversary dinner, Ellie becomes upset and tells Joey to get rid of him.

Joey tries to cure Ellie of her irresistible desire to buy things she doesn't need from every pitchman with a hard-luck story.

Joey is reluctant to take a sorely needed vacation when the sponsor of his nightly TV show enthusiastically picks an unknown comic for the fill-in spot.

Joey and Freddy arrive at Joey's apartment unexpectedly to find Ellie dressed to the nines. Joey's suspicions are further aroused when he learns she is meeting a man named Roger, whom she tries to pass off as the plumber.

Joey's mandolin playing on his TV show so disturbs his manager, Freddy, that the two decide to dissolve their lifelong friendship. But, when Freddy tries for a new job he needs Joey's recommendation and Joey writes terrible about Freddy. The two resolve their differences and Freddy is still Joey's manager.

Joey's comedy routine knocking women in politics on his show angers Ellie and her friends and motivates her to run for Assembly. Freddie advises him to give in to her demand to appear on the show, but to ask her questions about the U.S. Constitution that are sure to embarrass her.

Ellie and Joey reluctantly become hosts to an Eskimo dog that apartment superintendent Jillson won in a jingle contest. But, the dog must have the apartment freezing and Joey complains all the time. He and Ellie stay in Jillson's basement apartment with animals of all types.

Weary of hearing Joey's excuses for neglecting to take his regular medical checkup, Ellie cooks up an elaborate plot to make him think he's sick. When the scheme fails, Freddy brings in old vaudeville star, Max Collins, to hypnotize Joey.

Ellie seems homesick for Texas and Joey would like to take her there for a visit, but can't get away from his show. Instead, he and Freddy bring Texas to Ellie by putting on a Texas show in their living room.

Joey announces that he plans an evening out with the boys, and Ellie gets the idea that "the wolf wants to howl again." The more Ellie thinks about Joey's night out, the angrier she gets and she plots a retaliation.

Seeking a good investment opportunity for Joey, Freddie finds a boxer who looks like he will make champ material even though he has never fought professionally. Unfortunately, he has a glass jaw.

Shortly before he is scheduled to perform at an important dinner attended by the Governor, Joey discovers he can't find his lucky cuff links. Joey refuses to go and perform unless he finds out his lucky cuff links. Joey goes to the laundry to find them and the two laundress look for them and Ellie makes believe that she finds them. But, later the women find them.

Ellie turns into a green-eyed monster after Joey misses five consecutive meals to work overtime with his new secretary. Freddy tells Joey to chase Cindy around the office and she will quit but Ellie walks in. Freddy informs Ellie of his plan and Joey and Ellie make up.

Ellie's friend Doris makes Ellie want a make up kiss from Joey because she and Joey haven't ever had a a fight. And Doris says that the make up kiss is the best thing out of marriage. So Ellie tries to provoke Joey into a fight but can't understand it. Freddy tells Joey to give Ellie a fight if she wants one.

Joey Bishop portrays dual roles, as TV entertainer Joey Barnes and nearsighted convict Louie. After Joey entertains inmates at a nearby prison, Louie knocks Joey unconscious and changes clothes with him. Later, at Joey's apartment, Louie even fools Ellie for a time. Meanwhile, Joey is thrown into Louie's cell and tries to convince his cellmate that the whole thing has been a terrible mistake.

With Jillson being a guest on Joey's talk show, Joey tells the story of how Jillson went on a diet. Mrs. Jillson calls everyone in the apartment house and tells every tenant that Mr. Jillson is on a diet and not to give him any cinnamon buns. Desperate, Jillson goes and buys every cinnamon bun that he can find and hides them in every apartment in the apartment house.

Freddie is acting like a high society gentleman because he's dating a woman who he thinks is a high society lady, but who is actually a model who lives in a one-room flat. He performs a comical one-man opera routine in Joey's living room.

Ellie is jealous after seeing a beautiful female judo expert on the show with Joey, and threatens to go stay with her mother in Texas. Instead, Joey walks out and stays with Larry.

Joey is annoyed because Ellie keeps bringing people over to audition for his show in their living room, but he changes his mind when she finally hits the jackpot with Mrs. Jillson's nephews, a talented singing quartet.

To discourage an 8-year-old girl's crush on him, Joey invites her to a rehearsal of his show and acts like a tyrant, firing members of his production staff and brow-beating his performers.

When Ellie's Aunt Cecilia, with whom Joey does not get along, sends a telegram saying she's coming for a visit, Joey devises a scheme wherein Larry fakes a broken leg in order to occupy the guestroom.

Ellie's early morning news that she is going to have a baby turns Joey into a proud but nervous papa-to-be.