Claudia — 1947
69 episodes broadcast in 1947.
The 1947 audition demo: the newlywed Naughtons face an early Monday -- a wrecked breakfast and a brand-new dog.
The serial opens: newlyweds Claudia and David Naughton set up house under the roof of Claudia's mother.
An early-rising morning for the young couple.
The Naughtons weigh whether to keep or send back their wedding gifts.
Breakfast in bed for Mama, and the return of those wedding presents.
David turns up an apartment of their own.
David hunts high and low for a vanished Claudia.
David keeps busy whistling and tinkering about the house.
Claudia wrestles a shirt together as the family plans a birthday dinner for Mama.
With a move looming, Claudia frets over the weight of having a husband to look after.
Breakfast goes wrong, David's socks worse, and the newlyweds have their first real spat.
Claudia brings home an enormous dog.
After the giant dog nearly wrecks the flat, its former owner wants him back.
Tonight's 'steak' dinner turns out to be salmon.
Claudia lays her plans for dinner.
Claudia takes a run at making a salmon mousse.
A dinner out with Mama is upstaged when the moving man reappears, wedding presents in tow.
The small domestic saga of a dripping faucet.
A browse through an antique-and-junk shop.
The Naughtons sit down to sort out their money.
Claudia meets David's secretary Caroline as David springs for a new car.
Claudia sits her driving test.
An empty gas tank leaves the couple stranded in Connecticut.
Claudia scorches a shirt and blows a fuse trying to iron it.
A lovely Sunday, and gifts in hand for a call on Claudia's mother.
Claudia sets off to drive downtown.
David is handed a fine Ming statuette -- one that won't last long.
A trip to the zoo spells the end of the little Ming figure.
To duck a parking ticket, David finds himself buying Mama an engagement ring.
Mama's cold threatens to spoil the couple's night at the movies.
Now David is laid up with a cold, and Claudia plays nurse.
Apartment-hunting stirs up wartime memories on Armistice Day.
A kitten becomes an unlikely stand-in for the nurse.
A stolen car tangles the Naughtons in red tape.
An evening at the opera -- in tails, no less.
At the opera, Donald Duck proves no match for Tristan and Isolde.
A neighbor's misfortune opens up a new apartment for the couple.
A messy, squirming bath for Shakespeare.
The promised new apartment isn't ready after all.
Fresh paint boxes the couple in and scuttles Aunt Louisa's party.
The holiday table is set with champagne -- and a bottle of Coke.
A pleasant evening walk ends with something in Claudia's eye.
The couple mark a week in their apartment with a trip to an auction.
Claudia is felled by a toothache.
Claudia and Mama paper the closet shelves and look in on sister-in-law Julia at the beauty parlor.
A mysterious crate in the apartment turns out to hold a dishwasher.
Claudia turns up sporting a black eye.
Claudia's surprise -- a Queen Anne secretary -- proves far too big for the flat.
The secretary goes back, Claudia faints, and she suspects big news may be on the way.
Claudia breaks the big news to David.
An exploding stove makes for a hair-raising day.
Made over by Pierre, brows and all, Claudia steals the party.
A Chicago freight terminal arrives like a knock of opportunity.
Roger is retiring, but Mama refuses to pull up stakes for Chicago.
Claudia faces a hard choice: Chicago, without Mama?
Claudia goes shopping for a pipe for David.
Christmas shopping calls for plenty of legwork.
The Naughtons share their Christmas Eve.
A Christmas Eve visit from a stranger.
A great Dane looms in Claudia's future.
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