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A Day in the Life of Dennis Day — 1947
44 episodes broadcast in 1947.
The new year finds nothing changed -- same $8-a-week job, same marriage-minded Mildred, same disapproving landlady -- and now Dennis has been talked into speaking at the Ladies Aid meeting.
January 15, 1947
(untitled)
Dennis bursts in on Mildred with what he calls the greatest news of his life: he has been mistaken for a long-lost missing heir.
January 29, 1947
(untitled)
February 5, 1947
(untitled)
A romantic night at the pictures leaves Mildred swooning, and Dennis walking home convinced he has become irresistible to every woman in Weaverville.
February 19, 1947
(untitled)
Dennis screws up the courage to ask Mr. Willoughby for a raise -- and manages to talk himself right out of the job.
A brush with the family's wealthier 'connections' sets Mrs. Anderson dreaming of a bigger house, with Dennis drawn into the scheme.
April 2, 1947
(untitled)
Now that Mrs. Anderson tolerates him a little more, Dennis sets out to scrape together $100 to buy a stake in Willoughby's drugstore.
A surprise offer of a paid summer vacation from Mr. Willoughby throws Dennis's future with Mildred into question -- and sends him to a marriage counselor.
Steady, dutiful Mr. Anderson has been acting oddly all week; Mildred sets Dennis to find out why, and turns up her father secretly writing for True Story magazine.
April 30, 1947
(untitled)
May 7, 1947
(untitled)
May 14, 1947
(untitled)
May 21, 1947
(untitled)
May 28, 1947
(untitled)
June 4, 1947
(untitled)
June 11, 1947
(untitled)
June 18, 1947
(untitled)
June 25, 1947
(untitled)
Back from a forced summer at home while Willoughby's was closed, Dennis lands the local drama-critic beat and promptly pans a Weaverville play.
Breakfast-table sparring at the Anderson house somehow snowballs into Dennis running for mayor of Weaverville.
September 17, 1947
(untitled)
Out of two billion people, only Dennis Day has to be Dennis Day -- which is how he ends up impersonating a big railroad executive.
Still angling to win over Mildred's mother, Dennis champions the unlikely civic cause of building the town a new jail.
October 8, 1947
(untitled)
A stir of mysterious packages at the boarding house turns out to be Mrs. Anderson going into business with a dress shop, and Dennis caught up in it.
A year and a half of Willoughby's underpay drives Dennis to moonlight -- selling insurance on the side.
October 29, 1947
(untitled)
November 5, 1947
(untitled)
November 12, 1947
(untitled)
November 19, 1947
(untitled)
November 26, 1947
(untitled)
Truth stranger than fiction: Dennis is offered, of all things, the society column at the Weaverville Daily Bugle, and the whole town hears about it.
Over refreshments at the new Little Gypsy Tearoom, Dennis takes on the job of helping Mr. Willoughby land a bank loan.
Stumped for a Christmas gift for his landlady, Dennis throws himself instead into getting Mrs. Anderson elected president of the ladies' club.
December 24, 1947
(untitled)
December 31, 1947
(untitled)
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