My Friend Irma — 1948
53 episodes broadcast in 1948.
Bored with the steno pool, Irma jumps at a fifty-dollar-a-week stage job that mostly involves being sawed in half by a magician.
Irma enters a radio 'I Want To Be A Bride' contest and leans on Jane to write her winning twenty-five words.
Flat broke after blowing her last hundred dollars on a bogus self-improvement course, Irma leaves Jane to win the money back.
Fed up with Al, Irma joins a lonely-hearts club -- never guessing that the heartsick Al has signed up for the very same one.
With Valentine's Day looming, Irma is certain Al is about to propose, while Jane frets more for her friend's heart than her head.
Professor Kropotkin drops out of sight for a week, alarming the household, then reappears overjoyed to have finished his concerto.
Irma weighs marrying Al though she knows nothing of his family, prompting Jane's crack that maybe he came out of an egg.
Trusted with a hundred and thirty-five dollars to collect her boss's new tuxedo, Irma lets Al talk her into hunting for a bargain instead.
Reconciled with their fellows, the girls stage a dinner for four and quietly scheme to pair Professor Kropotkin with Mrs. O'Reilly.
A running feud over the shared telephone party line ends up making a small fortune for a client of Richard's.
Jane sets Irma to mailing circulars for an honest candidate at the very moment Al ropes her into shilling for the crooked one.
Overhearing Jane's confidential trip to Washington, Irma invites herself along and cheerfully spills the secret to everyone, the press included.
A dead eccentric farmer has willed fifty thousand dollars to an unknown niece named Irma, and Jane begins to wonder if her roommate is the heiress.
April 12, 1948
Irma Becomes a Photographer
Impatient with Richard, Jane accepts a date with a smooth 'government finance' man whom Al recognizes at once from the unemployment window.
Chosen to model for a magazine feature on working girls, Jane can only watch her eager friend Irma threaten to wreck the whole shoot.
The doctor diagnoses Irma with lovesickness, and Al arrives with the cure -- an engagement ring he actually slips onto her finger.
Richard sails for England aboard the Queen Mary, and the entire gang crashes his shipboard farewell party.
When Jane is admitted to a professional women's club, Irma decides real friendship means getting her in too.
Jane's well-off Aunt Harriet plans a visit, and Jane braces for the angle Al is bound to try on her.
May 31, 1948
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Sent to fetch a friend's wedding ring, Irma leaves cash and a claim slip behind -- and Jane leaps to the conclusion that Irma herself is the bride.
July 5, 1948
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July 12, 1948
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July 19, 1948
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July 26, 1948
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August 2, 1948
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August 9, 1948
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August 16, 1948
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August 23, 1948
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August 30, 1948
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On a sweltering New York afternoon, Irma talks the whole gang into a cooling-off trip out to Coney Island.
September 20, 1948
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October 25, 1948
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November 1, 1948
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November 8, 1948
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No sooner has Jane returned the piano than Irma signs up for lessons and sets her sights on a singing contest, with Joan Banks filling in as Jane.
Lonely on Christmas Eve, Irma plans a party that not one of her friends can attend -- the show's yearly holiday script.
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