I Married Joan S1-02 "Career" 10/22/1952

"Career" Director Hal Walker. Writers Arthur Stander, Phil Sharp. Good Picture Quality, Re-mastered Sound. Original GE Commercials. This is just how it was shown on October 22, 1952! Uncut! The second episode of the series. In the opening titles, Joan's in a "traveling" outfit, not in a wedding dress, and the Roger Wagner Chorale sings a slightly different version of the famous theme song. This episode has two separate stories First part opens with Brad counseling a married couple, played by Sheldon Leonard and Sandra Gould (she replaced Alice Pearce as Gladys Kravitz on Bewitched). The wife wants her own career and feels stifled. Brad shares a story about what happened to him-flashback to Joan pursuing a career in show biz—she lands a part in a commercial—due to a disastrously muddy turn of events, Joan realizes she'd rather be a homemaker. Margie Liszt plays Brad's secretary, in this episode called "Miss Burton." In subsequent episodes her name is "Miss Bromley." The part of the assistant director of the commercial, the guy in the baseball cap, is played by Bob Sweeney, who later that season played the part of Uncle Edgar (with the help of age makeup) in the episode of the same name. The second part of the story line deals with Brad's re-election as Judge. Unbeknownst to each other, Joan and Brad invite political backers Mr. Bishop (Joan's invite) and Mr. Chester (Brad's invite) to dinner that evening. The two men hate each other. A GE Commercial for a refrigerator follows, with a couple describing ways of food storage that are, well, you judge. Both backers arrive. Mr. Chester in the dining room and Mr. Bishop in the living room, in a setup for comic gold. Joan serves dinner to the two men at the same time in what can only be described as a TV tour-de-FARCE! Physical precision like this doesn't come by often. Jim Backus' reactions to her antics are priceless. They worked so well together. There's a closing gag where Joan speaks to a departed relative, "Uncle Charlie." The same gag was used later in an episode of "Make Room for Daddy," with Danny Thomas delivering the line. After the wrap-up, there's another GE commercial, this one about a dishwasher, and then Joan does the final plug for GE.