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"Dancing Lessons" Director Ezra Stone. Writers Howard Snyder, Jesse Goldstein, Phil Sharp, Hugh Wedlock. This is a really fun episode that affords both Davis and Backus ample opportunity to strut their comedic stuff. Lots of content in this one. It opens on a very quiet evening at home with friends Judge and Mrs. Palmer Brad watches Mr. Judge (William Forrest) contemplate a chess move, and Joan watches Mrs. Judge (Verna Felton) knit. At 9PM the guests hurriedly leave. Joan tells Brad she longs to do something more lively with their evenings, like go out dancing. She puts on some music, which happens to be a waltz, and they dance. Sidebar Brad's character is very "old school" throughout the series. Here he takes a folded handkerchief and places it on the palm of his right hand before he takes Joan in hold. A nostalgic touch. The music segues to a mambo, and Joan takes off, leaving Brad in the dust. Joan convinces a disgruntled Brad to take six introductory dancing lessons at the Arthur Murray studio. Brad agrees to go, but under protest. At the studio, enter Carlotta Carlisle (Tareaux Forchand) the exotic French instructress assigned to Brad. Over Joan's protests, Brad signs up for the three-month course. Brad turns into a Mambo expert, complete with pencil-thin mustache. Joan can't keep up. At the suggestion of her girlfriend Lulu (Sara Berner), she signs up for some lessons with Hernando (Maurice Marsac). The rest is a comedy of errors complete with a great turn by Richard "Dick" Reeves, a thug who tries to pick Joan up at a dance hall. Sidebar Sara Berner played "Woman on Fire Escape" in Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window." Dick Reeves appeared in IMJ as football buddy "Butch" Henderson in "Joan's Haircut." He appeared also in IMJ's "Birthday," this time cast against type as a lawyer! Maurice Marsac appeared in IMJ's "Bazaar Pie" episode, as the wealthy bachelor next door. Choreography for this episode by Hamil Petroff.