Love, American Style (1969)
Synopsis
An anthology comedy series featuring a line up of different celebrity guest stars appearing in anywhere from one, two, three, and four short stories or vignettes within an hour about versions of love and romance.
Creator
Arnold Margolin, Jim Parker
Network
ABC
Episodes
Love and the Pill
How to get your daughter to take the Pill on her swinger's tour of Europe.
Love and the Hustler
An ace pool player meets a lovely novice who chalks up a cue.
Love and a Couple of Couples
An ex-wife makes matters difficult for her former husband who's about to give his new fiancee her ring.
Love and the Joker
About a lovestruck practical joker.
Love and the Letter
A teacher criticizes a student's letter.
Love and the Living Doll
A young man decides to make his girlfriend jealous by using an inflatable doll as his date for the evening.
Love and the Unlikely Couple
A young man brings his rich girlfriend home to his parents.
Love and the Phone Booth
A shy country boy looks for a date.
Love and the Doorknob
A doorknob is the source of consternation for newlyweds.
Love and the Militant
A college president is confronted by a militant with designs on the secretary.
Love and the Legal Agreement
A separated couple with unseparated housing arrangements.
Love and Who?
A man wakes up after a hangover and does not remember anything from the night before.
Love and the Single Couple
What to do when your coed daughter has a male roommate.
Love and the Phonies
Conversation between a husband and wife who dress up (literally) for special occasions.
Love and the Modern Wife
Tale of a husband disgruntled at his wife's modern marriage course.
Love and the Busy Husband
How to get the attenttions of a busy husband.
Love and the Watchdog
Puff-Puff is a watchdog who's more trouble than he's worth to reunited divorcees.
Love and the Dating Computer
A mixed-up match from a computer dating service.
Love and Take Me Along
An unmarried reverend and his single companion.
Love and the Geisha
How an old flame can kindle a fire in a marriage.
Love and the Advice Givers
A husband and wife each receive differing advice from other people about their marriage.
Love and the Roommate
A roving bachelor story.
Love and the Burglar
A story about a burglar and the lady he victimizes.
Love and the Wild Party
The dancing is anything but square at a swinging party attended by two hayseeds.
Love and the Big Leap
A tale about a sky-diving wedding.
Love and the Former Marriage
A man's ex-wife still calls him in every emergency, and so does her new husband.
Love and the Good Deal
The hassle of finding a special bed for a tiny apartment.
Love and the Shower
A divorce shower complete with everything for the newly single man -- including two new young ladies.
Love and Mother
Three is definitely a crowd when a new bride's mother shows up to spend the night in the happy couple's room.
Love and the Athlete
A man tries to expose a female athlete.
Love and the Dummies
Love between two shy ventriloquists who let their dummies do all the talking.
Love and the Comedy Team
Two comedy writers try to meet a deadline, but the finacée of one is not very understanding.
Love and the Mountain Cabin
A mountain retreat honeymoon, but hubby's mind is on the money hidden there.
Love and the Divorce Sale
The end of a marriage is marked by a divorce sale.
Love and the Bachelor
A bachelor lays down the law to his overprotective mother.
Love and the Positive Man
Five-foot-three Marvin Glassmire aspires to win the heart of the statuesque Sylvia.
Love and the Other Love
If anything breaks up the marriage of Rob and Pat, it will be Rob's all-consuming love for his new sports car.
Love and the Medium
A widower, Gobel, goes to a medium, Vance, to communicate with his late wife. When he becomes engaged to a young woman the medium does some checking on fiance.
Love and the Bed
The battle for ownership of a brass bed involves Peter, his neighbor, and the rebirth of a Collonial courtship custom of bundling.
Love and the High School Flop-Out
A sensitive and embarrassingly inexperienced teenager is railroaded into taking home a very worldly waitress.
Love and the Fighting Couple
A recipe for marital bliss: fight a lot.
Love and the Pick-Up
How to solve the troubles of a month-old marriage.
Love and the Proposal
Ways to wriggle out of a marriage proposal.
Love and Mr. Nice Guy
A little guy loves a woman who likes big, mean men.
Love and the Gangster
A big-time gangster uses strong-arm methods to keep men away from his 19-year-old daughter.
Love and the Boss' Ex
To stop paying alimony, an executive pays an underling to marry his ex-wife.
Love and the Big Night
A married man gets involved with another woman.
Love and Those Poor Crusaders' Wives
A man has difficulty trying to unlatch an armored chastity belt after he puts it on.
Love and the V.I.P. Restaurant
A straight-laced matron finds her husband at a topless restaurant.
Love and the Nervous Executive
An executive cracks under the strain of working with an ultra-attractive secretary.
Love and the Great Catch
A surprise visit from Adam West starts a tug of war between a husband and wife who have different matchmaking ideas.
Love and the Hitchhiker
An eagar lad's visions of seduction pale before his date's hangups on organic foods and great causes.
Love and the King
A happily married man tries to live down his reputation as King of Swingers.
Love and the First Nighters
A teenage couple attempt to be sophisticated when they check into a motel.
Love and the Banned Book
A jealous husband wants to know where his wife got the material for her sexy best seller.
Love and the Co-ed Dorm
Coed-dorm life is a real eye-opener for student Stanley Stein. And so is his roommate.
Love and the Teacher
When his son flunks sex education, a painter of nudes figures it's time for a talk with the teacher.
Love and the Optimist
A loser in love and a loser in life contemplate taking a loss together: a big leap off a high building.
Love and the Many Married Couple
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Love and the Uncoupled Couple
When to say ""I do"" creates turmoil in a nurse-intern romance.
Love and the Safely Married Man
Janine doesn't date single men, so Zack pretends to be married -- and the father of two children.
Love and Las Vegas
An odd wedding.
Love and the Good Samaritan
Nice guy Freddy gets into hot water when he helps a shapely neighbor fix her faucet.
Love and the Marriage Counselor
Two squabbling business partners seek unusual help: a marriage counselor.
Love and Grandma
A young woman realizes that her grandmother is living with a man.
Love and the Other Guy
A boyfriend is upset when his girl allows a male neighbor to sleep in her spare bedroom.
Love and Double Trouble
The American-bred son of a Middle Eastern ruler is given two fiancees.
Love and the Millionaire
A couple enjoys a game of make-believe spending.
Love and the Fly
There's a very real fly in the ointment of a marriage: the wife keeps one as a pet.
Love and the Singles Apartment
Trevor has his business-trip accomodations in a swinging singles apartment. Then his wife arrives to cheer her supposedly lonesome hubby.
Love and the Minister
Hell hath no fury like a minister scorned -- and forced to perform the nuptials of his beloved.
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Details
Original Title
Love, American Style
Status
Ended
Seasons
5
Episodes
356
Production
Paramount Television