The misadventures of the Baxter family and their live-in maid, Hazel Burke.
Genre: Comedy
Cast:Shirley Booth , Bobby Buntrock , Don DeFore , Whitney Blake , Maudie Prickett , Ray Fulmer , Lynn Borden , Julia Benjamin , Howard Smith , Robert B. Williams , Cathy Lewis , Donald Foster , Norma Varden , Lauren Gilbert , Ann Jillian , Mala Powers , Molly Dodd , Queenie Leonard
Hazel wants the state's botanical garden changed to a playground.
Hazel meets with a lawyer to prepare her will, but George fears that Hazel plans to sue him.
When George is feeling under the weather, Hazel won't let him get out of bed to meet with an important client.
Dorothy's decorating business seems to have slowed down, so Hazel tries to find her new clients.
The Baxters gets the first color TV on the block, and the neighbors crowd the house to watch it.
Hazel tries to convince George to let Harold keep the stray dog he's brought home.
When Hazel plays matchmaker between her nephew and George's niece, George's sister doesn't like it one bit.
The Baxters have Thanksgiving-dinner company. George's sister is there, upset with her husband. George's mother talks of being lonely. Hazel steps in and helps each of them while trying to get the dinner made.
The family wants to get away for a vacation, but George must stay for work. Dorothy and Harold go on the trip, and Dorothy asks Hazel to stay with George and encourage him to stop working and join in on the family fun.
Hazel takes a course in personality improvement.
Hazel moonlights to earn Christmas spending money.
Dorothy's problem: telling George she bought a piano.
Harold finds a stray dog that he names, Smiley. Unfortunately, the rightful owners later come to the Baxter home to claim him and Hazel sets about trying to find a way for the dog to remain in the Baxter household.
Hazel helps an elderly couple, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, to find a new maid after their own housekeeper quits.
Hazel writes a cookbook and has trouble getting it published until Mr. Baxter helps.
Mr. Griffin asks Hazel to marry him after buying a house in the neighborhood.
Hazel's suspicions rise as George's old girlfriend visits.
A businessman tries selling worthless stock to Hazel's friends.
Hazel discovers that the artist who painted her portrait is now famous.
Hazel gives up her day off to prepare food for Dorothy's luncheon.
Man's innate stubbornness is the topic of this episode. Mr. Baxter is tired of getting telephone calls from salesmen, so he stubbornly insists on switching to an unlisted number. The switch is made, but he loses the new number and stubbornly insists he remembers it. Of course, he doesn't and all the family's calls are going to a small taxicab company.
Stan Blake's teen-age son develops a crush on Dorothy.
Hazel organizes a pajama party for a motherless girl.
Dorothy tries getting a snobbish boy to join the Cub Scouts.
Hazel spearheads a campaign for aid to education.
A local lake is to be drained for a new building. Hazel finds out and starts a protest. George explains it is his client that wants the lake drained. When Hazel and George argue, she moves and goes to a neighbor's for a vacationing maid.
The Baxters' neighbor, a widower with four children, finds himself in deep trouble when both George Baxter and Hazel decide to push him into marriage - to two different women.
George Baxter grumbles when Hazel spends half her time helping the neighbors but when she brings home one of their babies - and asks him to be its sitter - he puts his foot down.
Alan Hale, Jr. guest stars as a burglar who breaks into the Baxter's home.
Hazel learns that a neighbor just had air conditioning installed. The maid at that house is a friend of hers who brags how her place has air conditioning. Hazel pesters Mr B to have air conditioning installed at his house.
George decides to hire an assistant to help him at his law office. Hazel thinks it is a great idea and has a neighbor's son in mind. However, George hires a woman who just happens to be gorgeous.
Harold realizes there is a Mother's Day and a Father's Day, but no day to celebrate Hazel. So the family makes the next Sunday as Hazel's Day a grand celebration.