Date with the Angels Episode Rating Graph

While on vacation, the Angels stay at a hotel where a a lounge singer who looks and sounds exactly like Vickie has a fight with her gangster-type boyfriend.

The Angels and Clemsons engage in a battle of the sexes on business trip to San Francisco. The husbands go gaga over a couple of attractive sisters aboard the train. Vickie and Dottie are not impressed by the behavior of their two fawning schoolboys.

Vickie gets under the skin of the horse owner who invites her and Gus to the race track. He chooses his wagers after serious consideration of the horses' track records, while Vickie makes her bets based on whatever name strikes her fancy. She keeps winning and her host loses every time.

Over his son's objections, old Mr. Finley get a job at Martindale's Department Store playing Santa Claus. He's a hit because he's giving away the store's toys to all the kids who sit on his lap. His "Scrooge" of a boss, kid-hating Mr. Wallace, softens up after being shown gratitude by one of the children

Gus runs into an ex-girlfriend and brings her home to meet Vicki. The two trade old stories and memories while Vicki's unhappiness escalates.

Vickie says Liberace said hello to her when they were at the Brown Derby, but since Bill missed it, he thinks she made up the story. Later, Dennis Day shows up at their house to use the phone when his car breaks down outside. He entertains Vickie with "Blue Suede Shoes" and sings a duet with her. No one believes that story at all...until she gets a letter and record from him in the mail.

Gus is running a fever, but the only doctor Vicki can get to make a housecall is a pediatrician.

So much for Vickie's birthday present. Gus had planned to surprise her with a trip to San Francisco. Not knowing this, Vickie loaned their luggage to a friend and agreed to dog sit for them over the weekend.

Vickie's destructive but heartbroken nephew Wheeler returns, sent to California to get over a girl. Naturally, Vickie tries to fix him up with a new gal in the neighborhood.

Vicki is in a tizzy over the Hawaiian luau they're throwing for some of Gus' stuffy, rich clients. She panics when she gets stuck with a caterer who thinks she's a stand-up comedian, and weird old Mr. Findlay invites himself and conducts a hoedown.

When a burglar breaks into the Angels' home, no one believes Vickie's version of events.

The Murphys' boy Emmett comes home to visit after two years away in the military. Vickie and Gus are surprised because the young man is nothing like the rough-neck he-man lout that Murph always described. Emmett's an even-tempered flute player in the military band with a talent for art and Murph can't stand it. Dad is finally pleased when he learns why his son has been acting like a gentleman.