Maude Episode Rating Graph
Sep 1972 - Apr 1978
Sep 1972 - Apr 1978
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S2 Ep1
8.4
11th Sep 1973
After a wild evening of drinking, Maude, Walter and Arthur awake to discover some oddities. First, Maude and Arthur shared a bed, second the guys trashed the living room and third, Walter made an obscene phone call to Maude's mother. Carol suggests that perhaps Walter has a drinking problem but he refuses to face that fact. Maude and Walter later get into a big argument while they are both drunk and Walter slaps her.
S1 Ep10
8.2
21st Nov 1972
After Carol suggests an abortion, Maude begins heavy debating over the pros and cons of having a baby at her age. Walter's ""what-ever-you-want"" attitude has Maude having a problem deciding wheather or not to keep the baby. Ultimately, Maude takes into consideration everyone's opinion and makes a final decision, she decides not to have the baby.
S2 Ep7
8.1
23rd Oct 1973
Maude is sky high now that she has a part-time job as a real estate agent. However, things on the home-front are not so happy as Walter, a self proclaimed old fashioned man, is not used to coming home and not having Maude to cook for him and tell his problems too. Thus, he orders her to quit her job.
S2 Ep6
8.1
16th Oct 1973
The lazy furnace repairman, Whitnauer, has been showing an interest in Florida and she doesn't quite know what to do about his advances. This situation ultimately causes marital problems between Florida and her husband, Henry, when he catches her dancing with the man. Meanwhile, Maude and Walter are finding it hard to get Whitnauer to hurry it up on the furnace.
S6 Ep24
8.0
22nd Apr 1978
Maude arrives in Washington as a newly elected Congresswoman and has to learn to do things differently.
S5 Ep15
8.0
17th Jan 1977
Maude has lunch with a handsome, newly divorced ""friend,"" much against Walter's wishes.
S2 Ep11
8.0
27th Nov 1973
A major argument erupts on the day that Maude and Walter are to accept a husband and wife of the year award. The reason: Maude discovers that Walter has appointed a trustee in his will and of all people, the trustee is Arthur; Maude promptly refuses to go to the banquet to accept the award.
S1 Ep8
8.0
31st Oct 1972
While waiting for the electoral results for Election 1972, Maude and Walter recall Election 1968. Carol had just gotten a divorce and moved in with Maude. Meanwhile, Walter and Maude's relationship had reached a pivotal moment; should they marry or live together.
S1 Ep7
8.0
24th Oct 1972
Tired of living with her mother and stepfather and wanting a father figure for Phillip, Carol decides to propose marriage to a man she doesn't love. Meanwhile, married life doesn't seem to be all what it's cracked up to be for Maude and Walter who's argument leads to destruction in the kitchen.
S1 Ep4
8.0
3rd Oct 1972
Carol is dating Russell Asher, a dashing writer, who just happens to have once dated and later jilted Maude. This leads Maude to do her best to warn Carol of Russell's egotistical ways. However, Carol refuses to heed Maude's warnings and continues to date him, even spending the night with him which turns into a disaster.
S1 Ep9
7.9
14th Nov 1972
Maude and Walter are scheduled to play cards one evening with some friends but Maude is anything but in a card playing mood. Especially since, she just came back from a doctor's appointment with some shocking news. At 47 years old, Maude has become pregnant. Now the hard part, breaking the news to Walter.
S1 Ep18
7.9
13th Feb 1973
Florida is backed into a corner by her chauvinistic husband, Henry, who has picked up a second job and orders her to quit her housekeeping job at the Findlays home. Soon it begins to cause problems for Maude and Walter as Walter takes Henry's side and Maude takes Florida's.
S1 Ep5
7.9
10th Oct 1972
Maude throws a fund raising party for a black militant leader and invites rich white liberals but doesn't tell them it is a fund raising party. Meanwhile, Maude does her best to get a black couple to attend the party but must settle for a disguised Florida. Arthur doesn't help the situation either after prescribing tranquilers to Maude who during the party mixes them with alcohol.
S2 Ep4
7.8
2nd Oct 1973
At age 47 and recently divorced, Vivian begins her single career (a.k.a. husband search) by getting a face-lift; her new face receives plenty of cheers from Carol and Walter, but only jeers from Maude. This leads Vivian to state the obvious, Maude is jealous and would like a face-lift herself. Maude finally decides to have one and intends to keep it a secret from Walter until she has it done.
S1 Ep21
7.8
13th Mar 1973
Maude is convinced that her best friend, Vivian has the ""perfect marriage"" so she is completely stunned when Vivian announces plans for a divorce. This leads Maude to analyze her supposed ""perfect marriage"".
S1 Ep2
7.7
19th Sep 1972
Carol and Maude thinks it's cute when they discover a curious Phillip playing doctor with Arthur's equally curious granddaughter. However, the prudish Arthur insists that Phillip be severely punished which leads to a debate between Maude, Cariol and Arthur over morals.
S2 Ep23
7.7
26th Feb 1974
Maude's grandson Phillip has been behaving horribly lately and Carol does not know what to do with him. Walter quickly suggests giving him a good old fashioned spanking, but Maude is vehemently against it. However, she begins to change her mind when Carol and Chris leave for a weekend getaway.
S2 Ep17
7.7
15th Jan 1974
Maude finds a wallet on the street that belongs to a man, known for his infidelities. After Walter declares a wallet is a place of privacy for all men, she snoops into his wallet. This triggers a series of mistaken identities when she confronts a woman, Norma, whom she thinks is carrying on an affair with Walter.
S2 Ep12
7.7
4th Dec 1973
As their impending nuptials draw near, Maude decides to give Carol and Chris their wedding gift early. They are both certainly surprised to find out that Maude has put a down payment on a house for them but the even bigger surprise is that the house is located right across the street. Immediately this sparks family tension between mother and daughter and future husband and wife.
S1 Ep1
7.7
12th Sep 1972
Carol's odd behavior leads Maude to believe she's having an affair. When Maude learns Carol is really seeing a psychiatrist, she is determined to get to the bottom of the situation and find out why her daughter needs therapy. Maude promptly makes an enexpected visit to Carol's psychiatrist but soon finds herself being analyzed.
S1 Ep3
7.7
26th Sep 1972
Maude hires a new housekeeper, Florida Evans, and from the moment she walks through the front door, Maude is determind to make her feel like an equal. However, her attempts lead Florida to decide to quit. Meanwhile, Walter is a bit disturbed to find Philip swearing into a tape recorder.
S5 Ep11
7.6
29th Nov 1976
Will an evening with friends involve mate-swapping? Visitors to Maude's house have more in mind for an evening's entertainment than polite conversation.
S2 Ep8
7.6
30th Oct 1973
Carol and her boyfriend, Chris return from a camping trip and Maude voices her old fashioned morals to Carol when he stays over and the question becomes where should he sleep, in Carol's room or in the guest room. Later, Carol and Chris make an exciting announcement, they're engaged.
S3 Ep2
7.6
16th Sep 1974
Maude becomes concerned when Walter begins smoking a pipe and wearing high heeled shoes. She suggests that perhaps he's going through male menopause. However, what really concerns both her and Arthur is when they catch Vivian and Walter sharing a kiss. This obviously leads to yet more marital strife between the Findlays and the Harmons.
S1 Ep12
7.6
5th Dec 1972
As a 19-year-old faces a lengthy prison sentence for marijuana possession, Maude and a group of middle-aged housewives plan a protest at a police station. The plan is to get arrested for possession and Maude is supposed to provide the pot. However, trying to get her hands on some, proves to be problematic.
S1 Ep11
7.6
28th Nov 1972
Maude pulls out all her high school memorabilia as she awaits the arrival of an old school friend, Phyllis Nash, who was nicknamed both ""Bunny"" because of an overbite and ""Mousie"" because of her looks. However, Maude is stunned and becomes envious when she discovers Phyllis is now a beauty with a career to match.
S5 Ep18
7.6
21st Feb 1977
Maude heads for the bottle when she sees an old friend in a wheelchair.
S2 Ep5
7.6
9th Oct 1973
Carol does her best to try to keep Walter in the house as anticipation mounts for Maude's return from a 3-week stay in Boston. For which, following Vivian's lead, Maude too got a face-lift. There is only one problem: Walter doesn't notice the difference! As usual, all hell breaks loose and Walter and Maude have yet another argument.
S6 Ep9
7.5
3rd Dec 1977
Maude attacks Walter's bigotry when a gay bar opens in the neighborhood and Arthur tries to shut it down.
S1 Ep22
7.5
20th Mar 1973
Maude and Walter prepare for a dinner party at Cliff and Joanna Naylor's home. However, while they are getting ready, they discuss and bicker about Cliff's apparent crush on Maude and how she is flattered by him, that is until Walter breaks the news that Cliff is having an affair with someone else at the country club.
S1 Ep16
7.5
30th Jan 1973
Walter and Maude are planning on taking a second honeymoon to Italy, however, the day their plane leaves, Maude gets a tetnus shot which results in a rash. She immediatley hotfoots it down to the doctors office where she encounters a busy preoccupied doctor who perscribes her medication but doesn't advise her on how to take it, resulting in an overdose, cancellation of the honeymoon and a possible malpractice suit.
S3 Ep4
7.5
30th Sep 1974
With Florida gone, Maude has finally decided to hire a new housekeeper. She is excited with the fact that the new one, Mrs. Naugatuck is British but quickly the two of them clash over gender roles, as Mrs. Naugatuck insists on calling Walter the master of the house and begins to pamper his every need.
S1 Ep6
7.5
17th Oct 1972
Returning home from shopping, Maude gets pulled over for speeding 34 miles in a 30 mph zone, but adamantly refuses to believe she was speeding at all. Later, during the trial, Maude tries all attempts to get out of paying the fine and prove her innocence.
S4 Ep1
7.5
8th Sep 1975
Maude's political ambitions, and possible election as Senator, threaten her and Walter's marriage.
S1 Ep20
7.5
6th Mar 1973
An old friend of Maude's comes for a visit with news of a feud between herself and her daughter. This leads Maude to go all out and try to reconcile the two but a generation gap and financial matters are working against her attempts. Meanwhile, at the same time, Maude tries to matchmake her friend up with Arthur.
S1 Ep19
7.5
27th Feb 1973
Carol walks into a cocktail lounge and catches a glimpse of Walter having drinks in a cozy corner with a woman who once worked for him. When Maude finds out, she immediately jumps to the conclusion that Walter is having an affair and promptly packs up his things and orders him out of the house.
S1 Ep14
7.5
2nd Jan 1973
Walter and Maude go to Massachusetts for an appliance seller's convention. When their reservations at a upscale hotel are botched, they must share a shabby motel. This is when a squabble ensues when Maude tries to confide in Walter the angst she has over not having any meaning in her life and the troubles she's been having trying to find a job because she's a woman.
S1 Ep13
7.5
19th Dec 1972
Maude is stunned to discover a black man picketing in front of her home. It isn't until later that she discovers that Walter and her have unwittingly become the owners of a rundown apartment building and they are now being labeled ""slumlords"".
S3 Ep14
7.5
30th Dec 1974
Maude is determined to make her New Year's Eve party something to remember.
S1 Ep17
7.5
6th Feb 1973
After a fire breaks out in his home, Arthur moves in with the Findlays and immediately works over Maude's nerves. Not only does Arthur keep Walter up all night playing card games, but he gives Florida work to do and insists Maude prepare his food in a certain way. Pretty soon, Maude insists that Walter throw him out.
S3 Ep13
7.4
9th Dec 1974
The burden of alimony might finally be off Walter's back when Walter's ex-wife remarries.
S4 Ep9
7.4
10th Nov 1975
Maude pours out her innermost feelings, revealing long-hidden secrets and anxieties as well as new insights into her character.
S6 Ep16
5.8
11th Feb 1978
Maude's Ethiopian foster child turns out to be something different from what she expected.
S4 Ep19
5.9
9th Feb 1976
Maude stages a tribute to American women for the Tuckahoe Bicentennial celebration. All the men are convinced it is a money losing proposition.
S2 Ep24
6.0
5th Mar 1974
Francie Potter, the teenage house-guest from the ghetto returns again, this time asking for money to run away from home. In a plot with her boyfriend, Francie worms her way into Maude's wallet using a bogus story about her drunken father who abuses her and she now want to escape to become a rock and roll star.
S5 Ep8
6.0
8th Nov 1976
Maude and Vivian appear on a game show, and Maude's attempts to keep Vivian from making a fool of herself backfire.
S5 Ep14
6.1
3rd Jan 1977
The presence of a cousin throws Maude's work and life into a tizzy.
S6 Ep3
6.1
26th Sep 1977
Maude sees a UFO but no one will believe her.
S6 Ep7
6.2
7th Nov 1977
Arthur starts a doctor's strike, but will he treat his friends when they fall ill?
S5 Ep16
6.2
7th Feb 1977
An operation Arthur performs proves quite memorable, as the patient turns out to be someone from his past.
S6 Ep23
6.2
15th Apr 1978
Maude's plans for a dinner party for a friend, a U.S. Congresswoman, changes her life in ways she could never have forseen.
S6 Ep20
6.3
11th Mar 1978
Victoria Butterfield's father returns to take her away, and is confronted with secrets from his past.
S5 Ep9
6.3
15th Nov 1976
Walter has a very strange dream involving Arthur.
S4 Ep10
6.3
17th Nov 1975
As a joke, Walter poses as a doctor at Arthur's convention. But his ""medical expertise"" is called for in an emergency.
S6 Ep8
6.4
14th Nov 1977
Maude's sexual fantasies about a handsome ecologist and her intense involvement in his project make Walter jealous.
S5 Ep24
6.4
4th Apr 1977
Maude is furious when her wallet disappears on the subway. She is even more angry when the ""thief"" shows up at her house.
S6 Ep12
6.4
2nd Jan 1978
Maude finds herself caught in between a Mother Superior and a mob boss.
S4 Ep18
6.4
2nd Feb 1976
Maude's obsession with Henry Fonda spirals out of control, causing concern about her mental health.
S5 Ep13
6.5
20th Dec 1976
A generous gift from Arthur casts a pall on holiday celebrations.
S3 Ep16
6.5
20th Jan 1975
Maude is left organizing a telethon without a cause, when the charity for which Maude has put in a lot of work withdraws at the last moment.
S4 Ep3
6.5
22nd Sep 1975
Maude and Walter arrive at a party with ""dates"" of their own.
S6 Ep11
6.5
19th Dec 1977
Maude's plans for the holiday do not turn out as expected.
S4 Ep7
6.6
27th Oct 1975
Mrs. Naugatuck is conning everyone, and Maude has to get to the bottom of her scheme.
S6 Ep15
6.6
4th Feb 1978
A fire breaks out at a restaurant, and Walter must face what kind of person he is.
S2 Ep9
6.6
6th Nov 1973
Maude's constant matchmaking for Vivian has her fed up, especially since all the men have one thing on their mind. This leads Vivian to give up on men and settle for a 70-year old retired general. However, when Maude learns this, she becomes determined to show Vivian that she can do better and fixes her up with Arthur.
S6 Ep13
6.6
16th Jan 1978
Maude receives a series of crank calls. She is in for a bigger shock when she finds out who the caller is.
S3 Ep12
6.6
2nd Dec 1974
Maude is spending much of her time with a best-selling author and Walter resents her new-found friendship.
S5 Ep4
6.6
11th Oct 1976
Business and financial problems may ruin Walter's life.
S6 Ep2
6.6
19th Sep 1977
Maude invites Phillip and his male ""friend"" to spend the night, which puts her liberalism to the test.
S4 Ep13
6.7
8th Dec 1975
One of Maude's ex-husbands gives himself to her, literally.
S3 Ep20
6.7
24th Feb 1975
Walter would rather go bankrupt than allow Maude to mortgage the house that is in her name.
S5 Ep3
6.7
4th Oct 1976
Mrs. Naugatuck's wedding plans run into problems, and Maude makes a bad situation worse.
S3 Ep19
6.7
10th Feb 1975
Mrs. Naugatuck's strange behavior and wedding announcement surprise everyone.
S3 Ep9
6.8
11th Nov 1974
Someone in Maude's household seems to be having a nighttime visitor.
S4 Ep15
6.8
5th Jan 1976
Who broke Maude's priceless crystal bowl? There are several conflicting versions of what happened to the punch bowl.
S2 Ep21
6.8
12th Feb 1974
Walter is a nervous wreck as the Findlays get a tax audit but the tax auditor, Harvey Clarke, turns out to be a man who tried to rape Maude 31 years ago in Boston, Massachusetts. When she tells Walter he doesn't want to do anything about it, but Maude can't let it go and decides to refresh his memory.
S4 Ep2
6.8
15th Sep 1975
Walter moves out of the house and into bachelor digs when Maude persists with her political plans.
S5 Ep5
6.8
18th Oct 1976
Maude's attempts to help Walter in his crisis push him over the edge.
S5 Ep19
6.8
28th Feb 1977
Maude learns more than she would like to know about Vivian, when she tries to figure out why Vivian is behaving so strangely.
S5 Ep21
6.8
14th Mar 1977
Walter is jealous of Arthur's new friendship, and his sense of loneliness and betrayal makes Maude in turn feel bad.
S5 Ep22
6.8
21st Mar 1977
Arthur's split personality makes Vivian distraught.
S6 Ep14
6.8
28th Jan 1978
Maude raises money for what turns out to be a questionable charity.
S6 Ep19
6.8
4th Mar 1978
A grandfather learns a lesson about life from his grandson.
S3 Ep5
6.8
7th Oct 1974
Walter and Arthur go away for the weekend on a camping trip. Maude is upset with Walter's plans but she soon forgets it, when Vivian and her go on a non-stop eating binge. However, Walter and Arthur's trip goes awry as they become victims of a speed trap and land in jail.
S1 Ep1
7.7
12th Sep 1972
Carol's odd behavior leads Maude to believe she's having an affair. When Maude learns Carol is really seeing a psychiatrist, she is determined to get to the bottom of the situation and find out why her daughter needs therapy. Maude promptly makes an enexpected visit to Carol's psychiatrist but soon finds herself being analyzed.
S1 Ep2
7.7
19th Sep 1972
Carol and Maude thinks it's cute when they discover a curious Phillip playing doctor with Arthur's equally curious granddaughter. However, the prudish Arthur insists that Phillip be severely punished which leads to a debate between Maude, Cariol and Arthur over morals.
S1 Ep3
7.7
26th Sep 1972
Maude hires a new housekeeper, Florida Evans, and from the moment she walks through the front door, Maude is determind to make her feel like an equal. However, her attempts lead Florida to decide to quit. Meanwhile, Walter is a bit disturbed to find Philip swearing into a tape recorder.
S1 Ep4
8.0
3rd Oct 1972
Carol is dating Russell Asher, a dashing writer, who just happens to have once dated and later jilted Maude. This leads Maude to do her best to warn Carol of Russell's egotistical ways. However, Carol refuses to heed Maude's warnings and continues to date him, even spending the night with him which turns into a disaster.
S1 Ep5
7.9
10th Oct 1972
Maude throws a fund raising party for a black militant leader and invites rich white liberals but doesn't tell them it is a fund raising party. Meanwhile, Maude does her best to get a black couple to attend the party but must settle for a disguised Florida. Arthur doesn't help the situation either after prescribing tranquilers to Maude who during the party mixes them with alcohol.
S1 Ep6
7.5
17th Oct 1972
Returning home from shopping, Maude gets pulled over for speeding 34 miles in a 30 mph zone, but adamantly refuses to believe she was speeding at all. Later, during the trial, Maude tries all attempts to get out of paying the fine and prove her innocence.
S1 Ep7
8.0
24th Oct 1972
Tired of living with her mother and stepfather and wanting a father figure for Phillip, Carol decides to propose marriage to a man she doesn't love. Meanwhile, married life doesn't seem to be all what it's cracked up to be for Maude and Walter who's argument leads to destruction in the kitchen.
S1 Ep8
8.0
31st Oct 1972
While waiting for the electoral results for Election 1972, Maude and Walter recall Election 1968. Carol had just gotten a divorce and moved in with Maude. Meanwhile, Walter and Maude's relationship had reached a pivotal moment; should they marry or live together.
S1 Ep9
7.9
14th Nov 1972
Maude and Walter are scheduled to play cards one evening with some friends but Maude is anything but in a card playing mood. Especially since, she just came back from a doctor's appointment with some shocking news. At 47 years old, Maude has become pregnant. Now the hard part, breaking the news to Walter.
S1 Ep10
8.2
21st Nov 1972
After Carol suggests an abortion, Maude begins heavy debating over the pros and cons of having a baby at her age. Walter's ""what-ever-you-want"" attitude has Maude having a problem deciding wheather or not to keep the baby. Ultimately, Maude takes into consideration everyone's opinion and makes a final decision, she decides not to have the baby.
S1 Ep11
7.6
28th Nov 1972
Maude pulls out all her high school memorabilia as she awaits the arrival of an old school friend, Phyllis Nash, who was nicknamed both ""Bunny"" because of an overbite and ""Mousie"" because of her looks. However, Maude is stunned and becomes envious when she discovers Phyllis is now a beauty with a career to match.
S1 Ep12
7.6
5th Dec 1972
As a 19-year-old faces a lengthy prison sentence for marijuana possession, Maude and a group of middle-aged housewives plan a protest at a police station. The plan is to get arrested for possession and Maude is supposed to provide the pot. However, trying to get her hands on some, proves to be problematic.
S1 Ep13
7.5
19th Dec 1972
Maude is stunned to discover a black man picketing in front of her home. It isn't until later that she discovers that Walter and her have unwittingly become the owners of a rundown apartment building and they are now being labeled ""slumlords"".
S1 Ep14
7.5
2nd Jan 1973
Walter and Maude go to Massachusetts for an appliance seller's convention. When their reservations at a upscale hotel are botched, they must share a shabby motel. This is when a squabble ensues when Maude tries to confide in Walter the angst she has over not having any meaning in her life and the troubles she's been having trying to find a job because she's a woman.
S1 Ep15
7.2
23rd Jan 1973
Maude plans a surprise 50th birthday bash for Walter that does not go as well as she planned since Walter is too depressed to have any fun. However, Maude hopes an old friend will be the cure for Walter's gloominess, but she is dead wrong when he drops dead before Walter's eyes.
S1 Ep16
7.5
30th Jan 1973
Walter and Maude are planning on taking a second honeymoon to Italy, however, the day their plane leaves, Maude gets a tetnus shot which results in a rash. She immediatley hotfoots it down to the doctors office where she encounters a busy preoccupied doctor who perscribes her medication but doesn't advise her on how to take it, resulting in an overdose, cancellation of the honeymoon and a possible malpractice suit.
S1 Ep17
7.5
6th Feb 1973
After a fire breaks out in his home, Arthur moves in with the Findlays and immediately works over Maude's nerves. Not only does Arthur keep Walter up all night playing card games, but he gives Florida work to do and insists Maude prepare his food in a certain way. Pretty soon, Maude insists that Walter throw him out.
S1 Ep18
7.9
13th Feb 1973
Florida is backed into a corner by her chauvinistic husband, Henry, who has picked up a second job and orders her to quit her housekeeping job at the Findlays home. Soon it begins to cause problems for Maude and Walter as Walter takes Henry's side and Maude takes Florida's.
S1 Ep19
7.5
27th Feb 1973
Carol walks into a cocktail lounge and catches a glimpse of Walter having drinks in a cozy corner with a woman who once worked for him. When Maude finds out, she immediately jumps to the conclusion that Walter is having an affair and promptly packs up his things and orders him out of the house.
S1 Ep20
7.5
6th Mar 1973
An old friend of Maude's comes for a visit with news of a feud between herself and her daughter. This leads Maude to go all out and try to reconcile the two but a generation gap and financial matters are working against her attempts. Meanwhile, at the same time, Maude tries to matchmake her friend up with Arthur.
S1 Ep21
7.8
13th Mar 1973
Maude is convinced that her best friend, Vivian has the ""perfect marriage"" so she is completely stunned when Vivian announces plans for a divorce. This leads Maude to analyze her supposed ""perfect marriage"".
S1 Ep22
7.5
20th Mar 1973
Maude and Walter prepare for a dinner party at Cliff and Joanna Naylor's home. However, while they are getting ready, they discuss and bicker about Cliff's apparent crush on Maude and how she is flattered by him, that is until Walter breaks the news that Cliff is having an affair with someone else at the country club.
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The first episode of Maude aired on September 12, 1972.
The last episode of Maude aired on April 22, 1978.
There are 141 episodes of Maude.
There are 6 seasons of Maude.
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Maude has ended.