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Series regulars or semi-regulars in 'Bridget Loves Bernie' from 1970-1982:



1970-1982 Episode Guide for 'Bridget Loves Bernie':


(Episodes with dates prior to 1970 aired as reruns.)

September 16, 1972: Bridget Loves Bernie
Season 1, episode 1
W: Bernard Slade   D: Richard Kinon

With Ivor Barry (Charles).
A contemporary comedy-drama series about a young couple who fall in love and marry despite their diverse backgrounds. In the first episode, it's a case of love at first sight as a struggling writer with a Jewish background meets the daughter from a wealthy Irish Catholic family.

September 23, 1972: A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Vatican
Season 1, episode 2

Sam and Sophie win a trip to Rome and a private audience with the Pope from a raffle ticket sold to them. Walter feels that the Steinbergs might embarrass him when they meet the Pontiff.

September 30, 1972: Wake Up, We're Getting Married Today
Season 1, episode 3
W: Don Nelson, Arthur Alsberg

With Gregory Morton (Rabbi Golden).
Bridget and Bernie agree to their parents' wish to be remarried in a religious ceremony, but it's not all that easy since one is Jewish and the other Catholic.

October 7, 1972: The Last Of The Red Hot Playwrights
Season 1, episode 4
W: Bernard Slade

After several rejections and against his better judgment as a creative writer, Bernie is persuaded to write a play drawn from his own experiences and personal acquaintences.

October 14, 1972: Who's Watching The Store?
Season 1, episode 5
W: Jerry Mayer   D: Lee Philips

With Benny Rubin (Mr. Rosenthal), Harvey Goldenberg (Mr. Goldstein), Baruch Lumet (Mr. Felderbaum), Lou Cutell (Parfel), Ben Freedman (Mr. Levy), Paul Lichtman (Mr. Schwartz), Sydney Lassick (Customer), Sam Nudell (Mr. Farbman).
When a Catholic girl runs a Jewish delicatessen with the assistance of her socialite mother and her priest-brother waiting on tables, the result is chaos and some very confused customers.

October 21, 1972: The Newlybeds
Season 1, episode 6
W: Warren S. Murray

A perennially breaking bed not only causes sleeping problems for Bridget and Bernie, but touches off an inter-family squabble. Each of the in-law clans buy the young couple a bed, unaware that the young couple have decided to go the waterbed route.

October 28, 1972: Happiness Is A Thing Called Moe
Season 1, episode 7
W: Gordon Mitchell, Lloyd Turner

With Paula Victor (Esther), Harriet MacGibbon (Aunt Theresa).
Uncle Moe is in love and it looks like wedding bells -- except that his intended is Walt's sister.

November 4, 1972: Bernie's Last Stand
Season 1, episode 8
W: Burt Styler, Adele Styler

With John Fiedler (Morrison), Lois January (Irate Tenant).
Bridget and Bernie reluctantly accept the Fitzgeralds' belated wedding present -- one year's free rent in a plush uptown apartment, but the young couple have trouble adapting to their new luxury quarters.

November 11, 1972: How To Be A Jewish Mother
Season 1, episode 9

Bernie's skipping a breakfast of ham and eggs, plus a little interference from Bernie's mother, starts Bridget worrying about Bernie adapting to a non-Jewish wife. Bridget takes a crash course on Judaism and Jewish cooking but Bernie isn't too thrilled with Bridget's new ethnic interests.

November 18, 1972: The Little White Lie That Grew And Grew
Season 1, episode 10
W: Don Nelson, Arthur Alsberg

With Nancy Walker (Aunt Ruthie), Nora Marlowe (Aunt Agnes), Ivor Barry (Charles).
Bridget and her parents become Jewish for the weekend when Sophie's devoted Jewish sister drops into New York on her way home from the Holy Land.

November 25, 1972: The In-Laws Who Came To Dinner
Season 1, episode 11
W: Jerry Mayer   D: Richard Kinon

With Ivor Barry (Charles), Martin Ashe (Mr. Ross).
Walt fears the Steinbergs will ruin his chances of influencing an important art collector.

December 2, 1972: The Homecoming
Season 1, episode 12
W: Bernard Slade

During a weekend at the Fitzgeralds' country estate, Bernie sees for the first time the life style to which Bridget is accustomed.

December 9, 1972: You Are Cordially Not Invited
Season 1, episode 13
W: Ron Friedman

With Ivor Barry (Charles), Stafford Repp (Cavendish), Charles La Torre (French Ambassador), Alfred Dennis (Francois).
The Steinbergs aren't invited to the Fitzgeralds' party honoring Israel's Moshe Dayan, even though Sophie tries to wangle an invitation.

December 16, 1972: 'Tis The Season
Season 1, episode 14

With Shelly Novack (Rabbi Lieberman), Ben Hammer (Victor Moskowitz).
The newlyweds are torn by their respective parents' wishes as to what they should celebrate -- Christmas or Hanukkah.

December 23, 1972: Belated Honeymoon
Season 1, episode 15

With Ivor Barry (Charles), Ysabel MacCloskey (Mother Superior).
Nerves are strained between Bridget and Bernie, and the Steinbergs and the Fitzgeralds decide the best way to smooth things over is to send the kids on the honeymoon they never had.

January 6, 1973: Honesty Is The Worst Policy
Season 1, episode 16
W: Howard Merrill   D: Richard Kinon

Bernie is very distressed when he learns that Bridget was engaged to be married when they met, and to this day had never even mentioned there being another man in her life.

January 13, 1973: Life Begins At 65
Season 1, episode 17
W: Don Sherman, Jack Hanrahan   D: James Sheldon

With Ivor Barry (Charles), Stuart Nisbet (Laundry Man), Anson Williams (Young Man).
Uncle Moe runs away from home when on his 65th birthday Sophie and Sam decide he should enjoy himself more and take it easy.

January 20, 1973: With This Ring
Season 1, episode 18
W: Arnold Kane, Gordon Farr   D: Ozzie Nelson

With Jack Carter (Salesman), Ray Walston (Salesman), Ozzie Nelson (Jewelry Store Clerk), Jack LaLanne (Gaylord).
Bernie surprises Bridget with a belated engagement ring, but her mood goes from ecstasy to misery when she loses it the next day.

January 27, 1973: Into Every Life A Little Snow Must Fall
Season 1, episode 19
W: Elias Davis   D: James Sheldon

At the insistence of Bridget and Bernie, Walt takes Sam to his hunting lodge for the weekend and the results are disastrous.

February 3, 1973: To Teach Or Not To Teach
Season 1, episode 20
W: Don Nelson, Arthur Alsberg   D: Ozzie Nelson

With Frank Campanella (Ben), Peter Hobbs (Henderson), Vince Barnett (Morris).
The generation gap widens when the families are astonished over the news that Bridget is going to teach a lesson on sex education to her fourth grade.

February 10, 1973: Painting, Painting - Who's Got The Painting?
Season 1, episode 21
W: Bill Dana   D: Ozzie Nelson

Bridget has a hard time finding a home for a painting that hung in her nursery until another painting, possibly of value, is accidentally found under the surface of the canvas.

February 17, 1973: Steinberg And Son
Season 1, episode 22
W: Jerry Mayer   D: Richard Kinon

With Lou Krugman (Maury), Cliff Norton (Sid).
When a cab strike leaves Bernie without an income, he is forced to think about getting a job with a future.

February 24, 1973: The Information Gap
Season 1, episode 23
W: Martin Roth   D: Ozzie Nelson

With Ivor Barry (Charles).
The newlyweds, in order to get some peace and quiet, refuse to answer phone calls from their parents.

March 3, 1973: Greener Pastures
Season 1, episode 24
W: Rick Mittleman

Bernie is offered a job as a reporter in Rhode Island, but everyone has mixed emotions about him leaving New York. (Last show of the series.)


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