Series regulars or semi-regulars in 'The Tony Randall Show' from 1970-1982:
- Allyn Ann McLerie as Janet Reubner (1976-1978)
- Barney Martin as Jack Terwilliger (1976-1978)
- Brad Savage as Oliver Wendell Franklin (1976-1978)
- Rachel Roberts as Bonnie McClellen (1976-1978)
- Tony Randall as Judge Walter Franklin (1976-1978)
- Devon Scott as Roberta Franklin (1976-1977)
- Penny Peyser as Roberta Franklin (1977-1978)
1970-1982 Episode Guide for 'The Tony Randall Show':
(Episodes with dates prior to 1970 aired as reruns.)
Season 1, episode 1
W: Tom Patchett, Jay Tarses D: Jay Sandrich
With Melendy Britt (Mrs. Jenkins), Robert Mandan (Lionel Crenshaw), David Rounds (Edwin Marden), Garry Walberg (Waiter), Emory Bass (Maitre D').
A comedy series about a contemporary courtroom judge in Philadelphia, a widower with two children, along with their housekeeper. Randall returns in a weekly series as Judge Walter Franklin. In the first show, he meets an attractive widow.
Season 1, episode 2
W: Tom Patchett, Jay Tarses D: Jay Sandrich
Judge Franklin is seeking a new law clerk and interviews several applicants.
Season 1, episode 3
W: David Lloyd D: James Burrows
With Leonard Barr (Bellhop), Diana Muldaur (Judge Eleanor Hooper).
Judge Franklin becomes infatuated with another judge -- Eleanor Hooper.
Season 1, episode 4
W: Hugh Wilson D: Peter Bonerz
With Gertrude Flynn (Kim Reubner).
Judge Franklin finds another side to his stone-faced secretary when he invites her to his home to celebrate her birthday with his family.
Season 1, episode 5
W: Lloyd Garver D: Michael Zinberg
With Phil Leeds (Ralph Martin).
Judge Franklin makes a decision regarding the picketing of an X-rated movie theater.
Season 1, episode 6
W: Gary David Goldberg D: Tony Mordente
With Nedra Volz (Mildred Piersen).
Judge Franklin is charged with three cases of first-degree tyranny by his two children and his housekeeper.
Season 1, episode 7
W: Tom Patchett, Jay Tarses D: Alan Myerson
With Richard Bull (Mort Lumbuli), Victor Buono (Judge Bernard Gluck).
Judge Franklin gets too big for his judicial robes when he accepts many speaking engagements and starts believing his own publicity.
Season 1, episode 8
W: Hugh Wilson D: Alan Myerson
With Stephen Elliott (DeNecki), Jerry Fogel (Neil Butler), Nino Candido (Tony).
Judge Franklin gets more than he bargained for on the bench when he replaces another jurist and has to deal with an attorney notorious for his devious tactics.
Season 1, episode 9
W: Gary David Goldberg D: Harvey Medlinsky
With Zane Lasky (Mario Lanza), Murray Matheson (Burnside), Patrick Reynolds (Bullet Head).
Judge Walter Franklin loses his cool in the courtroom when a new law clerk keeps interrupting him.
Season 1, episode 10
W: Tom Patchett, Jay Tarses D: Harvey Medlinsky
With Diana Muldaur (Judge Eleanor Hooper), Jason Wingreen (Newly), Richard Balin (Mr. Cornfield).
Walter's family thinks his engagement to Judge Hooper is premature.
Season 1, episode 11
W: Sy Rosen D: James Burrows
With Dick Van Patten (Myron C. Dobbs).
Feeling Christmasy, Walter takes a colorful but incorrigible thief into his home.
Season 1, episode 12
W: Hugh Wilson D: Hugh Wilson
With William Windom (Kiss), Michael Durrell (Winslow), Ken Sylk (Thorten), Bill McLean (Negley).
When Judge Franklin meets with his old law partner, he is offered a position with a firm and must decide whether he should stay on the bench.
Season 1, episode 13
W: Patricia Jones, Donald Reiker D: Michael Zinberg
With Diana Muldaur (Judge Eleanor Hooper), Craig Stevens (Neely), Joan Shawlee (Joanie Biederbeck).
An old pal is attracted to the judge's girlfriend.
Season 1, episode 15
W: Tom Patchett, Jay Tarses D: John C. Chulay
With Zane Lasky (Mario Lanza), Michael Durrell (Gene Locatelli).
Judge Franklin's eagerness to help his loyal friend and court reporter backfires when an overzealous city attorney "busts" the judge on a marijuana charge.
Season 1, episode 16
W: David Lloyd D: Hugh Wilson
With Cliff Norton (Harry), Richard Libertini (Nadim), James Greene (Dr. Pepper).
When Judge Franklin's housekeeper, Mrs. McClellan, finds out she may have to leave the country because of an invalidated visa, she comes up with a plan to avoid deportation.
Season 1, episode 17
W: Gary David Goldberg D: Harvey Medlinsky
With Annette O'Toole (Melissa), Ken Sansom (Leonard).
Judge Franklin strongly objects to his daughter dating a much older man -- until the tables are turned.
Season 1, episode 18
W: Gary David Goldberg D: Harvey Medlinsky
With Dick Sargent (Chesley), Linden Chiles (Crossthwaite), Archie Hahn (Graham).
Walter is asked to investigate a prison.
Season 1, episode 19
W: Earl Pomerantz D: Hugh Wilson
With Jordan Clarke (Doug McIntire).
Judge Franklin regrets acquitting a pro hockey player of brutality charges after his son tries to imitate the tough style of his idol.
Season 1, episode 21
W: Earl Pomerantz D: James Burrows
With Zane Lasky (Mario Lanza), Ken Sylk (Honniker), Edward Walsh (Bruno Kessler).
Judge Walter Franklin's life is in danger and Mario, a person he can't stand, takes a leave from the D.A.'s office to protect him.
Season 1, episode 22
W: Ken Levine, David Isaacs D: Michael Zinberg
With Zane Lasky (Mario Lanza), David Ogden Stiers (Cleaver), Charles Cyphers (Eddie Foxworth).
Judge Walter Franklin challenges Judge Samuel Ballford, veteran of 32 years on the bench, for election as Superior Court Judge.
September 24, 1977: Civil Disobedience
Season 2, episode 1
W: Tom Chehak D: Harvey Medlinsky
With Hans Conried (Wyatt Franklin), Zane Lasky (Mario Lanza), Michael Burns (Michael).
Season premiere. Judge Franklin is elated when his daughter decides to come back to Philadelphia to continue her education -- until he learns the real reason behind her return.
Season 2, episode 2
W: Hugh Wilson D: Harvey Medlinsky
With Hans Conried (Wyatt Franklin), Zane Lasky (Mario Lanza).
Judge Franklin's father, whom he has not spoken to in five years, pays a surprise visit to the family.
Season 2, episode 3
W: Sy Rosen D: Asaad Kelada
With Hans Conried (Wyatt Franklin), Ron Rifkin (Benten), David Byrd (Pahagan), Dana Gladstone (Watson).
Judge Franklin suffers from a guilt complex after learning he has imprisoned an innocent man.
Season 2, episode 4
W: Mary-David Sheiner, Sheila Judis Weisberg D: Asaad Kelada
With Michael Evans (George), Jay W. MacIntosh (Chairwoman), Kenneth Mars (Dr. Stanner), Diana Muldaur (Judge Eleanor Hooper).
Busy and conficting work schedules present problems for Judge Walter Franklin and his lady friend, Judge Eleanor Hooper, when they try to have an undercover affair.
Season 2, episode 5
W: Earl Pomerantz D: Harvey Medlinsky
With Helen Page Camp (Tanya), Richard Balin (Cornfield), Phillip R. Allen (Glazer).
Walter Franklin reluctantly hires a fellow judge's son as court clerk, then finds himself constantly agitated by the young man's racial prejudices.
Season 2, episode 6
W: Hugh Wilson D: Hugh Wilson
With Cleavon Little (Willie Alexander), Taurean Blacque (Officer), Zane Lasky (Mario Lanza), Veronica Redd (Mrs. Alexander), Michael Pataki (Capt. Roberts), David Himes (Guard), Kelton Kessee (LaMar).
Before passing sentence, Judge Franklin orders a car thief into his chambers for a talk, but is surprised when the prisoner seizes a guard's gun and takes Miss Reubner hostage.
Season 2, episode 7
W: Carol Gary D: Asaad Kelada
With Glynn Turman (William), William Marshall (Judge Bradshaw).
Walter creates an exciting new self-image to put some pizazz into his stagnant social life. There's only one thing wrong -- his new experiences are killing him.
Season 2, episode 8
W: Gary David Goldberg D: Michael Zinberg
With Zane Lasky (Mario Lanza), Diana Muldaur (Judge Eleanor Hooper).
Season 2, episode 9
W: Kathy Donnell, Madeline DiMaggio D: Harvey Medlinsky
With Robert Alda, Gertrude Flynn (Kim Reubner).
Judge Franklin makes numerous attempts to save Miss Reubner from the clutches of a handsome, womanizing attorney.
Season 2, episode 10
W: Patricia Jones, Donald Reiker D: Tony Mordente
With Whit Bissell (Baker), Zane Lasky (Mario Lanza), Buddy Douglas (Nizer), James Keach (Bastian).
Judge Walter Franklin proves that even a judge's daughter is not exempted from punishment by law, when he sends Bobby to jail for contempt of court.
Season 2, episode 11
W: Patricia Jones, Donald Reiker D: Harvey Medlinsky
With Alan Arbus (Hashna-Vedanta), Walker Edmiston (Wells), Woodrow Parfrey (Davis), Michael Burns (Michael).
Walter, who is forever meddling in his daughter's affairs, especially when it concerns her boyfriend, decides to turn over a new leaf.
Season 2, episode 12
W: Jay Tarses D: Harvey Medlinsky
With Beverly Garland (Sylvia Needleman), John William Young (Morton).
An aggressive and nutty realtor whirls into Walter's life like a hurricane and demands that he sell his house.
Season 2, episode 13
W: Bill Dial D: Tony Mordente
With Zane Lasky (Mario Lanza), Dawn Lyn (Jill), Lee Bergere (Clifford).
Mario Lanza is hired by a little girl who wants to be removed from her father's custody, but during the trial she decides to have Mario removed as her lawyer.
Season 2, episode 14
W: Patricia Jones, Donald Reiker D: Tony Mordente
With Brian Dennehy (Brian Sr.), Paul Joseph McKenna (Brian), Zane Lasky (Mario Lanza), Paula Shaw (Claire), Stanley Dyrector (Harry Jankowski).
The meticulous Walter admits he's overprotective and feels there aren't too many men who are worthy of his daughter's companionship. But he also feels that Brian, Bobby's new interest, has got to be the pits.
Season 2, episode 15
W: Hugh Wilson D: Tony Mordente
The unlikely duo of Jack Terwilliger and Miss Reubner enter a dance contest with hopes of capturing the thousand dollar prize.
Season 2, episode 16
W: Gary David Goldberg D: Tony Mordente
With Annette O'Toole (Melissa), Diana Muldaur (Judge Eleanor Hooper), Zane Lasky (Mario Lanza).
Walter discovers that the life of a swinging bachelor can be treacherous when he begins dating Oliver's ex-schoolteacher.
Season 2, episode 17
W: Patricia Jones, Donald Reiker D: Asaad Kelada
With Michael Anderson Jr., Zane Lasky (Mario Lanza).
Mrs. McClellan's nephew, a self-glorifed photographer, turns the Franklin household into an amateur showcase during a brief visit.
Season 2, episode 18
W: Tom Patchett, Jay Tarses D: John C. Chulay
With Michael Keaton (Zeke), Zane Lasky (Mario Lanza), Jack O'Leary (Stanley), Patricia Cosgrove (Nancy), Jane Rose (Mrs. Tilden).
When Walter becomes a subsitute teacher for a night class at Ed's law school, he's the one who learns the lesson -- never to do it again.
Season 2, episode 19
W: Joyce Armor, Judie Neer D: Ken Luber
With Madlyn Rhue (Evelyn), Jocelyn Brando (Mrs. Griggs), Hans Conried (Wyatt Franklin), John Crawford (Inspector), Robert Phalen (Lawyer).
The Franklins find themselves stranded in a remote mountain cabin that they believe is haunted.
Season 2, episode 20
W: Tom Patchett, Jay Tarses D: Michael Zinberg
With Melanie Chartoff (Ginny), Michael Keaton (Zeke), Ralph Wilcox (D'Evangelista), Richard Stahl (Pete).
Unusually high scores on an exam at Ed's school of law leaves Walter thinking he has been evaluating the students incorrectly, but Jack knows why he received the lowest score on the class curve.
Season 2, episode 21
W: Blake Hunter D: Asaad Kelada
With Zane Lasky (Mario Lanza), Dean Santoro (Pratt), Michael Durrell (Higgins), Carole Mallory (Miss Gordon).
Some memorable moments of Walter's first days as a judge are relived when the Franklin family gives Walter a surprise anniversary party honoring his three years on the bench.
Season 2, episode 22
W: Gary David Goldberg D: Harvey Medlinsky
With Hans Conried (Wyatt Franklin), Harold J. Stone (Carlson Sr.), Timothy Jerome (Carlson Jr.).
Judge Franklin comes completely unglued when his father's late night dates with Mrs. McClellan take a serious turn and they announce wedding plans. (Last show of the series.)