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The Jim Backus Show(1960)

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First Air Date: 1960-10-06
Average Runtime: 30m
Rating: 9.0
Votes: 0
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 39

Mike O'Toole owns and runs a second-rate news service that he struggles to keep afloat financially. His employees include the attractive Dora and Dave as reporters. Sidney is the office boy who often gets into misadventures.

Top Cast

Jim Backus
Jim Backus
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Nita Talbot
Nita Talbot
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Bobs Watson
Bobs Watson
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Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

Episodes: 39
E01
The Mad Bomber

Air Date: 1960-10-06

30m

Headline News, owned by Mike, runs an article on a crazed bomber creating havoc in the city. The person reads it, ang...

E02
The Patriots

Air Date: 1960-10-25

30m

O'Toole is struggling to find a good story to offer when he discovers an apparent first hand account of a revolution ...

E03
Mike O'Toole, Angler

Air Date: 1960-11-01

30m

Mike is trying to raise funds for an orphanage without much success. He decides to stage a robbery with the help of "...

E04
No Help Wanted

Air Date: 1960-11-08

30m

A retired stage actress is trying to adapt to a normal life when John's car breaks down near her house. Using her pho...

E05
South Hampton Story

Air Date: 1960-11-15

30m

O'Toole sends an eager young reporter out to cover the arrival in town of a beautiful heiress. When the reporter is ...

E06
The Marry-Go-Round

Air Date: 1960-11-15

30m

Irresponsible millionaire playboy Sonny Slote has divorced and about to marry again, this time to a stripper half his...

E07
The Nephew

Air Date: 1960-11-22

30m

The will of a recently deceased woman stipulates that her fortune should go to her prized cat, however, as the cat al...

E08
Baby, Come Home

Air Date: 1960-11-29

30m

An infant is kidnapped and O'Toole looks for a sensational take on the story. But when Mike is unexpectedly in posses...

E09
The Frame Up

Air Date: 1960-12-06

30m

A street gang beats up a boy who is told to blame a policeman on the beat. Mike suspects the cop is being framed and ...

E10
Painting Caper

Air Date: 1960-12-13

30m

Trying to get financial support for his business Mike poses as an art expert to a wealthy man interested in buying pa...

E11
The Three Sisters

Air Date: 1960-12-16

30m

Mike learns of a sweet old lady who's in jail for shoplifting and bails her out. She and her two sisters decide to he...

E12
Uncle Chester

Air Date: 1960-12-20

30m

Mike is following a hot story about a crooked poltician when his Uncle Chester comes for a visit. Mike is welcoming a...

E13
Crime a la Carte

Air Date: 1960-12-27

30m

Mike gets the not very good idea of pretending to be a stool pigeon to land a story about crime. Mike is too believab...

E14
The Desk

Air Date: 1961-01-03

30m

To get an exclusive for his news service Mike hides a suspected criminal. He then tries to conceal himself in a roll ...

E15
Piano Prodigy

Air Date: 1961-01-10

30m

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E16
Mike Cheats a Cheater

Air Date: 1961-01-17

30m

Mike wants to expose a drama teacher who he believes is a phony, scamming people of their savings. Mike decides to po...

E17
Meet Melvin

Air Date: 1961-01-24

30m

In an effort to get a raise from Mike, girl Friday Dora is forced to invent a fiance. But as the deception deepens Do...

E18
The Woman's Touch

Air Date: 1961-12-31

30m

Dora thinks she can do better as Mike's business fails so they switch positions. Dora hires Aldrich as a salesman and...

E19
Sidney's Scoop

Air Date: 1961-02-07

30m

Mike give Sidney the office boy an opportunity to be a reporter. But when Sidney writes a false story his boss Mike m...

E20
The Hypnotist

Air Date: 1961-02-14

30m

Mike is onto Lucifer Ferris, a hypnotist who he believes is blackmailing people. Ferris puts newspaperman O'Toole und...

E21
Once Upon a Moose

Air Date: 1961-02-21

30m

Mike and Dora, after a hot story, travel to West Virginia to ask questions about a murder convicted. Positive an inno...

E22
Pinkmalion

Air Date: 1961-02-28

30m

Mike is refused an interview with a well known actress. He decides invent Pink Larsen, movie star, to create a buzz. ...

E23
When a Body Meets a Body

Air Date: 1961-03-07

30m

Mike thinks he has a huge scoop when he learns of an unreported murder with the body in a barbershop. But his excitem...

E24
Arabian Night

Air Date: 1961-03-14

30m

Mike is determined to land an interview with an Arab prince and sends Dora to work her magic. She's too successful as...

E25
Old Army Game

Air Date: 1961-03-21

30m

Mike takes on a gang of thugs who prey on soldiers frequenting a seedy bar.

E26
The Fix

Air Date: 1961-04-04

30m

Little Augie, a boxing promoter, is suspected of fixing fights but no one can get the proof. Mike is sensing a scoop ...

E27
Sad Sack Santa

Air Date: 1961-04-11

30m

Mike meet a depressed fellow sitting on a stoop wearing a Santa suit. Problem is it's months after Christmas. The man...

E28
The Plant

Air Date: 1961-04-18

30m

Mike is hot when a rival news service prints a number of his exclusives. Determined to get back at them, Mike convinc...

E29
The Temporary Scoundrel

Air Date: 1961-04-25

30m

Mike meets his doppelganger who happens to be a wealthy Argentine build as the World's Greatest Lover. The two agree ...

E30
Floundered in Florida

Air Date: 1961-05-02

30m

Mike is hired by Sally's suits to promote their swimwear in Miami. He and Sidney arrive but Siidney soon runs into tr...

E31
Dear Minnie

Air Date: 1961-05-09

30m

Mike hires Minnie Morgan to write a lonely heart column for the news service. Minnie though is better a dispensing ad...

E32
In the Rough

Air Date: 1961-05-16

30m

Mike's ex-girlfriend Henrietta shows up from her travels with a golf prodigy, a gorilla! Mike thinks he has found a s...

E33
Dora's Vacation

Air Date: 1961-05-23

30m

When Dora insists on taking her much delayed vacation Mike hires Debbie, a flighty youngster, as her replacement. But...

E34
The Birthday Boy

Air Date: 1961-05-30

30m

It's time for a party or so Mike thinks when it's his birthday. Mike arrives at a celebration, thinking it's for him ...

E35
War Bride

Air Date: 1961-06-13

30m

Jean Reilly, a former WAC, married in haste during WW II and has been looking for her missing groom since. After spot...

E36
The Texas Tycoon

Air Date: 1961-06-20

30m

Mike needs Texas millionaire Handy Cameron's backing to save the news service. Mike decides to use the charms of Dora...

E37
Gift for Grandma

Air Date: 1961-06-27

30m

It's birthday time for Sidney's grandmother and he wants to buy her a nice but inexpensive gift. Mike makes a suggest...

E38
O'Toole and Son

Air Date: 1961-07-04

30m

Mike's uncle dies and Mike learns he's a beneficiary in the will to the tune of $100, 000. But there is a stipulation...

E39
Farewell to Dora

Air Date: 1961-07-11

30m

Mike takes Dora for granted but when he learns she has accepted a better job offer, Mike becomes upset. He devises va...

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