A young couple's quarrel over a fur coat ends up in Brad's court and brings back memories of another fur coat that caused a crisis in the Stevens marriage. Joan remembers when she was an airline hostess and buys a fur coat.
Judge Stevens invites a prospective campaign contributor to dinner, only to find that his wife, trying to be helpful, has invited another sponsor.
The Judge advises his wife Joan to get more exercise as an antidote to fatigue from housework and Joan turns to ballet.
Joan finds an ingenious way to retaliate after Brad fines her for speeding, she takes up jitterbugging after trying babysitting and selling "all you can eat" to phone men.
Synopsis #1: Joan is scheduled to appear on a crime prevention forum. To prepare herself she spends the day visiting poolrooms. Synopsis #2: Joan invades gangland to obtain information for appearance on a TV show. Synopsis #3: After a sleepless night of trying to figure out the ending of a radio mystery they just heard part of, Joan and Brad have to appear on a public affair panel.
Synopsis #1: Joan becomes involved in an embarrassing situation with one of Brad's old classmates. Synopis #2: Joan tries every trick in the book to prevent Brad from attending a reunion. Synopsis #3: Joan struggles to change herself into "The Perfect Woman" to fit a description written by her husband.
Synopsis #1 Joan insists upon joining Brad on a camping trip. Synopsis #2: When Judge Stevens plans to join the boys on a camping expedition, his wife decides to mingle with horsey set. Synopsis #3: The success of Brad's hunting trip with some of his pals is threatened when Joan decides to get into the act. Synopsis #4: Joan insists that she is an experienced camper. Unconvinced, Brad decides to test her aptitude for the great outdoors.
Joan is in for a surprise when she opens an interesting-looking package that arrived for Brad.
Joan buys some dresses, puts them on her charge account, then sells them to friends for cash. The reason is she needs money to buy Brad a birthday present.
Joan wants to arrange a romance, by introducing her new neighbor, a handsome Latin, to her visiting aunt.
After meeting three former schoolmates who are now successful career woman, Joan decides that she is happier just being a housewife
When Brad announces that he is bringing home important guests for dinner, Joan feels it necessary to buy a new wardrobe for the occasion. While shopping for a hat she winds up in a fight with a woman who turns out to be one of Brad's dinner guests. At dinner Joan tries to disguise herself by joining the nightclub's entertainers, acrobats.
Joan tries to reform a juvenile delinquent and nearly winds up in jail herself
Joan takes an interest in her husband's work and tries to prove that a man he is about to sentence was convicted on circumstantial evidence.
Uncle Edgar visits Joan and her husband and they have a difficult time trying to keep him out of trouble.
Joan tries to kill two problems with the same fifty-dollar bill and winds up deeply wounded by a dead moose at an auction.
Joan wants Brad to grow a mustache, thinking that it will make him look more "dignified" and give him a better shot at being appointed a Superior Court judge.
Joanie invites her younger sister, Beverly, to stay at her house while she goes to college. In revenge, Judge Stevens invites four cousins to join the merry throng, much to Beverly's delight and Joan's distress.