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Harrigan and Son
1960 - 1961 0.0 (0 votes) 1 Seasons
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Cy Howard

Harrigan and Son

Overview

Harrigan and Son is an ABC sitcom about a father-and-son team of lawyers, played by Pat O'Brien and Roger Perry as Jim Harrigan, Sr., and Jim, Jr. In supporting roles, as secretaries, are Georgine Darcy as Gypsy and Helen Kleeb as Miss Claridge. The series aired 34 episodes at 8 p.m. Eastern Time on Fridays from October 14, 1960, to September 29, 1961. It preceded ABC's cartoon series, The Flintstones. Its competition was the second half of the CBS Western, Rawhide. For the first half of the season, Harrigan and Son aired opposite the detective series Dan Raven, starring Skip Homeier. The series premiere is titled "Junior Joins the Law Firm". The finale is called "The Testimonial". Harrigan and Son was owned and produced by Desilu Production. A running gimmick in the show consisted of Harrigan, Sr., commenting on some situation in Latin, Harrigan, Jr., replying, "Which means?", and Harrigan, Sr., translating his comment, usually humorous, into English. The closing of show featured O'Brien and Perry, in silhouette behind the credits, singing the old George M. Cohan song, "Harrigan".

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Seasons

Season 1 (1960)

No overview available.

34 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Junior Joins the Law
1960-10-14

James Jr. prepares to fight to defend a contested will. James Sr. tries to convince him it would be wiser to settle out of court.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: Young Man's World
1960-10-21

The young men assuming the management of Pyramid Industries have some ideas about expansion that founder Lionel Wilton doesn't like.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: Harrigan vs. Harrigan
1960-10-28

It's Harrigan vs. Harrigan when senior discovers that junior has taken the case of a well-known accident faker named Gimpy.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: Mother Was a Nightclub Singer
1960-11-04

When James Jr. dates Monica Nelson, a nightclub performer, father disapproves-unaware that his son is mixing some business with his pleasure.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: Pay the Two Dollars
1960-11-11

Junior thinks his case in a small New England court is all sewed up, until he finds out that the judge, the bailiff and the defendant are all cousins.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: A Matter of Dignity
1960-11-18

A shabby character named Nippy is highly insulted when an artist paints him as a derelict. He implores the Harrigan firm to take legal steps to have the painting removed from an exhibition.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: Miss Claridge Finds Romance
1960-12-02

Miss Claridge finds romance, and her daydreaming is cutting down her typing speed too much to suit Harrigan Sr. Things don't get any better when her dream man, Tracy Oakhurst, is suspected of being a swindler.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: There's No Fool Like an Old Fool
1960-12-09

Actress Lillian Lovely's performance bowls James Sr. over (she reminds him of his late wife), but the critics don't think much of Lillian's acting. So Senior comes to her defense-with a libel suit.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 9: Pipes are Pipes
1960-12-16

Matt Collins' company is being sued. The charge: producing a defective water heater. Matt wants to make a settlement, but Harrigan believes he's got nothing to fear in court.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 10: Junior Becomes Senior
1960-12-23

Mr. Nibley was hired to exterminate the bugs in an apartment house, but the owners have proof that the little creatures are still there. For reasons of his own, Harrigan lets Junior take the case.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 11: Non Compos Mentis
1960-12-30

Tilly Cortland is a will-changing millionairess who dominates the first half of the show delightfully. Harrigan and son busily try to settle the estate in the second half, and mediate between a dog and a cat over a $10,000 legacy.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 12: Junior Goes Society
1961-01-06

An attractive member of high society named Cynthia drops in to take an old friend, Miss Claridge, out to lunch. When Junior see Cynthia, he's smitten.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 13: Junior's Other Job
1961-01-13

Junior's interviewed on TV after he wins an important tax case. It turns out to be good publicity.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 14: Poor Little Rich Guy
1961-01-20

Grant Hazelton, playboy and college chum of Junior's, asks the latter to handle his legal affairs. Harrigan Sr. doesn't like Hazelton much, and likes him even less when he starts dating Gypsy.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 15: My Fair Lawyer
1961-01-27

Neighbor Harold Calvin sues Harrigan Sr. for damages. Seems smoke from Harrigan's fireplace got in Calvin's eyes, nose and throat.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 16: Shall We Dance?
1961-02-03

Charlie Finley, after 20 years of marriage wants to divorce his wife. It seems she's spending too many evenings at a local dancing school.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 17: The Magnificient Borough
1961-02-10

Senior's old friend Gimpy talks the lawyer into investing in his taxi. Then Gimpy has a difference of opinion with a fare, one Bruce Langley, and blackens the man's eye. Langley is Harrigan's client!

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 18: You Can Fight City Hall
1961-02-17

The city has condemned shoemaker Silas Marner's property, and nobody wants to take the man's case.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 19: The Comeback
1961-02-27

Junior visits night court to attend to a routine matter and finds a familiar face. A distinguished gentleman is charged with being drunk and disorderly-none other than Junior's old law teacher, Professor Walter Grant.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 20: The Comics
1961-03-03

Buddy Wilson and his wife Bernice have worked up a nightclub act and want the Harrigan firm to have it copyrighted. Then Buddy's father shows up and tells Harrigan Sr. that he used all the material years ago in vaudeville.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 21: 100 Proof
1961-03-10

Patrick O'Toole is arrested for drunken driving. But he tells Harrigan Sr. that he took the pledge a long time ago, and hasn't fallen off the wagon since.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 22: They Were All In Step But Jim
1961-03-17

Actress Lillian Lovely, a Hungarian citizen, is facing deportation for failing to renew her visa. She wants Harrigan Sr. to help her right away, but senior has plans for the St. Patrick's Day parade that afternoon.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 23: The Manly Art
1961-03-24

A boxer named Brennan tells Harrigan Sr. that he won his last fight too easily. But there's no way to prove that the fight was fixed. Junior comes up with the idea of posing as a fighter.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 24: A Ticket to Albany
1961-03-31

Junior becomes a candidate for a state Senate seat. Harrigan Sr., unaware of this, endorses the candidate of the opposition party.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 25: The Man Who Wouldn't Stay Dead
1961-04-07

Robert Fenton has changed his name and leads an inconspicuous life. When a scandal sheet columnist digs up the past and prints it, Fenton threatens the man with violence. This doesn't help Fenton's case much when the journalist is found dead.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 26: Harrigan vs. Harvard
1961-04-14

Junior prevails upon Harrigan Sr. to agree to address a graduating class at Harvard Law School.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 27: Senior Goes to Hollywood
1961-04-21

Senior goes to Hollywood on his vacation, and visits a movie studio. He notices some errors in legal procedure on one set where they're filming a courtroom drama-so he decides to offer some advice.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 28: The Case of the Missing Case
1961-04-28

Fern Williams, Junior's latest girlfriend, is quite high up on the social register. But this doesn't mean she's immune to an anti-social compulsion -kleptomania.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 29: Hans is Hot
1961-05-05

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 30: Hello-Goodbye
1961-05-12

A series of legal setbacks convince Harrigan Sr. that it's time to retire. But the most practical place to write his memoirs seems to be right in the office-with his old staff.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 31: The Legacy
1961-05-19

Senior has known Rose Kowalski ever since she was a tot. Now she's a nightclub singer and wants to legally change her name to Renee Collins. Mrs. Kowalski asks Harrigan to persuade her daughter to change her mind.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 32: Roommates
1961-05-26

While Senior's apartment is being renovated, Junior invites his Dad to spend a week at his apartment. The first evening, Junior and his girlfriend Gail are thinking romance-while Senior recites "Casey at the Bat."

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 33: On Broadway
1961-09-22

The first of two new shows before this series leaves the air. Merrill Davis, a long time client of Harrigan Sr., is known for his miserly ways.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 34: The Testimonial
1961-09-29

A group of Senior's clients (who got legal service although they couldn't afford the fee) get together to show their appreciation by arranging a dinner for him.

Runtime: 30 min
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