Doris SingletonFilmography

Quincy, M.E.: Death by Good Intention

Synopsis: An affirmative-action program at a major metropolitan hospital is threatened when a young African American resident, who owes his job to the program, is suspected of causing a patient's death through negligence (to use the old cliché, the operation was successful but the patient died). The young Read More

All in the Family: Edith Has Jury Duty

Actors: Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers, Hollis Irving

Synopsis: Just because All in the Family specialized in cutting-edge humor didn't mean that the producers were above using tried-and-true sitcom plot lines now and then. In this one, Edith Bunker serves on a jury -- and, of course, is the sole holdout when everyone else enters a "guilty" verdict. As a Read More

Family Affair: The Baby Sitters

Synopsis: Cissy (Kathy Garver) has been assigned to babysit the twins while Uncle Bill (Brian Keith) is in Hong Kong on business and Mr. French (Sebastian Cabot) is likewise occupied elsewhere. But when Cissy has a chance to go to a concert, she prevails upon her friend Sharon (Sherry Alberoni) to look Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Clearance Sale at the Black Market

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Season four of Hogan's Heroes got under way on September 28, 1968, with the episode titled "Clearance Sale at the Black Market." While relaxing at a local hofbrau, Sgt. Schultz accidentally catches Gestapo major Kriegel (Gavin McLeod) in an illegal cash transaction. To cover his own behind Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy Gets Her Diploma

Actors: Doris Singleton, Robert Pine, Lucie Arnaz, Barbara Babcock, George E. Carey

Synopsis: Totally negating what we were told in the second-season episode "Lucy's College Reunion", Lucy (Lucille Ball) is in danger of losing her job at the bank because, way back in her teen years, she was one week shy of getting her high school diploma. Returning to school to make up for this gaffe, Lucy Read More

Hogan's Heroes: How to Win Friends and Influence Nazis

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Karl Swenson is appropriately cast as Dr. Karl Svenson, a neutral Swedish scientist working for the Germans. To win Svenson over to the Allied cause, Hogan arranges a romance between the good doctor and an attractive chanteuse named Magda Tischler (Doris Singleton). But he'd better hurry: Svenson Read More

The F.B.I.: The Animal

Synopsis: The chase is on in New Mexico for five dangerous escaped convicts, led by Earl Clayton (Charles Bronson). The deranged Clayton has already killed two law officers in cold blood, and isn't about to let anyone impede his escape--not even his fellow escapees. Ultimately, only Clayton and his young Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy and Art Linkletter

Actors: Art Linkletter, Doris Singleton, Jerome Cowan, Roy Rowan, Sid Gould

Synopsis: As a contestant on Art Linkletter's TV show (which looks a lot like People Are Funny), Lucy is offered a 200-dollar prize if she can refrain from talking for 24 hours. To make certain Lucy keeps her end of the bargain, Linkletter chooses a lady from the audience, one Helen Cosgrove (Doris Singleton Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Girls Will Be Boys

Actors: Bernard Fox, Doris Singleton, Tracy Stratford

Synopsis: Normally, Rob (Dick Van Dyke) and Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) would be proud of the fact that their son, Ritchie (Larry Mathews), knows better than to strike a girl. However, the problem is a girl is striking Ritchie -- in fact, little Priscilla Darwell (Tracy Stratford) considers the day wasted when Read More

The Munsters: Follow That Munster

Synopsis: Herman (Fred Gwynne) begins sneaking out of the mansion on a nightly basis in order to complete a correspondence course as a private detective. Jumping to conclusions as usual, Lily (Yvonne DeCarlo) thinks that Herman is having an affair with another woman. The upshot of all this finds Lily hiring Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: My Two Show-Offs and Me

Synopsis: Doris Singleton, best known to TV comedy fans as the nearsighted Caroline Appleby on I Love Lucy, appears in this episode as magazine writer Lorraine Gilman. Preparing a story on "The Alan Brady Show," Lorraine wants to sit in on a typical writing session. Head writer Rob (Dick Van Dyke) is Read More

The Twilight Zone: A Kind of a Stopwatch

Actors: Richard Erdman, Leon Belasco, Roy Roberts, Herbie Faye, Doris Singleton

Synopsis: First telecast October 18, 1963, the pedestrian Twilight Zone episode "A Kind of a Stopwatch" was scripted by Rod Serling from a story by Michael D. Rosenthal. Richard Erdman stars as McNulty, a nonstop talker and crashing bore. Unable to engage anyone in conversation, McNulty decides to Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Talented Neighborhood

Actors: Richard Deacon, Doris Singleton, Kenny Lynch, Michael Davis, Jack Davis

Synopsis: When word leaks out that Rob (Dick Van Dyke) has been assigned to audition talented children for "The Alan Brady Show," everyone in the neighborhood wants to get into the act. Before long, the Petrie living room has become a way station for dozens of stage parents and would-be child stars -- one Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Purple Woman

Synopsis: Art dealer Milo Gerard (George Macready) convinces wealthy Rufus Vanner (Rhys Williams) that he has a valuable Van Hooten painting, "The Purple Woman", for sale. In truth, the "masterpiece" is a fake, painted by alcoholic artist Aaron Hubble (Robert H. Harris). Worried that Milo will try to shift Read More

The Voice in the Mirror

Actors: Richard Egan, Julie London, Arthur O'Connell, Walter Matthau, Troy Donahue

Synopsis: In this sensitive drama, a commercial artist is devastated by his tiny daughter's death and takes to drinking to numb the terrible pain. Soon he has become a full-blown alcoholic. His loving wife and caring doctor are unable to help. He wants to stop drinking, but he simply cannot until he meets Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Crooked Candle

Synopsis: Martha Bradford (Nancy Gates) was blissfully unaware that her husband Joe (Bruce Cowling) is leading a double life until she meets a woman named Rita (Doris Singleton), who insists that she is Mrs. Joe Bradford. Soon afterward, Joe is found murdered, and Rita's fingerprints are found at the scene. Read More

Affair in Reno

Actors: John Lund, Doris Singleton, John Archer, Angela Greene, Alan Hale, Jr.

Synopsis: Affair in Reno is an uneven Republic adventure from the later phases of the studio's history. Doris Singleton, usually cast as the heroine's next door neighbor or best friend (she's Caroline Appleby in the "Harpo Marx" episode on I Love Lucy), is here seen as a smart-lipped private eye. She comes Read More

I Love Lucy: Lucy and Superman

Actors: George Reeves, Doris Singleton, George O'Hanlon, Madge Blake, Ralph Dumke

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Our Cook's a Treasure

Synopsis: As a gift to his young wife Ethel (Janet Ward), real estate agent Ralph Montgomery (Everett Sloane) hires a cook named Mrs. Sutton (Beulah Bondi). Before long, however, Ralph has reason to regret this act of extravagance, as evidence begins to pile up suggesting that Mrs. Sutton is the same woman Read More

I Love Lucy: The Dancing Star

Actors: Van Johnson, Doris Singleton, Wilber Hatch, Marco Rizo

Synopsis: Lucy's friend Caroline Appleby (Doris Singleton) arrives in Hollywood, demanding to meet some of the celebrities with whom Lucy has claimed to be so chummy. First on Caroline's list is Van Johnson, whom, of course, Lucy has never met. Our heroine manages to get herself into a hole by inviting Read More

I Love Lucy: Lucy and Harpo Marx

Actors: Harpo Marx, Doris Singleton

Synopsis: In one of the best and most popular I Love Lucy episodes of all, Lucy (Lucille Ball) continues her efforts to convince her visiting friend, Caroline Appleby (Doris Singleton), that she has been hobnobbing with all the big stars during her stay in Hollywood. Taking advantage of Caroline's Read More

Superman and the Jungle Devil

Actors: George Reeves

I Love Lucy: Lucy's Club Dance

Actors: Doris Singleton, Shirley Mitchell

Synopsis: As part of a fund-raising strategy, the women's club to which Lucy (Lucille Ball) and Ethel (Vivian Vance) belong decides to organize an all-woman orchestra. At first, the musically disinclined Lucy is rejected by the orchestra, but she wangles a spot as a saxophonist by promising to arrange for Read More

I Love Lucy: The Camping Trip

Actors: Jerry Hausner, Doris Singleton

Synopsis: Lucy (Lucille Ball) and Ethel (Vivian Vance) want to share their husbands' interests, so they insist upon going on a camping trip with Ricky (Desi Arnaz) and Fred (William Frawley). Hoping to discourage the girls from intruding upon their recreational pursuits, the boys cook up a scheme whereby Read More

I Love Lucy: The Club Election

Actors: Lurene Tuttle, Doris Singleton, Ida Moore, Margie Liszt, Ruth Perrott

Synopsis: Filmed before the episode in which Lucy (Lucille Ball) gives birth to Little Ricky, "The Club Election" is staged in the form of a flashback, as Ethel (Vivian Vance) recalls the time that she and Lucy ran against each other for the presidency of the Wednesday Afternoon Fine Arts League. The Read More

I Love Lucy: Lucy Tells the Truth

Actors: Doris Singleton, Shirley Mitchell, Charles Lane, Mario Siletti, Dorothy Lloyd

Synopsis: Ricky (Desi Arnaz), Fred (William Frawley), and Ethel (Vivian Vance) bet Lucy (Lucille Ball) one hundred dollars that she can't tell the truth for 24 hours. Determined to win her bet, Lucy manages to offend all of her bridge-playing friends by refusing to coddle them with her usual little white Read More

The Adventures of Superman: Jungle Devil

Synopsis: "Daily Planet" reporters Clark (George Reeves), Lois (Noel Neill) and Jimmy (Jack Larson) head into a treacherous jungle, searching for a scientific expedition which has vanished. The local natives prove quite hostile to the "intruders" because the jeweled eye of a native idol has apparently been Read More

I Love Lucy: Baby Pictures

Actors: Hy Averback, Doris Singleton, Joe Mayer, Mike Mayer

Synopsis: The Ricardos engage in a "battle of the brags" with their friends the Applebys, with each couple dragging out pictures of their respective children at the slightest provocation. While the war continues to rage between Lucy (Lucille Ball) and Caroline Appleby (Doris Singleton), Ricky (Desi Arnaz) Read More

I Love Lucy: Lucy and Ethel Buy the Same Dress

Actors: Doris Singleton, Shirley Mitchell, Ruth Perrott, Hazel Pierce

Synopsis: The women's club to which Lucy (Lucille Ball) and Ethel (Vivian Vance) belong manages to wangle an appearance on a local TV station. Inveigled into hosting the club's variety show, Ricky (Desi Arnaz) goes so far as to rehearse Lucy and Ethel in their big number, a rousing rendition of Cole Read More

Colgate Comedy Hour: January 20, 1952

Actors: Eddie Cantor