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My Little Margie is an American situation comedy starring Gale Storm and Charles Farrell that alternated between CBS and NBC from 1952 to 1955.
1952
Both Margie and Vern use a book on reverse psychology to get each other to breakup with their prospective mates, Freddie and Roberta, respectively. However, the whole thing backfires when a misunderstanding causes each one to think the other is eloping.
Margie tries to get a date for Roberta with a famous opera star so she will leave Vern alone. However, the singer thinks its Margie who wants the date.
Margie writes a fake letter saying there is uranium on some property Freddie has inherited so Vern will give him a job. Vern finds out what she did and turns the tables by making Margie think their is uranium behind their apartment building.
Margie gets an opera singer to perform at a party to impress one of Vern's clients. When the singer cancels, Margie must replace him by disguising herself as the male singer.
Vern sets Margie up on a date with a client's son. Margie sees a photo of a little boy so she disguises herself as an 11-year-old girl. When her date shows up she discovers the photo was an old one and the client's son is a handsome young man. Now in order to date him she must pretend to be her own older sister.
Margie and Mr. Honeywell try to trick Vern into going to a costume party by saying Roberta will be there with another man. Meanwhile, a thief sees the guestlist and decides it will be the perfect time to rob the partygoer's apartments.
In order to get Vern to take her on a trip to Havana, Margie promises to be on her best behaviour. Events conspire to ruin her plan as all kinds of problems pop up throwing the Albright apartment into chaos.
When Vern's doctor tells him he needs to get in better shape for his insurance he does so by walking instead of going by car and cutting back on meals. This causes Margie to think her father is in financial difficulties and she tries her best to correct the problem.
When Margie receives a mink coat by mistake, she tries to impress Vern by telling him a man sent it to her. When the man who bought the coat shows up he turns out to be a U.N. delegate from Arabia who wants to add Margie to his harem.
Vern wants Margie to date someone with ambition so in retaliation she starts dating Mr. Honeywell's nephew, an obnoxious effeciency expert, who Vern dislikes.
Margie pretends to be a spy so she can meet a handsome FBI agent. When he uncovers her plot, he and Vern conspire to teach her a lesson.
1952
Both Vern and Margie find themselves with one date too many and try to conceal the fact so their dates won't find out about each other.
1954
Roberta is trying to convince her visiting father that New York is a respectable place to live. Things go awry because Freddie just happens to be babysitting a kangaroo in the Albright's apartment.
Margie invites Freddie's parents to dinner to try and drum up some investment business for Vern. Vern thinks it must mean Margie and Freddie are considering marriage, so he brings home some show people to make a bad impression on Mr. & Mrs. Wilson.
To impress a very conservative client of Vern's, Margie pretends to be an old-fashioned girl, but the client is so pleased she expects Margie to marry her grandson.
Margie gets a job as a singer in a nightclub which is frequented by gangsters. A concerned Vern hires an actor to pose as a gangster to scare Margie, but unbeknownst to Vern he's actually dealing with a real mobster.
Margie tries to convince Vern to go on vacation to Florida by making him think he's having a nervous breakdown.
When Margie is conned into buying the contract of a has-been wrestler she tries to make back her money by claiming she and Freddie are big game hunters who have returned from the wilderness with the missing link.
To breakup Margie and Freddie, Vern sets Freddie up on a date with Mr. Honeywell's niece, but Margie finds out, becomes a blonde and pretends to be the other woman to test Freddie's loyalty.
Margie poses as Freddie's wife to help him get a job with one of Vern's clients who only hires married men. When Vern is at the meeting too, he also thinks they are married.
Mr. Todd arranges for Vern's new client to move into the apartment above the Albrights so he will be in close proximity for business dealings. Trouble arises when the Albrights fight with the new neighbors without realizing who they are.
Margie gets a speeding ticket from a motorcycle cop who wants to date her, so she and Mrs. Odetts plan to prove her innocence.
Vern hires an actor to pose as a client to keep Margie away from the actual man. But the real client overhears Margie telling the actor she can show him real Indians in Central Park, so the client offers to pose as an Indian so he can find out whats going on.
Mrs. Odetts has been writing letter to servicemen using Margie's name and photos. Now two of the servicemen are in town and want to meet their pen pal.
Margie, Vern and Mrs. Odetts take a trip to Hollywood. Trying to crash the movies, Margie pretends to be an acrobat and Mrs. Odetts pretends to be a clown in order to get jobs in a circus epic.
When a group of mountain folk inherit stock in Honeywell & Todd, Margie and Vern must pose as hillbillies to get it back.
When a client of Vern's backs out of a deal because of her sick grandson, Margie's trip to Paris is canceled. Margie learns the grandson is a hypochondriac so with the help of Mrs. Odetts, she pretends to be even sicker than he to make him feel better about his own condition.
When Vern won't take her on a trip to Mexico, Margie hires a press agent to make it seem she is involved with a notorious playboy. Vern uncovers her plot and hires an actor to pose as the playboy, but matters are complicated when the real man arrives in town.
To keep a young client away from Margie, Vern shows him a picture which has been retouched to make her look homely. When Margie has to meet the man, Vern convinces her to disguise herself to look like the photo.
Vern promises Margie a new car if she won't see Freddie for one month. Unaware that Freddie is already there, Margie agrees, then must try to hide him from Vern.
Vern feels like a failure after attending his class reunion, so Margie tries to get him promoted by pretending another firm has offered him a better job. Trouble arises when Vern thinks the job offer is real and quits Honeywell & Todd.
Margie finds herself in possession of some very important stock and takes advantage of the situation.
When the Albrights buy a run-down country house, Vern tries to keep Margie occupied by planting a phony treasure map.
Freddie has a job at Honeywell & Todd and Margie is afraid he will lose it if he can't play a good game of golf to impress a prospective client, so she conspires to make him appear an expert golfer.
Margie and Vern are forced to take jobs as a maid and butler to have a place to sleep when their hotel reservations are canceled. The only problem is, they run into the client Vern is in town to sign.
Margie inadvertently causes trouble between her newlywed neighbors by an offhand remark about not letting jealousy break up their marriage.
Margie tries to meet the author of a book on yoga by telling some fibs that keep growing.
When Vern starts feeling old because Roberta is dating a younger man, Margie tries to help out by having his hair dyed while he sleeps and enlisting the help of her young girlfriend to make a fuss over him. The only trouble is, her scheme works too well and Vern gets carried away with himself.
Margie gets a job as a newspaper reporter but runs into some trouble over a missing horse.
Freddie can't get his play produced because it is too far-fetched, so Margie, Freddie and Mrs. Odetts act out the play as though it were real for Vern's new client who happens to be a producer.
Margie poses as her neighbor's wife in order to scare off an old girlfriend, but the plan backfires and his old flame decides to move into the building.
Margie tries to prevent a gold-digging blonde from hooking her father.
Margie convinces Vern to let her help him land a deal with two rich Texans, but when they turn out to be phonies Margie has to try and save Vern's job.
Mrs. Odetts enlists the help of Margie and Vern to get $6000 dollars out of her trust fund so she can buy a hot rod car.
Margie has to pose as Vern's mother in order to get a client to sign with him.
Vern offers to take care of a client's pet white cat, but Margie thinks its a stray and lets Freddie use it to try out his new invention, a permanent hair dye.
A truck driver runs into Margie's car in order to ask her on a date. Vern and Mr. Honeywell think he's only a gold-digger, so they convince Margie to pretend she is poor to test him. However, the man is actually a rich client of Honeywell & Todd, who, acting on similiar advice, is also pretending to be broke.
Margie asks Vern for the money to pay a charity pledge and then gets a lecture on responsibility, so she sets out to prove she really does want to lend a helping hand.
To keep Margie from wanting to go on a trip to South America, Vern hires an actor to court her. Margie uncovers the plot and uses the actor's twin brother to make Vern think he's losing his mind.
Vern refuses to take Margie along on a trip to sign up a football player, but Margie just happens to run into him right here at home.
When Vern feels Margie isn't coming to him with her problems, she makes up a phony story about being jilted.
Margie tries to help a private detective find a maharaja's stolent jewel, but only succeeds in making everyone think she's involved in the theft.
Mr. Honeywell is made trustee of an eccentric millionaire's fortune, but doesn't know where the money is hidden. He enlists the help of Vern and Margie in finding the money.
When a man who wants to date Margie and accidentally gets the wrong name, Mrs. Odetts thinks she has a secret admirer.
Margie tries to prove to Vern that she isn't spoiled by doing a good deed, but ends up getting involved in secret Air Force mission.
At a Miami convention, Vern is dating a man's daughter so he will vote for Mr. Honeywell in an election. Margie and Roberta misunderstand and conspire to break the pair up.
Margie wants Vern to take her to London. When he refuses, she hires a man to pretend they are going to elope as soon as Vern leaves.
Vern thinks Freddie takes too much money from Margie. He tells Margie if Freddie keeps a job for one week he will double her allowance, if not, he won't give her any. Margie gets Freddie a job in a restaurant and then tries to help him keep it.
Vern and Margie try desparately to locate a client. They rush to Switzerland thinking they have found him at a chess match, but it turns out to be the man's 10-year-old brother.
Margie gets carried away with flying lessons. To distract her, Vern plants a fake map which supposedly leads to an Indian gold mine in Mrs. Odetts' trunk.
Margie poses as Freddie's bride after he wins a trip to Palm Beach by using a phony story.
In San Francisco, Vern's rival tricks Margie into interfering in a Chinese family feud, not realizing one of the men is Vern's client.
Margie tries to help Vern get out of a romance by pretending the family is insane. The only problem is, she mistakes a woman client for the girlfriend and endagers Vern's business deal.
Margie tries to make Vern stand up to Mr. Honeywell by playing records with messages on them while he sleeps. Vern catches on and teaches her a lesson by pretending it worked and he got fired.
Margie takes a job with her new neighbor, an inventor, so she can pay for a mink coat she bought.
Vern and Mr. Honeywell tell Margie they want her help getting a client to renew his contract, when what they are really hoping is that she will mess things up so much that he will cancel.
Margie gets a job modeling clothes for a fashion designer. When she wants to date the photographer, she breaches her contract by posing for another campaign. The designer is outraged, and what she doesn't realize is that he is one of Vern's clients. She then must try to hide the fact that she is Vern's daughter in order to save her father's contract with him.
While vacationing in Bermuda with her father, Margie thinks she has witnessed a murder, but no one will believe her.
When Mr. Honeywell lends the Albright's apartment to a client and then Margie and Vern return unexpectedly, they are forced into pretending they are the maid and butler.
Margie and Vern go to New Orleans during Mardi Gras where a prospective client asks their help in getting his obnoxious brother-in-law to leave.
Vern tells the story of how he married Margie's mother and was hired by Honeywell & Todd.
In England, Margie tries to help a client sell one of his castles. However, the prospective buyer only wants it if it is haunted, so Margie has to provide the ghosts too.
Margie and Mrs. Odetts try to convince a client to make a trip to Hawaii because they will also get to go along.
When a client of Vern's prefers younger men, Margie has to pretend she is 12 years old.
In Las Vegas, Margie gambles in a client's casino as a favor to the man's niece. When he gets suspicious of her winning streak, Margie hides out in a masked beauty contest.
Margie messes up a live TV show sponsored by one of Vern's clients and Vern and Mr. Honeywell end up thinking aliens have landed when they wander onto a science fiction set.
Vern tells Margie that Freddie is too much of a weakling and she should find a real man. Her answer is to come home with an obnoxious Marine judo expert, which makes Vern long for the presence of the once-hated Freddie.
Freddie has a new job working for a private eye and when he and Margie find a murderer's diary in an old trunk they decide to investigate. The trail ends up leading them to one of Vern's clients.
Vern and Margie set out to locate a reclusive man who has a uranium claim. Vern thinks he has found the right man, but it turns out it's actually another man with whom Vern has been fighting.
Margie lets a group of circus performers stay at the Albright apartment, unaware that Vern has arranged to be interviewed there on live television.
Vern tries to impress a prospective client by having Margie cook a fancy dinner. When Margie learns he heads a local opera company, she decides she wants to sing for him.
Mr. Honeywell has promised Vern that he will step down and give Vern the presidency of the company, but when the time comes, he's not ready to retire. He says that if Vern gets a contract with an important client, he will step down, but if Mr. Honeywell himself gets it, he will remain president. Vern agrees, but Mr. Honeywell tricks Margie into working against her father.
Margie gets involved with an actor who is trying to make his leading lady jealous and the leading lady uses Vern for the same purpose.
Margie switches identities with a countess who wants to test her boyfriend's motives.
Margie tries to help Vern get a contract with the owner of a baseball club.
Margie tricks Vern into going on vacation by telling him a prospective client is at the hotel she has chosen for his rest.
Margie helps the daughter of one of Vern's clients elope against her father's wishes. Vern thinks it is Margie who has eloped.
1953
Margie wants to have her portrait painted as a present for Vern's birthday. Short on money, she arranges to pretend to be the girlfriend of an artist to impress his friend and in exchange he will paint the portrait. Vern gets suspicious and, following Margie, thinks she is having an illicit affair.
Vern plans to do some business with the Dean at his college reunion, but Margie intends to teach him a lesson when she finds out he and his friends weren't quite as dignified in college as he had claimed.
Vern calls in sick so he can take the day off and go to the beach with Margie at her suggestion. Trouble arises when he runs into a client and, without realizing who she is, brags about being irresponsible.
Vern hides the fact that he got a bonus and tells Margie he is in danger of losing his job if she doesn't start economizing. Margie tries to help, but only ends up causing more trouble.
Vern tells Margie he will take her to Hawaii if she can last through a Canadian hunting trip. He's convinced she won't be able to take it, but Margie outfoxes him by hiring three men to do all her work for her.
Vern tries to get Margie interested in writing, thinking it will keep her out of trouble. In order to research her book, Margie starts pretending she has amnesia and when the police get involved, its wall-to-wall trouble for everyone.
Margie asks Vern for a job at Honeywell & Todd, but Vern says no. When Margie's lookalike cousin arrives, Vern thinks its Margie in disguise and decides to get even.
Margie tries to convince Vern to be more aggressive with Mr. Honeywell by taking him to a phony seance in which Mrs. Odetts pretends to be a spirit giving him advice.
Vern and Mr. Honeywell make Margie believe she has a secret admirer to keep her from entering an auto race. When Margie tries to find out who the secret admirer is, Vern's new client gets involved.
Margie tries to help the daughter of Vern's new client. He doesn't know his daughter is married and has a baby, so Margie has to pretend the baby is hers.
Margie tries to help her neighbors repair their marriage by making the wife jealous, but Vern and Freddie end up thinking they are having an affair.
Vern always wins the annual fishing tournament and Mr. Honeywell offers Margie a mink coat if she will help him beat Vern.
Vern is the foreman on a jury that convicts a gangster. Worried about her father's safety, Margie sets a trap for what she thinks are the gangster's henchmen, but turn out to be a mild-mannered client and a private detective.
Margie invites Mr. Honeywell and a prospective client to dinner. She lets Freddie, who now has a job selling cookware, make the dinner. What she doesn't know is that Vern's client is a competitor of Freddie's company.
Vern doesn't want Margie to meet a client's son, so he sends her out of town and has Roberta pose as Margie. When a suspicious Margie returns, she catches on and then pretends to be her own imaginary sister, Helen.
Vern convinces Margie to break her date with a Marine to go out with a client's son. An angry Margie uses helium to inflate her dress so she will look fat. The plan backfires, however, when the client's son turns out to be a dreamboat.
The set and costumes used in the ""My Little Margie"" episode ""Margie's Millionth Member"" are from ""Rocky Jones Space Ranger"". Both sets and costumes were used at The Hal Roach Studios. The name of one of the cereal company owners is ""Mr.Crackie"".
Margie agrees to babysit for a chimpanzee that belongs to one of Vern's clients. Vern, not realizing who the chimp belongs to, pays Freddie to kidnap it. When Margie learns of the plan, she tells Freddie to go ahead with it to teach Vern a lesson.
Margie must pretend to be a birdwatching enthusiast in order to keep a client of Vern's around long enough to sign a new contract.
A misunderstanding over Mr. Honeywell's health leads to Vern being fired. Now Margie must scheme to get his job back.
At a health farm for wealthy women, Margie switches identity with a friend who wants to be sure her new boyfriend isn't after her money.
Vern tells Margie if one more thing goes wrong she won't get her trip to Sun Valley. Margie then gets into trouble when she tries to operate a broken elevator and ends up taking a fellow tenant on a wild ride. When the woman threatens to sue, Margie tries to keep the landlord from talking to Vern, by convincing Vern it is the middle of the night.
Margie, Vern and Mrs. Odetts go to Mexico to see a client and run into plenty of trouble and misunderstandings.
Freddie has a new job selling lipstick that lasts three months. When Margie messes up a demonstration Freddie was trying to give to Vern's new client, she must think of a way to correct the problem she has caused.
Margie and Vern babysit for client's grandson who happens to be an obnoxious brat. What Margie doesn't realize is that the old lady neighbor who is helping them amuse the child is actually a notorious thief.
Vern thinks his job is being taken over by an ambitious young man at Honeywell & Todd. The man is a big fan of murder mysteries, so Margie and Roberta set up a real mystery to try and trick him into leaving the company.
Margie decides she wants to live in a ground floor apartment and to convince Vern it is a good idea she makes him believe he walks in his sleep and it is dangerous for him to live on the tenth floor.
Mr. Honeywell makes Vern hire the daughter of a client to be his secretary. When the girl falls for Vern and wants to marry him, Margie tries to make her see how ridiculous the age difference is by dating the girl's aged father. The only problem is, the old man really falls for Margie.
To keep a new client away from Margie, Vern lies and says he has a son instead of a daughter. When the client wants to meet Vern's son, Margie disguises herself as a boy.
Margie's new boyfriend is a lawyer who convinces Margie Vern has no legal right to treat her like a child.
In order to breakup Margie and Freddie, Vern and Mr. Honeywell convince Freddie that Margie would like him better if he acted like a cave man. Margie discovers their plan and retaliates by pretending she loves the ""new Freddie"".
When Vern and Freddie are called to duty by the Navy, Margie ends up a stowaway on their ship.
Vern gets carried away with fencing lessons and neglects Roberta. Mr. Honeywell hires a Frenchman to make Vern jealous.
Convinced Mr. Honeywell would be a better boss if he were a married man, Margie gets him a date at a lonely hearts club. When the woman turns out to be a gold-digger, Mrs. Odetts and Margie pose as Mr. Honeywell's wife and daughter to get rid of her.
Margie is careless with her money, so Vern tries to teach her a lesson about financial management. Margie ends up thinking her father has gone broke and rents out their apartment to a couple of wrestlers.
Vern gets into trouble when he forgets his entry permit on a trip to South America and ends up tangling with a commander, unaware that he is the client he is there to sign.
Despite Vern's objections, Margie is determined to meet Vern's old fraternity brother, the Shah of Zena...even if it means sneaking into his hotel room.
When Margie accidentally breaks a set of antique bagpipes belonging to the head of a Scottish lodge, she tries to replace them with Mr. Honeywell's set.
Margie poses as a 12-year-old immigrant girl to help Mr. Todd out of a misunderstanding he is having with his wife over a check he wrote.
Gale Storm
Margie Albright
Charles Farrell
Vern Albright
Gertrude Hoffmann
Mrs. Odetts
Clarence Kolb
Mr. Honeywell
