Shirley (TV series)

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|Title=Is This What Dad Really Wanted?{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTDreKKTXww | title=NBC Network - Shirley - "Is This What Dad Really Wanted?" (Complete Broadcast, 10/26/1979) 📺 | website=YouTube | date=20 May 2023 }}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1979|10|26}}

|EpisodeNumber=1

|DirectedBy=Stan Lathan

|WrittenBy=Greg Strangis and Gwen Bagni & Paul Dubov

|ShortSummary=Shirley Miller, a widow with four children, moves her family from New York to Lake Tahoe. Upon arrival they discover their new home is being fumigated.

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|Title=Hard Hat

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1979|11|02}}

|EpisodeNumber=2

|DirectedBy=Gene Nelson

|WrittenBy=Dusty Kay

|ShortSummary= Shirley gets a job as a construction-firm paymaster, but the men resent her position.

Guest stars: Michael Cavanagh and Joseph V. Perry.

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|Title=Son of a Gun

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1979|11|09}}

|EpisodeNumber=3

|DirectedBy=Gerald Mayer

|WrittenBy=Terry Hart

|ShortSummary= Shirley is less than delighted over Bill's news that he found his father's gun.

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|Title=Things Your Mother Forgot to Tell You

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1979|11|23}}

|EpisodeNumber=4

|DirectedBy=Mel Ferber

|WrittenBy=Greg Strangis and Gwen Bagni & Paul Dubov

|ShortSummary=Shirley becomes a substitute teacher in a sex education class.

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|Title=The One That Got Away

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1979|11|30}}

|EpisodeNumber=5

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|WrittenBy=Pat Green & Chris Manheim

|ShortSummary=Bill's haughty mother wants him to leave Shirley and the family and live permanently in Paris.

Guest star: Claudette Nevins.

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|Title=Play on Words

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1979|12|07}}

|EpisodeNumber=6

|DirectedBy=William F. Claxton

|WrittenBy=Dave Hackel & Steve Hattman

|ShortSummary=A student athlete disrupts substitute teacher Shirley's class and she is angered when the vice-principal insists that she overlook the behavior.

Guest stars: Robin Strand and Michael Parks.

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|Title=Twenty Years to Life

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1979|12|14}}

|EpisodeNumber=7

|DirectedBy=Stan Lathan and Alan Myerson

|WrittenBy=Jaqueline Simmel-McKane & Joel Arthur Tappis

|ShortSummary=While substitute teaching, Shirley flunks an elite athlete which keeps him benched. Shirley finds out the student's older brother is the vice principal at the school which creates conflict.

Guest stars: Tyne Daly and Bonnie Bartlett

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|Title=Separate Agendas

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1979|12|21}}

|EpisodeNumber=8

|DirectedBy=William F. Claxton

|WrittenBy=Dave Hackel & Steve Hattman

|ShortSummary=Debra (Rosanna Arquette) does not trust the divorced man (Edward Winter) who is going out of his way to get into Shirley's good graces.

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|Title=Visions of Christmas Past

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1979|12|28}}

|EpisodeNumber=9

|DirectedBy=Robert Birnbaum

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|t=Lance Madrid III|s=Lance Madrid III and Greg Strangis & Gwen Bagni & Paul Dubov }}

|ShortSummary=During Christmas time, Shirley recalls the happy moments with her husband and the tragic news of his death.

Guest star: Peter Haskell.

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|Title=On the Skids

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1980|01|04}}

|EpisodeNumber=10

|DirectedBy=Alan Myerson

|WrittenBy=Chris Manheim & Pat Green

|ShortSummary= Shirley is stunned when she learns Lew (Patrick Wayne) is a 'borderline' alcoholic.

Guest star: Frank Marth.

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|Title=Fenced In

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1980|01|11}}

|EpisodeNumber=11

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|WrittenBy=Parke Perine

|ShortSummary= Shirley has to tell the Hemms that their son is a thief.

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|Title=The Three Dates of Shirley Miller

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1980|01|18}}

|EpisodeNumber=12

|DirectedBy=Michael Preece

|WrittenBy=Mary-David Sheiner & Sheila Judis Weisberg

|ShortSummary= After two disastrous blind dates, Shirley is convinced bachelor number three is the right man, until the roof falls in.

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|Title=Teddy Roosevelt Slept Here

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1980|01|25}}

|EpisodeNumber=13

|DirectedBy=Mel Ferber

|WrittenBy={{StoryTeleplay|t=Dave Hackel & Steve Hattman|s=Sandra Kay Siegel}}

|ShortSummary= A historical society claims Teddy Roosevelt once slept in Shirley's house and subsequently invades her home.

Guest stars: Jeanette Nolan, Robin Eisenman and Linda Hamilton.

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