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Greta (Patricia Harty) wants Peter (Michael Callan) to buy her extra art lessons, but he refuses. She goes to the soon-to-be-opened Bellfield General Employment Agency to find a job from Mr. Gordon Bellfield (busy Canadian character actor Lloyd Bochner). He hires her as his own secretary. Peter's boss Mr. Brahms (Jack Collins) asks Peter and his manipulative office rival Wally Frick (Jack Riley) to help entertain one of their top distributors who is in town. Peter uses his fake wife's (Greta) fake fainting spells to get out of it and takes his girlfriend Marilyn (Chris Noel) to dinner. She is upset that Peter doesn't have tickets to a big show that he promised and also can't get into a nice restaurant. Greta arrives with Mr. Bellfield who is able to get them in and the four have dinner together. Things quickly take a turn for the couples.

As with most episodes to this point in the series, it struggles to sustain flow and body in its plot.

I can remember when corporations wanted their young execs to be married, so the premise wasn't totally unrealistic for the time. And even if the plot wasn't genius, the casting director was one. For such a brief series it had amazing guest stars--Richard Dreyfuss, Sally Field, Paul Sand, Shelley Morrison, Stuart Margolin, Jack Riley, Pert Kelson and so on--many of whom went on to be award winners. Rather than focus on the shortcomings of this comedy--not every series becomes a "Frasier"--I suggest that we look at it from a different point of view. It's exciting to see these actors when they were starting out. These performances are little treasures--think of Mandy Patinkin as the pool boy in Richard Dreyfuss' "The Big Fix"--so that's how I prefer to remember this series.