The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet: Halloween Party

Every family has a skeleton in the closet! 
(Ha, a corny joke they somehow missed.)

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet: Halloween Party
ABC
October 31, 1952
Sitcom
DVD
C+

Yes, an ABC sitcom, my home turf so to speak.  Except it's the '50s, so not really.  This series ran for a mind-boggling fourteen years and, from what I know, it honestly didn't change much.  It was probably comfort food by the end of the run.  This is a very early, first-season in fact, episode, appearing on the holiday it's about.  Except it's mostly about Ozzie being, OK, I'll be kind, absent-minded.  Except really he's so idiotic that I had to take this down from a B-.  The energy level and direction are better than the little bit of the '50s we've seen on this blog so far.  The chemistry is natural, not surprisingly with most of the cast related to each other.  (Don DeFore plays neighbor Thorny, one of 117 appearances in the role.)  And, yes, that's four-year-old Jerry Mathers as the (Trick or) Treater.

This is a "best of" selection of four episodes, probably from various seasons, and I honestly don't know what's coming up next, beyond more gentle family humor.  I'm not sure if I ever watched this series growing up, and certainly not since, unlike, well, Leave It to Beaver.  But this is as good as any a place to share my Pointless Nelson-Related Anecdote:

As a youngster growing up in '70s and early '80s Southern California, I saw a lot of TV shows taped.  I'm going to say in around '79 and likely for Match Game, some of the adults were excited that the usher managing the line was a relative, I'm going to say a grandson, of Ozzie & Harriet.  (Probably one of David's boys.  He was too young to be a future half of Nelson the duo.)  I was not impressed.  If he'd been Bob Denver's son, I would've swooned.