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That's Life

6.0 / 10
1968
1 season
32 episodes
Comedy

That's Life is a musical comedy series that appeared on the ABC television network in 1968–69, starring Robert Morse and E. J. Peaker as Bobby and Gloria Dickson. The series focused on the lives of Bobby and Gloria, from their first meeting through their marriage, as their lives progressed, through Gloria's pregnancy and childbirth, as well as Bobby's work experiences at the Miller Chalk Company. Characters often broke into song, in the manner of musical plays and movies. Songs included well-known numbers and original tunes written for the program itself. Well-known stars often guest-starred in one-time roles. Kay Medford had a recurring role as Gloria's mother, Mrs. Quigley, who was often antagonistic to Bobby.

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  • Ep 1

    1.How We Met

    24-09-196860m

    On the series premiere we learn how Robert Dickson met Gloria Quigley. The match was arranged by Cupid, George Burns, who first had to show Gloria how marriage to a dream ideal hu...

  • Ep 2

    2.Bachelor Days

    01-10-196860m

    This episode recounts how Bobby decided to pop the question-and how a friend of Gloria's schemed to help things along. Songs included: Marriage Blues - Nancy Wilson / It Must Be H...

  • Ep 3

    3.Our Wedding

    08-10-196860m

    Robert Dickson will marry Gloria Quigley tonight, but first a visit to the city licemse bureau finds Robert having second thoughts. Then it's time to meet the folks, Shelley Berma...

  • Ep 4

    4.The Honeymoon

    15-10-196860m

    To those who know, and even to those who don't, a honeymoon is a familiar, sometimes funny experience. To Robert and Gloria it's almost a disaster: Gloria's mother intrudes; and t...

  • Ep 5

    5.Buying The House

    22-10-196860m

    Everyone knows about New York's housing shortage-except Bobby and Gloria. Tonight they learn to dicipher classified ads from Lee Tully; discover the secrets of an ""enchanted cott...

  • Ep 6

    6.Moving In

    29-10-196860m

    Newlyweds Robert and Gloria thought it would be so simple: just buy the house and move in, right? Wrong. It takes a heap o' livin' to make a house a home so they call in a grudgi...

  • Ep 7

    7.Life in Suburbia

    12-11-196860m

    Alan King, Morey Amsterdam, Peggy Cass and Hines, Hines & Dad - who else would you need to disrupt a quiet weekend? A quiet weekend is, in fact, what Robert and Gloria had planned...

  • Ep 8

    8.Our First Baby

    19-11-196860m

    ""Our First Baby"" is a musical fantasy set in heaven's Baby Department. Robert and Gloria think they're expecting. The problem in heaven is that the baby dispatcher can't convin...

  • Ep 9

    9.The Ninth Month

    26-11-196860m

    Bobby and Gloria are anxiously awaiting the arrival of their first child-but first it's ""the nine month nuttsies""-Gloria's convinced that Bobby doesn't love her anymore; hectic l...

  • Ep 10

    10.Bringing Baby Home

    03-12-196860m

    ""Bringing Baby Home"" gives Robert two new mouths to feed - Robert, Jr. and Gloria's mother, who moves in bent on baby raising. Sid Caesar is featured as Robert, Jr. who presents...

  • Ep 11

    11.Bobby's Pink Slip

    10-12-196860m

    Automation takes over as Bobby's fired by his boss, Paul Ford. Searching for work he runs into another job seeker, Jackie Vernon, interviewer Vikki Carr and aptitude tester Phil S...

  • Ep 12

    12.Twas the Night Before Christmas

    17-12-196860m

    Bobby and Gloria are besieged by a host of Christmas problems...the annual gift list, myriad Christmas wrappings, a disgusted store clerk, Paul Lynde, an office party where secreta...

  • Ep 13

    13.Our First Christmas

    24-12-196860m

    Christmas Eve at the Dicksons' is highlighted by a stream of visitors...a neigbor, Leslie Uggams; delivery man, Rodney Dangerfield; and a host of carolers, The Doodletown Pipers....

  • Ep 14

    14.Happy New Year

    31-12-196860m

    Tonight's guest stars join Bobby at the country club's New Year's Eve party. Songs included: Dear World - Robert Morse & E.J. Peaker / Yesterday's Rain - Spanky and Our Gang / Rid...

  • Ep 15

    15.Sex and the Married Man

    07-01-196960m

    ""Sex and the Married Man"" finds Bobby at a convention with pal Lenny, Dick Shawn, where he meets a showgirl friend, Goldie Hawn. Meanwhile, back at home, Gloria gets the word ab...

  • Ep 16

    16.January 21, 1969

    21-01-196960m

    Gloria discovers that a cold ""is nothing to sneeze at"" when hypochondriac Bobby developes one. Bobby's mother, Agnes Moorehead, moves in to nurse ""her baby"" back to health; he...

  • Ep 17

    17.Our First Vacation

    28-01-196960m

    Bobby's vacation was going to be nice and quiet-until his in-laws, Berman & Medford, suggested a family jaunt to Florida. The chaotic drive south finds Bobby in the driver's seat-a...

  • Ep 18

    18.Our First Fight

    04-02-196960m

    Bobby and Gloria enter the ring for their first fight-and Gloria leaves. Round two finds Bobby's pal, Frank Gorshin, scheming to win Gloria back for him. At a bar for round three...

  • Ep 19

    19.What's He Got That I Haven't Got?

    11-02-196960m

    When one of Gloria's former beaus, played by Doug McClure, visits, a slow burning Robert sits by as the two reminisce. But a sympathetic friend, Norm Crosby, has a plan for reveng...

  • Ep 20

    20.You Never Take Me Anyplace

    18-02-196960m

    This episode finds Robert and Gloria painting the town red. En route they bump into Sid Caesar, playing a gypsy violinist and a money hungry maitre d'; Leslie Uggams and Milt Kame...

  • Ep 21

    21.Gloria Does Her Thing

    25-02-196960m

    Housewife Gloria gets out of her rut and into a groove - by embarking on an acting career. Offering helpful hints and advice along the way are a self impressed director/leading ma...

  • Ep 22

    22.Two Weeks Out With the Boys

    04-03-196960m

    This episode finds Private Bobby at an Army Reserve camp. Menaced by two non-coms (Wally Cox & Louis Nye) Bobby's only relief comes from the USO entertainment by singer-dancer Lind...

  • Ep 23

    23.Chalk Can Be Sexy

    11-03-196960m

    Bobby sets out to revolutionize the chalk industry after he's tagged as a company junior executive. Ever ready with helpful hints: pushy secretary Phyllis Diller and her pretty b...

  • Ep 24

    24.Happy Anniversary

    18-03-196960m

    Gloria's parents make a return appearance for their 25th wedding anniversary. The plan, which goes awry: A bash at Ruby Tremont's Catering Emporium. Songs included: Ruby Tremont...

  • Ep 25

    25.Baby's First Birthday

    25-03-196960m

    Baby's first birthday is bound to be memorable...party entertainment is being supplied by a magician, Carl Ballantine; friend Charley has rounded up all the neighborhood kids; and...

  • Ep 26

    26.Gloria Plays Cupid

    01-04-196960m

    Take one unmarried girlfriend, Ruth Buzzi, who loves to cook, add a confirmed bachelor, Jackie Vernon, who loves food and fishing. What have you got? A perfect match, according t...

  • Ep 27

    27.Our Wedding

    08-04-196960m

    Repeat of an episode that originally aired October 08, 1968.

  • Ep 28

    28.The Honeymoon

    15-04-196960m

    Repeat of an episode that originally aired October 15, 1968.

  • Ep 29

    29.Buying The House

    22-04-196960m

    Repeat of an episode that originally aired October 22, 1968.

  • Ep 30

    30.The Ninth Month

    29-04-196960m

    Repeat of an episode that originally aired November 26, 1968.

  • Ep 31

    31.Sex and the Married Man

    13-05-196960m

    Repeat of an episode that originally aired January 7, 1969.

  • Ep 32

    32.What's He Got That I Haven't Got?

    20-05-196960m

    The final telecast of ""That's Life"" was a repeat of an episode that originally aired February 11, 1969. The time slot was filled with the thrice weekly ""The Dick Cavett Show""...

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