The Odd Couple (TV series)

Oscar and Felix's first date with their neighbors the Pigeon Sisters is a total disaster...with poker, laundry night, and Felix's cleaning all getting in the way.

After Oscar gets into a fight with a hockey player, Felix tries to stand up for his roommate, but ends up in the boxing ring instead.

Felix comes down with a 48-hour flu bug and guilts Oscar into taking care of him, ruining Oscar's weekend with a beautiful stewardess.

One night, Oscar and Felix tell the Pigeon Sisters how they first met. Oscar was the foreman on a jury and, sure enough, Felix was the lone holdout.

After a big fight, Oscar kicks Felix out for good. And while Felix moves from apartment to apartment, Oscar can't help but notice that his life is going downhill.

When the doctor tells Oscar he has a stomach ulcer, Felix plays nursemaid for one week. His three rules? No stress, no poker, and no women!

During a wedding rehearsal, best man Felix recalls his own marriage and divorce, causing the groom to get cold feet and call off the wedding.

When a young ad exec sees a photo of Oscar, he claims to have found a fresh face, and orders Felix to use him in a big cologne campaign.

After volunteering for the Big Brothers program, Felix tries to impress a little boy with his knowledge of the arts. But, the kid is more impressed with Oscar.

When Felix's beloved parrot dies, he has trouble finding a final resting place for it. But then, he and Oscar visit a pet cemetery, where a funeral is planned.

When Felix flies to Canada for work without leaving word, his poker buddies assume he's dead, and Oscar is accused of foul play.

Oscar refuses to act in a benefit performance of “A Christmas Carol,” then has a nightmare that he is the character of Scrooge in the classic holiday tale.

During poker night, there is a power outage and $50 is stolen. Oscar is the prime suspect, so he insists on recreating the crime to prove he is innocent.

Even though Oscar divulged a secret recipe to a competitor at a cooking contest, Felix still needs his help. Felix's nerves have caused his arms to go stiff!

An Alaskan football player is a houseguest while Oscar negotiates his contract. But then, Felix discovers he is a cellist and urges him to give up sports.

Felix needs a doctor in the middle of the night. So when pretty Dr. Nancy Cunningham arrives at the door, Oscar is smitten and asks her out.

When his ex-wife's watch is stolen from a jewelry store, Felix lets Oscar contact his shady underworld friends to try and get it back.

Oscar brings a depressed Felix up to his cabin, where a pretty camp counselor and three girls seek shelter from the rain. But then, one little girl gets lost.

Oscar doesn’t want anyone ruining his big night at the sportswriters’ dinner. But then, Felix arrives home with a baby left behind at his studio.

When young Phillip next door is found with $2000 in cash, Felix is worried that it's been stolen, so he and Oscar have to find out where the money came from.

After Oscar is fired from his job, Felix gets him a position on staff with a popular girlie magazine, where Oscar discovers he is no swinger.

In order to cure Felix of his neatness and win back his ex-wife, Oscar comes up with a plan to turn his finicky roommate into a slob.

Felix is dating a wholesome librarian who looks familiar to Murray. Then, he remembers he busted her for indecent exposure-as an actress in a nude play!

On their way to a costume party, Felix, Oscar, and Oscar's girlfriend Nancy are accidentally locked in the building's dusty basement, with no way out.

Oscar's ex-wife's pregnant 18 year-old niece, a runaway, turns up in New York minus her overseas Army husband, insisting she wants to deliver her child naturally…in a hotel room in the Bronx!

With Felix away in Canada, Oscar and Nancy feel safe fixing up his ex-wife Gloria with Nancy's brother Raymond. Then, Felix returns early…

Oscar is looking forward to Felix's operations so that he stops honking his nose. However, when Oscar injures his foot, they end up sharing a hospital room.

Oscar has started walking in his sleep. But, while sleepwalking, he's also started to physically attack his roommate Felix!

After he loses Felix's cemetery plot money on a horse, Oscar has to help his finicky roommate find an acceptable burial place.

Taunted by Oscar for being weak, Murray gets tough with his poker buddies and has them all thrown in jail for illegal gambling.

Oscar gets an opera star to appear in Felix's amateur production of Rigoletto. But when the singer is accidentally injured by Oscar, Oscar must perform the title role himself.

Oscar is encouraged by Nancy to try to lose a few pounds. So, Felix takes his roommate to a strict health farm, where he is caught sneaking in food.

When he goes on a talk show, Oscar ends up telling funny stories about his neurotic roommate to host David Steinberg. So, Felix demands equal airtime to get back at him.

Hoping to be a better father to his son Leonard, Felix replaces Oscar as the coach for the boys’ footballs team…and watches the players turn on him.

When Oscar's ex-wife Blanche decides to remarry, Oscar is thrilled. But, Felix objects to what appears to be a loveless relationship.

Felix holds his daughter Edna's 10th birthday party at the apartment, the same day that Oscar has a scheduled a big poker game.

When Nancy can’t go on their Caribbean vacation, Oscar convinces Felix to come with him. But once they're there, Nancy calls to announce that she's on her way down, making Felix a third wheel.

When Oscar wins a racing dog in a poker game, he wants to take him to Miami and race him. But, Felix would rather treat him like a pet.

After Felix and Oscar are robbed, they move into a maximum-security building, which feels more like a prison than an apartment.

Oscar tells Murray the story of how he and Felix first met, and how he had to propose to Gloria when Felix lost his voice.

Now that Oscar has saved Felix's life, Felix is killing him with kindness. So, Oscar decides to turn the tables on his roommate and even the score.

Insanely jealous of his wife, Felix's grandfather (Tony Randall in a dual role) flees his retirement community and comes to stay with Oscar while Felix is out of town.

Felix takes Oscar's gambling money and invests it in a successful Japanese restaurant. But then the cook quits and they are forced to work there.

Felix insists that a boy form the local reform school has changed…until the kid asks his daughter Edna to the school dance.

On the anniversary of their divorce, Oscar and Blanche reminisce about the New Year's Eve they split up, with both of them and Felix all telling their version of the big blowout.

Felix has been hired by Oscar to take photos of a champion Chinese wrestler. Then Felix advises the athlete to give up the sport, causing turmoil.

Whenever he comes down with a fever, Felix becomes highly accurate about predicting the future-even predicting that someone is going to murder Oscar!

Oscar tries a computer dating service recommended by his secretary Myrna. As fate would have it, he winds up getting matched with Felix's ex-wife, Gloria. Felix becomes jealous when the two of them start dating.

While Felix is shooting an ad campaign for a soft drink with Howard Cosell at his studio, Oscar shows up and starts a feud with Cosell who is so incensed he walks away from doing the shoot. It will take some mending by the boys to get Cosell to return.

Oscar falls for a Princess that Felix is photographing for possible use for a stamp. They get along well, with Oscar's sloppy habits even charming her. Oscar is so smitten he's considering proposing to her.

Felix, disturbed to learn that writers for the magazines he sells his photos to write unflattering captions, decides to learn creative writing to write his own copy. Oscar however, begins to question the integrity of the teacher of the writing class Felix is in.

After a heavy day at the job for both of them, the boys take the advice of a monk who dropped out of society 10 years ago and joined a retreat. They decide to try the retreat for themselves, with Felix giving it his all and Oscar realizing he made a mistake the minute he gets there.

Oscar is trying to write a sports book entitled Knockout, from the point of view of the killer instinct. Murray the Cop gives Oscar the use of a friend's isolated cabin in the woods to try and help Oscar, who hasn't been able to write a single page. Felix tags along and accidentally helps Oscar solve the problem.

Oscar has never told his mother that he's divorced from Blanche, because she is against divorce. When she plans a visit to Oscar, he is forced to coerce Blanche, Felix and Felix's ex-wife Gloria to all pretend they are still married to appease his mom.

Felix directs a shaving cream commercial starring pro football star Deacon Jones, a friend of Oscar's who insists that Oscar be included in the commercial.

A flashback shows the birth of Felix's daughter Edna and the events leading up to it.

Felix plans a This is Your Life surprise birthday party for Oscar.

After he's invited to be a celebrity contestant on a game show, Oscar reluctantly brings Felix along to be his partner...and then regrets it.

Felix is afraid that he's losing contact with his daughter Edna, and resolves himself to become a better father.

Oscar brings home a homeless and penniless girl who faints on his shoulder in a restaurant. When Felix meets her, HE winds up becoming attracted to her and it winds up becoming the only time he and Oscar have fought over a girl.

When Oscar's ulcer acts up, Felix becomes nursemaid to him. Unable to control Oscars habits to eat junk food, he recommends that they go on a cruise to escape such temptations. Oscar thinks there certainly will be temptations on the cruise when it turns out to be a cruise for senior citizens.

Felix and Oscar's constant fighting is driving their friends away from them. They try to resolve the situation with group therapy and get kicked out, but not before the therapist suggests that they try role reversal.

Felix is summoned to the Internal Revenue Service because he forgot to sign his check, and winds up convincing them to audit Oscar, much to Oscar's chagrin.

Felix sees Oscar's secretary Myrna's tap dance routine at a party at Oscars job and decides that she should turn pro, much to Oscars chagrin.

Felix's opera club is doing Madame Butterfly and needs to raise money for new costumes. He decides to throw a Monte Carlo night. All goes well until Felix greedily keeps the tables open and the house begins to lose money. It turns out that the one who won all the money from the house owed Oscar that money. Now Felix comes to collect to regain the money for the costumes. But Oscar has a little detour with a bet at a pool hall first.

Oscar gets four tickets to the hottest new Broadway show in town, Kiss My Face. He invites Felix and his girlfriend Miriam, but can't find a date for himself. Deciding to scalp the ticket, the plans go awry as he and get Felix get arrested. It'll take a trial in court to get the boys out of this mess.

Oscar smokes a cigar in bed and falls asleep, thus ruining the bed, which is Felix's. Oscar's old college pal, Monty Hall, gives him tickets to his game show Let's Make a Deal. Oscar and Felix try to go on to win back the money for the bed Oscar now owes Felix.

Oscar's mother is coming for a visit. He's told her that he's met the girl of his dreams. Now all he has to do is find that person. Felix helps him, and winds up introducing Oscar (after a few failed attempts) to a Greek girl who winds up showing the boys belly dancing.

While Oscar is preoccupied with writing a new sports book, Felix uses the opportunity to repaint the apartment and redecorate in ultra modern. Oscar, hating all the new changes, decides to start over by redecorating with his own ideas.

Murray the cop is assigned to guard a Roller Derby queen, and his wife becomes jealous. Murray holds his ground of innocence and leaves his wife. He shows up at Felix and Oscars place and it doesn't take long before he completely exasperates the two of them.

Oscar is looking forward to a big marathon poker game he's throwing, but Felix throws a monkey wrench in his plans as he announces that his ex-wife Gloria is coming to stay for the weekend while her house is being painted.

When famous male ballet star Edward Vilella is late for a children's performance of "Swan Lake", Felix realizes he must dance the lead role himself.

After Felix's insurance premiums go up, he challenges Oscar to a mini decathlon to prove his physical superiority.

Felix meets a perfect match for him but she doesn't let on that she's married to a pro football linebacker, played by former pro football star Alex Karras.

In a flashback to a time when the boys were still married, the Ungers and the Madisons go on a two week trip to the Caribbean. While Oscar and Blanche seem to be fighting the most during the trip, Felix and Gloria are having problems of their own, which culminate in her asking him for a divorce.

With Felix's help, Oscar wins a new car in a radio contest. But when Oscar decides he wants to sell it, Felix won't let him. Dick Clark makes a cameo appearance as the DJ of the radio contest.

In a flashback, Oscar is enlisted in the Army Reserves and misses his girlfriend back home, Blanche. With encouragement from one Lieutenant Felix Unger, he proposes to her, and a wedding takes place at the Army base.

While Oscar is dating singer Jaye P. Morgan, Felix sees it as a golden opportunity to pick up songwriting again, something he hadn't done since the army. His next goal is to try and sell Jaye P. his latest tune, "Happy and Peppy".

Murray The Cop is sick of self-righteous Felix, who pompously denounces movies. He challenges him to do better. Felix makes a documentary of Oscar, entitled, Mondo Filth. Oscar brings a film producer to see the film and the producer offers Felix a directing job which becomes way over his head.

Tennis star Bobby Riggs comes to see his buddy Oscar. Riggs is a hustler, and manages to gamble Oscar out of his money, clothes, the lease to the apartment and even the services of Felix! Riggs gives Oscar one more opportunity to win back everything he lost, by way of a ping-pong game between the two of them, winner take all.

Oscar's ulcer acts up so badly, he is forced to go to the hospital. He's allowed to go home after some examination, but only if someone other than Felix takes care of him. Leave it to Felix to try and find a suitable replacement for him in the guise of a nanny.

Felix hears noises in the air conditioner and insists the apartment is haunted. He hires an exorcist but he charges too much so Felix buys a book on "how to exorcise at home". Oscar figures out the problem in the end however.

Oscar's dentist, has invented a new kind of glue, made from barnacles. Oscar wants Felix to invest in it.

Felix entrusts Oscar with $400 to buy Yankees season tickets for a client of his. Oscar bets the money on a losing horse instead. Instead of telling Felix what he did, he moonlights as a short-order cook down by the docks. Felix discovers him and makes Oscar work in his studio to pay off the debt.

Oscar is serious about his new girlfriend, serious enough actually, to undergo hypnosis to try and stop his sloppiness.

Felix is due to fly to Houston to shoot an ad for "Buckaroo Barbecue Sauce", but he's afraid of planes. Oscar lends a hand.

Felix stumbles upon a perfect choice for Carmen for his Opera Club's upcoming production of it. Only trouble is, she's self-conscious about her weight and can only feel comfortable singing when in the presence of her unrequited love, Oscar.

Felix's brother Floyd arrives for a visit. He thinks Felix should get away from dirty, grimy New York City, so he offers Felix a general manager position at his Unger Gum bubble gum factory in upstate Buffalo.

Monty Hall is hosting a new nostalgia variety show, and Felix and his band "The Sophisticados" are dying to be on it. Oscar however, becomes a roadblock as he is mad at his old friend Hall, who is rerunning Felix and Oscars Let's Make a Deal segment (episode 67), which turned out to be a disaster.

Felix can't sleep. Oscar, Murray and Myrna all try to help Felix get to bed.

Felix and Oscar sign up with the Civilian Reserves, and both begin to patrol the apartment building they live in. Felix takes his job a bit seriously and soon has the entire building hating him.

A flashback episode as one of Felix's earliest photo jobs, is for Playboy magazine. Felix has to photograph six girls, one of which will be chosen as the centerfold. Gloria, his fiancee at the time, turns out to be one of those six girls. Playboy founder Hugh Hefner makes a cameo appearance.

Oscar's secretary Myrna is heartbroken that her boyfriend Sheldn (a clerk left the "o" off his birth certificate) has run off. Felix sets out to find her a new beau, and enlists a reluctant Oscar's help. Undaunted, Felix attempts to turn Myrna, who is a typical New Yorker, into a "woman of elegance" to win Sheldn back.

Felix's bowling team is about to compete in the finals of a bowling tournament when his back goes out. Everybody else on the team rides Felix's coat tails and feels doomed about losing the finals.

Felix's son Leonard's frog is in the frog jump semifinals. The frog goes missing the night before the race and Felix and Oscar are forced to get a new frog until the old one turns up again.

A group of sportswriters has been invited to Hollywood for bit parts in a movie, and Oscar is one of them. Felix is non-plussed about the idea until Oscar invites him along.

While Felix is photographing Silver the Wonder Dog for a dog shampoo commercial, he becomes incensed at the treatment of the dog by the hands of it's owner. Felix kidnaps the dog but eventually gets caught and the whole situation will now have to settle itself in court.

Oscar owes Billy Joe Babcock, who is throwing a square dance at a fancy hotel in town, $500, and coerces Felix to change his band's style of music (they are called "The Sophisticados") and play the square dance, as the original band meant to play cancels out at the last minute. By doing so, Oscar's debt to Babcock will be wiped out.

The incumbent Councilman in the 34th Council District, plans to tear down neighborhood playgrounds and put up office buildings. Felix objects and, without Oscars knowledge, decides to run him against the Councilman on the playground issue.

Felix has been upset with Oscar putting down New York City in his column. It takes a subway ride in which the two of them take, which breaks down, where New Yorkers come to the aid of a pregnant guide dog to renew Oscar's faith in New Yorkers.

Edna wants to camp out overnight on the sidewalk to be first in line to get tickets to see Paul Williams in concert. Felix balks at the idea, and Edna runs away from home.

A flashback to the Roaring Twenties Chicago, where the boys' fathers are. Oscar's father runs a speakeasy for the mob and Felix's dad is an optometrist. Little Oscar and little Felix meet for the first time as well.

Oscar loves radio and gets a chance to host his own radio sports talk show, Oscar Madison Talking Sports. Of course, Felix can't seem to butt out when this opportunity arises for Oscar.

Oscar becomes involved with a widow with two children. He desperately wants the kids to warm up to him, which they do, which is a main factor in Oscar proposing to the widow. Oscars poker buddies lay odds that on whether Oscar will chicken out of the wedding or not.

For his work on the Fat-A-Way Diet Pill ad campaign, an association of advertising and commercials is presenting Felix with the 100th annual "Dink Award". But via a flashback, it is discovered that Felix may have won the award dishonestly.

Oscar is assigned to cover the New York theater scene while the regular critic is on vacation. Afraid that he's out of his league, he gives all the tickets to Felix, and after each performance secretly takes notes on Felix's remarks. It doesn't take too long before the whole situation snowballs.

Martina Arroyo, Howard Cosell, Jack Carter and Roone Arledge all wind up in this episode in which it's Cosell VS. Madison round two. Jack Carter plays a comedy writer who writes jokes for Oscar to use against Cosell.

Oscar owes Felix a fortune, yet he keeps gambling anyway, betting on horses in particular. Felix is appalled by Oscar's horrible behavior, until Oscar wins on a 40-1 shot horse that he bet on, and is able to pay off Felix in full with the winnings. Seeing this quick road to a lot of cash, suddenly, Felix becomes interested in playing the ponies!

The new building manager, Mr. Lovelace, isn't providing services to the tenants, because he's too busy tending to his beloved house plants. Felix, angered and annoyed like the rest of the folks in the building, calls a rent strike.

Oscar is scheduled to be on The Dick Cavett Show to uncover a race track scandal when he loses his voice screaming at Felix. Oscar gets a correctable operation, but he is not allowed to talk for two days after it. Between Felix and the apartment getting robbed, it will be a true test of Oscars mettle to see if he doesn't have a reason to speak in those two days.

Country musician Roy Clark plays Oscars old army buddy who thrives on playing practical jokes on everyone he encounters. Felix wants him to take his music more seriously and sets him up with an impresario.

Felix learns that his high school girlfriend Mildred Fleener has become a grandmother and he begins to convince himself that's he's an old man. Oscar gets influenced by Felix's anxiety and he too begins to feel old.

Richard Dawson is doing a new variety show, and Oscar has been chosen to be his co-host. Felix however, holds a grudge against Dawson, they were in the army together and used to be part of a song and dance act, and Felix feels that he taught Dawson everything he knows about show business. Dawson sees it the other way around.

When Felix discovers that his ex-wife Gloria has been dating another man, he starts taking drastic measures to win Gloria back such as sleeping in Oscars ultra messy bedroom. Gloria is convinced that Felix has changed somewhat from being a finicky pest and agrees to remarry him. The wedding takes place in boys' living room in what is the final episode of the series.