Morey Amsterdam

Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly businessman, can learn the error of his greedy ways on a magical and musical journey through the past, present, and future Christmases of his life.

Beach party: Anthropology Professor Robert Orwell Sutwell and his secretary Marianne are at the beach studying the sex habits of teenagers. The surfing teens led by Frankie and Dee Dee don't have much sex but they sing, battle the motorcycle rats and mice led by Eric Von Zipper and dance to Dick Dale and the Del Tones. Bikini beach: Millionaire Harvey Huntington Honeywagon III tries to prove to his colleague Vivian Clements that his chimp, Clyde,...

Ritchie's expanding vocabulary starts to branch out in unexpected directions.

Rob recalls the hectic days after Ritchie was born, when he was sure the hospital had given him and Laura the wrong baby.

When his show announces a talent contest, Rob finds himself besieged by the parents of neighborhood prodigies.

Laura matches up her pharmacist cousin, Thomas, with Rob's fireball co-writer, Sally, for a lopsided dinner party.

While on a nationally televised talk show, Laura accidentally reveals that Alan Brady is wearing a toupee.

Rob recalls the hectic time of his Army marriage to Laura, and the difficulty in obtaining a three-day pass for their honeymoon.

Rob recalls his and Laura's attempts to get married when Ritchie brings up the subject.

As director of the annual variety show, Rob finds himself trapped between casting Laura as this year's leading woman or a dazzlingly talented newcomer to the neighborhood.