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Charlie Chan investigates two murders on the opening night of an opera. The prime suspect is the husband of the star of the opera, himself a talented singer who recently escaped from the insane asylum where he had suffered from amnesia for years.

From Season 3, Episode 20. Episode first aired Feb 9, 1955. Joan tries to pass her neighbor Wally off as an army general married to her sister in order to impress a friend.

From Season 1, Episode 22. Episode first aired Mar 11, 1953. Joan mails a letter using a Mozambique stamp that Brad just purchased for $350. Her husband blows his top, leading Joan to dream she's on trial for being a "goof" with Brad as judge and prosecutor. He's singing a different tune when the stamp turns out to be counterfeit and the check comes back in the mail.

From Season 1, Episode 38. Episode first aired Jul 1, 1953. A couple of rich law school pals who've gotten rich in business makes Brad feel he's cheated Joan out of the high life. He decides to become a business executive with a chicken soup company, despite Joan's warnings that he's cut out for that work. In Joan's nightmare, the job has changed Brad into a cantankerous, bald man who cares only about money. Wanting happiness over money, Joan refuses...

From Season 2, Episode 2. Episode first aired Oct 21, 1953. Joan tries to pull a fast one over on Brad by passing off her new dress as one she's had for years. She hadn't planned on a visit from a friend with a lie detector machine.

From Season 1, Episode 21. Episode first aired Mar 4, 1953. Joan has a closet full of clothes, but Brad only has 2 suits to his name. Joan decides to make this right, and the two go shopping, and soon Brad has a new plaid suit. All is well, until outrageously crazy circumstances lead Joan to try and return the suit, and hilarity ensues!

The girls in Joaniešs bridge club are giving her a Luncheon, but Joan thinks they no longer like her. After taking a lesson on how to make people like you, Joan almost winds up a member of the Loyal Order of Brotherly Broncos!

Joan finishes up her match-making activities of last week (in "Joan Plays Cupid") by staging Sally and Wally's wedding in her home.

Bills for fender repairs to the Stevens auto go so high they lead to a "You did it" "No you did it" quarrel between Brad and Joan.

Joan has a lapse of memory that nearly breaks up her marriage by overloading her husband with three separate spaghetti dinners in one night.