A Perfect Mismatch
Original title
The Odd Couple
Released
9/24/1970
Origin country
US
Genre
Comedy
Production companies
Paramount Television
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
5
Number of episodes
114
Felix and Oscar are two divorced men. Felix is neat and tidy while Oscar is sloppy and casual. They share a Manhattan apartment, and their different lifestyles inevitably lead to conflicts.
Felix and Oscar try to break up their poker game so that they can go out with the Pigeon sisters.
A tough hockey player challenges Felix to a boxing match.
Oscar's date with a stewardess is interrupted by Felix's sickness.
Oscar and Felix flash back to how they first met, "12 Angry Men" style.
When Oscar throws Felix out of the apartment, he moves in with Murray, then Vinnie, and then the Pigeon sisters.
Oscar's ulcer begins to flare up again.
When Felix feels he's responsible for the separation of a young couple on the very day of their wedding he tries to get the stubborn couple back together
A monster is created when Felix shucks Oscar into posing for a cologne ad.
Oscar and Felix become big brothers to a fatherless boy.
Humorous story about Felix's "dead" parrot.
Felix goes missing, and Oscar thinks his buddy is dead.
In a parody of A Christmas Carol, Oscar dreams he is haunted by Felix's ghost.
Oscar's poker buddies believe that the eternally-strapped Oscar swiped fifty dollars out of the kitty during a building-wide blackout; Oscar fights to prove his innocence. (Contributor: Pushover Paige)
Felix's determination to win a cooking contest drives Oscar nuts.
Felix gets angry when an Eskimo quarterback is exploited.
Oscar is smitten by Dr. Nancy Cunningham, who is treating Felix's allergies.
A thug helps Felix find a stolen watch.
A weekend at a mountain cabin proves horrendous.
A baby causes one heck of an evening.
Oscar and Felix's neighbor might very well be a bank robber.
After being fired from the newspaper, Oscar seeks employment at a girlie magazine.
Flashback Episode: Oscar helps Felix try to get over his neatness, which includes a flashback to Felix's childhood--a neat one to be exact.
Oscar and his buddies go to a play featuring Felix's "librarian" girlfriend that bares "the naked truth."
In this episode, we find out why Oscar, Felix, and Nancy were arrested.
A pregnant relative shows up at Oscar and Felix's door, and they try to help her through her impending delivery.
Felix returns from a photo shoot, and his jealousy appears at the same time his ex-wife shows up with her boyfriend.
Felix is complaining about his nose and decides to get an operation. Oscar is ready to go out with Nancy when he lands on his ankle. Felix and Oscar both end up in the same room at the hospital. Gloria tries to take care of them when they get home.
Oscar begins sleepwalking and annoys Felix.
A story about Felix searching for a final resting place.
Oscar and Felix are arrested after Murray raids the poker game.
In Rigoletto, Oscar is the court jester and Felix is the maestro of the production.
Oscar and Felix check into a fat farm.
A TV talk show is the setting for the Oscar/Felix sloppy/neat showdown.
Felix coaches a youth football team.
Oscar is happy that his ex-wife is remarrying, and there would be no more alimony. But Felix wants to stop the marriage.
Oscar chooses between a poker game and a birthday party for Felix's daughter.
Nancy cannot go away with Oscar on their trip, so he talks Felix into joining him. "Oscar, Oscar, Oscar."
Oscar and Felix fight over what to do with a greyhound. Oscar wants to use it as a race dog while Felix wants it as a pet.
Oscar and Felix move into a San Quentin-style building.
Flashback Episode: We look back to the 1950s where young Felix suffers from an epic case of bad nerves and Oscar proposes to Gloria for him.
Oscar pulls Felix back into the apartment after he loses his balance while washing the window, and soon regrets his heroism as Felix endeavors to find ways to say "thank you".
While Felix is out of town, his grandfather runs away from the old folks home to the apartment, and proves to Oscar to be just as big a pest as his grandson.
Oscar, Felix, and Murray run a Japanese restaurant.
Felix overreacts when his daughter dates a reform school inmate.
Oscar's separation from his ex-wife seen from three different points of view: from Oscar, from Felix, and from Blanche.
Oscar gets a big chance to cover a wrestling match between the United States and China.
Felix's instinct involves Oscar, a sports banquet, and a murder attempt.
Computer dating disaster: Oscar gets matched with Felix's ex-wife.
Oscar and TV sports legend Howard Cosell engage in a tongue-to-tongue showdown.
Oscar falls in love with a princess from a very small country whose royal portrait is being shot by Felix.
Felix takes a writing course and gives the words "no talent" new meaning.
Felix and Oscar join Brother Ralph, a former ad exec who turned his back on the rat race, at the Brotherhood of Life Mission for a retreat of peace and contemplation.
Oscar is unable to start writing his book while Felix won't stop cracking his whip.
Oscar has a great and unusual idea about how to prevent his mother from knowing about his divorce.
Felix can direct his first television commercial, if Oscar uses his friendship with Deacon Jones to get the elusive football player to appear in the ad.
Felix suffers from a very unique case of trauma while expecting a child.
Felix intends on giving Oscar a surprise party -- regardless if he likes it or not.
After meeting Allen Ludden and Betty White at a restaurant where our buddies were having dinner with their dates, Oscar and Felix practice Password at home with their friends, and then try out for the show, where they become contestants, and the hilarity ensues!
Felix tries to be a pal to his daughter.
A mystery woman makes Oscar and Felix rivals.
Felix nurses Oscar's ulcer.
Terminal incompatibility almost throws Felix out.
The IRS summons Felix.
Oscar's secretary is doomed when she becomes Felix's agent.
There's only one way Felix can get new costumes for his opera group: Oscar has to win the money in a pool game.
Felix becomes lawyer to himself and Oscar after they get charged with ticket scalping.
After Felix gets angry at Oscar for burning his bed, Oscar suggests that they appear as contestants on a New York version of Let's Make a Deal so they can win a bed as a prize. What do they dress as? Front and back ends of a horse! What happens? You'll have to see to believe!
Oscar lies to his mother and tells her that he has a girl -- and she wants to meet her.
After repainting the apartment, Felix gets the redecorating bug and does the entire place over in ultra modern furniture. Oscar can't stand it, and redefines ""bad taste"" in his makeover with furniture from a discount house.
Felix and Oscar try to get rid of a depressed house guest.
Felix's ex-wife visits and he thinks that he can convince her to take him back.
Edward Villella teaches Oscar and Felix how to dance while dancing to music from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.
Felix comes up with a scheme to prove he is more physically fit than Oscar.
Felix's new love interest is married to a jealous professional football player.
Flashback Episode: Felix attempts to salvage Oscar's marriage and ends up destroying his own marriage.
Parking nightmares for Oscar and Felix as they fruitlessly attempt to find a parking spot for their new automobile.
Flashback Episode: Oscar gets married and spends the wedding night in the Army barracks.
Felix decides to write a song for Jaye P. Morgan.
Felix makes a movie about... Oscar Madison!!
Bobby Riggs appears and tries to hustle Oscar out of all his possessions.
Oscar and Felix try to find a maid who is beautiful enough for Oscar, and clean enough for Felix.
Felix is convinced the air conditioner is haunted by a ghost.
Oscar and his dentist try to convince Felix to invest in a new product: barnacle-made glue!
In order to repay borrowed money, Oscar takes a job working in a greasy-spoon cafe.
Oscar decides to be as clean as Felix after being called a slob by his girlfriend.
Felix is afraid of flying, but he has a photography assignment in Houston. Will he overcome his fear?
The New York Metropolitan Opera's Marilyn Horne stars as Felix's new discovery, but is too shy to appear in his opera unless Oscar is in it as well.
Felix's brother tries to convince him to leave New York City.
Felix tries to get his old college band on Monty Hall's nostalgia program.
Suffering from sleeplessness, Felix keeps Oscar awake with his fussing.
Felix joins the NYPD's civilian unit.
Felix's first big assignment is to photograph a centerfold.
Oscar's secretary is upset over the loss of her errant beau.
Felix drops a bombshell when he refuses to participate in the championship bowling match.
Oscar loses Leonard's entry in a frog-jumping event.
Felix becomes Oscar's agent, who lands a bit part in a movie.
Felix abducts Silver the Canine Wonder from a bad agent.
After losing $500 to Billy Bob Babcock in a poker game, Oscar only gets 24 hours to pay up.
Felix enters Oscar in an election against an incumbent city councilman.
Felix tries to convince Oscar that New York City is a fun place to live.
Felix gets very serious and stiff competition trying to get his daughter's attention when Paul Williams arrives in town.
Flashback Episode: Felix's chance meeting between his and Oscar's fathers.
After Oscar takes a job as a radio host, Felix comes up with his own ideas to boost the ratings.
Oscar wants to be a family man.
Oscar is volunteered by Felix to model for a series of weight-loss advertisements.
Oscar must fill in for the newspaper's theater critic, who is on vacation, but has trouble understanding the titles, let alone the plays.
Felix helps Oscar get a job with Howard Cosell.
Oscar wins a lot at the track -- with help from a friend's tips. Wanna guess?
Felix starts a picket line with his fellow tenants over high rent rates.
Oscar resists throat surgery, so Felix keeps nagging him to have it.
Oscar's old Army buddy visits, and his musical talent impresses Felix.
Felix is upset when he learns that his high school girlfriend is now a grandmother.
Felix is jealous when Oscar and Richard Dawson are selected to be co-hosts of a TV show.
After being kicked out of his apartment five years earlier, Felix convices his ex-wife that they should remarry. She accepts and they are married. All of a sudden, Oscar Madison is alone, again.
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