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- Needing someone to play Santa Claus for the community center, Chet bribes a surly old man who was recently fired from his job selling Christmas trees.
- 1969–197125m6.3 (18)TV EpisodeStudents at the high school organize a lockout of the teachers' cafeteria, requesting that they have input over what foods go on the student menu. Chet helps the students and cafeteria manager reach a compromise. But when the same students have a grievance with Chet's gym class, Chet is not as willing to cooperate.
- Chet convinces a shy cafeteria worker to get up the nerve and ask a waitress out on a date. When he is turned down, Chet must find a way to talk him out of committing suicide.
- After he encounters a competitive player who exhibits a disregard for sportsmanship, Chet tries to teach him a lesson by inviting him to his handball game and observe proper sportsmanship.
- When Chet is forced to fill in as a substitute algebra teacher, he comes across a word problem that he is unable to solve for the class. So, he spends most of his weekend trying to find the solution.
- Chet intervenes in the relationship between his perpetually bickering aunt and uncle. Meanwhile, at school, he copes with a student who refuses to participate in gym class.
- For a children's party, Chet hires a magician named "The Miraculous Martin". Too bad Martin is also a drunkard.
- A repossessor is intent on snatching Chet's TV set.
- Chet learns that being honored as Teacher Of The Year isn't all that's it's cracked up to be.
- While Chet visits the local barber shop for a haircut, he gets involved in a dispute with the barber and another patron over baseball. The three of them end up going to a high rise hotel, where the barberclaims he can catch a baseball dropped from a window of the hotel's top floor.
- 1969–197130m8.3 (36)TV EpisodeChet must figure out ways to kill time when he is trapped overnight in an elevator with a fellow teacher and a cleaning lady.
- Chet gets himself into a jam when he answers a pay phone and then tries to locate a guy who doesn't want to be found.
- Chet's father stays with him, while his mother is out-of-town.
- Chet inherits his great-aunt's estate including a prized letter from Abraham Lincoln, and it brings him lots of unwanted attention and headaches.
- John Marley guest stars in this episode as a wealthy, eccentric man who wants to relive his childhood. He seeks Chet's help to make his wish come true.
- Chet's life is turned upside down by a pesky neighbor, who is an insufferable bore.
- Chet gets in a bind when he is mistaken as the author of a poem he copied in his youth, and the poem is scheduled to be published in the school newspaper.
- An eccentric woman recruits Chet to help save a tree from being cut down at a construction site.
- 1969–197130m6.4 (22)TV EpisodeChet gets word that a former classmate, "Big Bad Bubba" Bronson, whom Chet recalls has a grudge against him, is coming to town to even the score. Chet's solution is to seek boxing lessons for self-defense -- by hiring a down-on-his-luck boxer named Hurricane Smith. But the solution soon seems worse than the cure when Smith not only talks Chet into paying him for his time, but also moves in with him.
- Chet has a super-duper TV antenna installed, so he can pick up the big game, which has been locally blacked out. With a houseful of eager teachers, Chet's TV set breaks down right before opening kickoff, so he must quickly hunt down another set.
- Chet is unsure how to handle one of his basketball players who is constantly letting profanities slip out of his mouth.
- A student breaks up with her boyfriend and begins sending gifts to Chet.
- A friend leans heavily on Chet to help him quit smoking cigarettes.
- In exchange for a custom-built stereo cabinet, Chet agrees to teach American history and civics to a Mexican carpenter hoping to become an American citizen.
- Chet complains bitterly when his sister-in-law Verna sets him up on a blind date with Mildred, an employee of an airline who is in town for a few days. He discovers, however, that she's an attractive, intelligent woman who shares many of his interests -- so that confirmed bachelor Chet is surprised to find himself falling in love.
- An autistic eight-year-old girl nicknamed Punkin unexpectedly shows up on Chet's front doorstep.
- Chet tries a number of remedies, including a set of earplugs that painfully don't work, to deal with a neighbor's barking dog that's continually robbing him of sleep.
- Young Raymond decides to become an easy rider by running away from home to San Francisco, so Chet gives him a ride.
- As an assistant football coach, Chet finds himself in a tough situation when he is "asked" by a suspected mobster to make sure that his hardly athletic son makes the team.
- Chet's brother and his sister-in-law are having some marital difficulties, leading his brother to move in with Chet -- straining his relationship with Chet, too.
- Unfortunate circumstances lead to Chet having to drive his date to the dance in his brother's garbage truck.
- Chet is approached by a student who is profiling Holmes High School's teachers for the school newspaper, and wants to make Chet the subject of his next article. Chet writes up a summary of his past exploits as an athlete, but begins to embellish it as he and the student review Chet's recollections, so that he soon portrays himself as a star at baseball, football, basketball, boxing, and track.
- Chet trys to convince a talented student to join the school's struggling track team, but the student has no interest in joining for personal reasons.
- Chet helps out a talented youngster who wants to become an artist. Chet balks however, when the youngster chooses Chet as subject matter for his painting which will be on display at the art fair.
- Holmes High's football team is having trouble on the field, and the players suggest that Chet film their scrimmages to help them correct their mistakes. At first he resists the suggestion, but then borrows a camera and its equipment and begins experimenting with it. In the meantime, a former star football player named Alex returns after a career-ending leg injury. Chet is distressed that Alex plans to drop out of school because his football-playing days are over, and suggests that Alex become his assistant coach instead.
- A severe storm with flooding has Chet stranded at home without telephone or electrical service. To make matters worse, a neighbor has just gone into labor, and Chet is in a quandary as to what to do.
- Dolores enters advanced stages of labor, and Chet enters advanced stages of unease.
- Chet tries his luck at selling Real Estate, with memorable results.
- Jealousy rears its ugly head when Chet's girlfriend carries on a business association with an old boyfriend, who is now a rich doctor.
- 1969–197125m7.3 (17)TV EpisodeChet hurts his back while showing his class how to use the parallel bars. A fellow gym teacher helps him get to the hospital, but Chet discovers that that's only the beginning of his problems, as he deals first with health insurance issues, and then has encounters with just about everyone at the hospital - except a doctor who knows how to treat an injured back.
- Chet tells the story of his surprising surprise birthday party.
- Chet is in charge of a group of youngsters and is supposed to take them on an overnight camping trip. They set out for their destination, but mishaps occur and they end up staying over at Chet's apartment.
- Chet gets more than he bargained for when he makes a bet with Marsha that he can get a purchase order for a new piece of equipment by the end of the day.
- Chet substitute teaches for a sex education class and also baby sits his brothers children while trying to get a date with a pretty substitute teacher.
- Chet reluctantly agrees to deliver the morning papers for his nephew who is sick in bed.
- Chet is at home sick with a cold but he can't get any rest with his friends and relatives bringing him their various remedies.
- Chet counsels a young shoplifter in exchange to get new baseball uniforms for the team he's coaching.
- Chets gets more than he bargained for when he agrees to teach a driver's ed course and encounters a self-deprecating student who is a danger on the road.
- A short student with a great hook shot thinks Chet is discriminating against him because he won't put him on the basketball team
- A chance encounter on the street leads Chet to try out, and eventually to get hired, for a job playing an athletic coach in a breakfast cereal television commercial. Chet discovers, however, that shooting 30 seconds of film isn't as simple as it appears when the final product is seen on television.
- A gum-ball machine is knocked over by a kid who runs off before Chet can catch up to him. The store owner, seeing that Chet is the only person in the vicinity, takes him to court.
- A boy, who practices Hasidic Judaism, joins the baseball team coached by Chet. The boy faces a dilemma, when the next weekly game's date switches from Sunday to Saturday, which falls on the Jewish Sabbath.