Peck's Bad Girl

May 5, 1959

Torey Peck momentarily forsakes her boy friend and has a school-girl crush on her art teacher.

May 12, 1959

In an effort to impress her rich new neighbors, Torey Peck invents a story that involves her parents in an embarassing and confusing set of circumstances connected with an imagined trip to Europe. (TVG) Torey Peck meets Francesca, the little girl who has just moved in next door. Francesca tells Torey that her parents are on a trip.

May 19, 1959

Torey Peck faces a crisis when her father objects to her wearing lipstick to a party.

May 26, 1959

Torey Peck puts her family in a spin when she envisions her brother, Roger, as a potential delinquent.

June 2, 1959

Torey Peck suspects her mother is falling in love with Jacques Bergerac, a visitor to her home, and sets about to break up the imagined romance.

June 9, 1959

A pledge of secrecy becomes a dilemma for Torey Peck when she is torn between loyalty to her best friends and duty to her girls' club.

June 16, 1959

Steve and Jennifer Peck learn a lesson in child behavior when they follow the advice of a prudish aunt and consult a child psychologist about raising the youngsters.

June 23, 1959

Torey's girlfriends decide her father is as charming as their movie idols, until he consents to take them dancing.

June 30, 1959

Torey Peck abandons her selfish ambitions when she becomes concerned over the plight of a poor little girl whom she dislikes. (TVG) - Torey is too busy thinking about herself to bother being nice to Nancy Hogan, who just doesn't fit into Torey's group of friends.

July 7, 1959

Eager to be accepted by a ""sophisticated"" crowd, Torey Peck accepts a date with a smooth-talking 15-year-old boy instead of with Norman, her classmate. (TVG) Torey is anxious to be accepted as ""one of the crowd"" in an older group.

July 14, 1959

Torey Peck creates quite a problem in the Peck household when she decides her father doesn't really love her and is partial to her younger brother, Roger.

July 21, 1959

Tory Peck invites her friends over for a slumber party. All the girls think Dad is the greatest. But, after Tory is disillusioned that her Dad isn't perfect, she realizes that it's okay anyway.

July 28, 1959

(TVG) Jane Withers appears as a guest star in ""The Breadwinner."" Convinced that it's time she earned a living of her own, Torey decides to advertise in the newspapers for a baby-sitting job. Her first customer is actress Jane Withers. TV Guide says that this is the last show of the series in it's July 25-31 issue.

August 4, 1959

City hall, the neighbors, and a bird-watcher's society object when the Peck's put up a tree house in their back yard.