As of July 2026, Family Affair Season 1 aired in 1966 with 30 episodes — streaming now on Amazon Prime Video. Full episode guide and where to watch below.

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Family Affair Season 1

1966 30 Episodes Comedy · Family ⭐ 7/10

Right now you can watch Family Affair Season 1 on and — and it is funnier than its reputation suggests. A compact run that never overstays its welcome. Its 7/10 TMDB score, built from 42 ratings, reflects a title that consistently delivers. Brian Keith sets the tone, and the rest of the cast matches it scene for scene. Put it on tonight and see for yourself.

Whatever else is competing for your attention this week, Family Affair Season 1 is worth clearing space for. Sharp writing and a well-matched ensemble are what separate Family Affair Season 1 from the crowd. Season 1 of Family Affair includes 30 episodes. It aired from September 1966 to May 1967. This season stars Brian Keith, Sebastian Cabot and Kathy Garver. Brian Keith and Sebastian Cabot lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1966. Family Affair Season 1 earns its laughs from character rather than situation, which is why it does not wear thin the way pure farce tends to. It knows exactly what it is, and does not try to be anything else.

Family Affair Season 1 is the kind of thing you put on in the background and end up fully watching. If you have run out of similar titles to watch, this is a strong next pick. It is a manageable watch, easy to fit into a single week. Brian Keith anchors an ensemble with real chemistry. Genuinely funny, consistently, across the whole run.

📡 Where to Watch Family Affair Season 1

🇦🇺 Australia

Amazon Prime Video

Amazon Prime Video with Ads

🇺🇸 United States

Amazon Prime Video

Peacock Premium

Amazon Prime Video with Ads

Peacock Premium Plus

Great American Pure Flix Amazon Channel

🇨🇦 Canada

Amazon Prime Video

Amazon Prime Video with Ads

🇳🇿 New Zealand

Amazon Prime Video

🎬 Family Affair Season 1 — Episode Guide

The excellent family series begins when Bill Davis, a fantastic construction engineer, unexpectedly adopts Buffy, who along with Jody and Cissy, have lost their parents in an accident. Buffy comes first and at first, Bill doesn't like her and wants to send her back to Terre Haute. Buffy gets the fee...

Cissy joins the family and Mr. French thinks that he is not wanted anymore. Mr. French changes his mind after Buffy puts her doll in his suitcase and decides to stay after all.

Buffy and Jody decide to give Bill a great gift- a horse!

The Matter of School

Bill decides to send Cissy to a private girls' school in Connecticut, and even though she would prefer to attend high school locally, she reluctantly agrees to go, thinking Bill wants to get her out of the way.

Mr. French is chosen for an ad for marmalade and is a huge promotion success, until he tastes the marmalade that he is hawking.

Room with a Viewpoint

Buffy doesn't like the new changes in her and Cissy's bedroom and refuses to ever step foot in it.

Mrs. Beasley, Where Are You?

Buffy's doll, Mrs. Beasley, gets knocked out of the apartment window by accident and Buffy goes up at arms about the whole thing. She fnds out that a little girl owns a doll that looks just like her lost Mrs. Beasley, and realizes that it is not her doll. Suddenly, the real Mrs. Beasley doll is foun...

Who's Afraid of Nural Shpeni?

Mr. French gets Lebanese cooking lessons from a Middle Eastern restaurant owner named Nural Shpeni, and her family forces Mr. French to marry her, whether he wants to or not.

A Matter for Experts

Buffy and Jody have been spending a lot a time with each other at school, and it is a major concern for the vice principal and a child psychologist who states that Buffy and Jody need to make friends and join in with other children.

Beware the Other Woman

When an old flame steps back into Bill's life, the children think that he will get married and send them back to Indiana.

Take Two Aspirin

Bill gets a chance to work with a friend in Mexico on a job, but his trip is cut short when Mr. French comes down with the flu and difficultt in keeping touch with the family.

Love Me, Love Me Not

When Jody sees a friend getting spanked by his father, his father tells him that he punishes him out of love. So Jody takes it upon himself to earn a spanking from Uncle Bill to see if he loves him enough to enforce physical punishment.

The Thursday Man

Cissy learns a lesson in snooping when she is to do a paper on Mr. French and finds a shocking secret about him.

Cissy worships a teacher named Julian Hill and spouts his theories all through the household. Bill invites the teacher to dinner and Cissy sees that he is not the man that she worships so dearly when he goes off on Buffy and Jody for an innocent spill.

Jody's allusion about being a constuction worker leads him to ""gaining"" a job with a constuction worker who Bill is trying to get a job with.

That Was the Dinner That Wasn't

Cissy is disheartened because she will be left out of a mother-daughter event at school, and she doesn't tell Bill what is wrong with her.

All Around the Town

Bill and the whole family are seeing the Gaynors off on their cruise. Buffy and Jody think that Bill is having dinner with them, but when they find out the thuth, they are left on the dock by themselves. Mrs. Gaynor sees them and calls Bill, but Buffy and Jody run off in the city to find the owner o...

One for the Little Boy

Bill plans to do some serious bonding with Jody by taking him on a business trip, but Murphy's Law plagues the trip. But Jody states that just being with Bill is exciting enough.

Buffy and Jody are placed in a fast-learning portion of their grade, but Bill is spending his time with a woman who is quite uncertain about what she wants. The twins get a friendly window-washer to help them with their work, but a call from the school to Bill makes him see that the children are mor...

A lesson to be learned in this episode: Helping people is good, but it only goes but so far. The family learns this the hard way. Mr. French helps out a maid who is very bad with housekeeping by covering up her mistakes, and this charade goes on until she is hired by a guest who is throwing a party....

🎭 Cast of Family Affair Season 1

Brian Keith

Sebastian Cabot

Sebastian Cabot

Mr. Giles French

Kathy Garver

Anissa Jones

Johnny Whitaker

Johnny Whitaker

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