A live television presentation of Rodgers and Hart's 1927 stage musical.

While touring a museum, Rodney Hatch, an unremarkable barber, places an engagement ring intended for his girlfriend on the hand of a statue of Venus, the goddess of love and beauty. From Mount Olympus, Venus witnesses the event and decides to visit Rodney on Earth by magically inhabiting the statue. Hilarity ensues when she starts to fall in love with Rodney and competes with his girlfriend for his attentions. This television version of Kurt Weill's successful Broadway musical is much more faithful to the stage version than the 1948 Ava Gardner film, which changed the story considerably and cut most of the songs.

A press agent, a composer and a landlord of a theatrical boardinghouse revive vaudeville on Broadway.

Poor Red Jones gets fired from every job he tries. His fiancée gives him one last chance to make good when he becomes a Fuller Brush man. His awkward attempts at sales are further complicated when one of his customers is murdered and he becomes the prime suspect.

Dagwood Bumstead must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction Company. Not wishing to be separated from her husband, Blondie enrolls in college as well. But Leighton College rules stipulate "No Married Couples", forcing Blondie and Dagwood to pretend that they're not married. This causes quite a dilemma when coed Laura Wadsworth begins flirting with Dagwood and Rusty Bryant does the same with Blondie. And Blondie's discovery of a very pleasant secret threatens to expose her and Dagwood's marital status too.

A young British nobleman comes back from fighting in the War of the Roses to discover that his father has been murdered by an old family friend who is now an outlaw. However, he becomes suspicious about the exact circumstances of his father's death and determines to find out exactly what happened.

The story of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey from their boyhood in Pennsylvania through their rise, their breakup, and their personal reunion.

A skeptical college professor discovers that his wife has been practicing magic for years. Like the learned, rational fellow he is, he forces her to destroy all her magical charms and protective devices, and stop that foolishness. He isn't put off by her insistence that his professional rivals are working magic against him, and her protections are necessary to his career and life.

费立威廉斯年届而立，还是王老五一名，而他的三位老友乔治特莱顿、杜杰克逊以及霍华麦连尼，都已成家立室儿女成群了。他们由于趣味相投，每逢周末晚上都共同出外活动游乐，已成为习惯，但日子久了，也嫌这种生活太过单调呆板，渐渐开始觉得乏味了。 他们几经商议，竟妙想天开，计划共同在郊外租赁一所华丽别墅，登报招请一名美丽女人做临时主妇，如此岂不新鲜刺激？主意既定，他们开始找寻，费立发现纽约东部有一华丽别墅出租，立刻将其租下，随即登报征求同侣。 刚巧有一美女芳名凯茜，也看中该别墅，在察看途中与费立碰头，费立误会她是前来应征者，于是向她鼓其如簧之舌，大加游说。凯茜初无此意，但最后被其说服接受应征。原来凯茜是教授的助手，专替教授搜集有关男人性生理和心理的种种状态，写成报告，供教授研究参考，所以她正好借此机会与他们亲近，暗中观察，以便搜集材料。 这四位老友征得伴侣后，分别向他们的太太玛芝特莱顿、琼妮麦莲尼、汤妮杰克逊等撒谎，说是他们放弃周末胡闹的夜生活，而改为在某学校内专修一项研究课程以求深造。事实上，他们各自编定了一个日期，由星期一至星期四，每人轮流到别墅与凯茜厮混，其余日子凯茜可以自由。凯茜周旋于四名老友之间，手段圆滑，倒也十分顺利。但身为王老五的费立，对此颇感没趣，因为他已无形中与凯茜堕入情网，彼此同意准备结婚，其他三人则蒙在鼓里。 三位有妇之夫做贼心虚，一反常态，忽然分别向太太献殷勤、送礼物。无事献殷勤，反而引起她们怀疑。太太们于是雇请私家侦探，侦察丈夫的行踪，果然查出秘密。她们统一阵线，实行大兴问罪之师，准备捣毁香巢。 另一方面，三名有妇之夫得悉凯茜与费立结婚的消息，大为惊异，也一齐质问凯茜，要她解释明白究竟是何用意。费立在场，听到凯茜解释其来此目的才知受骗，大发雷霆，一怒而去，竟与前来找晦气的太太团相遇，于是折回准备看个究竟。可怜三个畏妻如虎的丈夫，正在太太的雌威之下狼狈万分、噤若寒蝉。凯茜乘机请教授代为解释她的身份目的，各太太和丈夫才恍然大悟。凯茜与费立双双携手而去，共成眷属。

纽约著名的戏界人士杰里，因该行业不景气，再加上资金周转不灵，剧院面临倒闭。可就在这时，怪事出现了，他碰到的亚瑟居然有一双闻歌起舞的毛毛虫，杰里觉得这简直是个神话，杰里灵感来了，他千方百计地拉拢亚瑟，骗取其信任，即而可将毛虫高价出售。由此可以挽救崩溃的剧院。于是，有了煤体大势炒作，一时间毛虫成了社会的焦点。毛虫的买卖眼看就要成了，就在这时，杰里的骗局被亚瑟识破，不想把自己心爱的宝贝卖掉，正当两人发生争执时，毛虫神奇地失踪了……