To finance her lavish lifestyle, Doris secretly moonlights as Miss Understanding, hosting an overnight advice radio program and arousing Peter's suspicions.
Doris pens a piece critical of the divorce epidemic, calling on couples to forgive and forget hurts and betrayals. But Doris finds it difficult to heed her own counsel when she suspects Peter of a fling with a beautiful young actress.
Doris goes undercover and in disguise to land an interview with a hospitalized criminal, contending with a disapproving Peter, eccentric patients and a nosy nurse.
Doris becomes romantically entangled with the young pop star she's profiling for Today's World, putting her at odds with Cy when it begins affecting her journalistic standards.
To keep their apartment complex from being bought by a conglomerate, Doris, Mr. Jarvis and the other tenants meet to discuss buying the building themselves and creating a co-op.
Peter's anniversary gift to Doris of an antique automobile literally backfires when its constant breakdowns result in Doris being chronically late for dates and work.
A retired mobster makes Doris an offer she can't refuse: he'll donate $10,000 to her animal charity if she will babysit his dog Tiger for two weeks. It won't be easy money because the reigning syndicate leader as well as the police are determined to get their hands on the pooch.
After the photogenic Doris is approached by a charming talent scout (Andy Griffith), Cy assigns her to go undercover as an aspiring actress and write an expose of the phony talent agency racket.
Today's World Magazine's 40-year veteran linotypist Sam Johnson is turning 65 and eagerly anticipating retirement, until Doris coerces him into challenging the company's compulsory retirement policy.
Doris rescues two stray dogs from the dog catcher and then must try and persuade landlord Mr. Jarvis to relax his no pets policy. The episode is an earnest promotion of pet adoption and reflects Doris Day's real life passion.
Doris' old flame Sir Robert Kingsley is coming to the States on a lecture tour, but Cy is reluctant to allow Doris to interview him, fearing their hanky-panky will tarnish Today's World's image as a family magazine.
Cy is ecstatic at the prospect of his ex-wife remarrying and releasing him from paying her alimony, but Doris has reasons for keeping the cork in the champagne bottle a little longer.
Doris' art-forging uncle visits and to keep from being returned to jail enlists Doris and Cy's help in switching out a forged painting from the collection of a wealthy art collector.
With Doris no longer with Peter, and Jonathan Rusk divorced from his wife, former candidate Jonathan returns to declare his love for Doris. But will her jealousy of his new globe-trotting reporting career come between them?