It's Always Jan

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It's Always Jan is an American situation comedy that aired on CBS during the 1955-1956 television season. The series stars Janis Paige as a widowed nightclub singer struggling to make ends meet. rdf:langString

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rdf:langString It's Always Jan

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rdf:langString A songstress promises to write some "special material" if Jan pays her $150. Envisaging spectacular success for herself, Jan borrows money from her friends to pay the woman, but it turns out to be a trick, and Jan is in trouble when the songwriter bilks her out of the money.

rdf:langString After angry neighbors in Jan's apartment building petition the landlord to evict a young couple with a crying baby, Jan comes to the couple′s defense and uses her organizing skills to solve the problem by both quieting the infant and placating the neighbors.

rdf:langString Jan begins receiving flowers and gifts from an unknown admirer who turns out to be an elderly man who has absolutely no interest in her. Jan takes pity on the man, who sacrificed his life for his sisters.

rdf:langString Jan uses up her entire emergency fund to cut a demo record, leaving her friends and her feeling destitute and desperate until Harry arrives to tell her that the recording got the attention of movie producer Sidney Mansfield, who is looking for an unknown to sing one of the female leads in an upcoming musical film. Prior to Jan′s office meeting with Mansfield about a possible movie deal, Pat invites Jan's friends and neighbors to see a “demonstration” of Jan as a commercial product in a two-piece leopard bikini, convincing everyone to form a corporation by “investing” $500 each in Jan's movie career. Jan spends the money on an elaborate wardrobe — only to learn that clothes do not necessarily make the woman.

rdf:langString After complaining that all her boyfriends want to kiss her good night, Jan draws up a set of rules for her future boyfriends — and then is even more upset when her next boyfriend, Mike Allen, is happy to abide by them. Guest star: Gerald Mohr.

rdf:langString Jan becomes upset about Josie′s behavior, which she believes has become too mature for Josie′s age. The only solution that Jan, Pat, and Val can come up with is for Jan and Josie to move out of the apartment. During the episode, Jan sings "Carolina in the Morning."

rdf:langString Jan is upset with Harry when he releases an item to the press saying that she is involved in a romantic relationship with a film star who she claims she has never met.

rdf:langString Jan is embarrassed when young Stanley announces that he is in love with her — and then unwillingly becomes involved in a love triangle when Josie develops a crush on Stanley.

rdf:langString Handsome, unmarried Dr. Phillips comes to treat Josie, and all the women fall for him. Jan soon discovers that he has a romantic interest in her and that Josie, who loves Dr. Phillips, wants Jan to marry him.

rdf:langString Feeling he has no future working at the delicatessen, Stanley decides to leave his father's business and seek adventure by taking a job in Arabia. Jan believes he is too innocent for the job, and she and her friends intervene with a plot to stop him from going.

rdf:langString Feeling that she has become too much of a burden on Jan, Josie runs away to an orphanage — so Jan turns the tables on her by visiting the orphanage and pretending that she wants to adopt another girl as a replacement for Josie.

rdf:langString An excited Val is thrilled when she becomes engaged to a wealthy playboy who has been married five times — but when he starts to make romantic advances on Jan, Jan tries to break up the engagement.

rdf:langString A big-time agent who is a longtime rival of Harry′s sees Jan′s show at the club and offers her a prize engagement if she agrees to leave Harry and sign with him. Jan fantasizes about being a star, but is torn between fame and loyalty because she thinks that signing with the agent would betray her friendship with Harry. Guest stars: Dan Tobin, Peter Leeds, Bill Meador, Roxanne Arlen.

rdf:langString During a nerve-wracking day, Jan and Pat have a falling out, and Pat decides to move to a different apartment — but Josie has an idea that will resolve their differences and solve the problem.

rdf:langString Jan finds herself falling in love with a happy-go-lucky, fun-living Irishman who reminds her of her late husband and tries to convince her that she does not need to live entirely in the past with the memory of her husband. Guest star: Darren McGavin.

rdf:langString Jan's and Pat's friendship is tested when Pat brings home her boyfriend, a handsome bachelor who promptly falls for Jan. Jan is attracted to him as well. Not wanting to hurt Pat's feelings, Jan has to fight off her attraction to the man. Guest star: Elliott Reid.

rdf:langString Jan impresses on Josie the importance of not betraying confidence, but after Josie brings home a young boy who wants to run away from home, Jan finds herself in a quandary over how to explain why she betrayed Josie′s confidence.

rdf:langString Josie is impressed by a school friend′s mother who is a lawyer, viewing her as the ideal woman, so Jan takes her to the nightclub to show her that her mother is impressive at work, too.

rdf:langString Josie appears in a school play and likes all the attention she gets after a good performance. She decides to become a child actress, and is upset when Jan disapproves of the idea.

rdf:langString Jan, Josie, and Pat hatch a plot to get Harry married off, but their efforts to rearrange Harry's life so that he'll meet the right woman go awry.

rdf:langString A client gives Jan a hot stock tip on uranium, and Jan and Pat pass along the good news to all their friends and neighbors. They all fantasize about becoming overnight millionaires and how they would spend their riches. Guest stars: Kathleen Freeman and Steven Geray.

rdf:langString After Pat and Mrs. Johnston save Jan from being hit on by a creepy bar crawler and attribute Jan's lack of romantic success to her job as a nightclub singer, Jan gets fed up with dating and impulsively decides to get married, although she has no idea what she wants in a husband. Her neighbors begin sending their unattached male friends to see her, and she spends an entire day speed-dating a parade of incompatible men before she meets Howard Stone, who appears to be a perfect match. Jan and Howard never become a serious couple, but the experience reminds Jan that she still can find love years after her husband′s death.

rdf:langString Not wanting to neglect Josie, Jan turns down a lucrative singing contract, but she is startled when she accidentally discovers what Josie has written in her diary.

rdf:langString Jan and her friends hire a young man as their housekeeper, making an enemy of every husband in the apartment building when their wives see how well the man does housework and insist that their husbands do the same.

rdf:langString A star rookie pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers falls in love with Jan and spends every evening at the nightclub where she sings. When she rejects him, he begins losing so many baseball games that he is about to be shipped back to the minor leagues, and the Dodgers′ manager begs her to break her spell over him. Anxious to save the rookie's job and help Brooklyn win the pennant, Jan uses a system that all true baseball fans understand to solve the problem.

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rdf:langString Stanley Adams

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rdf:langString Title poster, the image of Janis Paige and the phrases "Janis Paige" and "in It′s Always Jan" appeared separately.

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rdf:langString Janard Productions, Inc.

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rdf:langString United States

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xsd:date 1955-09-10

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rdf:langString English

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xsd:date 1956-04-28

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xsd:integer 26

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xsd:integer 1

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xsd:integer 30

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rdf:langString It's Always Jan is an American situation comedy that aired on CBS during the 1955-1956 television season. The series stars Janis Paige as a widowed nightclub singer struggling to make ends meet.

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rdf:langString Norman Tokar

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