The Aldrich Family -- Grouse For Dinner

The original American teenage sitcom — and the one that gave the world Henry Aldrich's famous voice-cracking "Coming, Mother!" In "Grouse For Dinner," Sam Aldrich is preparing a special wild grouse meal that is meant to be a small, intimate family dinner. Henry has one job: invite no one. Naturally, his best pal Homer turns up at the door, and the rest of the half hour is a master class in escalating domestic chaos as Henry tries to gently uninvite a guest who was never technically invited, while the kitchen falls apart over a missing rare herb. Classic late-1940s Aldrich Family comedy — the prototype for every awkward-adolescent sitcom that came after.