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King of Kensington

SummaryLarry King, a convenience store owner in Toronto's Kensington Market, was known for helping friends and neighbors solve problems.

Comedy

Directed By:Gary Plaxton

Written By:Martha Gibson, Anna Sandor

❮ King of Kensington

S2 • Episode 3

The Checkup

Air Date:

Oct 5, 1976

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Episode 1 • Sep 21, 1976

Fertility for Two

Cathy becomes frustrated when, after having run the gamut of pregnancy tests and pills, King refuses to consider the possibility that he is the one who needs to be tested.

Episode 2 • Oct 28, 1976

King tries to resolve the dilemma that arises between Cy and Sid, partners in a tailor shop in Kensington. When offered work in New York, Sid accepts the offer, while Cy stays on.

Episode 3 • Oct 5, 1976

King goes for an annual check-up and is told that he must lose weight. Cathy begins to diet along with King and coerces Duke into the same regime. It ultimately fails when King and Duke go on a binge and Cathy faints from undernourishment.

Episode 4 • Oct 12, 1976

Episode 5 • Oct 26, 1976

A robbery at Finkelstein's furriers, and police inquiries into Nestor's whereabouts prompt the King family to suspect that Nestor has stolen a mink coat for his wife Delma.

Episode 6 • Nov 9, 1976

While preparing for a high-school reunion, Cathy resurrects her old diary. King's curiosity gets the better of him and he is shocked when he reads that Cathy was not in love with him.

Episode 7 • Nov 16, 1976

Gestalt of Kensington

Cathy's night school psychology course turns her into Sigmund Freud of the King household, and threatens to disrupt not only her own marriage but Duke's as well.

Episode 8 • Nov 23, 1976

Welcome to Canada

Larry sponsors Duke's nephew to come to Canada. However, Larry becomes increasingly worried that the nephew will slip away and he'll be responsible to pay a sizable bond.

Episode 9 • Nov 30, 1976

Johnny De Carlo, an old buddy of Larry's who has become a Las Vegas singer, comes to town to cut a record. Cathy and Gladys are afraid to say anything to Larry when Johnny makes repeated passes at Cathy.

Episode 10 • Dec 7, 1976

When Duke decides he wants to be something other than a cab driver, Larry helps him get another job managing a variety store -- right across the street from Larry's. Duke's store flourishes, but Duke doesn't.

Episode 11 • Dec 14, 1976

Prisoner of Kensington

When an attempted robbery fails in King's Variety, the criminal begs to be sent to jail. Larry wants to help him change his way of life so he offers him odd jobs around the store, and asks him to deposit the store's receipts in the bank.

Episode 12 • Dec 28, 1976

King is desperate to give Cathy a holiday in Florida, so he starts collecting all of his outstanding accounts. His JekyIl and Hyde behaviour causes the club members to assume he is having nervous breakdown.

Episode 13 • Jan 4, 1977

The End of the World

The entire King family and club gets involved when Anson Phelps comes into King's variety and tells them the world will end the next morning.

Episode 14 • Jan 11, 1977

Larry, Duke, Max and Nestor buy a lottery ticket that wins a thousand dollars. But Larry loses the ticket and it looks like his carelessness will cost him more than money.

Episode 15 • Jan 18, 1977

Gladys' Teddy Bear

Episode 16 • 1977

Bunny of Kensington

Episode 17 • 1977

Mary Theresa Is Missing

Max's best friend, his poodle Mary Theresa, is dog-napped. The search for the dog leads Larry to an 11-year-oId con artist.

Episode 18 • 1977

Cathy's Parents

Cathy's mother leaves her husband because of his irrational jealousy, and moves in with the Kings. Larry turns counselor, then schemer, in order to reunite Cathy's parents.

Episode 19 • 1977

The Central Tech Tiger

Episode 20 • 1977

Wally, the young man Cathy is tutoring, develops a crush on her and declares his love. In an attempt to cure him of his passion, Cathy throws herself at him and Wally makes a quick exit.

Episode 21 • 1977

Episode 22 • 1977

Gladys' Problem

Gladys is convinced that her days are numbered when her doctor decides, after a routine medical examination, that she should go into the hospital for some tests.

Episode 23 • 1977

Cathy and Larry appear on a TV quiz show in which the grand prize is an 18-foot sailboat. They're sure they can win, but then their opponent asks them to cheat and lose the game because, he claims, his wife has only six months to live.

Episode 24 • Mar 23, 1977

Jake Grossman returns to Kensington for a visit after making a fortune in computers in Texas. Cathy and Gladys want Larry to take a second mortgage on the house and ask Jake to invest it for them. But they discover that Jake is bankrupt.

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