# Computer dating episodes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 20, 2019, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-dating-episodes/832833 "2019-04-20T23:54:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2019, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-dating-episodes/832833/1 "2019-04-20T23:54:52Z")
It seems like every show in the 60s and 70s had a show based on computer dating. Earlier this week I saw it on [an episode of _My Three Sons_](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1441664/) (and I see that _MTS_ dipped into that well [twice](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0655105/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl)!) As I write this [a computer dating episode of _Wonder Woman_](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0750227/) is playing on MeTV. I also remember clearly [the _Andy Griffith_ episode](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0512390/). But I know that I’ve seen many more of them over the years. Help fill in the list. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2019, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-dating-episodes/832833/2 "2019-04-21T01:24:00Z")
[Dating Service Disaster - TV Tropes](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DatingServiceDisaster) lists “Three’s Company” and “The Odd Couple” as other examples. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2019, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-dating-episodes/832833/3 "2019-04-21T02:17:07Z")
Another one that I just remembered seeing not long ago is [on _Sandford and Son_](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0694118/). Some others I’ve found while googling: [_Get Smart_](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0587491/) [_WKRP_](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0742634/) [Mod Squad](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0650139/) [_I Dream of Jeanie_](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjN9K_FjeDhAhUDKqwKHRoaA20QFjAAegQIBRAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0609111%2F&usg=AOvVaw11wKDOwNbSe5dAbSaPHnvh) [_The Partrige Family_](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5998838/) [_Magnum PI_](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0639635) [_Green Acres_](https://www.mediavillage.com/article/green-acres-reveals-that-computer-dating-has-been-around-for-50-years-ed-martin/) [_Gomer Pyle USMC_](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0589947/) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2019, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-dating-episodes/832833/4 "2019-04-21T02:38:55Z")
Also [_The Good Guys_](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0590299) [_At Ease_](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0516301/) [_Whiz Kids_](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0747604/) And (at 1987 really pushing the margin of what I would conciser a “pre-modern” mention) an episode of [_Small Wonder_](http://smallwonderreviewed.blogspot.com/2017/10/season-2-episode-16-computer-dating.html). (BTW, for this list I’m excluding video dating, which has its own stack of episodes.) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2019, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-dating-episodes/832833/5 "2019-04-21T03:00:37Z")
Adding [_Bewitched_](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0523129/), [_The Beverly Hillbillies_](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0522648/), [_Diff’rent Strokes_](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0559979/), [_The Facts of Life_](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0575376/), [_Kolchak_](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0621550), and [_The Courtship of Eddie’s Father_](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0549814). ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2019, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-dating-episodes/832833/6 "2019-04-21T04:24:10Z")
Laverne & Shirley…[sssssorta did one](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/laverne_shirley/s05/e11). The computer was Lenny (with Squiggy selling his services)…but they did _claim_ to be a computer dating service!