
Benson
A butler deals with life at the governor's mansion.
Benson
A butler deals with life at the governor's mansion.
Benson
A butler deals with life at the governor's mansion.

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Episodes
Episode 1: Making of Season 1 Documentary
Episode 2: Inside the Governor's Mansion: Remembering Season One of Benson
Episode 3: Favorite Episodes
Episode 1: Change (Pilot)
In the pilot of this spinoff series of Soap, Benson, the Butler of Jessica Tate helps out her cousin...
Episode 2: Trust Me
Katie attends a controversial rock concert, even though her father forbid her to go and had Benson w...
Episode 3: The President's Double
Governor Gatling goes with African president Ukassi to a dinner. The African president becomes a vic...
Episode 4: Benson in Love
Benson meets an attrative woman in the mansion and asks her out, not knowing she is a senator.
Episode 5: Conflict of Interest
The Governor is faced with a family problem. Should he go see his daughter in her school play as he...
Episode 6: The Layoff
Benson is forced to lay off some staff members when the Governor makes a campaign to cut ""unecessar...
Episode 7: Snowbound
Governor Gatling wants the staff to join him on his little vacation to a snow cottage. Benson agrees...
Episode 8: Jessica
Jessica Tate visits and she gets involved in a scandal. She falls in love with the French Baron who...
Episode 9: Don't Quote Me
A bad remark about a senator gets aired out and the staff is in trouble. They have to find who blabb...
Episode 10: War Stories
Benson's old army buddy Eddie visits and him and Marcy hit it off after Benson introduces him to sin...
Episode 11: Ghost Story
Very mysterious things happen in the Governor's mansion. Kraus panicks and says that the house is ha...
Episode 12: Taylor's Bid
Taylor quits being the advisor to Governor Gatling and decides to run for a public office. The Gover...
Episode 13: One Strike, You're Out
The domestic workers demand more money and Benson grants their requests to give them a raise. The bl...
Episode 14: Just Friends
Governor Gatling is trying to get Howard Walker, the entrepreneur to settle his new factory in his c...
Episode 15: Chain of Command
The Governor gets sick and has to stay in bed. Ed, his younger replacement takes advantage of the po...
Episode 16: Bugging the Governor
Somebody bugged the mansion and Benson tries to find out who by trapping them inside. It turned out...
Episode 17: Kraus Affair
Kraus falls for the Butcher, but she loses her self-confidence asking him out.
Episode 18: Checkmate
An 11 year old Soviet is brought to the mansion for a professional chess tournament. While the boy i...
Episode 19: Cold Storage
Just before a very important banquet with guests, Benson and Kraus go in the old storage room to loo...
Episode 20: Old Man Gatlin'
The Governor's loudmouth father comes to visit and wreaks havoc among the staff. Benson then gets so...
Episode 21: Power Play
A load of dead fish and sludge is delivered to the Mansion by a conservationist.
Episode 22: Takin' It to the Streets
Wanting to know how the ""little people"" really feel about politics and their real needs, Governor...
Episode 23: The Army Wants You
Benson, a war veteran suspicious when he is told to report for an ""evaluation."" It seems that on t...
Episode 24: Marcy's Vacation
Marcy is going on vacation and she gets worried that Lorraine, her replacement may do a better job t...
Episode 1: Thick as Thieves
Benson and Kraus are held hostage during a market robbery.
Episode 2: Benson in the Hospital
Humor swipes the Governor's Mansion when Benson is hospitalized. Benson turns out to be their funnie...
Episode 3: Fool's Gold
After a press conference, Benson notices a strange difference in one side of the fire place. He trie...
Episode 4: Masquerade
A priceless gold statue is brought to the mansion and some revolutionaries are after it. They replac...
Episode 5: First Lady
Katie is jealous when her father gives special treatment to a very important hostess which he calls...
Episode 6: Citizen Kraus
Gretchen attends night classes in order to win her American citizenship. With a lot of hard work and...
Episode 7: Benson's Groupie
Benson's summer romance follows him home at the same time important religious leaders visit the mans...
Episode 8: In High Places
The pilot of the Governor's charter plane becomes ill and there is no co-pilot, so Benson tries to f...
Episode 9: Old School Ties
Libby, The Governor's sister thinks that Katie should be sent to a boarding school and the Governor...
Episode 10: The Apartment
Wanting to be alone, Benson rents an apartment. Everybody though manages to know where he is.
Episode 11: Big Buddy
The press secretary hatches a new scheme and it involves Benson in a ""Big Buddy"" program.
Episode 12: Fireside Chat
The Governor is scheduled to be on television, but a lover's quarrel between Marcy and Dan, (the pro...
Episode 13: Marcy's Wedding
Marcy is marrying Dan, a producer and Benson is responsible for the wedding plans. That is until Mar...
Episode 14: Rivals
Kraus' childhood enemy comes from Germany to visit her.
Episode 15: No Sad Songs
Benson's mother comes to visit and everyone makes her feel welcome. Tender moments stir in this epis...
Episode 16: Clayton, Go Home
After receiving death threats, the Governor's new advisor, Clayton Endicott the 3rd moves into the m...
Episode 17: Easy Kid Stuff
After a boy breaks his arm by falling out of a tree, Benson has different feelings about becoming th...
Episode 18: Homework
Katie tries to ""paint a picture"" of everyone in her household through an essay.
Episode 19: Handwriting on the Wall
Katie is suppose to write a school paper on her family, so she writes about certain situations that...
Episode 20: The Governor's House Call
The Governor, Benson and Clayton are trapped in a bordello with a muckraking columnist.
Episode 21: All Shook Up
An earthquake occurs and the Governor demmands strict rescue orders. One of those orders include Ben...
Episode 22: Lifesaver
Benson saves Kraus' life but wonders if he did the right thing when Kraus' appreciation goes way too...
Episode 1: Benson's Appointment
The Governor tries to work out the struggles to make Benson the State Budget Director.
Episode 2: The Grass Ain't Greener
Benson goes undercover to investigate conditions in a Prison.
Episode 3: Sit-In
In Benson's office, a conductor holds a concert in protest. He would like to point out the musician'...
Episode 4: Double Exposure
Benson must help an FBI agent uncover a bribe scandal, but as the job becomes more complicated, the...
Episode 5: The Lobbyist
Benson's lobbyist girlfriend approaches Benson with a project he approves, but the project bring Ben...
Episode 6: Stress
The Governor hold an encounter session with the staff.
Episode 7: Rainbow's End
While Benson learns that his old flame (Rosalind Cash) is confined to a wheelchair, Clayton is tryin...
Episode 8: Once in a Blue Moon
Clayton is assaulted and Benson approves of tighter security at his expense. Meanwhile a ""being"" i...
Episode 9: Kraus Falls in Love
Kraus falls in love with a man who is ineligible for her.
Episode 10: Stocks & Options
Benson accepts some stock from Pete as a debt payment. He tells Denise this information and tells he...
Episode 11: Kraus's Deadly Mistake
Kraus tries to live life to the absolute fullest after she gets the idea that she only has 6 months...
Episode 12: Wild Irish Rose
The former Governor Mulligan pays his successor a visit. He intoroduces his hot niece Rose to the as...
Episode 13: Street Gangs
Benson tries to help a street gang stay out of trouble by trying to bid for a job in the city which...
Episode 14: Katie's Romance
Katie starts to have romantic feelings for Pete after he accompanies her to a gymnastics meet.
Episode 15: Clayton's Condo
Clayton ends up buying into an apartment building and at the same time Benson tries to get the landl...
Episode 16: Getting Even
When a wealthy investor seeks sexual favors from Denise more than contributing to the state, Benson...
Episode 17: Pete the Hero
Pete Begs Benson to borrow his car and when Benson finally let him, Pete comes back with the car tot...
Episode 18: In the Red
Pete and Benson are captured by guerrillas when they visit an island.
Episode 19: Teed Off
Benson, the Governor, Clayton, and Pete are at each others throats after playing a round of golf tog...
Episode 20: The Party's Over
The Governor learns a lot about dirty politics when his party won't support his renomination.
Episode 21: The Lumber Mill
After visiting his old Lumber Mill, the Governor decides to run for re-election as an independant.
Episode 22: Black Tuesday
The Governor's campaign comes to a hectic close and the election results show that he has lost.
Episode 1: Death in a Funny Position (1)
A yacht cruise becomes a murder mystery when the owner of the boat is stabbed to death.
Episode 2: Death in a Funny Position (2)
Murders abound on a working vacation aboard a yacht, but Benson saves the day.
Episode 3: What a Revoltin' Development
While attending a conference in Latin America, Benson and Pete are kidnapped by revolutionaries. In...
Episode 4: Thy Brother's Keeper
Benson's younger brother visits him at the same time an important report is due.
Episode 5: Quest for Retire
Charlie, the mansion's gardener, is about to retire. Charlie wants to still work, so he tries to get...
Episode 6: Teacher's Pest
Benson must pass an economics test to keep her job, but when she finds out that Benson is going to b...
Episode 7: Benson's Army Reunion
Benson holds an army reunion and hatred surfaces when Kim, a Korean kid they befriended during the w...
Episode 8: Benson's New Home
Benson buys a house from a shady real estate salesman and since the house has so many major problems...
Episode 9: Crimes of the Hearth
When Benson's condo is robbed, he finds out that it won't be easy to catch the crooks.
Episode 10: Mary and Her Lambs
It's Christmas time and Benson helps an assistant cook keep her foster children.
Episode 11: Pen Pal
Kraus' pen pal, who is an Ex-convict, visits her hoping for a job, which disrupts the execitive mans...
Episode 12: The Honeymooners
Kraus is about to get married. But when he can't make it, Benson plays as a substitute and ends up r...
Episode 13: Close Encounters on the Third Hole
While Benson and the Governor are playing golf, a UFO shows up.
Episode 14: Katie's Boyfriend
The Governor allows Katie to go on her 1st date aside from the rise of an ecomonic crisis.
Episode 15: The Royal Painting
A former street gang is hired to paint the mansion for the visiting Queen of England.
Episode 16: Boy's Night Out
The men come to Benson's house to swap stories, play cards, and watch tv. Also, the Governor is a li...
Episode 17: Family Tree
When an aunt dies, Benson and Clayton, learn that they might be related to each other.
Episode 18: Calamity Kraus
Kraus pretends to be a wealthy heiress to keep a manufacturing plant in the state.
Episode 19: Kraus Sings the Blues
Benson hosts a telethon and lets Kraus sing when other acts cancel out.
Episode 20: Half-Court Trap
Benson learns that his nephew, a basketball star, can hardly reador write.
Episode 21: A View From the Roof
Benson and the Governor try putting an antenna on the roof, but the ladder falls and the two get tra...
Episode 22: Love in a Funny Phase
Benson is upset when his girlfriend Jennifer, decides to date other men.
Episode 1: Band of Gold
In the 5th season opener, Denise and Pete are about to get married in the woods, but trouble arises...
Episode 2: Human Element
G.I. operatives replace Gene with a double.
Episode 3: God, I Need This Job
Everyone thinks that Benson is out of it when he sees, hears, and talks to Jessica Tate's ghost.
Episode 4: Who's Arnold?
Benson poses as Kraus' husband when her mother visits from Germany.
Episode 5: Full Court Press
Katie is assigned to write a report about what goes on in the mansion and she starts to wrie about B...
Episode 6: Down the Drain
Plumbing problems at Benson's flat causes him to calling a crotchety old workman to fix his sink, bu...
Episode 7: It Ain't Sheik
Benson gets the annoyng assigment of convncing a sheik to act on a multi-million dollar headquarter...
Episode 8: You Can't Give It Away
Benson wins the state lottery but loses it all because he accidentally said that he would donate it...
Episode 9: Katie's Cookies
Benson helps Katie win a cookie contest while he's suppose to testify against the mob.
Episode 10: Labor Pains
While Benson's neigbor is trapped in a snowstorm, Benson must take care of his baby for longer than...
Episode 11: Unlisted Love
The Governor meets the woman he had a crush on in high school, so Benson tries to fix the two up.
Episode 12: The Governor's Brain is Missing
G.I. operatives replece Governor Gatling with a double.
Episode 13: A Real Gone Daddy
Winston, one of Katie's classmates tries to set Benson up with his widowed mother.
Episode 14: Too Pooped to Pip
Benson tries hard toget Gladys Knight and the pips to perform at a telethon.
Episode 15: In All the Wrong Places
Benson and Governor Gatling are surprised at Pete, who reverted back to his youth.
Episode 16: Embarrassing Moments
Benson is named Citywide Magazine's ""Bachelor of the Month"", but the female response threatens his...
Episode 17: Take My Life, Please
When the visiting President orders a security check of all the emloyees at the mansion, Benson is la...
Episode 18: Beauty and the Beef
When Benson judges a beauty pageant, Clayton and Governor Gatling try to sway the vote in their dire...
Episode 19: We Deliver
While Denise is about to give birth, Denise, Benson, and the Governor get stuck in an elevator.
Episode 20: The Endicott Dynasty
Clayton gets upset when his father chooses Benson to run his empire after he dies.
Episode 21: The Little Hotel That Could
Kraus nags Benson in joining her to save an old hotel from being torn down and when Kraus uses extre...
Episode 22: Let's Play Doctor
Benson learns that a crusty old medic does not have a medical license and when that man is up for th...
Episode 1: The Scandal
While going undercover, Benson learns that the Lieutenant Governor is accepting bribes from a constr...
Episode 2: The Inheritance
Benson finds it hard to believe that he is the sole heir to the Playbird magazine empire.
Episode 3: Let's Get Physical
Benson's pleasure turns to panic when the attractive doctor who conducted his physical wants to meet...
Episode 4: The Campaign
After Benson decides to run for Lieutenant Governor, he learns that the man who offers money to his...
Episode 5: The Election
When Benson runs out of his campaign money, a benefactor arrives when things look darkest.
Episode 6: Made in Hong Kong (1)
Benson, the Governor, Clayton, and Kraus go off to Hong Kong where Clayton is mistaken for a famous...
Episode 7: Made in Hong Kong (2)
Benson, in help from the Police, is persued while trying to rescue the captured Governor and Kraus,...
Episode 8: Hello, We Must Be Going
Benson plans to have Kraus become Lieuteant Governor Benson's assistant. But things get screwed up w...
Episode 9: Double Date
Benson fixes Clayton up with a date, but the date is disgusted with Clayton's romance ploys and ""ma...
Episode 10: Taking it to the Max
Benson is shocked when he tells his sister to be cautious with her ex boyfriend and doesn't listen.
Episode 11: The Reunion
Benson visits with his brother and Uncle who he hasn't seen in years.
Episode 12: Make War, Not Love
A Declaration of War is brought out among two fighting nations after Benson attends a Trade conferen...
Episode 13: Home for Christmas
As he is walking on the sidewalk during a Christmas rush, he trips and falls. While he is unconsciou...
Episode 14: On the Road
Benson tries to investigate Kraus when she doesn't show up for a while. Kraus returns to acting and...
Episode 15: Take This Job and Love It
Benson gets surrounded in red tape when he takes on the city mayor who pans to outlaw breakdancing i...
Episode 16: Making Change
Benson, the Governor, Kraus, and Clayton talk about people from their past who influenced their live...
Episode 17: Solid Gold
On a trip to Las Vegas, Benson meets the comic duo The Smothers Brothers.
Episode 18: The Oval Office
While being called in from President Reagan on account of a remark Benson made, Benson and the Gover...
Episode 19: Mid-life Cowboy
An exhausted Governor Gatling decides to play cowboy at a dude ranch to unwind.
Episode 20: Scenario
Benson, the Governor, and everyone in the mansion go to the bomb cellar to try and prepare for a nuc...
Episode 21: Dubois: Portrait of a Politician
While the Governor is away on business, Benson is responsible for the work that needs to get done. I...
Episode 22: Katie's Cousin
Katie's wild and undisciplined cousin Laura persuades Katie to lie to her father about sleeping at a...
Episode 23: The Bookburner
Benson's tie-breaking vote on a school bill leads to a major conflict with a powerful senator and a...
Episode 24: Jung at Heart
When Clayton's name is passed over at the table of the Man of the Year Award, an award given by the...
Episode 1: Benson the Hero
While Governor Gatling is away, Benson and Clayton are depended upon to spend an 8 million dollar bu...
Episode 2: Love and Politics
When Benson revisits a relationship with Senator Hartford, the Senator changes her position on Clayt...
Episode 3: Uncle Jack
Benson tries to bring the Governor and his brother Jack together after 25 years of not seeing each o...
Episode 4: The Stranger
A mysterious stranger lurks around the Governor's mansion on Haloween night.
Episode 5: We Spy
While Benson and Kraus go to East Germany on official business, the two are accused of being spies a...
Episode 6: $1,000,000 an Hour
Synopsis currently unknown
Episode 7: Flight of the Dodo (1)
Despite warnings, on their way to fly a helicopter to play golf, Benson, the Governor, and Clayton r...
Episode 8: Flight of the Dodo (2)
After crash landing the helicopter in the desert, Benson, the Governor, and Clayton all struggle to...
Episode 9: Two Boys and Their Dog
Benson becomes involved in one of Clayton's wacky investment schemes. This one is investing in a wei...
Episode 10: Last Man on Earth
After talk about Halley's comet, Karus dreams that she and Benson are the only ones left on earth.
Episode 11: Secret Love
Clayton's nomination of the Governor's budget director has a problem after it is found out that Clay...
Episode 12: Summer of Discontent
Benson and the Governor seek advice from a conservationist in helping them pass some environmental l...
Episode 13: Parade Rest
A veteran is hired to retile the bathroom, but happens to disappear. Benson now has to investigate w...
Episode 14: Reel Murder (1)
Actor George Kennedy's plan to film a movie in the Goveror's mansion runs into deadly problems, and...
Episode 15: Reel Murder (2)
With everyone's lives in danger and not much time left, they try to crack the case and survive.
Episode 16: The Hat and the Ring
Benson, convinced that the question Senator Hartford has for him is ""the"" question, runs quickly t...
Episode 17: The Bucks Stop Here
Clayton has his sights on running the family fortune, until he meets his father's new, young, and pr...
Episode 18: Pardon Me
Benson persuades to pardon a man who was wrongfully imprisoned for 25 years.
Episode 19: Hi, Society
A conservation expert may help Benson and the Governor pass an inportant bill, but when Kraus hears...
Episode 20: Three on a Mismatch
The Governor answers an ad from a personal's column from a magazine.
Episode 21: Friends and Enemies
With Governor Gatling's term about to close and Benson up to run for Governor, the Governor learns t...
Episode 22: And the Winner is . . .
As time is running out, Benson, the Governor, or the crooked senator will soon be out of a job. Whic...
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