This episode of the television program "Ozzie and Harriet" is about a collection of Lincoln cents (pennies) which the father of two boys inadvertently spends. Also featured is a Whitman Lincoln Head Cents blue fold-out coin album. "Ozzie and Harriet" or "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" was a half-hour television program which ran on the ABC television network from 1952 to 1966. This episode is titled "The Pennies" and was first broadcast on October 28, 1964. It was a family show which starred Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, along with their two sons, David and Ricky. In this particular episode, David has a brief appearance and Ricky does not appear at all.

The four Nelsons then appear.

Two neighbor boys visit Ozzie, knowing that Harriet keeps a supply of cookies for neighborhood kids.

The boys have a jar with $3.15 in pennies. They ask Ozzie to bury the jar after having Ozzie swear an oath to protect it. He agrees and buries the coins. That evening some friends come over for a Saturday night poker game. Ozzie is supposed to supply pennies to be used as chips. He and two men dig up the jar of pennies and use them for the game.

Some of the men go home with the pennies and Ozzie heads for bed. The next morning Ozzie is woken up by a noise outside the window. Although it is widely believed that double beds were not allowed on television programs at that time, this episode shows the couple sleeping in one.

The two boys are outside with a coin collector penny album.

The boys ask for their pennies back as some are part of a coin collection. They are competing with two girls in a contest run by a local coin dealer. They tell Ozzie that they have all of the coins in the album and that the girls don't have a 1955-S and a 1954 plain. Ozzie convinces the boys to come back later for the pennies. The boys run off leaving the coin album with Ozzie.

The album is a blue Whitman Lincoln Head Cents fold-out coin album, titled "1941 to date." These were popular coin albums during the 1950's and 1960's. Ozzie spreads the album out on the table and he and Harriet start filling the album with pennies that they have.

Ozzie explains to Harriet about mint marks and mentions that the album starts with 1941. He calls their son David and asks him if he still has his coin collection. David replies that he hasn't had it for 15 years. Ozzie tries to get rest of the pennies back from the other poker players. He gets some and learns that some were spent at a malt shop. He heads there to retrieve them.

Ozzie manages to retrieve most of the pennies from the shop. Ozzie and Harriet fill most of the coin album but are short two "rare" pennies, a 1948-S and a 1952 plain. Two neighbor girls come by.

The girls have heard from the malt shop owner that Ozzie is collecting pennies. They ask Ozzie if he has a 1955-S to sell, he tells them that he is holding it for someone else. The girls say that the boys are winning and Ozzie suggest that he buy their collection. Ozzie buys their coin collection but doesn't tell Harriet how much he paid the girls. The boys come back for their pennies, and explain that they talked to the girls and are now going to sell them to the "dope" who bought pennies from the girls for five dollars. Harriet gets upset that Ozzie spent five dollars, and Ozzie ends the show by trying to explain.

Ozzie tries to explain "economics" and "supply and demand." Harriet is unconvinced.

Ozzie Nelson as Ozzie
Harriet Nelson as Harriet
David Nelson as David
Ricky Nelson as Ricky (absent from this episode)
Billy Mumy as Billy (one of the little boys)
Director: Ozzie Nelson
Writers: Don Nelson, Dick Bensfield, Perry Grant