Benson - Episode Guide

Benson comes to work for Governor Gatling and helps find a way for a bridge to be built without killing beavers.

Katie sneaks off to a rock concert while under Benson's watch.

When a visiting African president is incapacitated, Benson steps into the role and is targeted by assassins.

Benson falls for an attractive senator he meets in the mansion.

Governor Gatling is torn between attending Katie's school play and accepting an important political invitation.

To cut spending, Benson must lay off a sweet old woman, which upsets Katie.

Heavy snowfall leaves the staff stuck in a cottage in the woods.

When the visiting Jessica Tate's elderly companion suddenly dies, Benson must help move the corpse to avoid a political scandal.

The staff tries to discover who made a disparaging comment about a state senator that has the governor on the defensive.

Benson introduces Marcy to an old army buddy, unaware his friend is married.

Thinking the mansion is haunted, the staff holds a séance.

Taylor quits to run for public office, but the governor finds he can't do without him.

With the mansion's domestic workers on strike, the staff must take on all of the household duties.

The governor woos a powerful businessman whose wife is Benson's old flame.

With the governor ill, the irritating lieutenant governor makes a play for power that the staff tries to thwart.

When hidden microphones are found in the mansion, the staff plots to find the perpetrators.

Kraus has a crush on the butcher and needs help from Benson and Marcy to reel him in.

A young Soviet chess prodigy hides in Katie's room and nearly causes an international incident.

Benson and Kraus become trapped in a freezing storage room.

When the governor's loudmouth father visits, it's up to Benson to keep him in check during an important speech.

A mysterious environmental activist causes trouble for the governor and his staff.

To connect with constituents, Governor Gatling and Benson visit a mangy bar.

Benson learns that his military unit was the subject of germ warfare testing.

When Marcy plans her vacation, she worries her replacement may take her job.

Benson and Kraus are held hostage during a market robbery.

Benson is hospitalized with a mysterious allergy.

The staff goes on a frantic search for gold that may be hidden in the mansion.

Benson saves the day when a priceless gold statue becomes the target of revolutionaries from a foreign land.

Katie believes her father is going to remarry without having told her first.

Miss Kraus seeks to become an American citizen.

Benson is relentlessly pursued by a wealthy but eccentric former lover.

The governor must take the reins of a plane when the pilot dies during the flight.

Governor Gatling sends Katie off to boarding school but soon realizes he made a mistake.

Benson rents an apartment in a futile attempt to escape the madness of the mansion.

Benson becomes a mentor to a boy from a broken home.

While the governor makes a televised speech, Marcy and her boyfriend squabble and then announce their engagement.

Benson's role planning Marcy's wedding is complicated by Marcy's meddling mother.

Kraus must pretend she is the governor's wife when a lifelong rival pays a visit.

Benson grieves the loss of his mother.

After receiving death threats, Clayton moves into the mansion.

Benson struggles with the challenge of being a substitute father for a needy boy.

Katie's homework assignment sets the stage for vignettes about each cast member.

A controversial bill brings the governor strange threats.

The governor, Benson and Clayton are trapped in a bordello and must avoid being noticed.

Taking refuge during an earthquake, Benson and Clayton get to know each other better.

When Gretchen chokes on a doughnut and Benson uses the Heimlich maneuver to save her life, she starts to smother him with attention, in an attempt to show her gratitude.

When the Governor approaches Benson about wanting to appoint him as the new Budget Director, a position that requires senate confirmation, Benson is hesitant to accept the position, but reluctantly agrees to go through the hearings. However, a senator on the committee threatens to hold things up by bringing up something from Benson's past.

Benson goes undercover to investigate conditions in a prison.

In Benson's office, a conductor holds a concert in protest.

Benson must help an FBI agent uncover a bribe scandal.

Benson's innocent approval of his lobbyist-girlfriend's project brings corruption charges against him.

The governor tries to alleviate tension among the staff.

Benson learns that his old flame is confined to a wheelchair.

After Clayton is assaulted, Benson approves of tighter security.

Kraus falls for a man she can't have.

The staff dabbles in the stock market with disastrous results.

Believing she will die soon, Kraus tries to seize the day.

A former governor visits along with his attractive niece.

Benson tries to help a street gang stay out of trouble.

Katie develops a crush on Pete after he accompanies her to a gymnastics meet.

Clayton buys an apartment building, not knowing Benson is now one of his tenants.

Benson concocts revenge for a wealthy investor who sexually harasses Denise.

Pete borrows Benson's car and gets into a wreck that leads to the capture of armed thieves.

Benson is the victim of an IRS audit.

A golf foursome leads to acrimony among the governor and his male assistants.

The governor learns his party won't support his renomination.

Governor Gatling decides to run for reelection as an independent.

The governor's reelection campaign appears to have ended in failure.

A yacht cruise becomes a murder mystery when the owner of the boat is stabbed to death.

Benson and the rest attempt to determine who is a killer.

While attending a conference in Latin America, Benson and Pete are kidnapped by revolutionaries.

Benson's younger brother visits at the same time an important report is due.

The mansion's gardener seeks Benson's help as he approaches retirement.

Benson tutors Kraus in economics to prepare her for a test.

Benson and his army buddies are surprised to hear what became of a Korean kid they befriended during the war.

Benson buys a house in need of many repairs from a shady real estate agent.

When Benson's condo is robbed, he discovers that it won't be easy to catch the crooks.

It's Christmas time and Benson helps an assistant cook keep her foster children.

Kraus' ex-convict pen pal pays a visit.

When Kraus' fiancé can't make it to the wedding, Benson stands in as a substitute.

Benson and the governor believe they saw a UFO while playing golf.

The governor allows Katie to go on her first date.

A former street gang is hired to paint the mansion for the visiting Queen of England.

The male staff members gather at Benson's for a night of fun.

Benson and Clayton learn that they might be related to each other.

Kraus pretends to be a wealthy heiress to keep a manufacturing plant in the state.

Benson hosts a telethon and lets Kraus sing when other acts cancel out.

Benson learns that his basketball-star nephew can hardly read or write.

When a ladder falls, Benson and the governor are trapped on the roof of the mansion.

Benson is upset when his girlfriend Jennifer wants to date other men.

Benson, Kraus, Denise and Pete become stranded in the forest.

A robot becomes an unwelcome visitor to the mansion.

Benson communicates with Jessica Tate's ghost.

Benson poses as Kraus' husband when her mother visits from Germany.

Fed up with insults, Clayton drags Benson into court.

A dead plumber is found under the kitchen sink and it alters Benson's plans for a successful luau.

Benson must convince a sheikh to bring his business to the state.

Benson wins the state lottery but has to donate the winnings to charity.

Benson helps Katie win a cookie-baking contest.

Benson must watch the baby of a neighbor who has been trapped in a snowstorm.

The governor reconnects with his high-school crush.

Military agents replace Governor Gatling with a double.

Pete revisits the beatnik culture of his youth.

Benson recruits Gladys Knight and the Pips to perform on a telethon.

A boy from Katie's school plays matchmaker with Benson and his single mother.

Benson is pronounced "Bachelor of the Month" by a magazine.

A security check of the governor's staff results in Benson being named as a spy.

Benson judges a beauty pageant and must resist the persuasive pleas of both Clayton and Governor Gatling.

Denise goes into labor while trapped in an elevator with Benson and the governor.

Clayton's father selects Benson to run his business empire.

Kraus recruits Benson for help in sparing an old hotel from the wrecking ball.

A would-be doctor who is to receive an award from the governor is exposed as a fraud.

Benson discovers that the lieutenant governor is accepting bribes.

Benson inherits ownership of a men's magazine.

Benson sweats out the results of his physical.

Benson begins his campaign for lieutenant governor by dealing with a donor who expects political favors.

Benson's fledgling campaign runs out of money.

When the governor and his staff travel to Hong Kong, Clayton is mistaken for a famous designer and is kidnapped.

In Hong Kong, Benson and the local authorities seek to rescue Clayton, Kraus and the governor from a kidnapper.

Benson's plans to appoint Kraus as his assistant are thwarted.

Benson unsuccessfully plays matchmaker for Clayton.

Benson's sister ignores his advice to be cautious with her ex-boyfriend.

Benson reunites with his long-lost brother and uncle.

Benson attends a trade conference where two enemy nations declare war on each other.

Benson dreams of a boyhood Christmas after falling unconscious from a slip and fall.

Benson goes in disguise to lure Kraus away from her acting aspirations.

Benson fights city hall over a proposed ordinance to ban breakdancing.

Benson, Kraus, Clayton and the governor discuss the people who influenced their lives the most.

Benson travels to Las Vegas and meets the Smothers Brothers.

Summoned to the White House, Benson and the governor become trapped in the Oval Office.

An exhausted Governor Gatling plays cowboy at a dude ranch to unwind.

Fearing a nuclear attack, the governor and his staff retreat to a bomb shelter.

With the governor away on business, Benson takes control of the state government.

Katie's wild cousin brings her to a bar where she is caught by Benson.

Benson butts heads with a powerful senator over an education bill.

Passed over for a prestigious award, a delusional Clayton comes to think he is Benson.

After thwarting an armed robbery, Benson is sued by the perpetrator.

Benson dangerously mixes business with pleasure when he rekindles a relationship with a female state senator.

Benson reunites Governor Gatling with his long-lost brother.

A mysterious stranger lurks around the mansion on Halloween.

In East Germany on business, Benson and Kraus are detained and accused of spying.

Benson and Clayton must spend an enormous budget surplus before the waning fiscal year expires.

Clayton's attempt to pilot a helicopter puts him, Benson and the governor in peril.

Benson, Clayton and the governor must endure a helicopter crash landing in the desert.

Clayton draws Benson into his plans to start a dog-breeding business.

Kraus dreams that a comet strike has left Benson and herself as the planet's sole survivors.

Clayton's candidacy for state budget director is threatened by his relationship with a Soviet defector.

Benson and the governor seek advice from a conservationist in relation to environmental legislation.

A contractor working on one of the mansion's bathrooms goes missing.

Actor George Kennedy's plans to film a movie in the mansion lead to a murder mystery.

The staff try to solve the murder mystery before time runs out.

Benson contemplates a marriage proposal to his state senator girlfriend.

Clayton meets the obstacle to inheriting the family fortune, his father's young and beautiful fiancée.

Benson campaigns for a pardon for an incarcerated man who was wrongfully convicted.

Kraus unknowingly leaks information to an influential columnist.

The governor responds to an ad in the personals section of a magazine.

Benson's gubernatorial bid pits him against Governor Gatling.

With the votes cast, Benson and Governor Gatling await the results of the gubernatorial election.