Benson

Benson is searched by guards, soaked by sprinklers, attacked by vicious dogs, mistaken for the Rev. Jesse Jackson and has his life threatened by a tough German housekeeper when he gets a new job caring for a bumbling but well?meaning governor.

Benson relaxes his authority with young Katie for a brief moment and spends a long evening regretting it when she sneaks off to a rock concert against strictest orders from her father.

When assassins muff an attempt on African President Ukase's life, Benson is drafted as his double, but only Kraus' quick thinking saves Benson from being their next victim.

It's virtually love at first sight when Benson meets the lovely Francine, but the lady turns out to be a senator with priorities other than marriage to the governor's butler.

Benson is upset with the governor whose political obligations keep him away when his daughter Katie is counting on him to attend her school play.

Benson, known for being a softy, has to lay off staffers including the beloved pastry chef when an economy wave hits the Governor's mansion.

Cold, hunger and frazzled nerves are the order of the day when the governor and his staff are snowbound in a remote mountain lodge.

The governor's mansion gets an extra dose of hilarity when Jessica Tate visits, promptly manages herself in a scandalous situation with a French playboy and calls on Benson to save the day.

When a potentially damaging new leak upsets the governor's household, Benson does some detective work and restores peace by unmasking the culprit.

Benson is overjoyed when Marcy falls in love with his old war buddy, until he discovers that his pal is hiding a shocking secret.

Miss Kraus informs an incredulous but nervous staff that a series of strange incidents are the work of the ghost of a governor who was murdered in the mansion 100 years ago.

Taylor plays all his cards, including the ones up his sleeve, when he makes a disastrously funny attempt at running for office, and Benson decides to do some running of his own -- away from Taylor.

When Miss Kraus leads a mansion employees strike, Benson makes a frantic and often hilarious effort to save their jobs by cooking, cleaning, washing and even serving a formal dinner like no other the governor's mansion has ever seen.

A 20-year-old love story threatens Benson's position on the governor's staff.

Benson and the beleaguered staff face a hilarious problem when an overly ambitious lieutenant governor takes over for a dizzy Gov. Gatling, who is giddy from medication.

Benson and Marcy act like the nervous parents of a teenager when Kraus falls for the butcher -- and they fear he won't ask her for a date unless she becomes more alluring.

Benson and visiting Russian officials move into a hilarious duel of wits when an 11-year-old Soviet chess genius disappears during a tournament at the governor's mansion.

Laughs abound when Benson and Kraus are trapped in a freezing storage room where their cold war rages on.

The Governor's irascible father arrives for an extended visit during a big conference and spins around the mansion his electric wheelchair, leaving hilarious havoc in his wake.