I haven't seen "Hazel" since it's original run. I liked the show a lot as a kid, but I can only remember one episode. It's where Hazel is in some sort of a contest to see who has the best maid. I remember her making a bed, and some lady has a stopwatch on her, and then checking to make sure she did it right.
Was this an actual episode, or is it my imagination?

I think that's the episode "Maid of the Month" from season 2.

It's from episode number 108, Just Me, Harold, and the Universe. Hazel enters a best maid of the month contest to win tickets to take Harold to the World's Fair. Yes the scene you are talking about is in this episode. Hazel becomes the one of 2 finalists and goes against another maid who happens to be the mother of one of Harolds friends. She later finds out the womans husband has recently died and is doing this to cheer up her son. The final test is baking a cake in the Home-ec lab, Hazel turns her oven off so her cake will fall, thus the other woman will win.. The Baxters figure out what Hazel did, and Mr. B surprises Hazel with 4 tickets to the Worlds Fair, so now the whole family and Hazel will attend. It is a great episode, one of my favorites!

Thanks so much for the information. If that was episode 108, that would be around 1963 right? I would have been 10. I was wondering if I fabricated that memory or not.
Thanks again,
Dan

The New York World's fair was in 1964, so this episode may have been run either in the Fall of 1963 or the Spring of 1964.:happyface

The New York World's fair was in 1964, so this episode may have been run either in the Fall of 1963 or the Spring of 1964.:happyface


I finally got down to that episode. A clue to when it aired was at the end. Harold says to Hazel, "We're going to the World's Fair. Dad's taking all of us next summer".
Hazel: "Well, come on Sport, We gotta start packin'. Next summers only ten months away, and we don't wanna wait till the last minute!"

A Google search revealed it aired Nov 12, 1964. I thought it was before that. Did the World's Fair carry over into 1965, or did they tape the episode so far in advance of it's airing?

And my memory of the episode wasn't quite right. I remember one lady standing on the camera side of the bed while Hazel was making it. Actually, there were two ladies judging her, and they were standing between the beds.
Weird how the memories change over time.