Jim also has a 29-year-old son, Peter J. Howard, Sr., known as "P.J.," who owns the Easy Valley Construction Company, where his pretty and perky wife Wendy assists him.

At the end of each episode, he again speaks to the viewers, expressing the hope that they will return for the following week's show and wishing them "peace and love and laughter".

[3] Episodes occasionally include flashbacks depicting Jim Howard's grandfather, Josiah Kessel.

[citation needed] In the episode "The Identity Crisis," Beulah Bondi portrayed James Stewart's mother.

[2] She also played his mother in four films: It's a Wonderful Life, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Of Human Hearts, and Vivacious Lady.

Kanter claimed Stewart did not like the idea of an African American police officer "lecturing him" and threatened to dismiss Williams.

However, once Kanter explained that Williams was to play an FBI agent in a different episode, Stewart felt "chagrined" by the mistake.

[7][8] However, historian Shannon Allen disputes Kanter's, noting that no FBI agent ever appeared on The Jimmy Stewart Show, that Williams does play a police officer in Episode 6, and the two interactions that Stewart has with white police officers on the show do not fit Kanter's description of the scene.